Saturday 26th August 2006

I’ve been feeling inexplicably cheerful for the last few days. It’s getting quite annoying.

Inhabiting my mind is like having the constant company of an overly exuberant office joker who finds forced entertainment in the World’s quotidian minutiae. Luckily, this annoying persona has the restraint to only present himself in my mind or when there’s no-one else around, and so the rest of the population are thankfully spared my impromptu, incoherently improvised songs about the merits of orange juice.

If my demeanour does not worsen over this bank holiday weekend, I might be forced to seek out misfortune in order to euthanise my invisible alter-ego. He’s really starting to piss me off. In fact, it may be his ironic swansong that his own jolly observations and antics are his downfall. Thank God for psychological negative feedback.

My cheerfulness has been unfortunately exacerbated because I’ve had a pretty good week at work. I’ve been landed with the quite techie task of constructing a top-secret Google Earth KMZ layer for a comarketing effort, and learning the geographical and 3D modelling XML and then writing PHP scripts to assemble them for a large dataset has been pretty interesting. I shall shortly not be in breach of my non-disclosure agreement by providing a link to my handiwork, so watch this space.

S2006 also went down pretty well, as JTA has noted, and it was recorded in high levels of detail this as every year. When I get home and have access to a computer with Photoshop and such, I shall see to it that the pictures/video/audio make it online.

Otherwise, little to report. If anyone’s got any bad news, I’d be grateful if they could send it this way. More on a fairly irregular basis at some unspecified point.

 

Comments

  1. Clym says (11:09 06/09/2006)

    Sounds like you're having a more interesting time now that you're not just searching Google Earth... Afraid I have no particularly bad news, except maybe that I still can't speak Norwegian! I ought to have started up a blog myself really, except for the fact that all the entries would consist of, "Today we had a 2 hour lunch break, beginning at 10:30 in the morning. I drunk 12 cups of coffee today. The machine's completely broken, and so until the manufacturer's engineer comes there's nothing I can do."
    I think about 1/3 of all my days have been like that...
    Hehe, anyway keep up the blogging, it is genuinely interesting and gives me something to read when I'm on a "break".

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