I have no idea why this irks me, but on an advert for Yet Another Online Gambling Service, a close-up view is given of a woman tapping a touchpad, presumably to click.

And the touchpad makes a mouse-click sound. You know, that very distinctive hollow click, not fingernail-on-touchpad.

(I can test this empirically now, as I actually have fingernails for the first time in pretty much.. forever. I've been biting them to the quick on a regular basis for so long that it's a very odd sensation (almost like losing sensitivity in the first centimetre or so of my fingertips), and learning to trim and maintain the damnable things is trickier than one might imagine!)

Tags: grooming, tv
Current Mood: Plum jam on toast

I tend to have fairly fractured, unstructured and incomplete opinions and ideas about things (this is how my mind works; I'm unforgivingly even-handed and try to reconcile too many viewpoints to have much luck finding my own, but it normally gets some kind of result).

This is annoying, because I had an interesting opportunity last night to (re?-)meet someone I've sort-of-kind-of known for a few years now (but never actually /known/ except as an interesting name on the friends page). It's gotten me thinking about a lot of things as they relate to me, my wants and my needs, and I've spent a lot of today trying to get them down in some format that makes sense. And failing, quite a lot!

Still. It remains an open wiki entry and will be updated as and when things make sense, with a view towards completeness at some point. Then I'll post it here and probably even not blush too much about the whole thing, and people will know what messy coils of emotional and intellectual rargle are floating about my nogginbox. For now, I'm going to enjoy the fact that I'm home from work and get to have my weekend now, for a whole day and a half. Purr. :)

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It's raining, and it's nice. I'm still hoping for that storm the BBC were hinting at, despite it having dropped off all extant forecasts!

Current Mood: cheerful

In my current state, solving a problem (even an inconsequential, ten-minutes-of-fiddling one that really doesn't mean much of anything) is quite the ego boost. Reassurance is where you find it.

I may be no gushi, but I can go to bed happy now!

gushi is worth reading, by the way. He really knows his stuff and is interesting to peer over the shoulder of. o.O also he has about a million cute userpics (or at least three).

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: Placebo :: Something rotten

It's stupid-hot and much more humid by the day. But this is failing to bother me, because the result of it is the steadily building sensation of energy in the air. We're forecast storms tonight.

Mm, more storms. :)

(also, ten hours in work covering for another department even though ours is still wall-to-wall, but at least three of them were spent mainlining MSI, so I am happy! Although I still don't know why I've suddenly become addicted!)

Can't be arsed cooking. Sausage-in-batter-and-chips, mm!

Current Music: MSI :: Revenge

I had a nice evening yesterday. There were apples and flames and nice company that stayed until past midnight and Salad Fingers and me finding my [inherited from Arkhanis when he got an air conditioner] tower fan. So sleeping was actually bearable. Mm, coolness.

Also it was payday. Things can start getting good again now. :)

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Questions for you folks, because I'm curious:

Do you think it's possible to feel homesick for a place you've never lived?

And does tossing an apple core into a flowerbed or similar place-where-plants-live constitute littering?

The Divine Comedy have a way of taking fairly depressing topics and making them easy, enjoyable, even happy listening.

I think I approve of this.

I think.

Tags: music
Current Mood: uncomfortable
Current Music: The Divine Comedy :: Becoming more like Alfie

YES. I have waited altogether too long to start re-reading 8-bit Theatre. @.@

Also, Warbot in Accounting is delightful! Delightful, I say!

Now back to being exhausted, drinking cold drinks and staring into space.

Current Mood: amused

The 'free breakfast run' was a lie! But that's okay. Today's Overtime Tunes: everything by MSI, on shuffle. Purr.

I had a crap day. One of those ones that seems to go on for ever, and where everything that can go wrong, does, and you've got someone peering over your shoulder telling you all about it near constantly. Also I didn't get the less-icky job I applied for.

Then, upon reading my friends page I happened across one of bard_bloom's amusing posts. That perked me up considerably and put me in just the right frame of mind to grin a lot upon learning about upcoming nuptuals.

Now I feel more or less bouncy again!

Current Mood: cranky

"Do whatever it takes to make your life more worth living - just don't be mean." --Kate Bornstein

Try to keep this in mind. You worry too much, all the time.

