No times today. I've not updated all week, and I think now I have enough of a dedicated reader base [all 3-4 people] that I don't need to encourage new readers with gimmicks like what time I got up and went to bed. Beyond that, it wasn't interesting, enlightening, and I don't even know if the times are accurate.
Anyway, that's about it really apart from to provide some semblance of an update. Today has been a very irritating week, and while that is completely contradictory it makes sense to me. Going on this past week, it would do.
Only another three/four weeks until everything is finished. Then I just need to adapt to the wider world, pick a masters program, or get a job, think about qualifications, where to live, what to do, blah blah blah.
Saturday, April 29, 2006
Saturday, April 22, 2006
Ready to Rumba, Ready to Go
Time Asleep Last Night: 04:32
Time Awake This Morning: 09:06
Today's DAR so far: 50PP
This post has nothing to do with Cotton Eyed Joe. Sorry for any false illusions presented.
Right, I'm all packed. Amazingly managed to fit everything in, after some inspired packing courtesy of yours truly. Just making sandwiches and then I'm off. Bought caramel slices this morning, never fear, they are coming with me, just hope I'm not too peckish on the journey ...
Time Awake This Morning: 09:06
Today's DAR so far: 50PP
This post has nothing to do with Cotton Eyed Joe. Sorry for any false illusions presented.
Right, I'm all packed. Amazingly managed to fit everything in, after some inspired packing courtesy of yours truly. Just making sandwiches and then I'm off. Bought caramel slices this morning, never fear, they are coming with me, just hope I'm not too peckish on the journey ...
Being Busy! Oh Noes!
Time Asleep Last Night: 04:53
Time Awake This Morning: 09:33
Time Arisen This Morning: 13:56
Today's DAR: 18PP
Moderatively productive day today [Oh noes! I hear you cry!] as a consequence of being forced upon me by time. I have done some ironing, some packing, some general tidying and some cleaning today. Be amazed by the product of my business!
Just got the computer and clothes to pack in the morning. Everything else is packed .... BUT ... there is a spanner in the works, a cat among the pigeons. My Dad's car is having issues. Not sure what issues specifically, but general issues. As of such, instead of having copious amounts of room in the car, instead we will have to take my sister's car for the journey up to Durham. Which is a Ford Ka. A great car, but not one for great carrying capacity. Which means I'll most likely be leaving stuff at home, such as the TV [Oh noes! I hear you cry again!] and I may also be packing everything in tiny bags so it can be fitted under seats, around me, and so on. It should be quite an entertaining morning packing the car, for sure.
That's about it, hectic day tomorrow somewhat awaits. May try and update this in the morning after I get the caramel slices. Up early tomorrow, rise and shine, see you all Sunday.
Time Awake This Morning: 09:33
Time Arisen This Morning: 13:56
Today's DAR: 18PP
Moderatively productive day today [Oh noes! I hear you cry!] as a consequence of being forced upon me by time. I have done some ironing, some packing, some general tidying and some cleaning today. Be amazed by the product of my business!
Just got the computer and clothes to pack in the morning. Everything else is packed .... BUT ... there is a spanner in the works, a cat among the pigeons. My Dad's car is having issues. Not sure what issues specifically, but general issues. As of such, instead of having copious amounts of room in the car, instead we will have to take my sister's car for the journey up to Durham. Which is a Ford Ka. A great car, but not one for great carrying capacity. Which means I'll most likely be leaving stuff at home, such as the TV [Oh noes! I hear you cry again!] and I may also be packing everything in tiny bags so it can be fitted under seats, around me, and so on. It should be quite an entertaining morning packing the car, for sure.
That's about it, hectic day tomorrow somewhat awaits. May try and update this in the morning after I get the caramel slices. Up early tomorrow, rise and shine, see you all Sunday.
Friday, April 21, 2006
Theory And Reality
Time Asleep Last Night: 05:03
Time Theoretically Awake This Morning: 09:34
Time Actually Awake This Morning: 14:03
Today's DAR: 9PP
Today has two versions. The theoretical one went like this: I got up at a decent time, then did the cleaning in the house, sorted out a few bits and pieces, did some paperwork, copied a couple of CDs and generally was productive with my day. I also went into the loft, got down the boxes and started to do my packing.
The actual day, however, went rather differently. I woke up late, did minimal work, then in the afternoon went to help a friend with his history dissertation at another university, just reading over it. I ended up playing poker and PES on the PS2 for three hours, getting back home at 7pm. After a family meal this evening, I discover that there's a problem with the car so there may be a minor issue with going up to Durham - the issue being that I'll be unable to fit much of my stuff in the car. Unless the mechanic can fix it tomorrow.
That's really it, tomorrow I will be up earlier and doing active work, I expect my DAR to hit 20 if things go to plan. I hope this is short enough to keep Emma happy.
