The Life and Times of Plod

Gah, what a fucking toy on my emotions. These last few days have been a fucking roller coaster. Went to see chillis on wednesday, awesomee concert, but cam was spot on when he read me reviews of the support. Then took fucking hours before i got home, with queing to get out of the city and shit. My heads toiled beyond belief with fucking pulled this way, pulled that way, really fucking cooking my swede. And the mortgage people are still dumb as fuck, proper dull as fuck. So one day over the rainbow maybe it will get sorted, untill then STRES STRESSS fucking STRESS.

In other news i got me a dedicated server chuffed++ waiting for my domain registration to go through, so I can proper configure her, and then start moving my sites onto her, including this one. So look out

xxx plod

plod - easily turned off and onable

doodley doodley do ba doo. Have not blogged so much recently, things have been hectic, on all fronts, been pretty stressed, on all fronts. Morgage is going through, work is getting a bit shit, working at my folks is less than ideal, and it’s affecting my stress levels. Mortgage has been pretty nuts, with the surveyors having the wrong addresses, the solicitor having another wrong address, but hey what can you do. And in typical plod sense, when i stress about some shit, i stress about everything else. Nothing has come back from land lady re: bond, and i really want tht pocket pc so i can start reorganising my life. So there we go a little chapter in my hectic and stressfull life. Wish me luck, i need an up turn.

gah, my head, i am happy sad, amazing shit, real mixed bag.

Off to spar to get a notebook to work in my vb learning.

w000 i made my first visual basic .NET 2003 application, want a look? here it is: Picture Viewer.exe.Not amazing, but still exciting . It might not work unless you have the .NET framework, feedback of stuff like that would be nice, but yes this book is prooving interesting, not that I ever intend to code vb for a living, i wanted to pick up a lightweight win32 language. While waiting to restart smalltalk next year, and move onto c/java.

edit you might have to right click save shortcut as, then run it from your pc to get it to work.

as i was quite excited about everything i decided to read last years blogg to see what i was doing ho ho ho quick link here, quite amusing to read about steph and that hehe.

w00 w00 w00, went to visit financial advisors today, after taking coopers advice. Looks like I’m sorted, northern rock approved my mortgage in principle . So yes, there’s the biggest part of the stress over, now there’s just the gutting it and doing it up bit to worry about.

Weekend just gone was awesome, Rick (m0rf) came down, we went to Swansea for Ammas birthday party, and was a blinder of a weekend. Did some thinking, destressed a bit, stressed myself out quite a bit too, but it’s all good. Now I’m looking to get my PDA, but I’ve got to get my bond back first, and land lady doesn’t appear to be being quick about it. Oh well ces la vie.

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ho ho ho. Nothing much to say, picked aimée up from work last night, went for some posh food in this pub place, on cowbridge back road. Took her home, helped her with a bit of linux. Went down caravan, had a pint, went to bed, got up, drove to folks, worked my knackers off. Feeling a bit fuzzy perhaps i’ll have more to blog tommorow, toodlepips. Oh and you other fuckers who are coming here, fucking post coments, seems only hoogs eze and cam are bothering, make yourself known join in the fun, etc.

Well what a poo day, let’s have a rewind first though. Went back to caravan last night, produced in porthcawl, relatively painless, then read the rest of the DaVinci code. Then I read my computer magazine, worked out how to make windows media plugins, so think my next project is going to be, a now playing plugin for windows media player and irc. Righto, then watched some fireworks, which was quite quaint by the sea as the moon was coming up like. Had a couple of bevvys at place me bro works, and then went to bed quite early.

Drove up to my folks house this morning, to do work, which has gone ok, but for the trouble with the firewall this morning. But got it working, allbeit with a disabling the firewall on me old man’s PC, but who cares, least i can work. Anyways, i have to go now, pack my shit and then go and pick Aims up from work toodlepips.

Well well well, :S, weekend was nuts, moving out was pretty nuts, and a little emotional. The landlady was pissy about ghey shit, like putting in an outside tap (which i thought she had agreed to), and not cleaning the fridge (when she told me last week about not worrying about leaving a mess). Pissed me off some, and now of course, i have to wait for my bond to come through the post :S.

Got a new mobile number, if you want it mail me at my work email address or try asking somebody else for it. As I’m only on an internet connection now usually in work hours, it might be difficult for you to get it from me. Once you’ve got it text me who you are, so i put your number in phone book. I got this mobile phone, cheap and functional, but it functional is the important bit, as i can now make and take phone calls, should tide me over through the move nice.

Had to get car tax this morning which was a bit of a crock of shit, that and I need to produce my documents after being pulled over on saturday morning. This was a bit shitty too, pig reckoned i was doing 85+, and made me sign this admitance of guilt thing, so that i only got a caution. I’d need a lot more run up to get my car to 85+ being a one litre fiesta, that and i know i never went over 80, just think he wanted good stats. Wonder if theres an open source php project for policemans arrest stats for their intranets, like cs stats. Fucking stats whores.

Had some messages when i got online this morning from a taiwanese irc friend, niaboc. I gave her an email address a while ago seeing as i thought it worked out good with my domain ie. ni@b0c, well anyways, we’d talked before about fourtet, and how much we both liked him. I told her about the story about when i really got into him, I had realised he was playing in Cardiff soon, and when I searched on the web found that he had played the night before and I was gutted . Well anyways, i got an email from her, here’s the image that was included in the email, and the log of the conversation that followed.

[12:55] <niaboc> ok check your email now
[12:55] <niaboc>
[12:56] <plod> omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg
[12:56] <plod> fourtet?
[13:05] <niaboc> yea
[13:05] <plod>
[13:05] <plod> what did u say to him?
[13:05] <niaboc> i told him
[13:05] <niaboc> i have an irc friend called plod
[13:05] <niaboc> hes welsh
[13:06] <niaboc> he likes you very much but he missed your show
[13:07] <niaboc> i took some pix
[13:07] <niaboc> but the site is temporarily down now
[13:08] <plod> thats no problem
[13:08] <plod> thank you very much
[13:08] <niaboc> :]
[13:08] <niaboc> dont miss his show next time
[13:08] <niaboc> hes cool
[13:08] <plod> oh believe i wont
[13:08] <niaboc> hes just like an ordinary guy
[13:08] <niaboc> i met him twice
[13:08] <niaboc>

weeee, i think that’s pretty cool, anyways off now, lots to sort out.