Diary of an up and coming sociopath

I made it back to Oxford. A little bit of weather can’t keep me back long. Plus, I waited until the snow melted.

Today was a rewarding experience - I mean literally. As reward for finding all the bugs and thus a lending a helping hand in getting the game mastered, I was let off work early, with pay for the whole time. It put a spring in my step and a wad of cash in my pocket (figuratively speaking) and even negated the earlier annoyance of me trapsing through town into the rain to be told “no, you can’t pick these tickets up.”

The tickets were our Placebo ones, for the 1st of March. However - we recently were lucky enough to grab Ash tickets for the Zodiac, which is also on the first of March, so yesterday I bought 2 Placebo tickets for the 2nd of March off eBay - for less than we paid originally. Yes, that’s right, tickets for sold out Placebo shows depreciate in value. You can all laugh now. I was willing to pay £20 more than they actually sold for.

So, that ends my most recent bit of my work, for now. I mean, there’s the possibility that a huge clutch of bugs will be found but I stake my sanity on the hope that there won’t be. It’s not that golf is a bad game, it’s just that I’ve played enough of it for a lifetime, now. The hilarious part is that I’m still shit at it. Chalk it up to my chronic inability to master sports games on anything more than the level of “dunderhead.”

In other news, I finally got to try out my new monitor. It’s everything I ever dreamed. It almost makes me glad that I spent the money, but there’s still a part of me saying “James, the monitor wasn’t great, but it gave you a picture. You’re being unreasonable buying a new one.” It’s bright though. This must be how bright monitors are in heaven. I’m going to gaze into it until my retinas burn, now, and revel in the fact that designing a new website will be easier now that I know what colours actually look like.