January 2008 Archives
a freshly scrubbed, cleansed, toned and moisturised face to make you feel better.
Still feel like shit though.
Can't remember how many times I've had this. Have another chest infection - been laid up since Saturday. Watched too much tv and come to the conclusion that fones 4 U adverts are plain scary and I don't like the cravendale milk ones either. And since when was it acceptable to refer to smelly shits in ads?
I'm getting old, I think...
I've been gifted a PS2. Now it's a long time since I've had a games console (psp excepted) and I'm out of the loop with PS2 stuff. There's a huge secondhand market for ps2 games and I want to pick up some classics. Can anyone give me some recommendations for games I can pick up from ebay or elsewhere? Don't worry about FIFA/Championship Manager etc etc etc. we're not footie fans. Racing/strategy/puzzle/fighting games are probably a better bet!
Whilst playing with Delicious.Library over the weekend I managed to crash it. Well, I accidentally asked it to open a window for every entry in the library (over 400 items) and when I couldn't stop what it was doing I force-quit the app. It crashed a couple of times after that, but when I restarted the Mac I had no further problems. Somewhere along the way a bug report was generated and was auto-emailed to DM.
I got an email this morning from one of their techies to ask me to let him know if the problem reoccurred as he hadn't seen that particular error before. See, non software behemoths do great things like that.
Well it wasn't a bad one. Hectic, yes. Expensive, very. Overall though, it was pretty good.
We got the inside of the house finished and moved out so we couldn't enjoy its luxuriousness.
My travel time is well over half of what it used to be and I'm paying over two thirds less for the privilege.
Rich gave up work to plunge us into even more debt but seems happier than he has been for the last couple of years.
I finally persuaded my GP to refer me to a PCOS specialist and a usually tight PCT found £600 to pay for treatment that will change my life.
I think the year has been marred by my exhaustion and depression. I think the commuting took its toll and I knew if I didn't stop I would end up seriously ill or have some sort of breakdown. The SAD has hit very hard this year so I'm hoping that now the shortest day is out of the way things are going to start getting better and I can start to chip away at my tiredness.
I want 2008 to be a year of organisation and preparation. I need to get back on the bike and to do some swimming (obviously not at the same time). Feeling fitter and looking better is a great motivator. I want to catch up with old friends this year and spend more time with my family. I need to stop feeling helpless and take some control; to be in charge of my own destiny. I want to take more photos and continue with the family history.
Made a start on the organisation last night: I'd briefly looked at Delicious.Library before and thought it was good, but after a chat with Kim yesterday I decided to have a second go. I went home, downloaded and paid for the software then catalogued my CD's and started on the books with a view to working out which ones we could sell. It's bloody brilliant. If you want to do any CD cataloguing it's invaluable. You need a webcam if you want to do any barcode scanning but sometimes just typing in the barcode number is as quick. Anyway it's 20-ish quid and not developed by some software behemoth.
Christmas was good, as was New Year. Both were quiet. I fell in love with a Playstation 3 and cursed the fact I have no money to buy such frivolities.
