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After avidly reading a family's journal for the past few months, i have decided that this journal shall be less about me and more random and topical, but nevertheless hoplessy devoted  to nonscence. There will still be an occasional me time, but it's really not that interesting, so let's not go there.

My topic for today is the 1984 film Clash Of The Titans a film i first saw when i was 8 or nine yeard old, 10 at a push and have only seen a couple of times since, so as it was on TV this afternoon you can imagine my immense joy that i got to see it again after many many years. There were a few things that i found eerie as a kid, namely Medusa, but it's funny how the mind forgets or blanks out some of the more eerie even scarier still things such as the deformed Calibos or the skeleton "ferryman". Sure the then cutting edge stop motion animation was getting tired, and now looks dated, but that doesn't take anything away from it being a great & fun fantaasy movie involving greek mythology.

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In other news as evening dre close i happened to look out the window at a gorgeous blue/pink/purple/orange sky and tried my best to get it on my webcam (Till i eventually do get round to buying the digital camra - i have the means, ijust am picky about buying a capable one) So here are some pretty pictures:










So where are these pretty pictues you ask? I know. I tried. These pictures do the skies absolutetly no justice with the first two looking like an atom bomb has landed but these pics will be infrequent so let's hope the next one are digital yes?

I know, i know, i've been neglecting this journal, already. I've been saying to myself "I'll do it tonight, i'll do it tonight" but never actually got round to it. Plus i've had a lot of updates to write up for Soap Wars this week as i've been slacking off, as well as trying to keep Living With Nature alive.

Thankfully the overtime did end last Friday at work so at least i get to go home at my normal time again, although it took a bit of getting used to again! Also at work we've now having yearly assesments, i had to do a self assesment sheet like everyone, strengths, weaknesses, and the boss and the supervisor had to do one on the workers too. Then sometime we'll get an interview with the boss to see how we're doing and "chat". I'm not too worried as i work hard and they know i'm a good worker, it's just the hassle..

Over the week i've been talking to a friend from work on msn and might be getting a new webcam for free as he's upgrading. My online friends may finally be able to see me at nigh, although, mostly i'm looking forward to these Skype parties we've talked about more. Voicing, films etc. I might also begetting a digital camera soon after seing my friend last week. I'm more convinced, and it would mean i could actually do some photography, a passion i've always wanted to induldge in more than i have.

Not much else to add really. Bit fed up as there's someone on msn who jumps on me everytime i turn Mozilla Firefox on, don't mind talking to him bt evertime i came on he jumps on me and i'm not always in a chatty mood. Especially like last night when i'd juuuust got home from work. I just need some chill out time to myself for a bit.

meh.

First of all you may have noticed the lack of entry for yesterday, no i haven't given up already, i just didn''t have anything interesting to say. Again it was a very average day, still doing overtime at work , still tired so i don't feel like talking to people. It wasn't worth typing and would've been shorter than yesterday's entry, believe me!
We, hopefully today was the last day of overtime as it is tiring, but at least i have made some extra money. When i get it at the end of october i reckon i'll have £80 which i will put in my other bank account for xmas. That way, when i do start xmas shopping i won't have to worry what i'm spending and can get some nice presents for my family this Christmas, without having to worry about the pennies. Oh and i lost my grey beanie hat on the way to work too. I was carrying a large box to work, a steam cleaning kit, (Leant to me by a co-worker for removing the wallpaper, and i defrosted the fridge with it tis morning which only took a record 10 - 15 minutes!). As the rain had eased off, i put the hat in my trouser pocket so i knew it was there and could feel it was there, but outside the school i realised i had lost it. Luckily, after searching along the very long main road home, i found it, but not there, only down the road from me, in the road. It looked like roadkiill, but least i found it and it wasn't on a pavement where a dog could have peed on it. So not lost after all and having a wash tommorrow with all my other washing.
I watched some more of My Beast Wars Transformers episodes, including the fist of one of the ones i downloaded, and the quality i got was amazing!! Great picture quality. I am having a bit of a drink tonight, but as i can't afford prober alcohol, i'm making do with meh cider, it's only enough to get me relaxed, need proper alchol for anything else, not cider. So feel very relaxed. So now i've written this (and early too toinight!), i will turn msn on and see who's about and check my forums again since i got home.



