As you can see I’ve answered a shit load of Friday Fives that I missed, but other than that I haven’t really done anything I can point to and say ‘I did this today’.

I’ve spent:
- most of my time messing around on the interwebs, browsing Dark’s links on Del.icio.us,
- a little while trying to plot out a story and not getting very much furthur than writing down some thoughts I’ve had for a while,
- a little more time removing the spam from Open Contribution, and thinking how nice it would be to get that back up and running properly. The main issue is just that the core developer [ie Andy] doesn’t have any time to work on it and, since no one else is helping, can’t be arsed to either. I’d be nice if I had some sort of control on the site, so I could delete all the spam accounts, but only one guy has any access to that sort of level of control, and he doesn’t seem to be very interested in the project any more. Though I did a whois on the domain name, and noticed he renewed his purchase of it last year. we’ll just have to wait and see if he does it again this year…
- a very small amount of time doing chores

Anyway, I’m bored now. I don’t know what to do. There are a couple of projects I could be getting on with, but I just don’t know either where to take them next or how to go about them or w/e. I feel almost like I’m being deluged with air: I have all these random stray thoughts that I’m not sure how to organize in order to accomplish any of them. I’m feeling very blocked right now. Anyone have a mental laxative?

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Bored as I was this afternoon I’ve done a variety of crafty things:
- Made myself a bead necklace that [I think]‘s pretty good. I can’t photograph it though, because I made the string too short and now I can’t take it off…
- Finished a cross-stitch that I started well over ten years ago.
- Put felt on the backs of some pretty CDs so they could be recycled as coasters.

All that has kept me occupied for just under 4 hours. Not bad going for someone avoiding the washing-up

This morning was pretty crafty as well, given that I spent a good 2-ish hours making an image for the front cover of Tusumov, and another hour messing around with making another site layout [that I ultimately gave up on cuz I suck ]

EDIT [now a couple of minuets later and I'm bored again... D'oh!]

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I’m helping to run a discount evening event at work on Friday 29th Feb. I’m pretty excited since I’ve been wanting to this for ages, but the circumstances that made it come about are pretty annoying. Ah well.

If you’re interested, basically anyone who can prove they’re some kind of scout guide or enrolled in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award gets 15% off all full priced items and 10% of sales items. There is a poster if you want to spread the love.

[I’m just worried I’m going to bring the poster in later today and get told we’re not doing after all, and all my hard work at making the damn poster and trying to spread the word on facebook and else where will have been in vain.

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Today I have:
-Cleaned myself
-Cleaned the Bathroom, Lounge and Kitchen from top to bottom, including all tables and work surfaces.
-Put up all of the posters that have been flattening for the past two weeks
-Polished my boots [boy did they need it ]
-Dusted in the spare room and my room
-Polished my wooden items with Linseed oil, something I’ve been meaning to do for yonks
-Done two weeks worth of washing up and put it all away
-Done two weeks worth of laundry [that includes washing, drying, folding and putting away]
-Caught up with some Friday Fives, so gotten back into semi regular writing
-Turned the sofa cushion over [anyone who's had to move that thing will know that wasn't an easy task for me to do on my own]
-Ventilated the whole house [by opening all the windows real far and consequently freezing my ass off]

Still to-do:
Tidy my desk
Put away all the things that were in the wooden boxes I’ve just polished
Re-place some odds and sods in the lounge
Finish pricing our videos
Integrate mine and Andy’s music collections
Make Andy a delicious Valentine’s meal, complete with candles and stuff. Choose music and what to watch afterwards

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1. Do you consider yourself to be a good housekeeper? Why or why not?
I’m okay ish. When things get hectic at work and I’m doing lots of stuff, the house tends to suffer but I’m house proud and I like things to be tidy and organised so I do try.

2. Are there any household chores that you enjoy doing? If so, what and why?
I wouldn’t say I particularly enjoy any, but the less tedious are things like general clearing up/ putting things away because it’s usually pretty easy and yields greatest result.

