A Rubber Chicken With a Pulley in the Middle

This last week or so has flown by. Alas, I've not really had chance to do much in the way of blogging, so this is a catch up.

My weekend started early, I was on leave on Friday, giving time to have a lie in and then make my way over to Ceredigion. This, however, entailed cycling up to town to get my car that I'd abandoned in town when going for drinks that previous evening... During this brief period of activity I managed to have an asthma attack and discover (the hard way) that I really do need to improve my level of fitness. (cue operation BurtFit III) Made my way over Aber and met up with quite a lot of people I'd not seen in a long time, it was a really good night apart from my phone dying on me.

The original plans for Aber that weekend were cut short due to a few people dropping out/not being where they were going to be, however, this worked out for the better as on saturday some friends from school were going to be in the area, and suggested that we meet up for drinks. It was good to see people again, and also good to talk about the old days of school and the various characters that we once knew there... sometimes I'd really like to find out what some of them are up to, then again, I probably wouldn't be all that interested when I did find out.

Making my way back from Aber, I decided to take the mountain road, as there were a lot of people moving into town that day, and I thought that it might make the journey a bit more bearable to drive through the Elan valleys. However, in true mid Wales style, there was thick fog up there and I couldn't really see much further than the side of the road. this proved to be interesting when a startled sheep decided to run out in front of the car, luckily I managed to avoid it, but it did startle me as I was quite spaced out from driving through thick fog with very loud JMJ playing :)

I got Monkey Island running with the help of ScummVM which allows you to run other lucasarts games too :) Oh, does anyone have a decent MI ringtone? All the ones I've seen are shit.

There's been a few cockups with pay at work, and after also having my phone temporarily disconnected, I pointed out it was a bit like Milton in "office space" (they stop paying him after he's fired and just hope that he stops coming of his own accord). This prompted me to watch the film again tonight, and this little gem is so true, they've clearly worked where I do...

"We don't have a lot of time on this earth! We weren't meant to spend it this way. Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day... filling out useless forms... and listening to eight different bosses drone on about mission statements." - Peter Gibbons

Well, that's more than enough for one evening, it looks like I'm off to Cardiff again tomorrow, however this time Al is coming along too :D There's clubs, pubs and dodgy 80s bars on the cards, woo!


Current music: Svenson & Gielen - Fujirama