General Rambling – Page 10 – Enchilada Sunrise

Interesting.

I’m finding this really interesting. Haven’t read it all yet, but I’m getting there. Did a course on Technology and Society on the OU, but in the end I was only really interested in the internet side. I think if I ever do another course anywhere, I’d rather go for something more on the practical … Continue reading “Interesting.”

{“fits to a T” – where does that phrase come from? Hmmm.}

Oh, and the Referral Madness section over on NotSoSoft inspired me to take a peek at my own (embarassingly modest) stats. Most of the hits I’ve had have been from links, but I’ve had 3 search engine referrals (not too bad, I guess, since I haven’t bunged any keywords up or registered with any engines yet). Nothing strange and bizarre, but nothing really relevant either. One was for ‘alien pictures’ (that’d be the background, then *g*), and two for ‘Emily Bouffant’ (the girl I went to school with who’s now on telly).

Watched Shanghai Noon last night. Nicely entertaining – the funniest thing, though, has to be the subtitles for the American Indians. Tis impressive though, considering that Jackie Chan must be getting on a bit now – some of the fight scenes were pretty damn cool. And the subtitles were better than having it dubbed, too – some of his earlier stuff is kinda spoiled by the comedy dubbing IMO…. but on the other hand that’s kinda sposed to be like that, and you do get used to it. Heh. B has corrupted me. And talking of which, we’re sposed to be going to the pub quiz tonight…. I want to, but I’m sooooo tired. And also, these headaches aren’t of the good. I ought to go to the optician, I reckon. Maybe I’ll have a night of a bit of telly then bed, and no computer (yeah, right). Last couple of days I’ve also been playing with graphics for B’s new site, and updating the HRFHS site for Mum. I need fewer websites. Damn.

Odd Stuff

Saw Megs this morning on the train. I was running late, and she was running a bit early. Urgh, just think of that – going to college at 7.45am. When I was in the 6th form, I’m sure I never even got up before 8am. At least I get paid for the early thing now! … Continue reading “Odd Stuff”

Noticed odd stuff this morning. Mainly cos once Megs got off the station before me, I moved over to sit on the other side of the train. I hadn’t realised it before, but I always sit on the same side, so today I had a whole new view. And there was this little warp in the glass of the window, which was just at about head-height for the passengers standing on the station, and did strange and comical things to their faces. Heh. Then I saw a giant metal spider in a field – it was a climbing frame. Very scary. And on the kind of patch of wasteland that I guess the travellers must use, there were a couple of ponies, and some goats. A couple of the goats were those really long haired ones. Maaaaah. I knew a goat called Louise when I was little. There’s a pic somewhere. I’ll stick it up when the rest of this site happens.

Train pulled into a different platform to normal, too. Honestly, the trains up here really have no rhyme or reason to them. They actually apologised for the delay today, though, which makes a change. All the stations are those big long shed things like you get on Thomas the Tank Engine (or you used to….. don’t know if that still does) too. They were filming something in the station here the other week – I was told it was a remake of Murder on the Orient Express, but I haven’t been able to find anything on the net about it. Could be a BBC drama thing, of course. Didn’t see any of the actors except from the distance, at an angle (in a wood, with an owl….) so dunno if David Suchet was Poirot-ing it up again…….

Ahhhh, retail therapy…..

Ahhhh, retail therapy….. :-) I feel better. Not that I was so very terrible to begin with….. I just had a marginally crappy weekend, especially compared to poor Megs–> {{{{{*hugs*}}}}}. But I still have no Worf (a big black cat tried to come in the catflap last night, and it might have been him, but Willow was on her guard-cat roll, and went haring off and chased him away…. it was too dark to see clearly if it actually was him or not), and Saturday night wasn’t fun – went over to B’s friends’ place, but I had a pounding headache and was really out of it, so now they’re going to think I’m even more of a boring old party pooper than they did before cos of my work hours. :-( And today I have the thing which we don’t mention to the blokes at work cos it totally freaks them all (ROTFL!). So, retail therapy….. lots of new tops. Wanted trousers, and maybe a skirt too, but I didn’t have time to try them on. Maybe tomorrow. This shop rocks, though. It’s not as big as Black Rose of course, but it has lots of Omen stuff. *drools* I’m going to end up spending sooooooo much money there…..

