The post that needs a title…
I started this post the other day, but thanks to hardware failures, it never got finished… Well, that’s what I’d like to blame, though I think it’s mainly due to my recent ineptness at being able to finish a post. therefore, let’s pretend this is Sunday Morning…
It’s 7:30 AM, and I can’t be bothered thinking of a title for this post. Oh well.
It’s been a week since my last post (give or take a day), so I’m sure you’re all going to be desperate to know what I’ve been up to, and although it’s not been terribly exciing, or interesting at all, I thought I’d start typing about it.
Firstly, I’d start off with the sad loss of…. half a tooth. It was there last night, but when I woke up this morning (literally, this morning, at about 3AM) I noticed there was a big void where this tooth once proudly sat. Oh, the joy. The absolute joy of it all.
Secondly, I’ll quickly mention work. I think I can stomach the place enough to write a few syllables about the ongoing decoration. You may have heard in the youtube entry that my place of employment was undergoing a bit of redecoration. Well, this is now complete, and it looks… awful. I can’t think of any way of putting it. I really don’t like it at all. The blue and red partitions between the desks have been removed, and placed with big black monstrosities. The chairs have also been replaced, with black ones. I’ve broken one already. Go me.
I did take photos, but I’m not going to publish them, as it would depress me. I’d dig out the old “facepalm” photo, but I think it’s beyond that.
Right, I’ll leave work there. for now, anyway.
This week has also seen the BDO World Darts, as you may remember from my rant the other week. I’m sad to day that despite my rant, nobody from the BBC took any notice, and so far we’ve been subjected to the same amount of dodgy camera work, and stupidly placed microphones than ever before. Bobby George appears to have took the piss out of his microhone a little, as his is gold and silver. a nice touch, and I’m glad someone else thinks they look stupid. The final is on tonight, however, between…. um, some skinny bloke with a beard who I think is Australian, and… someone else. I pretty much slept through both of the semi-finals, eventually waking up in front of Dad’s Army.
I will, however, do one of my famous commentaries on it, so make sure you’re around from 7PM onwards, assuming I’m awake.
Sleep is something which I’ve hot had a lot of recently. For some reason, I’ve had an awful pain in the left side of my neck. Not a constant pain, but an agonizing twinge if I turn my head a certain angle. Not good.
I have spent quite a bit of time on youtube recently, and have found two videos of interest…
The first is the FULL version of the “Going For Gold” theme, which I knew existed in one of the episodes at the end of the first series, but I’d never heard it before…
Aaaaaaaaand, that’s where I left it. I got a bit caught up looking for other humorous Youtube videos and simply just lost track of time. Plus, as predicted, I ended up sleeping for most of the day.
One of the reasons I didn’t post it until now, was that I didn’t actually do the darts commentary as promised. this was due to the fact that it was on much earlier than I originally predicted (I think it started at 5:30, or something daft like that. I seem to remember it being later in previous years). Instead, I time-shifted it, and watched everything about an hour after it had already gone out on the telly. This is the ultimate bonus of HDD based video recorders. It means I could also fast forward the boring bits. This years final probably wasn’t worth dedicating time to writing about, as it was a bit obvious who was going to win. Of course, who could forget the fact that Trina Gulliver got beaten in the Women’s final on Saturday? My jaw dropped, as she got completely hammered by someone whose name could easily have been a 4-figure score in scrabble. Hurrah! Women’s Darts is another sport us Brits are officially shite at. Ahem.
I shall return soon with more non-hard drive related news, assuming my computer survives that long.
UPDATE:
Something which I must mention and have totally forgotten to in the last updates is that the gallery has had an update, and it’s not just any update. This one actually contains approximately 1,500 images, all courtesy (and copyright) of Andrew Dorrian, who shares my passion for abandoned places and demolition, and of course, streetlighting. The direct link is here. And you thought *I* liked streetlights.
On the subject of pictures, I found a CD I bought from the poundshop several years ago, packed full of “stock” images. Not clip-art, but actual photos. They’re so bad.
I shall be using these at some point in the near future on the site, but I won’t say when.
Oh, and I can’t leave this addendum without mentioning the feck-up of the week, by hosting company Dreamhost, who overcharged their customers to the sum of $7.5 million (link)
Ironically, I was thinking of changing my hosting to them a month or two back. Glad I didn’t. Not much point anyway when I can barely fill the disk space I have now!
