Month: August 2000

Megane

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Still really tired.. permanently – mind you I’ve got Thursday, Friday off work this week. Heading up to Inverness (for a suprise for Louise), and we might be heading through to Edinburgh at some point over the weekend.. hear that Sal? (BTW – how do you spell her name again?)

Had a good weekend. Bought a NEW car (brand new – 19 miles on clock), got TPM on video as well as The Third Man, Ben-Hur, and Brazil (at last). Now just have to find time to watch them. Also got Pearl Jam’s recent album, pretty good, bit samey though, although I don’t think I was in the right mood to listen to it.

Ohh and re-design hell continues. Maybe I should just concentrate on tweaking the current design. Hey it worked for Zeldman. Question: why does no-one call him Jeffrey?

Ohhh and have a look here, more (maybe) later.

Double S

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Current state of mind: not too bad considering! S emailed us – moaning about how it was struggling to reach 13 degrees in Melbourne – bummer, it sometimes doesn’t reach 13 degrees here either – in the summer! She also asked if we had been to see S in Edinburgh, and no we haven’t, yes we feel guilty, and yes I will be phoning her tomorrow!

Ohhh and must book X-Men tickets for the preview on Thursday night (and better make sure A and S are available, don’t think A would be too happy if we went without him – he’s a proper fan, I only got into to it when I saw the animated cartoon on telly, but don’t tell anyone else that…).

I’m currently looking for an easy way to transfer a lot files between two PCs, I don’t want to have to setup a network or anything, just whack a cable between them – if you know how please drop me a line. I’m reasonably technical so don’t be too scared.

Half-Life

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I’m not a huge gamer (as is evident by my pitiful attempts in deathmatch) but it is so much fun. Admittedly getting battered to death for the 5th time by someone with a crowbar can get a bit tedious, especially when you have a BIG gun, but it is addictive – an adrenalin buzz… suddenly I can see how people get addicted to these things. Rise of the Triads and DukeNukem were previous DeathMatch games, but I never really took to them.

The problem now – I will soon get hold of a gun, run down the street, probably naked, whooping and shooting innocent bystanders.

I’m joking of course, I wouldn’t need to shoot them if they saw me naked, probably drop dead in fright… either way my mind has been corrupted, I am now an evil killing machine. Yawn…

New Sister

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I have a new sister – my Mum has decided to sponsor a child in Mozambique. It works through a community programme (type of thing) so that the sponsorship(s) are spread around to all the children in the village. She has been wanting to do SomeTHiNG like this for a while. Nice one Mum!

As I mentioned a while back, I am seriously considering what I do at the moment, trying to get a feel if it is what I want. I read often about people just upping sticks and changing career, not sure if I have the courage to do that though… or maybe it’s a reflection of my ‘at work’ mood. We moved up one year ago yesterday, what have I acheived? what have we done since we got here? Lots of questions, as usual.