Had a late night Sunday, felt not too bad. Had a early night last night, feel like death, just cannot wake up yet. One of those cases where autopilot does everything from getting you out of bed to you having been sat at work for 15 minutes. Actually that is pretty cool that you can do that without functioning properly. I am very glad to be wearing clothes mind.
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Dans le Garden
Knackered today, spent most of yesterday afternoon in the garden. I now have a feature developing that could loosely be described as a rockery, with various things planted in it. Must start getting pics up at some stage, I have been trying to take them as I go along this year. It still isn’t looking neat, but it is certainly a lot closer to tidy than it has done for some time.
Still playing Mr Driller, although my enthusiasm may be about to start the waning period. However we are going to woking on Friday, so it might pick up for the train journey.
We also managed a massive walk along the river on Saturday, about 2 and a half hours, plus a pub break halfway. Then a massive Chinese meal, and finished off with watching Lost in Translation, which is a great film, nothing much happens, but to be honest, you don’t care.
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Last Laugh?
Trying to write an entry for the Last Laugh contest on BBC3 at the moment. Basically, they have several scripts half-written, and you have to complete the story. I have picked my story, and come up with what appears to me to be a plausible and suitable ending. I just need to write it and make it funny now. I suspect that is the trickier bit.
Getting back into the way of walks in the evening with S again, now that the weather is improving (HA, except for the past two days weather, although we still managed a walk last night). Last week we had a beautiful long walk down by the river, very pretty, and now that the clocks have gone back, once it finishes raining we can manage longer still we hope. Looking forwards to the first evening this year we spend wandering along the Thames in lazy daylight.
In other news, iPod, still good, DS decidedly super
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its Friday
Well it is not, but I am off tomorrow. And Monday. For no good reason, which suits me fine. Going to
catch up on some reading for work, and generally chill. Oh, and garden too. Got things to start planting,
which is a nice position to be in after a couple of months of almost solely bagging up crap. Still got plenty
of that to do too, but it will be nice to break it up. Have a small rosemary bush, garlic, and several herbs and plants to plant.Very close to finishing the mass copying project that is getting all our cds onto my ipod. Think I am on the home straight now. Would like to move onto copying some videos onto DVD next, would love to get rid of a load of my vhs tapes, and hide/sell/throw out my video. Might even get a little of that done this long weekend.
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iPraise
So I am now a fully-fledged member of the ipod community. It is a fantastic bit of kit, once you’ve
had it a few days you wonder why you haven’t had one all your life. Am carrying around my entire record
collection on something slightly bigger than my mobile. Very happy with it.Had a course on Friday on HTMLDB, which is a web-based development suite for Oracle. I have been
using it for almost a year now, but I had to figure it all out for meself, so I was quite untutored in it.
Feel a lot more confident about it now, can see some new areas where I want to use it now. Also want to get our system upgraded to the latest version, as they have added a lot into it, some new things I would really like to start using. -
Dream Serious
Last night I had a long poignant dream about balancing precariously on narrow ledges. On reflection, I think playing Mario 64 in bed before I went to sleep was a bad idea.
It is snowing on and off here, but in a rather pathetic non-northern fashion. Very pretty to look at this morning, if a little less fun to walk through. Taking great care not to fall on my arse this morning.
Finally, someone has revived an old Firefox extension that I have been desperate to find ever since I moved from Opera to Firefox. Save Session remembers all your open tabs when you close Firefox, and reopens them as you left them. Which was one of the main things that I loved about Opera, and finally it is a part of the browser I truly love. I am quite glad about it, mainly cos I was starting to think I might have to try and learn how to do it myself. Which could have taken me ages.
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Hmmmmmm
Nice lazy weekend, took it nice and easy with S. Bit more gardening, have moved the buried bike out of the way, to now get down to the layer containing a hoover, a rabbit hutch and numerous other random items the previous tennants tried unsuccessfully to burn and then bury. I must thank them for that if I ever meet them. I also disturbed a little tiny toad, who had a little wander then buried himself again. No idea what he was doing in our garden, unless one of our neighbours has a pond hidden somewhere.
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Ready for the weekend
Good here, just waiting for the weekend to start here, one more day of work to get through. Had a very busy week, but I think today should be a little more relaxed, which is a good thing.
Will be seeing T&B, and maybe going out on tomorrow night. And gardening. We are almost down to the rusty bike layer of the junk at the bottom of the garden.
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Strange Days
Hmmmm, got to bed early last night, and wrote two short pages of stuff I was vaguely
happy with. Not like me to accomplish things now. Quite satisfying really, and
have another idea this morning. It was a nice feeling last night, sat down to write
down one litte idea, and found several things flowing out of my head one after the other.
Just goes to show that the best way to write sometimes is to stare at a piece of paper until
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Slow of Mind
Bit tired today. Forgot to say, saw Harry Hill at the New Theatre on
Saturday night, very good standup. He is suprisingly good at improvising,
which is a side to him I haven’t seen before.Also, figured out how to set up a search extension in Firefox to exclude something
from a search. Here is how to do it:In windows, go to c:program filesmozilla firefox and open google.src in a
text editor or notepad.you are looking for:
[input name=”q” user]
Change it to:
[input name=”q” value”-kelkoo”]
[input name=”q” user””](obv in all the above replace the [] with angle brackets)
save the file, and restart firefox. It will append the -kelkoo (or whatever else you put in there)
to searches from the google search box.