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Not a bad weekend
Not the busiest of weekends, but a good one. We took it easy on the Saturday morning, then after a very late breakfast walked into Oxford, and went for a wander around the Ashmolean museum. Some very interesting things there, but laid out in a somewhat chaotic fashion. Certainly needs the update it is getting at the moment. I will have to go back sometime and take more photos around it.
After that, we bought some books, including a good one on Scandanavian design (they seem obsessed with the perfect chair, which I can dig), then went off for a tapas meal. Avoided getting rained on, and home. All good really 🙂
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Black
I look out of my window to see that a curtain of darkness has covered the view. I can only see the faint black outlines of buildings. Shadows are everywhere, following people and cars, or just standing next to houses. Trees look like people, black as evil. An ebony black cat strolls around, its eyes glowing. There is a gloom around the town, nothing moves, as if the world had stood still.
I walk outside. Cars appear out of the gloom and murk. Back inside I fall asleep into a black, blank world, where I am unaware of anything, oblivion. In the morning the black night falls asleep, only to be woken by the yawns of the white day
I’ve just found this, a poem I wrote a little while ago. 28th April 1983 to be precise. I was, it is far to say, pretty fucking miserable at times when I was a kid.
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Cheery chap
Well, much better mood now. Just one of those things where a bit more sleep helps make the world a better place. I think I am very highly tuned in such regard, it is only a matter of an hour or two’s sleep either way that can turn me from happy to fed up in a stroke.
My back is behaving better at the moment. Whilst it is still sore, the exercises do make a lot of difference. I think I need to make sure I get them done every day without fail, and perhaps expand them slightly. Found myself feeling somewhat sore last night, doing them made the difference instantly. Even quicker than say if I had taken something for it. Very impressed.
The weather here the past couple of days is fantastic it must be said, I am looking out of my window at work here out at the bluest sky I have seen in ages. All the trees are a vivid bright green, I just want to be out there! Well, I guess I could do with a bit of time in the garden tonight then. Going out to see DJ Format in town tonight, late one, but I won’t be drinking, so it won’t be too bad tomorrow.
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Rubbish
Feel like utter rubbish today. Was all over the place last night, couldn’t place it, and then today I feel crap, light-headed and generally just coldish, aching and many forms of miserable. Mrsfb is off today, I’m in work, so I strongly suspect I’ve got a mild version of what she has. Grrrrrr.
It also had me lucid dreaming at about 4:30am, some really strange stuff about a game and logic system involving blogging. Yes, I dream in blogs. I can’t quite explain much more about it, it is all very odd, but if I do remember anything I will write about it, I seem to recall it seemed entertainingly banal.
This isn’t what I wanted to write at all, I was meaning to write last night, and thought I had enough to say, but now I sound just miserable. I am, but not in a tragic way. I think in writing this I am effectively saying “pull yerself together you plank”.
Let me see, other stuff is there. Have watched the Sony and Nintendo conferences from E3. Safe to say that Nintendo’s presentation was somewhat bullish, they really think they have the future of gaming on their hands. Well, I think the next few days will decide that. Once all the major players in gaming magazines and websites have played with Wii, they will start to either bolster or destroy its reputation. As the control methods are so key to the success of the console, we can’t judge until we have played it. What I have seen thus far looked great, but I need a go. So long to wait!
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Back to the future
Friday involved a visit to a physio. I’ve been having some bother with my back for a little while, just lower back pain and being a bit immobile at times, so was referred by my docs. Comforting to have been checked out and told there is nothing big wrong, just need to do some exercises to help make it more mobile. I also need to check out all places where I sit with computers and make them more ergonomic and suitable. My main monitor is now raised up quite a bit from where it was.
So I have been doing these exercises for two days now, and they are a bit tricky, because I am somewhat underagile it would appear. They do seem to be stretching me in the right places though, so all good.
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