Okay the above is from Beast Wars Neo not Beast Wars but ssssh!...

Didn't i say it comes in threes? Trouble?.. After the bucket incident and another thing the third happened at work again  leaving me so pissed oof i didn't even feel like talking to my friends on msn. I just wannted to be left alone.
Basically someone was out so i and the toher persona i had been doing overtime with recently had to cover their work, doing a block in two hours, a block which is large with an upstairs and downstair and usually has three - four hours on it. And the supervisor moans when the sides are black with dust? We can only do so much, why isn't she questioning why it's black in the first place and the person who usually does it, not snapping at me just because she's in a bad mood. Grrr! She was a right tw*t lat night and i can't even be bothered to write anymore tonight!

A  good title as that describes today perfectly, a non-day, nothing really specially happened, mostly a non sequitur day. I thought of that at work y'know..
Got a new member on Living With Nature to my - HUGE surprise. He registered yeaterday and is from the UK, Wales actually and is studying for something in the animal career category, and he posts alot!! Vary enthusiastic and obviously loves animals alot, a dream member. At work i started of not very ahppy at all as i had started subconciously thinking about the rent next week and how i was going to pay it. I worked something out thanks to talking to my work collogue i was with that day so was happier by the time i left work, alot happier. Last day over overtime hopefully. extra money, but tiring. Also on the way home the moon looked eerie again, it's starting to bug me now!
Got home to find two of my dowloads of transformers had finished!! Unfortunetly i had to leave work later because the head was still in, so it was near Jala's time for horn practice but got a bit of a word in. Watched Transformers Galaxy Force episode 2, enjoyed It's in japanese with English subtitles but in a way i prefer it over the American version for several reasons: Original voices, no cheesy accents like US dubs do, Transformers are Transformers!!, it's not right giving them accents!! ANd 2) The themes are better!! What a TF series theme should be! I wasn't prepared for the beautiful end music, even if it was in Japanese!! I fell in love with that end theme straight away. My immediate thoughts were ripping it from the cartoon and turning it into a .wave so Jala could listen to it, as i KNEW she'd appreciate it and would love the music. And i was right of course, she did.
Got one set of updates done on Soap wars but not only did Jala yahoo me a friend in real life did just before and we had a looooong chat. Still need to get these updates done, even though it is 1:15am. Talked to Jala on ms, kates as well with listening to that japanese Transformers theme over and over again!! So that's it, non-sequitur, a non-day, where nothing much really happened, Until tommorrow.

I'm sure there was something else i was gonna add about getting home of after getting home but can't think what it was now, maybe i'll remember for tommorrow.

Monday 19th September 2005.

I'm not sure what that quote from the first half of that title is from, what movie... (Answers on a postcard..) Actually i think it's Spaceballs!! Just came to me! After they're combing the desert, Dark Helmet: "Found anything?" Trooper: "We ain't found s**t!"
Anyway, I actually have alot to write today! Mostly random, but better than nowt. WARNING: Slight rant ahead.. I went down town today to pay the rent, also stopped in woolworths to look and see if the transformers were back, they were'nt. I started to wonder how i'm gonna pay next weeks rent, i'm getting very short on money. It's all because of that Monster truck show i went to at the end of August, now don't get me wrong i'm glad i went, but it has left me short this month. But i hadn't had a night out in forever!! Originally i only planned to spend £15 but i ended spending £30, it was £10 to get in and i used another £10 for change for bus fair and camera film and batteries. Only to find that's it's been so long since i went out that the buses from Fareham to my town stop service after 9pm now!!
What the hell is all that about?! The show didn't finish till 9pm, i didn't get to the bus station till 9:40pm.. And all because the bus drivers are scared of getting abused or attacked... There was a time when the last bus was 10 or even 11pm, but now - 9pm?!! There was one in 40 minutes time but i wasn't prepared to wait (Seeing as i had got caught out in the rain with some strange notion of the weather holding off, and thereby was soaked to the skin! How i never got phenumonia or even a cold i'll never know.. Anywaaays, i had to draw another £10 out for a taxi, it actually cost £7. 50. Although i enjoyed the night out and i deserved it, I'm feeling the pinch of money strain this month... Good job i'm doing overtime..
On a lighter note, work was a bore, no really, there is a lighter note.. Whilst at the school i managed to get the mop stuck in the bucket when wringing it out and the bucket (a rectangular thing on wheels), completely fell over spilling water across the classroom.. Lucky it was only the CDT (Craft Design Technology) room, on a tiled floor, so it was recoverable. Even if did take several minutes to mop up with crappy flat mops that we have to use. After work i got 10 minutes from home and was walking down the cycletrack when i noticed the moon, which really caught my eye tonight. It was a very eerie shade of yellow!! Very... spooky! I wished i had my camera with me, i'm trying to use up the rest of the film from Monster truck night anyway.
When i got home i decided i would take the rubbish out and take my camera out too to capture it. Unfortunetly when i got home the clouds were obscuring it alot, dark clouds, but i took a photograph anyway. I waited 5 minutes as it was starting to clear and took another one. Back upstairs at my flat i looked out my back bedroom window at it but it seemed to glow normally so i was a bit miffed about it all really. None of these photos on the film might not come out anyway... Considering the trouble i had getting the film into my APS camera..
Talked to a friend on msn for the rest of the night with plenty of tea in between. Also sent an e-mail to a friend at work who's birthday it is, the one who gave me a virus over the weekend (Grrr!). I've calmed down about that and unblocked him but i needed some space to cool off. I know it wasn't his fault, he didn't know, nor did i, but given what i had to go through i was understandablly a bit pi**ed.

