Entries from August 2005 ↓

Almost forgot - I got tickets to see the Pixies play live at Alexandra Palace in London on Wed 31st August! Woohoo!
So, that’ll be Ally, Liam, Mark, Geoff with Kat and I.

That said, Kat may not actually decide to come (having listened to some Pixies over the weekend, she was less than impressed. The wedding was nearly off for a minute, but we agreed to differ in a calm fashion), so I could be putting that 6th ticket up on eBay

Hmmm … Blogger’s photo blogging appears to be screwed, either on BlogSpot or on my own server via FTP. Oh well. Will sort something out if it’s not fixed in the next few days.

News - 10 days, 23 hours, 9 minutes, 20 seconds until we get married
edgillett.com maybe getting more updates soon since I’ve just updated my hosting to a paid ASP.Net host (1&1), so I can put more play things online. Also means I can put around some better URLs like “blog.edgillett.com” rather than relying on forwarding from domain manager to freebie website.

NTL were going to discontinue access to the server I’m on months and months ago, but they just let me keep on using it. The new FTP server didn’t allow remote access (only on local cable network , so that was no fun any more …).

IKEA furniture - we’re both physically exhausted and we’re still building the damn things! It’ll look good when we’re finished (And we may actually have SPARE storage. Shocker there.) Various injuries to hands along the way. Rav did a stand up job of shifting boxes back from Croydon, but we were asking 3 boxes too much of it, so we ended up doing a very quick round trip back to Ikea to pickup the last 3, Got home and unpacked the last of the boxes into the garage about 11:45 pm on the Saturday night.

Built units all day Sunday, and Kat did some during the day yesterday. I helped her to finish one of the middle units in the lounge last night. We gave up about 2am when we were really tired and grumpy and I didn’t want to play with cables and furniture any more.

Oh, and the order of construction as specified in the instructions is normally right. It may seem more convenient at the time to construct the top part of the unit independently from the base, so you don’t have to stretch, but, as it turns out, it’s a real pain in the ass to attempt to LIFT the heavy top onto the bottom. Hence we had to disassemble and then reassemble again in the correct order. Always read the readme I guess. Damn the readme - damn all the readme’s!!!

Order of service needs to be finished in next few days - will hack around with the layout, margins and guide lines for guillotining tonight and then start the next epic personal print run (HP LaserJet 2100 - 3 years with the same toner cartridge and still going strong! It’s a lil diamond of a workhorse).

Anywho .. I have work to do - lunch break is over.

“Worky worky time, not shirky shirky time Gentlemen” - Mike Wheeler