Joie de vivre

[tamaranth]

- breakfast (as is only sensible after late night with alcohol, and meeting imaginary internet friends). Red Bull and smoked salmon beaglebagel.

- what a pretty sky this morning: high, fluffy cloud (which I should be able to name) and sunshine. Worth being up early for.

- have a wonderful book awaiting me at home. I know it's wonderful even though I only read 20 pages, and read 'em when I'd been drinking. Hy Brasil, by Margaret Elphinstone. It's a novel about a travel writer ...

- am actually enjoying work (mostly) at the moment. Having produced five major versions and countless revisions of the technical specification for an Asbestos-Related Claims database (yawn), I now get to do some actual programming. Despite Project Manager stretching every 30-minute meeting to 90 minutes, and quibbling over fine detail.

- I don't think I have removed the Robert Plant minidisk - Dreamland - from my walkman since it first went in on Tuesday ... I do love this album. It's mainly cover versions of classic songs - 'Song to the Siren', 'Hey Joe', 'One More Cup of Coffee' - and possibly one of the bluesiest things he's done. The voice of a man who has Lived, capital very much intended: and yet it's distinctively the same voice as on the very first Zep album.

- weekend starts tonight! And by the end of it I will have notched another notch in my metaphorical LJ belt: and will also be able to make witty jokes about 'To Hull and Back'. I bet you can all hardly wait.

- Have lots of writing that I'm actually looking forward to doing, both online and offline. I absolutely adore having too much, rather than too little, that I want to write.

Going to sit in the sun with lproven and diss City architecture. Go me.

Comments

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

Yes, go you!

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

Score you.

It seems like it's been a good week all round here too.

I have been doing triumphant stress testing things in Bromley all week. Which has been fun, and have led to significant database tunings. It's also nice being back on client site again, doing those final pieces of detective work that you need to get a big application tuned and ready to roll.

Last night's Bill Bruford (drum led jazz quartet) and Stewart Copeland (seriously fun big percussion film music) concert at the RFH was excellent. This year's Rhythm Sticks festival has been excellent so far. Sunday night we are seeing Evelyn Glennie and Steve Hackett, which promises to be different. The plan is to do a lot more RFH concerts over the next year, as the music is so eclectic and fun.

Tonight marypcb and I are off to Jersey for the weekend, as it's the hundredth birthday of the family business and we are having a big family party.

No beaglesbagels for me this week tho'. Despite the newbeaglebagel shop by the office that does really nice onion beaglesbagels...

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

Good to hear from you - 'specially when it's a happy post.

[owlrigh.livejournal.com]

That does sound like a good day indeed. Keep on rocking on.

[gummitch.livejournal.com]

Cool!

Sad to hear you've started smoking again, though. And bagels, of all things, with salmon! They're very, very bad for you.

[rayb.livejournal.com]

I went to Hull once, but I got better.
We shall look forward to the scent of the fish dock in your prose.