29th march 2004 - My sister came down today (Monday) with my two little neices. I had only expected to see the youngest thinking the bigger one would be unfortunetly at school, happily she had a day off school so it was very nice to see them both again especially as i hadn't seen them since xmas.

 

Recieved more nice belated birthday presents, another nice pair of jeans, pack of boxer shorts and a cool t-shirt to which i love the colour (think of the colour of the last Outpost and it's almost the exact same baby blue!), to which i'll wear saturday.

We wen to Stanley Park (Local town sceneic park) where i raced my eldest neice (7yrs) down the little hills as she had her scooter with her. Had a spot of lunch in the park then me and my two nieces, the youngest being 3, had a game of football on the grass, follwed by more races We then went on to the nearby local beach (Just by the park) and threw stones in the sea and looked for interesting pebbles and seashells (mainly pebbles) before cutting back through the park (more races - very tiring!) to the car where they dropped me off home before leaving.

 

It was really nice to see them again, especially my neices. More than that it was a nice day especially given it was the anniversary of my mother's death, exactly to years to the day on March the 29th. And the weather was very nice, i amost didn't want to go to work in the afternoon, i could've stayed on the beach all afternoon; but unfortunelt i did have to go to work but kept to myself, given the day.

 

Today - Finally went to the cemetary, will have to get some flowers on Thursday (payday) or soon after, those ones look a little wilted. Made me realise though (and which is what got me doing this journal again) that in someways being 28 is not so good. Not so good as this whole year is a reminder really of 10 years ago when i lost my mum, exactly 10 years since my life screwed up and looking back at who i was then and aho i am now etc. All of which weighed eavy on my mind on the way back.

Having said that, writing all this down has made me feel a bit better since i started all these updates to the journal.

 

Should be another quiet night at work after last night's rush (paren'ts night at the school) and at least the kids go early on Friday (half-day) for the start of their 2 week holidays. Unfortunetly i am still their during those two weeks, and on earlies (7am - 11am as apposed to afternoon), but looking on the bright side at least i'll have the rest of the day to myself when i return.

And prehaps now i've started this journal again i can keep it up to date again! All though in all fairness these last 2 weeks have been very hectic.

Yes, i know it's been a while but i haven't had the time lately, and when it's not been time it's been having the energy, and when it's not the energy it's "being bothered".

 

BUT, today is one of those days where i must so i will.

 

On the 24th my pre-birthday shaped up good, not only had i had THE transformer i've wanted for 17 years+ I also recieved a pressie from Kim, a rather amusing t-shirt with my screename persone "Bones" (of Star Trek) on it saying: "Dammit Jim, i'm a doctor!" Which cheered me up no end, especially when i tried not to start laughing uncontrollablly down the street where people might think i'm nutss...

