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Well – that was fun 
+Friday+ night I was feeling pretty crappy - Stuff with Dan and lack of sleep mostly - chatted to Dom (entadaeastenda) by text on the way home, we both fancied doing something but couldn’t get a round tuit...besides, the District line was “delayed” so I had to wait half hour for a tube, and the Northern line was “severely delayed” so fuck only knows how long it’d have taken him to get to me...Decided as I wasn’t really in the right mood I’d just go home, so I missed anandamide’s birthday and just went to bed.
Managed to get woken by ref:Adam and bump cooking all the remaining burgers and Findus Crispy Pancakes (bastards!!) at fecking 6:30 am. So thought “fuck it” and got up. Spent much of Saturday fiddling with the new WLAN access point I’d bought from bigpockets.co.uk - new WEP key and mac address fixing makes it a little more secure. Can’t browse the local network by NetBIOS name any more though - not entirely sure why. I’ll either fiddle or give them all LMHOSTS files or something.
This meant I had a spare PCMCIA card for the adorable ickle ref:libretto that I bought on eBay a while back. Took some doing, but got it all working under 98SE. Need to install network share bits, then I shall bung office 2k and interdev on it - and possibly PWS - then I’ll be able to write FreakCity on the tube 
Nikki (stikki) and Brian arrived at 7ish that evening. They were staying as they were flying to San Francisco early on Sunday morning and it made more sense for them to be here overnight than have to travel from Norwich at stupid o’clock in the morning. So they dumped thir stuff in the office and we and Adam buggered off to Brick Lane for a curry at some place Nikki knew.
It was basically the Indian equivalent of a greasy spoon - food was passable, tho a huge chunk of bone in my chicken curry didn’t impress me much. Rice was nice, and it was cheap. All finished in fair time and then walked off to Liverpool Street.
There was a chub crawl on that Saturday night - where random internet people from the chubbies website (I think) meet up for a pub crawl - I’d had promised Dom (entadaeastenda) that I’d try and make it there - knew they’d be moving on from 79CXR at around 8:30 so raced to TCR to meet them. Bumped into Owen and Des on the escalator and said hello. Zoomed off to Charing Cross Road. Gave Dom a big hug when we got there and chatted for about 10 mins until they all fucked off to the Admiral Duncan.
We went to try and find Owen and kee and people at Republic - but by the time we got there it was queued to fuck, so we decided not to bother. Bumped into Ade briefly outside, then ran away. Took the guys to the Coach and Horses instead as we fancied proper beer by this point. Then went home via Borders coz Nikki fancied a read on the plane.
She picked up “The Curious Tale of the Dog in the Nighttime” Which was talked about on thread 518 - I still haven’t read it, but she’s promised to give me it on her way back...so we got chatting about aspergers syndrome and autism...a few of the people she cares for have either one or the other...I told her I’d show her notdan’s bits on Freakcity when we got in.
Sat on the DLR and I randomly bumped into Kaipa who I used to work with at Sourceree. And this only minutes after I’d been discussing the random meeting I’d had with João at Bank station. Synchronicity is a wonderful thing. Chatted with him a bit about stuff in general, apparently the company is still going (I made Freakcity after I was made redundant from Sourceree and got bored of Trisha...) and apparently it may have some new investors soon. Might drop Kumar a line in a bit and see how he is 
Got home, I showed Nikki snigfarp’s bizarre snigfarp’s journal - tea obsession is a fabulous thing...also giggled at all the new Dick entries. Some of them are quite rude! You lot are dirrrrrty...
They were tired and it was about
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Also...
hello? Are you feeling OK? (Small).JPG I’ve been playing with dual lights a bit...means I can do some quite funky things like this one
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So...remember all that bubblewrap...?
Once you pop you just can’t stop... (Small).JPG We had a cunning plan, did Adam and I...so we wrapped Adam in bubblewrap and took many many comedy pictures...Hours of fun
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Woo(ish)
Bubblewraptastic! My wireless kit arrived. Base station (should make the range on the cards better) and it means I have a spare card which I’m going to try and get into the libretto. Yay
It arrived in waaaaay too much bubblewrap though
Bug fixed stuff all day. Bored. Not much left to do, only got Monday left to do it too...
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Bah.
No bonus this month - it arrives next month...
Still, it’s payday today \ö/
Bugs yesterday. The fun Wrote a script to update the freakcity DB to the new format automatically. Have given images and prefs their own tables. Put some indexes into the live DB too, making it fucking fast on forum searches. Damn google for making everyone expect search results in a couple of seconds.