Time Theoretically Awake This Morning: 09:34
Time Actually Awake This Morning: 14:03
Today's DAR: 9PP
Today has two versions. The theoretical one went like this: I got up at a decent time, then did the cleaning in the house, sorted out a few bits and pieces, did some paperwork, copied a couple of CDs and generally was productive with my day. I also went into the loft, got down the boxes and started to do my packing.
The actual day, however, went rather differently. I woke up late, did minimal work, then in the afternoon went to help a friend with his history dissertation at another university, just reading over it. I ended up playing poker and PES on the PS2 for three hours, getting back home at 7pm. After a family meal this evening, I discover that there's a problem with the car so there may be a minor issue with going up to Durham - the issue being that I'll be unable to fit much of my stuff in the car. Unless the mechanic can fix it tomorrow.
That's really it, tomorrow I will be up earlier and doing active work, I expect my DAR to hit 20 if things go to plan. I hope this is short enough to keep Emma happy.
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Me & Technology - Bad Combination
Time Asleep Last Night: 05:36
Time Awake This Morning: 11:34
Today's DAR: 5PP
Today's DAR is deceptive. Because I had planned on it being higher, but it wasn't. Rather obvious point, but here goes with my stupid tale of today. My plan had been to possibly get some way towards demolishing my ironing pile. However, I met with a small snag while upon my quest.
The ironing board, with the iron on it, was up against a wall in our front room. Sensibly, I decided to move it towards the middle of the room so I'd actually have space to iron in. So I pulled on one end of the ironing board. And it collapses. Now, normally our ironing board takes a combination of the strength of a superhero and the problem-solving ability of Stephen Hawkins to actually fold up when you're trying to. So by pulling on one end, this met with a surprising result. So the ironing board collapses. The iron falls off the end, logically, and then the cover falls off. So I'm left with just the water holder in the middle, thinking this may not be very safe to iron with.
So on the plus side, I didn't have to iron today. On the negative side, I wasn't able to iron today, means a fun-filled Friday of course. Not long now until we're back at uni guys, and please remind me to go to the bakery on Saturday morning to get the supply of caramel slices. Otherwise I'll have to go home in the middle of the term just to fulfill my promise.
Time Awake This Morning: 11:34
Today's DAR: 5PP
Today's DAR is deceptive. Because I had planned on it being higher, but it wasn't. Rather obvious point, but here goes with my stupid tale of today. My plan had been to possibly get some way towards demolishing my ironing pile. However, I met with a small snag while upon my quest.
The ironing board, with the iron on it, was up against a wall in our front room. Sensibly, I decided to move it towards the middle of the room so I'd actually have space to iron in. So I pulled on one end of the ironing board. And it collapses. Now, normally our ironing board takes a combination of the strength of a superhero and the problem-solving ability of Stephen Hawkins to actually fold up when you're trying to. So by pulling on one end, this met with a surprising result. So the ironing board collapses. The iron falls off the end, logically, and then the cover falls off. So I'm left with just the water holder in the middle, thinking this may not be very safe to iron with.
So on the plus side, I didn't have to iron today. On the negative side, I wasn't able to iron today, means a fun-filled Friday of course. Not long now until we're back at uni guys, and please remind me to go to the bakery on Saturday morning to get the supply of caramel slices. Otherwise I'll have to go home in the middle of the term just to fulfill my promise.
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Shorter ... I think
Time Asleep Last Night: 03:30
Time Awake This Morning: 12:37
Today's DAR: 6PP
Today's is supposed to be a shorter because apparantly Emma gets offended if I actually attempt to fill you in in any detail on what has gone on in my day. Personally, I'm quite impressed with how I manage to write so much despite doing so little.
I didn't have much to write about my day, but there was something I read in the newspaper today that irritated me somewhat. It was an article on the situation regarding abortion in America, and how anti-abortion campaigners are having increasing impact and success. It has gotten to the state, according to this article, where while you can have one legally, it is still a constitutional right, you simply can't have one practically.
To me, this is absolute nonsense. I'm a guy here, so I have very little in terms of say in this - and I don't see why other guys should become all preaching with women should do this and shouldn't do that. Which is effectively what it is. The vocal majority of the anti-abortion community is male, which is illogical. It's about a woman's right to an abortion, not a man's right to force a woman to bear his child whatever he thinks. And that's pretty much what it is.
The other thing to me is that if someone is so convinced that it is wrong and an abomination, then the simple option would be not to have an abortion if you believe that. So why do people who think that abortion should be controlled simply not have abortions - and allow the others to have theirs if they think it is allowed? People who think there should be more gun control don't go around attempting to close gun shops and say that yes, while the constitution says you can bear arms, you can't actually purchase them at all.
One person's beliefs shouldn't override another - it is what makes a democracy, that while you disagree on things, noone should bend another to their viewpoint and force them to act against their wills. Okay, some things, such as murder, rape, arson, theft, there is a common sense of rules or we would have anarchy. But abortion is completely illogical to include on a similar level. Meh, just my whine at the silliness of that, don't take offense anyone with contrary beliefs to me on this.