Tags: ownreference

"Used to be, a man got a virus, he'd be laid up 'bout a few days then he's be right back out there kickin' ass. Now every time someone says 'Virus' it's the god-damn undead.

Miss them old days, boy."

Current Mood: cheerful

It has to be said. THank you to taldragon and lazynight for one of the best weekends in recent memory. I really needed it.

The orange juice and the reminder that I'm not very good with chopsticks were a nice bonus too! :)

*hugsboth*

Also, for the record, Prototype is very amusing. It's like Crackdown, but with fewer physical boundaries and more story/civilian casualties. It also has the following situation:

Jacel drives through Manhattan in an APC, running over passersby. The military shout 'Cease fire! It's one of ours!' Sie is happy.

It's stupidly hot in my room right now and I have no idea why. The windows are open, the heating's off.... eh. Maybe it's my latent hottitude.

Ohwell, bed shortly. Exam @8AM tomorrow. Wish me luck!

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I just drop-kicked a helicopter into another helicopter. I like this game.

terrana is the best thing ever, matched only by fresh, brand-new bedlinen.

Now, to bed, perchance to sleep.

hideyourarms.com have a gorgeous list of robot-themed T-shirts. I suspect drelonek will enjoy these if no-one else :)

[found via mind_hacks, as always]

Tags: links, t-shirts

Why no, Mr Metro Vendor, i don't seem to have a free hand to take your fine publication. You see, in my right hand is my phone, while the left is carrying the severed head of your LAST colleague to try and force a copy of it on me. I considered having to drop my bag to be a small price to pay for the benefit of this cautionary item!

Metro vendors: please be less pushy, especially when someone very obviously has their hands full. If i wanted a copy i'd come and ask for one. :p

http://www.rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-05-08

I think I like this comic. Although it also has this which makes me cringe slightly.

Also today the house smells of bleach. This is because I've been bleaching things. Yay corrosives! (also also spending half an hour with your hands in cold water teasing a year of accumulated crap out of the concertina folds of your vacuum cleaner's filter is not the best way to spend half an hour.)

Also also also, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air stopped being an accurate name about the time they started showing re-runs. Which was A DECADE AND A HALF AGO. @.x *cry*

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Cigarette Smoking Man was in The Outer Limits today, which I approve of. He was playing a fundamentalist, evil Christian, which I don't so much. And he didn't touch a Morley for the entire episode!

Silly incestual sci-fi-actor-community.

Tags: bleach, links
Current Mood: amused

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Originally uploaded by draigefydd

New stuff finally up on the photostream. There's not a lot that made it past my agressively strict self-filtering. But there's a bunch of family-related stuff from a few weekends ago, and one or two other this-and-that things.

Now, I'm going for a run.

The buffet lunches are getting smaller and smaller, but they're coming with bonus wildlife! One of the sandwiches had a teeeeeeny, half-inch-long slug amongst the foliage. When i told the kitchen staff (well, they'd want to know presumably), I got a double-take from them.

"A what?" *shocked stare*
"Yep."

Current Mood: surprised

snowfields thinks sea air smells blue. I think it smells a faint grey, 'like dry wood-smoke'.

Further thoughts?

Tags: concepts
Current Mood: curious

If I were to win (through some quirk of reality, since I never play it) a million pounds on the Euromillions, ( I'd buy this place )

That aside, today's been rather nice. The first day of the three-day IAQ 2 fast-track, in the run-up to the exam, which for me is in a week and a half. A reassuringly late start meant I was actually awake for a change (I got to sleep in until 8AM! Luxury!) and despite being done internally on L&G property (until the current Financial Hard Times it was outsourced to a local hotel), we were still provided tea/coffee at 10am/2pm, and a buffet lunch. A really big buffet lunch. To top it off, we even learned something! :D

Tomorrow is the FSA's Conduct of Business (COBS) rules, however - that promises to numb every mind in the place as it's basically a bunch of lists of things that are mandated and aren't and the types of client they apply to except in these cases which are subject to this or that exemption and so forth. Whimper. But it's worth fully half of the marks on the course, so best foot forward!

Speaking of which, I'm going to go and run off that lunch. Mmm-mm.

Tags: studies, wishes