Went for a drink yesterday with the MT lot and caught up lots. Was fun
Very very late today due to Dan rowing with Laura until 5 am and lack of sleep
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Cor!
Joao is a bit excited. Sanctuary have phoned him up and told him they’re interested in signing the band (well, the bits that are left ) - and they want to do a worldwide release
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Ick.
Late for work because I feel shitty again. Didn’t do the gym in the end - wasn’t sure it’d be wise doing it with poorly tooth, plus I was feeling a bit pants and knackered. Stopped in at Retro on the way home to see Owen, fruitbat, dunc, alcopop, mage and probably some other people too who I’ve forgotten. It was much too busy there, no seats, so I thought I’d fuck off to Mr Wu for cheap Chinese food goodness. Only I forget how crap their food is. Guess I’m just used to Wing’s Buffet these days.
Headed home at just before 9 as I was feeling pants and no one exciting had arrived. Fiddled with bits of computers. Chatted to João. Went sleepy.
Yesterday I ordered a wireless base station and a wireless net card for Bertha - to cheer Adam up
Find out about my bonus today...in half hour or so. If I ever get to the office...
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Hur.
I just Jimmed a huge Jim. On MT From a private Me an Owen conversation. Gah! Remind me to learn how to use the interweb
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One tooth gone. Another not forgotten
Owch. I fucking hate dentists 
So they actually managed to do it this time, instead of just cancelling me. It was hell. Still hurts too. Grr.
Lots of bits of work done. Most approved of. Should be fine to have it all done by the end of the week, which is cool. Watched League of Gentlemen Live at Drury Lane and was amused. Watched more Angel with Adam. Showed him the dodgy VW car bomber advert going round the interwebnet.
Earlyish night - still feel knackered though.
The Metro seems to be being underhandedly homophobic with its “MP told me to slur gay rival” headline. Obviously they can no longer do the whole “GAY MP IN GAY FILTH” thing any more - so it’s just a subtle “let’s make sure everyone knows” thing. They’re only being nice because it’s a Tory MP. Cunt0rs.
Apparently Mr Tony Blair has made a secret deal to allow immigrants into the country. Or so the nice people who write for the Express tell us. I wasn’t aware the immigration service was a clandesine organisation, oh well...
Should find out about our bonuses today. And I’m going to the gym tonight. Yay me
Chatted with João some - he sent me his solo album cover - very pretty.
Thank fuck it’s Friday in 3 days.
How horribly optimistic ls that?
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Evil!
I just got 28.8% pure on a purity test thing. Bah. I’m way purer than that! OK, so I’m not. And one of the questions was “have you ever done something just to decrease your purity score on a purity test?” which is giving me a whole world of odd ideas...
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Busy busy me...
Got in late yesterday - stayed late yesterday. Think I’ve managed to fix the multimap stuff somewhat - will have to gossip with people today to see if I’m allowed to put it into OSM.
Got home at about 9ish (ugh) and discovered that ref:Adam doesn’t know how to use the fecking oven - so if we all die of food poisoning, we’ll know why.
Cooked (sorta) Chicken, roast spuds, assorted veg and gravy. Even Dan had some. Did shitloads of KHRP stuff. Got to bed at about 1. Urgh.
Decided to have an early night tonight.
Dentists at 5:30. Tooth extraction. The fun
Owen has started blogging
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Another day, another week...
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New trouble pics There are cute people travelling on the DLR - when did this start happening?
Friday night I left work fairly punctually, got home in time to see an ill Dan being all ill and stuff. Ran off to Retro to see ref anny and Richard and various other people. Danny had just got a new job, so we were celebrating. It was also Womble’s birthday so there were loads of scary Out people everywhere as well. Left there as it was closing with bump, collected ref:Adam en route and then headed off to meet John and Gareth at the Swan. Drank a tad too much, but hey. Bed at 4ish. Urgh
Got woken up at about 12 on Saturday because the neighbours were drilling and it was fucking loud. Sat at my computer desk, the door to the living room opens and I wave at what I expect to be bump or Adam only to find I’m waving at a random person I’ve never met before. “I don’t know what this noise is” he says as he walks into the kitchen.
Spent most of the day online either playing with people in chat or trying to get Transcode to work from inside K3B. Many many hours of fun *smirk*...
