Diary of an up and coming sociopath

Dear god, it’s cold. Cold enough to start whinging about how, meteorogically speaking, it was much better in Summer? Well, not yet. Personally, I prefer winter because to heat yourself up all you have to do is confine yourself to one room and eventually it becomes warm enough to become comfortable. Usually. I did put some meat out to defrost earlier, and it managed to remain in a state of cryonic suspension due to the lack of heat in the kitchen. In a thousand years, all that will remain is cockroaches and this frozen piece of meat. I’ll get microwavy on its ass, assuming Nikki hasn’t blown it up with her sponge pudding antics last night. I’m sure she’ll tell you all about it if you ask ;-)

Yesterday I made one of my rare excursions to the surface. This time, I targetted the record shop to try and buy the new Rock of Travolta EP. TRoT’s CD (Single or album, I forget which I bought first) was probably one of the very first CDs I bought in Oxford, and it’s been a good while since they released a new one. I can tell you’re all waiting to see why there was the “try” in that first sentence though. Here’s the punchline: The Local Record Shop did not stock the Local Band. I don’t know why I even bother trying, sometimes. Is my custom not good enough!? I can’t complain too much though, because they are going to give me a phone when it comes in (that is, ring me, not present me with a complementary phone.)

I also spent some of the day finishing off a website for Rob’s band. I’m quite proud of it because it’s the first time I’ve used image maps, which took a little bit of learning because I was totally unable to find a program that can make them in any reliable fashion, and also because it’s the first time I’ve written a totally XML/CSS page that uses no tables. There’s a preview at http://www.jrhunt.co.uk/stc/ but it’s not finished yet and I’ll be deleting that directory when it is, so if you care, have a look now, and don’t come whinging to me when, in a week or however long, this link breaks entirely.

Since Ian loaned me his GeForce4, I’ve lacked games to play on it. I’ve been considering black and white, but while watching the Animatrix last night, it ocurred to me that I should try and download the matrix game. I’m not even convinced my processor can handle it, but at least, for a change, the graphics won’t pose a problem. Though, the 2.5gig download might. I have 1.1%. Expect either me to go “Finally finished Enter the Matrix download!” or “Gave up Enter the Matrix download.” in the next few days.

I also got new ZIM yesterday. 2 completely new series 2 episodes. “Voting of the damned” contains my new favourite Zim line: “As president, I will ensure that all mankind HAS IT’S LEG SAWED OFF!!” These new discoveries just twist the knife though, each new episode is like another bite of the rapidly diminishing pie. I don’t even like pie.

I re-read all of LOeG volume 2 this morning, seems as it’s now complete. I don’t really have much to add, but it is just a great story. You should all buy it, and the first one, actually.

I hope you’re all keeping up with Josh’s antics, too. I linked him on the right when his blog went live, but I forgot to mention it. I put a lot of time and effort into helping him get it up and running, so the least you people can do is show some moral support.