Happy new year folks.

The panaramic view of London from Primrose Hill with fireworks going off all across the city at midnight was really impressive and the first time I actually ever thought that it’s nice to be in this city. It was really really fucking awesome. A beautiful sight. I was grinning like a madman.

The party was excellent and the word of the night and more so first thing when we woke up this morning was: cunted.

The last people left at 3pm today. Around 3.30 after making an effort to get the place a little sorted out I went out to sit in Starbucks with some music and a book and a couple of coffees. It helped a hell of a lot.

So tonight is the party. We have ludacrious amounts of booze and food in. People had better show up. I am going to be so hungover on Thursday.

I’m starting to look forward to it, the party not the hangover. It could be really good fun. I also intend to not do anything stupid.

I’m not in work till Monday. This is good news. Lot of Eve time 🙂

Oh yes we have a projector tv now, it’s pretty damn sweet.

oh and there is nothing wrong with taking a trip down memory lane, living there is the problem.

It’s been nagging at me for a couple of weeks but that’s what I wanted to say.

I decided upon going to bed last night that I really was not in the mood for some hard sci-fi, so I started off on Robin Hobb’s fantasy Farseer Trilogy which I had wanted to read last week but couldn’t lay my hands on easily. A few days ago I found an unpacked bag of books and there it was.

The Office special was more of the same and very funny. I enjoyed it and am looking forward to part 2 tonight.

This morning I woke up and of course played Eve for a while. Then I went to start cleaning up some stuff. Not done the washing in a couple of days. The urge to clean soon overtook me and I started cleaning the kitchen. To cut a long story short I had to go to the supermarket to get some stuff to clean with and sort the sink out…so I went out for one thing in particular (a wash basin) and various other things tacked on. Of course I got everything else but they had no wash basins. Typical. Ah well I shall work around it.

So after going for a wash basin, I ended up spending £32. It’s not so bad when I take into account that includes a £12 bottle of vodka (preparing for new years).

I was looking back at something I wrote last year a couple of days ago and I spent the entire time reading it, cringing. One day I’m sure I’ll be able to write…practice makes perfect right?

Watched a HBO special on Sigur Ros this morning too, enjoyed the hell out of it and really great quality for the songs. Also hooked up my speakers after canibalising the printer. Looks like I’m finally getting PC World to reply to me which is a good start.

And now, some food and some Alias I think.

I’ve started reading the latest Alistair Reynolds, Absolution Gap. On one hand I’m looking forward to getting through it a lot. On the other hand I’m not so looking forward to close on 60 pages of tough hard sci-fi.

I’ve just seen Runaway Jury and it’s the best of the Grisham adaptions so far. Excellent cast working on an excellent script.

Enjoying the hell out of Alias season 2 so far. It’s good solid fun. I changed Eve’s settings to not use the sound card at all so I’ve got a couple of windows going. Running stuff like this in windows is great. I still have system resources left too 🙂