Month: September 2003

Man I really want some more Cash. Our listserv for jokes and requests is gone since last week otherwise I’d have sent a mail asking for some cds. Gonna have to go and do some buying.

Had a good lunch today.

Man I wish I had some Johnny Cash to listen to in here today. All I got is the excellent The Wanderer from U2’s Zooropa

Today was long and tough. Meetings from 3 till 6 didn’t turn out as planned. The first was a 90 minute conference call. I dialled in for the first hour and actually got some resolution but not as much as I need. Certainly didn’t get any help from the people I needed it from. Managed to get it from another source and got a little done while on the call which was good. Dropped off that and jumped onto a training session. It was really good, the speaker was excellent, the presentation method whereby we could all see his desktop on our screens was excellent and the product sounds good. So that was good. This was due to last 90 minutes but was done in 60. So instead of heading to my last meeting 30 minutes late I made the entire thing…much to my regret. There was nothing of relevance to me or my team at all and it was time I much needed to get some work done.

It ran a little over time so instead of running for the train to get home, I went for a leisurely pint with Andy in the pub on the way to the station before getting the next train and coming home. It was good. It’s a nice pub there, the staff are friendly and the beer is good. The pool table is a bit shit but that’s never stopped us before. So had the one and chat and went to get the train.

Home just after seven and mucked around online for a while before having a game of blood bowl. Loosing by 2 wasn’t too bad for a first time team.

For just a second, this Metafilter posting got me.

It’s one of the guys on my team’s birthday on Saturday so we are heading off into town for some drinks to celebrate. There are a few people coming over from Dublin and we are meeting up and going into town. The plan for the moment is Waxy’s which I have not been in for a while and then move onwards from there at some stage. It should be good night. Other than that, I have no plans. I have lots of movies to sit down and watch so I want to do that but they are all Japanese and it takes that little extra to sit down and watch something subtitled.

Tomorrow is Friday and should be quiet enough on all fronts, this is I think a good thing. I have no doubt there will be some socialising in the evening, briefly at the least and then well, who knows. Hopefully no fights or stupidity. I’m looking forward to getting to bed and being able to sleep in for the next morning.

I cleared out one of my mailboxes earlier. Just under 4000 mails down to about 300, or 30mb to about 4mb. This is a good thing, it makes checking my web mail so much easier. As I don’t have an email client at home it was something which was badly in need of doing. One of my favourite mail client features is to leave the mail on server. This lets me use a client in work to just read stuff but still have the mail on my real machine (when I had one). But at lunch today I used the joy of delete from server when removed from trash to kill off most listservs and other stuff which I didn’t really want or need to keep.

The preview for season 3 of 24 looked fun in a boring way. I’m expecting much more fun from the Jack Bauer Hour of Power but I’m also expecting it to be not so good. Then again the second season was excellent and proved me wrong so we shall see.

Having just run a spell check and corrected ‘dialed’ to ‘dialled’, I feel I should quit my job immediately.

Silence is easy.

I slept really badly last night. I woke up around 4.30 am wheezing for breath, It was not fun and took about 10 minutes to actually go away. Then this morning I was late for the train and barely made it. Had to run for the last few minutes and given how badly I felt already this was not a good thing at all. Still made it into work and a couple of cans later I was fine.

Got some stuff sorted today which was good, it was also a pretty shitty day where at one stage I just sat at my desk and laughed. I have something I need to work on and I don’t have access to the stuff I need, so I’m working with another fella in Dublin on it. As it turns out he doesn’t have the tools to work on it so he is sitting there with access, without the tools while I’m sitting there without access but with the tools. We both just laughed.

Tomorrow just got phone heavy, an extra 90 minute call added to the 90 minute standard call and a meeting for the last hour of the day, ’tis not gonna be fun. Gotta make sure to have lunch before all that.

Hit the Firkin for lunch and some pool, it was not good. First time in a session that I have not won a single game in a while. Went back there tonight for more and it was a little better. Won a few, lost a few. Had a good steak as part of the two meals for £6.95 deal and headed for the 9.42 train. Home and online.

I’ve been meaning to do this for a while so here for your viewing pleasure with thanks for Google for the assist is a listing of the web page titles I use here and their origin. The only order is what they are numbered in the code. The Amy one is my favourite.

