Much improved weather today –

Much improved weather today – still muggy, but lovely and grey, and slightly rainy. Sooooooo much better! Things aren’t boding well for the trip to the cricket on Sunday, though. Not only are the Aussies comprehensively thrashing us (not that that’s anything new) and look like they won’t take long to finish us off, but … Continue reading “Much improved weather today –”

Much improved weather today – still muggy, but lovely and grey, and slightly rainy. Sooooooo much better! Things aren’t boding well for the trip to the cricket on Sunday, though. Not only are the Aussies comprehensively thrashing us (not that that’s anything new) and look like they won’t take long to finish us off, but rain is forecast. So it’ll either be over, or rained off. Probably. Not that those options would be the worst thing – what would be really annoying would be if there were only a few overs left for Sunday, or if it got rained off after just a few. Because that’d be a waste of a day, and we wouldn’t get a refund, either. Hmph.

Braved McDonalds at lunchtime. Dinner time. Whatever. My mid-shift break. Cos there’s nowhere else to get food at that time of day, unless I want chinese. Which, I do, but it always takes me two days to eat it, so that’s not an option since I’m off tomorrow. But anyway, the girl behind the counter was in a right strop. Twas quite funny really. Heh. Oh, and I picked up the Four Star Mary album in Andy’s Records – can’t believe they had it. Must remember to take it with me to the gig and get the cover signed. :-)

You can tell it’s warm.

You can tell it’s warm. I’m wearing shorts. I was actually surprised when I rummaged in the cupboard…. I’d forgotton I even owned any. I’m also wearing this top I picked up in Jakarta airport…. god, that was six years ago. It’s tan-ish coloured, and it has embroidered elephants on it. It’s odd to be … Continue reading “You can tell it’s warm.”

You can tell it’s warm. I’m wearing shorts. I was actually surprised when I rummaged in the cupboard…. I’d forgotton I even owned any. I’m also wearing this top I picked up in Jakarta airport…. god, that was six years ago. It’s tan-ish coloured, and it has embroidered elephants on it. It’s odd to be wearing this colour…. not my usual thing. But the shorts are black.

When I first started this

When I first started this page/site/thing, I intended it to be a blog, and basically non-Buffy. That didn’t really happen. I ramble too much, and spend too little time hunting down links to do a blog, so I suppose this is more of a journal… though not totally that either. It’s rambling space. Heh. And … Continue reading “When I first started this”

When I first started this page/site/thing, I intended it to be a blog, and basically non-Buffy. That didn’t really happen. I ramble too much, and spend too little time hunting down links to do a blog, so I suppose this is more of a journal… though not totally that either. It’s rambling space. Heh. And as for the Buffy-ness… well, I wasn’t trying to avoid Buffy things – after all, most of my other sites are Buffy-related. But I have life that isn’t. *g* And I don’t think I do really talk about Buffy here. But if you take a look at my links list…. the majority of those journals and blogs are people I know or know of through the BtVS fandom (and damn, is there anyone who doesn’t keep one of these things any more? *g*). Thing is, I’ve read lots of other blogs, including the trendy-to-read ones… and they haven’t held my interest for whatever reason. The ones in the list over there do, Buffy-related or not. Maybe it’s having the something in common, I don’t know. But I like ’em.

Oh, and hey, while I actually am on the topic, in a lot of other journals I’ve been reading about the bitchfests that happen in the Buffy fandom. OK, yes, I could hardly miss some of them (those that have sites, for eg.). But by and large – huh? Am I not on the lists, or in the cliques where this stuff takes place? Or am I really oblivious, because I haven’t noticed it? Or perhaps I’m just lucky not to have had any of this vituperation directed at me. Hmm.

