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Today is a Diet Kick day. (Small).jpg Changed the voicemail UI in the WAP app so it looks a bit prettier - all works too
So yeah - worked late. Feh!
Chatted to Ref:Adam a bit - he’s doing better - may meet him this week if I get time.
Going to pay the nice letting agency man today. The horror. Warren got paid too so he gets that. My bank balance doesn’t look so good. Bah. Review shortly at work though - so mebbe I’ll get a payrise.
Home at about 9 - had left over pork sandwiches. Chatted lots to Ref:Chris - he spent a time in #freakcity as ScottsBitch terrorising everyone. Giggle. I got a priv from huggie saying “celibate fireman?” which made no sense until Chris pasted me a conversation snippet from the priv *he* was having with huggie:
Much sillyness - he’s fun
He’s been leaving comments on my blogs too. Tsk.
Explained “fap” and fed him some of www.ghastlycomic.com
Played each other some music and stuff...was cool. Discussed him coming over and watching a romantic film, but decided that as I didn’t have any that might be tricky. Suggested we snuggle to “Cube” and he said yeah, that bit where the guy gets cubed is dead romantic. Plan
More WAP shenanigans today. And Rod Stewart is a dad again at 60. Ick. Wrinkle wrinkle scratch.
Chris can’t come Friday - so I’m sulking. May spend the weekend doing moozak. Thinking about getting Mozza to play sax on The Fog - and thinking about leaving it instrumental and tidying up the tiny out of time bits (yay sequencers!). Might write some new stuff too - need something pianoey. Almost have enough for an album now and I’ve still not tried my new mic
Chatted until about 12:30am with Chris. Oopsie. Not that I’m complaining, mind...he’s off watching Rufus Wainright tonight so I won’t be able to chat to him
Now playing Icon and the Black Roses - Remember. (João’s voice always makes me go wobbly in this one
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Weekend of grey
J2O/Tipsy/Wasted/Thrown out/Barred. Bad Phil Nice bee though... (Small).jpg Out Friday Felt really fucking weird about something so proceeded to get extraordinarily drunk. Although not as drunk as anandamide who was banned from drinking by spiritusmundispit - complete with paper towel illustration of the barman annoyance scale, ranging from J2O to barred - until he’d had some water. We took him to the Swan instead, of which I remember not much at all. On the bus and I got a really sweet text from TheElusivePossum saying how he’d got online to find I wasn’t there and was sad but then that he’d remembered I was going out and that he could text me. Aww!
I’d phoned mogwai to find out how much leccy we had to be told 4p. Oops. So I got ref:TJ to bring the leccy key with him and when immensely pissed I went to the cab company opposite the Swan and got them to take me to a paypoint so I could recharge the key. Got home, inserted the key and failed to get Novak to start properly - quite a feat considering she starts up fine without my drunken help. Got annoyed and passed out.
Saturday was a day where not much happened. We were wrong in the head in Somerfield and that’s about it. Occasional Christexts made me smile. Showed Serenity to Warren over chinese. Yum. Went to bed sorta early - tho somehow I managed to knock my alarm on and I was awoken at 7:30, dazed and confused.
Plan for Sunday was Camden. Did washing. Failed to get any more beta done (oops). Eventually got to Camden to quest for a cashpoint. Saw many many cool things. Didn’t buy any of them (my self control is awesome). I’d gone with ref:Warren as he’d only been twice and loves it (apparently). Bumped into Ray on the way out of the tube - had a brief chat.
Went to a noodly place for food after acquiring a Lloyd - we eventually found a seat whilst Lloyd went to acquire mattnottm - wandered about in the cold. Visited Cyberdog for the talent. Had freshly steamed corn on the cob. Ogled army gear. Wandered around a very fab bit of the stables with shitloads of old stuff going cheap. Rob got excited by the bakelite telephones. I was disturbed. Walked past a “psychic” - Warren started to say “Did you get anything from that psychic...” as he noticed the grin on my face. “No, me neither” he finished with. I declared we should be a double act and travel the country exposing frauds...
Went home via Kings Cross to deposit Rob on a train. Dragged Lloyd back for dinner too.
Cooked roast pork with crackling, soya milk yorkshires (!!), green veg and peppered roast spuds. Seemed like magic to Lloyd who kept asking how I knew how to do this - I can’t remember, hehe. Was yummy. Watched the Two Towers appendices whilst eating. Teej seemed fascinated.
Robert Elms is annoying. He’s doing a guest spot in the lifts at Covent Garden, so I have to listen to his little speech every day. Gah! “Hi, this is Robert Elms from BBC Radio London 94.9...” he drones on about tourist attractions and the transport museum being closed for refurbishment (It’s a museum! It’s meant to look old!). Not a single commuter has heard of him, nor do we want to hear from him again. But as you listen, about 15 seconds in you can clearly hear the Windows “you’ve got mail” noise in the background. I wonder if he’s stupid enough to do that live on air...
