So, there’s big project X at work, that’s eating up all available time for the next few months. Them emergency Y crops up and the solution to that could easily be incorporated as part of X, but it will probably need to be fixed sooner. And then long standing problem Z raises several of its hydra headed forms at once. Gah. I just know I’m going to be in a bad mood all weekend even though I’m going to be trying hard not to think about work at all.

This afternoon we’re off to see Hot Fuzz. It had better be bloody funny.

Very True Mood: grumpy

This popped up on my Word Press dashboard today: Web 2.0 or Star Wars. I got 35 out of 43. Not sure which side of my geekery helped the most.

Very True Mood: cheerful

Had a fantastic long weekend, four days of relaxing and enjoying ourselves.

Thursday night, left work and headed down to Croydon where ate at Wagamama’s (the Salmon Ramen is very good) before going to see Mitchell and Webb at the Fairfield Halls. I think this is the third time I’ve been to that particular venue - the first was to see Victor Borge some twenty years ago, and the second was to see the Rocky Horror Show about eight years ago. Anyway, Mitchell and Webb were just as good live as on the telly - some familiar sketches (taken to new extremes in a few cases) and some I didn’t recognise from the TV series.

Friday, we went up to the British Museum to see The Past from Above exhibition. Really breath taking stuff that really brought home just how vast the extent of human history is. Most parts of the world have see who knows how many lifetimes lived, with not a single line in the history that most of us know.

Also at the BM, was a (relatively) recently reopened gallery dedicated to the Enlightenment and hence the birth of the museum itself. It does a very good job of emulating what the BM is like in our secret thoughts - all book lined walls and eclectic displays.

Saturday, pink_weasel went to play at the Tate whilst I stayed home and read comics. But I did find time to visit West Norwood’s first ever farmer’s market (it’s going to be a regular event every two weeks) where I picked up some cheese and some welsh dragon sausages (pork and leek and chili). In the evening I left a very knackered Lettice in bed and went to Giroscope’s birthday bash in fitzrovia - Duke of York, for beer Palms of Goa for curry; and finally The Fitzroy Tavern, for more beer.

Sunday was a quiet day at home - my dad brought the second of two leather chairs, Lettice poured dye all over a book (on purpose) and we started watching Doctor Who - The Invasion (with the missing episodes filled in by animation). Though not the best animation in the world it captured the likenesses of the main characters well and was, of course, cleaner and smoother than the surviving ’60s live action episodes.

Today, we lay around in bed and then went to Croydon again to see Casino Royale. Possible the best Bond film ever. Certainly the best since the ’60s. Having a actor who can actually act certainly helps. It will be interesting to see what they do next time, now that they’ve done the whole “how Bond becomes Bond” bit, will they find something suitably interesting for Craig to get his teeth into for the sequel?

Phew. Back to work tomorrow where with any luck I’ll be holding second interviews for my assistant. With luck we’ll be able to make someone an offer at the end of the week and have them start very early in the new year. Which will mean that I should be able to take more than two days off next time.

Very True Mood: satisfied

My life has been rated:

Films in this category can be about anything, say ‘fuck’ a lot, probably get to see all sorts of guns and shooting, but no open heart surgery with a knife.
See what your rating is!
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Say Fuck a lot? Yep. See all sorts of guns and shooting? Despite living in South London, not so much. No open heart surgery with a knife? Thank fuck for that.

Via snapesbabe.

Via TMP.

photo © displacedminiatures

Right, hello, does this thing still work? Oh good.

Um, me, yes, what have I been up to? Ohhh, um, er, okay, not much actually, but enough, if you know what I mean. Which you probably don’t, ‘cos I’m being incoherent. Oh well, Sunday mornings are made for incoherence. Looks at clock. Ah, I’ve got six minutes to write this post or I’ll have to start being coherent.

Yesterday, pink_weasel and I went down to sunny Surrey to see my parents. Lunch at The Plough at Blockbrook, good as ever though they seem to be getting a bit over ambitious with the menu. Then shifting furniture so that the floor in the dining room can be ripped up and the damp problem finally solved after all these years.

Back home with new footstool to go with the chair we liberated last time we were down there. Faffed about for a bit and then…

How amazing was Doctor Who?

Wow. Brilliant. Proper review type thingy later.

This afternoon off to see Pirates at the cinema in Croydon. And this week we have a Bollywood movie being filmed in the office, whilst we’re working; an Idle Spec meeting; and the office summer party at some OTT bar/restaurant/lounge place up in Camden; and if I’m not too hungover the next day back up to North London to see Drill Queen play. Gah.

Bugger. 12:01. Time to start making sense.

[Update] - Interesting, Word Press is stuck on GMT so I manually edited the time stamp on this post to make sense in relation to the content. But as that’s in the future as far as Word Press is concerned it isn’t displaying the post. I hope it will display in an hour’s time. Anyone know of a WP hack to make it understand daylight saving? Otherwise, well changing the time zone setting twice a year is the sort of thing more likely to be forgotten than not.

Via lonemagpie

What Star Wars Jedi or Sith character is most like your personality?

( Someone I had to look up on Wikipedia... )

Very True Mood: silly

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Which Doctor Who are you?
this quiz was made by Auntie Krizu(:>)

Via sharikkamur

( Star Wars Personality Quiz )

I was tied between Qui-Gon Jinn and Han Solo this morning, now I’m one percent more QGJ. That’s just not fair!

Very True Mood: irritated

So Lettice finished her thesis and yesterday we got it printed and bound. Then we went shopping (3 for 2 books, and a couple of cheap-ish Doctor Who DVDs, stories I’ve either never seen or not seen since they were first broadcast) and then to the cinema to see Underworld Evolution which had lots of Kate Beckinsale’s shiny bottom for the boys and lots of Scott Speedman’s naked chest for the girls and not much in the way of a plot, but still quite fun. Today, we’re off to Brixton for lunch and socialising.

365 days ago I made a post about things I was looking forward to in 2005. How did they turn out?

Obviously, getting married and the subsequent honeymoon was fabulous beyond words. (If you haven’t seen them already Lettice has stuck a whole load of photos online.) Also on a personal front I moved house and got a new job, so a very good year.

Doctor Who was incredible. Listened to some of the commentaries on the DVD box set (and is that a wastfeul piece of pacakaging or what?) yesterday and was thrilled all over again by the passion and dedication of the people who brought the Doctor back.

The market share of Internet Explorer did continue to fall. On the SFSFW site it fell from 77% to 67%. This is also the year that Opera became totally free. I also finally got around to learning a bit of XSLT which I’ve been meaning to do for ages.

Serenity was the best film of the year for me (yes I have middle-brow sci-fi tastes, didn’t you know?) and well worth the wait. Can we have a sequel (or two or three or…) please? Batman Begins and The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse were also very good whilst The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Revenge of the Sith were better than expected (but as we expected total train wrecks that’s not actually saying much).

And finally, I was looking forward to the general election, but it turned out a bit dull. It did give us one last chance to be rude about Tim Collins before he vanished into well deserved oblivion. But for my political fix this year I’ve been watching the post-election leadership battles (Brown vs. Blair; Davies vs. Cameron; everyone vs. Kennedy) with much glee. Politicians spending so much time shafting each other means, we can but hope, that they have less time for shafting us.

Good things I didn’t predict at the start of last year included, Wales winning a Grand Slam; England winning the Ashes; London winning the Olympics; Judge Jones putting both boots into the Intelligent Design movement.