Month: June 2004

In case you hadn’t noticed I’ve not really had the motivation to post here everyday. I mean, I still feel that I should (4 years of habit is hard to break, just ask Nadia, BB’s very own nicotine bitch) but it’s a bit of a struggle sometimes. Hiatus, shmatus though. You’ll just have to suffer with me.

I should mention the New Moveable Type licensing – given the amount of column inches (literally!) this was given when they first announced the prices I think it’s only fair to mention this. Seems like the good folks at Six Apart are listening and have changed the prices. I won’t say that they maybe should’ve done some of this ‘negotiating’ with, say, the BETA testers… oops, I just did.

Ohh yes, and it’s Father’s Day on Sunday. What the hell do you get for the Dad who has everything? Dad, feel free to chip in here too!

There’s a lot of music being discussed over at Troubled Diva and it’s made me ponder… what am I missing?

Currently I think Akufen (from a mate a work) is high up my ‘now’ playlist, but I still find myself going back to older albums, in fact I think the newest album that I listen to often is the Kings of Leon one, or maybe PJ Harvey’s last one (she’s got a new one out soon!). I’ll probably get the new Faithless album although the last one still hasn’t really made an impression on me.. so.. well…

What next? Keane, Snow Patrol, Scissor Sisters, Modest Mouse are the most recent stuff I’ve snagged, ohh and CLOUDdead (CloudDEAD?).. what is this summer’s “must have” album?

All change at work as we move to a project based seating plan.

Kinda mirrors my state of mind at the moment, looking for change, enjoying it and wondering how it will work out.

It’s Louise’s birthday next week, as always I’ve got a list of things to get her (I keep track of things she mentions throughout the year so I’m not left scratching my head when her birthday comes around) but not sure if I’m going to get her anything.

We’ve been chatting about our plans for the house, checking our finances – our mortgage being the biggest concern as the fixed rate ends soon so we’ll need to switch I think – and all the usual planning we do every now and then to see how we are doing. Changing the car for something smaller (read cheaper) was the first stage, and we are slowly beginning to cut back on things, we’ve both lowered our mobile tariffs (we are too dependant on them to ditch them altogether although it has been considered), the cable TV package has been halfed, and I’m trying to make lunches to take into work rather than spending £2-3 a day on lunch.

Ideally we’d like a holiday this year but I don’t see it happening, unless of course I manage to get a little extra cash from a wee side job… but we’ll see. The main reason for all the gardening over the weekend, and continuing into the week, is to allow us to be able to sit and enjoy our garden/weekend in the coming weeks, rather than having it filled with ‘chores’. We are both working harder than ever and we need that cut off I think.

So, for the most part, things are pretty stagnant really. Minding the pennies, trying to save some money with an eye on upcoming events (a wedding in November for example), and generally having a quiet life.

In other words: not a lot to report here guv’nor.

Spent most of last night listening to the dulcet tones of my dear wife snorting and snoring and snuffling. Her sore throat has migrated to her head, and she’s sneezing and sniffing like a good ‘un.

And I think she’s passed it to me.

So what else is going on? The rise of the UKIP is a worry, anything that has Kilroy-Silk attached is NOT a good thing people! (preaching to the converted here though, aren’t I). The news that the rail network might be re-nationalised is a worry as, despite the cancelled train this morning, it’s been pretty good using the train to get to work. Re-nationalisation will mean scrapping routes, raising fares and generally making the car look like a much better option than it should be; there was a semi-related news item last week from California I think, where a group was campaigning for a bigger raise to the oil prices to make people use their cars less, might work? Ohhh and of course there is the news that some English fans decided that losing to France was justification enough to start fighting. Quelle surprise?

Site news: If I can be bothered I’ll be changing things here tonight. It’ll be work in progress for a while, as I’ve only really settled the structure but you’ve got to start somewhere I guess…

UPDATE: No I couldn’t be bothered. Might change it tomorrow.

Well we can’t talk about the rugby, the Switzerland and Croatia game was, as Mark Lawrence said, “a great advert for cricket”, speaking of which the English cricket team even managed to snatch a victory from the jaws of defeat. Schumacher won again (yawn) and I’m completely knackered as I spent two hours playing football with my nephew.

I believe there is another game of footie on soon, and with that in mind, I’m off to put on my France top (no, seriously).

Ohhh and I should really talk about nettles, Dan and Armani etc etc but I can’t be bothered.

UPDATE: Well, I think a draw would have been a fair score, a tad unlucky I guess. Ach who am I kidding… twoooo one, twoooo one, twooo one, twoo one. Twooooo one, TWWooo one TTWWWOOOO ONE!!!!!!!