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Manchester
Arrived at 10pm having been forced to run for a train by Dan’s inability to be on time like ever. Was almost dead. Rude man on train moaned because we didn’t have tickets, and when I asked if I could pay by cheque he said “you can pay by card if you like” and so I asked if I could pay by cheque, and he whined some and lent me a pen. “How did you get through the gates without tickets?” well, we asked, didn’t we? Silly man.
Upset Warren by going to the New Union. Escaped eventually. Went to Legends and rolled around on the sofas drunkenly until they kicked us out at 4am. Will write more soon and post piccies 
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Cor! I’m a lazy fucking bastard!
Went to Leeds. Went to London. Back in Leeds. Got lots of work done last week. Yay.
Remind me to write about it some time
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Gah. Late!
Got home at 8ish last night. Phoned by Tom, who wanted pics done. Very cute! Spent some time putting all the bits into Dee’s PC to make the upgrade work. Need to buy more RAM, because I yanked the middle out of Manny to do it. Showed ref:Adam what the bits in a PC do. He has decided that north bridges are shiny and he wants to make art out of PC insides. Got to bed at 1:30 am (oopsie) after spending an age getting XP to install and then realising I was doing it the long way. Up at 7, XP installed. Failed entirely to get the old ISA EtherLink combi card to correctly function under XP so gave up and whacked one of my PCI ones in it and got it online and set up well enough to be able to remote to it from work and do the rest from there. Didn’t quite get all my bugs squished yesterday. Still one outstanding P2 against me, which I think is fixed but I need to check this morning. I suspect I shall be a tad late this morning. Bah. 9:21 and only just got to Earls Court. Apparently there’s a public transport strike next Tuesday and people may not be able to get to work so might get a day off. And I’m in Leeds. Cock.
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Back to the grind...
Being empathic is interesting. If you are careful, you can get an idea of the “you” that you project to others from strangers’ impressions of you. It’s disturbing, as it’s not ever how you percieve yourself. I suspect that if one was to work at it, one could achieve the magic of an external self image. That *would* be interesting. Would that person be 100% confident? Or would the concentration and effort of being transparent take its toll? Moot point for me - to equalise my images I’d have to change appearance and age, because I’m not gonna change the internal one, it’s far too much fun 
Got in via CEX, puter bits, and a crafty KFC that was horrible and I shouldn’t have had. Grr.
I used to wonder why they didn’t just put the same crispy coating on the veggie stuff. Then I found out. Ick.
Chatted to various people including Josh and some random Scottish person I swapped email addresses with. He seemed fun.
Ref:Josh is going to Glasto. Free entry in exchange for 3x 8 hour shifts stewarding. Lucky bastard!
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T3 returns
...and it’s all stiff!
Freakcity is 1 yr old today. Exactly one year ago today we were musing on IRC what to call it and settled on “FreakCity” and registered the name. Now we are over 300 strong and still growing.
For FreakCity’s birthday we had a barbecue, which went exceptionally well. First guest arrived at 9am Saturday and last guest left at 11am Sunday. Met a few new people. A few people joined too, and it was all lovely. Only downside for me was missing James, but I will get over that eventually.
Things that are important
Adam got a job.
I have to have my toenail removed.
Hugs are nice.
Need more sleep.
• 19:33: PC tastic
Dee and family came to visit yesterday, to upgrade their old PC (well, *my* old PC) - figure I can triple the speed and make it all lovely and virus free again. The plan was to meet them and for them to leave the PC and some money with me so I could upgrade at my own leisure, instead of everything being rushed. So I was woken up by them phoning to tell me they were on Commercial Road. Gee Thanks Guys.
Rushed around tidying. Dragged Adam to Spitalfields to meet them. He tells me he doesn’t get hangovers but he seemed awfully quiet 
Max and Christian have grown. Ollie has silly hair. Fab. Had lunch. It pissed it down so we went back to the flat. The very messy flat. Oopsie!
They seemed to think I’d told them I could fix the PC straight away, but I soon put them straight. They left after a relatively incident free while, the highlight of which was Max trying to put unmarked porn into the VCR upside down. Thank buggery it was all turned off.
