Apparently my paid subscription is coming to an end... and I haven't posted since I last renewed it. *cough*

I don't understand people who have hundreds of Facebook or Twitter "friends" and just keep piling on more every day. I'm not saying it's bad but it's just a bit... odd. How do you even keep track of them?

Beer! Beer! Beer! OK, I had some at lunch, and last night, but I've cut back since last week so it's now more of a welcome treat than just something routine. Especially when I get to drink the good stuff like Flying Dog's Raging Bitch.

Work is still all consuming. In a good way. Mostly. It doesn't help that the first half of the week was ruined by one person constantly demanding things (The Editrice, our editor, who's micro-managing and air-headed all in one. I want to like her, and sometimes I do, but she takes the piss far too often). Thankfully from Wednesday everyone shut the hell up and stopped asking for things so I've made a massive dent in my to do list. I'm even planning server and software upgrades! (Office 2010! Exchange 2010! Edge Transport servers! Shiny new things!). So I'm feeling good about work right now. Especially as it seems they're planning on making my role/pay rise permanent.

The office move will almost certainly be to Farringdon, despite a viewing today at the "most perfect office" in London Bridge (too far from "stuff". Pah). So it looks like I'll be almost exclusively commuting by scooter, which is just more convenient really, even though we're getting a Boris Bike stand literally right outside the flat this summer. And I think I'll stick with my plan of upgrading my scooter to something that's 400cc (or more) in the summer. Once I've got my full license. Stay off the East London roads, y'all! I'll be learning on a 500cc manual bike, probably from next month. For the lulz.

The wife is away this weekend. I'm trying to think of something radically different to do but all I can think about is gym, beer, watching crap in the evening. I mean it works, but it gets a lil' tedious. Until the second pint kicks in.

I got my new geek goggles today. Same prescription as before but better quality lenses, so everything is clearer but a lil' vertiginous as they're flatter. They're Hugo Boss too so a bit flashier than the pair I thought I'd lost. Huzzah.

We've had more news on the office move today. It'll happen in May/June as we need to spend July getting the place back to how it was before we mutilated it with meeting rooms and so on. Thankfully one of the locations being considered is London Bridge, which would be *way* more awesome than Farringdon and Victoria as it means I can do some middle class food shopping at Borough Market, as well as post-boozing after work at The Rake. *And* it's three stops from home on the Jubilee Line, which I guess is actually a lesser priority for me than being near cool things. But we'll see. It means more work for me as I have to project manage get the IT infrastructure moved and kitted out (we're getting third party minions to do the actual grunt work). Should be fun, as long as it doesn't overrun into my summer holidays.

The wife is currently in Switzerland until Sunday, and then he's off caving next weekend. The scooter is still dead so I can't take that out and it's going to be too cloudy and cold to go walking in the countryside. Absolutely no idea what I'm doing yet, although there are beer festivals in Cambridge and Colchester next weekend...

I'm totally procrastinating. Yesterday I set off for work early and still got there for 9:15. I work in media, so start and finish times are very laissez-faire but I still try every now and then to get in for 9. And even at 9:15 I'm still one of the first in from tech division. But the Jubilee Line becomes totally unbearable if you try to get into the West End terminii (London Bridge, Waterloo) before 9. So I'm writing here. But I guess I should go now. *sigh*

I propose a compromise between TV networks and series producers:

1) Series producers: Stop creating spin-offs or shows like ones you've made before (eg: Caprica, Dollhouse) where you take ages for the thing to actually get going. You need to retain casual viewers and keep them gripped from the first few episodes. Setting up an interesting premise and then taking forever and a day to actually move an arc forward will just lose you viewers by the thousands. Especially when episodes 2 and 3 are pretty dire filler episodes (I'm looking at you Dollhouse). And even those who watched previous (other) series get bored and compare it to those in a non-flattering way. Yes, you eventually get *awesome* but your earlier series didn't waste time setting up the series' world so why should we wait now?

2) TV networks: Stop being douchebags. If you don't like the ratings then cancel it after the first season. Waiting until the second season to cancel just gets me more emotionally invested and thus pissed off when you pull plug. Especially when season two is actually doing better (or the same) in the ratings as season one. Sometimes you need to wait for the build up. And just accept that although not all TV shows can be ratings hits It's still OK if they get consistent ratings and committed fans. TV doesn't need to be all reality TV shows and World's Blankiest Blank.

So you all need to reach a compromise, because I'm getting pissed off with good TV shows being cancelled. And also watching first seasons and thinking "you've pwned in the past, so why am I watching this shit?"

 Had a cold since NYD. Imagine that and a hangover.Ouch. And then some. And it seems to be getting worse day by day. Still. At this rate I expect I'll regenerate by the 7th.

Been busy. And slightly melancholic (for no reason except faily brain chemistry). Had some money stress but it'll right itself right about... Friday (pay day).

Spent Christmas with the wife's family, and my parents are down on Thursday to spend NYE down here (lol). Enjoyed myself so far but next year I NEED MORE FRICKING MONEY.

Let this be a line through the recent radio silence and I'll try and post more.

Also, to those I know IRL a date has been set for the sentencing engagement party. You will be updated.

Tittyfucking Christ. Booked the engagement party the day before the London marathon. Massive hotel fail.

Also: herr direktor (of "Innovations". Who had a team of two. Who both left in short succession shortly after the restructuring which meant you were their director). I told you how to install torrented bootlegged Photoshop to get you away from me. It was bad enough I had to build a working PC from about 20 dead monstrosities that were 7 years old and all hopelessly fucked. If you couldn't follow the simple instructions on how to crack Photoshop CS 5, and it failed, I really shouldn't have to spend my valuable time next week trying to "fix" your "problem" while I'm already booked in on projects that will improve our profitability and efficiency. k?
No love,
Me.

PS: I know you took the CS4 upgrade DVD last week. It's useless to you without the license key and I need it to install it on a new machine for our designer who's back from maternity leave in the New Year. thx.