Windy in Essex
My photography kit at Chafford Hundred station Having acquired my photography stuff — spent the afternoon working hard with Dom trees and fun like that. Found a couple of bugs in FC and fixed all but one too. Unfortunately I didn’t get out of work until 7:30 scuppering my chances of finding a DIY shop open to get a stepladder. Wah!
So came back via Limehouse in the hope the lil garden place was open and might sell them. Which it wasn’t and probably doesn’t. Wahx2! Brainwave. As far as I remembered (and TJ confirmed), Lakeside is open until 10 so I scooted down here to see what I could find. And I found Argos 😁
Bought a stepladder and stopped in a DVD shop just long enough to make sure I missed my train. So I’m sat on a bench in the wind, watching silhouetted cars go past, black against the twinkling yellow lights of Thurrock. 16 minutes of cold left until my train takes me home.
I feel so much freer than I did. Like a great tiredness has been lifted from me. I hope it lasts, I really do. I just feel capable of so much at the moment. I just don’t have time. Come summer I hope to be doing the cycle thing again — and I hope to do the Glastonbury thing again too, see what I can see with my eyes fully open.
Going to assemble my “studio” when I get in and do some shots of TJ to see how they come out. Hope they let me on the DLR with the ladder. Heh!
So my roadmap.
Work : Java certification, more learning and more experience
Home : Careful building of inside and out. More alternative choices, less time in bars.
Music : Finish my album, possibly with João's help (well, he offered, and he’s moving here soon)
Freakcity : Build a java session framework that’s lightweight and uses little memory.
Personal : Not fall off the wagon. Be more confident in myself and what I can do. Be less shy. Find new people who “get” me. Maybe meet someone and start to build something, although that’s not a high priority after last time. Explore things 😉
I spoke to James today. He’s back in the states and loving it. Off to Disneyworld soon, the big kid. Back mid April, I made him promise to come see me and hug me.
I need to get away from Britain again. I’d love to go back to Amsterdam. £50 return plus €8 a night camping. Anyone?
Or I’m just gonna take João up on visiting him in the summer 😊
So. Home, pancakes and photos. I am going to teach Teej to pancake 😁
Well, if you can make them with rice milk, that is. They don’t work so well with soya milk 😉
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