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My day ended in a high. 3 reasons. One it's Friday tomorrow. Two, I got my new development work-stream at work which going to be amazingly super fun to do. Three, I walked into a shop and they use our software. I was like, dude yeah!
Also I've got another night run tomorrow, I've got no serious bugs outstanding. Great feeling. Really got into my journey of Zelda today: I even played during the emergency fire drill. It was the most productive fire drill I'd had in years!
My new work stream is going to be quite challenging as its a research type one where I'll need to investigate, discover, learn and report back to potentially have brain storming, workshops - which I guess can be tricky and challenging. I'm looking forward to it though! I love the fun I have learning new technology, so I'm pretty optimistic.
I'm pretty preoccupied with testing at the moment and I spent today working on an issue and doing stuff with the QA team. I'm also maybe a little preoccupied with my...er, Nintendo - Don't tell no one though!
I had my first "Detox" type juice today which looked like 7 kinds of ugliness from the onset. It was a concoction of cucumber, spirulina, healthy ingredient x, smart ingredient y and something else that was green. Must have had some apple too because it wasn't that bad tasting. Threw in a beetroot shot with my lunch today and finished off my day with yet another fruit juice. working next to a Planet Organic will do that, I suppose.
We had a retrospective meeting today. It was pretty good. I had opportunity to make some great points which I thought were useful to the team. It was long though. Still pretty weary with the antibiotics killing everything it finds - its kinda like a nuke. Sounds disturbingly like cancer doesn't it?
Still haven't taken leave, this is becoming silly. I feel like playing Xbox when I get home and do some reading, I've missed my reading of late.
Saw a Ducati 1000 Sport today while taking a stroll into London with some guys from work. Really cool. If I got a motorbike(which, to be clear im not...I think, no seriously I'm not) it would be a Ducati 1000 Sport. It's the same bike Flynn's son Chris uses in Tron Legacy.
I've been thinking about now is playing guitar today and I'm ready to ease into tonight and forget the world, the people I know, the emails waiting for me and well, everything...
Also I've got another night run tomorrow, I've got no serious bugs outstanding. Great feeling. Really got into my journey of Zelda today: I even played during the emergency fire drill. It was the most productive fire drill I'd had in years!
My new work stream is going to be quite challenging as its a research type one where I'll need to investigate, discover, learn and report back to potentially have brain storming, workshops - which I guess can be tricky and challenging. I'm looking forward to it though! I love the fun I have learning new technology, so I'm pretty optimistic.
I'm pretty preoccupied with testing at the moment and I spent today working on an issue and doing stuff with the QA team. I'm also maybe a little preoccupied with my...er, Nintendo - Don't tell no one though!
I had my first "Detox" type juice today which looked like 7 kinds of ugliness from the onset. It was a concoction of cucumber, spirulina, healthy ingredient x, smart ingredient y and something else that was green. Must have had some apple too because it wasn't that bad tasting. Threw in a beetroot shot with my lunch today and finished off my day with yet another fruit juice. working next to a Planet Organic will do that, I suppose.
We had a retrospective meeting today. It was pretty good. I had opportunity to make some great points which I thought were useful to the team. It was long though. Still pretty weary with the antibiotics killing everything it finds - its kinda like a nuke. Sounds disturbingly like cancer doesn't it?
Still haven't taken leave, this is becoming silly. I feel like playing Xbox when I get home and do some reading, I've missed my reading of late.
Saw a Ducati 1000 Sport today while taking a stroll into London with some guys from work. Really cool. If I got a motorbike(which, to be clear im not...I think, no seriously I'm not) it would be a Ducati 1000 Sport. It's the same bike Flynn's son Chris uses in Tron Legacy.
I've been thinking about now is playing guitar today and I'm ready to ease into tonight and forget the world, the people I know, the emails waiting for me and well, everything...
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Today had an air of odd about itself today. Dunno what it was but I was perpetually occupied by what seemed like nothing. People came and people went, I went in and out of meetings, I wondered about at lunch time. People today just all sounded the same. I was reminded about it during my run tonight, just traffic passing by. Maybe it's the pain & the antibiotics? I'm sure that's probably what it is.
I had 2 quirky thoughts today. One; so if you're going to go to a restaurant and eat out, why can't you phone, book online your table, your number of people, the meal(or their meals), book a time and have the food ready to eat when you arrive! Sure, they can keep it warm in warm ovens. That way you get there, you're hungry, that's all you really care about and you can eat. I can't think of any single conversation I want to have, more interesting or more important than me and my food while being hungry. So, we strike that pre-eat stupid boring I-have-nothing-really-i-want-do-say-but-eat conversation and let the in-flight meal and post-flight meal conversation get all the attention. Cos, you want to go out abd chat but just nog before you eat. Well, me anyway, I guess. If I ran a restaurant, that's what I would do.
