So I finally think i’m cracking.
I’ve not been out in too long, I’ve started to talk to myself! No kidding, I find myself just making comments to myself in my room, with no one around (lucky, but also creepy). So I think I may have to do some social activities soon just to get used to talking to other people.
If it carries on I’m going to start SERIOUSLY worrying myself.
Hmmm,
. So it would seem I haven’t posted here for a while, and as a number of people have told me that I really need to do an update (including Elaine) I suppose it might be a good time to get my arse into gear.
Well, it’s been a little bit of a hectic week to be honest, and not likely to stop. Everyone here is a little bit annoyed because of personal reasons, but I’m nicely floating along on a wave of really not caring too much, apart from now it’s 2005 and my �Get a developer job in a year� note (written when I started my current position) is now starting to loom. So I’m already thinking about what my next step is and researching (in my own time obviously) what’s out there. Not that I dislike my job, I don’t, I’m good at it (I feel) and I have some good colleagues. However testing was never for me, and I really don’t want to be in a job that I’m good enough to just follow the motions (something I can somewhat feel myself starting to slip into). So it’s going to be all too soon before I have to look to move on.
Lucky my situation may mean that I can be motivated to move on, because I should find out soon if I’m staying or going (from Derby) down to London, which I am dreading. So I figure if I do get moved to London I will have to start looking with a bit more activity, for a new role, in a new company hopefully back up north.
Because I have a lot to think about, mainly getting up towards Elaine, but also money issues will keep raising their ugly head as I am the worst at saving money.
Apart from that things aren’t moving very fast so I haven’t got much else to post.
Well last night was the inaugural session of the “Derby Texas Hold ‘Em Society”. Or in other words last night I played poker. Present were:
Marcus “Up the Anti” Randell
Simon “Under the Gun” Pickard
Adam “Small Blind” Waller
Greg “Shifty” Nash
And myself Owen “Bluffer” Evans
After a few rounds we all felt we had mastered the rules of Poker and the idea of Texas Hold ‘Em Game play, so we decided to put some money into the pot and start the book….
….and I was rubbish. It would seem that I have now already made myself a reputation for being a bluffer. I had a tendency not to want to drop out of hands, only when I decided the time was right for me to drop out I would realise that there would be only one other player left in it, at which point it seems like a waste to drop out. So you start playing the hand like it’s the best you could get. This also means that when you loose, you loose more. 
But the evening was a great laugh and a great introduction for us all into the game. Plus with so much wine/beer/vodka flowing it’s hard not to enjoy it.
Don’t think my other half was too happy with me playing though. Ah well it’s all for fun.
… the facts you can turn up when you are googling at work:
apparently:
Leap years are those years divisible by 4,
EXCEPT those divisible by 100,
EXCEPT those divisible by 400.
now i never knew anything of the exceptions to the rule. interesting.
Stolen from bbspot.
but funny
Geek Break Up Lines
11. (A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail? R
(A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail? R
(A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail? F
Relationship failed.
10. Now that Half Life 2 is out, I need to refocus my priorities.
9. You have been unsubscribed from my dating list. Please click this link to confirm.
8. I need a lover who understands that 20 hours a day on the Internet is normal.
7. I don’t think we should date any more, but we can still be on each other’s buddy lists.
6. I’d like a true beauty so I don’t have to spend so much time photoshopping your ugly face out of our photos.
5. It’s like in X-Men number 135, where Cyclops and Jean Grey (as The Phoenix)…
4. Let’s face it. You love Intel, and I’m an AMD man. It’s not going to work out.
3. What do you mean your EULA says that once I’ve removed the shrink wrap I can’t return it?
2. After you e-mailed me your full-body shot, I realized I was looking
for someone more feminine
1. So long and thanks for all the fish.
DISCLAIMER:
Don’t worry E,
not planning on using any.
love you.
Well as you can probably tell from the lack of posts I have managed, over the last week and a half I have had off, to keep away from computers and the internet in order to spend Christmas with those people special too me in my life.
Have had a brilliant Christmas and New Year, great to spend some time with Robert, Mum and Dad for Christmas and then with Elaine for New Year as well as fitting in time with other great friends such as Andy and co.
Been doing too much jet setting though and must have clocked up more miles over the last couple of weeks than in the months since I bought my car!
However being a working soul I have become aware of the meaning of Christmas for an Atheist like myself. Rather than being a celebration of the birth of Christ, the meaning for me was to celebrate the time I was given to spend with loved ones and with friends, allowing me to actually be nice and relaxed in there company.
To actually be around friends and family for an extended period is a blessing.
Best wishes to everyone for this new year.
PS. if anyone had trouble viewing the site over the past 2 days turned out my domain name had expired over the bank holiday so i didn’t get a reminder.
All sorted now and slowly sorting through the emails trickling in.
