Everything, Everything

It was sold out! So Kev and I came back and watched some Red Dwarf instead.

To watch The Day After Tomorrow!

Channel 4 announced that Sunday's episode would be the season finale even though they are only half-way through the season. According to Channel 4 "The O.C. will return in the autumn". I'm sure that'll upset a lot of people here.

My brother's girlfriend Caz has just become a black belt, so if he wasn't under thumb before (and he totally was) I'm sure he will be now. I hope she liked the present he got her for her 21st birthday.

I had a lazy day today, mostly sleeping, but also watching season 2 of Scrubs and chatting to Lynne about how evil VB6 is (specifically variants) and this year's Big Brother. I wasn't planning to watch it this year, but they seem to have all the stereotypes together, which could make it more interesting. Or more annoying.

Kev and I are thinking of watching Troy this week, I suspect it'll not be that great, but it'll be better to watch in the cinema than at home when it's out to rent. Plus quite a few of us might be able to go together, to make it a social event. I still want to watch The Day After Tomorrow sometime, also probably overrated, but again should be fun in a cinema.

I'm also thinking of starting swimming again on Sundays. Or at least doing something to help keep me fit and give me a hobby.

Actually, I made a couple, there's 'about' and 'used' - or at least that's what it should have said! I certainly can't imagine anyone wanting to sue a comb.

And yes, Henry, the diary is changing before your eyes.

Wow, it's really good. It's impossible to describe, you have to see it to realise why it's got 8.6 on IMDB. I loved every second of it, and never wanted it to end. It's made me feel quite lonely though.

Kev invited me over for chips from the local chip shop, and they were really good. I had chips, curry sauce and mushy peas. Much better than the chocolate and packet of crisps I'd had to eat the rest of the day! Hopefully my dad will bring cookies into work for me tomorrow.

Oh, and I think my bosses are trying to discretely put me forward for another award at work, but one of the bigger ones this time (that might involve cash). I'll have to practice looking surprised.

The questions were a lot more complex this year, really required a lot of thought. I got 134 so I'm quite happy, it sounds right.

I've been sleeping a lot, will try and get into work early on Monday, maybe leave early on Tuesday too.

I could hear Jackie screaming at the TV today, through two closed doors. You can tell there was a grand prix on, just like you could tell Man U were playing yesterday. Still, she sounded happy.

Not too happy today. On a more positive note, I got two numbers on Lotto (but obviously not enough to actually win anything) and I've written a nice multiple user thingy in PHP for use with dynamic forms (it's very quick too).

Why is it the Ibuprofen tablets I have are pink and look like Smarties? Maybe because my parents bought them for me, I normally buy Nurofen. Ah well, as long as it stops the pain in my neck.

Perhaps it's a sign we should all be in bed. My downloads are never going to complete. My poor PC's losing power. At least we have loads of lightbulbs if any have blown. Richard and I both got spares today.

I just spotted that the new series of Coupling starts on BBC3 on Monday! I can't wait to see it, but I'm sure I'll be upset not to see Jeff. It won't be as good without him.

As the fourth run of the relationship sitcom kicks off, Steve is having nightmares about the imminent patter of tiny feet and Patrick is torn between his love for Sally and getting home for a good night's sleep.

Nine and a Half Minutes
One bar, three different points of view, the same nine and a half minutes. Susan and Steve are pregnant (mostly Susan), Patrick and Sally are discussing relationships (mostly Sally), and Jane has a blind date - but will his job be a problem? Meanwhile, in the skies above an Aegean island, terrible danger grows.

Six new episodes of brilliance:
Nine and a Half Minutes
Night Lines
Bed Time
Circus of the Epidurals
The Naked Living Room
Nine and a Half Months (unconfirmed)

It looks like I recognise just two tracks in the current UK top 10 singles chart: D12's My Band and Usher's Yeah. I'm pretty sure I'll recognise the Boogie Pimps song if I heard it (the lead singer's quite hot, and the songs do seem shamefully catchy), and most Busted tracks sound the same so I'll probably spot them (useful if I ever want to hunt them down and kill them). As for ten years ago, I recognise six of them by name, and I'd probably recognise a couple others. I even have Blur's Parklife album, top of the album chart ten years ago - I don't have any of the current chart.

I'm better with the films though, having seen four of the top ten (Kill Bill: Vol. 2, 50 First Dates, The Girl Next Door and The Butterfly Effect - which everyone should watch).

I saw my mum's new car. It's not quite the colour I expected, and it's smaller than my car. In fact, it's lost a couple doors, and the badge at the back says Micra instead of Primera. Yes, my mum's car isn't ready, so she's got a little silver Micra S courtesy car. It's not my style, but it doesn't look too bad a car. The real new car will hopefully be brought over on Monday, so I'll get to see it then.

Went to a pub quiz tonight, we came 18th out of 20. Still, it was a fairly pleasant evening.

I spotted the pretty barmaid who works at another pub, I suspect I'll see her when I go their to comedy night tomorrow evening. Unfortunately I saw her with (what I can only assume is) her boyfriend.

After much messing around (including making a hole in the back of my cupboard using only a screwdriver and a pair of scissors - well, that and brute force and ignorance), SilentBob2 is in my cupboard and full of hard disks. Nearly had a panic when the 180GB drive wasn't detected, but luckily it wasn't a limitation of the motherboard, it was an incorrectly set jumper. The bad news is, once in XP, my 120GB Western Digital drive is screwed. I'm attempting to see what I can recover with a freeware/shareware program right now, but I suspect I may have lost it all. At least it wasn't 180GB like last time. I never did like that WD drive (this is the replacement for the one that failed last time).

Am supposed to be going shopping tomorrow with my parents, not sure if I'll be up to make it at this rate. So much for me working on dynamic forms written in PHP!