alpha...

... so it's been a productive day, all told. i woke up early... for some gods-unknown reason and was confronted by a broken laptop. diagnosis and coffee later, i headed off to get my first professional haircut in over 6 years. this failed, alas, because the local hairdresser was massively hungover. no matter - on my bike to head off to pick up a replacement BIOS battery for the Dell only to remember that the oil light had turned itself on yesterday afternoon and would need checking. oil checked (low) and topped up and an hour of hammering the streets between here and Fyshwick and i had a repaired Dell. my hair was fixed up thanks to Hair by Lou and i was sitting pretty.

it's been another big week of fixing things - i can now use my mobile phone to control the media player on my Eee and things at work are ticking over quite nicely, all told. it's nice to know that having a laptop refuse to start, or a bike with a blinking oil light, isn't anything to knock me out of my rhythm. it's good to feel like The Shits every once in a while - to do a bog-lap of the office waving the Three Fingers of Rock in the air screaming "i'm the motherfuckin' KING, biatches!"

tonight i head out for the watching of movies. it's almost a let-down: the one night in forever that Paul and Lou are going to be out of the house and i won't be able to run around the flat in my underwear with heavy metal cranked out of the Media Server. oh well, i guess i'll just have to survive. no idea what we're watching, how i think about it. i'm taking a bundle of DVD's and an external hard driver over a friend's place and i think we're just going to go to town until the wee-hours. should be good, i think. i managed to get through The Day The Earth Stood Still last night which was really quite good. i'm enjoying catching up on my seminal source-material... especially when it's been so brutally ripped off time and again in the (nearly) sixty years since.

otherwise, i just need to focus on not crashing my bike so that i can sell it in another month, and wait for those pedantic Brits to tell me whether i can go and work in their bloody country or not. oh, and Make Noise Be Loud Now! i have another half an hour of In Flames cranked loud that i intend on enjoying before i hammer off into the sunset.