Yesterday was both an excellent day and a piss poor day at the same time. The weather was lovely and the office was quiet so Friday lunch was excellent. We went early to get a seat outside at the Old Parr’s Head and had a lovely Thai, a nice pint and good conversation. It was really nice. A long lunch but not too long…long enough for me to get sunburnt on both my arms. Not badly, it’s already fading to a tan but it was sore for a brief while.

The rest of the day was kinda meh. The afternoon dragged by and there was quite a bit of socialising going in the office. Whole loads of people were out and no-one was stressy busy for a change so we wandered the floor talking. It’s something that we don’t do enough of and nice when a decent Friday afternoon comes together like that. I’m much happier within the whole greater team now and so anything that helps along those lines is a good thing.

Hit the Comedy last night to meet up with the V. Strange night but not so bad in the end. Not a late one at all, home at a reasonable hour and a quiet one today.

Some faffing around on the internet and a walk into town to pick up some comics. No rain after all that. Nothing too major comics wise with the exception of the second volume of Age of Bronze which I’m looking forward to getting into tomorrow. Dinner out and then home still fairly early.

Music wise there is a whole lot of interesting stuff going on. System Of A Down’s latest Mesmerize is excellent and I’m playing that lots. I wasn’t a fan of the last album so only now looking forward to seeing them at Download next weekend off the back of this one. Also Audioslave’s second: Out of Exile is awesome, love the acoustic live version of Like A Stone. The Duke Spirit finally got their first album out and I like that a whole lot. Very much on a Queen kick at the moment too so some of them mixed in between all that.

I’m reading My Life by Bill Clinton, finally out in paperback. It’s allright, I dislike intensely how from the start he writes about something and then says that’s why I did something when I was president etc. The way he says it all comes out very wrong and every second person he talks about get some fancy job down the line. Saying that I’m enjoying it and as I’m only coming up to the mid-eighties now, quite a lot to go!

I like fixing things. I’m not always very good at it, but when it does all work out it’s a lovely feeling of satisfaction. My email client in work died on me Thursday afternoon, very badly. It would load right up and then the entire exe would just die, not recoverable and no useful info in any logs I could find. Saved my profile elsewhere and reinstalled with no joy. Put the profile back in and then started taking bits and pieces out. Eventually when I edited my inbox in a text editor I found the cause. The top email was an image of somesort and as soon as it tried to render boom. So deleted it in the text file, saved it and bingo, all was good. Ok, so that was fairly minor and some of you are scoffing and perhaps rightly so, my only point is that I figured it out and made it work again and that felt good.

As I mentioned above, next weekend is Download. A half day Thursday and then I’m all off on the train to Donnington. Hurrah for a weekend of camping and rocking. It should be good fun. A couple of the lads from work are headed there and a couple of other friend of friends. We shall all hook up and have a good time. A good bit of music to get excited about. Garbage again should be awesome, never let me down live. Sunday night should be the perfect end, Slayer, Slipknot and SOAD. Monday will hurt, a lot. Can’t wait.

I was sitting here thinking, yay Post Secret will update soon and it just has! It’s a small joy but one that I look forward to each and every Saturday night. Mileage can and does vary but such is the way with everything. Perhaps someday I’ll send something in. I’m sure I can cover the secret part but I’m not sure I can cover the artistic part. Probably not for either actually.

I love it when a plan comes together! I hate it when a plan comes apart! Everything was all setup and ready to go and then all of a sudden boom. Given the amount of effort that went into that plan, I’m not sure there will be another one anytime soon 🙁