tonight, make it magnificant.

I have much much love for Blondie’s Atomic. It was one of the first songs I fell in love with as a kid and while right this second it’s not standing up, it always has until now. One of those tunes that you cherish the rare chances you get to hear it. The internet and ya know having a job and buying cds takes some of that innocence away. Ya know there is a much bigger paragraph hiding in there. I may have to go look for it tomorrow.

I’m just making a CD to take into work tomorrow and then I’m gonna go and get some sleep. I don’t feel like it, I feel like I have nothing to say but that I’m screaming out to say something. I guess it’s there, just censored.

I just realised something. I have not installed a winamp skin. I have done nothing to customise the only thing on my computer guarenteed to make me feel a little better at any time. A few minutes exploring and I’m quite impressed. The whole modern skin thing is really cool, it works so very well.

I was thinking on the way to work this morning, I often do. Today it was past relationships and thinking that I really hope I’m not the same person I was when I got involved in some of them. So this afternoon, inspired by the Kaufman Eternal Sunhine of the Spotless Mind, there was a poll on Sk8J about whether you would have an ex removed from your memory. I’m not sure if I would but the strange confluence of the interwebnet and my line of thought struck me. Anyway, I think I want to see the movie.

I also really want to see all of DS9 again. There have been many mentions of it on boards of late and details of the really good stuff it did. I want to have it all on DVD, I just don’t have the odd ?400 spare.

Right sleep, perchance to dream!

And love is not a victory march…

I don’t count this as writing. I was asked in the pub on Saturday night if I wrote at all and I said no. Then there was a minor disagreement and this is considered writing. I guess it is, but in the context of being an inspiring writer, this ain’t writing. I’ve not tried my hand at fiction in a long time and even so whenever I did (outside of school) it was fan-fiction (shudder). Man that was a long time ago. I guess I should try again but aswell as lacking the thunderbolt of inspiration, well I can’t write 😉

Anyway Saturday night was good fun and not too debauched. It went on till about 1.30 but it was not the 2pm start planned, closer to the 6pm kick off. It was a good good night and that’s really that. The next time someone is really drunk and needs some help to get outside for water and air, it’s NOT MY TURN! Look how it worked out on Saturday night!!! *sigh* ok that’s just my excuse it’s not like I was going to talk to her anyway.

I can only describe work over the past 5 days or so as being a disaster. A litany of fuckups and I have no idea how to fix mine. Thursday night about 9pm, the problem was reported and man oh man is it fucked to hell. I managed to ignore it completely for the weekend but of course as soon as I get back in here it’s all back to haunt me. Still I got a pay increase on Friday so that was good.

I started playing Deus X: Invisible War yesterday afternoon on some strong recommendations and 6 hours later realised I was still playing it. It’s very awesome and the scope for the ways through the game is great. I am looking forward to playing some more tonight.

I go to Dublin on Thursday and believe you me, I cannot wait. Just getting off the plane in Dublin should lift some of the weight and make me feel better. I am really really looking forward to it, to just be somewhere nice for a while with nothing (much) to worry about.

A link. To a comic. Go and look at this, it’s something which cries out for me to own on paper. (via BB and the oft updated PB).

I have no idea why but I have listened to Jeff Buckley’s Hallelujah seven or right times this morning. It’s just there, in my head capturing my mood a bit at the moment. Bonus points if you got this already from the post title. And it’s loud, it’s not a loud song but I feel the urge to just ramp it up and force it into each ear until it is all there is.

Reading some great comics of late. I just read Grant Morrison’s run on Animal Man which is *really* good, I’m sorry it took me so long to get into it. The last issue really pays off quite nicely. Next up, the fabled Zenith!

Eve has just become a war zone. My alliance is fighting what appears to be 5 enemies on 5 fronts. And just as I typed this, Dave swung by and we shared a nerdy moment with the rest of the team looking on funny. Right now I’m up in safe space, I’m not going to travel down to the warzone this week, I don’t know what help I would be and I don’t want to sit somewhere for the 5 days I’m away when I have no idea what the situation will be like when I log back on. I am kinda of looking forward to it tho. If I had a decent amount of cash behind me to get back on my feet after each ship loss, I would be well on for joining in the fight. III will help with that of course but really I need a cushion of 50 million.

I really like No Doubt’s cover of It’s My Life, it has been played many times recently and imagine that, it’s on now. I don’t think I know the original by Talk Talk, I’ll have to see about a download so I can check it out. Also Gwen Stefani is quite hot, it helps ya know?

Having a network at home is interesting. It leads to Alex and myself commenting at each other as we have IM conversations with the same people. It also leads to certain people saying way too much….you know who you are!

And I’ll stop myself there, I just found what I’ve been waiting for all morning in Ministry’s Animosity, it’s loud, it rocks and it’s all there is for that just the one brief second. It is all that matters and I had to force myself to type through it to get this out onto paper.

And yes, I intend to ramble for a while more before I actually post this thing.

I need to fix the first page on my site, it was never more than a placeholder but it was lost when the servers were hacked a few weeks back and typically I don’t have a backup of it. It shouldn’t take very long to do something else up in place but I just don’t really feel like it. Maybe I should actually content it up, but I really don’t have anything to put up there. I did debate about putting some sort of Eve area up mainly for my own use but it will take more time than I want to dedicated to it…like so many things

Oh I saw Free Enterprise yesterday, at last. It was fun. Shatner was great and the two lead nerds were really well acted and scarily reminiscent of many many people I know.