Heheheheh.

Heheheheh. This is a good one. I’m 58% gay, apparantly – “A happy and well adjusted hetero”. Sounds ’bout right, I guess. Oh, and that thing that made Megs 27, reckoned I was 30. Should I be insulted? *g* The breakdown, though, had me at 25 a lot of the time. Bugger, I’m stereotypical for … Continue reading “Heheheheh.”

Shrove Tuesday

It was Shrove Tuesday yesterday (Mmmm, pancaaaaakes), which means that today is Ash Wednesday, and the first day of Lent. Heh, I’m glad I’m not Roman Catholic, so I don’t have to have a great big smudge on my forehead all day. *g* But anyway, I have to give up something now til Easter. Though we didn’t actually have pancakes last night since we had a takeaway and then we were full. LOL. So we’re having them tonight, and I’ll start Lent tomorrow instead. I’m such a procrastinator! I am going to do it, though. I’ve decided it’s about time to kick my ‘coke habit’. In case you actually did wonder, that’s Coca Cola, not cocaine. I practically live off of the stuff, which just can’t be good. I did say I was giving it up if I got this new job, and when I moved up here I was doing really well til Worf went missing – I was all upset, and needed the sugar! So it’s time to try it again…….

Should get the SPIKED Awards results up on the site this evening, and most of the awards out. I don’ t know if I’ll manage to get all the awards done for tonight, cos there’s drinking after work, and then further drinking later on at the pub quiz (I’ve been paid today, thank God, so I have money – yay!). But I’ll do my best, and I’ll at least email all the winners. I had a cock-up with the award graphics, you see, so I’m behind. Not too many more to do, though. I’ve also decided to do an honourable mention graphic for all the other sites / fics, but I won’t send that out for a day or two…..

The North / South Divide

Todays topic: The North / South Divide. OK, not really. *g* But it’s weird, you know, when I see someone I know, and say “Alright”, as you do, and they go “Now then.” ….. I’m a freak. A southern pansy. Heheheh. I’m doing really well on the site revamping thing, you know. :-) British Buffy … Continue reading “The North / South Divide”

I’m doing really well on the site revamping thing, you know. :-) British Buffy is all done…. minus some content, but most of that is down to B now, cos I bullied him into agreeing to contribute. *snigger*. I’ve also added some new stuff to Eternal…. Literally, made a good start on Soulstar Design and Spiked and Skewered, and I’ve added updates and more sections to The Airlock. Yep, that’s right, I spent both my days off glued to the computer, and I intend to do so again tomorrow and Saturday. I’m such a net geek. Yay! ;-)

Had an interesting thing, though. Or bloody annoying, and somewhat dangerous, depending on how you look at it. When I got up yesterday, the shower, the plug sockets, and the hot water were all off. Fiddled with the fuse box, managed to get the shower working, figured a fuse must’ve blown in one of the plugs. However, when I got in from work, B had discovered what the problem was: the boiler is up to its old tricks and there was water coming down the wall in the dining area. Oh joy. Down the wall, mind you, and into one of the plug sockets. Hence the fuse box having tripped out. He’d rung the landlord, and an electrician / plumber (he seemed to be both) came round and got stuff working for us. Still don’t know quite where the water was coming from, though. Urk.

