and now the typing.
Been all over the place today music wise. White Stripes, Semisonic, The Strokes, The Frames and Johnny Cash. It’s been a strange day. It got quite prodouctive for a while to as I got the answer to something which was frustrating me. I was trying to take some options off of a page and I kept going in and taking them off but once they were in the compiled code, they were still there. It was strange. After doing some looking into it and confirming that I was not mad I made a phone call and got it sorted out. The line which sets the items to invisible is no longer in use and I needed some new code. It was so nice to be able to close out half of my bugs on it in a couple of hours. It felt damn good too. I also managed to get my unit testing tool working aswell which saves so much hassle so it was generally a good working day.
Really really chuffed about that Radiohead ticket. I was browsing Wayahead just looking to see what there was and it showed up in the top sellers. Given that until now it was sold out I wondered how this could be, a couple of clicks later and it’s all good. So that’s two double bills, Ryan Adams followed by Radiohead the next night at the end of this month and then Kings of Leon with Iron Maiden the next night in the middle of December. God I love music 🙂
Reading wise, well I got the latest two Peter David: Star Trek: New Frontier books. Flew through them in a couple of days and enjoyed the hell out of them. Finished off all the Lehane series last week and then with them all done started off on Bret Easton Ellis’s The Rules of Attraction. The style takes a few pages to get into but then it just clicks and the entire novel switches between POV. I’m enjoying it a lot. I know it’s fiction but the completely different viewpoints of the same events come across pertty damn well. I’ll buy the DVD at the end of the month I think.
Still not caught up on email…tho this is more laziness now than anything else, I don’t want to go through it all but I will…soonish. I really will…uh huh.
So yeah the Age of Empires thing. Seems to stem simply from finding the disks while unpacking and installing it. It’s a couple of hours late in the evenings now at least and sometimes I little more.
Um yeah I’m kinda stuck now on this one. I’ve got loads more unpacking to do, it’s happening oh so slowly. I think it will be at least another 10 days till I get paid and I can go ahead and get some shelves in. Then I can actually get some stuff out of the boxes and take it from there.
My great aunt died early this morning. I’m not even sure I’ve ever met her. The email from my mom with the info was prefixed with she’s been ill for a long time which of course I did not know either. It was still a strange moment reading it. She lived over in the UK (somewhere) so I don’t know if the funeral will be here or back in Ireland. If it’s here I could be seeing some of my family a lot sooner than I had expected and will more than likely have to find my suit and get it cleaned (yay).
I don’t have a video player in the new flat so I don’t have a way to watch all those West Wing eps which Hugh has been kindly taping for me. Will have to sort that one out too…but moreso a computer. The lack of downloading is not fun 🙁
George Bush arrives in the UK tomorrow to protests and a lot of them from the sound of it. It all seems to have been timed nicely. No weekends and no evening stuff on. So for everyone in work who would like to go out and greet him appropriatly, it’s just not on. I am considering taking a half day on Thursday to be able to join the full protest early but I gotta see how it goes. It’s posing some issues and some real concern that his “security” could actually shoot and kill on the streets of London.
I watched the first few episodes of the second season of The Office last night. Funny but hard to watch at times.