A wonderful week charged by alcoholic extremes - heavy drinking on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. The remaining days saw no booze at all. May try and keep next week relatively sensible (although seven on Monday may not help ( Read more... )

Just sat through 3+ hours of Peter Jackson's King Kong. Can I please have that time back? Please. What was the f'in point of that? No seriously... I'm open to suggestion here ( Read more... )

Watched Mulholland Drive last night. Confusing? Yes. Worth watching? Definitely... unless you like your films incredibly simple and spelled out for you. Seriously, if you find Underworld (et al.) challenging, then avoid this. If you were intrigued by Donnie Darko and Memento, then you've probably already seen this anyway ( Read more... )

Finally managed to pay my tax. Feel so relieved it's ridiculous. Wasn't so bad in the end either - don't have to pay on account for next year, and I'd already paid a good chunk of this year's off. My bank balance isn't so healthy, but at least I didn't have to get a loan. Coming off deadline tomorrow, have confirmed trips to Berlin and San Fran, so ( Read more... )

Last week is a haze. Can't remember much at all... damn. Not through heavy drinking you understand.

Mon Jan 23 2006
2 x Pint Bath Spa Gem (4.7)
2 x double whiskey (4.0)

Units:8.7

Tue Jan 24 2006
1 x 1/2 bottle of red wine (4.5)

Units:4.5

Wed Jan 25 2006
1 x 1/2 bottle of red wine (4.5)

Units:4.5

Thu Jan 26 2006
4 x Pint of Guinness (9.8)

Units:9.8

Fri Jan ( Read more... )

Fairly social week over the last seven days, including an old school outing to Seven (there was talk that it was the last one, although this was drunken talk), a poker night with people I've never played with before and a format I have next to no experience of live, the wackiest japanese musical ever and more strangeness ( Read more... )

DJ Licensing

Story says it all really. The mind boggles that someone thought this was reasonable. I'm sure that £200 goes to the original owners as well, and isn't just shared out by the policing authority...

Had the last few days off work in order to take up my unused holiday entitlement from the previous year. Future doesn't let you transmogrify unused days into cash, but at the editor's discretion they can be used in January. As we came back to a particularly nasty deadline (and I picked up a horrible virus thing from my editor), I thought I'd grab ( Read more... )

I don’t think Darwin would approve, but sleeping through three fire alarms in a posh London hotel certainly has its benefits - an extra hours uninterrupted sleep if nothing else. Unsurprisingly excessive consumption of alcohol was involved mere hours before the Metropole didn’t burn down, although the general malaise felt this morning did leave me ( Read more... )

I'm currently sat in a 'How Microsoft Does IT' conference in Barcelona. Anyone want to swap with me? Horrendously hungover too...