Time Awake This Morning: 12:37
Today's DAR: 6PP
Today's is supposed to be a shorter because apparantly Emma gets offended if I actually attempt to fill you in in any detail on what has gone on in my day. Personally, I'm quite impressed with how I manage to write so much despite doing so little.
I didn't have much to write about my day, but there was something I read in the newspaper today that irritated me somewhat. It was an article on the situation regarding abortion in America, and how anti-abortion campaigners are having increasing impact and success. It has gotten to the state, according to this article, where while you can have one legally, it is still a constitutional right, you simply can't have one practically.
To me, this is absolute nonsense. I'm a guy here, so I have very little in terms of say in this - and I don't see why other guys should become all preaching with women should do this and shouldn't do that. Which is effectively what it is. The vocal majority of the anti-abortion community is male, which is illogical. It's about a woman's right to an abortion, not a man's right to force a woman to bear his child whatever he thinks. And that's pretty much what it is.
The other thing to me is that if someone is so convinced that it is wrong and an abomination, then the simple option would be not to have an abortion if you believe that. So why do people who think that abortion should be controlled simply not have abortions - and allow the others to have theirs if they think it is allowed? People who think there should be more gun control don't go around attempting to close gun shops and say that yes, while the constitution says you can bear arms, you can't actually purchase them at all.
One person's beliefs shouldn't override another - it is what makes a democracy, that while you disagree on things, noone should bend another to their viewpoint and force them to act against their wills. Okay, some things, such as murder, rape, arson, theft, there is a common sense of rules or we would have anarchy. But abortion is completely illogical to include on a similar level. Meh, just my whine at the silliness of that, don't take offense anyone with contrary beliefs to me on this.
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Red Hot Poker
Time Asleep Last Night: 03:53
Time Awake This Morning: 13:56
Today's DAR: 10PP
Today was another day where very little happened during the day, very little in fact happened at all. My ironing pile made a further step towards being featured on relief maps of the area. On the plus side, if I don't get around to doing my ironing at any point, I can always sell it off as an abseiling platform and climbing wall for an activities centre or something.
My ironing-challenged week ahead aside, what I did do today was mainly watch TV. Not much, admittedly, but I watched the second half of Tottenham vs Manchester United, which wasn't exactly an entertaining spectacle but I really didn't care. I also saw part of the Castleford-Warrington rugby game, which was hardly a spectacle either - some good rugby by Warrington, but it was too one-sided to really be entertaining. Sad that Sky in their wisdom chose that match, and not the Catalan-Saints game instead. While obviously as a Saints fan I would've prefered to see my team (although watching rugby league as a neutral really is very enjoyable), their game was close and hard-fought, and a cracking game from what I could hear of it on BBC Merseyside.
In the evening I went to a mate's house, which is one of the last times I'll be doing that before I go back to university, mainly because everyone else is doing the same thing [going back to uni that is, to clarify]. We played on the PS2 for a while [PES, of course. Is there any other game?] but eventually settled down for a marathon poker game. By the end I was considerably up, although not chip leader.
Today I was feeling inspired, and managed some excellent hands, at one point doing a bluff on a flush draw with absolutely nothing, winning about 400 worth of chips [Starting amount of 1400 chips each]. Later on, I managed to have the situation reversed; someone attempted to bluff me in the same situation. However, at that point I did have a flush, and called him out, again to win about 200 chips. During the meantime I was squandering my hard-won chips, and irritatingly two hands in a row folding on what would become a full house after seeing my starting cards, although betting more sensibly. I managed at one point to get a A K Q high flush, one of my best ever hands, without even noticing it - I had pocket kings and so was betting on that, without realising I had a flush at the same time.
Most entertaining hand was the last one before we left. I was holding a Q 2 in my hand, unsuited. First person to bet put in 200 on the starting cards, before the flop. I was the only one to call rather riskily, but he is a known random better, so I thought I might as well go for it. The flop was 8 8 2, leaving me with a two pair but an awkward one - especially as he could well have high pocket pair, hence his high starting bet. However, as it was the last hand, I matched his 200 bet. The turn was a 6, rather irrelevant to my hand. However, again I matched his raise, which put him all in for about 675 chips each. At this time, as we were all in, we both revealed our hands - and his hand was also a Q 2, the exact same as mine! Ironically, the irrelevant river was a 2 again, leaving us both with a full house, but with identical cards we were bound to split the pot of 1385, each recouping for all our betting only a share of the blinds, worth 17 chips gain for each of us.
An entertaining hand, and somewhat amusing too. Anyway, more on that story later. Or another time. Right now, I'm off to bed, having updated you all on that. So more from Slumberland tomorrow.