Living with Adam is fun. We end up being so giggly together about pointless things. It’s marvellous. Makes me wonder if I actually do want to just meet someone and settle down. Or if I should just live in a big shared house with friends everywhere. Ho hum.
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Cor.
Company has been invested in lots. Maybe it’s time for a payrise
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Sporadia
My journal entries appear to have become all sporadic an stuff on account of me not having my T3 and not scribbling aimlessly on tubes. Bah.
Well. Had fun with Adam. Drank too much Friday. Chatted lots with Warren who is empathic like wot I am. William managed 7 hours in my flat without pissing anywhere that wasn’t a toilet.
Barbecued with Pete, Dom, Puppy and Housepet. Watched softcore porn and critiqued it on Bravo. Was like Beavis and Butthead but mankier. Lots of nice food, hurty head, slept under two small hankerchiefs which were allegedly blankets. Possibly for gnomes.
Arranged to meet Adam after work for much photography goodness. Only he forgot the camera. The fuckwit
Arranged to go to Leeds in a couple of weeks for danlass stroking duty, only I ordered the tickets the wrong way around. So I let Adam off his fuckwittery on account of mine being bigger. Oops!
Ordered tickets the correct way around. I am now going to be in Manchester on the 26th. Yay! And Leeds until the 1st! Yay! Slightly cheaper than France but not as sunny, I fear.
Heatwave means I have melted. Hoping to regain my cohesion by 5:30 so I can get home again. It’s toooo damn hot!
Sal, it appears, is working under me. Bless him! Met for lunch, wandered about. Sulked at cute builder wearing clothes. Attempted to make Sal buy something cheap and healthy from Sainsburys, sadly he found a chippy instead.
Stole some chips.
Decided that the crusty bread I have is actually reinforced with concrete. threw crusts at some swans, killing 4 and seriously maiming a small family of mallards.
Bug fixing is dull. I am now team lead. Yay. Bugfixing is dull.
Went to the Nazi Coke exhibition last week. It’s damn fine. I may have to do something Santa like for it.
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Splurge
So I go out on Friday and am very good, no fags, a few voddies, then home with James to eat spag bog. Adam was in so James got to meet him - pronounced him far less scary than Ron, which is a compliment in anyone’s terms... Watched some Will and Grace and then had a fairly early night. Got up, went shopping to Canary Wharf, chilled out a bit, sent James home, got bored, went wandering with Adam, stopped for dinner in Pizza Express, wandered around Selfridges, went down the seedy bits of Soho, wandered past Retro (full of people but no-one I knew). Texted Danny, agreed to meet him at 10:30ish to go to Heaven - wandered over to the South Bank at dusk and up to Oxo Tower, looked at pretty pretty things...met Danny, went to Heaven (packed, pool party. Seminaked people running around in speedos. Mmm.) Drank a little too much, trundled home with TJ and Adam, drank a little more, stayed up chatting and then went to bed at about 11am Sunday. Oops. Woke up at about 4pm, felt crap, tried to wake Adam, gave up, went back to bed. Dozed on and off for hours until getting up this morning. So much for the weekend. Bah.
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How can a 4 day week feel so long?
It’s 5pm and I have half an hour left to go. O2’s text service appears to be being strange, and I am knackered. I should probably just go home tonight. But I might go to Retro and see James. Don’t know yet.
Gonna try and get some FreakCity done this weekend, want to change the design of the beta, getting rid of the mozilla specific code and making it cleaner, I hope. I also want to add some bits to the journals, which should be a smallish job
I think I can get it all done this weekend, I hope so anyways. I really need to sort it out some.
Serenity started filming yesterday. Yay. Sounds positive Gina did a happy dance
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Oh so very tired...
...and I’m feeling very sick and ill today...
No T3 to scribble my writings on. It’s so depressing 
Bitty day. Fixed some whopping bugs, which was fun. Waiting for things to be tagged now, which is less fun. Have to do a global search and replace in a moment, that’ll be nice - if I break it then it’s gonna make a mess!
Two hour meeting booked tomorrow for stylesheet stuff for global homepage and nav. I am so not looking forward to it. Peter wants to do it in the pub. I concur, pub would be far more fun. But hey, I can always nod off. Meetings last thing on a Friday are generally bad ideas - why do people keep doing it?