• “i’m not like them / but i can pretend” – from the song Dumb by Nirvana 1994
• “i’m quietly judging you” – said by ‘Frank T.J. Mackey’ in the movie Magnolia 1999
• “they say things will change / but nothing will change” – from the song City by JJ72 2002
• “no man is an island entire of itself” – from the passage Meditation 17 by John Donne 1624
• “you better lose yourself in the music, the moment” – from the song Lose Yourself by Eminem 2002
• “and i turned my face away and dreamed about you” – from the song Fairytale of New York by The Pogues 1998
• “when it lands / will my eyes / be closed or open?” – from the song Hyperballad by Bjork 1996
• “things fall apart / the centre cannot hold” – from the poem The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats 1921
• “so i’ve spent everyday since then chasing Amy” – said by ‘Silent Bob’ in the movie Chasing Amy 1997
• “the hardest thing in the world is to watch the one you love, love someone else” – unknown
• “when did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?” – from the book Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk 1999
• “this really is my therapy” – me 2001
• “this is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time” – from the book Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk 1996
• “i find it kinda funny / i find it kinda sad” – from the song Mad World by Tears for Fears 1982
• “and i’d give up forever to touch you” – from the song Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls 1998
• “what if what is isn’t you?” – from the song Appels + Oranges Lyrics by The Smashing Pumpkins 1998
• “you are not a beautiful, unique snowflake” – from the book Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk 1996
• “it’s like trying to catch a falling star” – from the song How Do You Talk To An Angel by The Heights 1992
• “there comes a time when you look into the mirror and realize that what you see is all that you will ever be” – said by ‘Londo Mollari’ in the Babylon 5 episode Chrysalis 1993
• “i wanted to apologise for everything i was” – from the song The Apologist by R.E.M. 1998

– A fun evening of Blood Bowl.
– I remembered (was reminded) The Shield is on now so that is a good thing.
– Real lemonade is really nice.
– Had a good Thai lunch with most of my team today.
– Very impressed with Netweaver and my domain renewal.
– Google celebrates fifth birthday.
– I have a headache, too much time in front of the computer this evening.
– Lots of stress in work. I don’t there is anything I’m not stressed about there right now, it’s not fun.
– Tomorrow is Wednesday and Maverick is on C5 in the evening. I think I want to go straight home and watch it. Whether I will or not is another question.
– I was late today, I didn’t sleep very well last night, it’s gotten quite cold at night.
– I want to pick up the second Blue Man Group album.
– Oh picked up the new Iron Maiden album today, it seems to be fairly standard but with no standouts after two listens. Also picked up the latest Matchbox 20, I prefer their older stuff.
– Coming up on two years of the blog in this incarnation. I’d love to be able to tell how many words that is, I can get some file sizes from the ftp I guess but too lazy to work out the rest. That’s pretty much something every day.
– Some things just have to be dealt with head on.
– Oh camera phones. I can see the uses and I wouldn’t mind having one but I can also see the bad uses. I went through a deleted a number of photos from someone’s last night and then 5 minutes later he gets interrogated about the photos been taken. I don’t like it, I don’t like it at all.
– I started the day with drugs, it seems only fitting to end it with drugs.
– Real Coke is not good, but it is so much nicer than diet and Pepsi.
– I’m enjoying Consider Philebas a lot, it’s well written but it does seem to have gone off a new way a little.
– It’s cold, I woke up cold this morning, I’m cold now. I actually feel really bad so that might be something to do with it.
– The nicest way to go to bed (along natch) has to be after a shower on a bed just made with fresh sheets. It feels good.
– I don’t know where anything is gone, least of all my balance.
– Roll on Dublin, bad dates it coresponds with some work stuff which I’m not going to but others are (or at least should be) and might have to tighten up. I might just book some time off next week, make it a long weekend and go do stuff.
– Deadlines are interesting these days. I have two different pieces of information coming in at the same time. 1) we are on schedule, don’t worry about it we will deliver on certain date 2) Daily report, dates are at risk due to blah blah blah. It’s a little bad, it’s going to be important and I need to know the dates for certain.
– Oh yes business justification for three flights and three baseball bats: “They told me to request this so I can follow the instructions they gave me to complete the job, why in the hell are they now denying access?” I did not have a good afternoon, suffice it to say the email I sent on the subject contained the work escalate.
– Lot’s of Oriental food lately now that I think about it. The Safeway on the way home from the train does a good range of them and I’ve been picking things up to stick in the oven for 20 minutes. Some are just to try and see what they are like, so far so good.
– There are a lot of fussy eaters in the world, I’m one of them. I’m surprised that there isn’t a line of plain foods out there. Something like the takeaway meals but instead of stir fry chicken with all the extras in a lemon sauce, why not simply stir fried chicken and white rice? There has to be a market for it there.