Got sidetracked by Chris after he’d returned from the pub. Chatted for a couple of hours (urg, 1am!) about all kinds of things. We always seem to have these conversations at silly o’clock in the morning. I shall have to spank him because it means neither of us want to finish chatting and we stay up waaaaay too late hehe.
Slept really badly. Gonna tidy up Dan’s clothes and put them in a binbag elsewhere I think. Not seen or heard from him in nearly 2 weeks. Wonder if he’s been naughty or something?
Urgh and woo!
New hair Paid early but knackered. Bleh. Have to fix stuff today. Gonna stay in tonight I think and possibly go to XXL on Sat. Adam gets a place of his own next week. Yay!
Came straight home via Mr Toppers for a haircut (have decided to grow it a little so was merely trimmed around the edges) and played ref:Warren some of Rhyn’s stuff (Chris’ band) and he was impressed. Chris popped on to IRC for a bit too to view the freaks in their natural habitat
Played ref:Warren all of Aerial as well - he seemed to like it.
www.b3ta.com have a bit of a pisstake of Best...it’s funny...
Think I need to do something interesting with my life - am thinking about becoming a boyband or something
Warren’s only ever been to Camden twice - so going to take him on Sunday probably. He claims it’s because he’d probably get lost. Lazy sod
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Shiny
Went out with ’bat last night. Bumped into lloyd as we were leaving so went on to XXL with him. Much hilarity. I think anyways, I was pissed and don’t remember.
Nice to see alcopop again, and good turn out of freaks, there was scareglow, fruitbat, dunk, tref, PobK, huggie, mage, robl, spiritusmundispit (tho he works there, so probably shouldn’t count)
Back home. Played Lloyd Chris’ track, he liked it and wants to meet him. Which is cool, coz so do I
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A sky of lead
grey mist dooms us all Silence drifts up to my 5th floor penthouse flat. Silence thick, hanging heavy in the air - occasionally punctured by far off police sirens, a soft melody against the night’s steady rhythm.
Quietly I lay in bed contemplating what I’ve become. I’m isolated (through choice) but expectant. I have few ties and so only the stress of money. I quietly pass by many of the things I used to seek.
Silence.
Is this how it ends? People become so withdrawn that in the end they do not recognise the shape of the outside world?
Do I even want that?
Yes.
After all - the world is as it has always been - it’s only the fluff we call society that ebbs and flows around it. And that took a turn for the worse a few years ago and now there is no hope - it will carry on a few more years until it falters and buckles under its own conscience...
Tremendous! I am at peace!
Until the next thing rocks the boat...
Work was shiny. I left at 7:30 with mission accomplished for one of the two extra WAP features I’m implementing. Got home determined to do the blog bit of the beta - looked at the existing code - felt a bit ill and went to bed. What was I thinking? Ick.
More batfruit tonight. Yay! And this time I remembered to wear a belt so I’ll be safe
Am considering doing Ajax blog references - so you hover over a reference and the data is populated in the tooltip...think it’d be very cool
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urgh. It’s christmas.
ick (Large).jpg Trundled through the Wharf on the way to work. It’s so vile...have a gorgeous christmas picture
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If not now, then when?
Oops (Large).jpg Out last night - ’bat, Dunk and Tref are in town so met them at Retro for beer and bitching. Fun as ever...
Still knackered though. Eclipse broke yesterday so had no net for ages, then when it reconnected it was a different IP. Grr. Will fiddle later.
Gary Glitter may face the firing squad after bumming a 12 year old girl in Vietnam. Oops! Wonder if we’ll send in the Army to break him out like they did in Iraq? You’d think the dithering old fool’d know better, really...
At what point do we lose track of the world we live in then? What turns us into the mindless zombies of old age we see drifting slowly round the frozen meat section in Somerfields? When do we stop being able to live in the world? Is it fear that stops us?
Shiny. Am I over the hill? Does life begin at 40? All these questions and no-one knows the answers. Tsk.
I need coffee.
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Whee
Matt in red Tshirt and waistcoat I still feel rough after Saturday night. Urg.
Friday - had a few beers at home with Sunin and Teej, watched Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Lloyd popped over, then we all went to bed. Up on Saturday, met up with Dave and people and all drove to Bedford to see rassilon in Godspell. Matt was fabulous in it (even if he did think elfy was scareglow. Very annoyed I wasn’t allowed to take photos. Bah!
I guessed the ending. The plot was a bit predictable...
Raced back and had takeout from Wings’ on the way home (picking up Nikki too) and then headed to Retro for Owen’s birthday. Amusing Vera shenanigans from Deev, texted to fruitbat who told me to buy him a drink. Nice to see Casp there, even though I think him and bittersweet are currently sharing hair. Very spooky. Lloyd looked a bit down
Caught up with loads of random people, got a bit drunken, then all piled back to Owen’s for the after party. Ran out of beer so continued to simply drink anything else I could find. A ploy which left me a little bit broken. Oops! Watched Serenity with the boys in the morning then headed home with Sunin. Went to bed at 4:30ish. THAT broken. Woken up by my (stupid) Alarm Clock at 7:30pm. Grr
In work, knackered and nothing’s working the way I want it to. Bah! About to go to tesco and buy things for lunch as well as put a little money in the bank. Hopefully Chris’ll be online at lunch so I can catch up with him a bit
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Happy Getting Old Day, Owen 
Work sorta went almost well yesterday, tho I’m having issues finding graphics and adding them to pages and stuff currently. It’s all a bit horrible...
