Just been to see Phone Booth. As much as I dislike Joel Schumacher for the damage he did to the Batman franchise, this was an excellent little movie. Farrell does a really good job of standing in a phone booth and acting for 90 minutes. I was looking forward to seeing this quite a bit. I like the idea and the trailer was pretty good. I heard some bad things about it from a friend earlier in the week and that put me off a little but it’s one of the better movies of recent years. Well worth seeing.
Mixed signals. *sigh* I have no real idea about anything anymore. It is certainly a strange turn around and I am completely lost. Tomorrow is yet another today. Although technically it already is.
I have to admit a little excitement about various blogging pieces of news I heard today. I am looking forward to having new toys to play with and some new systems to check out. If Typepad can import all my Blogger entries and contains many of the Moveable Type features then I am very interested. However having seen the entire new Blogger, I’m quite excited about getting in and using it on this blog. Of course a third option could surface at anytime now. New hosting perhaps and go with an install of MT…hmmm. We shall see. Interesting times for sure. Some interesting discussions with the lads in work around the subject today. Turns out that on my team of 4, two of us blog, one publicly, one semi-privately, one of us keeps a hand written diary and the last won’t do either as his thoughts aren’t for the world to see. Interesting points of view there. I suspect this is a subject we shall be discussing again.
I have so much I need to get done before the weekend. I need to do some cleaning and some washing and get the spare room into order. I have no idea when I will do this. Well, that’s not true. I do. It has to be early Saturday morning. I’ve to be at Heathrow at 11am ish which means leaving here around 10am. In order to get everything ready, I shall have to be up at around 8am ish. All this after a Friday night out in town with the lads.
No chance.
I am, I have to admit a little annoyed. I don’t like the way some things are going at the moment and to be quite honest I’m more than a little sick of some things. I don’t think I can even explain this very well but I guess I’m seeing or at least I think I am, a bad attitude taking effects on others. It’s not a good thing, in fact it’s a very bad thing. And yes I’m very aware of glasshouses but this is really getting to me and has been for a while. Perhaps I’m wrong.
Oh on whole other fronts, work. Something wonderful happened today. We had a problem. This happens a lot. We got on the phone and asked someone for help. This too happens a lot. Well, we didn’t get the answers we needed, but we got something just as good. We got someone completely familiar with the situation who understands our problems exactly and can help us out. Not only that but the conversation ends with us being told that if he can’t figure it out, he’ll set up a call early next week with a group of developers and we’ll all go through it. This never happens. It was one of the most productive calls I’ve ever been on. I guess we really should have done that earlier…mea culpa.
Something struck me on the bus on the way home. I’m reading Iain Bank’s The Crow Road and it’s a damn fine read. There was a line about teenagers and the way they begin to interact with adults. It suddenly had me thinking and indeed remembering what it was like when you got to that stage where when you met up with your extended family and you were too old to go off with the kids but too young to sit with the adults. It’s a strange time I guess. It also sorta got me thinking on how different my relationship is with my parents and indeed some of my aunts and uncles now that it ever was. All in a good way.
That in turn lead me to another thought. I wonder what that relationship would, among many other things, be like had I stayed on in Dublin. If I had taken my redundancy and gone job hunting. I don’t believe for a second I would be in as good a position as I am today and for all I know I could be still living at home. I just don’t know. But it did have me thinking for a while. Who knows what might have been? How different would my life be right now. Would I be sitting in our utility room typing this. Hmm maybe not. I don’t even know if I’d have a blog. Ah well, idle thoughts eh?