Month: January 2004

Trev (4:53:56 PM): Grahams ears are up
Dave (4:54:07 PM): ah, we were getting a bit loud allright
Trev (4:54:14 PM): Id love to go on…but it would be a BAD idea
Dave (4:54:19 PM): yeah
Dave (4:54:54 PM): don’t worry Strev, when the aliens conquer us, Sparky will be first against the wall 🙂

So there was a little snow yesterday and of course everything fell apart starting with the tubes. Still it was nice and everything looked so pretty for a while. Got home with no problems and it was only a couple of inches (BLIZZARD!). Played some Eve after the patch and while I’ve been nerfed in a couple of ways I’ve learnt a lot over the past week which is helping big time. I have a skill training plan in place now and it’s all going well. Am getting very tempted to see about rigging up a long range missile boat with some nice 250 rails for mid-long distance hits out.

Watched some stuff last night too, caught up with last weeks Angel and Smallville neither of which were great. Couple of episodes of Alias too but it’s really lost the magic it had in the first couple of seasons. It’s still good but was so much better with SD 6 and The Alliance.

People tend to be much nicer and certainly politer in the snow. Even if it’s just smiling at each other while walking past or a grin and a nod for a near slip. It’s nice.

Not really all that much going on these days. My sister is coming over to London this weekend, staying from Saturday until Tuesday. That reminds me, I really do need to get some keys cut for her. Handy to have them around the place too I guess. Saturday night I’m suppose to be going to see a friends band in Camden. Not sure how that will work out as I need to meet my sister around 9.30.
With a bit of luck we’ll be able to drop stuff off and then make it down to Camden to catch some of the band still going strong.

I’m not sure this is something which most people would admit to but I’m listening to the Best of Sinéad O’Connor. Nothing Compares 2 U is a great great song.

Saturday night was party night. It was a long night and it got messy. It was Andy’s birthday and we were all out for some drinks in Clapham. So I went by Avalon first and then onto the pub. It was a good night with lots of good people out. Got home around 3am fairly un sober.

Yesterday Alex and I went to see Big Fish at a lunchtime showing. It was really good and I enjoyed the hell out of it. Did a little shopping afterwards (lots of music Dylan/Springsteen/Pixies) and some comics and then I played Eve for most of the the rest of the day. Watched some Alias alongside it and not enjoying the third season as much as I did the first and second. Will watch some more later and see.

Eve was the loss of another Thorx which annoyed me. I’m going to check out a much more long range engagement option than I’m currently dealing with. If anyone has missiles then I just seem to loose it badly.

I over slept this morning, fairly badly. It was about 10.10 when I got to work. It’s a quiet(ish) day for a change which is nice. I have some live Springsteen going and it’s helping so much.

Oh yes, having Bill Murrey win a Golden Globe for Lost in Translation is excellent news and bodes well for “Oscar Award Winning Bill Murrey”

Got tickets this morning for the 4 of us to go to the Chillis in Hyde Park on June 19th. With a bit of luck there will be some sunshine and a great day will be had by all.

I’m thinking alot tonight and some of it has been with me for a while and some of it for not such a while. I’m going to try and get it out here. I don’t expect all that much sense from it but I want to type.

I have no idea what brought it on but I few days ago I ended up thinking about one of my cousins. She’s really pretty and she always has been, I don’t know why that is important but it’s been one of the things I’ve been meaning to write down. Anyway I don’t know when it was but I’d guess it was at least 10 if not closer to 15 years ago, she was diagnosied with cancer, the really serious kind. She was in hospital for along time and went through a lot of kemotherapy. I remember visiting her and I remember her wearing a baseball cap for a while until her hair grew back a bit. For some reason I thought of her over the weekend, I’m sure there was something at the time which made me think of her but when I did, the first thing that sprang to mind was pride. She survived it, she survived it well and she did good. It sometimes feels strange to feel proud of someone but that’s just the way it is.

So the word I was searching for when I said it feels strange is actually: presumptious. A friend far smarter than I just used it in the same context. So there ya go.

Believe it or not, but that is unrelated to life in the world at the moment.

Tonight after work a few of us headed to the pub for a Friday drink and chat. When I say a few, there was three of us and it was an excellent night. We sat at at a table and talked and it was really good. We chatted about a lot of things but one thing we did happily agreed was that there was good company on our floor and that we had good people to socialise with. It’s was a good evening 🙂

The local bar, which really has become the defination of a local pub for me has two new barmaids…both of whom are quite cute and seem really nice. Bonus 🙂

There was a girl I went to college with who became a really good friend in a short space of time. We were always just friends and good ones at that (yes I am repeating myself). It was never more than that and it was never going to be more than that. She’s cute, I’m not sure I ever told her that but I think I tried a couple of times. Her name was Emma…I don’t remember her last night and this annoys me. It annoys me a whole hell of alot. It really does drive in how shit I am about remembering things and it scares me a little too.

I have an old SIM card which should have numbers for a lot of people I’d like to get back in touch with. I’m looking at Scan and Ebay at the moment for a reader. To be able to get back in touch with some people would be really great. I do miss not having old friends here in London and I have to make sure to keep up with all my friends here. For the first time in a long time (boy has it been a long time) I stopped by Iain’s desk today for a chat. Lunch sorted for next week which is good.

I have to book some tickets for the Chilli Peppers in the morning. I need to collect some comics, I need to get a haircut (short?) and I’m off to a party tomorrow night. It’s going to be a long weekend. I’ll see about editing this post into more sense sometime later.