3. Which household chore frustrates/angers you the most?
Washing up. It just never ends…

4. When doing household chores, what do you do to make them seem less of a “chore”?
I play loud music with an up-beat tempo and words so I can sing and dance as I’m doing stuff.

5. Which chore do you find yourself doing most often, and why?
Laundry, but I’m not sure why.

1. Do you believe you can have more than one soulmate in life?
I think it’s a possibility, but I don’t think you could have more than say three.

2. Are you with that soulmate now?
I’d like to think so.

01. What types of portable audio devices do you use?
I don’t really.

02. What format of music do you listen to most often?
Ogg or MP3

03. How do you get your electronic music files? (pay service [i.e Napster, iTunes, eMusic, etc.], file sharing, artist/label web sites, etc.)
File sharing with friends and ripping a physical CD.

04. What type of headphones do you use?
I don’t

05. What is currently on your portable music player that you are using? (Post artist, album title, please.)

1. If you could do one thing in the world, what would you do?
Money no object etc., I’d like to travel the country DnD style.

2. If you could be any character from a book, movie, or television show, who would you be? Why?
Some one like Kallen [from Terry Goodkind's sword of Truth books], Faye from Cowboy Bebop, Max from Dark Angel or my own Asuka Rackell because they’re all such emotionally strong, sexy, kickass people.

3. If you could change one thing in the world, what would it be?
I would alter people’s brain chemistry so everyone was more tolerant of everyone else, and I’d change people’s memories so they didn’t want to go back to what we have now.

4. If you could make out with one person of the same sex, who would it be?
My mate Fern, she’s really hot.

5. If you could make out with one person of the opposite sex, who would it be?
Andy. Duh

# What is your favourite fruit?
Banana.

# What is the last book you read?
100 Must Read Science Fiction Books

# Do you like any of your school photos?
Some aren’t too cringingly embarrassing.

# Do you ever blow-dry your armpits to get the deodorant to dry quicker?
I don’t own a hair dryer so no.

# What was the last film you watched?
Blade Runner: The Final Cut

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Sop, if this doesn’t make any sense, that’s why. I might also make this private if it’s that terrible…

Anyway. Greg barry dan and ian don’t realise this but I do have an ulterior motive in going on the adventure I’m planning for them this july. this will probably sound horrible, but I want to know if I can trust them and if I can work with them as a team. see, since joinging milllets it’s occured to me how notas-a-team we generally work. but we’ve never had an oppertunity top, or at least thats how I feel it. I’vbe always been a bit of a maverick [or loner if you want to see it that way] and I’ve never played well with others, but since being with millets I’ve realised that working as a team is quite fufilling. I have my place and I’m rising to the challenge of filling it and it’s good. maybe I read too mucyh, and maybe I watch too much tv but it always seems to me that the people I see and read about all have eachother’s backs and they all have theirt places and know the other’s have their backs.

is it silly to want the same thing, that sense of closeness? I feel bad for just asking thast question, like it’s almost a crime to want to know I have thatv strength of relationship with the people in my life. and I realise that a test such as I’m proposing is no subsitute for the real deal as it whwere, of people relying on those around them implicitly in some sort of crisis. maybe I just want to test myself as well, but it occured to me as I was writing my last nano novel and various other events that I want to feel more of a kinship and team-ship with those poele who share my life,. idealy I’d like adny top participate with us, but I doubt that wull happen.

am I just being silly? [and this isn't a drunk thing, so don't just pass this off as that]

it’s just, as I get older and thinking atbout marrage and kids and stuff I want to know where I satnd with andy and the others and I want that sort of closeness of having experienced that kind of teamwork with someone outside work.

it’s not just about testing them though, it’s about testing myself. I want to know I can rely on myself justv as much as I want to kbnow I can rely on everyone else around me. Maybe it’s just to make myself feel more confident, maybe I should be aLREADY.

feh, I hope they don’t mind…

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