Watched a big chunk of Angel Season 2 with Adam too.
Decided “fuck it” at about midnight and went to XXL. Met straylight there - suspected he was on something as he looked up at me all wide-eyed, moon faced and smiley and gave me a huge hug. Bless.
Bumped into another Adam - the main reason I went *blush* Got lots of cuddles and chatted to him a bit. Was forced to dance. Drank nothing so I was ok - Fuck was it cold in the garden.
Left at about 4am I think. Got home at about 5 after freezing our tits off walking to and then over London Bridge. I was cold in my coat, Adam was in only a tshirt!
Sat on the bus with a load of 15yr old pissheads going on about the faggots on the bus. The fun.
Sunday I woke up at about 9:30 (the horror) and sat online for a bit. Chatted to Trouble - he was after new pics, so arranged to meet him at 12 (so he arrived at 1) to do them.
Cunningly, I realised my camera charger was actually at ref:Owen’s and I had fuck all battery left. Asked Phil very nicely if he fancied visiting Owen, so we trundled off to Ilford.
Arrived and called Owen’s mobile and got no reply, then called Owen’s home line and he eventually answered with “give me a moment, just need to wipe my chest” or something. Ick. Apparently I’d phoned mid orgasm. Grabbed stuff and had a bit of a chat to him and Des, then headed out to Valentine’s Park to do some pics. My camera managed a whole 5 photos before dying on me, which is a shame because I was doing fun things with backlighting from the sun. Phil has bought a Digital Ixus, which is quite nice, but I don’t think he trusted me to do a good job with it, so we went back to the flat with the plan of putting my battery on charge then rushing off to a very busy Wing’s Buffet for some top class high speed chinese food.
Arrived at the flat and Ronnie was in, put the battery on charge then ran off to Wing’s...Phil says “who was that? He’s gorgeous”, so I explained Ronnie to him and we went and had food, which as ever was very scrummy
Got back to the flat, grabbed the (fully charged - my camera rocks) battery and the rest of the camera and went off to St Anne’s Church to take some pictures, as we’d driven past it and Phil liked the look of it. It’s a HUGE old church that was designed and built by a guy called Nicholas Hawksmoor, who was a pupil of Sir Christopher Wren.
Just missed the sun as it went down, so had to make do with reflections, took some near an old garage as well and also took a load in Limehouse Basin, but then we ran away because it was so amazingly fucking cold 
Back to the flat to watch Phil and Ronnie flirting and much Angel. Again.
Took Adam to Costcutter, by the time we got back they’d both gone out (seperately) so we set about cleaning the
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Purty
purty burdses www.freakcity.net/images/FILE0010.ASF
Been out playing with my new toy
It’s not bad quality for an ickle thing like wot it is.
Tonight I shall either
a) go out and drink drink drink!
b) Stay in and write lots of FreakCity
c) Stay in with beer and fags and write bits of FreakCity until I have drunken so much I fail to be able to work out what I’ve broken
d) Stay in with Dan and look after him coz he’s poorlysick
d) All of the above
I’m not sure which I shall do
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Hm. What shall I talk about today?
Get to work, feel shite. Ick. Came home after a chat to the boss. I think it had something to do with the milk being off at work but not sure. I had a swig of coffee before seeing that the milk had curdled. So felt really sick.
Did a bit of work from home, but not a huge amount as I was still feeling crappy.
Woo. Full DLR so I can be REALLY late for work. Yay! Just missed *two* full trains.
And now the District Line is broken. Yay.
Didn’t do much last night cept watch telly. Phoned James in Hudds - he’s now working for “Bent” magazine and having fun and stuff - is gonna come visit for a weekend next month
Mostly early night but Dan was feeling ill so not as early as I’d have liked.
Dead net when I woke up - so took that opportunity to upgrade to the new pppd I’d acquired. Didn’t have time to get Dan fags tho, so he’ll be sulking when he wakes up
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I am naughty...
