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I can't write...

It's only three lines, 5-7-5, can't be that hard.

I haven't been able to write anything since start of Nov, not even a short story... I have some ideas but I can't manage to sit down and write... I only sit in front of the laptop and browse, browse browse...
That just sucks... I really feel like Matt (see John Kovalic's cartoon below).

The Mighty Boosh

I've almost finished the first season.

I'm not sure if this is a product of a genius duo or just a bunch of weird story lines and bad acting.

The stories are quite surreal, enjoyable and the guys really break the fourth wall and they're aware of the fact that they are a part of TV show.

Hmmm.. There are two more seasons, I should get them and give them a go.

Also I like the idea of a Writer's caddie idea, maybe it will get me into writing more often.

OK... Get on with it...

I never thought I'd have so much trouble concentrating...
PL/SQL is such a boring language...

Cheap food

Good for 6:

-1 cup of flour
-1 cup of milk
-2 eggs

Mix.

Heat the oven.

Pour the mixture into the oiled thingie (kitchen stuff).

Cook until it's brown, puffed and smells nice, or until it starts burning.

Total cost: penauts.
Total fat content: Very low
Total taste: It's OK, would be nice with strawberry jam.

Shipping Forecast

I need to be able to go to bed and sleep before the Shipping Forecast starts...
This is too depressing... Why can't I regulate my sleep hours better?
Tomorrow, wake up at 7 and be ready to get some work done by 9!
That's tne new orders, Mr. Brain! Now get on with it!

Argh!

How do I stop this stupid Thunderbird from formatting my mails in HTML!
Grrrrr...

Eastercon 2008

Planning and calculating the costs vs. balances...
I think it will be two days there, one night hotel.
Otherwise I can do four days there, three nights in the hotel.

The first one has the advantage of having some extra time in London and Oxford. We can go around, goof and have fun. We can do the other one from the hotel but paying for the hotel would be a bit daft, OTOH then we can spend some time in the evening on the hotel with the programme.

Unfortunately the Eastercon programme is not definite, there isn't even a list of things that will be happening so I think it's better two days...

Well, it's not upto me, it needs to be a joint decision. I'll wait until tomorrow and then order the tickets.

Will be posting more often...

I finally sorted the email publishing which means I can start a rant wherever I am and whenever it is! Heheh... More rants to follow soon... Repeating once more: Robotech Shadow Chronicles sucks!

Macross Frontiers

It's coming soon...
I think I've seen it somewhere already.
I hope it's better than Macross 7 and at least as good as Macross Zero.

20071223 11:22 (messages from the past)

Sitting in the Starbucks at Borders in Cambridge.
Had a muffin and a cappucino.
Nice.
Listening to George Hrab ranting about religion - much fun.
Need to do a bit of a shopping and a walk, then back to home and get started on something.
I will be doing a bit of a Java today, I think, unless I derail my plans in some weird way.

Watched a bit of Andromeda yesterday, it's not as bad as I remembered it to be. There was one funny scene where the captain breaks into a weapons cabined and there is a long wig and a huge sword - heheh, great reference to Hercules.

I'm quite bad with names, I can't remember the actor's name or the captains - I watched five eps and can't remember, I think the name is called "Dan Something". Oh well...

Robotech Shadow Chronicles

Yuck...
I'm about 5 min into it and it already sucks.
The animation is sub-par, especially compared with the rich and beautiful Macross Zero.
Where Macross Zero animation was done very nicely with a good story in the background, this is done very cheaply, with very very cheap 3D animation - especially with the advances in the 3D animation, this 2006 movie is just rubbish.
The character designs are really crappy and don't get me started with the voice actors, utterly terrible and done w/o any feeling. It's very obvious that they're just reading lines from their scripts without much practice - I never liked anime in English in any case - they simply don't have much of a talent generally. It's a sad thing because I know from Japanese originals in general (and from my childhood, Turkish anime dubs) how well it can be done.

The last thing is, how did they design the bodies? Even for an animation, they look so unreal, it's unbelievable. The mens are all triangle shaped and don't get me started on the boobs, come on, even on worse deformed-characters in Japanese anime, boobs look real!

11 minutes into the thing... My feelings are the same: Utter rubbiiiiishhh!

Last day at work

... was yesterday...
I'm still recovering. I feel excited but also I'm really sad to leave those nice people and move on.
I hope I will be able to keep in touch with them.

Last night I sat down and watched 10 episodes of Journeyman. It was good. It's annoying that they cancelled the show. Well.. Not suprising, really. They cancel anything that's any good.

New work, new house, new town

I'm moving.
I quit my job. Last day is next Friday.
I am moving to a new town. Because of bad planning, I will have to pay for an extra months rent down here. I have started going through my stuff, deciding on what to get rid of.

I hope the crowd in Freecycle will take the stuff of my hands, otherwise they are ending in the landfill. I don't want to do that.

I am quite excited about the new job and the move. It will cost me. I will miss St. Ives but I quite liked the West Wycombe and High Wycombe looks alright. I hope the work will be interesting. I need to get my ass off the chair and start working on JBoss, EJBss and Oracle in depth. I will start tomorrow. I promise.

NaNoWriMo was an utter failure, I didn't even manage to write a scifaiku a day, leave alone a story every couple of days as I wanted to.

I need to organize myself, spend some time writing and working every day w/o failure + walks and exercise.

I need some stuff done!