I discovered the other day that Transformers is now Beast Machines (or something). Optimus Prime is a big mechanical gorilla. Interesting. [NB – my brother used to watch it religously (and Mask! Does anyone else remember Mask?) and had the toys… I even had to take him to see the movie, and it was good, damnit!] And then today, Sandycat has a picture of a bloke dressed as Optimus, in all his pre-primate trucky glory. Yay! However, I’ve also discovered through this how deeply and tragically sad I am. Because you can get yourself made into an action figure. And I want one. Oh dear god. A small plastic me to shamelessly jump small plastic Spike. I can’t believe that actually crossed my mind. Though on that topic, Angel and The Master still seem to be at it, though they’ve somehow knocked the candlestands over. I so don’t want to know how….

Once again, very very tired.

Once again, very very tired. Would probably help if I didn’t keep staying up until stupid times on work nights doing site redesigns. D’oh! But anyway, I like the new designs. I now just have the job of carting content into them, and that’s a bit tedious. Stuff needs rearranging, too. Hmm. One of the … Continue reading “Once again, very very tired.”

Once again, very very tired. Would probably help if I didn’t keep staying up until stupid times on work nights doing site redesigns. D’oh! But anyway, I like the new designs. I now just have the job of carting content into them, and that’s a bit tedious. Stuff needs rearranging, too. Hmm.

One of the things I’m looking forward to about doing this site for Barry is that I’ll just be able to do the design and coding, and then go “There you are.” and leave him to it. Well, pretty much. He’ll probably need the odd html-ing hand. But no content creation for me, no sir!

My brain keeps kicking out odd phrases and things that are leading me to believe that, despite outward appearances (I hope), I’m not actually completely awake. I still seem to be dreaming. Very disconcerting. Chugging caffeine before I turn round and say something way offbase to someone.

When I was in the train today, my mind tried to pull out of the station before the train did. Strangest feeling, going through the back of my head. Luckily the train did start off a few moments later, so I caught me up. Again, I think it was because I was partly asleep. I’m pretty damn sure, you see, that the mind/spirit/whatever can go wandering on it’s own when the body is sleeping. Because if it can’t, then either (a) I’m barking mad and haven’t noticed yet, or (b) there’s some even weirder shit going on. I’ve ‘dreamed’ of things and places that just can’t be explained any other way. The most detailed was the time I dreamed of a rocky river with a waterfall at the end, in a forest/wood, when I was in my early teens. There was a path running alongside the river was made from cream stone chippings…. I thought that was strange, because the only stone chippings I’d ever seen on a path were dark grey. A few years later, I was on holiday somewhere in the middle of France with my parents and brother. We went out for a random drive one day, and by chance passed an area of forest that advertised a picnic area and nature walk…. decided to stop for lunch. And it was the very same place I’d dreamed years earlier, cream chippings and all. And no, it can’t have been a premonition, either, because in my ‘dream’ it was a different time (the waterfull was only a trickle when we went there, but in the souvenir shop, there was a picture of it at full flow, like I remembered it) and (duh) nighttime. There are lots of other odd little details, too, like the path leading down into the river that was somehow hidden on the way up to the waterfall, but in both cases I saw on the way back. Makes me wonder just where else my mind has visited that I will never physically go, or probably even remember.

Ooookay, not feeling so well.

Ooookay, not feeling so well. Maybe B is trying to poison me. *g* Cos, ow, and uuuuurgh! So I’m still up, feeling like cack, instead of being in bed feeling like cack, cos this way at least I have something to keep my mind off it. Only I have work in the morning. Guess I … Continue reading “Ooookay, not feeling so well.”

Ooookay, not feeling so well. Maybe B is trying to poison me. *g* Cos, ow, and uuuuurgh! So I’m still up, feeling like cack, instead of being in bed feeling like cack, cos this way at least I have something to keep my mind off it. Only I have work in the morning. Guess I won’t be going if I don’t stop needing frequent bathroom trips (TMI? Sorry). Bleuch. Have to go on Sunday, though, ill or not, cos I’m the only one in until 1pm. Which should be fun. Oh, OW. I’ve had enough of this. If only I was drunken-ill….. at least I would’ve had a good time up until the ill part. Well, probably. Not that I’ve had a bad day – did some site stuff (and some housework, how exciting), and Megs came round. Oh, and we tried to get small plastic Angel and small plastic The Master to fight, but they just fell over and appeared to be trying to shag, so we left them at it.