I just did the smelliest fart ever. Yesterday was uneventful apart from not getting my tooth removed *again*. “We called you” they falsely claimed. Fuckwits. Which is coincidentally what both myself and my boss typed about them simultaneously on MSN as I explained the second cancellation. Worked hard at work. Left at about 1:30 to go to my failed dental appointment. En route stopped at GadgetShop to buy a (very cool) MobiDV ickle digital video recorder. Well, I had a spare SD card, see... Went to failed dentist. Went home. Gazza has moved in with Chris Evans. Oddness. Did a bit of code, then went to meet Owen at Retro. Always a bad idea when fruitbat is there. His shag Fergussomething (not his real name) bought me drinks. As did Dunk. And Blouse. And Owen. My head may be a bit wibbly today... Back home and Dan dealing. Urgh. “Are you alright with Laura” “Have you ever been cheated on? What did you think of the other guy?” “Oh. So you won’t be coming to the wedding then?” “No” The fun! Got told off by a nice DLR man yesterday morning because I took Adam in with me so he could get some cash and the nice man checked tickets! Unheard of on a morning service! Adam was only with me because downstairs wasn’t open...so he was going 2 stops to the cashpoint with me then back, so he could get a travelcard later. “If you haven’t got a ticket, that’s £10” “I don’t have £10, I have enough to buy a ticket - it’s £2.30 isn’t it?” “It would have been, sir, if you’d have bought one before boarding, but now it’s £10” “but I don’t have £10” “You’d better get off here then...” At which point we just got on the next one. It apparently costs LT more to have a ticketing system than the system makes in revenue.
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Argh! Tooths!
Dan brought Laura over last night without telling me. Not impressed.
My 1GB SD Card arrived yesterday. Means I can carry around 500 CD quality oggs with me Also my card reader and my CD-Rs did too. The cardreader is quite funky. USB2 and so is fast as fuck when it copies stuff. And having a gig of music is fun
Currently dancing around my handbag to Mr Rockstar and his “Crucify your Love” track. The band split up last week 
so no more Icon and the Black Roses, which is a shame. Still, he’s already been offered a solo record deal (which he’s not going to take) with a Spanish label.
Trying to make test bookings at work and it’s all gone pear shaped because it’s all fucked or something. It’s making tracking down bugs problematic at best. Grr.
Last night was spent watching more Angel with Adam and mostly ignoring the other two in the other room. Dan decided to stay at Laura’s, which was probably for the best, so I got a decent amount of sleep
Meant to be meeting Owen later as he needs a hug...which is cool coz so do I
...as I’ll be having my tooth viciously removed later by evil people called Dentists. Well, I will be if they’ve not fucked up my appointment again. 3:30. Ugh!
I am eating asparagus soup in the hope my pee smells funny.
So not sure if I’ll be able to meet Owen, or indeed if I’ll have any feeling in my jaw or anything like that. Didn’t think about that when I said “sure” *giggle*
Might try and get him to come over and look after me, I think. Well, him or Phil or someone. Adam will be out I think. Sadness fills my world.
Sadeness anyway.
I suspect I need to create or find some new music...ambientish indie/trip hop or something like that...have overdosed on Portishead and Michael Nyman recently, maybe I’ll attempt to combine the two in some bastard way to make the offspring from hell.
Feel like I’m waiting for something, but I don’t know what. Have felt this way for a few weeks now...it’s an odd sensation...makes me not want to do anything, just in case something else happens instead. I think I need a holiday and I think I need to get away from the crap going on at home at the moment.
I think I’m going to chat to James and see if he wants to come visit again soon. And I think I’m going to sort out some time off for when João is here. At least that way I’ll be getting back to my roots instead of being out on a limb as I am now.
God, could I get any more clichéd?
*snigger*
Probably.
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Je voudrais un chat?
Moratorium. Ugh. 1.5 hours of meeting leading to me getting a sore back. Coz I had to stand. Ugh.
More bug fixing. Have the new guy helping so need to sort him out today.
Acquired a test screener of “Team America” to cackle at. Plus the soundtrack
It’s not as subversive as the original SouthPark film, nor is it as well written or directed, but it’s fun.
João visits in 2 weeks - should be fun. Mommy wants to meet him too...
Got to bed really late because Dan decided he was bored and was going to have a drama. Grr. Will have words later.
Thinking I should really go away soon. Getting a bit stressed by everything.
Watched Carnivàle ep2 last night. A bit fillerish, didn’t really go anywhere much, but not bad.
John McKirrick should die.
The Teg, keeping up with the current vernacular only uses the word “Blighters” once (incorrectly) on the front page. Plus the usual tory++; headline - “Tories aim to cut tax and spend more on services” - by MAGIC obviously. And the ObJohnnyForeigner--; headline “Muslim schools accused of ’undermining our society’” - probably by John McKirrick
I think if I had a television and followed such things, I’d want Bez from the Happy Mondays to win.
