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I’m not a happy camper at all.

Rewind 24 hours. I was feeling a whole lot worse yesterday morning so I didn’t go into work. I stayed in bed watching TV for a while before getting up to go and read while lying down on the couch.

I had planned on doing a little work and spending some time online during the day. Some of the stuff I’m on deadline for I could have gotten through at home. However this was not to be. I turned on my computer to have a mere 2 seconds later the power socket on the back blow and take the screen with it. So I’m now officially computerless at home. I’m not happy, not happy at all.

So the rest of the day was pretty much spent moping around the house feeling sorry for myself. Watched lots of TV and read for a while. One thing of note was Ed Brubaker’s A Complete Lowlife. It was excellent and the kind of book which could easily have brought me to tears (did I mention I was pretty unhappy at the time?) if I let it. Not sure I’m going to read it again anytime soon and I think I picked a bad time to read it, but it’s gonna stay with me for a while.

One of the lads was back in Dublin for a few days so I have some Tayto on my desk and damn do they taste good. Always nice to have a reminder of home, just a little more longing to deal with.

Flaming Lips and Iron Maiden are playing London later in the year. I shall be attending both I believe. Something to look forward to at the least.

Looks like I’m meeting up with some friends whom I haven’t seen in possibly a year for a cinema trip next week. Could be interesting.
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Bush said it is “important for society to welcome each individual,” but administration lawyers are looking for some way to legally limit marriage to heterosexuals.
“I believe marriage is between a man and a woman, and I think we ought to codify that one way or another,” Bush told reporters at a White House news conference. “And we’ve got lawyers looking at the best way to do that.”

Bush wants marriage reserved for heterosexuals

Congrats America, land of the free and that bollocks.

Donna’s so very awesome.

‘You walked past me in Leicester Square Station on Friday night.’
‘Oh I didn’t see you, you should have said “hi” or tapped on on the shoulder.’
‘I did both.’
‘oh’

It’s Tuesday and I hate Tuesdays. It’s not been a great day so far.

Now I’m listening to some Flaming Lips and staring at my screen despondently.

Tickets are booked for Thursday night. Nine of us are heading out after work, so looking forward to that one quite a bit. Tonight looks to be a quiet night in at home. More DVDs to watch and then later The Shield,

And then things get better. Randomly clicking through the service and I see we are streaming Under Pressure from Queen Live at Wembley and my is it awesome!

London Mobs. Whoo hoo

Nevermind that, this is a whoo fucking hoo if I ever saw one

Sheriff Lucas Buck back on Duty?

Please, please, please, please, please give me the entire original series on DVD please!!!

God damn, West Wing season 2 episode 14 “The War at Home”. Josh and Donna are awesome and Joey Lucas just steals the show.

I expect blog feedback on O today.

Jim Lee and Brian Azzarello are apparently on for Superman next year with Greg Rucka writing another. I wonder how that will work out. Think I’ll go with the guaranteed trades on both.

My mother has just reminded me (subtlety I think) that my sister turns 21 in a couple of weeks a few days. She is finishing up in Japan and climbed Mount Fuji yesterday. Photos of sun rise from the top are stunning. One of them just became my new wallpaper.

There are certain words which I can never spell correctly the first time around. What really pisses me off is when I spell check the fucker and then paste in the old text and not notice till I’ve already sent it. Fucking typical.

I feel like shit. I have a cold and it’s getting worse.

So I’ve finished off the first season of The Shield and it’s great stuff. The discs shall start doing the rounds in work this week.

Feeling a little strange lately. The past few days in particular. I think I have a cold coming on. But I’ve been off balance and unable to focus a few times and generally my head feels clogged. Shall see how it goes over the next couple of days. Hopefully it will all just go away, wouldn’t life be nice if it would?

Oh the latest Global Frequency from Warren Ellis wasn’t bad at all. Some really really nice art from Lee Bermejo. Also very glad to have had The Planetary Reader catching me up with the three issues not traded before the series kicks off again.

