Feeling pretty exhausted. Rose to the challenge of tomorrows second deadline at work - mainly because I know I have a week and a day off afterwards. Brief journey to Bristol after work. Beautiful evening but I'm too tired to be very communicative or much fun. One week of DSL here - its still really weird to just be connected, after years of watching the clock and disconnecting when I'm hoping for a phonecall or something. Recently, I've been wrestling with Galeon2 and thus needing to build Mozilla from CVS. Its apparently easier than it used to be. Hmm. DVD player will now hopefully show up on Monday.
Back to work - finding it somewhat tricky at present, but pleased to learn that I'm not alone. I'm seeing so many differences in my current and previous careers - I'm just not used to believing that problems are not instantly my own fault! Its a local birthday, so I had to tear myself away from the incredibly tense last 30 or so overs of the Second Test, but it was good to get out in the first sunshine for some days. Late and very funny evening. Ended up at the 'Bengal Raj' - a much recommended restaurant which I've never quite managed to get to. Really excellent food, brilliant service. Rivals even Clifton's wonderful 'Bombay Spice' and Glasgow's 'Star of India'. Stumbled home very late indeed - a mistake perhaps, considering recent insomnia. Think we confused fellow diners with a rather odd conversation about quantum theory and Martin Amis. Well, I was confused anyway.
Woke with that 'wrong side of the bed feeling'. Letter from the Corporate Services Dept. to say they would deduct money for the strike next month. Hopefully, this will coincide with the new pay deal arriving, so it won't be so completely painful. Spent a long time enjoying the speed of DSL and listening to the radio, before heading out for wanderings. Looks like DVD player will be delayed, which is annoying because it would be nice to watch a movie on a no-good TV day like today. Met visiting friends in town, wandered around the shops, despite increasing anger and peevishness with others who seem to thing 'holiday' means a time when looking in front of oneself is not necessary! Pleasant and amusing time however. Also had a rare Orledge sighting! Got drunk. Built Abiword to use GTK+2.0 - wonderful! Feel like I should maybe visit Burnham again soon, but why? Decided a spell of hermitting might help.
Reinstalled <<lionel II>> and got modems, printers etc. working. Pleased to see it go to a good home, and happy to get things working again. Also means I have only one working machine in my house now, which is a relief (both spatially and emotionally). Very heavy rain sees me running up and down a garden with buckets to empty a water butt. Silly, and funny really. Ticket booked to see Tony Benn speak. That'll make me happy. Later, met a passing friend and wandered in the relative calm of the evening. Made decisions. Slept badly.
Lost::MikeGTN
I've had a home on the web for more years than I care to remember, and a few kind souls persuade me it's worth persisting with keeping it updated. This current incarnation of the site is centred around the blog posts which began back in 1999 as 'the daylog' and continued through my travels and tribulations during the following years.
I don't get out and about nearly as much these days, but I do try to record significant events and trips for posterity. You may also have arrived here by following the trail to my former music blog Songs Heard On Fast Trains. That content is preserved here too.
