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Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
7:12 pm	I am a: What type of Fae are you? Dammnit, its just long hair, I am not a damn girl! Current Mood: grumpy (Comment on this)
6:52 pm	Things that make you laugh loads So this: http://www.ernestcline.com/dmd/ was linked today on the APE site, and made me laugh loads; especially considering what I'm going to be up to this weekend coming. So my 27th came and went, it was nice to be back in york for more then a day & a half to see the parents & old stomping grounds. I doubt that city will ever change much, for which I'm glad - its cathedral & walls are still an impressive sight. Or maybe I just like castles & forts, who knows. As seems to happen every year now, I forsee the coming lrp events as an unknown quantity, and suspect they are going to be quite different from before. The promised fortfications sound to be an interesting new experience; even if I am unlikely to be doing as much sneaking about near them as I may have in the past. Regardless of what may happen in game though, considering how out of contact with many people I have been these past many months, I am looking forward to seeing the many people I know there once again. Lets just hope I manage to stave off the Jen effect long enough to stay in one place for more then five minutes... Current Mood: contemplative (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 30th, 2006
9:07 am	Celing Cat This had to be shared with you all due to the sheer amusement factor: Be warned DJ ;) On a more irritating note, teh interweb and the great god Google have failed me. In my crusade to collect even more random figures to co with my collection of anime & game related statues, I discovered this Samus Aran SRDX suitless figure from Metroid Zero: Its not on ebay, and even the strange japanese shops that lurk on the fringes of the net either throw me a ton of gibberish, or say out of stock. Knowing the webheads on here, and the amount you all spend online, I thought I would make a general appeal to see if anyone else had any joy searching for it. Yes its cheeky, but its my bday in 3 weeks, so I am thinkign ahead ;) Current Mood: sleepy (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
1:05 pm	Pure Genius 'I heard about this guy who broke into a lion's den at the zoo and got mauled. People were talking about how there should have been better defences put up to prevent people getting into the cage. A friend of mine suggested setting up some kind of deterrent, for example, putting some sort of fierce animal in the cage, which would attack anybody who climbed in.' Current Mood: amused (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 16th, 2006
10:32 am	Tinnitus - I hear whining...all of the time I don't know, you don't post on your LJ for several months (okay, nearly half a year), and suddenly you start getting people asking 'Are you alive', and my favorite - 'Do you exist?' Far far too philosophical questions to be faced with over MSN while trying to slay dragons in the fictional electronic world of Azeroth. But anyway, I live, Xmas was good; New Year was a non-event (as normal); I have a new job which is a vast improvement (not hard compared to the last company I worked for); Valentines day still made me as irritable & disgusted as ever; All my holiday for the LRP season is booked paid for & approved; oh and I bought myself a new gun. Okay its only an Airsoft TM Socom MK23 handgun, but at least I can shoot housemates with it without having to clean blood out the carpet. I have a suspicion this year that either APE guild Airsofting events are on the cards, or I might even try SGC LRP. Expect a wish-list of Airsofting goodies to go up here nearer my birthday. Current Mood: devious (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, November 4th, 2005
10:14 am	Probably shouldn't, but I'm curious, so: If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, even if we don't speak often, please post a comment with a memory of you and me. It can be anything you want, either good or bad. I promise not to come after you with a spatula, either way. When you're finished, post this little paragraph on your LJ and be surprised (or mortified) about what people remember about you. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, October 28th, 2005
1:07 pm	Long awaited Right, seeing as its a Friday, and no one in the office here seems really bothered about working, I've dug my paper scraps out and thought I'd write stuff. Also thanks to mistress_carrot I'm trying all sorts of funky html things, so hopefully most of this should be hidden behind a cut. ( Read more... ) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
12:26 pm	Just a meme... Recently was bored and so took a leave from Amabat and did the meme she posted, only to get this: This Is My Life, Rated Life: 6.5 Mind: 7.6 Body: 8.6 Spirit: 6.4 Friends/Family: 4.7 Love: 0.8 Finance: 7.4 Take the Rate My Life Quiz Pretty much all as expected, but I just had to laugh at this statement: 'Your love score is very low, indicating trouble. There is love out there for you. Seek the advice of wise people on how to go about finding it. Do not lose hope.' And in response, post this: Call me a cynic; and you'd be right. (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 20th, 2005