If that wasn't enough i recieved another gift through the post in the afternoon (A few hours before work), much too my surprise and it was from kim again!!! A cuddly E.T. (LOL) and a packet off swiss chocolate almond coffee

 

25th march 2004 and i am one year older, w00t. Recieved an IM at The Last Outpost from Kim asking me to be on MSN after 1am my time, to which i obliged. SUprisingly it wasn't just Kim it was Lust, DW, Lattrx & co and i wondered how many were on.

They begun telling me there was a hate board against me but by the way they were replying on MSN it was obviously fake simply because you are all TERRIBLE liars! You'd make lousy actors! But there was a board, a birthday board that was in fact more overwhelming than anytyhing i could've imagined. When the music started i all most welled.

I guess it's because all my other birthdays have passed unoticed that i couldn't care less about them (Especially if you have a small family and lack of parents), but this birthday was so great it's going to be one i WILL remember for many years unlike the rest. I will be able to look back on that one and recall it, thanks to each and every one of my online friends.

After work i drank copious amounts of cider and kept on talking to my friends on MSN, but after a couple of hours i was very merry and making many typos before passing out much later.

26th march 2004 - Put TLO in maintenence mode for the next two days whilst i gave it the new look (To prepare for the 2nd anniversary of the forum). Did 3/4 of the icons but left the majority of work till saturday. Just spent the night after work watching my favorite programs on TV, although i did feel a little lost during the day, & night without TLo, despite having it to "work on".

 

27th march 2004 - Did the majority of Work on TLO on a lazy saturday, despite saying i'd do the front page last i did do it. Did all the rest of the icons all the rest of the heads & footers for inside the board before re;enting and doing the front page too. Only late at night did i do all the "back to top" codes on each of the forums (A code that shows an image and when you click on it to takes you back to the top of the forum, like scrolling up with your mouse only with the click of one button.

The majority of the saturday was lazy and boring though.

 

28th march 2004 - 2nd Anniversary of The Last Outpost! Waited all day at the forum but only Kim really showed up at first. Then spent the rest of the day waiting in hope others might turn up as their morning (my afternoon progressed but noone did.

In the end i gave up (especially as how long i was in the chatroom) and kept going on and off as i spent most of the day waiting in vein hope some members might be around. It wasn't till very late my time that things started to pick up and it wall went by happily enough, better than last year but still a bit slow overall.

Saturday:

 

Got up early, but stayed in bed  Didn't get up till late so went down town to do mny food shopping in the early afternoon. Fact 1: i don't drive, Fact 2: the wind in the UK recently has been mental. As if Struggling home with three bags of shopping wasn't bad enough i also had to struggle against the wind!

 

Just spent the evening online, BUT when i got back i for a gigle tried to install my webcam agian. Now about a year ago when i was taking webcam pictures of my now departed zebra finch, i dropped the webcam in her bird bath screwing up the webcam good.

 

Now a year & half later out of curiosity i tried to install it just to see if it worked, and suprisingly, it did! Treated my members on both my forums to some images of my ugly mug at last. Not much else happened. Watched Empire Of The Sun again, properly this time, as their was absolutely nothing on TV, followed by online lurking.

 

Sunday

 

Lazy Sunday, went round to a friend's house in the afternoon to hangout, the friend was coming to mine but i got mixed up and went to his, good job really considering the weather. Not only was there a bit of rain but there was also (more than anything) Hail.

 

Having got my hair cut finally earlier in the day, i had had my hood down on my way to my friends when the heaven's opened, not rain, just pure hail stinging me on the face and ears as i groped for my hood. ouch.

 

Oh and had a bath in the morning, thought too much in there, about turning 28 in 4 days...

Just hangout out of my friends returned home after one. Made a test forum for the Last Outpost (apother) as i wanted to try something out.

 

Tooday (Monday)

 

Got up too late to go to town so just stayed at home, worked more on the test forum mucking about... Making an uber version of the old green look The Last Outpost had.

 

Work was quiet with no kids (but they're bach tommorrow - bah.), still had to work hard for the first 2 hours out of 4, but the last two hours were peaceful enough.

 

Watched TV when i got home, had a pizza, lurked on the internet and played a bit of Perfect Dark on the N64, even did a bit of Half-life out of boredom. More lurking on net..