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8/24/08
05:16 pm - FUN
Spongebob Squarepants dubbed in German, just because. Hah.
Also... maybe love's not so bad as that. I can be a properly emo git sometimes, though at least I'm not as bad as Will on The Archers. Um, not that I've been listening to The Archers.
Um.
- Pointy
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8/20/08
06:36 pm - ISBN the Thirty-Third
( 0 552 13463 5 )
- Pointy
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8/19/08
07:35 pm - I feel awfully young sometimes.
I think this is shaping up to be one of those things that one regrets for a long time afterwards. I know it made me happy for a brief time, but I can't imagine what that's like now.
(Happiness Is Fleeting But Regret Lasts A Lifetime sounds like something one might find in a particularly depressing fortune cookie.)
- Pointy
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8/14/08
11:35 am - ISBN the Thirty-Second
( 0 330 02070 6 )
- Pointy
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11:17 am - ISBN the Thirty-First
( 978 0 00 715039 7 )
Yeah, gotten a bit behind again. Tsk.
- Pointy
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8/11/08
10:27 am - The Something Of Boris
Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish continue to be delightfully silly. Been watching The Adam & Joe show on 4oD too, hurrah for streaming telly.
- Pointy
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8/10/08
10:58 am - Ho ho ha ha hee hee hee
I seem to have come back round to "love sucks" again, only it's all sort of tired and washed out now, so it doesn't sting as much. I honestly don't think I could do this again, it's just too much.
- Pointy
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8/8/08
07:22 pm - DIEDIEDIEDIEDIE
See that? That's what the air outside is like at the moment. It's also the reason why there are few Buddhists or Naturalists on Lewis.
- Pointy
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8/6/08
10:31 pm - The B3TA treatment.
Well, I will go putting myself in the line of fire...
I am tickled. :D
- Pointy
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8/5/08
03:45 pm - MOVING OFFICE SUCKS.
YES IT DOES.
YARG.
- Pointy
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8/3/08
09:06 pm - "Don't you dare use the word 'party' as a verb in this shop!"
If it seems like I'm far away at the moment, it's because I probably am.
Did some rare socialising last night at this morning, stayed over at a friend's house. Spent yesterday voluntarily helping to move the contents of one of our buildings to the other; we're consolidating because the rent for both is just too high. Lower outgoings is good, but it's going to be cramped for quite a while to come. After that I was invited round for tea by one of my stepbrother's friends, with a group of his friends and some of his brothers, and I got to see a PS3 close up for the first time. Only game for it was Rainbow Six 2, but my word, so pretty on a 36" (I think) widescreen HD telly. Even prettier was GTAIV on the Xbox 360 - my God, the particle effects, and the water, and holy crap those lovely lovely explosions - and I also proved once again that I make good cannon fodder in Halo and still suck at Guitar Hero. So, though I barely slept last night and have spent most of today doing nothing but recovering, it was a lot of fun.
(Only a very small amount of whisky, before you ask. It was Jura, too. Mmmm, Jura.)
Pursuant to "Volunteers do it for free", there is on Wednesday a day trip for such types as do, organised by the local volunteer resource centre (Voluntary Action Lewis). So, I bought some iron-on printable t-shirt transfers and a cheap t-shirt, and will tomorrow emblazon said legend across said t-shirt. Crazy boy, Seagoon, crazy boy.
- Pointy
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7/29/08
10:52 pm - ISBN the Thirtieth
( 0 446 52774 2 )
- Pointy
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7/28/08
01:09 pm - People who should know better.
Alan Dean Foster keeps using "irregardless", and it makes me want to kipper him good. You're an author for crying out loud, don't you own a dictionary? And whoever proofread it is just as bad, but as I don't know their name I'll just have to settle for Mr. Foster.
- Pointy
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7/27/08
09:27 pm - ISBN the Twenty-Ninth
( 0 586 00835 7 )
- Pointy
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09:13 pm - ISBN the Twenty-Eighth
( 0 00 670799 8 )
- Pointy
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11:12 am - Irony is...
You can't tell someone that they're wonderful or beautiful, because the moment they start acting as though they are then they aren't any more. I think the trick must be to trust that that's what someone else sees in you, even if you don't for a moment believe it about yourself. For a long time I only knew what the second side was like and I just didn't believe those who saw good things in me. I'm starting to trust a little these days. I never saw the first side though, not until a few months ago, so now I'm hoping equally that someone out there will trust that I see in them what I say I have seen and continue to see.
I'm off in the desert with no map or compass with this thing. I don't know what's going to happen next. It's a little scary, and sometimes very lonely; I keep managing to forget that I'm not the only one, and when I do remember it's like realizing it for the first time all over again. Both a good and a bad thing; I do tend to wander off on my own sometimes.
This is all... strange.
- Pointy
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7/25/08
10:09 pm - Volunteers do it for free!
Today was the last day of our summer events week, culminating in a small performance for the strings group, and at the town hall in Stornoway a gig for those attending the Rock School. I went out at ten this morning and got back at ten tonight and I'm very glad I don't have to do that often. Not only was I photographer, but cameraman too, which I've never done before in my life at all, and I've still yet the joys of editing to master (not to mention having several hundred photos to go through too). In a way I'm glad I was only actually up at the Lews Castle College (where it was mostly taking place) for yesterday and today, as I think a week of running around with my camera would have made me keel over. How my boss managed it I don't know, even though busy is her normal speed; given that we're not a big organisation it was a pretty impressive week.
It may be of interest of some of you that one of the tutors hired to come over by Careers Scotland (part of the event was funded by them) was this guy, whose name I can't remember, nor that of the reasonably well known group that he was keyboardist for. Someone on my flist must surely be able to remind me, though.
Gad, I'm bushed.
- Pointy
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7/24/08
08:30 pm - Buhwuh?
Somehow, somehow last night at around 1 AM I managed to pick up the glass of water that was next to my bed and pour it over myself whilst about 90% asleep. I can't have knocked it in a bout of nocturnal thrashing as that would have sent it over the carpet instead, instead of the bed covers and my chest. So, that was very strange and an altogether unpleasant way to come to full consciousness at that time of night. Had to spend the rest of it on the sofa, which wasn't terribly comfortable.
It was pretty badly timed too, given that today I was photographing and filming for around five hours. I actually used the phrase "I can't sentence properly" after mangling my words repeatedly, later in the afternoon, I was that fuzzy-headed. No water by the bed tonight, so we'll see just how inventive my subconscious can get.
Behind with the ISBNs by two books now, but I'll catch up on the weekend.
- Pointy
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7/21/08
08:29 pm - It's That Man Again
I've wondered into the Archive.org Old Time Radio section. This has proved somewhat fatal. Hopefully it will be fatal for you lot too! Dimension X/X Minus One comprise the bulk of what I've been listening to, but this selection of Goon Shows is also worth a look as is I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (RIP, Humph), Hancock's Half Hour, and Just a Minute.
The Old Time Radio listing. Go nuts!
- Pointy
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7/19/08
10:17 pm - ISBN the Twenty-Seventh
( 1 85798 881 7 )
- Pointy
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