YOU! SHIFT ME ALL NIGHT LONG!

22:54 / 24.02.06

Any lateshifters stepping up to the plate?

22:55 / 24.02.06

Yeah, why the fuck not?

23:00 / 24.02.06

That's what I like to hear!

How goes things in the land of Stoat? How's Sheena?

23:08 / 24.02.06

She's good... she's in the teething and biting stage at the moment, but she's getting better. She's also seeming to cope alright when I go out to work for the night, so it's all cool (although there's someone there looking after her tonight as I may have to work late).

How's yourself?

Saltation

23:12 / 24.02.06

drunk. knackered. bailing.

Saltation

23:12 / 24.02.06

and thanks for asking.

23:15 / 24.02.06

Not too shabby.

Today I got one of those things...

You know the ones..... the kids are big on them, you always hear them talking about them....

Ah....fuck........

PHONE! Mobile Phone. One of them. Aside from a brief, three month stint about four years ago, I'm a bit of a newbie where this is concerned. The network won't recognise me until tomorrow, so I'm getting the address book all filled up in anticipation. I'll also have to make myself a custom backdrop and screensaver.

I'm both irrationaly proud I held out for so long, and socially embarrassed that I have no fucking idea about them.

23:17 / 24.02.06

I always like to refer to mine as a "contrivance". I like to think it makes me seem venerable and wise. Probably just makes me look a dick, though. (Likewise, my iRiver is a "marvellous musical box").

Jackie Susann

23:20 / 24.02.06

I only got my first phone about a year ago, after holding out for ages, because my friends got so annoyed at me not having one that one gave me an old phone and the other gave me a spare sim card. It's the biggest, oldest brick anyone I know still uses and it only works if you hold it together with a rubber band. I am both quasi-proud and quasi-ashamed of this.

ghadis

23:21 / 24.02.06

Evil things!! Never touch them myself.

23:22 / 24.02.06

Venerable and wise and dickishness go hand in hand with "teh kids". They have no respect for crotchety old bastards these days.

I also bought Batman Begins (finally) and Ong Bak.

Serenity is out in the next couple of days and my squee gland is currently pulsating at bursting point.

23:23 / 24.02.06

Remember everyone (in the UK anyway)- today's Guardian has the Wicker Man on DVD as a freebie.

23:24 / 24.02.06

Guy that works in the pub tonight told me his dad still has his original phone that has to be strapped to his back and only got reception on the peaks of the Scottish countryside.

He may have been talking shit, but I choose to believe him unequivocally.

ghadis

23:26 / 24.02.06

Like you Meludreen i only had one for a month or two a couple of years back. Hated it. The only text messages i got were to tell me to pick up toilet paper on my way back from the pub. I let the battery run down then dumped it. Never looked back.

Also never found out who wanted all that toilet paper either.

23:29 / 24.02.06

I left my old phone in the corner of my room for about two years before picking it up and realising it was now broken (and then chuckling at it).

I like this one though. It's swanky. I'll possibly change my mind as soon as people realise they can phone me on it, but we'll see.

23:34 / 24.02.06

Yeah, I always turn mine off when I go to sleep.

I figured that if anyone called and it was switched off, they'd realised I wasn't taking calls. NOT that they'd then try my fucking landline.

I hate phones.

If people want to talk to me, why then they can just talk to someone else instead, can't they?

23:36 / 24.02.06

I wish people called me.

Except when they do, obviously. Then it's annoying.

23:37 / 24.02.06

I wish phones wouldn't let you use them when you're drunk. They need to put breathalisers on the recievers, or something.

23:37 / 24.02.06

Suedey, I think you've just summed up my entire attitude towards telecommunications. Thank you. I'll remember that!

Oh, and today's good news- mono got her indefinite Leave To Remain thingy from the Home Office today. (My passport got impounded- apparently I reported it stolen about five years ago... news to me!, but it was gonna run out soon anyway, so that's no big deal).