Time Awake This Morning: 13:56
Today's DAR: 10PP
Today was another day where very little happened during the day, very little in fact happened at all. My ironing pile made a further step towards being featured on relief maps of the area. On the plus side, if I don't get around to doing my ironing at any point, I can always sell it off as an abseiling platform and climbing wall for an activities centre or something.
My ironing-challenged week ahead aside, what I did do today was mainly watch TV. Not much, admittedly, but I watched the second half of Tottenham vs Manchester United, which wasn't exactly an entertaining spectacle but I really didn't care. I also saw part of the Castleford-Warrington rugby game, which was hardly a spectacle either - some good rugby by Warrington, but it was too one-sided to really be entertaining. Sad that Sky in their wisdom chose that match, and not the Catalan-Saints game instead. While obviously as a Saints fan I would've prefered to see my team (although watching rugby league as a neutral really is very enjoyable), their game was close and hard-fought, and a cracking game from what I could hear of it on BBC Merseyside.
In the evening I went to a mate's house, which is one of the last times I'll be doing that before I go back to university, mainly because everyone else is doing the same thing [going back to uni that is, to clarify]. We played on the PS2 for a while [PES, of course. Is there any other game?] but eventually settled down for a marathon poker game. By the end I was considerably up, although not chip leader.
Today I was feeling inspired, and managed some excellent hands, at one point doing a bluff on a flush draw with absolutely nothing, winning about 400 worth of chips [Starting amount of 1400 chips each]. Later on, I managed to have the situation reversed; someone attempted to bluff me in the same situation. However, at that point I did have a flush, and called him out, again to win about 200 chips. During the meantime I was squandering my hard-won chips, and irritatingly two hands in a row folding on what would become a full house after seeing my starting cards, although betting more sensibly. I managed at one point to get a A K Q high flush, one of my best ever hands, without even noticing it - I had pocket kings and so was betting on that, without realising I had a flush at the same time.
Most entertaining hand was the last one before we left. I was holding a Q 2 in my hand, unsuited. First person to bet put in 200 on the starting cards, before the flop. I was the only one to call rather riskily, but he is a known random better, so I thought I might as well go for it. The flop was 8 8 2, leaving me with a two pair but an awkward one - especially as he could well have high pocket pair, hence his high starting bet. However, as it was the last hand, I matched his 200 bet. The turn was a 6, rather irrelevant to my hand. However, again I matched his raise, which put him all in for about 675 chips each. At this time, as we were all in, we both revealed our hands - and his hand was also a Q 2, the exact same as mine! Ironically, the irrelevant river was a 2 again, leaving us both with a full house, but with identical cards we were bound to split the pot of 1385, each recouping for all our betting only a share of the blinds, worth 17 chips gain for each of us.
An entertaining hand, and somewhat amusing too. Anyway, more on that story later. Or another time. Right now, I'm off to bed, having updated you all on that. So more from Slumberland tomorrow.
Monday, April 17, 2006
Easter Egg Day!
Time Asleep Last Night: 03:45
Time Awake This Morning: 12:52
Today's DAR: 5PP
Today I managed to do even less than yesterday, which was amazingly impressive due to my fairly feeble achievements yesterday. But, on the plus side, today was easter egg day. Some apparant religion or other has more important reasons for today, but I leave that for them to talk about, not me.
However, the annoyance is that when you tell people you're not going to do the Easter Egg thing and instead they ignore this and buy you an Easter Egg. And you are informed on the Sunday morning. Thus starts the Easter Egg Marathon! Where you walk around to all the shops within a half hour radius only to find out that they are either (a) shut, (b) sold out or (c) shut and sold out. End result - mass frustration but on the other side, a lot of exercise. Every cloud has a silver lining.
Only a week left until back at uni, I suppose now would really be a good time to start doing some reading and some detailed work on my Gobbets prepration. However, my general thought on this is 'meh'. Gah, this post is so lacking in content and wit and actually anything that it's untrue.
In more irritating news, however, I have had the Alvin and the Chipmonks song stuck in my head for 24 hours. It's quite annoying. I find myself singing it at random. And more annoyingly, that site I linked to either yesterday or the day before had the words for it too; so I can actually sing along as I know the words. Extremely frustrating.
Time Awake This Morning: 12:52
Today's DAR: 5PP
Today I managed to do even less than yesterday, which was amazingly impressive due to my fairly feeble achievements yesterday. But, on the plus side, today was easter egg day. Some apparant religion or other has more important reasons for today, but I leave that for them to talk about, not me.
However, the annoyance is that when you tell people you're not going to do the Easter Egg thing and instead they ignore this and buy you an Easter Egg. And you are informed on the Sunday morning. Thus starts the Easter Egg Marathon! Where you walk around to all the shops within a half hour radius only to find out that they are either (a) shut, (b) sold out or (c) shut and sold out. End result - mass frustration but on the other side, a lot of exercise. Every cloud has a silver lining.
Only a week left until back at uni, I suppose now would really be a good time to start doing some reading and some detailed work on my Gobbets prepration. However, my general thought on this is 'meh'. Gah, this post is so lacking in content and wit and actually anything that it's untrue.
