Back to work then.
I already feel like I could do with another holiday. The whole Bank Holiday madness and my associated holidays at the beginning of this month seemed like a good idea, but I'm not entirely sure it really worked.
It certainly doesn't feel like I've had a proper holiday a few weeks ago.
Or maybe it's just general fatigue.
It was a tiring weekend. Saturday I went to see a couple of good friends who I knew from school and haven't seen for what must be 2 years. It was the Champions League final, which is a football thing and I don't really do football.
I stayed over that night and came back on the Sunday, getting back about mid-day, which gave me just enough time to shower and have some lunch and then it was the Monaco Grand Prix., which I'll talk about that a bit more later in the week.
The rest of Sunday was pretty much spent bumming around. I watched quite a lot of telly I'd recorded and also played some games. One thing I didn't really do that I should have was go for any walks.
On the Sunday I wouldn't really describe myself as hung over - I got a bit tipsy on Saturday, no more - it was more to do with lack of sleep. My body clock combined with strange surroundings meant I got up at 6:30, having only gone to bed at 2:30.
Monday I wasted, to be frank.
I watched some more telly and played some more games, and that was pretty much it. I did go for a walk, but it was just the one in the afternoon, and it wasn't a long one. It was weirdly humid out, which made sense when it started raining just as I was getting home, so I guess the humidity was the build up for the rain.
Showing posts with label friends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label friends. Show all posts
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
Monday, 20 April 2009
big food
This last Saturday a good friend of mine was having a mini birthday celebration.
She's not been very well for a while now, but seems to have been doing better recently. Anyway, she seemed in relatively good spirits at least and it was a good day. I hope she didn't tire herself out, though.
It was also a long day for me - I set off about 9:30am and got back about 9:30pm - and a very filling day. She'd made a lovely lunch, but the portions were a little on the large size, even for me. The cake actually defeated me - tasty though it was, I was just too full to finish.
Anyway, Sunday I just crashed out. I was knackered anyway because of all the work we've got on at the moment and Saturday just finished me off and I watched telly all day. About the only thing I achieved was doing the ironing, which is pretty much a necessity or I don't have anything to wear at work.
Still, it meant that I cleared huge swathes of the PVR madness. All I had left was that Red Riding drama I mentioned a while back. If things go to plan, I should be able to start watching DVDs again soon, which is good as I've been a bit silly and bought loads more.
She's not been very well for a while now, but seems to have been doing better recently. Anyway, she seemed in relatively good spirits at least and it was a good day. I hope she didn't tire herself out, though.
It was also a long day for me - I set off about 9:30am and got back about 9:30pm - and a very filling day. She'd made a lovely lunch, but the portions were a little on the large size, even for me. The cake actually defeated me - tasty though it was, I was just too full to finish.
Anyway, Sunday I just crashed out. I was knackered anyway because of all the work we've got on at the moment and Saturday just finished me off and I watched telly all day. About the only thing I achieved was doing the ironing, which is pretty much a necessity or I don't have anything to wear at work.
Still, it meant that I cleared huge swathes of the PVR madness. All I had left was that Red Riding drama I mentioned a while back. If things go to plan, I should be able to start watching DVDs again soon, which is good as I've been a bit silly and bought loads more.
Friday, 6 February 2009
not who I thought you were
You ever think you know someone and then they say something that just totally knocks you for six? Something that just seems so out of character that it makes you realise that no, you didn't know them after all.
I had a moment like that the other day. I guess the real lesson is that you can never really know other people.
I've unfortunately been continuing to play quite a bit of Civ3, rather than do anything particularly useful. I think I need to finish this game I'm currently on and then I'll be able to get back up to speed with stuff.
The latest megami turned up the other day, so I'll try to scan it this weekend, though as I say more Civ3 beckons. I've also not got a backlog of scanning so it's not disastrous if I leave it. It was a little later than usual because, bizarrely, it had been addressed to Surbiton! I checked the original label (there was one stuck on top with my proper address) and it really had - it wasn't the couriers making excuses. How very odd.
One thing I have been doing (kick started by the train journey up to London on Saturday - I could never do it, but if I was ever to commute I'd get through loads of books) is reading one of Pratchett's most recent discworld books "Making Money". It's quite good - certainly a very easy reader with a very entertaining main character.
