Today’s music has been all over the place. Kicked off with The Beatles, moved onto some Zwan and now I’ve stopped off on some Michael Jackson. Not sure I’ll last all that much longer on it, I want something a little heavier and more indie. The Strokes kinda hit the spot yesterday, will see what I end up with in a while.

Not done one of these in a while so…

– Big changes a foot in Eve, today is patch day and I fully intend to get back to some agent work after it. I had lots of fun last night when I went to actaully go work on some scanning skills and found a nice NPC spawn which gave me a small bit of trouble but I was able to farm for a while. Must check out more places like that.
– When I start typing in news, autocomplete brings news.bbc.co.uk straight up. ‘Tis rather handy these days.
– For some reason my neighbours decided to start some DIY well before 7.30 this morning and loudly at that. Congrats, over 95% of voters at the V consider you cunts, and they have not even met you!
– I was working in the CD lab for a while yesterday. I don’t know what I did it to it in the first place but it hates me. The machine has a complete and utter loathing for me. I took me over and hour just to get it to work and then of course the cds were fucked up. So very typical.
– Water on Mars!
– Word of the day, nay word of the week: apathetic. So very very bored of everything right now!
– Having an interesting money month already. Yesterday evening, I was owed well over £300 by friends for various things and I’m waiting on those dollar cheques to clear so my bank account gets a little healthier. Everything is now paid and I just have to survive the month, which to be honest won’t be a problem. There isn’t much on this month and I’m not expecting any major expenditures bar the two V DU which I hope to keep on the light side.
– Off to Dublin at the end of the month of course, looking forward to that a lot. It will be so nice to great out of this damn country and to have some time off work. There is a work conference just a few days later, I really wish they would sort things out instead of just sitting on them.
– I’m just going to leave it at half a sentence cause I don’t want to go into the rest, but last night was a joke.
– I really have to do the washing up when I get home tonight,it’s been stacked up for a while.
– I also really need to get back into the habit of keeping dinners in the fridge and eating them. The last two went so far out of date that I threw them out and that was a month ago. I don’t know what I’ve done since then. The vending machine also needs to stop being an options.
– I lost at chess twice on Monday, it was not good :- Team meeting time.

I am at times very fussy over what application I’ll even type in. Mainly when I’m blogging. I prefer to type straight into Blogger.com or into AOL’s text document. Anything else doesn’t really feel right or look so good on the screen. I’m writing this now in Ultra Edit, my text eiditor of choice overall but it never feels right for just typing stuff, more for doing things in.

I guess it’s safe to say I’m not in a good mood this morning. I slept a little late again, I really do need to buy an alarm clock…and go to bed a little earlier every day would not hurt really.

Having some sort of breakfast in the morning is a good thing. It keeps me away from the unhealthy vending machine in the kitchen. I never have time for breakfast before I leave home, and I don’t like spending £2 a day on it from the shop across the road, it all adds up and well I’m getting cheap in my old age.

I have to go up to the bank in Hammersmith at lunchtime. I was about to complain there will be a long queue, but then I realised that there won’t be, I have to go to the Foreign Currency till which should be quiet enough. Yay, a small ray of sunshine. Will grab food somewhere up there too.

I’ve been bad at my reading of late. I’m still reading The White Road by John Connolly and while I was enjoying it, I’ve not gone back to it in two weeks or so and I’ve not looked for another book to replace it. I’ve read some comics but nothing really enough to fill the gap. Metro usually gets me all the way on the tube these days (god I hate the tube) and I’m often travelling home with people and so not reading. I may well have a look in the bookshop anyway and see if anything catches my fancy.

So um I didn’t manage to look it up last night. I shall do so tonight. In honour of it being February 29th, I was going to look up my diary for 1996 where I hope to have note something I did that day. Still I posted, so I can edit that post and add it in 🙂

I slept in late today, not as badly as I thought when I leaped out of bed thinking it was WAY late (I slept till after 2 the past two days) but I was only 30 min late for work. Of course the ticket machine was broken so I could not get my monthly ticket this morning, shouldn’t have left it till today tho. Um that’s really that. I’m not very happy, I’m quite cold right now and it’s not even 12.30 yet.

It’s hardly even worth commenting on the Oscars is it? Talk about a knee-jerk realisation we didn’t give LOTR anything yet. Yes, Sean Penn and Tim Robbins did well for Mystic River but I wanted Bill Murrey to win damnit!

I watched Red vs. Blue yesterday, it was quite funny, I’ll be downloading the next few episodes later on I think.

BB is back to normal, it was of course something simple like digging into the wrong pipe. Not so impressed with the reaction time but *shrug* not much I can do. Will be all setup again as soon as I can get home.