1:48 pm	Oh yes - and I really should add, I've been writing lots of random thoughts on scraps of paper & shoving them in my pocket. I've done this pretty much since the last update, so I have a whole load of random thoughts and nonsense to put up here (to warn those on my friends list). I will however be atempting the miracles of LJ cuts, thankfully instructed by Mistress Carrot. Must get that done before tomorrow and the Winter Event. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
1:45 pm	'also, I can kill you with my mind...' (Stolen from Padfoot (again, she is Queen of the Meme's) You scored as River Tam. The Fugitive. You are clever and dangerous, which is a nasty combination. The fact you are crazy too just adds to your charm. They did bad things to you, but you know their secrets. They will regret how they made you. </td> River Tam 81% Inara Serra 69% Simon Tam 63% Capt. Mal Reynolds 63% Zoe Alleyne Washburne 63% The Operative 63% Kaylee Frye 56% Hoban 'Wash' Washburne 56% Shepherd Derrial Book 50% Jayne Cobb 44% Which Serenity character are you? created with QuizFarm.com Crayzee! I still insist whatever this says though, I do not have breasts. Current Mood: mellow (Comment on this)
Thursday, September 29th, 2005
1:02 pm	No real surprises here: Pinched from Padfoot: You Are A: Monkey! Monkeys are intelligent and agile, well-adapted for jungle life as they swing happily from tree to tree. As a monkey, you are a social animal who prefers a warm climate, eats a wide range of food and is quick to learn new things. A monkey's tiny primate features are irresistable, as is his gregarious personality! You were almost a: Frog or a Mouse You are least like a: Groundhog or a BunnyDiscover What Cute Animal You Are! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
9:59 am	Balthasar, Melchior & Caspar apparently have nothing on me... This is a story I meant to write up weeks ago, but I am hardly one for frequent journal entries. However, I'm in a writing mood today as I sit on the phone at work trying to make the day go faster, and the sight of a pile of boxes in reception this morning reminded me of it. I'll explain that in a second... See, a while back before my mate DJ was older (Happy Birthday by the way matey), we were having a conversation about stuff & nonsense as we usually do, and for some reason got to talking about ourselves and personal perceptions. I put forward my personal opinion that I am a child at heart, and probably always will be; to which he replied with confustion; 'But Pedro, I thought you were some wise old guru type...' I fell out my chair laughing. The idea of me being a wise guru type just seemed so out of place with my mental image of myself, so I decided to go share the joke with Aunty Caz. Much to my dissapointment and amazement, she agreed with him, saying that I apparently come out with some reasonably profound statements on occasion. I'd still say they're both wrong, and the proof is evident by my thoughts this morning. The third floor of the office I work in has been empty for about two years now - only recently have they sub-let it out to another company (some chewing gum company apparently). Of course the whole place had been gutted, including the carpet, so they're having to order everything in - hence the many boxes of carpet tiles in reception. My first thoughts when I saw them this morning were: 'I could build a fantastic fort around the main doors out of those boxes'... Current Mood: Childish (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 31st, 2005
11:39 pm	But in other news, I recieve: The University of Blogging Presents to pedromcswift An Honorary Bachelor of Cheesey Memes Majoring in Comment Spam Signed Dr. GoQuiz.com ® Username: Blogging Degree From Go-Quiz.com (Comment on this)
6:18 pm	The Honest Truth So, I fucked up in a big way at the event. I made a huuuuge mistake and was unjustly cold to someone due to a surprise revelation and me having an off day. This someone was a friend. I say was, as I have just come back from a meal I bought to try and talk things over and resolve them, and it has to have been the most hostile evening ever. Lets try and build up a picture to put it into context: Friend A and Friend B start being attracted to each other but are cautious because of numerous issues such as time, travel distance age etc. Numerous events happen over the course of the last year to make it particularly rocky for the fledgling potential relationship, and me being me I act as what I liked to think as a stabilizing ear to both sides. Now don't get me wrong, although the pair of them are exceedingly well suited, I personally think that there are enough issues that both have confessed that I did not recommend going forwards as a relationship to be a good idea, but tried to leave it as their choice. At the end of the day, everyone has to make their own decisions. Just before Renewal, a really bad event occurs which shakes both of them, and comes close to ending it all there and then. I manage to talk to Friend B and talk them out of a rage so that they are at least talking to Friend A rationally. I succeed. Bear in mind from Friend B's words, I still expected things to end, but perhaps in a calmer way. Yup - you guessed it, they didn't. Now, Friend A was playing a new character, one which IC my own character took a dislike too. Unfortunately, it is probable that I took this IC animosity too far; as on the Sunday evening of the event I went to see both A & B after Time Out. Now, I remember the evening as being - I turn up, we discuss various bits about the event, I do admitedly talk more to B then A. When I do talk to A, it is a fairly tense conversation as we get onto why IC I was being so hostile. We all go to bed, I forget to say goodnight to A. Person A remembers it as - I don't say hello to