Bit of a gap

Oooo, bit of a gap between posts….. heh. I’ve been busy-ish, you see, what with work, and doing website updates. I feel like I’m making actual progress now – I’ve moved Eternal… Literally, I’ve started re-doing British Buffy, I’ve decided on a design for the business site, and got a mock-up of that done, and … Continue reading “Bit of a gap”

As for my real life…. *g* Megs was round last night, and we watched the first 2 eps of season 5 Buffy. Still no Worf. *sigh* Put a couple more notices up. *crosses fingers*

Ramble, blah, ramble

I started this post before, but my friggin’ computer crashed. Bah. So anyway, where was I? I don’t really remember. Ho hum. Oh well. I got the ‘site’ section up, finally. And that’s about all the updates I got done today, in the end. I did housework instead. Bleuch. You know, when I was going … Continue reading “Ramble, blah, ramble”

You know, when I was going updates to the SPIKED Awards yesterday, I ended up surfing through a few Spike sites I hadn’t seen before, or seen recently. And now I’m depressed. I’m trying to get Spiked and Skewered updated and redesigned, and make it really good, but when I look at these sites, I wonder what the point is – they’re fantastic, and some of them have such similar things to S&S. One site has a guide to Spike slang, much like my “How to Talk Proper”, only done better. The only thing is that I had it first, I guess. When I started S&S there wasn’t anything like that, as far as I know….. Oh sod it. I’m going to update, and I’m going to make it good. It’d be stupid to give up just cos of that. Guess I’ll just have to try harder.

Had another possible Worf sighting today – a lady who lives just a few doors away from me saw a large black cat in her garden yesterday that she hasn’t seen before. Went to look, but no sign again. Hope it was him.

My brother just sent me his newly completed film script.
(sorry, I just have to pause to listen to November Rain…. god I love this track… and cool – I haven’t seen the video before! Oh, this is good – Slash picking the tracks on MTV2)
Right, back to Martin’s script (though since the next track is Metallica, I’m going to be quick and finish off now) – so, he’s been working on this for a while, and it’s done. I was going to print it out to read, but it’s 95 A4 pages….. d’oh. So I think I’ll print some, and then go to bed. Cos I’m working again tomorrow.

*Fade To Black*

Why oh why?

Why do I have to click everything at least twice before it will believe that I do want to go there or do that? Is my mouse broken? *shakes it* Could be. Probably full of carpet and cat fluff. Oh well. Teenage Dirtbag. I like that song. I like sugar snap peas, too. It’s my … Continue reading “Why oh why?”

Teenage Dirtbag. I like that song. I like sugar snap peas, too. It’s my day off. I’ve cleaned some stuff, and I should clean some more. Like the dining room and the kitchen. *sigh* Stupid housework. I have too many websites to do……

Yep, I’m updating sites. Revived The SPIKED Awards yesterday. They were originally sposed to be done at the beginning of December. Hahahaha….. but then real life happened. Anyway, now I’m doing British Buffy and the UKBAWC, plus checking out stuff for another awards thing I help judge, and checking sites for Slash Sluts which I help Megs out with. One of these days, I’ll get me a real life. Oh but hey, talking of which, we won the pub quiz (again – *snerk*) last night. But this time they made us go into two smaller teams, cos we always win. So we came first (Mark, Sally, Barry, Dave, and me), and the others (Pete, Phillippa, Finn, Finn’s sister and Kevin) came about 3rd. Heheheh. No conferring, either. Yay us – we got free beer! :-)

Hmm…. ooops.

Hmm…. ooops. I’ve just realised that not only am I going to be missing my brother’s 21st birthday to go Spike-stalking, but when we’re at Noc 3K the following weekend, we’ll be missing Father’s Day. Hope Dad won’t mind both his offspring deserting him in favour of some American TV actors….. *g* I can at least get Martin…. oh, I dunno, a lifesized cardboard Buffy (why, oh why don’t they have lifesize Spikes?!?!? It’s a cruel world….) or something, at the con (heh, he’ll have fun taking that home on the train). Maybe Dad would like one too….

Sods law

Well, there’s sods law for you. I’ve been in this job for what, 4 weeks, and I knew I had it for at least 3 weeks before that. And what do I get today? A phone call from an agency I’d registered with in the autumn, and who had only called me before with office admin type jobs, but apparantly never got me an interview (was I too overqualified?). But *now*… now they call me and say they have a web design job they want to put me forward for! In Sussex, by the way – we weren’t fixed on which end of the country we wanted to move to. Isn’t that just typical? Still, I probably wouldn’t have got anywhere with it, or the pay would’ve been crap, or something. And where I am is good, so that’s OK. Also, they have webdesign departments within the company, so there’s that possibility too…… But still – TCHA!!

