Hateful.
Everything is a bit much sometimes. I could do with a large lottery win now please, or even a vaguely small, five figures. Just ARGH.
We watched Buck and the Preacher and things are just such a distraction. So unfocused and so much faffing. I didn’t use to be like this
Yup, and another one. I need this sorted earlier but it’s just… so much.
Flat stuff and everything else.
Need to stop eating, need to stop. Need, just need.
BLRUGH.
A quiet Saturday. Finally watched Decision to Leave which was good though with a cold deliberate style and restraint. Then, watched Mr Bates vs The Post Office, mainlined the whole thing. What an absolute disgrace, there pretty clearly should be some people in jail for this.
Tomorrow, TAW’s mom’s birthday lunch. Should be… fine I guess.
Right, I need to focus on this. I need thoughts to record and
I’ve deleted Pokemon Go from devices, going to try and move a little away from some games. I should do the same for Marvel Snap. Well, I should do the same for more but the sunk costs into both Timelines and MPQ keep their hold on me.
Perhaps soon, perhaps?
Bah.
I need to figure out better reminders, something that works when I get home late.
So it was an evening out to Finborough for ET. 1979, mixed bag. Must get my review typed up. Uncomfortable, yet again the only bench with 5 to a seat . Ugh.
TAW’s mom came around earlier in the day for a wile so that was good to catchup. A bit over the weekend planned too.
Missed day. Fuck.
Home from a really wet evening, a visit to Cold War at the Almedia. I wasn’t a huge fan of the movie and I don’t really know Elvis Costello so wasn’t so keen on this. It was okay. I liked Luke Thallon, particularly at the end of the second act but otherwise turning an 89 minute movie into a 160 minute play… sheesh.
A quick catchup with Fred beforehand was nice, though a little awkward. I need to get back into socialising with people I don’t see too often and, it isn’t small talk it us.
Anyways first complaint in with PRS and I need to get the HA one tidied up and gone in. Then follow-up with MP and perhaps bite the bullet on the residents association.
Sheesh. It is the stress, the stress, the stress.
I could do with a good nights sleep now.
Stress.
A bit of a concern. HA and estate management issues just piling up. It would be nice if others took some action but people appear happy to coast by. Blurgh.
Otherwise, motivation remains … uh.
Codename George George is looking like next month is going to be crazy busy, some things a bit out of balance. I had less in December and January then expected and so all the rushing to keep the space didn’t quite work out. Still back on the horse tomorrow and then onto ET on Friday.
Posted some news, okay somewhat obliquely, in Discord earlier this morning and precisely no-one appears to have noticed and I had to draw attention to it sometime later. Smart people are sometimes really dumb.
Yesterday was a quiet end to the year. We watched Broker which was just lovely. Then it was a quiet rest of the day, getting quite into the Quantum Leap reboot, it’s starting to turn into a lot of fun.
Otherwise, procrastination continues. I have to follow-up with HA and PRS and I just need to get into the mood and spend the time on it. I also need to not let the stress get on top of me, that’s a bit of a worry. Tomorrow maybe.
A reasonably quiet day back at work, not too full of an inbox which is nice. A movie is planned for this evening and then just quiet.
A slow start to a big year.
I don’t know how many years I have started this and then trailed off. 20 years ago, it was full swing. Who needs a failing memory with thoughts and actions and photos logged all the time? Sounds strange actually, how the world has moved on from blogs, memories outsourced to Facebook and such places.
Well, 2024 here I am and I am going to try again.
2023 was a hell of a year, a lot happened. 2024 has some stuff lined up but worries and stress and all such things just continue. Life I guess, right?
Oh well, 2024 will be a year of more theatre and more movies. Slightly more nights home planned then the last couple of years with 2023 going pretty crazy for [REDACTED] reasons. It will be good to be able to talk about all of that.
Other than that, life goes on. Things are very different than the end of last year, I hope they won’t be so different at the end of this year.
Happy new year all.
Bad nights lead to better days
It never happens but I think about it anyway
I want an easy plateau
Some place to hang my head
I want an easy plateau
Some place to hang my head
For awhile, for awhile, for awhile
For a little while
Easy Plateau – Ryan Adams
Bah.
Stressed already and it looks to only increase.
It’s mainly good stress, the type that I’m good at channeling into getting things done. Lots going on, lots to do but it’s all under control so far. I wonder if I’m being tested a bit, it wouldn’t surprise me at all but a new project has ended up with me and it’s fairly sketchy in everyway. It’s not impossible by any means, it’s just going to take a whole lot of digging and working things out. That is what I do now tho.
It’s amazing how having the word ‘manager’ in a title changes things. I’ve found in the week or so I’ve been using my new title I get a much better reaction from new people I have to deal with. Phone calls and emails are returned noticeably quicker. This is a good thing but it does suck that it has to take that to kick something off.
I’m now booked off on another course and my credits are building up nicely for some actual accreditation. My laptop is on order and I’m pretty satisfied with how I have been handling things so far.
So work is all good. That’s a nice change.
Outside of work…not so good. I guess it’s times for the downs after the ups of the past few weeks. I’m running a little bit back into a rut again and I’m not sure how to climb out of it. There are lots of things going on and lots of friends around for drinks every night but that’s not really what I want.
I am absolutely certain of what I do want, more than I ever have been but it is of course easier to know what you want than to go out and get what you want. That’s some pearl of wisdom eh?
But enough of that. Flickr got a little cooler today with the addition of Explore and more so Interestingness. Good good stuff. I really really want that new camera so I can actually start to contribute something of some level of quality.
I finally started watching the first season of Battlestar Galactica and it’s allright. Enough with the shoving sex into everything tho please while yes I do appreciate the form of Number 6, she’s really fucking irritating. The whole Baltar visions thing just annoys the hell out of me. Cast is pretty decent, it’s not my Apollo and Starbuck but it’s allright I guess. Another 7 or 8 episodes saved up and I’ll be on track with the US. The joys of nothing airing during the summer months…
In other news, I re-read Preacher over the past few days. It’s one of those things that I know is good, I know I like it a lot but I never quite remember how good it is or how much I like it until I go and read it again. Good good stuff.
My tip for new music this year remains Battle. Tendency is a choon!
I mean everything
that falls out my mouth
when I throw my arms around you