her, I am frosty, don't talk much to her, and when I do am hostile/cold, to add salt to the wound I don't say goodnight. Now, myself and Friends A & B have been trying to address this since, and explain it, and the honest and sad truth is that there is not much of an explanation for it. I had an off day, was tired, had ended up on a conversation about IC characters where I bled some of the hostility off into the OOC disscussion, and probably some of my surprise at their OOC relationship choice. It certainly was not me setting out to be deliberately cold to Friend A. I never intended that, regardless of my opinions of their own choices, I had no right to be that cold, especially not to people I would call friends. I did not deliberately ignore A either, although I can see how it would come across like that. At the meal, I was asked repeatedly why I had been so cold, and the honest truth is that I have no real reason - I was in a bad mood and should have gone straight to bed instead of sharing it about. I didn't. I have tried to apologize for this several times - with little luck. Going forwards appeared to be the main issue. They were being quite gracious at first with their surprise at my reaction to their relationship, and were trying to suggest ways to make that not a problem for me. They then asked me what I intended to do. Now, I'm not sure what I'm meant to reply to that. At the end of the day, their relationship is theirs and I had no right to react in the way I did after I had been so surportive before. I have said that I will certainly be keeping tighter reign on myself to make sure if I am having an off day like that I do not let it get to the same point. This is not enough apparently I did try pushing for more detail on what they did want from me, as I wish I could get across that it was simply an off day for me, and not part of some larger manipluative scheme of mine. They apparently want me to talk to them if I have such issues in future. I have said I would, as regardless of what they might believe I did not intend all this. They blatantly said to my face they doubt my sincerity. So, after the meal, outside the restaurant, when friend A told me that Friend B had not even wanted them to go along to see me, I said all the best and goodbye. I did not intend to cause all this and have tried to mend it, but perhaps the issue is now deeper then simple words can resolve. Regardless, I have lost two friends today through my own fault. I am honestly not sure what more I can do now, if anything to resolve this, so perhaps unfortunately it is a final goodbye. Not what I expected after my holiday of the year. Current Mood: melancholy (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005
1:59 pm	Moo Hoo Ha Ha! So, for those of you who are not aware, I am a deep sleeper. In fact I have been told (and believe) that I could fall asleep on a wire. This fact has got me into trouble on a number of occasions, what with being late for work amongst other things. To deal with the comatose state I plunge myself into nightly, I have no less then two alarm clocks, occasionally three. What with moving into my new house, with its miracles of modern technology being there are more then one plug socket, I setup my old clock/radio I inherited from my parents. Now this clock is older then me - it was old when my dad bought it, and was inherited by myself. Its handy function is that at the specified time, the alarm goes off on Radio 1, and plays until I either wake up, or throw the alarm at a wall. Today, having woken up and left for work, I get this email from my housemate Frood: Ok... i'm not usually a crazy-morning-bastard but today: I appear to have been one... Firstly some things that might explain my irrational behaviour: 1: Your alarm clock carries on for about 30 mins *after* you've left the house 2: I have to hear Two Ten FM/Radio 1 all day at work as the guys in the warehouse play it loud enough to hear through the whole place... Now usually I dont get irritated in the mornings by the raido...and if I do its very low level morning grumblings. But this morning: "AAAAAGH! TURNITOFFTURNITOFF!!!" So I stomped into your room and what transpired went something like this: "Die!" "Wheres the "alarm off" button?" *stabs alarm off button to no effect* "Fsck!" "Hmm... switch on the side" *switch one way: no effect* *Switch the other...* BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP "AGH!" *switch back* *Pulls plug, knocking the whole plug array off the wall* "FUCK!" *Hooks plug array back onto wall, then pulls plug out of array* ... Silence ... *plugs alarm back in* "Balls: thats reset it... better put it back to the right time" *more fiddling* "wtf? Why cant I change it in leaps of hours?!?" And so on... in the end I didn't get it back to the right time, the alarm started back up 1/2 way through changing the time and I started laughing at myself for my irrational stupidity :P So thats why your alarm is all fucked up when you get back home :/ *** You see the other handy feature of my alarm clock is that it has about 12 buttons, most of which have no function unless your pressing *another* button at the same time. Of course which button needs to be held down is also dependant on what other settings you've switched it to. I love my alarm clock, I'm going to give it to my children. Current Mood: amused (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 9th, 2005
