I’m pretty much unpacked and all set-up at my new desk. It is nothing like as bad as I expected. I’ve only a couple of problems and they should be sorted tomorrow. I do prefer the straight desk set-up, just the multiple keyboards get in the way unfortunately.

The weekend was long and messy. After all the plans for a quiet one, well it just wasn’t.

By 6.30 on Friday, I was 6 pints down and then I was off out drinking for the night. Got back to the Washington to meet a small number of the V for some drinks. At 4.30 the next morning we are sat around my living room still drinking. It was rather messy. I learnt a few things which I’ll list for your benefit.

– Rowers are cunts.
– Never mention Cambridge again. When it takes over an hour to get the conversation back onto comics, you know something is wrong.
– Choking on your beer because someone says something stupidly funny is not only embarrassing, it’s rather painful. I’m fairly sure I splurted some of it out too.
– Alex Maleev’s DD work may well be based on a book of poses but it does not matter, it’s still lovely artwork.

Saturday morning wasn’t too bad at all. The bastards decided to tear up the road right next to my bedroom but I was up before it anyway. Hebe was barking loudly so I dragged myself out of bed.

During lunch on Friday a few of us with no plans had planned to meet for a quiet beer and then go and see an early evening movie somewhere for Saturday night. So we met up in BRB’s at 5. The entire cinema thing got about 5 minutes consideration until we went for a pub crawl. Only the 7 pubs mind you and some decent food along the way so not too drunk. Cobweb joined us for the last couple, we were certainly not sober when we made it down there. It was a good good evening.

Out of it came plans for some drinks this coming Saturday. Going to drag some of the corp people out for a beer or two and hopefully it will be good.

Sunday was quiet. Met up with Ciaran and Neil/Dave/Deco for a couple of pints which ended the weekend rather nicely. And it was in Camden so just a few minutes walk to get there and to get back.

Hebe is still alive, I’m not quite convinced Alex believes that will be the case in a few weeks but right now she is still alive. She’s very lost without Alex and wanders around the flat looking for her everytime she gets in. It also means a lot less attention and she’s missing that too. Poor thing. She’ll have a tough few weeks ahead. If she’s lucky Cobweb or McKelvis will be around some weekend to spoil her rotten.

Metallica’s S&M is a truly fine album and is more than likely one of my most listened to albums.

Ah yes comics. Just the two but both are worthy of note.

Powers #1 from Marvel’s Icon imprint. Not that you can tell from the cover at all. First comic in a while to actually prompt a holy shit for the silent two pager. I wasn’t expecting that at all. It also felt like a cheap play to get some attention. It takes far more away from the book than it gives and is pretty much dismissed out of hand by the lead’s later. Meh. While I do think this is a great series, it’s starting to look a little past it’s prime.

Powerless #1. Good things been said about it online and I found out the artwork was Michael Gaydos and so it had to be bought. It wasn’t bad at all. Nicely executed throughout.

I’ve not quite managed to make a complete break and possibly won’t for a long time but I’ve started using Mozilla Firefox and I like it, I like it a lot. I use Thunderbird for my home email client and while it’s not bad, the spam filters are pretty shit. I check the same email account using AOL Communicator in work and it catches so many more pieces of spam. I’m almost tempted to start using it at home.

I see Hope of the States have announced some bigger gigs for later in the year, shall pick up a ticket once I get paid at the end of the month.

Oh yes, I watched Hellboy a few days ago. It was a whole lot better than I expected. Good fun pretty much throughout.

On a typical day I have to enter passwords 15 times just to get my two machines up and running everything. It is of course not the same password, I repeat some a few times throughout. I consider this to be ever so slightly overboard, at least I did until I was just told I need a password to get into the new room and will have to swipe twice to even get that far. Man my bank doesn’t ask me for this much!

Do you ever have someone that you just end up arguing with? No matter what is going on, anytime you spend anytime in each others company you just end up arguing? It’s annoying to say the least and indeed leads to avoidence.

Anyway Spider-Man 2 tomorrow night and Hope of The States on Wednesday. Cannot. Wait.