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| Thursday, July 31st, 2008 | | 3:40 pm |
8th hour of the 8th day of the 8th month of the 8th year of the millenium.
I'm having a leaving job party in Oxford, well pub crawl, but you're all in London so its not relevant to y'all. Still but I thought I'd ask what was happening hisorically this time last millenium? now-1k: Æthelred the unready was being ill-advised (Wiki) now-2k: Jesus still thought girls were weird and wanted a scaeletric for christmas. | | 2:48 pm |
Camera Required
Hello, I would like a camera than has a pretty good memory capacity and makes it easy to take good pictures. Looks of camera unimportant. So cheap and automatic... do you guys have any good suggestions? Cameraphones or cameras considered. Stu | | Monday, July 28th, 2008 | | 3:33 pm |
| | Thursday, July 24th, 2008 | | 2:18 pm |
Back from Finland...
...with the lurgy. Might have to cancel the race on Sunday due to medical issues. Which is a shitter as I'm all trained up for it. I would do it with the slight fever, and even with the infected cut on the bottom of my foot*, but the lung infection is a bit of a show stopper on the half marathon leg. I think not this time, I will decide tomorrow. Of course its worse if I cancel... it means I have to stay fit and do the the real tough guy in the winter. *Death awaits* I'd post some pics of Finland but they all seem to be either of a drunken sexual positions game or benignly naked pictures in the sauna... neither of which are suitable for here I think. Just think a reunion of ten friends, with beer, food, idyllic log cabin by the lake, sauna, amusing finnishness, bbq'ing, etc. top banana. Right... I've almost achieved everything today... just need to email my boss and tell him why I didn't show this morning. I have a few weeks to rest up, finish my job, generally party pretty hard, then its off on expedition to Botswana! More on this later, Rah! Stu. P.S. Must start saving money. More on this later too I imagine. *when running from the sauna to the lake, one should at least put something on ones feet. Current Mood:  lethargicCurrent Music: bird song | | Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 | | 9:53 am |
Finland Finland Finland!
In burst of loyalty I've just bought tickets to go be with some old friends in finland next weekend (18-22). It should be relaxing and I haven't... well I just need to sort my car insurance out now... (eek!) | | Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 | | 10:12 am |
Chainsaw
I have a Chainsaw. Current Mood: artistic | | Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 | | 8:30 pm |
WIN^(5)
I spent both days of the weekend in work which: - provided peace and quiet to do quality programming WIN! - pays as overtime WIN!! - earns me Thursday and Friday off WIN!!! Last night I had meatballs cooked for me yesterday by a German who looks rather like Terry Hatcher in superman. UBERGEWINN Tonight I ran home from work. While running home from work isn't that unusual, I'm unsually quite wimpy with walking breaks on the steep sections. I hadn't run for a few weeks and feared the shambles I'd be as I set off at a conservative pace. I convinced myself to run the first steep section... then bootstrapped myself all the way to the start of the next hill section... then, still feeling fine, just ran the >2km hill home. Almost six unbroken miles more than half of which is uphill, with two steep sections, *without stopping*. This is a first for me in almost a decade! I officially rock! I had loads spare when I got home too... CROSS-TRAINING-NON-FATBOY-WIN! Oh and I finished the antibiotics! And am supping a pretty decent summer cocktail with a fairly debauched alcholo content. -> Weekend of WIN! Current Mood: accomplishedCurrent Music: Washing Machine | | Friday, June 20th, 2008 | | 12:21 pm |
The Sun
James, one of my best friends from highschool is on the front page of the Sun with a UFO story. You never think its going to happen to you do you... Its not that I don't believe in them, I think they are a statistical certainty. Its just, well, he is a normal well-travelled bloke and professional helicopter pilot... and I can't really doubt he saw what he saw. Agreed, what it actually was is another question enitrely. Stu. | | 9:34 am |
Taking strong antibiotics which have worse effects than the actual infection. Yuck... its taken about 3 days to build up to constant headaches and yucky flueyness. Well, that and the two pints I really wish I hadn't drunk last night. :-( S. | | Thursday, June 19th, 2008 | | 10:27 am |
| | Monday, June 16th, 2008 | | 5:06 pm |
Sunshine
Other than the job, Life is smilingly content. My sunshiney weekend full of much reading, sunbathing, imaginatively rude things, good food & bbqs, and general lazing around my own particular idyll (googlemap:ox11 8ns). Its great, but I guess I can think of a few improvements. Ideally, a vast amount of fitness so I wouldn't have to go running much for my upcoming race... what does HGH do exacly? Other than that, being introduced to a girl I really shouldn't be able to have*, might cure me of my machinegun monogamy malaise. Its all good though :-)! Stu. X *I have no particular girl in mind here. Obviously I'm not asking you to list your beautiful, intelligent and interesting girl-friends with pictures, a brief synopsis, and contact details here... heh, only a complete loser would ask that. Of course if you did, I wouldn't remonstrate it with you. And if you all chipped with a suggestion or two, and perhaps commented on others suggestions with stuff like 'Yes, that girl is chocolate!', and 'Rarrr**!' or maybe 'No, don't date her, she tortured and killed her last two boyfriends'. That kind of thing. **No, I'm not sure what it would mean either. Tiger!? Dog? Zombie? I guess if anyone says 'Rarrr!' I'll make sure I have protection*** and an escape plan. *** A bite proof outfit, a condom, and a baseball bat, in no particular order. Wow that date is looking pretty good already. Current Mood:  chipperCurrent Music: techie insults and slander | | 4:25 pm |
