Annette and I are planning to go to Japan for a holiday next year – I’ve never been before and greatly want to go, and Annette LOVED her time there, so she’s totally into it. Anyway, I mentioned this to a friend who had lived in Japan for a…
I purchased Half Life 2 today, at lunchtime. Left work slightly early because I really wanted to see if it was any good. Probably started playing it at around 1630 hours or so. It’s now 0133, the next day. And I’m only stopping playing it because really, I…
Criminy. Insanely busy weekend – we had the MAD URGE to change the apartment layout, so all day saturday and sunday, with much arguing about what should be where any why, and much scale-model manipulations in Photoshop (Note: Next time, Visio. So much easier.) and suchlike, we managed to nearly finish,…
Now I have to stay calm. I have to try not to EXPLODE with PURE ROCK JOY and become one with the cosmos. Because… Tenacius D are playing a concert here in December. There were four or five e-mails and one ICQ message waiting for me this morning when I…
I just tried to play Halo2 on my Xbox and JESUS FUCK how can ANYONE even TRY to play a first person shooter on these arse little thumbstick things? “Take that, floor!” “And take THAT, computer console to the left of the alien!” “How’d you like some of THAT,…
So, I went to the Goth Ball on saturday night, which was quite fun. I wanted to see Resurrection Eve, but Annette was really tired so I took her home – this was, however, at around 0230 or something. That’s DAMN LATE to be starting your final band of the…
I did some tests last night with an 802.11g wireless rig, with directional sector antenna, from my rack on L48 of the Sky Tower, to Chris’ Apartment window down at H47. Results were very positive. With our airing system consisting of “holding the antenna in our hands and vaguely…
I bought new skates today, on a whim. I was at Cheapskates with Annette while she bought hers, and I decided my probably about 8 or 10 year old solid-thermoplastic skates were about done. So I bought a new pair of Roches (to be specific, these and they’re really…