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Me, in response to lhawksey's impending wedding, 'It's scary, I'm getting to that age where more and more of my friends are getting married'

To which my colleague responds 'And I'm getting to the age where my friends are getting un-married...'

LAWL

How odd, I have had this sense of impending doom for a while and now it's all better.

I'm a happy bunny now because something I've been waiting for has finally come through :)

It looks like M'era Luna is a go again...

So, this weekend marks the third week I've been on call. Three weeks in a row.
This makes me a happy bear :)
Not because it's over but because that's a nice big pot of gold at the end of this month and next. And hopefully my salary adjustment will get signed in the next week or so which shoudl further increase the contents of the pot of gold from the end of May. Mmmm, this means I'll eat lot's more chicken and turkey :)

I have also gotten a bit perkier after getting more monay. Wow, who would have figured... :]
I'm still broke, but that's only the natural state of affairs...

I've also been given a big and tedious task.
Namely to go through 600+ fax numbers and sort them into three categories.
1: Numbers to be deleted (At £5 a month, we don't want numbers that aren't in use)
2: Numbers that can be changed to a new provider
3: Numbers that will have to run concurrently witha new number from a new provider

Yes, very exciting. It's good to know that I'm doing truly important things in this world...

Anyway, it looks like I'll be in The Dev tonight, but not until too late as I'm working tomorrow morning from 0800 - 1200 and then again from 1900 - whenever...

183 days to go and all is quiet on the westernnorse front...

My life has been fairly quiet for a while now for various reasons. Primarily financial ones.
However, not going out means I can devote more time to important stuff...

I have also been working harder than just about any other time in my working life that I can think of. But it's worth it. For a long time my via luminosa has seemed unfathomably long and hard, but it now seems to be a road that'll be travelled with some ease. The main reasons for this is the payrise which should come into effect from the end of February. I don't know how much yet, but considering the starting salaryof the people in our server division, it's gonna be a significant (For me) amount. I have also just been told how much I'll be getting for being on call. At first it doesn't sound like much, but then I calculated huw much it would be considering the number of hours on is on call. I then recalculated. I then picked my jaw up from the floor and I have been unable to stop grinning since :]
Oh yes, I am definitely in a serious karma burn zone at the moment. I guess saving up all that good karma over the years is finally paying off...
And it looks like I'll be able to happily afford Wacken, M'era Luna and a full viking outfit. I have all the weapons I'll need on order. And ooohhh, I'm waiting excitedly for my Dane Axe...

This month is still gonna be harsh though as I need to survive somehow, while also buying my plane ticket to Lanzarote. I'm tempted to leave it until March, and then just take the extra financial hit out of the extra gold that will be in my monthly pot... But I really don't want to risk not being able to get a flight as I am not swimming there...

Weekend was good with lots of WoW and a nice dinner provided by the lovely ditzy_pole. I am waiting for that poll you were gonna do :)
Viking training was fab as well. Lot's of good fighting and no spectacular bruises.
Speaking of which, a bunch of vikings will invade The Most Expensive Boozer in Christendom™ (Worlds End) tonight at 20:00. Ok, maybe not the most expensive, but it still brings a tear to my eye when I go to the counter and prepare for the financial rogering with a hedgehog-onna-stick. About £4 for a beer... Ouch.

After Forever last night rocked immensely. Nightwish should poach Floor Jansen as soon as possible :]
She has a good stage presence and she's easily far prettier than Tarja...
Ahem, but yeah, the gig was good, but they deserve a much bigger stage. Energetic and very metally. I like that a lot. I think I may have to go and invest in some of their CDs...
I missed the first support band but elijahtc said the sucked balls anyway.
The second support band was quite good. Good old skool metal with big hair and lot's of \mm/ :]
I'm not gonna rush to buy their CDs, but I'll definitely hope to see them again at some point...