New Job Cheerfulness
So I talked with my new boss to be. Happy will I be as a Physicist again. Rarr! Its more about building instrumentation than building theory. This will be less romantic, but I'll be more competent :-) Not a bad trade off. Its all good :-) Current Mood: cheerfulCurrent Music: technician banter | | Friday, May 16th, 2008 | | 9:57 am |
News
Life, love, and l... l'profession I can't think of a nice alliterative third for this opening, but its all good :-) Things are just peachy. I have enough sex, money, travel, and general satisfaction to leave a goofy smile on my face. I'm tending inexorably toward fit too (I've signed up for a stupid race called the toughguy(ish) in July).I start as a Fusion plasma diagnostic physicist on the 1st September [yes, I got the JOB!]. My boss offered a raise and a sub-group if I'd stay, nice to be wanted! Its going to be amusing to hand in my resignation today, as although I like my boss and most of my colleagues, one of my superiors can fuck right off. Its hard to explain this situation, but my leaving will damn him, and for the good of mankind I will attempt to subtle*ly add to this damnation. Right, better go have coffee, work work work :-) Stu. *Anyone who knows me will be amused by me using this word... but seriously, I'll be invisible. Current Music: Dock of the Bay | | Monday, April 14th, 2008 | | 3:05 pm |
relationship
Happy blooming to car accident in a few relaxed days. A lesson learned. Current Mood:  sadCurrent Music: I wish I had music. | | Friday, April 11th, 2008 | | 1:31 pm |
Just watched hail falling on the criket field from a warm toasty pub. This time yesterday I was skiing in a snowdrome, it was brilliant to ski after so long (5 years?). I also spent a few minutes in virtual freefall (its been a dozen year since I did THAT). I climbed to the top of a tricky 10m climbing wall (after a lot of not climbing to the top), which felt ace to conquer! This was all part of a date! The girl... big tick for her. To top it all off I ran 5 miles so I'm a bit battered. Evening & Saturday plans: Nothing. Purrrr. | | Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 | | 12:07 pm |
| | Monday, April 7th, 2008 | | 1:07 pm |
Intelligent Design: Relationships
I can't think of the right term for it, but I've been thinking about how the basic that the norms of your social group become your norms. If your friends don't wash their hands after the toilet, or if they go running when they get up in the morninng, or they all get totally lashed on the weekend... well these become your norms, you will more and more get drawn into thinking this is a perfectly normal and right thing to do*. The effect is much more pronouced in couples, your worlds begin to bleed into each other. Any points of similar world view you share will strengthen and reinforce each other, allowing you both to laugh off contrary evidence, safe and happy with your shared view of the world. The more similar your views, morals, desires, and interests, the less friction is encountered. You both want adventure holidays, or both like getting trashed occassionally, no problems :-). If you are both tense/stressed people, or both optimistic, then these attributes will be amplified in you both due to the contact in the relationship. Indeed the point of the couple relationship must be to share life experience, amoungst other things. Its not just shared traits that are good either. I think combinations of traits can be very useful: if one of you is typically stressed and proactive and one typically chilled and reactive, thats not a bad combination overall. Psychologists also suggest that one introvert and one extrovert in a relationship works well in a long term relationship setting, which I've found to be true. So with these thoughts, I've been looking for a particular kind of girl. Someone adventurous/ brave and open minded, and honest, self improving, and interested/ inquisitive... because these are some of the things I think are important about myself and my life... and I'd like more of them... and obviously if we are open and honest with your needs, then thats just going to make an easy relationship. And if we both want to go off into the world and have adventures, then thats just chocolate. :-). Chilled is also great - I'm perhaps not as chilled as I could be. I've found someone who kind of makes the list look like a list. Going to ask her out this evening... she'll say yes, and we shall see what we shall see :-) *The side point to this musing is that you should surround yourself with people you want to be more like :-) | | Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 | | 1:29 pm |
I quite like BST, its the half the year when the clock in my car is correct. Current Mood:  & happyCurrent Music: Silence | | Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 | | 1:47 pm |
Its been my first relaxed day at work in weeks, and I'm pleased with myself! Four weeks ago I was given a month to do a project I stated it would take two months to do. Last Thursday I delivered it. It has been tested and deemed fully operational. An external contractor was asked to come up with a quote for a project, and they just returned £28k (now this is for something they've already done in other facilities - I had to recreate it from scratch). I can now prove I've earned my most of my paycheck this year. Today I shall be mostly browsing the internet. | | Thursday, February 14th, 2008 | | 11:41 am |
Proactive
So I just asked out a cute girl I've been interested in for a while. Unfortunately I asked her answerphone out really, but damn it cheered me up :-) I'm wearing the first smile I've had today! Free of the Maudlin X Current Mood: accomplished |
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