Month: September 2004

So I’ve spent every day since then chasing Amy…

The evening’s conversation summed up in a nutshell. An excellent evening overall and on the basis of it, I really need to get back here more often.

One of the many things I love about here is the stars. My parents house is in County Dublin which about 15 miles from the city centre. Not very far really, but far enough that the sky is clear enough to see the stars shining brightly. The plough as ever being a favourite, clear in the sky.

Man I really really miss this place. I’m even starting to think there might be more stuff than I thought worth coming back to.

On the other good news front, my phone connected again later in the day so yay to texting 🙂

Yay back.

Mail is now working and all is well. Dublin is going good but more on that at a later date.

I really really should know better by now than to believe anything promised in meetings.

The cynic in me got beaten down by something recently and I was just in effect told that I “misunderstood”.

I wonder how everyone else in the room managed to “misunderstood” too…

I have to stop buying books. I have at least 30 unread and I just added the 6 I bought at the weekend to the pile. I really should work through them before I go spending more.

For those of you reading here, it’s worth noting that I cross post to Live Journal with the username davebushe. I joined up mainly to comment and got sucked in as a whole load of the V are on there and there are some other interesting bits and pieces. It’s also got friends lock, which I use quite a bit and not everything in that gets posted up here so come friend me if you want to read the whole thing.

I finished Altered Carbon by Richard K Morgan this evening. It’s an excellent book. Very much hints of Philip K. Dick, Alfred Bester and some of the other greats in there. I’ll be out at lunch tomorrow or on the way home to buy the next one. Should do me nicely for travel on Thursday night.

Farel, the guy who has been staying with us for the past few days, left us a lovely piece of artwork from pop gun war which was really damn nice of him.

Finally installed SP2 this evening. It went on without a hitch which I was quite pleased and a little surprised by. I’ve not tried CoH since, but Eve runs just fine. Training up Medium Hybrid to V while I’m away. I was going to work on getting Caldari Cruiser to V so I could jump into BS but it only takes 5 days and I need at least 8. So a good chunk from a higher skill which will let me get those T2 specialisation skills up and running.

I owed my flatmate a story and I’ve been meaning to type it out for a few days and either email it to her or post it up here but I never got to doing so. I always found something else to do. So when she asked this evening I just told her the story…I think she had been waiting to hear it, just a little bit maybe. I’m only still up because I had decided that on the basis of that I wanted to type for a little while and well it’s just not working. I don’t want to go and type it out and I don’t have much else to talk about.

So on that note, I’m off to sleep.

I have not got a single shred of motivation this morning. In fact I can sum it up even more by saying I do not give a fuck. I am astounded that is going on midday already, also quite pleased.

My flatmate came through with tickets for the Pogues at the end of the year which I’m looking forward to. I picked up a ticket for Kings of Leon out on the Forum in late October which will follow Hope of the States the week before quite nicely. Hopefully some other dates in there. REM due to announce European dates this week, I would go and see them in Hammersmith at the Fair Trade thing next week but I’m in Dublin.

Roll on Thursday. I get a week at home catching up with friends and family and most importantly, not being in London. Looking forward to it so much. Leaving on Thursday evening right after work and getting hopefully to my parents place for about 10. I even know where my keys and passport are this time!

I want to go out and spend money tonight, money I do not have. Murder One is out on DVD today at what seems like a perfectly reasonable price of around £30. I won a £20 voucher for HMV as part of Metro’s “My Urban Life” survey which will go straight to that. Yay!

This morning is a big Sigur Ros kick. I’m so in the mood for it and the volume has been pushed right up. I had no idea that there were two new Feist books out. I noticed them both in borders. The third Conclave of Shadows is out in hardcover, I’ll have to get it to match the first two and the new edition (actually fairly rewritten) of Prince of the Blood in paperback luckily. I don’t need more books really, I have a good 30 unread lying around my room but everyone always needs more books.

The weekend was pretty good. Free drinks on Thursday and Friday lead to much fun and a couple of hangovers of course. Jean and Niall arrived all on time and all well on Friday which was good. Saturday was a really good day.

We went to the Tate Modern to see the Edward Hopper exhibit. Confession time. I discovered Hopper through a comic, bonus points if you know what I’m talking about before the next line. Powers of course. The first printing of the second trade; Roleplay had a cover by Michael Avon Oeming (naturally) which was a take on Hopper’s most famous painting Nighthawks and it started there.

So anyway Jean really came over to see that so I booked some tickets and off we went. Nighthawks itself was stunning. No picture I’ve ever seen of it does it justice. The colours are so much more vivid and alive, in particular on the red dress (my god is it red) and the yellows in the background. Absolutely breathtaking. Automat also breathtaking, again photos just don’t do it justice. Just stunning. The rest of the exhibit was just as amazing.