After work, went to see Smith and Jones in BBC Television Centre in Shepherds Bush - they’re doing a 6 part beeb series called “The Smith and Jones Scrapbook” whereby they look back over their shows and pick the best sketches.
They also did some head to heads too. Very very funny, although the warmup comedian told better jokes *smirk*
“I want you all, next time you’re in a hotel, to look for the gideon bible and sign it - ‘All my love, God x’ - it’ll be funny if we all do it...”
shleepeh. Stayed up too late. Got woken up by a very very drunk and annoyed TJ at 4:30am - didn’t ask, but he was throwing stuff around in his room.
Got up this morning to see:
* mogs-work returns
Why oh why is it the first thing he does with money when he gets it is get outrageously pissed and then wonder why silly things happen to him?
The youth of today. Hah!
Sunin arriving tonight so we can (possibly) Swan and then do Bedford and Scary Things At Retro on Saturday. Chris is back from Oxford today so hopefully I’ll get to chat to him as well before I go out. Need to do lots of washing. Need to beat Dan until he’s capable of washing up. Need to finish more Freakcity 2. Need all kinds of things to happen this weekend.
Lloyd may be coming over this evening too...should be good, might get to chat to him a bit.
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Urg
I am hungover. Was at Retro for Nick and Jen’s birthdays. And Owen’s AlmostBirthday. Urg. Been working flat out on this and work. Dan got kicked out and so is living in my flat for a bit. Bless. Been writing ajax for the beta. Got quite a lot of it done now... Also been chatting to a lovely bloke called Chris - hoping we get to meet soon And been listening to “Nocturne” over and over and over coz it’s beautiful... On this Midsummer night Everyone is sleeping We go driving into the moonlight Could be in a dream Our clothes are on the beach These prints of our feet Lead right up to the sea No one, no one is here No one, no one is here We stand in the Atlantic We become panoramic We tire of the city We tire of it all We long for just that something more Could be in a dream Our clothes are on the beach The prints of our feet Lead right up to the sea No one, no one is here No one, no one is here We stand in the Atlantic We become panoramic The stars are caught in our hair The stars are on our fingers A veil of diamond dust Just reach up and touch it The sky’s above our heads The sea’s around our legs In milky, silky water We swim further and further We dive down... We dive down A diamond night, a diamond sea and a diamond sky... We dive deeper and deeper we dive deeper and deeper Could be we are here Could be in a dream It came up on the horizon Rising and rising In a sea of honey, a sky of honey A sea of honey, a sky of honey Look at the light, all the time it’s a changing Look at the light, climbing up the aerial Bright, white coming alive jumping off of the aerial All the time it’s a changing, like now... All the time it’s a changing, like then again... All the time it’s a changing And all the dreamers are waking
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Woo!
Kate’s new album is a bit lovely
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Sleepless in...er...Poplar
whee. BANG Been quiet the last few days due to lack of motivation. Work’s going well again, home’s going ok too. Money issues are still - well - an issue, but less than they were. Flat’s still clean. Still not a single person dislikes it.
This train keeps making noises like original Cylons.
Took photos of fireworks on Saturday evening - some came out very well - most were on a 30 sec exposure too. Forgot to go watch Blackheath fireworks on Sunday though, sorry J.
Wil has got himself a cute bf!
Swan on Sat to meet zatyCRAP - he’d left by the time I arrived - special 20th Birthday of the Amateur Strip - was completely and utterly packed.
Not sure if I’m gonna pursue the Rich thing any further - but will see - I just smell a rat.
So the Kaiser Chiefs spend the arse end of the summer predicting a riot and now look at Paris. The power of the mind is an impressive thing!
Bought a bleepy robot. Called it Fred.
Made Owen watch Appleseed. Groovy! He was impressed.
Found a tumble dryer for 70 quid. Gonna work out transport and then buy it. Ta mommy.
So far successfully resisted the urge to buy Ep III on DVD.
Acquiring 1-10 of new Battlestar Galactica tho. Looks good from what I’ve seen of it.
Considering watching the rest of Lost sometime.
And I now have Serenity
Kate’s new album comes out today and I’ve been banned from buying it by mother. Grr.
Take That - “Never forget” is released on Monday - I’ve spent the last 10 years trying to *smirk* No-one tell Owen - he might make me watch it or something.
Trouble sleeping last night. Stayed up too late chatting to someone cute and then couldn’t get off. Even had dick throw a brick at my head...
Scared moggy’s shag I think by being bizarre. Played them some Victoria wood tho so it’s all good