A brief encounter

Well, looks like my time at Blogger has been rather short-lived. I'm going back to my LiveJournal blog.

I miss my friends over there and although Blogger is undeniably pretty, I find it vacant on a personal level. I mean, what's the point of writing one of these fuckers if no-one else sees it?

Happier New Year

Just got back from visiting family and friends in Southampton. All in all, it was a pretty good trip - I feel closer to my family than I have done for ages and in a bizarre turn of events, we ended up staying an extra day. We used to zoom back to Scouseland before time, such were the historical frictions.

Managed to catch up with quite a few friends - some way too briefly ( Stu - soz, make it up to you mate ) due to unfolding events. Didn't see too much of my extended family - again, not intentional - just the way things went down.

New Years Eve was pretty low-key. After the tragedy in Asia, no-one ever really felt like saying "yay! It's New Year!". We had a quiet evening in my mum's house. My only hope re: Asia is that some element 0f good emerges from the disaster. Unlikely, I know, but this is a wake-up call of the first order. The War on Terrorism looks positively trivial by comparison.

Arrived home today to find three shocks.

1. The back door was wide open.
2. Nothing had been nicked.
3. My PC had died.

Point 1 and 2 largely look after themselves - point 1 can be largely accounted to an early morning smoke on my part.

Point 3 though, was a real git. Turns out my PSU was on the blink ( a mere 250Watter unused to the demands I make upon it ). The usual PC maintenance ensued ( i.e. removing everything and adding it gradually ) but really, my little machine is on its last legs. Boo! I need a new PC - but on the bright side, might be able to play Sims 2 on it when I get it.