no real news really

Not much news from me. Christmas didn't exist, but I did spend a few hours on the 29th visiting the family, or at least a subset of it, which I'll probably talk about in a separate post later. On New Year's Eve I went to Chris and Allan's, sans Allan, then ended up in the Salutation Inn, which was ok for the single reason that it's about the only place I could go that night where I'd be one of the younger ones rather than one of the older ones. I might have gone to Nick's, except he lives in Outer Mongolia which makes walking back impractical. I spent most of the rest of my holiday time sat at home playing Oblivion or Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.

Now I've been back at work for 1 and a half days and already I'm annoyed at the incompetence in one department holding me back. Verrrrry annoying. Imagine an architect telling the construction people to build an elaborately decorated wall in a certain place, and then later saying, "can't we have it 60cm to the left, please? Surely it can't be that hard... it's not like I want to change the actual wall or anything, just move it."

I finally got my CD that I ordered from Fuckers Online Caiman. When I remember, they're getting zero-rated feedback on Amazon. No sign of the book I ordered on the 15th of November though. I have a guitar pedal on order from somewhere else and hopefully that will arrive tomorrow, but we'll see.

Currently this year is looking much like last year, which was a poor version of the year before that really. Rather crap.