From off to on

I just need to forget about some things I think.

Went to Tezz’s today and chilled out, started the afternoon with an all day full english breakfast to die for.

Played that eye of judgement game and won by chance.

Sleepytired, broadcasting my games all night. Gotta work hard on this photography site tomorrow!

Human after all

Got all the stuff I need from Still Life In Motion at last, so I can get cracking with the site.

Deadline is mid-September, which I should clear by a couple of weeks no problem.

Gonna go and grab a newspaper today and see what jobs are up for Web Designers.

Golden Opportunity

Saw a job that looks perfect for me today. I want it, I must have it.

They want someone with XHTML, CSS, Flash and Photoshop experience.

Please hire me? I’ll make pretty websites for you and bring in cakes when it’s my birthday.

Somehow this blog has become some sort of microblog. I think I like this.

Hudson

It’s game over, man! Game over!

Updates here and there

Updated my site today, plan to get a working portfolio in the next week.

Got rid of all the shiny flash in favour of quick loading HTML that will work in all browsers.

My site is valid XHTML 1.0 Strict! Let’s keep it that way.

Ch ch ch changes

My life is undergoing all sorts of weird changes right now.

I’m losing with one hand and gaining with the other.

I spoke to Veronica for almost an hour tonight, I haven’t heard her voice since I was 13 years old.

American logs

Birmingham airport was different to what I am used to. The secure area in Terminal two was small and oval, with a central island of shops selling alcohol, souvineers and perfume. The screens dotted around had a list of all the flights that would be leaving, and when they would be leaving, but no information as to where they would be leaving from..

Doors and gates were listed 25 minutes before departure time, at which time there was mad rush where everyone got up and searched frantically for ‘Door J’ and ‘Gate 2′..

There were a ton of schoolkids all dressed in red hoodies on the flight. They were bound for China and ms of them were pretty well behaved, must’ve been for a geography field trip or something. A boy called Ben sat nearby, so it was a little distracting hearing my name called out by the various kids and teachers.

Descending over Holland was fun, I wish I could’ve taken more pictures, but all electronic stuff has to be switched off (in case we crash and it hits someone, I was told – to be honest if we crashed having my camera hit Ben MkII in the face would be the least of my worries). There were tower blocks in clusters that looked like something out of CoD4 and some that were painted bright colours. Wide canals that just cut through the landscape with enough room to fit 10 narrowboats down.

Schiphol Airport was beautiful as far as airports go, large areas, tall ceilings, glass walls, well placed shops, well signposted. I would definitely go there again. They even had shops selling CLOGS. I found my gate, which was about a 20 minute walk through the terminal from where I got off. Each of the gates were separated by long conveyor-walkways (which I love walking on) which meant I could get from one gate to another in no time. I had a little time to waste so I headed back to one of the café’s and had a cheese and ham croissant and a cereal bar (classy, I know).

The flight itself was nine hours long, and it was a painful first two hours watching the little in-flight animation move the plane over the UK and into the ocean. I was in seat 11A, a window seat near the main boarding door, which seemed to be one of the few seats with zero leg room, with a big black box stuffed beneath the seat in front of me. Nevertheless I got up and moved my legs often enough, used my Zen, and watched The Matrix Revolutions (it still didn’t make a whole lot of sense).

Sitting next to me was a woman called Brenda, who had just flown to Amsterdam from South Africa the previous day, and was now heading back to detroit via Minneapolis. Brenda travels a lot and works for a company called the OCCE which manage water supply projects in Africa. She was cool, and encouraged me to travel lots.

Immigration was easy enough, the guy got my fingerprints and took a happy picture of me with his cheapo webcam, and asked me some stuff, including when I was planning to get married.

Enter aiiiirport, receive baggage, aquire a Jenna with a rose in her hand. Train to the city, bus to the apartment. Slow and relaxing night, messed up sleep patterns, delicious pizza..

I’ll have to blog about what I’ve done so far some other time.

Ammmerriiiccaaaa

Okay, hopefully I’ll remember to blog about my holiday here.  Just about to go and catch my flight, I’ve got everything packed

March 20th – 30th. Minneapolis. Bring it on!

Back to work

Back to work today, and I’m surprised at how easily I’ve slipped back into the routine. That said, it’s currently as quiet as it was before the Christmas break, with only one or two jobs filtering through to the web-team today. So now seems like a good time to write a blog.

New years, 2008 and such. Janus looks back at my successful 2007, and looks forward to 2008. The year in which I should get my hands on Starcraft II and Spore, and the year where I head to Minneapolis in March, and play host to my magnificent lady in June.

I’ve tried to make my 2008 resolutions measurable.

• 30 Minutes of dedicated exercise time per day January – March.
• 60 Minutes of dedicated exercise time per day April – June.
• 10 comics posted on my Vladimir site by the end of the year.

Simple, but those are two things I really want to get done, this year.

Pictured is Janus, who is also, and I quote..

“The potato-shaped moon of Saturn“

..according to the astronomy nuts at NASA. Though, if my potatoes were 190km in diameter, I would be worried dead.

Computer Woes.

My hard drive went sha-bang and lost a load of important files that, well.. Make everything work.  It’s the fourth in a series of random fuck-ups with my computer, each time a different flavour of destruction.  Be it software, motherboards, power supplies or indeed hard drives, I appear to have all of the luck when it comes to broken computer bits.

However, this is where working in an IT environment comes in handy.  Plug Full of Lead, fellow office worker, techie extraordinaire, and new 5punker has offered to beat the offending item with a stick of fixing until it works again.  Does mean that I can’t do much with my website till it gets back on its feet though.  So that’s a pain.