Getting less impressed with Eve at the moment for reasons I won’t go into here. ‘Tis safe to say I’ll still be playing for a long while but the method may change a little.

Right now I’m enjoying the hell out of British Sea Power’s Remember Me, the vocals are vaguely Bowie like but the sound is not.

And no, I don’t know where Friday night came from. Those of us who were sober and capable of walking to the bus stop (same thing really) somehow ended up quite depressed and that became that…so there.

A quick tv roundup. Smallville really needs to get back into the groove and out of the monster of the week but with a slight backstory rut it’s stuck in now. It was allright and Lex is still great, but not as great as he should be! 24 was allright, nothing special. I think they know the season isn’t really going anywhere and are desperately changing plots as they go along and well it shows. Angel, it had some great moments but did we have to have another demon gestating inside one of the women and then taking over? Lorne’s punch and Wes’ shot were excellent, the really good moments I’ve come to expect but overall…kinda meh. Oh yes last night I watched the pilot of…and I have never seen any of this before…Twin Peaks and it was excellent. Good enough for me to run out and buy the box set…but I’m a little short on cash this month so I’m going to.

I have to post a comic roundup on the V later, I shall more than likely stick it up here too…await with bated breath.

tell it like you still believe.

And now I’m going to blog.

I was going to type this out this afternoon but I felt stupid, I have decided to post it anyway. Let me prefix it by stating I was not drinking at lunchtime today.
It did click briefly this afternoon and the code started to work. The floodgates opened, I typed and the code came out, it *worked*. So I’m sitting there typing, understanding the problem and working it and then for just a second I had this stupid image sitting in my head hammering me. A humanoid spirit form of some sort coming out of me and moving towards the computer, becoming one with the code. Real stupid eh? But it stuck with me, as an image, big time. I suspect I reacted someway to this image as it broke everything, I just couldn’t get it to flow anymore and I’ve left the code saved in a text file on my desktop. LIke I said it was stupid but that’s how it was.

I really want to start this next paragraph with the words “Like most men”, I’m not sure I can and have it be true but I’m going to anyway and take it from there.

Ha fuck it, I’ll just type it out and see what happens, lets just head off one comment anyway, sexist? I haven’t got a clue, could well be but I’m not going to apologise for it. I really hate seeing women cry or even be upset, whether I know them or not. Knowing them makes it worse of course but anyway. It’s just one of those things and that’s that. So sitting there tonight, listening to someone whom I don’t know all that well tell us some things about home and listening to her voice crack and watching her trying not to cry was hard. I really hate situation like that, it’s never good to do what you really want to do and it’s just a stupid male thing anyway. So fuck it.

I hate not knowing what is going on in the world. I hate the fact that not only did I not know there are a number of countries joining the EU on the first of May, I hate the fact I don’t know how many countries there are in it now. I hate the fact that I did not know that these new countries are NOT being given the same regard as existing members and that an EU passport does not apply to them. I hate even more that it does not, it’s a disgrace, that’s part of what the fucking EU is all about.

Something else and I’m not quite sure where it came from but, I suspect it’s something to do with a forum of ignorant rednecks going on about various pieces of shit that the V is having some fun with but can you believe that less than 50 years ago, it was not only legal but it was the law to discriminate against black people. To add a little perspective to that, that’s less than 25 years before I was born and both my parents were born more than 50 years ago.

Oh yes another random cute girl. I was walking to Baron’s Court tube station yesterday after work and there was a girl with long curly red hair walking towards me. She had a very short skirt on, so naturally I noticed. She was chatting on her phone to someone and as she walked past me she said in an American accent I could not place, but was oh so pretty; “I really wish I was there to help you”. Hearts melted.

I have an idea. It’s small right now but it’s growing a little and just took quite a spurt forward. I’m going to think about it somemore over the weekend and look into some costs.

The build up in Dylan’s One Of Us Must Know is a truly excellent piece of music and I can’t help but be hit by it everytime I hear it.

It’s very strange sitting here trying to get my head back into the code I use to be so good at. It’s been a long time since I’ve actaully had to do any real work in it and I’m just waiting for it to click and start flowing. It’s getting there, I am making some progress, but what I’m doing now is in an area I always found tricky. At moments it does just click for a second and the code just falls into place. I guess what I’m trying to do is simple enough.

*sigh* I had more, I rambled on for another paragraph and then some and now my fucking choice of text editor just fucking GPF’d.

Fuck 🙁

Everyone on my team just got three $50 gift cheques from the company for the work we have been doing over the past few months.

Sweet 🙂

And I really enjoyed the play last night.

For the first time since I don’t know when I had to get some manuals out from under my desk to look up a command. It’s bring back a lot of memories and is in fact quite fun. I use to be really good at this stuff, time I actaully got it back running again!