This week seemed very long - due to the last one being so short no doubt. After all that's happened I can't help wishing that I was undertaking the London trip tomorrow rather than last week. Work has been strange - but thankfully I'm finding friends there who I honestly feel are trustworthy. I'm such a miserable and disconnected old git these days that this is something near miraculous. Lots of balls in the air right now, and I'm not sure which way to turn next. Finishing "By The Ionian Sea" has left me with a strong desire to visit Southern Italy. There need to be some financial changes to achieve that particular goal. Built gnome-terminal with the vte widget in place of libzvt - fixes the updating problems, but introduces some crashes when several instances of gnome-terminal are around and one closes.
This week left the rails sometime today - and I've no idea quite when normal service will be resumed. I've been trying to sell things on eBay to stay solvent, with little success. A side-effect is that I've ended up finding stuff I want to buy, therefore exacerbating the problem! Personally, things are feeling more strange than ever. I think something has to give, and probably quite soon.
Read Jean-Paul Satre's "Nausea" today in its entirety. Not sure if this was a completely sensible policy, but I was feeling lazy after yesterday's exertions, and somehow it gripped me. Left me with an excess of nervous energy I could have done without really. I've become dangerously obsessed with cleaning - and particularly with washing dishes.
First train up to Paddington gets me into London for 8:30. Headed for Whitechapel with the intention of walking back west via a large S-shaped path taking in bits of the City, St.Pancras, The Fleet Valley, some small churches, and a handful of booksellers. Achieved the walk back to the station with many diversions and much happiness in about six hours. After the relative calm of the City on a weekend, the West End was incredibly packed, annoying and sickening. Plans for the infamous Clerkenwalk develop further as a result of today's wanderings. Got to ride home on one of First Great Western's whizzy new Class 180s - reasonably comfortable and quiet for a DMU! Later, fixed a little buglet in Lemmingchat and released 0.0.5.
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.