It's actually one of his semi-sequels, in that it continues the story of a character from another book, Moist Von Lipwig, which is why it's a little bizarre - it seemed to take a long time to get going. As I say, since it's re-using a character this just seemed a little odd. Not that it wasn't enjoyable, just unusual - it didn't leap into the deep end where that would have been a perfectly valid thing to do.
I'm also nearly done with Blassrieter. I think if it wasn't for the first 3 or 4 episodes, which are fairly mundane monster-of-the-week ones, I'd rate the series more highly. What I mean is it's worth sticking it out past those to get to the good stuff.
As I was expected, the snow's pretty much clearing away around here. It was quite unusual for it to be so think here.
No real plans for the weekend other than sleeping and resting - last weekend and struggling with all this snow has kinda taken it out of me a bit. I must be getting proper old!
I had a moment like that the other day. I guess the real lesson is that you can never really know other people.
I've unfortunately been continuing to play quite a bit of Civ3, rather than do anything particularly useful. I think I need to finish this game I'm currently on and then I'll be able to get back up to speed with stuff.
The latest megami turned up the other day, so I'll try to scan it this weekend, though as I say more Civ3 beckons. I've also not got a backlog of scanning so it's not disastrous if I leave it. It was a little later than usual because, bizarrely, it had been addressed to Surbiton! I checked the original label (there was one stuck on top with my proper address) and it really had - it wasn't the couriers making excuses. How very odd.
One thing I have been doing (kick started by the train journey up to London on Saturday - I could never do it, but if I was ever to commute I'd get through loads of books) is reading one of Pratchett's most recent discworld books "Making Money". It's quite good - certainly a very easy reader with a very entertaining main character.
It's actually one of his semi-sequels, in that it continues the story of a character from another book, Moist Von Lipwig, which is why it's a little bizarre - it seemed to take a long time to get going. As I say, since it's re-using a character this just seemed a little odd. Not that it wasn't enjoyable, just unusual - it didn't leap into the deep end where that would have been a perfectly valid thing to do.
I'm also nearly done with Blassrieter. I think if it wasn't for the first 3 or 4 episodes, which are fairly mundane monster-of-the-week ones, I'd rate the series more highly. What I mean is it's worth sticking it out past those to get to the good stuff.
As I was expected, the snow's pretty much clearing away around here. It was quite unusual for it to be so think here.
No real plans for the weekend other than sleeping and resting - last weekend and struggling with all this snow has kinda taken it out of me a bit. I must be getting proper old!
Thursday, 5 February 2009
those old friends
So Saturday was good.
The chums I met up with were going to a gig on Saturday evening, so we basically met up for a few pre-gig drinkees. I wasn't quite expecting to pack in as much booze as we did - we did rounds and I ended up sinking a total of six beers.
I was therefore pretty drunk when we left - a few more and I'd have been thoroughly soused. As it was I was stumbling around quite a bit. I put my headphones in when I got on the tube and it was a bit of a surreal experience, wandering around the tube, drunk with Greenday blasting in my ears. I'm also fairly sure I was singing too - dunno what the other passengers thought.
I actually fell asleep on the train home, which is always a risk when boozing, but luckily Alton is the last stop so luckily it doesn't matter very much. Then it was a quick walk up the hill, met up with a more local chum (it was later than I thought) and he ended up giving me a lift home.
Of course Sunday was therefore pretty much wrecked because I'd had more to drink than I thought I would. I just sort of laid in bed for most of the day and ate chocolate. I didn't really even watching anything constructive like anime or DVDs - just random telly.
Well, this morning's journey in was horrendous. The snow didn't really melt fully here yesterday, but it did freeze up. Then last night it snowed about another inch and then when I was driving in it was raining. You can guess what a mess it was - compacted, frozen snow with slushy snow on top and rain.
My traction control was working over-time with all the skidding about and the journey took ages. This sort of thing is one of the reasons I come to work very early - far earlier than I need to - as the traffic is less but it also allows a big leeway in terms of journey time.
The chums I met up with were going to a gig on Saturday evening, so we basically met up for a few pre-gig drinkees. I wasn't quite expecting to pack in as much booze as we did - we did rounds and I ended up sinking a total of six beers.
I was therefore pretty drunk when we left - a few more and I'd have been thoroughly soused. As it was I was stumbling around quite a bit. I put my headphones in when I got on the tube and it was a bit of a surreal experience, wandering around the tube, drunk with Greenday blasting in my ears. I'm also fairly sure I was singing too - dunno what the other passengers thought.