In more irritating news, however, I have had the Alvin and the Chipmonks song stuck in my head for 24 hours. It's quite annoying. I find myself singing it at random. And more annoyingly, that site I linked to either yesterday or the day before had the words for it too; so I can actually sing along as I know the words. Extremely frustrating.
Saturday, April 15, 2006
Du, Du ... Du-du-du-Duh!
Time Asleep Last Night: 04:53
Time Awake This Morning: 11:34
Today's DAR: 4PP
If you can work out what the hell I'm on about from today's blog title, then you need some help. I was shown this absolutely supreme website, today, basically a reference page for '80s cartoons, including theme tunes, pictures, and so on. If you haven't worked it out today, here is the full background behind today's title. Absolutely inspired.
The other thing I was shown was a worrying link to a merchandising site for Scooby-Doo. If you think I'm bad, you should really wonder who exactly would buy a Scooby-Doo brand vacuum cleaner. Why?! Or, alternatively, boxer shorts with Scooby Doo on them ... okay, if that's what does it for you girls. You could also get full-size Scooby Doo costumes, for Scooby and the entire gang. Not just in kids sizes too - in adults sizes too. Either there are lots of theatre groups, or there are some seriously wrong couples playing dressing-up games. "You be Daphne, I'll be Fred." Urgh, just the thought of that makes me shudder.
There were some good products too, such as mousemats, mugs, and other things on the same line though, but as I'm saving money I didn't peruse them for too long.
More tomorrow.
Time Awake This Morning: 11:34
Today's DAR: 4PP
If you can work out what the hell I'm on about from today's blog title, then you need some help. I was shown this absolutely supreme website, today, basically a reference page for '80s cartoons, including theme tunes, pictures, and so on. If you haven't worked it out today, here is the full background behind today's title. Absolutely inspired.
The other thing I was shown was a worrying link to a merchandising site for Scooby-Doo. If you think I'm bad, you should really wonder who exactly would buy a Scooby-Doo brand vacuum cleaner. Why?! Or, alternatively, boxer shorts with Scooby Doo on them ... okay, if that's what does it for you girls. You could also get full-size Scooby Doo costumes, for Scooby and the entire gang. Not just in kids sizes too - in adults sizes too. Either there are lots of theatre groups, or there are some seriously wrong couples playing dressing-up games. "You be Daphne, I'll be Fred." Urgh, just the thought of that makes me shudder.
There were some good products too, such as mousemats, mugs, and other things on the same line though, but as I'm saving money I didn't peruse them for too long.
More tomorrow.
Kung-Fu Hustle & Good Friday Rugby
Time Asleep Last Night: 04:38
Time Awake This Morning: 09:36
Time Up This Morning: 13:24
Today's DAR: 5PP
Well, today was Good Friday. Not being of a religious persuasion, this doesn't really mean much to me apart from the fact that it is a bank holiday, and that on top of that we get the traditional rugby league fixture between St. Helens and Wigan. With Wigan in freefall this season and Saints looking fairly solid, it was always rather inevitable, and so it proved with a 48-10 victory to Saints; all good news from my perspective.
This evening I met up with those pesky home friends again. Well, they're not really pesky, but it's a good adjective and one that I've not used for a while. Anyway, we played some of the mighty Halo 2 for a while. And then watched Kung Fu Hustle, which none of us had seen before. To say the least, it is odd. To say more than the least, it's bizarrely strange. However, very entertaining. Yet still without any sense to it whatsoever.
Anyone else seen it able to give some views on it? There's no recognisable plot, just a tenuous series of events to link from one improbable kung-fu action scene to the next. However, that's not to detract from what is a very entertaining film.
Discussing my phone issues, as I did mention yesterday, Chrissi is wonderful and getting me a new phone so all you silly people can talk to me. Or so I have to say, at least. It's an extremely early birthday present, and it is very gratefully recieved. Not quite sure which of the silly people she's referring to; I think she's the only one who rings me. Not that that's a hint for you to all start ringing me 24/7, just an observation.
Anyway, with luck this might mean a new phone with new nifty features - like actually being able to hear the person at the other end, turning on and off when you want it to and not at random, signal that doesn't disappear when you're about to make a phonecall, and so on. Apparantly these 'features' come as standard on most phones now. News to me, they don't on mine.
Despite my somewhat tongue-in-cheek commentary, I am very thankful for that. So good news. Today has been a positive day again. We're now down to a large hill or a small mountain. Scarfell Pike type height, perhaps.
Time Awake This Morning: 09:36
Time Up This Morning: 13:24
Today's DAR: 5PP
Well, today was Good Friday. Not being of a religious persuasion, this doesn't really mean much to me apart from the fact that it is a bank holiday, and that on top of that we get the traditional rugby league fixture between St. Helens and Wigan. With Wigan in freefall this season and Saints looking fairly solid, it was always rather inevitable, and so it proved with a 48-10 victory to Saints; all good news from my perspective.