The other thought I had was not really quirky at all, it's more...I guess, normal.
Marriage is not taken nearly seriously enough as it should be.
My attention was drawn to a celebrity break-up today and then I suddenly remembered a scene from my childhood where me, my mom and dad where in the kitchen I don't know why that brings it home for me but it really struck home how long my parents have been married for, not only that but how balanced both my parents are towards each other. Never animosity, never jealousy, no funny business just mature, well rounded and almost fierce commitment to 'the cause' of marriage. Very responsible, grown up kind of commitment. I suppose what I do know now, being apart of that marriage during my upbringing, now reflecting back, is how much my parents respected each other. Sure, they loved each other but above everything, they respected each other and equally they must trust each other with the same commitment. They cared about each others opinion. They were sure about getting married.
The other thing is, marriage is a lock, i guess that sounds wierd, but it is, it's a commitment that you are willing to put up with, and make compromises to get what you get now. Because, what you get now, you'll get forever, till death do you part - unless you divorce obviously but that's cheating. You have to be so so sure about the power and potential control you're potentially giving up the other person and hoping that they have the same respect, commitment and love as you do, and then know for sure that what you have now, you always want from your relationship, quality of life, mind-set etc...
Hmm, bit random.
Besides those two earth-shatteringly, mind-blowing thoughts, I listened to Aerosmith all day: I have a special affinity for 'Crazy' and can play that track back million of times. That said, I funnily enough have 'Crazy' by Gnarls Barkley and 'Butterfly' by Crazy Town which I like also. All very crazy... see that, that there be a terrible, rehearsed pun which in hindsight was utterly deplorable. Quirky. Silly. Terrible : That's the general realisation trend for that pun attempt.
I woke up at 1am last night...for no reason whatsoever. I even got up, walked around, then wondered why the hell I was walking about and for what reason and then pretty much daintily fainted back to bed. This must have all happened in the space of 2 minutes. Odd. very slightly hugely majorly weirdly odd.
Yesterday, I bought The Legend Of Zelda for my DS and played it today between product testing. Wowee it's a cool game. Other exciting snippets of today include my mouse breaking, a power outage, a night-time run and yet again my hopelessly attempt to take holiday.
Oh I remembered my second quirky thought today. We should have heated toilet seats. However, I figure the risk, if you somehow get the electrics(because you have to have that right?) mixed up with water, one would experience awareness beyond most comprehension and this quickly outweighed my initial seemingly brilliant thought of a hot-bum-on-seat idea. Which, during winter would be ideal.
Started reading my Java book. Got through one chapter and passed out. That's about the size it. In fact, I'm going to do it again tonight, it's like a instant sleeping pill, one hit and your out.
I had 2 quirky thoughts today. One; so if you're going to go to a restaurant and eat out, why can't you phone, book online your table, your number of people, the meal(or their meals), book a time and have the food ready to eat when you arrive! Sure, they can keep it warm in warm ovens. That way you get there, you're hungry, that's all you really care about and you can eat. I can't think of any single conversation I want to have, more interesting or more important than me and my food while being hungry. So, we strike that pre-eat stupid boring I-have-nothing-really-i-want-do-say-but-eat conversation and let the in-flight meal and post-flight meal conversation get all the attention. Cos, you want to go out abd chat but just nog before you eat. Well, me anyway, I guess. If I ran a restaurant, that's what I would do.
The other thought I had was not really quirky at all, it's more...I guess, normal.
Marriage is not taken nearly seriously enough as it should be.
My attention was drawn to a celebrity break-up today and then I suddenly remembered a scene from my childhood where me, my mom and dad where in the kitchen I don't know why that brings it home for me but it really struck home how long my parents have been married for, not only that but how balanced both my parents are towards each other. Never animosity, never jealousy, no funny business just mature, well rounded and almost fierce commitment to 'the cause' of marriage. Very responsible, grown up kind of commitment. I suppose what I do know now, being apart of that marriage during my upbringing, now reflecting back, is how much my parents respected each other. Sure, they loved each other but above everything, they respected each other and equally they must trust each other with the same commitment. They cared about each others opinion. They were sure about getting married.
The other thing is, marriage is a lock, i guess that sounds wierd, but it is, it's a commitment that you are willing to put up with, and make compromises to get what you get now. Because, what you get now, you'll get forever, till death do you part - unless you divorce obviously but that's cheating. You have to be so so sure about the power and potential control you're potentially giving up the other person and hoping that they have the same respect, commitment and love as you do, and then know for sure that what you have now, you always want from your relationship, quality of life, mind-set etc...
