Allowing Jessica Simpson to over Take my Breath Away was a crime against humanity and someone should be punished for it.
And to really cheer me up, not hours after I was wondering where they were, my 8 tickets for the Pixies just arrived. Sweet 🙂
Last night I went to bed about 11.30. I had been working on a plan for something in Eve for a while, so I finished it off and posted it for consideration and then went to bed.
It took hours to get to sleep, stress literally fell onto my shoulders and I felt like shit and I was getting worked up about stuff. It was not good, it was not good at all.
Anyway turns out nothing happened last week at all and I had little or no email which required a reply this morning so it’s been fine. Just two more days this week.
Off to Thorpe Park with the V all day Friday and then off to Dublin early on Saturday morning. I’m about to send some emails to see who is around.
The weekend was allright, went out with the V on Saturday and Sunday and had more to drink than I intended on both nights. There were good people around and I had fun but at the same time, I wasn’t in the best of moods at all and didn’t enjoy it as much as I should have. Anyway enough of that, it’s amazing how something can lead to a domino effect across so many things
I’m getting quite excited by some parts of Eve again and I hope to do some interesting things over the coming weeks. With a bit of luck I’ll be leading a fleet into battle shortly and we’ll get to have some fun doing that. I’m looking forward to it alot and hope that we can rally some support behind it on the boards and then actually get some action taken.
Also of nice note to me, last week was OOTO all week for training, this week Monday was a bank holiday and I have Friday off. Next week I have Monday off and Tue-Thur working in Dublin leaving 1 day at my desk. That’s 3 weeks of no full working weeks 🙂
I have just spent the past hour sorting out my book shelf. I have a lot less books than I expected but they do all look good together on the shelf.
Sometimes a long hot shower is the best feeling in the world.
So then I ended up playing Eve and as I wasn’t giving it 100% I made a stupid mistake and lost my ship.
So the course is over, it’s been both a long and a short week at the same time. I’m pretty tired out, I’ve been getting to bed earlier than usual and in that sense I’ve had a good week. Realised something interesting about timing and things like that which I have to think about.
This evening I’m pretty restless. I don’t know what I want to do, but I know that I want to do something. Today we finished early so I’ve been home for a while (none of the usual Friday night fun for me, as I don’t want to take the tube to the other side of London) and I’m, well I’m bored. I’ve done a small bit of cleaning and organising and I’ve played Eve and fuck all else really. I have loads of stuff to watch and to read and none of it is jumping out at me now.
I’m thinking perhaps cinema but there is fuck all on that I really want to see, a few things I may go and see but again nothing jumping out. I guess I’ll play Eve for most of the night.
Song of the week and indeed my life right now is Springsteen’s The River some of it is just so charged up and it rocks hard.
I dropped my discman yesterday, most of it is fine…except for the increase volume button which is well fucked. Suspect it’s going to mean a new one which is one more expenise I could do without this month. Shall check out the prices on the way to Dublin in a couple of weeks.
Finished Chasm City and since then Diamond Dogs/Turquoise Days, the two novellas collected which were excellent. Looking forward to finishing Redemption Ark and then onto the new one which I have not read.
Google IPOing….well it’s about time but does seem like it was perhaps a bit forced on them. I wonder (hope) this is going to be a rallying point of some sort for the internet industry and that we will all benefit from it. I am already considering how I can go about buying some shares in it. Thing is, they would have to be long term and I don’t have much cash I could tie up like that…unless I sold some of my shares which I really don’t want to do. Still, thinking about ways and means. Also, hot damn but this letter alongside the IPO information is good stuff. Man I want to work for them!
– course is really tough. I was struggling by lunchtime on the first day. Not a good sign. Perservering through as much as I can.
– had way too much to drink last night with one of the lads.
– I’m having a quiet night in watching stuff while playing Eve. I love the fact that the new 24 has a graphic violence warning before it.
That’s about it for now.
Today was a lovely day. I did some brief shopping in Camden and enjoyed a nice walk along the canal.
A short list.
– It appears that The Lovely Bones is to be filmed within the next year or so. If they capture half the book, anyone watching will spent the entire movie sobbing.
– *sigh* I don’t even know how to phrase this but I have much stronger feelings for someone than I should.
– Chasm City is going really well and again I’m enjoying it so much more than the first time around.
– Message board bugs have been annoying me a lot today.
– I have played way too much Eve today. Tomorrow I need to get our more and enjoy the weather. By the end of the week I should be able to fly any basic frigate in the game and close on every cruiser in the game. Then I can work my way up to all battleships.
– I need to go and sleep but I want to get a little stuff finished up first.
– Tomorrow I have no plans, I really need to go out to Avalon and collect my comics but I’m dreading what the bill for that one will be 🙁
– I’m tired. I was up around 9 this morning which is very unusual for me on a Saturday. Tomorrow, hopefully I will sleep in.
– Watched a whole load of stuff today aswell, most of which was good. It certainly was an entertaining few hours.
So I’ve just landed myself a 5 day training course next week in Java. I am exceptionally pleased about this. I am really looking forward to next week now. At the very least, the training course is damn close to my flat. It’s not quite walking distance but it’s close enough. Most days shoud be over around 4.30 and I’ll get some more Eve time in (what!?!)
I have also made some decisions and have come up with a bit of direction. It is one that I have been thinking about for a good while but I am actually going to follow it through now. I just need to get some cash together and I’ll see what I can do about that in the next couple of weeks and then get going.
I am the man with the plan, if I can follow through on this plan it will make the coming weeks, months and indeed years rather interesting and rather tough too. I have no idea if I can handle it but I’m damn well going to give it a try.
This has been a very social week. I’ve had lunch with 4 different people and will head out out to the pub for our usual Friday semi team lunch. Going to go a little early to get a seat outside as it’s starting to become really nice over here. I’m hoping that it will be a nice weekend. I don’t have much planned, I want to pick up a few comics but mainly nothing planned. I may hit the cinema a couple of times, the Prince Charles has some stuff on that I want to see and a cheap quiet weekend sounds good.
Dublin is all confirmed. I get there on the 8th when I’m on holiday until the 11th. At that stage I’m attending a conference for next 2.5 days and back to London on the afternoon of the 13th. In a case of good timing, my dad is in London at the time I’m in Dublin on a course of his own. It overlaps a little, I’ll see him in Dublin before he leaves and then he is staying with me the weekend after. Some beers involved there I’m sure.
For some reason, I could guess at a few of them I’m feeling completly miserable right now. I really don’t want to be here, what I’m “working” on is a pain in the fucking hole and the highlight of the rest of the day is a patch for Eve when I get home.
I’m not able to find anything to listen to which hits the spot. Been a fair bit of Iron Maiden over the past couple of days but right now nothing is working. It needs to be heavy right now and it needs to just drown everything out but the noise. *sigh*
I am actually considering taking two days holidays and not coming in tomorrow and Friday. I don’t think I’d miss much but I am trying to keep my holidays for later in the year when I might actually be able to go somewhere.
I find myself in need of a goal at the moment. I’m floundering a bit, both in work and in my own life. I guess I have a little direction in both but it feels lacking. Alot of it is down to a quiet time in work. We are very much between projects and don’t have all that much to keep going on.