So very busy.
I’m sorry for not updating this much at the minute. Work has been absolute sheer hell, I have a feeling this “hell” may continue for the rest of my time there… by that, I mean, the time I completely and utterly snap, and end up killing something or someone. I’ve not slept well for the past 4 days because of it. Great stuff. I therefore have complete, and utter writers’ block, as nothing exciting has happened in my life for the past two weeks, at least.
I hope that this will change tomorrow. It’s a Bank Holiday Monday, and I hope to god this will change. I heard from Coatesy again the other day, and there have been plans, as usual, to do “something” tomorrow. Unfortunately, thanks to an over-ripe spam filter, I didn’t see his message until earlier tonight. I replied, and hopefully he’ll get it on time, though I have a feeling that I have once again, messed everything up. Sigh.
One of the reasons my spam filter has been behaving strangely is that I reformatted Beastbits the other week. I might have mentioned it in the last post, I can’t remember, but it’s played havoc with things such as email. It’s one thing I never really took into account.
However, the reformat means that if I decide to do another vlog, then it’ll be a lot easier, instead of having to transfer everything over to the laptop and edit it from there.
In order to fill up space, and to prove I’m not completely dead, here are two unfinished postings from the last few days… this first one, I entitled “Back To Normal”…
Well, this is the first post after my mammoth posting about Berlin. Going by my (probably incorrect) calculations, I’ve typed more here in the last month than I have in any other month, ever. But, I’ve also noticed that the hits on this site went down by a third over the last two weeks. This either means that I’ve had server issues I’m not aware of, or everyone lost interest reading about my Berlin exploits.
If you are of the latter, and got bored with it, I’d like to apologise, but I won’t.
This is my blog. If you don’t want to read about the best time I’ve had in my life, then you’re more than welcome to quit. If, however, you enjoy reading about how I’ll end up in some type of mental hostel by the time I’m 30, then do keep reading.
Yes, I’m back on “terra firma”, blog wise. I’m back doing what I do, day in, day out. I eat curry, I drink Carlsberg (it’s cheap in Asda) and then I shit liquid black stuff.
Today was one of those days which started off badly. I broke a hard drive.
At approximately 1AM, I fell asleep in my chair, clutching a hard drive. Not any normal hard drive, but my Ubuntu system hard drive. An hour or so, I woke up, with said hard drive in my grasp, but seeing as I’d just woken up, I didn’t know it was there. It promptly slipped out of my hand, and hit the floor.
Seeing as I’d fallen asleep in my chair, I was clearly too tired to care, and went to bed.
I awoke at 5AM, suddenly remembering I’d dropped the hard drive, and hoped it would have still been OK. By this time, I wasn’t tired. I’d been a victim of an unconnected nightshift, so I only needed a few hours sleep. I awoke, and looked around the floor for the hard drive. I find it, and… oh, balls.
Yes, I’d somehow managed to drop the hard drive at such an angle that it broke the power connector. It’s not clear in that picture, but I’d snapped the plastic thing which holds the SATA “connectors” in place, apart from the fact the slivers are all over the place. Buggery.
I took this picture, and decided about what I was going to do. This particular drive was manufactured in 2004, meaning that it still had SATA connectors, and the old 4-pin molex power connectors.
What you’ll be glad to know is that despite my over-dramatic and over-detailed write-up there, the drive was fine. I simply snapped the power edge connector off, and everything worked.
This second, and last posting was typed just a few days ago, when things at work started to go horribly wrong…
Oh, Ok, so it’s a little bit of a step down in interestingness fr y recent cntnenta ex-ts, bt yes, a ndeed ty-ng ths fr the nny scatn f the bac yard f erryva-r Tcwers The n s bsazng dwn
…… that previous sentence is what happend when you accidentally switch on the Shift Lock onto a laptop with no number pad. Um. As I was saying, before I was rudely interrupted by my own incompetence….
I’m in the back yard of Mercuryvapour Towers, as the sun beats down on my pasty, yet ample shell. It is indeed a step down from my exploits in Berlin, but the weather is just a nice. Today was a hell of a night, and the next two days at work don’t seem to be any different. But, I digress. The less said about that place at the minute, the better.
I hereby consider myself a cold-hearted killer. While sat, lounging in the midday sun, I felt something on my side. I look down to see two flies mating. They didn’t even attempt to fly off, as I moved them onto my thumb for a “closer look” as these two winged pests went at it like flies on shit rabbits. Then I got that sense of anger… how could they do it so casually on my thumb, while I’ve been searching for a suitable female for months?
I must admit, I felt a little guilty, as I pressed their two conjoned bodies into the wall. I remove my thumb to watch their final movements, both of their twisted bodies now splattered against the bricks, with the last moments of their lives passing through them, as their corpses drip translucent fluid down the terra-cotta paintwork.
Time to go in, as my skin is starting to turn into crackling…
There’s a reason I didn’t post that last one… I can’t quite… oh yes, it was posibly the worst thing I’ve written about in my 6 and three quarter years of doing this blog. I must admit that I’ve been a little concerned about the traffic coming here recently. Maybe I’ve crossed that line between “humorous and jolly blog” into “just another blog”. I notice everyone at work has stopped reading, or at least stopped commenting. The size of my log has also decreased (sigh… for once I’m not being childish), it almost halved last week. OK, there are many reasons for that… I know a lot of my images get linked to on myspace, etc. which all count as a hit, but you can only count those for so much of your traffic…
Week ending 12th Aug 2007… 29,505 hits
Week ending 19th Aug 2007… 20,844 hits
Week ending 26th Aug 2007… 17,508 hits
So, it’s not looking good, is it? OK, I’m only looking at the numbers, and the size of the logfile itself, and yes, I have been proactive in invalidating the links from myspace hits, etc. but, could this be the beginning of the end? Am I really boring you all that much?
August 28th, 2007 at 9:09:21 am
Balls to em, the Berlin writing was great.
Re the logs, it may be better looking at daily unique-IP visits if you can.
August 28th, 2007 at 8:19:37 pm
Relax, turkey. We are still here.