Urg. I should stop reading the Teg over this guy’s shoulder before I get the urge to stab him through it with his own umbrella. Or at least stand on his very shiny shoes.
Des has joined FreakCity as owensboy - not sure if that’s sweet or just illmaking
Babylon 5 Season 5 DVD arrivorized yesterday, along with the special Moz album thing. Still waiting for BigPockets to give me my 1GB data card. Anyone want B5 S5 on VHS? Angel 3 and 4 turned up Friday. Yay.
Going to remove all my VHS and digitise what I still want to keep. Then ByeBye VHS and TV and Hello! to Plasma monitor and no TV license
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*titters*
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US Lawyer madness
Charles Graner, alleged baddest of the bad apples of Abu Ghraib, went on trial Tuesday:
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Marvellous
/One in Five Men fakes his orgasms/ claims the Metro, amusingly...
Friday was a bit bleh really. I have the code library running but it’s a bit broken - can’t insert big text and I have no idea why...Took back my new headphones at lunchtime - they sound fab but had the extension bit missing. Grr. No more in stock so got a refund. Quick drink after work, then back home to do some stuff with Dan.
Got bored of work at about midnight, decided to sauna. Splashed around in the pool for a few hours - played in the gym too - Dan managed to acquire a bloke who he didn’t want. Comedy. Got rid of him then went back to the pool. I escaped to the jacuzzi and left them there. Some big bloke asked me “how much?” I replied:
“for what?”
“for those two?”
Cheeky fucker.
Left at about 4:30 I think, straight to bed. Swear we’re the only people in the world who go there *not* to pull...
Up at 10:30 Saturday Not enough sleep. Urgh. Did some work then went for a haircut with Dan. He claims I look like a thief now . Yay. Took him to Barking and then went home. Chatted to punkass_puppy and mentioned I was bored, so he told me to go to the cinema to see “Team America” with him, thedude, vervain and Sal’s mate Roddy. Very funny. Went to a bar called “The Big Chill” on Brick Lane, but it was way too busy to go in, so walked to Liverpool St so we could go to Trash Palace, but that was waaay too packed as well. Grr. Ended up in Retro, then the others went home and I went to XXL. Bumped into Michael who was astonished I didn’t have a cute man in tow
Paparazzi Daniel was there too, with some photographs of the tsunami that he took. He was on the beach as the wave approached and the photographs are pretty incredible. Apparently he pointed the tsunami out to the lifeguard who asked “what’s a tsunami?” *giggle*.
Saw Dominic and his date. Fell asleep in a corner and got ejected at 5. Bleh.
Sunday I staggered out of bed after noon and watched shitloads of Angel with Adam. Also watched Wonderfalls with him because I thought it might amuse him, which it did. And had a pizza that took one and a half hours to arrive and wasn’t even very nice. Yum. And then went to bed...and that’s my weekend.
Got up today to discover I’m apparently a boring person. Or so says some random bloke from the interwebnet. Pah
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Odd eyeball
+Wednesday+ was strange - I woke up feeling like I’d been punched - my eye was very red and my eyelid was swollen. Went to work, did code library stuff, few bugs, popped out at lunch to buy some lightbulbs and stuff, came back, more code library. Went to Retro for a drink with fruitbat - was sexylushcrazycool’s birthday and so he was there, pissed, drinking snakebite and black.
Back home and to bed via the interweb connection being broke and me being unable to get it working.
Woke up Thursday morning and my eye was hurting loads. Hurt more if I looked at a PC screen and my vision out of it (my right eye) was all blurred. Decided not to go to work
It slowly got better through the day and is now back to normal, although the lid is still swollen and a bit red.
So, back in work today, catching up from yesterday...
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woops....
Whilst upgrading remotely from Core 2 to Core 3 of Fedora (I know, I know, when will I learn not to do stuff like that remotely?) I managed to uninstall hotplug and not reinstall it on the same line.
Crap.
No IRC server until I get home.
Which may be some time as I’m meeting fruitbat for drinks tonight
Just donated £100 towards the production of “A Letter to the Prime Minister”, Jo Wilding’s film about her time in Iraq. And managed to spend over £100 on www.play.com buying things too. Oops
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Carnivàle is coming to town...
Still sleepy...got quite a bit of the code library done yesterday, including writing a textformatter class - it’s so fucking fast it’s amazing
Did more chunks of Freakcity too - the forums now incorporate the new code and I’ve written a page counter that actually works, as well as cutting down on code replication.
