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Well Christmas was good and thankfully quiet, spent back near my original stomping grounds with my few remeaining blood relatives. I got a wonderful present of a Kindle Keyboard 3G and I must say it is wonderful. Id already pencilled in getting one for myself and had worked out that after about 4 months it would've paid for itself as I am now receiving my daily newspaper on the Kindle, and it works out to about 30 pence/day rather than a quid. During the free two weeks trial I picked up a paper copy of the newspaper and compared the two. The differences are minimal and not really noticeable, mainly there are less photos in the stories but there's also not the endless pages of useless adverts. I am thinking of becoming a Kindle hacker as the concept amuses me.
I haven't really been that social so far this year, only going out to the odd birthday drink or two here and there. I've just remembered that I am due to attend a wedding at the end of the week so will have to get my skates on and get all that sorted.
Work is officially killing me/driving me crazy. I've ended up as the "main contact" for a 60TB+ GPFS-based drive space that runs Tivoli's TSM/HSM and is offering a samba-based user service. As per usual, I don't feel like I've been given enough info on the intended usage and design of the space but I'm getting my head around the whole functional interplay. An engineer came in last week to make some changes along the recommendations/points I'd raised about the design and sure enough the drive stack has responded by freeing up a lot more space a lot more quickly. I may coax myself into trying to get qualified about the setup at some point. It'll be pricey but worth it I hope.
My health is not bearing up too well at the moment but I'm putting that down to the cold mainly. I think I've lost about 1 stone to a stone and a half since last December which I like to think is a working proof of my moveback then to change my food mechanics. I'm eating about the same amount of stuff, just in different amounts at different times. I'm feeling like I've got a bit more energy, generally sleepingbetter and not experiencing that terrible energy dip in the middle of the day that I was getting before.
Between my agency and my umbrella company I've not ben paid in over three months and I'm starting to get a bit pissed off with the to'ing and fro'ing of trying to get them to sort out/admit which one of them has fucked up. Still, I will be paid eventually.. and hopefully soon.
There seems to be very little going on for new late-night musical entertainment. I have to admit that I am drifting back towards hanging out with rockers. They've seem much more personable, more friendly than the usual crews of alternatives you find around London. They've got their hang-ups and social tiks
but they generally seem much more open to having a chat with you about just general stuff and nonsense rather than what can seem like a planned campaign of self-aggrandisement and social snobbery that I've experienced elsewhere. I actually feel like I've been accepted as an equal to a group rather than feeling like being amongst a group who are always trying to outdo each other in one way or another.
I may have been right about the lass I had "a moment" with before Christmas. I don't think she was into me more as into anybody who is around at the time. I may have dodged a bullet there. Shame really as she is damn cute. Still, good luck to her and the bloke she ended up with. They're both nice kids.
I may try and get tickets for Killing Joke at the Roundhouse, 21 March I think it is. I've never seen KJ live and I can imagine it'll be an experience.
My favourite phone went and parped it about a week ago, or rathr I piked it up one day and noticed that the battery compartment was rather hot. I'm guessing the battery has finally died so have order one off the interwebs which should be here hopefully in the next few days.
OK, that's enough blurb about the last month and a bit I think.