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 Well Christmas is over, and it’s the start of another year, I’m not a big fan of new years, something I believe I mentioned just over 12 months ago.
Funny reading back that 2008 was the year of the MCSE, well I’ve still not done anything about it yet, keep putting it off and work is too busy to make any proper plans. I am a bit more in to taking my pictures of stuff so I guess I can at least say I did something I planned to do!
Overall I’d say 2008 has been a bit shit, and not just because of this self-fulfilling credit crunch crap. I suppose it’s had its ups, but its downs have been more… down than I’d expected or prepared for and have left me kind of low for the last couple of months. Over Christmas I haven’t been able to stop myself imaging how things may have played out had the last couple of months turned out different.
2009 doesn’t look too promising so far. I’ll keep taking photos, and try and save some money for a rainy day or maybe that light at the end of tunnel. But as that famous philosopher John Lennon said (according to Google):
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
Still, there are new Star Trek and Harry Potter films this year, and Windows 7… what?!
Happy New Year everyone! \o/
Well it’s nearly Christmas, don’t have to go back to work until Jan 2nd. Done the Christmas shopping, everything has arrived some of it’s wrapped. I put the tree up a couple of weeks ago, so now it’s just a case of relaxing, playing some games, catching up on the Sky+.
Have a good Christmas, and a new year that doesn’t involve you being made redundant! \o/
*tries not to eat too much*
 Not much going on in the run up to Christmas.
Last week I was off work so had a chance to update the blog to WordPress 2.7 and add some of the photos I’ve taken over the last few months to my gallery and my Picasa page.
Tomorrow, apart from bringing me another year closer to death, marks the release of a game that has had my attention for the last couple of weeks since I started playing the demo, that game is (obviously) Left4Dead, despite my initial reservations that the game would get old and stale within a couple of plays I’ve so far, according to Steam, spent 10.5 hours in the last two weeks mercilessly slaughtering the living dead, and it has been immense fun! The real ‘fun’ is in the Expert difficulty mode, and until last night survival had alluded us, however after a tactical rethink we got through both demo levels just, although the team has yet to make it to the end without at least one sacrifice.
Going to be an unusually ‘busy’ week. Today at 5pm sees the release of the official HD trailer of the new Star Trek movie, a little nervous of what I’ve seen so far, but I’m getting the feeling it’s going to be a reimagining of the franchise, which will probably upset a lot of fans but bring in a lot more, which is probably what it needs, after all it’s not like the Star Trek movie franchise is a particularly stand out collection!
Tuesday is my birthday, the release of the aforementioned Left4Dead, and I should see the arrival of the components for my new Windows Home Server, my current server is stuffed to the brim with videos, music, photos, and backups. Hopefully with nearly 3TB of disk space it should make live easier storing my data and keeping up to date backups of the family PCs.
Then on Friday we have the release of Need for Speed: Undercover, a guilty pleasure of a game, I really enjoyed Need for Speed: Most Wanted and this game seems to be more of the same, which for me is no bad thing. I just really like the cop chases, no matter how much the AI cheats.
I suppose I should post a follow up to my last post “The Gamble”; well, my hand was forced as I’d suspected it might, as the person announced she was leaving! Took the ‘easy’ route and sent an email, got the nicest let down email I could have hoped for and after a couple of weeks of awkwardness things seem to be settling down.
Christmas leave is booked so it’s now just a case of powering through to mid December. Only 18 working days remain for 2008!
Well the LHC has let me down, here I am, still. The LHC came on did a test run and then promptly broke and with an 8 month repair time it looks I have no choice but to do something about these feelings I have for the person at work.
After months of consideration on the exact wording of what I should say, I’ve still not said anything to her. I’ve mentioned it to another person in the office but they didn’t drop the easy answers I was hoping for like “Oh, she’s married with two kids” or “Oh, she really likes you to!” or “She hates your guts!”.
I suppose the obvious issue is do I want to know the answer to my question? Right now after a crap day at work (such as today) I get that fuzzy feeling from the constant what-ifs running around in my head, but if I ask, then what? She might say yes, I think she’ll probably say no for all the reasons I’ve already mentioned. Plus obviously there will then be the embarrassment of seing her after she’s said no. Do I really want to have to go through that? Especially when there’s a walking, talking advert of why I shouldn’t say anything playing out right next door.
This issue is far and away the most stressful thing I’ve had to do, it even tops having to recite T.S. Eliots Macavity the mystery cat to the whole class in middle school.
Place your head between your legs and kiss your arse goodbye!
As everyone has heard Wednesday is the day the world ends*, Cerns LHC will be turned on, a black hole will be created and the earth will be sucked (blown?) into it. Get your affairs in order, leave a note out for the milkman, and keep that crowbar ready just in case the earth survives but is ravaged by freaking headhumpers.
* It would seem that Wednesday will only be the day when the machine is powered on, the experiment that destroys the earth won’t happen until a bit later.
That said the end of the universe would be a welcome respite against the continuing deafening blathering of my brain about a certain girl at work. Just over a month ago somebody said a throw away comment that made me realise my feelings for this person despite totally missing the signs for the last couple of years despite them being right in front of me jumping around and shouting.
The minute I wake up, stop working, or playing TF2, there she is again, my brain conjuring up increasingly ludicrous scenarios how we could talk properly without me risking humiliation. “We’re total opposites!” I say, “She is outgoing and sociable, the only people I see are at work and I try and avoid talking to them!”, “You hardly know her!” I say, “WTF would she be interested in you?!” I say, it can go on for hours looping around in my head never reaching a conclusion. I’m half hoping she will announce she is getting married and kill the whole idea dead, that… or the destruction of the universe, anything, as long as it doesn’t involve me actually having to do something about it!
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January 1st, 2009 | Category: 