Oh, and I booked my holiday off work today for the Spike-stalking expedition that I’m going on in June with Luna & Noxy. Heehee! I dunno, poor James Marsters……

Dark Name Generator

Heh, just saw this Dark Name worker-outer thingy through Anji’s blog. My dark name is Master Watcher (Buffy ref? Hmmm?), B’s is Master Menace (*snigger*) and my brother’s is Excessive Artist. LOL. Oh, hey, and if we go by net names, I’m Ungrateful Samurai or Drunken Magician, B (Stryx) is Dynamic Prophet, and my bro … Continue reading “Dark Name Generator”

Been busy

Haven’t posted anything for a few days, cos I’ve been a bit busy. Lessee….. on Tuesday night we went bowling – cheap and tacky, and lots of fun! :-) I like bowling. I didn’t do all that badly, either. I only missed totally twice, and I got one strike, and a couple of whatever-you-call-it’s where … Continue reading “Been busy”

Wednesday, Mum and Dad came to visit for a few days to see my new house and where I’m living and all that. So we spent a couple of days sightseeing (it’s all new to me, too, of course) and so on. They’re going back today, but I’m working, so I said bye last night. Oh, and they got us a couple of bits more furniture, so now we have somewhere to put our clothes, and the glasses and booze, and that kind of thing. Whoo.

Oh, weird thing – I found out that this girl I used to go to school with now presents a kinda Gaming review TV programme thing called BITS, having also been in a couple of horror movies like this one (“Emily Bouffant”). Funny thing is, I found out cos B asked me if I knew her…. he watches the prog (I’m sure I’ve seen it too, but maybe not), and had seen on the website that she’s from the same town as me. He didn’t realise she was in the same class, though! LOL.

And finally….. (these entries are getting longer, aren’t they?) there’s some good-ish news on the Worf front. We’ve had 3 probable sightings. The first one was the lady who works in the corner shop – I finally got my printer connected up and printed some posters and fliers off, and when I took one in there she looked at the picture and said that she’s sure that he was the cat who she’d seen in her garden. She opened her greenhouse door last Saturday (so that’s a week ago now) and he came pelting out and jumped over the fence. So he could have been trapped in there for a few days. Then last night we had a phone call from a woman who said she’d seen a large black cat roaming around on this road that’s across the main road and up a bit from where we live. We went over there, and I spoke to someone who lived around where he was sposed to have been, and she told me that a cat who sounds very much like Worf had been sitting on her fence staring her out (sounds about right! *g*) just a day or two ago. So it sounds like he might be over there. No sign of him last night, of course, but it gives us an idea where to look……

Got socks.

Got socks. You know, I bet other people don’t have to worry about foot/shoe size when they go to buy socks. But I have size 4 feet (that’s 37 in European, dunno what in US). I got “Kid’s” socks. Yes, the adult “Ladies” socks come in Size 4-7, but in reality that means about 5-and-a-bit. Ish. So I end up with the heel of the sock halfway up the back of my ankle. But on the other hand, buying childrens socks (and shoes) saves me money. I just have to hunt a bit to find pairs that don’t have scary gimmicky pics on, or aren’t frilly or whatever….

I need new socks.

I need new socks. My left sock has a great big hole in the toe, and since my boots have no proper lining any more, my toes are getting sore…. There’s also melted (and then hardened again) plastic on the ankle bit from where I left the clotheshorse too near the fire one time. I’ve … Continue reading “I need new socks.”

I do have more than one pair of socks, btw. Erm. Guess what I could do is sort out the non-holey socks that are the same, but different colours, and dye them all black. Cos I’m broke, and that might be cheaper. Oh no, buggerit, I forgot. No washing machine. Not doing it by hand. New socks it is, then.

*How* boring is this entry?! Jeez…..