Watched Carnivàle with Adam - Thought they made a mistake revealing what they did, but then changed my mind as it was very good. And very subtle, as I’ve only just worked something out whilst writing this *giggle*
Getting quite exciteable about the new FreakCity stuff - also tempted to upgrade to SQL Server to see how fast it is, although I’m not 100% sure I want to as it’ll tie me into something I might not want to...
Might acquire SQL Server and attempt it at home.
Earlyish night - got up and wrote more code...a little wrongly though, as I managed to wipe every single forum post out by accident. Thankfully I have my dev box
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Om
I am still knackered - and more than a little bleh at the moment.
Failed to do any work yesterday evening - arguing with Java during the day fried my brain...Made “Tesco Finest” 1/2 pounder and chips for dinner for Dan and I. Burnt the chips. Dan said he wasn’t sure about the burger but the chips were nice. I cannae win...
More cam stuff. No one else in, so had the whole flat to play in. Relatively little badness. Yay
Owen bought me “Fray” which arrived yesterday, also my battery for my Libretto did too - it’s currently charging...
Fray is deeply cool - Vampire Slayer of the future doing funky things.
I am soo sleepy at the moment 
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Batteries Not Included
The weekend was quite special. It started, as ever, with madness abounding. Friday was cool and chilled. I got out of work bang on 5 having failed to get my bugs to be fixed. Spose I’ll have to mend them this morning...
Got home to discover ref an had been getting the boys involved in the whole home business thing *snigger*
Did cam stuff until 10 then took Dan to Barking to show him how easy it is to do stuff without cabs.
Took ref:Adam to the Swan to see Rose Garden and drink a sinful amount of alcohol. Bumped into Blouse and Gareth in there and chatted lots. Adam told me something surprising. Staggered back home with some (not very well) hidden bottles of Newcastle Brown and attempted to watch “Hole in the World” which was somewhat hampered by me trying to explain “Smile Time” goings on, then giving up and just playing it first.
Bed at 4ish. Bleh.
Up bright and early Saturday afternoon - sat online, convinced Dominic to come clubbing, went with Ben, Alastair and Adam to dtt’s birthday party at Retro. Womble bought Adam a cigarette holder with built in lighter for xmas - much impressedness all round. Discovered to my amazedness that a) they were all going to XXL and b) that my membership hasn’t run out yet. Met up with Dominic. Got almost pulled by a cute bloke with a furry chest. Bumped into Michael. Bumped into a guy I’ve been chatting to on gaydar all week who is rather gorgeous. Adam got bought entry by Womble so XXLed too. Was an odd crowd (just after xmas...) and I was way too hungover to really enjoy it. Oh well.
Got home at about 3am and shagged some then slept a bit.
Up earlyish on Sunday for boredom attacked me along with the urge to go shopping. So winched Adam out of bed and got us on a train to Lakeside. Or so we thought, but no! So having run like mad people for the fucking thing we end up stranded in Laindon for 20 minutes and then on another train back to Upminster for a *further* 20 minutes until we got the correct one. Total time: 1:30. Grr. It’s only meant to take 20 minutes
Wandered around Lakeside looking at the chavs and chavettes...some were very cute...and there were a myriad chavlings too all running around in their adidas caps and shiny white trainers bigger than their heads. Bless.
Some talent, but not as much as previous times. Went to M&S just to scare Adam but it backfired as he found stuff in there he quite liked. Although equally that could have been scary enough for him anyway...bought some authentic cargo pants made in Korea or somewhere awful. I wish M&S would behave better
Bought some things made by FCUK. Which is a tad worrying. Although I didn’t get them in M&S of course. Adam bought fags. We looked at life size replica light sabers and boggled a bit, although not as much as we did the chavlings, bouncing around in huge air cushioned trainers and swearing their tiny fucking minds out. Aww. It was sweet
Got to Barking for 6ish and met up with Dan, got back to the flat and earned some cash. Deep meaningful conversation type thing and a distinct lack of sleep means I feel like shit now and am powered by clipper fair trade instant...
My battery arrived on Saturday morning, but I was too comatose to hear the door, so I left early and went via the post office to pick it up today. So I should have a working Libretto later...am considering a) buying a new drive for it, b) buying more ram for it and c) putting the drive in something else and whapping a linux on it
Rah.
Then I will have a portable tiny (very slow) wifi enabled laptop about the size of a book. Yay!