The Clapham Picturehouse was showing Secretary at 1pm today as a “second chance screening”. It was something I wanted to see when it came out but never got around to so I figured I would head there and check it out. I was pleased to find it was only £3 in and it wasn’t a bad movie at all.

Great cast led more than ably by Maggie Gyllenhaal and nice to see Patrick Bauchau even if it was for a short time. A couple of times I thought the movie was going to descend into black comedy but while some of it was quite funny it went more for the heart of an S&M relationship. Funny and nicely manages to avoid being in anyway exploitive which given the theme of the movie, they deserve props for.

Walked back to Clapham Junction, stopped by my local comic shop and then home to lay around for the rest of the day. I have to go to the shop in a little while to get something for dinner and then some DVDs I think. Finish off season 1 of The Shield and then into season 3 of The Sopranos. I picked up Superman II for £7.99 yesterday and want to watch that soonish aswell. Also considering watching Terminator and T2 before Thursday.

I am glad to report this evening worked out quite well. Sat in Starbucks reading for a couple of hours and finished off Dead Air. An excellent read and highly recommended. Then I jumped on a bus to Fulham Broadway and I went to see Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle. Complete shite but I can’t think of a movie I’ve enjoyed more in a long time. It was funny with a really great cast, all in all complete trash but entertaining trash. Well worth seeing.

Walked back home afterwards in the rain and it was really nice. Last week I dug out my discman for the first time in a while and I’ve been playing Damien Rice’s O into the ground for a few days. It’s been the soundtrack to my day and in particular my walk home. It almost led to me getting killed as I was completely lost in it and not paying as much attention to the road as I should.

Track 10; Eskimo has become my favourite track and in a novel way (for me anyway) it’s because of the opera singing towards the end of it. It’s absolutely perfect for the song and I love the sound of it. A quick google has informed me that the opera singer on Eskimo is Doreen Curran and she is in fact singing in Intuit. Things really have changed in my taste over the years. Had I got the money to spare I’d pick up another few copies of this album and send it on to various friends. May have to do with just using the interwebnet.

It had me thinking when I got home that given the choice between meeting a nice girl and spending the rest of my life with her or having music in my life for the rest of my life, I don’t know what I would choose.

Oh in the scary news of the day the trailer for Tomb Raider 2 actually made me consider seeing it. I don’t remember being too impressed with the first one at all and I don’t find Angelina Jolie attractive at all. Shall see how it goes.

Picked up issue one of Kurt Busiek’s Arrowsmith last night and it’s a damn good start to a series, this one shall be going on my pull list. Nearly didn’t happen I was walking up Charing Cross Road heading towards Comic Showcase and was so caught up in the music that I walked right past it. Got a few other bits and bobs too, nothing special so far but I have high hopes for Andi Watson’s Complete Samurai Jam.

Can you believe it’s about to be August? I don’t know where the year has gone to. Some has gone to plan, some has not. I guess that is to be expected. Wonder how the rest of the year will go…

Some interesting stuff here: Blogging By The Numbers. They reckon there are 3,471,464 blogs between Live Journal, Blogger and DiaryLand with 1,631,535 of them being active. I’d imagine there is quite a Moveable Type/Gray Matte/Other user base not counted in there but they are interesting numbers anyway. Apparently that works out as 2% of people online have a blog. Interesting.

My sister moves back to Dublin in about 3 weeks time. She should be there until July or so of next year and then she plans to move back to Japan, Kyoto this time. Seems to have a job there all sown up and one that comes with a place to live so it should be easy enough to move. So sometime over the next few months I shall try and get back to Dublin for a weekend and keep my parents happy. But these days that probably entails far more than I want to deal with. I was thinking tonight as I walked past one of the local pubs that I wouldn’t mind having another couple of nights out with my dad but again that would I am sure entail more than I can deal with.

The number 040 is haunting me these days.

