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Well well well...

Its been a while, hasnt it…

And many a thing hath ‘gone down’ hehe.

For one, I got a job, spent two months walking to work through the English countryside and creating a Sonar program in C#.

After which I spent around a month doing very little, apart from screwing with my server so now it doth-not work.

And for most of that month (from the weekend that I finished work to about 2 weeks ago) my internet was down/flakey as hell. On the Saturday after I finished work, our phoneline got struck by lightning. Our phoneline magically gained a massive dose of intermittent static. It took 5 phone calls to my ISP, 3 of their technicians and 2 BT technicians to fix it. Eventually they replaced the ancient wiring between our house and the pole, and after that it was pretty much clean.

Whilst I was with no nets, I read a selection of books, including Alastair Reynolds’ epic in Relevation Space, and then the Old Kingdom trilogy by Garth Nix which I thoughtfully enjoyed. I then headed for the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini, reading the last book, Brsinger, for the first time.

After getting back web-side I caught up with my feeds, which were OVER 9000!…only kidding, though they were probably close to 5k, with at least 2k of which being tech-news. And over 300 were comics, which was great, I laughed for a prolonged period

I also re-discovered Dragonmount and their spam boards, upon which I met some great people. Upon one of which this post was inspired and is dedicated to. Her nickname is Meesh, and her caricature a squirrel. She spammed with me, and I spammed with her. (Now I know what your thinking…but alas! Twas not so! :D )

We added each other upon MSN and became avid chatterers, both major WoT fanatics (obviously) and also great fans of fantasy fiction in general. Her in love, and in a LDR, me in not very much at all. She a fresh(wo)man starting courses in many interesting subjects, me a computer-science and maths second-year. Her interested in psychoanalysis, me in need of a shrink ( :P ). So yeah, we have been talking quite a bit for about a month and a bit.

Then she comes on today and starts saying stuff like “you’re awesome” and “its been great” and I am like…”shıt, she thinks I fancy her, or I am being overbearing or something”. It turns out that would have been a simpler situation, and at least one I would have experience in dealing with. Lets just say she has now got me blocked pending a time upon which she stops considering me a threat upon her welfare. That sounds so bad, but dont worry, it was I that suggested it. I cant help but feel responsible in part to this, due to my over-enthusiastic (maybe??) complementation of her…Ahh well, I am happy to wait as long as she isnt unhappy :)

I just realised

I just realised that I wont be able to go and spend an awesome time with some awesome friends, to go on the first expedition I have ever been invited to and wanted to go on because I have a job that I dont really care about. I have the job to earn money I dont want so I can pay off a loan I dont mind having. I miss all the fun in the world in the name of money.

Money: Destroying fun since its creation.

Time Flies

I am having an argument with my good friend UnrealUniverse, who doesnt believe me when I say I started watching SG1 on the 28th of Feburary, three weeks ago. He thinks its closer to 5, and is complaining that I will be MIA for ages longer (he said 4 months) once I get SG Atlantis, which I am hopefully getting today, if the next bus turns up.

I have nearly finished SG1 too, got to the end of season 8 last night (this morning)

That is about it, except I phoned a guy about a job, seems he does stuff with GPS. Summer here I come :D

A concert

Well, tonight I went to the Mary Wakefield Concert. It didnt go too well (or I wouldnt be here right now…), here is a couple of pointers:

• I was meant to go see a guy about a job. My dad had talked to him about it, and had said he would be there. I was quite nervous as I didnt know the guy (appart from the fact he gave us a lift home from a concert, one in which I didnt want to leave as it was my last and I wanted to stay and party XD). He didnt turn up, so I had pretty much gone to the concert for nothing.
• The music “my” orchestra played was pretty good, especially Into the Storm (I think), which I remember playing from a previous concert. Its an excelent piece.
• My heart… She was there. I thought I was over her, finally, after like not talking with her since before chrismas. But ohhhno, she came out of nowhere and made my heart flutter all over again *GRRRR* and you know what? I despise myself for being so easily swayed. On the way there I was all ‘yeah,….yeah!…YEAH!!!….meh’ but now I wonder if I still have feelings towards her. I hope not, I dont know her anymore, and she doesnt know me either.
• WOAH!!! *jaw drops to floor*. Naw, tad OTT, but yeah, quite attractive young female percussionist (that moved to my old school just as I left). She hias nice legs, just wondering whether to tell her, or to forget all about it. I feel like a perver just thinking about it :(.
• Damn the judges were biased towards the singer, she was CRAP, and so was the cellist and the piece on the violin, but the horn-player was a dude, he blew it good and proper XD. and the flautist was quite good. she said umm quite a bit tho
• Remind me never EVER to allow my parents/companions to convince me / be conviced to stay and watch a youth singing workshop again, EVER. Damn it was AWEFULL.

Thats about it from me for tonight, gona go to bed, what a waste of an evening. Ive been told that I am going out agian tomorrow to watch a musical, cant remember which though. Damn father buying tickets for me when I said I didnt want to go.