This evening I met up with those pesky home friends again. Well, they're not really pesky, but it's a good adjective and one that I've not used for a while. Anyway, we played some of the mighty Halo 2 for a while. And then watched Kung Fu Hustle, which none of us had seen before. To say the least, it is odd. To say more than the least, it's bizarrely strange. However, very entertaining. Yet still without any sense to it whatsoever.
Anyone else seen it able to give some views on it? There's no recognisable plot, just a tenuous series of events to link from one improbable kung-fu action scene to the next. However, that's not to detract from what is a very entertaining film.
Discussing my phone issues, as I did mention yesterday, Chrissi is wonderful and getting me a new phone so all you silly people can talk to me. Or so I have to say, at least. It's an extremely early birthday present, and it is very gratefully recieved. Not quite sure which of the silly people she's referring to; I think she's the only one who rings me. Not that that's a hint for you to all start ringing me 24/7, just an observation.
Anyway, with luck this might mean a new phone with new nifty features - like actually being able to hear the person at the other end, turning on and off when you want it to and not at random, signal that doesn't disappear when you're about to make a phonecall, and so on. Apparantly these 'features' come as standard on most phones now. News to me, they don't on mine.
Despite my somewhat tongue-in-cheek commentary, I am very thankful for that. So good news. Today has been a positive day again. We're now down to a large hill or a small mountain. Scarfell Pike type height, perhaps.
Friday, April 14, 2006
A Note Of Thanks And Explanation
Time Asleep Last Night: 00:52
Time Awake This Morning: 09:33
Time Dozed Until: 14:26
Today's DAR: 9PP
I'd just like to say thanks to all of you who left a note after yesterday's irritated and frustrated comment. Yesterday was a generally frustrating day, and having talked things over and gone over things, they seem a lot clearer today and the problems that were worrying me seem slightly less problematic.
Issues were with finances; money going in and coming out didn't quite tally up with my mental balance sheet and the end result was quite a bit less in the bank than I thought I had, and a few more bills than I thought I had too, and generally lots of irritations to sort out. Then it became one of those days where everything else refuses to go right. The fact that I went to bed so early in frustration is the surest sign that I was not having a good day.
But after a good night's sleep and some rational thought and some sensible advice, my molehill seems a lot less mountainous overnight. It'll probably end up being something hillock-sized, enough to feature on a contour map but not to tempt mountaineers to climb it's edifices. It definately won't have any glaciers, apologies to you glaciologists out there eager to discover this among the mountain I was making of my molehill.
Anyway, I think I've exhausted that metaphor now.
In other news, my phone is almost entirely dead now, it has been dying a slow and painful death over the last few weeks. Any attempts to contact me by it will most likely be futile. I'm looking into getting a new one, but that requires money which I'm busy trying not to spend. Hurrah for cyclical problems.
Thanks again for the comments, even if I only just read them when updating this now; it still makes me feel a lot better, so thank you for that.
Time Awake This Morning: 09:33
Time Dozed Until: 14:26
Today's DAR: 9PP
I'd just like to say thanks to all of you who left a note after yesterday's irritated and frustrated comment. Yesterday was a generally frustrating day, and having talked things over and gone over things, they seem a lot clearer today and the problems that were worrying me seem slightly less problematic.
Issues were with finances; money going in and coming out didn't quite tally up with my mental balance sheet and the end result was quite a bit less in the bank than I thought I had, and a few more bills than I thought I had too, and generally lots of irritations to sort out. Then it became one of those days where everything else refuses to go right. The fact that I went to bed so early in frustration is the surest sign that I was not having a good day.
But after a good night's sleep and some rational thought and some sensible advice, my molehill seems a lot less mountainous overnight. It'll probably end up being something hillock-sized, enough to feature on a contour map but not to tempt mountaineers to climb it's edifices. It definately won't have any glaciers, apologies to you glaciologists out there eager to discover this among the mountain I was making of my molehill.
Anyway, I think I've exhausted that metaphor now.
In other news, my phone is almost entirely dead now, it has been dying a slow and painful death over the last few weeks. Any attempts to contact me by it will most likely be futile. I'm looking into getting a new one, but that requires money which I'm busy trying not to spend. Hurrah for cyclical problems.
Thanks again for the comments, even if I only just read them when updating this now; it still makes me feel a lot better, so thank you for that.
Thursday, April 13, 2006
Gah
Time Asleep Last Night: 05:03
Time Awake This Morning: 12:42
Today's DAR: 5
Today for me is best summed up as follows: !!!"%&"£*(&"£(*&!"@!")(!!"~@"!((*()#@
Time Awake This Morning: 12:42
Today's DAR: 5
Today for me is best summed up as follows: !!!"%&"£*(&"£(*&!"@!")(!!"~@"!((*()#@
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Day of Dis-Eventfulness
Time Asleep Last Night: 03:33
Time Awake This 'Morning': 12:34
Today's DAR: 8PP
Dis-eventfulness isn't a real word, you'll be surprised to know. But if it was a real word, that'd pretty much describe the level of eventfulness with which my day has been filled. I've probably not even done that much; that's a bit of an overstatement.
