Month: January 2004

*sob*

1 x Velator
2 x Incursus
2 x Thorax
1 x Celestis

Another ship, before it was even named 🙁
I am really in a foul mood.

I just lost my ship and all it’s expensive kit without recovering anything.

FUCK! 🙁

Yesterday afternoon around 4pm everything started to fall apart. At one stage I was having 5 im conversations about 5 serious bugs at the same time. Each one of them was in my area of the project and one of them was my fuckup (and quite a fuckup it was too). This was up to about 7 conversations by 4.30 and I was on a conference call dealing with those bugs and others.

To say I was a little stressed was an understatement of epic proportions. I realised when I was walking home and winding down that the reason I felt s shit right then was plain because of the stress. Not quite there today but I am stressed.

However it’s also very easy to loose perspective. There are much more important things in life and that was fairly hit home today.

For the last couple of nights I’ve shut down my computer and been on the way to bed when I’ve thought of stuff I want to blog about. Nothing of major concern in either case, more of a couple of thoughts to note down.

Still not found the CD of O but thanks to my completly legal backup, I am back in business and have listened to it a couple of times in recent hours. So very beautiful. Turns out my ticket to see him on Feb 21th is a bad thing as it clashed with a big V DU. I shall see what I can do about swaping for the 20th. That would be ideal.

So last night was good fun. Met up in the Porterhouse early in the afternoon and then onto the Mongolian Barbacue for dinner which was really nice and really well organished. Especially given there was 41 of us for dinner. Afterwards was onto a nearby pub for a night drinking. Lots of people and a few faces to put with names which is good.
Had a few people staying here and we stayed up till around 3 watching Shaolin Soccer. So last night 6 people in the living room in various states of drunkenness and it was all fine. This morning with everyone sober, not once but twice (and man did I cringe) my lovely flatscreen monitor was knocked off the table. It was not good. In hindsight having cleared comics and everything else away for new years was a great idea.

I’m watching The Rules of Attraction at the moment, ’tis a good movie with a great cast. Watched the first episode of Carnivale earlier, it wasn’t half bad at all.

Been watching Love Actually while playing Eve tonight and I’m enjoying it far more than I expected. Liam Neeson is of course excellent but as are half the main cast of Teachers who seem to keep popping up.

So as you may have gathered there isn’t that much going on…although as I sit and tpye that I can’t help but think it’s not true. So a recap of sorts.

Tuesday pool night went ok. Most people, myself included, had a really shit day and were not really in the mood. Some others got called into a 6pm meeting and didn’t get out in time to make it. So we played till about 9 and it was all fine. Then headed home.

Wednesday, one of the lads had gotten some tickets to focus group a new movie still in post production called Layer Cake so we went out to Wimbledon to watch that. It was actually really good and I enjoyed it a lot. Top cast including Colm Meaney. Not sure I’d see it again in the cinema but would certainly watch it on DVD. A good trailer for it and it’ll do well in the cinema.

Other than that, Eve was a bit of a disaster last night. Ended up getting stuck fighting more pirates than I could take and not warping out in time left me loosing a ship. So I managed to replace it moments later (thanks to insurance), kit it out and go back to finish them off while collecting the stuff I had dropped from my dead ship. That was good. Managed to get an implant at a good deal from a corp member which was also a good thing. Skill training is coming along nicely…it’s just too slow!!

Today I’m listening to some Radiohead; Kid A. Was listening to the Vanilla Sky soundtrack on the way to work and Everything in it’s Right Place lead me back here.

Tomorrow is dinner and drinks and that with the V and it’s all good. Looking forward to it and several people are crashing round the flat tomorrow night so it’s sure to be a long and messy night.

Thank fuck for insurance, I just lost my first cruiser. I got another and went back to grab all my stuff. Got most of it all but it still cost me a bit

I just downloaded 74 Mb in 90 seconds…I guess the network got an upgrade last night.!