Damnit, OW!!! Leaving now. Bleuch. :-(

What is it about certain

What is it about certain pieces of music that make you want to swallow them whole, bathe in them, curl into a tiny ball and implode on yourself, scream til everything breaks? Or is that just me? There I was, MTV2 doing a Metal Anthems thing in the background while I pottered around the house, … Continue reading “What is it about certain”

What is it about certain pieces of music that make you want to swallow them whole, bathe in them, curl into a tiny ball and implode on yourself, scream til everything breaks? Or is that just me? There I was, MTV2 doing a Metal Anthems thing in the background while I pottered around the house, and then Metallica’s ‘The Unforgiven’ came on. Gahhhhhhhhhhh. And I’m unable to do anything but sit as near the TV as I can without crawling inside it, and listen to this song. What is that about? There aren’t that many songs that do this to me – that one, another Metallica one that I can’t remember the title of because I lose all coherant thought when I hear it, several Skunk Anansie songs, O Fortuna from Carmina Burana, and most of the Mozart Requiem. There are a load of others that I love, but they don’t do this… thing. Weird.

I went, I shopped, I

I went, I shopped, I conquered the urge to buy a helluva lot more. And, dear god, B tells me there is another, similar shop, in the old town somewhere. I wonder if that one has a PVC and metal-plated bikini too. But anyway, I managed to restrain myself and only got a couple of … Continue reading “I went, I shopped, I”

I went, I shopped, I conquered the urge to buy a helluva lot more. And, dear god, B tells me there is another, similar shop, in the old town somewhere. I wonder if that one has a PVC and metal-plated bikini too. But anyway, I managed to restrain myself and only got a couple of tops. Decided against one cos the slogan wasn’t really the kind of thing I could wear to work, even here. Might go back and get it when I have money to buy not-for-work clothes.

I want, I want, I want….. well, lots of things. But right now I want my brain to settle on a design for my fic site. Something purty but simple….. Having troubles. Bleh.

Found more journals to read…. bottom two links down on the right are they. :-)

B’s gone home sick from

B’s gone home sick from work. I’m pretty sure the problem is the Chinese that we had last night. Mine was bland and a bit icky, and there was something *seriously* wrong with the sweet and sour sauce. I didn’t eat it, but B did. With prawn balls. And now he’s ill. Hmmmm. So, got … Continue reading “B’s gone home sick from”

B’s gone home sick from work. I’m pretty sure the problem is the Chinese that we had last night. Mine was bland and a bit icky, and there was something *seriously* wrong with the sweet and sour sauce. I didn’t eat it, but B did. With prawn balls. And now he’s ill. Hmmmm.

So, got the phone back at home. And started wading through the email backlog. Being offline, though, I actually wrote the fic that’s been floating in my head for the last couple of weeks. First one I’ve done for a while. It’s the obligatory post-“Gift” offering, a Spike pov thingy. Which is a change, cos I’d been through a spate of writing Dru, before. I hope the ending of it wasn’t too obscure… hmm.

Found out something a bit… well, depressing today. Depressing for me, anyway. After doing all this work on S&S, it turns out that another Spike site has redesigned, and done something very similar. Waaaaagh!! I mean, the colour scheme and actual graphics aren’t identical, but the rough idea, and the navigation is pretty much what I’ve done. Just proves nothing is original, cos there’s no way they could have copied me. Anyway, theirs is done in frames and with a javascript menu, where mine is all in tables. But the end result is pretty damn similar. Gah. If I can’t think of a workable different way to do my navigation, I’ll just have to say poo to it, and go ahead as I was. *sigh* How annoying. Serves me right for not getting my finger out and putting the design up months ago, when I first did it.

Still no phone. Grr, Argh.