A long walk in the sun followed, from the Tate to Oxford Street down and around by Parliament and Trafalgar square. It was pretty nice if somewhat long. Did some shopping around there and then headed off to meet the V for drinks and dinner which was both good. A few minutes into it, the V had been established as “nice people” which amused me no end and there was good conversation all evening. It would be almost possible to map out the seating via LJ but I’m not going there.

We have another guest in the Primrose Hilton till Tuesday so last night was a trip up to the Washington for mainly a conversation on comics and movies and some music. 4 pints of Star on a Sunday night, always a good thing. Tonight looks likely to be more of the same.

Lunchtime. I’ll re-read this later to see if it makes sense throughout.

It’s been quite a good couple of days. Wednesday afternoon was interesting. The studio was really nice and they did 6 songs. One of the older hits and then some new stuff. So yeah it was interesting.

Yesterday was the quarterly all hands here. It was again, interesting. Normally these things are really shit, we all have to sit for 4 or 5 hours of presentations and then we get some food and drink. They are generally dreaded and I’ve been known to invent conference calls to get out of them.

This one was very different. It was held in London Weekend Television studios by the river and instead of just people talking and talking, we had hired John Sergeant to present and it was done like a talk show for the afternoon. He’s a funny funny man and it was very entertaining. Easily the best I’d been. We were recording it all aswell so there was a full camera setup, sound and even a director.

A good evening followed with lots of free drinks and yes I have a small headache this morning. In the space of two days I was in a music and a tv studio, neither of which I’d been in before. It does seem to be a week of coincidence.

Friends from Dublin arriving later tonight, off to the Tate in the morning and then whatever they want to do before hopefully joining the V DU wherever the fuck it ends up being.

I’m listening to the Beeb live stream from Russia at the moment. It sounds like the army saw a chance and took it, despite all the insistences that they would not and various bombs have gone off.

What a wonderful fucking world we live in.

Je suis un idiot. Je ne comprand pas la monde.

Someday and that day will be soon I hope scientists will discover the gene which causes people to fall for someone who they cannot have. Then that gene will be elimenated and the world will be a better place.

On Monday I got a text from my dad. He’s off on the family holiday in France with my sister and my mom. He hadn’t been able to get a hold of my other sister in Japan and had been reading about the typhoon. So I gave her a ring and as it turns out she’s fine. She was told to stay home from school because it was too windy to ride her bike but that was about it. Chatted for a bit and I texted my dad back to let them know all was well.

Around lunchtime today I got an email…

“Volcano was near me…but we’re not affected. txt mam and let her know pls.”

So guess life over there is turning out to be quite exciting!

I swung by the second hand comic shop at Notting Hill Gate last night. A trade of Milligan/Fregado’s Enigma jumped off the shelf at me. I’m only about half way through it, was still too tired from the weekend to stay up any later last night to finish it and fuck me it’s excellent. Really looking forward to getting it finished this evening.

I can really see why some people are paid to write business cases and I’m not. The other fella involved is doing so much a better job than myself, good thing we do pay him for that! It’s starting to fall into shape.

I’m working on my Mac again! I actually just opened up resourcer and will be off into constructor shortly. I really need a refresh on it. I may rearrange my desk a little so I have the Mac a little more head on than just off at the side. I’m kinda picking up the reins of a project I finished a couple of years ago to well to see where it’s at.

I got Stamina in CoH and man it’s nice. I can actually run my toggles pretty much constantly. I’m thinking about slotting up Death Shroud once I get two more into Stamina. Then with it going all the time I should be able to do some nice melee damage. It’s already good for kills comboed with Whirling Swords AoE/DoT letting me hit the unaffected. Anyway so I’m a 26 scrapper now, I’ve slowed down a bit playing lately so 30 is probably a week away if not two.

On the Eve front, I’ve just broken the nine million skill point mark which is again, nice. About to reach Cybernetics IV letting me use most of the new implants…not that I can afford them yet. I’m starting to get really tempted by Evasive Maneuvering V so I can fly Interceptors but it’s close on twelve days and not really the most useful skill. Battleship IV needs to be done soon so I can have it in training for the Shiva patch. Want to make damn sure I have something long training in there in case they just finish it off like last time. I think signature analayis V would be good and is only 5 days away giving me another basic for T2 ships. Cruiser V is still gonna kill me.

Off to the Thrills shortly. Nice to not be in the office for the afternoon at the least and as it’s out in Angel I should get home early enough. Always nice.