This morning I learned that David Murphy, otherwise known as ‘drjolt’, passed away unexpectedly at the weekend. I knew Dave a number of years and had a lot of respect for him.
His passing has touched a great many people close to me and he will surely be missed.
Archive for January, 2006
Had a nice productive, fulfilling weekend. Woke up, or rather, got up early both days.
Friday
Had dinner in Cornucopia (really should eat there more often, they do take-out after all) and gave Ruth a hair cut.
Saturday
Made some music, something I haven’t done in a while, well, on my own. Broke the 2-minute barrier and had lots and lots of unused ideas. Was feeling very creative and kind of work up with an idea and had dreamt of making music.
In the evening I made a large lasagne that is still providing me with dinner today, Monday.
Sunday
Walked to Rathmines to feed a lizard named ‘Eddie’, one of two pets I am looking currently after, I don’t have any pictures of either. The other is an adorable ickle hamster named ‘Chuck’.
Walked to Stoneybatter, on the other side of town, and then to the cinema to see A Cock and Bull Story. Summary: funny little meta-film, possibly too clever for its own good.
I’m pretty sure I did some other stuff too that made me feel fulfilled.
I just baked some cookies and … and then I ate them all. Now I can’t move.
I used a Betty Crocker mix and added apple and cinnamon to it. They were awesomely nice.
Following my post on Monday about not feeling so good, I was out of work for the next three days and only managed to get back into work while heavily drugged today, Friday. Night Nurse was my eventual saviour but unfortunately I had to resist all desires I had to operate heavy machinery.
Arrived to work to find my colleagues sitting around chatting. Realised why when I got to my desk and found my workstation powered down - a power outage! The services in our building are managed pretty shoddily, yes there is a UPS but it tripped too and the on-site staff aren’t skilled enough to give (or understand) detailed answers, and while we don’t have a huge number of infrastructure servers we do have a huge number of servers in general in a few places in a the building so recovery from a power outage takes a while. Of course it’d be much more efficient if I had the console server(s) I want.
Further to the maybe of travel to Milan, I am flying out next Wednesday morning and will be returning Friday morning. Just a short stop-over.
The gig on Monday was fun, wasn’t our best but it’s always fun to play gigs and now we have another Whelans gig under our belts.
Oh, look what I have:
^_^
Had second thoughts about coming to work this morning. Wasn’t feeling so good, having been feeling so good for a while actually and I’m pretty sure I know what it is. I’m run down because it’s cold and wintery and I haven’t been eating well for the last few days.
I figured I’d brave it and arrive to work late but save a sick day for another day.
By the way, The Clap are playing a gig tonight in Whelans. Door tax is €10 and the time is usual.
Oh, and I might be going to Milan next week.
Now I have two of these, both given to me for my birthday, thanks Claire and Seamus! I don’t really know what they are or where they came from and the website stamped onto their feet has nothing on it. They are neat though. The come as a small cardboard box that you open up, turn inside out and put together again, inverted, to reveal the figure.
Went ice skating last night and it was jolly good fun. Looks like a very good “date” activity too. Haven’t been skating on ice since Colorado and while I was (inline) skating this summer I didn’t get to do enough of it for my linking - despite investing in the most superest boots in the world at the start of the season.
I’d be up for going again, so if you want to go holla@me
I watched R. Kelly’s ‘Trapped in the Closet‘ (spoilers) with my dinner this evening (cheese and sun-dried tomato ravioli in a tomato sauce (red onion, courgette, orange pepper, black olives, sun-dried tomatoes, nuts (pistachio, cashew & pine), wheatgerm) with garlic bread - plenty left over for tomorrow too).
I’m aghast. It is, no irony, awesome. I thoroughly enjoyed it and will be looking forward to the next episodes. Don’t read the synopsis in the linked Wikipedia page as it contains a detailed chapter-by-chapter synopsis and therefor, spoilers.
I’m quite interested in the Nokia 770 and think I’ll pick one up soon. Seems like a very nifty gadget and it runs a version of Debian called Maemo. There’s already quite a lot of community activity, that’s the most exciting part.
What? It’s the new year, I’m allowed new toys.
