Imagine, me receiving financial advice! Still, it was actually useful - and I'm marginally better off as a result, as well as slightly better situated to do Principia stuff. Yesterday, confirmation of Housing Benefit arrived - for the period I was off work with a broken arm (um...May-June wasn't it?). Incredulously considered the plight of those who REALLY need it for a bit, before deciding that I was probably lucky to get it anyway. Out for a while last night - felt incredibly pleased to see one of my dearest friends happier and more carefree than for a very long time. Finished "All Families are Psychotic" today - it has to become a film, its all so cinematic. In fact, trying to describe the plot to someone else I felt remarkably silly, like I was reading some trashy airport-bookstall crap where the author's name eclipses the title in the typeface stakes. However, when you least expect it, Douglas throws in one of his acute observations on the modern and absurd. Hmm....how very 90's - talking in decades again - but surely that's infinately preferable to apologising.
Work is strange - generally it's fine, but occasionally a crashingly boring day comes along. Almost finished The Guardian crossword as a result (I wonder how Telsa did with today's?). Later, a rare and unexpected chance to catch up with an old friend. A chance, I suppose for reorientation too - which was probably more necessary than I thought. Also, a sharp reminder that this daylog is used for many things by many people - again, I reconsider its existence in a web full of far more interesting material.
Finally set about getting the contact page working again. A series of silly spelling mistakes in my work drove me to near distraction in the process. Finished last week's big project at work today and triumphantly plopped it into the lap of Senior Personnel Officer. Otherwise, the quiet bit of the week passes uneventfully.
Decisive weekend - turned down the job offer. After taking advice and weighing up my options, decided that the timing was lousy and the prospects limited. Not without regrets, but pretty happy with my thinking on this one. Feel like I've been away from work for weeks rather than a few days. Spent much of today playing catch up. Some work on the little tool for writing this diary, but trying hard to avoid feature creep! Moved the gtranslator and associated gal snapshots over to SourceForge because of space concerns. Uploaded a new daily snapshot with associated gal 0.11.99.2. Tonights "A Small Summer Party" (a prequel to the wonderful "Marion & Geoff" monologues) is easily one of the darkest comedies I've ever seen. Quite unsettling, in the way that TV probably should be, but usually isn't.
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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.