I think I may sleep all weekend.
Spare James might be coming to visit from Leeds - I suspect calling him “Spare James” may upset him though, and give the real James some interesting ideas...but fuck it, I can’t think of anything else. I suppose I could call him Jamesharb, as that’s a daft reference to his shagdar profile, but I dunno. Tis what he’s in my phone as anyway.
He told me yesterday it was 8 months since we met. Which is lovely, apart from the fact that that makes us sound married, when all we did was bump into each other in a Leeds nightclub when pissed. Ho hum
Anyways, he was gonna come down but couldn’t afford it or something so was gonna do Cardiff instead. So I told him to come to London by bus and he said he’d let me know
Tobias is texting me later if he’s free for s drink or summat. Adam (I think) is out tonight - so might just get lots of sleep if no text.
So very tired these days. I dunno. I try and eat well and stuff but it just doesn’t seem to help. It’s stress, I can’t sleep properly because I’m stressed, which in turn makes me more stressed and unable to sleep. I’m tempted to turn to drugs.
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*sleeeepy*
Good things:
My T3 should be fixed in 7-10 days
My throat feels less shitty
I am making chips
Bad things:
No text from Tobias yet
I had to send my T3 to suninland :/
I am very tired
Indifferent things:
Still haven’t used my thingy yet.
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Am I still ill?
Managed to get my head around struts and Javascript in the end. So almost a productive day at work. Got home to discover Adam is as ill as I am. Fed him some night nurse. Made salmon lattice things (from a box, which I suppose is cheating ) and pasta in mushroom, garlic and white wine sauce (from mushrooms, garlic and white wine, which isn’t cheating ). Was very tasty.
Watched the last episode of Kids in the Hall. Then started to watch “Brain Candy” but both fell asleep. Early night for me
Feel a little better today. Definitely slept better. Chatted a bit to anticon and Tobias this morning before work. Tobias is coming to London today. Been chatting to him a few weeks and he seems nice. Meeting him for coffee later, hopefully. We’ll see.
Day after payday and I am skint again. Not sure what can be done about it at the moment. Grr. Need either a payrise, a new job, or a new place to live, as I can’t afford to live like this 
Not sure also if I am able to finish Freakcity v2 by the first birthday. *sigh*. Need more free time.
Might take to coding at lunch. Might also redo it a tad. Wish I had time to do it in XML\XSLT but I don’t think I do.
Gonna see how I feel after work - might go to the cinema and after I might go to the Swan with Adam and watch him strip
Comedy Metro headline for today:
“Doctor ’used ultrasound to film sex with patient’”
Bless ’em.
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More fucking illness.
Got up at 7ish - felt ill. Sore throat. Grr. I blame certain people at work coming in with sore throats last week.
Pottered about a bit. Got on the 11am train to Sarfend. 3 quid off coz of my goldcard. Rah. Arrived at Benfleet at midday. Buses every hour. Got a cab
Fixed ref:Mij’s PC - “This drive was last checked for errors 1,374 days ago” - bless ’em. Made it all work right again and removed the huge amount of unneeded crap on it.
Picked up by Matt and dumped on the seafront - loads of totty. It was quite lovely. Got some amazingly good pics of the Red Arrows and the Lancaster bomber amongst others. 270 pics and my battery was still reading full. My camera rocks!
Home on the 6 o’clock train. Had an easter egg from ref:Mij and an Xmas present from ref ee - a George Forman “lean mean grilling machine” thing. Will play with it later. Got back and cooked dinner - Steak Pie with steamed veg and minted babbeh potatos. Watched the final bits of Firefly - filming starts on Thurs on the movie. Yay. Adam Baldwin posted to “fireflyfans.net” that it was the best script he’d ever read. Excitement.
Showed Adam “Grunts”, the King Cloth Bee film and Pancakes as well as watching punkass_puppy’s meat thing - which is outstandingly fun
So less than early night for me.
Slept *really* bad and got up feeling like my throat had been sandpapered and my eyes blowdried. Ick. Going to pop to Boots at lunch for cold/flu stuff and hope it makes me feel better