2:50 pm	Couch Fishing So I had Leah over in Reading on Saturday. We did indeed talk much LRP, which was all good, and once again was impressed at the food quality in Wagamama. I was even good and tried helping Leah learn to use chopsticks rather then just sit & laugh as she stabbed her food with them. So yes, its been weeks since I’ve written here, and no event update either. After I promised you all one as well. Guess I lied – I am a bad person its true. I’ve certainly found talking to people about LRP in general and CP in particular interesting, as many people already know. But considering the downer I had last month its also funny to see what other people say about events in more detail then the general frothing which goes on. The grass always does seem much greener on the other side. So its now only sixteen days until the big final event of the year itself, and I’m happy to say I am thoroughly looking forward to it. Even if its only because I get to bully some of Caz’s faction, bully my own faction, and learn that yet another person seems to think that I would be great as an assassin. Honestly, I think I’m being typecast as a dodgy, sneaky, underhanded sort…such unjust treatment I receive ;) Current Mood: amused (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 26th, 2005
1:29 pm	Hmmm, should I be insulted here? pedromcswift is happy. You're a rosy-cheeked ray of f'ing sunshine 24/7. I bet you smile a lot and little things don't get you down. Must be nice. Fuchsia's definitely your color. brought to you by interim32. wanna know your lj's moodring color? enter your user name and hit the button. (discussion thread) (Comment on this)
Thursday, July 14th, 2005
9:27 pm	Just to confirm stuff... Wow did I have an episode on Tuesday. And anyone that managed to make much sense out of the last update hats off to you ;) Despite a wonderfull promise from Bat to invade Reading if I stopped going to CP (which was a tempting reason to stop in itself ;) ) I could not see a life for me without lrp as a I do enjoy it too much. And I really should concentrate more on what I enjoy more then what others enjoy there (thanks to Padfoot for that particular inspiration). So I will see the LRP'ers in my friends list tomorrow; and I should really go pack... Current Mood: content (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, July 11th, 2005
6:24 pm	Please Forgive Me Well, its finally happened. I should have know it was inevitable, but I have always been a bit of a dreamer & thought I could get away with it. I guess keeping a livejournal should have told me how doomed I was. Yes; I'm afraid I was 'angsty' today. There I was, having a pleasant conversation with Padfoot about stuff & nonsense, when somehow we got onto the topic of women (which is always a good one for winding me, and in fact most men I know, up) and girlfriends, the various unfeasibility of people we knew obtaining said girlfriends, before finally settling onto the subject of CP lrp. And then something strange happened. Usually at work I will (occasionally) respond to an MSN if the boss isn't behind me or I'm not too swamped; but I rarely engage in full on discussions. So there I was from about half-three to some point past four ranting at Sarah about bias', who had the most fun, how rife 'Who Found the Most Plot' contests are, and the fact that in my grumbling mind it always seemed to end up going to the same few people in bed with the ref crew. I was quite surprised at the venom I mustered. I put off my event update until well past I should have, and thinking about it I suppose the reason is I really had not thought about how to put my experiences at the last lrp weekend into words. Admitedly I had enough OOC crap to deal with that spawned from Fayre, which I will not go into here; and that could possibly have detracted from the appeal, but to think there was not one single thing I wanted to shout out to the world (or the half dozen people who read this) by writing it in my blog. Worrying signs. Am I going to CP out of habit? It is true that the number of people I've spoken to at events went down after Kitty died - it was amusing to see who knew Kitty & who knew Peter; but I'm not sure thats the main reason, as the people I do like spending time with I usually do. I can't even really complain of not doing stuff, as with the Library, the Lions Golem and the Conclave I do have my paws in a fair few pies; so why do I feel like something is missing? Or is it just favoritism getting me down. Ah well, I can blame a good portion of the above on work, which was crap. They still haven't brought anyone knew in to replace the three people are department is down; so the few of us who have been there long enough to know how to do the job are covering all of the shortfalls; and all the newer people are gettign away with dumping any old crap they think they shouldn't be dealing with onto us. That or leaving it for it to go wrong and be fixed when I or someone else finds it. I _will_ find another job. If only for my readers sanity here, as noone likes to listen to people whine. Current Mood: Angsty (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 21st, 2005
5:04 pm	Not an event update but... 'Due to the ever expanding volume and type of communication mediums, we need to ensure that both our e-mail and internet policies keep pace. Employees are informed therefore that posting defamatory, commercially damaging and derogatory information about the company, individuals within the company or about customers via any medium may be treated as gross misconduct and lead to dismissal.' ooops. Okay, so any of you that read my journal, kindly forget which company I work for - time to adopt an alternative name for the place. 'Bitte' maybe. (Comment on this)