Yes, I have done that little. Although I was quite pleased to discover that Vicky and Tim were bored enough to spend quite a long time playing that silly wastepaper basket game. Which admittedly is quite entertaining.
So in the same spirit, from a day that has had nothing happen, I will give you a brand new link. So welcome to Curveball - or 3D Pong, whatever you want to call it. Regardless, it's pure brilliance. Very fun, very time-consuming.
Time Awake This 'Morning': 12:34
Today's DAR: 8PP
Dis-eventfulness isn't a real word, you'll be surprised to know. But if it was a real word, that'd pretty much describe the level of eventfulness with which my day has been filled. I've probably not even done that much; that's a bit of an overstatement.
Yes, I have done that little. Although I was quite pleased to discover that Vicky and Tim were bored enough to spend quite a long time playing that silly wastepaper basket game. Which admittedly is quite entertaining.
So in the same spirit, from a day that has had nothing happen, I will give you a brand new link. So welcome to Curveball - or 3D Pong, whatever you want to call it. Regardless, it's pure brilliance. Very fun, very time-consuming.
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
This One Is [Mostly] For All Of You Non-Uni Friends
Time Asleep Last Night: 05:16
'Midnight' Phonecall Recieved: 06:03
Time Awake This 'Morning': 14:41
Today's DAR: 10PP
Well, today somewhat sucked. Although yesterday was slightly more sucky due to Chrissi being back home once more and more to the point not here. And today I've been moping around the house rather aimlessly once I'd gotten up. Interesting thing to note today is that the time of day I got up at is palindromic. Isn't that fascinating? No, I thought not either.
In the evening though I went out for a drink and a convivial chat with some friends who are non-uniesque, i.e. they are from home. Apparantly this blog is too focused towards the uni-friend readers (i.e. Emma, Tim, Vicky, as you three are the only three who actually read it). Apparantly others read it too but find it too boring to bother continuing to do so. I can't think why. Anyone else reading this would be amazed at the exciting ways with which I fill my days. And be even more amazed at how I manage to fill entire days with the sparse actions I do.
So I'll be interesting and talk about Woking. And Knaphill. And my friends here. So hello Mark, no you are not gay, you are just in touch with your femininity or metrosexuality or whatever else you want to call it. Chris, you are not at all strange and good on you for still being the only one of us who can drive. Mike, um, you'll not be a temp forever? Paul, Mark says he wants to live with you and apparantly he also says you're marrying my sister soon and can he be a bridesmaid? Interesting stuff indeed.
See, a blog tailored just for you.
[For those of you reading from uni all confused, well, you will be. The individuals discussed above are my friends, although whether they describe me in the same way I'm unsure. Paul is not actually dating my sister, but simply someone with the exact same name. They went to the same college in the same classes and confused the teachers. Strange but true. Mark is not gay either. Perhaps. Mike looks like a fish and Chris once played Aslan in a school play and looked like an ewok.]
If none of the above entertains you, play this absolutely pointless game and try to beat my best score of 25. If you do, then you're very bored and need to do more with your life.
'Midnight' Phonecall Recieved: 06:03
Time Awake This 'Morning': 14:41
Today's DAR: 10PP
Well, today somewhat sucked. Although yesterday was slightly more sucky due to Chrissi being back home once more and more to the point not here. And today I've been moping around the house rather aimlessly once I'd gotten up. Interesting thing to note today is that the time of day I got up at is palindromic. Isn't that fascinating? No, I thought not either.
In the evening though I went out for a drink and a convivial chat with some friends who are non-uniesque, i.e. they are from home. Apparantly this blog is too focused towards the uni-friend readers (i.e. Emma, Tim, Vicky, as you three are the only three who actually read it). Apparantly others read it too but find it too boring to bother continuing to do so. I can't think why. Anyone else reading this would be amazed at the exciting ways with which I fill my days. And be even more amazed at how I manage to fill entire days with the sparse actions I do.
So I'll be interesting and talk about Woking. And Knaphill. And my friends here. So hello Mark, no you are not gay, you are just in touch with your femininity or metrosexuality or whatever else you want to call it. Chris, you are not at all strange and good on you for still being the only one of us who can drive. Mike, um, you'll not be a temp forever? Paul, Mark says he wants to live with you and apparantly he also says you're marrying my sister soon and can he be a bridesmaid? Interesting stuff indeed.
See, a blog tailored just for you.
