Archive for October, 2008

Catchup

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Wow, it’s been a long time since I posted. And there’s _loads_ of things I could say, but I’ll make do with a few catch ups:

  • New phone – got myself a Nokia 6500 Slide phone on a contract from Orange, after my previous phone (an aging Motorola V220) lost the ability to put sound through the earpiece. First impressions of the new phone are good, although the keys feel quite small at times. And the preinstalled Golf Tour game is really addictive!
  • Severed Fifth, which I have blogged about before finally released their debut album, Denied by Reign. If you’re into chugging heavy metal, then you might like it, although, in a weird twist, I find that some of the “clean” vocals sound a bit weird.
  • Ubuntu have released their 8.10 edition, the Intrepid Ibex release. Came out yesterday – get it while it’s hot (or wait a couple of weeks for the servers to cool down, and initial bugfixes to be released ;) )
  • Classic Yak continues to chug along nicely. Episode 4 came out last Monday (just). We’re getting about 60-ish downloads for most of the episodes, which is not too bad. And the editing quality is getting better. Mostly
  • Heather and I continue on the Invest course. But more of that to come at a later date.
  • I’m finally getting round to building the relatively huge Django project that is the church website. Also more of that when there are things to actually see in production ;)

That’s probably enough for now.

mrBen

How not to catch a sign with your head

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

Today part of my day, other than helping set up barriers and a tent for the Whiteinch Gala, involved getting the remaining stuff out of an old church premises called The Gateway. One of the things I had to see to was to get the Whiteinch Church of Scotland sign from above the shop.

So Alan went up the ladder while I held on and we successfully brought down part of it and another piece slipped and as I tried to get out the way it bounced of the back of my head cutting it badly three times.

Exciting stuff, eh?

We got to the Whiteinch Centre, where Sammy Mitchell helped clean all the blood off my head, and there was a lot to clean, and Gordie the resident medical expert checked that it wasn’t too bad and with fresh paper towels stuck to the back of my head to stem the flow of blood Alan and I were off to the Western Infirmary.

Ruth joined me in good time and the medical folks at the A&E were quality and fast. They cleaned it up, glued the gashes shut and gave me some horse tranqs.

Apparently I have whiplash to look forward to, from the impact of the sign.

Isn’t life exciting? ;)

BigAl

Turning into a bright shiny day

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

I went in this morning full of the coughing and wheezing, feeling under the weather and less of the joys of work. Especially as I was faced with a mild fcuk up that could have been avoided had I been more on the ball recently.

Gah.

Still, I managed to avoid the oncoming train wreck (for I am a silver-tongued gent) and to top it all off when I got home there was a letter waiting for me from the college telling me not to worry about the fees being paid.

Yowza. What a day.

BigAl

A brief update

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Been busy at work recently, started a part-time college course and been hard at work on the novel.

Too brief do you think?

Well right now I have some kind of chest infection, which is pretty bothersome, I’ve knuckled down with some classic The Avengers episodes and I have that listless feeling like I can’t concentrate on any one thing for too long. Perhaps an early night is in order.

After I’ve watched some more Avengers of course.

BigAl