23:42 / 24.02.06

I'd imagine you were drunk at the time, Stoat.
(BTW did you ever downlaod that Titus Gein album? If you didn't, or if you did and didn't like it, you must remember that I will not understand and will then cry profusely).

Suedey! I'm working on a birthday present for yoooooou. A sexy birthday present.

23:44 / 24.02.06

I think that's probably what happened, re the passport.

Not downloaded Titus Gein yet, but I have a week off starting on Monday (at the moment the demands of the puppy are meaning I don't have much time during the day to do stuff between work) so I will do then. And even if I think it's shit, I'll let you know what I think, cos I'm polite like that.

23:51 / 24.02.06

!

!!

Well, clearly I don't even know what to begin saying to that. Sorry - didn't say hello! HELLO ALL!

I just kept popping in and out, I keep getting distracted by various things. Namely my new computer, which although I find quite wonderous, I don't quite trust yet. I don't understand it. I DON'T UNDERSTAND YOU G5 THING!

Also I keep buying things from Amazon in almost haphazard fashion (moreso than normal) and have indulged on a great biscuit eating binge.

And I think I'm trying to download the entire internet in an effort to distract myself from doing anything even remotely approaching the danger of being somewhat productive.

23:51 / 24.02.06

Good, Good. That's all I require.

Man, I wish I had a puppy. Puppies are great. It's been ages since I even had a kitten.

My cat left the house a couple of years back and now lives on the adjacent street, between (I reckon) the generosity of many different houses (he's a beautiful, beautiful bastard and he knows it).

I saw him the other day. He has fleas and worms. I picked him up and he was all purry. I'd gladly get him booked into the vets, get the fleas and worms cleared and then let him go his own way, but I don't think he'd stay put enough to let me.

23:52 / 24.02.06

Stop being me.

STOP IT.

23:56 / 24.02.06

Ah shoosh.

If you were posting fast enough, I'd be the one who had to be you.

Survival of the fittest.

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23:57 / 24.02.06

Wotcha all. [he sez while missing half the keys]
I have some Prince Buster blaring right now and the remains of party booze from a month ago. What do you have?

I DON'T UNDERSTAND YOU G5 THING!
Listening in... Yes, I got a Powerbook recently and after a week or two of romance I realised I couldn't do half the stuff I was used to on it. Mac if you're going to steal PC people, you really need to understand why they love that "kinowing how it works" thing.

00:00 / 25.02.06

I like Macs precisely because I have no idea how they work.

I just know that clicky clicky means happy happy.

00:00 / 25.02.06

Well it's alright, because I know I'm the superior being... I just worry that in your life you might be flouncing about in new and exciting circles and people will say "Why, that lad's just like young Suedey he is" "Yes, but alas, like a pale shadow of that masterful man".

I'm just watching out for you, man. I want to see you break of free of this terrible curse I've given you and succeed on your own.

Imagine I say all this in the voice of GOB.

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00:01 / 25.02.06

So, 'Dreen, finally gonna make yourself known next week?

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00:02 / 25.02.06

Suede, err.. sorry.. wtf?

Tryphena Absent

00:05 / 25.02.06

Oh my lord, it's finally happened. Suedey and Belinda the marmoset are inhabiting the same body.

HELLO BELINDA. CAN YOU HEAR ME? HOW ARE YOU TODAY?

00:05 / 25.02.06

I really do like this new computer, I just lack the familiarity and comfort of old programs. It's a brave new world and I must embrace it. Which really means I have to organise myself which is where the real problems lie...

Also I can photoshop like a bastard now. And zoom it all about and watch a new episode of Lost in the corner. What's not to love about that? Nothing, that's what.

I've become a little concerned with myself after totting up a list of all the things I have forthcoming in the mail that haven't been paid for yet. Especially because I should be using this new computer to create a productive workspace for myself. Aiee.

Tryphena Absent

00:06 / 25.02.06

*raps Suedey on head* Belinda?