"I would stop time to stay with you" - 'Last Summer' - Lostprophets Ok, I'm actually listening to Idlewild still but I listened to this last night (after A Beautiful Mistake) so for the sake of variety I figured I'd put this at the top. Anyway, what to tell you. Work was work, nothing to write home about but nothing bad either. Actually I just realised that I gave my boss's brother the URL for this and he might be reading this... I do appreciate my job Johnny, you know that right? ;-) Actually it's due to John's good nature that I was able to go hang out with Kitt on Monday and it'll also be down to John's good nature that I can repeat the trick next Monday or Tuesday. Well obviously it's down to Kitt herself too but I figure that anybody with enough brains to follow my sometimes rather fractured style of writing will have had no trouble figuring that out for themselves. Especially as the two people mentioned, John/Johnny and Kitt probably comprise 20% of my readership and are smart enough to grasp what I'm trying to say, whatever about the rest of you! :-p I'm feeling like talking a bit of pseudo-smart crap today anyway so yay for that! Basically after a few months in which I kinda thought I was turning into a bit of a cynical, bitter tosser the old lovable (well more lovable anyway), self-deprecating but fun Dar appears to be on his way back. I felt kinda like the dude in 'High Fidelty' there for a while but things are getting to the stage that I like the way things are going again. They're not going anywhere much overall but it's comfortable. And after a few months where I felt like I was sitting on something really fucking hard and uncomfortable (use your imagination!) it's a relief (in more ways than one). It would remiss of me not to offer a clap on the back to the good people who put up with my crap when I was at my most ignorant. Your names have been noted and you will be rewarded (albeit in small pointless ways. Like Love). And those people who kinda dropped off the radar while I was doing my butterfly turning into a caterpiller impression, your names have also been noted and you have made 'The List'. This is not a good thing and some day you'll get yours! Only joking. Or am I??? Mwah-hah-hah! Ever wake up in the morning and realise "I haven't fucked up yet today! I've got a 100% record of doing the right thing so far!" Things aren't really as negative as people think. Sure, our planet is a bit of a mess but fuck it, it's only life right? And no matter how good it is at the moment, it's only the shitty parts that makes times like this worthwhile. I think that the last month or so has been pretty great overall, the people that have been contributing to my life are truly great people who actually care about me. Some of them I've known for a long time, others for hardly any time at all but damn it, you guys rock. You know who you are. Either your names are on that list a few entries back or you're Dan Mooney who I forgot about at the time but also deserves a mention (especially for the day of Championship Manager/Bloodbowl). I am in a rut, my long-term goals are hazy as hell, my medium-term goals non-existent and in the short-term I'm just trying to figure out whether I have time to go home and get a camera before I meet Joanne who's coming down from Galway before she leaves the country on Sunday. But, here's the good part, I like my rut and aside from maybe my parents, there's nobody in my circle now who'll be too down on me if I just squat here for a while. Let's get comfortable people! :-)