Still no phone. Grr, Argh. Maybe they won’t reconnect it til the cheque clears. Should’ve paid by card, damnit! My email is piling up, too. *sigh* On the plus side, Eternal… Literally got into the BtVS Writers’ Guild as the S/H zone. Can’t do anything about it til I get net access back at home, … Continue reading “Still no phone. Grr, Argh.”

Still no phone. Grr, Argh. Maybe they won’t reconnect it til the cheque clears. Should’ve paid by card, damnit! My email is piling up, too. *sigh*

On the plus side, Eternal… Literally got into the BtVS Writers’ Guild as the S/H zone. Can’t do anything about it til I get net access back at home, though. Pleh. I really hope I get access back for Thursday and Friday, when I’m off.

Have taken the opportunity of no net access to get some scanning done. I also found the notebook I’d lost with loads of stuff for S&S in it, so I started working on that last night. Trouble is, as I’ve had the design done for so long, I’m getting fed up with it, so I started faffing with various bits. But it gave me some ideas, so that can’t be bad. I might even get it done sometime in the near future. You never know.

Bleh. I’ve had a whole

Bleh. I’ve had a whole net-free weekend, cos it turned out that B kinda hadn’t paid the phone bill. So at about 8pm Friday night, the line got cut off. I have to go in and pay it off at lunchtime, so hopefully it’ll all be back by tonight. I can hear my lineone mail … Continue reading “Bleh. I’ve had a whole”

Bleh. I’ve had a whole net-free weekend, cos it turned out that B kinda hadn’t paid the phone bill. So at about 8pm Friday night, the line got cut off. I have to go in and pay it off at lunchtime, so hopefully it’ll all be back by tonight. I can hear my lineone mail creaking under the strain….

And by the way, Hi Lorien and Ibranou. Umm… my French is crap so I can’t understand much of your blog – but hi! :-)

Well, I have a lot

Well, I have a lot of photos that are the backs of strange peoples’ heads, with a tiny blurry guest in the background, but I also have some that may be good to scan. Yay! Plus some good ones of our group, of course. :-)

Well, I have a lot of photos that are the backs of strange peoples’ heads, with a tiny blurry guest in the background, but I also have some that may be good to scan. Yay! Plus some good ones of our group, of course. :-)

I have no energy, and

I have no energy, and no motivation whatsoever. And no leather trousers (that currently fit me), either, so whoever keeps hitting this site in search for them, please stop. I mentioned to one or two people that the costumes I wear to the Nocturnal parties are always too hot, so for next year I was … Continue reading “I have no energy, and”

I have no energy, and no motivation whatsoever. And no leather trousers (that currently fit me), either, so whoever keeps hitting this site in search for them, please stop.

I mentioned to one or two people that the costumes I wear to the Nocturnal parties are always too hot, so for next year I was going to lose weight, get fit, and wear a damn bikini. I was joking, but now I’ve seen it. The bikini that I could wear. Shiny black pvc with metal plating. I Want It. It’s perfect. I have to join a gym.

Have been surfing Christian Kane sites (a) because he’s gorgeous, and (b) in the hope that this would take the edge of my re-escalating JM obsession. Was working until the conversation I had with Luna last night popped back into my head. Damnit!

I’m going to give in to the Meghan and get one of those little check box thangs where you can choose whether to have links open in new windows or not. If I was really clever, I should figure out how to do it myself. But I can’t be arsed.

I am going to finish

I am going to finish re-doing Eternal… Literally today. I am, I am, I am. Maybe. *g* No, really, I must. It’s so nearly done. And then I can get cracking on S&S. Yay! Oh yeah, and I should update Conwoman with the new details for Wolverhampton and Glasgow. Must remember to do that. Um. … Continue reading “I am going to finish”

I am going to finish re-doing Eternal… Literally today. I am, I am, I am. Maybe. *g* No, really, I must. It’s so nearly done. And then I can get cracking on S&S. Yay!

Oh yeah, and I should update Conwoman with the new details for Wolverhampton and Glasgow. Must remember to do that. Um.

I’m bored.