I actually fell asleep on the train home, which is always a risk when boozing, but luckily Alton is the last stop so luckily it doesn't matter very much. Then it was a quick walk up the hill, met up with a more local chum (it was later than I thought) and he ended up giving me a lift home.
Of course Sunday was therefore pretty much wrecked because I'd had more to drink than I thought I would. I just sort of laid in bed for most of the day and ate chocolate. I didn't really even watching anything constructive like anime or DVDs - just random telly.
Well, this morning's journey in was horrendous. The snow didn't really melt fully here yesterday, but it did freeze up. Then last night it snowed about another inch and then when I was driving in it was raining. You can guess what a mess it was - compacted, frozen snow with slushy snow on top and rain.
My traction control was working over-time with all the skidding about and the journey took ages. This sort of thing is one of the reasons I come to work very early - far earlier than I need to - as the traffic is less but it also allows a big leeway in terms of journey time.
Friday, 30 January 2009
old friends
I'm probably heading up to London to have a few beers with some old friends this Saturday.
We're talking really old here - these are people I went to secondary school with, so they've known me for about two-thirds of my life! I've kinda dropped out of contact with everyone from that sort of era - life gets in the way of course, but what's made it the more difficult is that my Dad moved down to Devon.
So, even though everybody else moved too, their parents were still in the same place so they had somewhere to come back to, but I don't. If I wanted to go back to that area I'd need to kip on someone's floor, and I always feel really bad about asking to do that.
However, there was that sniff of some London based work I mentioned before, so I re-connected with some of the guys who I know work in London. That job fell through, but I figured hey, why not pop up for a few beers?
It's not anything spectacular - a few drinks and a natter. Apparently there's some football on or something, but the world of men chasing inflated pig stomachs is somewhat beyond my sphere of interest, so I don't really know what that's all about.
As to what I've been up to it's all bit a bit uninteresting really. I did some walling and I watched a bit of anime and some telly. The anime wasn't anything new, though - just me continuing to watch Blassreiter and Trigun.
I continue to be unimpressed with Trigun. They've really played up the Vash-the-fool aspect in the anime and it's bloody annoying. Just as the show gets to the cusp of being interesting Vash puts on his "stoopid" face and laughs maniacally. Unfortunately, what they haven't removed is all the cod-drama that spoiled my enjoyment of the manga.
Blassreiter on the other hand has gotten a lot more interesting. It's a bit melodromatic in places and the plot has a weird sense of being made up as it goes along, but it's certainly much more interesting than the first couple of eps suggested it was goign to be. The non-cg animation also seems to have moved up from "appalling" to "fairly bad" too, although that may just be me getting used to it.
We're talking really old here - these are people I went to secondary school with, so they've known me for about two-thirds of my life! I've kinda dropped out of contact with everyone from that sort of era - life gets in the way of course, but what's made it the more difficult is that my Dad moved down to Devon.
So, even though everybody else moved too, their parents were still in the same place so they had somewhere to come back to, but I don't. If I wanted to go back to that area I'd need to kip on someone's floor, and I always feel really bad about asking to do that.
However, there was that sniff of some London based work I mentioned before, so I re-connected with some of the guys who I know work in London. That job fell through, but I figured hey, why not pop up for a few beers?
It's not anything spectacular - a few drinks and a natter. Apparently there's some football on or something, but the world of men chasing inflated pig stomachs is somewhat beyond my sphere of interest, so I don't really know what that's all about.
As to what I've been up to it's all bit a bit uninteresting really. I did some walling and I watched a bit of anime and some telly. The anime wasn't anything new, though - just me continuing to watch Blassreiter and Trigun.
I continue to be unimpressed with Trigun. They've really played up the Vash-the-fool aspect in the anime and it's bloody annoying. Just as the show gets to the cusp of being interesting Vash puts on his "stoopid" face and laughs maniacally. Unfortunately, what they haven't removed is all the cod-drama that spoiled my enjoyment of the manga.
Blassreiter on the other hand has gotten a lot more interesting. It's a bit melodromatic in places and the plot has a weird sense of being made up as it goes along, but it's certainly much more interesting than the first couple of eps suggested it was goign to be. The non-cg animation also seems to have moved up from "appalling" to "fairly bad" too, although that may just be me getting used to it.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)