Month: February 2004

So a brief update. Saturday was lots of fun, there was lots to drink and lots of ROCK towards the end of the night. There was good company and we kept it going for a long day. Everyone staying back at ours went really well too, lots of space and a couple of hours sitting around drinking and chatting. Just the one person decided to go to another tube station without telling any of us and then naturally got lost because he did not know how to get here from here…well really just has himself to blame. Still, glad to report it did not spoil a good night and all was well that ends well.

Watching Requiem for a Dream at the moment and the end of it is quite disturbing, overall it’s a harsh movie with an excellent cast. Of late I have been watching the Hornblower mini series. It’s all good stuff but it’s not a patch on the books and it’s left me wanting to read tham all again. I’m not even sure all of them are in print and I’ve never seen a full run available anytime I’ve thought to keep any eye out for them.

Oh yes yesterday morning I was somewhat hungover. Unfortunately by about 1, I had traded this in for a rather nasty head cold. Added to that, I had to go into work yesterday afternoon. All in all not very helpful. I didn’t go in this morning, I just did not feel up to it. I’ve been pottering around at home reading work emails and playing Eve and other stuff like that. Feeling a little better tonight, my head has not cleared up tho. It’s a fun time in work. I shall set my alarm for the morning anyway and see how it all goes.

Oh comic stuff. Daredevil continues to rock fairly hard, I fail to see the fuss over Grant Morrison’s run on New X-Men and those are the only ones which really spring to mind to mention here.

Musically there is not much going on, I may have to invest in some more Gun’s N’ Roses and some Bon Jovi. We rocked hard to them on Saturday night, even more so was a tune which I’ve not heard in a long time but boy did it get everyone going; Motorhead’s Ace of Spades. I have to have had a lot to drink to have my hair down and be thrashing around inside a pub with lots of people I know around.

Having a little bit of a love affair with Excel these days. I’ve started producing stuff within Eve and so I’m charting my minerals and my costs in a spreadsheet. It’s working out quite well, I can see my profit margin straight away and it’s helped me really boost up my failing wallet. I also have some nice investments aside and some other good bits and pieces.

Oh yes, it would be nice to be really good at something. I know it’s a fairly basic thing to say, but it would be nice. Guess I will be leaving it at about that, the thoughts are not flowing onto the screen as I would like and it’s late and I need to sleep. So a quick stop off in Eve and then I’m gone.

People are cunts. I’m sorry, but it’s true. There were about 20 people in the audience tonight who made a damn good attempt to spoil the gig for everyone else. Why would anyone bother to pay for a gig and the proceed to talk their way through it? What possible reason would anyone have to do that? Motherfuckers.

Anyway the music and singing was great, in particular a version of Eskimo with Lisa doing the opera vocals. Wow that girl has some voice.

‘Twas a shit week at work, had a couple of drinks and a chat with the lads after work and that was good, would have liked a decent evenin to finish it off on a high but ah well, it was not the worst ever.

I was up early this morning. I had a shower and I logged into Eve so I could put some stuff I made overnight onto the market. It was all good. Then I got the tube and there were delays on both lines, not so good.

I wasn’t in a particularly good mood, or bad mood for that matter, I just was. Either way I was sitting in the last carriage on the Piccadilly line and reading Metro. I had looked at everyone as I got on of course and dismissed the carriage for lack of talent. However after a few moments I noticed that the girl sitting just opposite me was in fact cute, really really cute. She didn’t look too happy tho she did smile at the kids next to her (and what a cute smile it was) and the in fact didn’t look too well. More of an attitude than anything physical but she looked weary. Morning blues I guess. Anyway just seeing her put me in quite a good mood and I realised that my mood was getting better and better. So anyway, thanks whoever you are. You certainly brightened up my morning.

Off to see Damien Rice tonight and looking forward to it quite a bit. It should be a good mellow night. Then tomorrow is another V DU, and another long one at that…in a pub which serves really strong, really nice cocktails. We have at last count 8 people staying over tomorrow night, it could continue to be messy when we get back at whatever hour. Given the level of drunkenness last weekend, it could be messy. I’m looking forward to it.

Oh yes. Yesterday was a busy day meeting wise, lots of stuff going on. I was running tight on time to make it to a meeting and charged up three flights of stairs to get back to my desk to dial in. So I get there and completely blank on the phone number and the login details. So instead of looking em up I just dialled what I thought it was, when it was still ringing on the third ring I realised I had a wrong number, that I did not in fact know off the number I needed and hung up. Looked up the right details and dialled again. All fun.

