Archive for June, 2004

Yesterday, all my……

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on June 29, 2004
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Yesterday we went to pick up at the train station in Oxford, and then we went to eat at NoodleBar, which was delicious as always. I ate my food really quickly. I had fried rice with prawn balls in the sweet and sour sauce….and some sesame prawn toast as my side. The sesame prawn toast wasn't as good as last time, but I think that may have been due to the intense flavors of the rest or the food. I'm not sure. Anyway, we walked over to Borders and had some Chai and looked around for books. I picked up Alain De Botton's The Art Of Travel which recommended a while back. Steph got a couple of art books (I think one was for her Dad, maybe, and the other was a Chagall book, if I remember right) and another Bill Bryson book, about the time he walked the Appalachian Trail. Usually I guess we would order stuff from america via amazon or something, since the I get paid in dollars….but I just felt like I didn't really care at the time…so we got books, and I'm not regretting it this morning. Anyway after we got done there we all got in the little Punto and sped to RAF Fairford. We watched Big Brother, which is a large factor in my tiredness every day. Oh, and then we went to bed….but I think I should start going to bed earlier.

I got up ok this morning, and did my usual business…and I was surpised that I was able to get ready by 6:45 on the downstairs clock….so I did what I never seem to have time for anymore…I meditated…and it was great. I'm seriously thinking about altering my sleep patterns just so I can manage to have time for it every morning, because it was a much better way to start the day. I felt very good after I did it, and I went in and sat with Steph in the bedroom for a while until I had to leave for work. Good morning, and overall it has been a decent workday. Nothing huge looming in the Net Admin world, and I've just been closing out some tickets in Remedy.

I saw a book called Street Logos last night and I tried to find the little pixel men from the book on their website this morning, but I couldn't seem to remember the person who did them, and there were tons of links. I'll have to take a look at it again another time.

Anyway I have some more work to do, so I'll end this here. More to come, possibly.

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on June 22, 2004
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So this weekend was good. We went to Oxford on Saturday and ate at an indian place. It was delicious, but not AS delicious as the place that we go when we are in Bath. We weren't entirely where to find a good indian place in Oxford, but we looked some things up and ended up going there. I can't remember what it was called, but perhaps could help me out there. Maybe could suggest a better place…who knows.

Anyway, after that we went to Io non ho paura (I'm not scared, or something) at the Phoenix Picturehouse Cinema, or whatever it is called. It shows a lot of foreign and independent films, which is good. Anyway, this movie was pretty darned good and had a trailer for another movie we want to see. Something about a weeping camel. I won't go into the details of the movie we saw, but I thought the little boy was great, and the setting was really beautiful. I liked it a lot.

On Sunday we saw a lesser movie. The new Harry Potter one. Hey, it was something to do. It wasn't fantastic, but it was ok. I wonder how many movies there are going to be…I mean..that kid could be an old man by then. You can see how much he's grown since the first one.

Oh..as for food on that night, we had Mexican. Basically we did pretty bad as far as dieting goes this weekend, but it has inspired me to go to great lengths to do well this week.

So yesterday I took a day off, because of a uniform crisis. The issue is resolved now. We didn't do much yesterday…played some Ninja Gaiden..watched some Big Brother. I also watched some stuff on martial arts, as well as a show on the effects gold mining is having on the waters, forest, and people of Suriname.

On another note, I have been having issues with my webhosting company, Viperhost. Basically what I've heard is that the guy who was running it had some family crisis and basically blew off all responsibility. All support is down, as well as all of the sites he hosted, and there is no way to get in touch with him. It is a one man show so there was no backup plan. I ended up having to cancel my paypal payment subscription today, and accept the loss of all the data I had stored on the server. It pissed me off a bit, but I think I can piece things back together without too much trouble. If I would have had a more extensive site up, I would have been shotting flames out of various body parts in the direction of that company. So, for any of the select few I've given email accounts on my domain…that is why your stuff doesn't work. I'll recreate your accounts after I get my new host. Luckily, I have one of the new gmail accounts. Thanks to for that.

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on June 18, 2004
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Adrian screwed up our backups. So, yeah…..nothing to recover when we need the recovering capability…um…so yeah I'll have to fix that later. Or now. I would rather go to lunch, though. Mmm…green beans.

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on June 17, 2004
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I'm extrememly pissed off at the moment because once again …asildhgsagdiksahgd

Now, I probably shouldn't be this pissed off, but I have an opinion that will never change. Here it is:

The military is a stinking piece of rotten shit whose wretched stench invades my nostrils, despite my attempts at closing them like some sort of seal submerging into the depths of the sea.

Now, the reason.

So, yesterday was a stupid day in the first place. I got recognized with this stupid little coin thing, but what the guy said in the recognition speech was so stupid. He was basically fed a bunch of lines, and all of the projects listed were things I hadn't really had all that much to do with, and none of the things I'm really known for were even mentioned, so it was basically a bunch of BS.

So today, I come in (already pretty annoyed) and they announce some gay change in the Physical Training program, so basically we are all going to have to work out together, but the workouts they do are so dumb. They do pushups, situps, and a run, as well as stretching. I personally think it is unfair to force me into something that will actually do LESS good for my body than what I'm trying to do at the moment. I've been working fairly hard at the gym lately and I was feeling good about it, generally…then they do this, which will take MORE TIME because of the lack of organization in our moronic group, and it will do me less good, more than likely. The run only takes about 12 minutes, so unless I wanted to do extra running after we're done and perhaps push my workout until 5:30, I won't be doing as well. When I do it on my own, I get in and out, and am done by 4:30. So this means I'll be losing an hour if I want something decent, probably.

Well, my anger has lessened now…most of it stemmed from the argument I had with someone about this issue, and now instead of System Of A Down playing, my ogg playlist has moved on to some of the songs from the Spirited Away soundtrack. My fingers are moving slower and my mind has sunk into a mere discontent from a raging inferno of fiery anger.

Usually, I'm fairly calm….but when what I see as my freedoms start to be taken away, I get kind of crazy in my head. I know that being in the military means that I should be used to this, and that it comes with the territory, but I'm tired of being owned. Today I seriously thought about getting out through this new program, regardless of money issues. Oh well, guess we can't really afford it if we want to do our trip.