Only one person has so far told me I don’t look well go home, but I am feeling worse. So I am sitting at my desk and not going anywhere.

I need to see The Two Towers.

hmm Metallica are touring later in the year. Playing a couple of festivals and a date in Dublin. I shall have to add them to the ‘seeing next year list’. I wonder about the whole festival thing. I would like to REM live again, but they are only (so far) doing festivals (and Dublin) and the same with Metallica. I wonder about a couple of trips to Dublin or perhaps checking out a festival or two.

hmmm.

FUCK.
Clicked a link in an email and of course it opens in my window for Blogger and I loose a post.
FUCK.

Anyways I am feeling a lot better except for a splitting headache. I attribute this to a lack of food and have therefore had some food and taken 2 neurofen. I hope to feel better shortly. So tomorrow will be back to work.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
What can I say other than this game rocks. I have a damn kitana to kill people with!

Radiohead have just debuted something new on their website. It is rumoured to be some new material which I am obviously eager to hear. However it is a) streaming in realplayer which is well shit, and b) timing out because of demand c) never good to try stuff like that on dialup. On the other hand, these things have to be done and I really want to hear it.

In other news, I watched Black Hawk Down which was ok and then I watched 24 1pm till 2pm which wasn’t bad at all. A nice little twist or two and some damn fine work by Mr Sutherland. Read some more comics today, got caught up on the excellent Fables from Vertigo and the so so Stormwatch: Team Achilles from Wildstorm.

I had been feeling a little, nay I lie, a lot better. I am no longer. I am in fact feeling a lot worse and I have a headache on top of that. I still don’t feel like sleeping, but when I do I sleep for a long time. I didn’t fall asleep until sometime close to 5 in the morning I suspect and then slept straight through till 2pm. Not ideal as it means like now I don’t want sleep.

My flatmate is now actually talking about moving out to move in with her fella, we talked about it a little tonight. I wonder how that would work out. She wants to keep the flat and rent it out. I know a couple of people who are not happy where they are at the moment and are looking to move. We shall see how things turn out over the coming months. Of course ideally I’d find myself a nice women and have her move in and not have anyone else. Be a little expensive but a decent size place for two of us. Ah well one can dream eh?

Oh I don’t know why, but that reminds me of something. Meg is easily the best writer I know, she has this wonderful grasp of language that I am very jealous of. I do remember her posting this and it stood out in her archive a couple of days ago. It’s fairly short and simple and a tad abrupt, but hey the gist is good.
How are you? Don’t give me any of that ‘ok thanks’ bullshit, really how are you?

I don’t know how common this expression is around your parts, but it’s common enough in Dublin. When someone asks how you are you can reply with “ah can’t complain”. Generally meaning things are well. It doesn’t tho does it? You can complain, if you really wanted to complain you could. But you just don’t. For whatever reason, you don’t/can’t complain. It isn’t an expression I use all that much. I can rarely think of a time when I could not complain about something!

You know why is it that Syria is the only country in the world standing up openly to the US? It really amazes me that none of the so-called First World nations are not calling the US on what is little more than a personal vendetta. Why is the UK so eager to go to war? What is the US going to do to the UK, if they don’t?

Gonna try and go get some sleep now. Wish me luck.

The V has yet again proven to be right headed. The Fischerspooner Remix of Kylie’s Come Into My World is indeed awesome.

Right a few comics and a little internet later I’m bored again. I quite enjoyed two new Wildstorm series’ from Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray ; 21 Down and The Resistence. Both fairly smartly written and backed up by decent artwork. Neither are runaway hits but I’m on board for the future.

I’ve hit most of the sites I normally visit five or six times already today. Don’t people have any consideration, I expect something NEW everytime I look! Damn you all.

Side note, Katrina just got home. Her first words ‘Hi Dave’ closely followed by ‘You’ve got a cold’ so great, I not only feel shit, I look shit.

Hot choclate is good, it helps me feel better for about an hour. Unfortunatly this didn’t help much with the sleeping.

I have a copy of Black Hawk Down out from DVDs on Tap and I have for a while. I might actually watch it later and send to back to them. That is if my head un-clogs at all. Unfortunatly it does not show any sign of doing so. Ohh I could also watch the last hour of Amelie which for some reason I have just never bothered to do.

I have some…quite a few comics to read too. I could sort all the recent stuff and actually read them instead of just leaveing them lying around…hmmm thats an idea.

I’m drinking hot choclate laced with lots of sugar. I don’t have..hold the phone thats not quite true. I have a small bottle of Mr. Jack handy. I might just have to put some into the next mug to see if that helps. I am never able to get to sleep when I have a cold, too much coughing and blockage in my nose. A lot of people in the office have been suffering with colds over the past couple of weeks and my entire family had just gotten over a pretty bad case (see hospitalisation story in early December archives), except for my dad who was still doing bad after having it for two weeks.

I’m listening to These Days by Bon Jovi. Don’t ask me why, I don’t know. I just am. It was on the shelf, I don’t think I have ever listened to it fully and it jumped out into my hand, damnit.