Some Glastonbury announcements last night. Paul McCartney confirmed, bah not my thing at all but very pleased to see The Kings of Leon getting a high support slot on the Friday night, that will be a good one and nice to hear that The Strokes are also a more than likely which should be good too. The latter two I think really being good festival bands. Looking forward to it lots now. Doubt very much there will be anything like the amount of musical attraction there was last year but we shall see and it will be good one anyway.

Oh yes tv stuff. Watched the second episode of Joan of Arcadia last night. It was ok but has proved itself not to be worth week in, week out. I may line up a few more as filler but no real rush. Nice cast tho, they really pull off the family nicely. 24 continued it’s theme of being ‘meh’ for the season. I was hoping Nina would go out in a more fun way but yay Jack!. And finally Angel was probably it’s best episode ever. I nearly hurt myself laughing, and here is why

And now a note on the educational benefits of Eve…no really…well kinda.

Eve has it’s own market in game, you can buy/sell most of the things used in game. It’s pretty fascinating to watch the prices actually be determined by supply and demand. There are some major changes going on in the minerals market at the moment and seeing how the prices are being driven down because of extra supply and the knock on effect on the prices of items made using these components is fascinating.

New episode of Alias was fun but nothing really special. Just watched the pilot episode of Joan of Arcadia and it wasn’t half bad actually. Don’t think it needs to be watched week in, week out but it was fun. Watching the pilot of Las Vegas now and it’s so so at the moment.

AIM 5.5 rocks hard by the way.

My spam filters in work are getting pretty damn good. It’s a lot rarer that I have to mark anything as spam. The one I have at home really has some catching up to do.

I just opened a blank word doc to start writing out some other feedback and I typed out a 3 word headline. I misspelt every single word in it. I misspelt the first word TWICE while trying to fix it.

I had a lot of backspacing in that sentence too.

Maybe I should just give up now. I’m not a bad typer, I’m not a good typer by any means. I don’t have to look at the keyboard but I also don’t type properly, I don’t position my hands as I should and I do move them around a bit but hey it gets the job done and it’s generally good enough. It certainly keeps me happy. I can’t carry on typing once I have made a mistake, I have to go back and fix it, even if I am three words on at that stage. Also it’s worth noting that I don’t actually misspell words, I mistype them which leads to the misspelling but ya know that could just be splitting hairs.

Anyway I just sent off the doc I had been working on for a week or so (on and off of course, ’tis only a few pages long) but I wrote out the covering email, solicited some feedback and hit crtl enter to send if off….of course I had forgotten the attachment. So another quick mail to follow it all up with the attachment.

Now I’m going to try and go back to writing my other doc and see if I can get that one off today. Neither of them really had due dates, but starting to get a little pressure so good to get em out of the way and also it’s kinda enjoyable when I get into the swing of it. I guess I enjoy typing (as you may have noticed from some of the shite spieled out here over the years) and when I’ve got some stuff to say and even more so been asked to say it, then I’m going to.

Or something.

Back to typing now.

Ohh might actually type for a while now.

So lets see. Until Monday, it had been almost 8 weeks since I had seen some live music and I had forgotten how great it is. I shall have to ensure that there is at least 1 gig a month going forward. Sorted for another later this week, Daimen Rice on Friday night. Nothing lined up for next month but I see some Placebo dates which I might maybe go for.

It’s fairly quiet in work. I’m still going through that document and have lots and lots more to add and some other stuff to do. it looks like there is a seminar on in Dublin the day after I’m due to fly back to London from my few days away and I’m hoping that will sort itself out nicely.

After quite a bad defeat last week, I won three games of chess at lunchtime yesterday, a couple of them in style!

I really am slacking off in this blogging stuff, I guess there just isn’t that much going on.

Last night, I went to see Auf De Maur in the Carling Islington. It was an enjoyable if quite short gig. Just 50 minutes and no encore. So the album live which wasn’t half bad at all. I was home shortly after 11 and of course played Eve for a while. My sales really took off and I had an extra 1.5 million in the bank which was nice and got me out of a hole I was in. I’m going off to make some more stuff later this evening and will happily sell away.

So it’s Sunday and I’m not that hungover now. I was earlier this morning. The V night out was good fun, not without incident, but overall pretty good. Surprised that it did manged to keep going from 2pm until the bar threw us out (we were of course the last to leave).