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*titter*
Yesterday much work was done on the code library - still learning the whole Java thing and had to let Jonny have a look because I broke a bit of it. Jonny’s a senior Java type - so that was fun
The reworking of FreakCity continues unabated - Need to find a better way to do the threads though.
Popped to see a sobering-up Dan after work - he paid for a cab to mine - did some work then went to the sauna afterwards. Got the bus to Aldgate then walked. Dan seemed impressed how close it was. The sauna was (predictably) dead. Had a bit of a swim and then a sit in the steam room. Got followed in by half the sauna inhabitants as Dan looks quite fetching in a towel...
Home @ 1am via Sanchos for a vileburger and vile chips for Dan.
So urg. Knackered. Dan’s going to be staying at mine during the day - Adam’s in too - so hopefully they’ll not beat each other to death or anything
Bug fixing and code library for me today. Then more FreakCity over lunch/weekend
Cor. Considering the District Line is delayed, it’s being really quite nippy
Comedy headline of the day today comes from the Grauniad (for a change) with:
“How would you make EastEnders good again” *titter*
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Snigger....
James C still writes much better diaries than me... We got a bit stoned and then I gingerly returned to my house where I woke up this morning to discover a notice on the kitchen wall in my handwriting which said, "Possible bad come-down moment. Don’t panic!" *snigger*
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Chug
Orange have cut me off again. Bastards. Owen has got a boyfriend. The Box Model blows goats. Grr.
Porting Freakcity to XHTML as it should make for lighter code. Hur!
Going to add in some of the nice bits from the beta in later.
Code library’s going well - am building the admin section at the moment - you can now add users. More will happen later
Comedy Metro headline: “Picking the right kind of Sperm” about a sperm picking machine. Which makes me think of the growing fields from the Matrix...
Financial issues. Lots of money needed, none available. Oops
Been invited to SF for 6 days with Nikki and Brian - Found flights for £200 return, just need to sort some bits out so me and Adam can afford it. Hoping I can do it as it should be fun
Chatted to Drew
Doing my objectives with Rach. And a hotels bugfix thing. Rah!
IE in quirks mode recognises document.body.clientWidth - in standards compliance mode recognises only document. - so I had to rewrite all my functions to take this into account when moving to HTML 4.01. Oddly as XHTML Transitional it reverts back to the previous behaviour. Grr
Think I’m gonna pick Owen’s brain about the box model later. He might have some better ideas about the forum...
I am so fucking tired. Not helped by Dan phoning at 1am to ask me silly things about saunas. Grr
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Fucking Dentists. Grr.
...Cancelled my appointment. “We sent you a letter, didn’t you get it?”
So half day. Cisco’s VPN software has issues with XP fast user switching. *giggle*
Got a chunk of codelib done. Yay!
Dan came over. Got him out of debt on paypal. Paypal have now gone down in my estimation a tad.
Took a pic of him that’s quite arty
Redoing freakcity on my dev server as an XHTML app.
Groovy, baby
Dan wants to come over again tonight but I have loads of KHRP. Grr.
Gonna try more freakcity @ lunch if I can.
It’s 9:15 and I am 3 stops away from Hammersmith. And 10 minutes from the office when I get there. And I have a meeting at 9:30. Bah
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New year, new me...
...ok, not really. It’s all bollocks anyway. New Year’s Resolution my arse!
NYE at Owen’s - Much drinkage and stuff. Fell asleep on floor - oops!
Left at about 1ish. Dan was meant to come over but failed to turn up for various reasons. Something going on there...
Sunday was spent chatting online and chilling out. Took Adam to drag karaoke in the evening and then got home and stayed up chatting and stuff until 8am. He gave me a rather cool massage too.
Monday I got up much too early. Got a phonecall from Daniel - he was there when the Tsunami hit, but he’s ok...I’d downloaded a few hours previously a load of amateur footage of the wave coming in...it’s scary. I’m so glad he was somewhere up high, as he was on the beach at the time...chatted some to other online people then went to bed at 6ish. Up again at 8 coz Dan phoned - watched the Earthsea thing and it was a bit shit really. Some nice CGI, but also some truly awful CGI. Very curious in just the same way Dune was...didn’t windypops as I was too knackered - mattnottm did though and was meant to stay at mine - no idea why he didn’t call or anything.
Having tooth removed today (other reason for not windypopsing) - not looking forward to it at all so half day at work then meant to be seeing Dan tonight if he turns up...
Feel like crap