Next up, Dragonforce on Friday...
\m/

Does anyone know if there are any open/unprotected wireless networks in the Soho area that one might be able to jump on?
I'm particularly interested in Frith Street...
That G&S is located there is of course purely a co-incidence :->
spikey_bastard, camillat, posthuman_angel and my good self will be going to Wagamama for some decent food tomorrow and possibly G&S on Saturday... Money being a bit of a concern at the moment, G&S might have to be re-scheduled. I suspect camillat might feel the same way...?
I think I shall bring my laptop to both of those fine establishments to see what connectivity I have there...

Ooohhh, how cool would it be to play WoW while relaxing in G&S ?

Work is ridiculously busy and I'm loving it. Since I don't have to deal with slackjawed-yokels end-users, I quite happily work away during lunch, don't notice I should have gone home 30 - 40 minutes ago and I happily log on from home and work if necessary... I have discovered an entirely new enjoyment of work. Let's see how long it lasts :)
Fortunately Semagic works through our firewall, so updating ElJay is easy :)

I may have been persuaded to go to Synthetic Culture tomorrow...
Hmm, I think it shall have to be a drinkless night as I'm waging war on my beergut while trying to stay friendly with my bank...

Todays chest work-out was good, but I really could do with a gym buddy as my benchpress is sorely in need of some progress. I'm a bit reluctant to stack the bar with as much as I can lift due to the worry that I might drop it and kill/maim myself... So today I only did 50kg benchpress but I quite happily had 35kg dumbbells in each hand when I did dumbbell presses afterwards...
Annoying, but never mind. I nearly did 37.5kg but not quite. Soon... Soon...

Damn, I'm tired.
Again...

I really should have gone home at a decent time last night rather than waiting for The Dev to close.
Oh well, the company was good so it was worth it, but it really wasn't nice getting up at 5am this morning.
And again tomorrow, but tonight I'm off to bed early so I can have energy for tomorrow.

Who's going to The Ice Wharf in Camden tomorrow?
I'll be there about 20:00ish...

I find it incredibly cool in some sort of geeky way that we have a user called Yuri Gagarin :)

Damn.

I just realised that I forgot to bring my World of Warcrack CDs with me to work.
Dammit. What am I now gonna do 'twixt 17:30 and 19:00?

I don't suppose anyone in the city (Near Fenchurch Street) would happen to have a set of WoW discs I can borrow for the day?

Good lord I'm tired.
Hmm, I seem to be saying this a lot recently. I wonder if this has anything to do with my re-activation of my WoW account.
Well, between WoW and four more seasons of DS9 to finish, I don't see the sleep situation getting any better.
Oh well, I can survive fine on Subway, Pro-Plus and fumes...
And my Dwarf Paladin is nearly at level 20. Hoo ray. Once he has reached that, I think I'll get my mage and druid up to that level and then try a hunter just to see what that might be like.I don't suppose anyone else here is Alliance on the Sunstrider server?

Work is busy. We seem to be stumbling from one catastrophe to another. Today one of our mail servers ran out of disk space. You would have thought someone might have noticed that, but apparently space checking is not a part of the usual morning checks.
So yeah, fun, games and a lot of moving users around.

X-Mas do with work tonight. Free beer and free food. I couldn't say no, could I? :]

I tried out the Soho Gyms near Holborn and I have decided that I will join it.
I must say though, I don't think I have seen that many gay men in one room since I was last taken to a gay bar.

And this coming weekend there's a viking show in Rickmansworth which is part of a wider charity event. I will probably go to that although the decision isn't final yet.
I will hopefully get me an axe there. I also need too put in an order for a Dane-axe and a Scram.

Which reminds me, on the day after the guy I'm replacing had his leaving drinks (Manager was an hour late, the leaver woke up in Brighton and veryone else was moaning about headaches) we had a major disaster and discovered that your DR plans weren't as good as they could have been.

Not a good day for that to happen, but a very amusing second day for me.

And I still haven't got a desk, but at least I have a laptop and a login :]