Hmm, bit random.
Besides those two earth-shatteringly, mind-blowing thoughts, I listened to Aerosmith all day: I have a special affinity for 'Crazy' and can play that track back million of times. That said, I funnily enough have 'Crazy' by Gnarls Barkley and 'Butterfly' by Crazy Town which I like also. All very crazy... see that, that there be a terrible, rehearsed pun which in hindsight was utterly deplorable. Quirky. Silly. Terrible : That's the general realisation trend for that pun attempt.
I woke up at 1am last night...for no reason whatsoever. I even got up, walked around, then wondered why the hell I was walking about and for what reason and then pretty much daintily fainted back to bed. This must have all happened in the space of 2 minutes. Odd. very slightly hugely majorly weirdly odd.
Yesterday, I bought The Legend Of Zelda for my DS and played it today between product testing. Wowee it's a cool game. Other exciting snippets of today include my mouse breaking, a power outage, a night-time run and yet again my hopelessly attempt to take holiday.
Oh I remembered my second quirky thought today. We should have heated toilet seats. However, I figure the risk, if you somehow get the electrics(because you have to have that right?) mixed up with water, one would experience awareness beyond most comprehension and this quickly outweighed my initial seemingly brilliant thought of a hot-bum-on-seat idea. Which, during winter would be ideal.
Started reading my Java book. Got through one chapter and passed out. That's about the size it. In fact, I'm going to do it again tonight, it's like a instant sleeping pill, one hit and your out.
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Whitney Houston died yesterday. Britney Murphey died, so did Any Winehouse. Heath Ledger died also.
Maybe us normal people, if indeed that is what we are, live longer than our celebrity counterparts. That or we just hear about their deaths more than our own(That sounds weird). One exception is Ozzy Osbourne - He just refuses to die.
I was sitting in the dentist waiting room today getting bored and I started watching the fishes in the aquarium, which I must say makes my dentist somewhat unique I think. Again, another assumption I make as I've not been to another Dentist before...
Anyway it is said that Everyman lives a life of quiet desperation. Moments in boredom that we yearn, think, reflect and generally know that we're doing nothing right then, but we're ok with it, but we don't know quite what else to do and it feels strange. It's desperation. For something. Humans are funny that way I guess. What do fish yearn for? Or any animal for that matter? Odd, almost strange thought. Even odder when you wonder about what the answer is. Strange day today is.
As it happens my optimistic view that my dentist appointments have come to an end are unfounded: I got a tooth infection, I got antibiotics and I got an appointment for next week. Root canal. Go figure.
Still, life is grand. I got to clean my apartment again: one thing about ordering out is you get containers, truck-load of containers. Pizza boxes are the worst because you got to cut them down to size to throw them away. Plastic sealed containers just take space in the trash. Oh and you got to take the trash out. Responsibility is this niggling thing. I do like the feeling after you've done it.
Routine. Thats what I need. More routine. Isn't it routine that slowly corrodes our existence into a monotonous, lethargic tablet that we take each day hoping that it will cure an underlying disease we don't have? I guess. Maybe I don't need routine then. Do I really need anything?
I guess this is the question.
What do fish yearn for?
Maybe us normal people, if indeed that is what we are, live longer than our celebrity counterparts. That or we just hear about their deaths more than our own(That sounds weird). One exception is Ozzy Osbourne - He just refuses to die.
I was sitting in the dentist waiting room today getting bored and I started watching the fishes in the aquarium, which I must say makes my dentist somewhat unique I think. Again, another assumption I make as I've not been to another Dentist before...
Anyway it is said that Everyman lives a life of quiet desperation. Moments in boredom that we yearn, think, reflect and generally know that we're doing nothing right then, but we're ok with it, but we don't know quite what else to do and it feels strange. It's desperation. For something. Humans are funny that way I guess. What do fish yearn for? Or any animal for that matter? Odd, almost strange thought. Even odder when you wonder about what the answer is. Strange day today is.
As it happens my optimistic view that my dentist appointments have come to an end are unfounded: I got a tooth infection, I got antibiotics and I got an appointment for next week. Root canal. Go figure.
Still, life is grand. I got to clean my apartment again: one thing about ordering out is you get containers, truck-load of containers. Pizza boxes are the worst because you got to cut them down to size to throw them away. Plastic sealed containers just take space in the trash. Oh and you got to take the trash out. Responsibility is this niggling thing. I do like the feeling after you've done it.
Routine. Thats what I need. More routine. Isn't it routine that slowly corrodes our existence into a monotonous, lethargic tablet that we take each day hoping that it will cure an underlying disease we don't have? I guess. Maybe I don't need routine then. Do I really need anything?
I guess this is the question.
What do fish yearn for?
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