bookmark_borderMalaise or chaos

I’ve been working back through this sites archives and have to admit that I don’t know why I bother listing the first year or so of blogging. Sure there are some longer bits that aren’t too bad (for the standards I was setting back then at least), but mostly I lapse into minimalist statements of my mood. For example, here’s what I was saying four years ago today:

Miserable, depressed, confused and thoroughly hacked off with life. OK, not quite yet but it is heading that way. Relaxing weekend went wrong on Saturday night and have spent whole of Sunday trying to relax and forget it, but can’t.

Not a particularly enjoyable or interesting read, and to think I used to wonder why no-one visited.

It does strike me that, for the large part, the bulk of my posts are almost entirely governed by my mood. Granted that “mood” (that is completely the wrong term for it but bear with me) has been fairly extreme in the past – it’s the reason this website exists after all – these days it’s as settled as most with only occasional dip towards that looming chasm (can I stop with the awful metaphors yet?).

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bookmark_borderSick box

If you don’t read 43 Folders you should.

For example:

Create a “sick boxâ€? – Make up a little box filled with all the stuff you’ll want fast access to on the next morning you wake up with a cold. TheraFlu, cough drops, fresh box of Kleenex, unwatched DVD you’ve been saving, a nice trashy novel, and the phone numbers of anyone you’d need to contact at work. Believe me, you’re in no mood to collect this crap when you wake up with the flu kicking your ass.

Genius I tells ya!!

bookmark_borderMiscellany

Despite waffling on about it, I don’t have a new stereo. In fact as of last week I don’t have an old stereo either. I won’t be replacing it as I have a surround sound DVD system which happily plays CDs, MP3 CDs and accepts an input from the iPod (although at some point it’ll be an input from wireless connection to my PC upstairs) and I have radio stations galore through the Sky box, which in turn is routed through the nice meaty surround amplifier. Does the job for me.

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ALL posts on the site now have friendly time and date information. You may have noticed and been non-plussed. You may be right. I may be crazy.

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The archive page has been updated, still not sure I like the layout but it’s getting there. There is an issue with the older, non-titled posts and a WordPress plugin I’m using but I do intend to go through the older posts at some point so that issue should disappear.

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Which reminds me. Is there an easier way to go through and edit old posts in WordPress? The WordPress Edit screen keeps leaping back to the current posts. Can’t I choose a month or a category and have it ‘stick’? I can’t be the only person that has come up against this, but Google isn’t being much help. Maybe I should Ask MSN?

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Fun discussions about America financing both sides of the war on terrorism. Unfortunately I still baulk at the imagery I associate with “America sponsoring terrorism” – do they wander around with a form? And does everyone just copy the amount the first person fills in? After all you can’t be seen to be giving less, it’s just not the done thing.

bookmark_borderOh yaaaa

Well I didn’t watch The Pianist last night, plumping for something familiar instead, namely Fargo. I’ve had the DVD for a while but I think it’s only the second time I’ve watched it. Probably not everyone’s cup of tea, but it’s dark humour and languid pace matched my mood perfectly. I also forgot just how watchable Steve Buscemi is, particularly playing the ‘on the edge’ loose moralled type.

Ohh and I also caught part of a programme about martial arts on BBC3. They had an expert if preying mantis style kung fu demonstrating his ability to withdraw his testicles into his body to protect them during battle. The presenter of the show even checked, warily, and completely freaked out “There’s nothing there!”.

Anyway, we are just back from the first round of Christmas shopping, which was hugely unsuccessful as we hadn’t really planned it and ended up buying some stuff for the house. We got back to news that Louise’s brother is currently in hospital getting scanned for a suspected punctured kidney. We’re awaiting more news.

bookmark_borderCrapola

Isn’t the TV awful on a Monday night. Just as well I’ve got a weekend’s worth of web time to catch up on.

In other news, I almost forgot to mention what Louise got me for my birthday. It’s the best present I’ve had in ages, brilliant in it’s subtle perfection. Laryngitis. No, not me. Her. Think about it…

OK, so I really should stop laughing at her teeny tiny squeaky voice, but it is kinda weird having so much silence in the house. Now I’m not saying my wife talks non-stop but [insert bad Bob Monkhouse style one-liner].

To tell the truth, I’m not sure what’s she gotten me, because she’s still waiting for it to arrive from Amazon. I have received part of it already, although I’ve yet to install it, a shiny black 16x DVD Writer. Finally I’ll be able to… er… “backup” all my DVDs.

In fact I’ve got a few other pressies to get, so it looks like my birthday will stretch out over to next weekend (yay!). I wonder if the peace and quiet will last until then?

bookmark_borderNotes

The miniblog is taking a bit of a hit today as I can’t be bothered thinking about things long enough to post about them.

Blue-jacking is fun, especially in an office. Although I’m a bit disappointed at the lack of devices I can ‘jack’.

I need to get my passport photo taken or I won’t have a passport for when we go to Spain in January.

I need to buy a new shirt for the wedding in November.

Tonight I’ll be ripping a Star Wars DVD to watch on my phone (Why? Because I can!)

Someone has been writing random pairs of words on the white boards at work; alarmingly debonair, dangerously coital, impressively boned, disappointingly premature, biblically smooth, beefy rhythms, instinctively moist, lyrically suave, reactively damp, chunky beets. (Hello Google!)