The internet is boring me lately. I’ve read all of the blogs I follow and despite most of them having new content, nothing has really grabbed my attention. I’ve not chatted much with anyone lately and no new sites are throwing themselves at me. There was some massive traffic on the V while I was offline for a few days over the summit but of the, musta been a thousand messages plus, nothing really jumped out.

So I started writing here at 11:30 and it’s now just gone 12:30. Not really sure I have much more to add but I don’t want to hit “Post & Publish” just yet. I often will do this. I’ll type out what I have to say and then just leave the window open while I surf adding thoughts as they come to me. Sometimes and just like right now I don’t know what else I have to say but I just feel that I have more and I shouldn’t hit that button just yet. Some of it stems from wanting to move away from lots of short posts which was pretty much all this was when I started blogging way back. I prefer to have bigger posts covering whatever I want to cover rather than 10 smaller posts covering them. Paragraphs just make more sense I guess.

Whoo hoo. I have an AOL blog! It’s about time. I’ve been wanting to have a real look at these babies for a while now. On Monday I shall be looking into this a hell of a lot more and seeing what I can see. I do still wonder if I can sell the idea of a public dev blog to anyone. Anyway IM looks cool and I see one of the beeb guys has already screenshoted it using a UK account. This shall be of interest to some folks I expect.

It would appear that is that. It is going on 1:30 now and I don’t have anything else to say and I want to go and get some sleep. I dislike the fact that tomorrow is Sunday, the weekend does not last long enough. I don’t want to have to go to work on Monday, more time off would be such a good thing.

Anyway it’s time to get some sleep. I do think that’s enough typing for today too.

So all quiet on the western front so far. I’m enjoying Strays by Jane’s Addiction a hell of a lot. Note to record companies, I streamed this on Monday morning and instead of just capturing the stream I bought the album.

Been reading and watching TV so far. I’m thinking about going out and sitting somewhere and reading and then a movie later.

Sorta thought about heading into town but it’s London Pride and I imagine it will be quite busy and more than likely my bus won’t actually run all the way into town today. Might wander along Kings Road but more than likely not, just head up there to the cinema. Then again I see that there are several late night showings just down the road. Perhaps I’ll hang on and wander around. That sounds quite fun, just leaves the few hours till then for entertaining.

Well, dinner of some sort out I would guess (not pizza) and Starbucks with a coffee and a good book (Iain Banks’ Dead Air) are pretty much top of the list and that leaves plenty of time to wander along to a cinema.

*shrug*

This coming Wednesday looks like it’s going to shape up to be a pool night, hopefully get some people out for a laugh and then Thursday is a cinema night with a load of us off to see a preview of T3. Looking forward to that one a lot.

Lets see, what else?

Interesting discussion during dinner on Wednesday night (which did lead to some comments about how we were renowned for our dinner conversation); suicide. One point which was made a few times was an old adage that if there is anyone on the planet who cares about you, you can’t kill yourself as it’s not fair on them. It is a good point but I don’t really agree with it all that much. Yes, suicide is ultimately a selfish act but at the end of the day if things are bad enough that your prepared to go through with killing yourself, things have to be kinda bad. And I don’t have a problem with that. If you are that unhappy in life and it’s not looking like it’s going to get better, I don’t see why you don’t have the right to end your life. Perhaps a more organised way of going about it would be good but at the end of the day it is your life to do with as you please. Just my two Euro.

Work is very much a CYA area at the moment. I have to admit to have been waiting for the meeting I had yesterday afternoon, to be honest I expected it a little earlier. The outcome wasn’t particularly bad but I do intend to take further issue with it on Monday morning.

Sleeping has been pretty fucked up this week. I was in the office early for a few days and being at my desk by 8am is a foreign concept but it had to be done. Woke up around 10 this morning which wasn’t ideal, another couple of hours would have been nice. I’m feeling tired already. It will pass, it always does.

Food soonish I think, no idea what though. Maybe just a hotdog and some fries maybe a wander around to find something nice.