Freakcity

Quiet, she says. Smiles slide from faces.

Murmurings cease and desist

Quiet now, the mass awaits guidance.

In the land of the blind, the one eyed woman is king.

Silence he cries, movement stops.

Faces to stone, a row of shining feet.

Quiet now, the mass awaits guidance.

In a world free from...

Sat outside a café in Soho, latté to my right, ashtray to my left. What has changed?

I used to think London would claim my last breath, just as it gave me my first. But lately, — I dunno. Been getting wanderlust. Been thinking that perhaps I just don’t belong here.

I used to have all the ans...

DSL buggered. Again. This time the phoneline’s gone with it. DSL comes back at night when it’s cooler, so maybe BT have implemented self healing copper that melts in the heat? No fucking clue with them. Tards.

So to talk to their tech support dept I have to find a payphone, as there’s no dialtone...

Friday night in a moment of MADNESS I decided I’d bike to Owen's after work. 12 miles. In a headwind. Jebus.

Got there (only had one break, and that was for sugary goodness so as to stop myself falling off my bike quite literally) at just gone 8. Put his PC all together and then discovered h...

Bussed to work yesterday on account of my date that evening (now, Lloyd, the mystery becomes clear :P) with J. Brief hiccup with some work stuff but mostly went smoothly. I did some more stuff that impressed bosses, which is good. Even though I was quite late arriving on account of scary bus.

Lef...

On a bus. Bored of the concept of Bus sudoku so thought I’d type some. There’s a reason for me not cycling today, but it’s a secret.

Was given a minion at work yesterday. Kinda mixed blessing really. Also helped out with lots of sql, found a problem in someone else’s code and basically surprised ...

Come Dancing? (Medium).JPG Went straight home on Friday, chatted to various people online, didn’t really do anything other than that. Watched a bit of telleh. Have finished Green Wing season 2 now and have been mig...

Chandos after work to meet William and give him dodgy w4r3z, had a chinwag, caught up a bit. He still can’t seem to fathom why I don’t just chase after money in jobs...hehe.

Got to thinking this morning...Conservatism isn’t right for Britain. Nor is Liberalism, nor is Socialism. There are parts o...

Work was dull. Prepared some for my review...fun!

Cycled rather quickly home. Didn’t crash, much to certain people’s upset.

Finished Green Wing season 2 a bit. Outstandingly weird stuff, but cool. I shall reacquire Jam and beam my way through it once more 😁

Chatted to Jonni. He’s just got his Ma...

I should probably blog more frequently really...but hey. Didn’t get a chance to see Jon before he went away. Did get to see Nikki and that lot at Pride. Managed to forget my microdrive so was stuck with babycam for the duration of the parade. Didn’t fancy walking to Kensington Gardens so instead got...

Been so tired since my scrabble marathon on Monday that I’ve been having trouble focussing on things. That’s changed a bit today, possibly because I’m not working again until Wednesday. Possibly because I’m slowly getting my energy levels back up. I have a cold brewing, I can feel it on the edges of...

Date fab. Jon fab. Everything fab. Possibly need slightly more sleep though.

Up playing scrabble until 5am on a schoolnight possibly less than fab.

Well, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it 😜

Friday was a barrel of laughs. Free pizza, communications meeting and stuff at work. Lots on the horizon, demoing to fabby people and also there were photos of all the HP kit going into the far east.

Left work reasonably on time and headed home to rewire novak. New modem went in fairly easily, ...

Went to CEX at lunchtime and bought a lovely fabulous speedtouch 220 usb modem. For £5. Yay!

Came back and our communications meeting started off with a photie of the huge amounts of (6 weeks late. Tsk) HP hardware that is being installed thousands of miles away to run our systems. R...

been arseing around with the whole text formatting thingummy. So now you can do strikethrough text – just put minus signs each side. And you can do code text:

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The rain in Spain London falls mainly on the days I tube to work 😁

Tired. Frantic evening.

Work is interesting. I’m currently performing the role of tester on the extremely dodgy codebase I’m working on. Took me most of yesterday just to get it to run.

Home and ready meal in the microwav...

Feeling all collapsible and stuff internally. I shouldn’t do, but I do. Fortunately I can mostly just turn it off and put it in a small internal box until it’s gone away, but it makes me feel a little vulnerable, which isn’t nice. I’ll live though. I just may require hugs for a few days.

Work was...

There’s something rather pretty about watching the sun come up from the wrong end of the day. I don’t know if it’s tired eyes making the colours do oddness or what...but it’s nice. I was going to cycle down to Tower Bridge and photograph it properly but in the end I couldn&#0...

“And the irony is...Al Zaraqui was a huge football fan. And now he’s gone and missed the entire thing...”

(after a sketch “translating” a welsh language tv show) “We’re gonna get lots of letters about that one...won’t be able to read any of them, mind...”

"I met Kilroy Silk once...and out of h...

Cycled to work in half an hour. Yay me 😉

Got in, started work, checked out an entire new project and the power went out at 12pm. Watched fit man get rescued from the lift. Pootled about in the dark for an hour with the rest of the office that hadn’t elected to choose an early lunch and then gave u...

Friday was a hot day. Went to Retro for a bit after work but there was no-one there. The attitude in that bar is still shifting round further to “Ku with piercings” — so need to find something new. Am considering converting a wing of a straight bar, much like we did at the Tap all those years ago...

Cycling has its bonuses 😉 (Small).jpg Cycled to and from work. Still no puncture. Think I’ve just about sorted out the quickest route — takes a little over 30 minutes. So was home by 7 (!!) and got a nice relaxin...

Worked very hard yesterday. Nyet puncture. Zoomed around the world a bit on my bike on the way in, only got a little lost.

Work was okish but horribly hot in the office, which is vile. Hot sweaty men usually bring me out in hives, but not these hot sweaty men.

I think I have hives on my feet. ...

Work was dull. Fixing CSS is uninteresting. Ah well, it’ll all be over soon.

Went out, as previously mentioned, at lunch. Looked at prices for entirely new wheels, they start at about £40 for a back one...and whilst I can afford it I thought I’d be good. Cycling’s meant to be cheaper than t...