words XXIV

That was awesome. Angel was doing so well this season and then they just took to straight to the next level.

Computer is almost back, regular service shall return shortly.

My computer and my broadband modem have been fighting all day. It was not I’m afraid love at first sight. I’ve been meaning to uninstall and fdisk my drive before reinstalling Windows for a while know. I know it’s not in a good state and I wanted to sort it out once and for all.
So thats the plan for tonight. I have zipped everything I need and backed it up on ftp. I’m quite looking forward to having a fresh machine again for a little while. It will also clear up lots of space to download some lovely music and the like. The general plan is to wait another hour for Angel to finish downloading, watch that and then begin. If you don’t see me back online later, its all gone to hell and I’ll be back as soon as I can.

Hangover has improved a lot. I’m going to to and read the paper then cook some dinner. Hopefully all transfers will be done by the time I am.

I have a rather bad hangover. I have broadband. One of these things makes the other better.

Today will be a TV day. Buffy and Angel are already downloaing. One of these things contains Faith, you have no idea how much one of these things makes the other better.

Tomorrow I shall post some more thoughts, for now I shall post the following:
Sometimes I am really ashamed of the people I call friend. If somone says ‘ please back off, I feel uncomfortable’ then you back the fuck off, no arguement.
I am really disapointed that someone was not there tonight, really really disapointed.

gah.

Mozilla is so far really really fucking good.

Went out to get my annual haircut today to find that my local barber has closed down and that the only other place I found could not see me until 6:30 tonight. So no haircut then.

Scientists have set a new internet speed record by transferring 6.7 gigabytes of data across 10,978 kilometres (6,800 miles), from Sunnyvale in the US to Amsterdam in Holland, in less than one minute
Net Record Smashed.

I’ve been sitting here with the blogger window open for about an hour now. Make that going on two hours. Before I signed off to take a phone call it was open for around an hour aswell.

I opened up but now I’m closed
Today I’m just on answer-phone
Tomorrow’s what I really want to say
Can by Mull Historical Society

My mind is certainly not blank, but nothing is really ordered to even try and put thoughts down on paper. (It’s an expression damn you). Actually I kinda have one thought. One of the most important rules in life is an unwritten rule. It is however a simple rule and you should always follow it.

Your best friends girl is off-limits.

I mean really folks, is that one so hard to understand? It’s a good standard to live by, I think. Not just for your best friend or your friends or work colleagues or whatever, but just in general.

I have tomorrow off work. I have to take 5 days by the end of the month or loose them. So a long weekend this weekend giving me a chance to catch up on some sleep and get a haircut before tomorrow night’s big party. Then next week I head to Dublin on Friday night and I get back to London the following Tuesday. So then I have two more days to take, another couple of long weekends would be great.

I’m downloading Mozilla 1.3b to actually give it a try as my default browser for a while. Pretty much because of this article; Mozilla: Blogging’s Killer App

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I’ve been saying something like this for a long time now.

When America “cast off monarchical Britain” in 1776, it involved the help of many religious people who had fled repression in other countries, the 11-term Toledo congressman said. Among the nontraditional American revolutionaries were the Green Mountain Boys, a patriot militia organized in 1770 in Bennington, Vt., to confront British forces, she said.

“One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown,” Miss Kaptur said.
Threat of war spurs U.S. soul-searching

I don’t want to lose her
I don’t want to hurt her
I don’t want to lose her
And her is you

I don’t want to use her
I don’t want to abuse her
I don’t want to miss her
And her is you

I don’t want to hurt her
I don’t want to need her
I don’t want to need her
And her is you

I don’t want to lose her
I don’t want to break her
I want to love her

And her is you
Her is you
Her is you

You
You

Her is You by Mull Historical Society.
This is one of my favourite tracks from the album. It really works.

I thought about taking this down last night. I wanted to be able to write and write and write but I knew I was not going to be able to speak well of people I suspect would have been reading. So I was left with not bothering or taking it down. As you can see I left it up and I didn’t post anything else. I shall take things under consideration. I am deeply unhappy and I’m pretty sure this is not the place to express it. Unfortunately I’m not sure where is that place, but…

So anyway last night was pretty bad. I did not sleep well at all. It was close to dawn before I nodded off and of course I was very late for work today. Shit, that was not intended and probably didn’t do me any favours. *sigh*

Um in other news, there isn’t really much so far. Stuff sometime in the future…maybe

This morning was great. I had my annual review in work and it went really well. I was more than happy with it. We only disagreed on 1 of 20 or so points and you know I can live with that. I was marked up in quite a few areas so ya know I can live with that.

Just before I went into my review I spent a while talking to someone who I have not had a chance to get to talk to in a while and that was good.

A conversation I had around lunchtime went something like this, I don’t even remember who it was but someone sent me an im and asked me how it was going. I replied that it was a really good day.

My, how things change.

By the time I left work and it took effort not to just get up and leave at around 5 o’clock the day and indeed the new few weeks had turned into hell.

I know better than to say anything else right now. I am considering several options. I had seen this one coming quite some time off but I somewhat naively thought it would not come to pass. The next person who tells me I’m too cynical and I should be a little more optimistic can shove it.

Gah, I would like to say that I can’t believe the nerve of some people, but in fact I can. I didn’t see that one coming, but I shall make sure I am not caught out by it again.

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I was thinking last night that I would like to actually talk to someone about some work stuff, someone who wouldn’t be coming at things from the same perspective that I do. Obviously I talk to my boss about things like that but more often than not we agree on stuff. One thing that I have thought is that I would like to have the chance to ask some people in senior management how they come to some decisions and things they have to consider. That’s one reason I’ve enjoyed some of the tougher meetings recently. They have been kinda fly on the wall for me. I’m there to cover the technical stuff and debate some merits but decisions are being made alongside that. Struck me that there was a rather simple solution to it. Not something I had given all that much thought to (although we have touched on it before) but my dad is in senior management in his place and has been for quite a while. I’m in Dublin from Friday week and that might be a good chance to talk about some stuff. It’s not like we won’t be down the pub talking anyway. I’m kinda expecting a ‘talking to’ anyway so *shrug*

CSI tonight was excellent. Enjoyed it a lot. They need to do a little more character stories to really take the show to the next level. It has been threatened on and off over the past two years but always seems to fall that little short.

Some comics stuff. I read the second Fables arc last night and it was excellent. Really good stuff especially the last two issues. This alongside Y: The Last Man were Vertigo’s two big success stories last year. Kicking off the latter was doing more for me, but now 6 months into it, I find it to be slipping fast and Fables is just getting better and better. I shall keep up with both but look forward to Fables a lot more. Also read the trade of Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith’s 30 Days of Night which was a good read with some really really really lovely artwork. A tad on the pricey side, £13.50 for a 3ish mini but the script was a nice extra and shipping every issue signed by the creators was a nice touch. Don’t think the sequel will go on the pull list as I know it will hit trades, but that will be one to watch out for.

oh and yes, email was back this morning.