[For those of you reading from uni all confused, well, you will be. The individuals discussed above are my friends, although whether they describe me in the same way I'm unsure. Paul is not actually dating my sister, but simply someone with the exact same name. They went to the same college in the same classes and confused the teachers. Strange but true. Mark is not gay either. Perhaps. Mike looks like a fish and Chris once played Aslan in a school play and looked like an ewok.]
If none of the above entertains you, play this absolutely pointless game and try to beat my best score of 25. If you do, then you're very bored and need to do more with your life.
Sunday, April 09, 2006
Disappearing Persons?! Contact Scooby-Doo!
Firstly, I'm not posting a detailed breakdown of my a-waking and a-sleeping times for the last week. I've figured noone cares that much to be in need of an accurate breakdown like that. That and I honestly can't remember.
For those of you wondering just where I have been this past week, which amounts to about three people, I have been spending the week with my girlfriend, who avid readers and people who actually know me will know is called Chrissi. Or to be more accurate, she's been spending this week with me. Which has been enjoyable, very nice and similar. And as of such I have been much too busy (insert your own innuendo here. Come to think of it, that in itself was an innuendo) to be updating my blog regularly, or indeed at all. It's not that you're not interesting, it's just that I pretend I am. Although I'm not. That or I'm afraid my girlfriend may be slightly disturbed to watch me type this random babble. It's bad enough to have to hear it. Honestly.
So yes, an interesting week was had by all. And I'd like to point out that despite Tim's triumphant talk, his Pigeons XI capitulated horribly against the mighty Thid Floor Ponderers, who won by a dominating 127 runs, making 354-2 in their 50 overs, and bowling out the feeble Pigeons batting line up for a meagre 227 all out in only 43.4 overs. Tim should be disgraced.
In other interesting news, I've been told I obssess too much about Scooby Doo. I seem to quote from it more than I should. Or say something random, wonder where it's from, then realise. Or hum the music from the chases. Overall, it's all fairly worrying. I was quite excited, however, to discover one of the comic strips of Questionable Content does actually discuss Scooby Doo in passing. I think I linked to it before, but I'll do so again for good measure, so go here to see it. If you don't read QC, it is a good read. Passes two minutes of your day. AND on top of that, there are the archives to read through if you've not read it recently.
I've also recently been reading Nothing Nice To Say, another webcomic which is focused more on the punk-rock scene than it is on the indie scene that QC looks at. Talking about that makes me want to discuss the Less Than Jake gig I was at with Chrissi on Friday, at the Astoria, which was excellent. They played a good set, featuring some real older tracks from Losing Streak - Johnny Quest Thinks We're Sellouts, Dopeman, Automatic, Sugar In Your Gas Tank, as well as the absolutely superb live How's My Driving Doug Hastings? Along with this, they played some of their best material from the more recent albums, including their supreme track All My Best Friends Are Metalheads. If you've not heard it, go listen to it. Now. That's an order.
For those of you wondering just where I have been this past week, which amounts to about three people, I have been spending the week with my girlfriend, who avid readers and people who actually know me will know is called Chrissi. Or to be more accurate, she's been spending this week with me. Which has been enjoyable, very nice and similar. And as of such I have been much too busy (insert your own innuendo here. Come to think of it, that in itself was an innuendo) to be updating my blog regularly, or indeed at all. It's not that you're not interesting, it's just that I pretend I am. Although I'm not. That or I'm afraid my girlfriend may be slightly disturbed to watch me type this random babble. It's bad enough to have to hear it. Honestly.
So yes, an interesting week was had by all. And I'd like to point out that despite Tim's triumphant talk, his Pigeons XI capitulated horribly against the mighty Thid Floor Ponderers, who won by a dominating 127 runs, making 354-2 in their 50 overs, and bowling out the feeble Pigeons batting line up for a meagre 227 all out in only 43.4 overs. Tim should be disgraced.
In other interesting news, I've been told I obssess too much about Scooby Doo. I seem to quote from it more than I should. Or say something random, wonder where it's from, then realise. Or hum the music from the chases. Overall, it's all fairly worrying. I was quite excited, however, to discover one of the comic strips of Questionable Content does actually discuss Scooby Doo in passing. I think I linked to it before, but I'll do so again for good measure, so go here to see it. If you don't read QC, it is a good read. Passes two minutes of your day. AND on top of that, there are the archives to read through if you've not read it recently.
I've also recently been reading Nothing Nice To Say, another webcomic which is focused more on the punk-rock scene than it is on the indie scene that QC looks at. Talking about that makes me want to discuss the Less Than Jake gig I was at with Chrissi on Friday, at the Astoria, which was excellent. They played a good set, featuring some real older tracks from Losing Streak - Johnny Quest Thinks We're Sellouts, Dopeman, Automatic, Sugar In Your Gas Tank, as well as the absolutely superb live How's My Driving Doug Hastings? Along with this, they played some of their best material from the more recent albums, including their supreme track All My Best Friends Are Metalheads. If you've not heard it, go listen to it. Now. That's an order.
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