I just bunged this into Word and ran word count for the sake of it. Given my own personal grammar rules and the use of tags within the post, the 960 it gave is rough but not out by all that much I suspect. One day I will get all of the archives here into a proper text format and see what I can do with them.

I went to bed about 12.30 last night and I remember setting my alarm clock. I woke up to hear the dog barking this morning and did the usual trick of thinking it was way too bright and went looking for the time. It was 7.50am, I then discovered I had not in fact managed to set my alarm clock, so it was a good thing the dog woke me. Having said all that I was still 15 minutes late but I can blame that one completly on the tube as my line was very delayed, so there.

I logged into Friends Reunited for the first time in a while today, it sent me a mail telling me that someone from around my time had signed up so I went to look see. I didn’t know the person but it does strike me how few people from around my time are actually signd up to any of the things like this one.

I feel pretty shit. My cold which never fully went away is back. I’ve had a bad week with it and I wish it would go away. I suspect that a hectic weekend with sleep all over the place helped it to come back.

I wrote this on Monday but I saved it as I wasn’t ready to post it. It may aswell fit in here.
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Where to begin? Not at the start that’s for sure.

– I slept really badly last night. I think going to bed at 6am on Sunday morning and sleeping until 2pm really threw out my bodyclock. I was awake at 6.50 this morning, badly awake as I did the usual trick of think it was way too light and jumped out of bed looking for the time. I really need a proper alarm clock beside my bed.

– Starskey & Hutch yesterday afternoon was fun. Nothing really special but the last two minutes were gold. Couple of drinks afterwards was good too.

– Apparently the really cute redhead was in the club on Saturday night, I saw no sign of her 🙁
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I’m very close to getting to a battleship in Eve and I’m looking forward to it, this should bring me back into the game a bit which is good as I’m drifting out a bit.

Re-reading Bruce Jones’ run on the Hulk in trades and I’m enjoying the hell out of it. It runs nicely when there is a large batch to get through. I have a new one to round off the end of it which I’m looking forward to.

Last night headed into BRB’s in Chinatown to have some drinks with the guys from work and a few people from the V who came along to celebrate a Welshman. It was a good night with a decent mixed crowds…tho seriously lacking in single cute women (just like my life really).

Tonight I have some new Alias to watch and with some luck a new episode of The Shield too. An early night to bed to read after some watching would be good.

I’ve also beeing watching the fourth season of The Sopranos over the past few days and it’s good fun. No-where near as good as the first two seasons but still good stuff.

– The Darkness do not bring the rock.
– Franz Ferdnand do, as do the Kings of Leon.
– That’s two nights in a row clubbing, I’m really tired now.
– I had some beers with Patrick today for the first time in a long while. It was a good afternoon and a good dinner.
– Do I shower now…or tomorrow?
– I’m off to see Starskey & Hutch tomorrow afternoon, I was the one organising it all. I wish now that I had not. I could do with a day to sleep in and do nothing. Still should be fun.
– Dancing oneself sober is quite a good thing and I certainly drank enough water that I should have no hangover at all tomorrow. I’ll just be stiff.
– Going to have to shower now really, there is no way around it.

It snowed last night, it was really pretty.

Now that’s a first sentence designed to draw the reader in and leave ’em waiting for more…or not as the case maybe.

Work isn’t fun these days, I’m quite simply not enjoying it and the days are *really* dragging by. Last night I went into town to collect some stuff after work. There were a number of trades out which I wanted to collect so I figured a swing by Comic Showcase would be a good thing. And so it was. I got everything I wanted (being lucky enough to get the last copy of Spooked) so then it was a bus trip home reading.

Almost through the Hornblowers, with some childhood illusions shattered. Hornblower is in fact a bit of a bastard and not the squeaky clean hero I remember from reading them 10 odd years ago. Nor is Bush the brave captain who serves faithfully, he’s some sort of simpering little puppy who got a bad death almost as an after thought. Anyway still enjoying the books, they get weaker towards the end but still fun. Loads of trades now lined up after them which should be good.

Last night seemed to stretch out completely. I thought it would be way late when I got home having gone shopping but the next few hours seemed to drag by which was quite pleasing. I watched the first episode of season 3 of The Shield which was good and set up some nice ideas for the rest of the season and then I watched Bubba HoTep which while being good is WAY overhyped.

Played Eve for a good while too, actually starting to get close to my main goal now which is good. It should open the game up a hell of a lot more. Skills are all coming along well too.

“It occurs to him that if he died that night he would happy. Because he was loved”

A surprisingly productive day so far despite people wasting my time. Got a number of issues resolved and this is always I guess a good thing.

Last night was good fun. We played a hell of a lot of pool. When I play with the guys from work, I’m not a particularly bad player but playing with a couple of people who are good players…well it wasn’t very good. An enjoyable evening overall and one to be repeated.

Today I am listening to some Sigur Ros and it is good. It’s helping to keep me sane and not snap at various people around here.

Still enjoying the hell out of the Hornblowers, stopped reading the paper on the way to work to keep going at em.