Moving to Streatham

I don't update here as often as I'd like, so my current plan is to try and do so using my 'phone on train journeys from time to time, as an alternative to endless games of Minesweeper. That means updates may be of unpredictable length and end abruptly, since if I don't send them on journey end I'll probably not get around to it.

I was very pleased to hear this morning that spikeylady liked the flat upstairs. These days I go home only to make use of my shower and washing machine, because I'd much rather be around my partners in Streatham than in my lonely flat in Tooting, but it leads to a feeling of uprootedness and makes worse my natural tendancy towards procrastination, since everything I need to get done is at home. It's a vicious circle in several ways: for example, I can't shop for food because it will go off before I get around to eating it and anyway I can't be bothered when I'm hardly ever home, so I don't go home to eat. Tidying, similarly, seems slightly futile.

Right now I'm on a train to Streatham because there's some stuff there that I need to take to Tooting, but even that is going to mean resisting a warm shared bed to get on a busride to my messy flat.

So my hope is that if I live in the flat just upstairs, I might go there from time to time. I've always said I would ideally live in the flat next door to Lisa and Lili, and I don't know why it's taken me so long to take that seriously as a possibility. I'm looking forward to it, and to sharing a flat with Jess, very much.

Oh, and it should result in some great parties :-)

In other news, I'm upset to realise that I have almost certainly permanently fried the hard drive of my MP3 player and lost my MP3 collection. I took the drive out so I could put it in a machine at work and fix some problems with it. Unfortunately laptop hard drives connectors are not as idiot proof as normal ones: I connected it one position along from where it should be, attaching the power rails direct to some data pins, and now it behaves like a brick as far as I can tell. If anyone knows of some magic to fix this that would be cool, but I'm not optimistic. I guess it means it's time to buy a new MP3 player...

Update: Something is screwy with Orange phone service in Streatham. I couldn't get any GPRS all night to get this out of my 'phone, so it ended up being emailed in the morning. From Streatham, because I didn't go home in the end. I'm going to take a rucksack to work this morning and home tonight...

Queer as Folk and other things

As predicted, I didn't manage the strength of will to go home last night. Instead we had a lovely pasta bake, watched the first episode of "Queer as Folk", and Lili turned Jess and I on to "Max Payne".

I'm not as taken with QaF as everyone else, but I'll give it a few more episodes at least. I know Stuart's callous ways are a real turn-on for many, but it doesn't work for me...

Max Payne is much harder than Castle Wolfenstein. You have to actually aim accurately, and the bad guys know how to use cover.

Lili has bought "Deus Ex" but it turns out to demand a better graphics card, so we just ordered one from Dabs along with an 8-port switch. We will have to run a network cable down the stairwell between our flats for the networked games...

Date with Lili at mine tonight, rar!

I must resist temptation

I know in my heart that I'm very sad, but that's no reason to advertise it everywhere I go...

(thanks to kisin for the link. product page)

Photo gateway

I should write a gateway that makes it possible to attach photos to emailed journal entries. Then I could use it to post camera phone pics to LJ, and show you all some of the weird graffiti and other illicit decoration around where I work.

The gateway would pull out attachments in the email and host them somewhere convenient, replacing them with URLs for their new homes before forwarding the email on, using the "img" tag for images.

This is the sort of rambling you can expect here around twice a weekday until I get some new games for my Treo....