Well, I’ve made the changes to the web site, stolen a bit of PHP, decommissioned the tagman mirror of the site, and uploaded the whole thing, and it looks quite nice.

The configuration options available at LiveJournal are just amazing!

So anyway, diary updates should be more regular (ha, yeh, likely story).

It’s certainly a hell of a lot easier to use this, than to keep updating my own page, and after months of looking for an easy to setup/use diary CGI alternative, this option is just perfect.

Well, this is the first entry in my Live Journal. The whole thing needs configuring so that it has the same look as my website, and then I’ll include it. It certainly makes diary updates easier, and it should (hopefully) mean that they occur more often.

Well, another long break between entries.

It’s been a pretty crap month, the last half of August. Only the Omega event provided anything worth noting. I’m in a pretty foul mood most of the time, Grete’s suffering my horrible moods. I swing from depression through to apathy and back again most of the time, spend 80% of my time awake worrying about money and the other 20% of it spending money I don’t have.

On the lighter send, towards the end of August things improved a little. Discovered a roleplaying shop in Nottingham, and purchased Dungeons and Dragons 3rd Edition, and the Star Wars 2nd Edition rulebook, which I’ve been after for a couple of years.

D&D 3rd Ed looks quite nice.

I’ve also attended my first GenCon, we went for one day, and were only there four hours, that time was spent in the trader’s hall spending more money we don’t have (but enjoying it), on several things, one of which made me very happy. I’ve finally got Warrior Knights, the boardgame, and for a very reasonable price IMO (£30). Now all I have to do is play it again with some folk, and see if it lives up to the memories I have of playing it when I was 15-19.

Grete managed to a picture drawn and signed by Larry Elmore, which she is justly proud of, I also bought the Birthright AD&D 2nd Edition box set, which has interested me for some time. Interestingly, I discovered that quite a lot of my AD&D collection is reasonably rare, and worth a bob or two as well, which is nice.

I keep feeling like I have all this creative energy inside me, and no outlet. And yet, I’m too apathetic to do anything about it

🙁

[As a side note, we’re now a 4 PC family again – two P100’s – one of them is the news server as before, although it’s also running a SCSI 4mm DAT Drive for backups, and the other is in the proper bedroom, for reading mail at all hours of the night ;)]

Another month long gap in the diary. Ah well. This time mostly due to apathy, depression and then manic activity. It’s been a pretty down and generally sad month, not really achieved much, been a bit down at work, etc. However, the Omega LRP event was totally excellent, very relaxing, and very entertaining. But it was pretty hectic 😉 There are some photos of us on-line, here.

Go into the Out of Character section, and then choose Pictures.

Gonna take us a while to recover from it – the weekends seem very quiet now, and it’s 8 months until the next one. Ho hum.

Well, it’s official, Mordor and Moria are dead. Kaput. Stopped. Binned. No more. Mordor had been have real power problems from the start – sometimes it would spin up the disks, sometimes it wouldn’t be bothered – and it got worse. And then it stopped. And in the process of moving things around between Moria and Mordor, including open power supply surgery, I got pissed off with them both and binned them. Obviously, I saved the 120MB drive, you never know when it might come in handy. And the double speed CD-ROM, and the 4MB 30pin SIMMS. Anyway, they is dead. We’re a two PC family once again.

Hmm, I really do seem to work better in the early hours.

So, here I am, 4am, awake, writing software. I really do work best at this time of day. Fell asleep at around 8:30pm, woke up at 2am, felt great. That’s more sleep than I normally get anyway.

Grete’s really worried about losing the car tomorrow (MOT – what if it’s too expensive to fix?) but I’ll do everything that’s in my power to prevent that happening.

Now, do I go to bed, or do I just stay awake until it’s time to go to work?

Well, another 12 hour Saturday at work 🙁 During the Summer 🙁

And now, it’s early morning, and it’s still DAMN HOT! So hot, that sleeping is almost impossible.

So, you’re feeling ill and guilty, what else is there to do than go through old QIC80 tapes and see what you backed up 5 years ago.

I found my entire JAM Message Base for FidoNet, and all my Point config files, GoldEd, mail tossers, utils, oh, the whole whack. 2600 messages in EASTMID, some of those were entertaining. We also had an echo called EM_DIARY, which was for, oddly enough, dear diary style posts. And I found these, from me. And I thought, what the hell, I’ll share em 😉

They are rather long, so I’ve popped them onto another page, remember, I was a bit younger when I wrote these 😉

You can find them here.

I’m trying to work out why I feel so guilty about taking a day off work. I’ve got a temperature of over 100 degrees, I’m having trouble walking straight, I feel terrible, everything is muffled and I can’t concentrate. And it still took me an hour to decide not to go to work this morning, and I still feel as though I’m cheating or letting people down.

I think perhaps childhood has a massive effect on adult life.

Perhaps if I went to work at lunch time …