“inconsiderate, clueless, moronish assholes” really works synonym for male.
And I spelt synonym right first time for once. 🙂

Dave [17:47]: given the choice
Dave [17:47]: would you rather play Bond
Dave [17:48]: or Batman?
Trev [17:48]: I think I’d be better suited to being batman
Trev [17:48]: but emm thats tough
Dave [17:48]: yeah it is
Trev [17:48]: thats a worthwhile poll!
Dave [17:48]: yes it is and one I voted for Batman in 🙂
Trev [17:48]: I suppose it would have to be Bond though
Trev [17:49]: well you get to say class one liners all day
Dave [17:49]: nah Bond vs Batman, you know Batman is gonna be left standig
Trev [17:49]: hard to beat
Trev [17:49]: lol
Trev [17:49]: well if its Rodge against Clooney my money is on Bond
Dave [17:49]: lol
Dave [17:50]: Clooney was a good Bruce Wayne but a bad Batman
Dave [17:50]: Keaton on the other hand would take on all the Bonds and once and still be standing
Trev [17:50]: well its hard to judge him, it was such a shit movie
Trev [17:50]: yeah Keaton was and is the man
Trev [17:50]: and the bat 😉
Dave [17:50]: yep
Trev [17:50]: I soo loved that first movie
Trev [17:51]: used to get the chewing gum cards
Dave [17:51]: yeah I want a special editon DVD of that
Trev [17:51]: still have them at home
Dave [17:51]: I still have a complete collection of them
Trev [17:51]: lol
Trev [17:51]: actually got in fights over certain cards
Dave [17:51]: did you get them all?
Trev [17:52]: I think I was missing one or two cards
Trev [17:52]: had all the stickers though
Dave [17:52]: might have some spares if you want to look them up when you get home 🙂
Trev [17:52]: had them all over my stereo
Trev [17:52]: lol good man
Dave [17:52]: my door for mine
Trev [17:53]: #101 and #96 LOL

– Somtimes I miss the idea of a girlfriend more than any ex-girlfriend I care to name.

– I’m actually looking forward to seeing my family. I’ve changed alot over the past few years.

– I might be going and doing it again. I am an idiot, I suspect I shall go through life being an idiot.

– I don’t want to have a stupid argument about something every time I go down the pub. It’s not fun, it’s not fun at all.

– Pool was ok tonight. I was double teamed at one stage and fucked up badly by taking my shot and then asking what colour I was. It was unfair on at least one part, but nothing I did not deserve.

– I’m allowed to be in a foul mood for no reason, there is not law against it.

– I got some new(ish) music today. A gig that Thom Yorke did sometime late last year (?) where it is just him singing and playing piano. I love that acoustic kinda stuff. My new boss, Matt seems to have quite similar music taste to me and that is a good thing.

– Work got bad this morning and then straightened out a little. We got stuck with a really shit project again but it does not sound like it will be as bad as last time. I’d like to say I know better but this time I hope otherwise.

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Another day, another dollar.

It’s has been an interesting day. The reason none of you can read this is simple: my domain name expired last night cause I missed all of the reminder emails. So I have no email and no website. I renewed it this morning but it could take two to three days to have to all come back to the way it should. In a word: shit!.

So that was the first thing, I’m still mad about some work stuff from the end of the last week but I’m not so sure about how to deal with it anymore. I am very glad that I thought about it over the past few days and didn’t actually do anything about it. Thinking things through is a good thing.

It’s a monday and I was planning on going home via the CD shop and the supermarket but this didn’t happen as I’m sitting in the office waiting for a couple of people to go for a beer or two. This is a good thing as we are off to the Firkin and there is nothing wrong with this at all. Yay us. The troops should be gathering now, but as usual we are stuck waiting for people. Welcome to…

Gah is a good word, it describes today pretty well. Hopefully nothing in Blogger or my website will eat everything up, should I loose things I’ll be very very very unimpressed. A few days of bouncing mail is bad enough.

Right, it’s leaving time.

I’m sitting here still bored, watched bit’s and pieces of Ransom and I’m half watching Graham Norton live somewhere. He’s funny enough, but I’m bored. I got aother game of BB in, but it wasn’t very good. Still it adds some skills and some £££ to the kitty.

Now I have to make my bed and sleep in it.