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January 2007

not designed for early mornings

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Whoa! – Man i’m a tired boy! Today I went into JohnPaul & Suzannes offices in Pimlico to give Suzanne training on their audio visual ger and editing on Final Cut Pro. So this morning I was up at 7:30 am!!! I know!!!! Shocking for me! Got the tube into the office with the two of em and we cracked on as soon as we got there.

 I’m really impressed with Suzanne and how she coped. Wehn you consider I was trying to pass on 6 years of accumulated knowledge to her in just one day. By about 4 o’clock we were both fading but the last 2 odd hours went well and we got through it all. I think she will need another days training as there was soooo much to take in.

By the end of play i was destroyed! I was also faced with a meeting at Tom’s. Some friends were due to go over there to have a meeting about future work and to have some brain storming on some creative ideas for TV. I had a quick call to my lovely beautiful lady before heading off to the pub. On the way back I got a text from Tom telling me it was cancelled. It was a relief to hear it. I struggled to stay awake on the tube home.

Now I’m home. I had some dinner and an involentary nap on the sofa while watching “Worlds Wildest Police Videos” Oh yes I have such great TV taste. Now I’m jus checking mail and am ghonna go to bed soon. This old man cant do long days!

A wee hello to Terry!I guess I should be sayin Good Mornin!

Wow

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So yesterday was fun! – I was a wuss! I dont really wanna explain why but i was! So there! It was justified – Honest! – Everything else in the day was great!!!!

My New Woman had this in her blog so i thought I’d spend some of my time doing the same lil survey thingy here: Ten 2 One

10 random things about me

  • I used to suck my thumb up untill the age of 14.
  • My fingers are a tiny bit webbed
  • there’s a vain on my hand that i’d consider having removed
  • I was President of my Uni Cycling Club
  • I never finished my degree
  • I love to dance
  • I prefer pepsi to coke
  • I can be really shy
  • I wanna get a dog
  • The thing i miss most about Ireland is the proximity of the sea and beach
  • I used to suck my thumb up untill the age of 14.

9 ways to win my heart

  • Having a softly spoken gentle voice
  • Compliments turn me into putty
  • Confidence & Strength & Sillyness all at the same time
  • Being Girly
  • Smile at me
  • Kiss me for no reason
  • Hugs

8 things I wear/carry everyday

  • Wallet
  • watch
  • keys
  • mobile
  • camera – but its dead now!!!! awww!
  • family jewels
  • Ummmm I dunno what else 
  • Girls usually take more with them

7 things that annoy me

  • Arrogance
  • Manipulation
  • Bad Customer Service
  • my own laziness
  • my own lack of confidence
  • When my computer goes wrong
  • really flakey TV reception

6 memories you would go back to just to relive them

  • Long walks as a kid when my Dad told us great stories
  • one time when i was about 4/6 in my Grandmothers kitchen and she was whistling away
  • Silver Strand Sunsets
  • Last Day of college getting drunk with our lectureres on Ealing Green
  • Roni Size Gig in Brighton
  • On Stage with The Who at Hyde Park Calling

5 things I want to do before I die

  • Get married….
  • Have Kids
  • BUNJEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
  • Sky Dive
  • Be Really Old

4 things Im afraid of

  • Failure
  • Rejection
  • not fulfilling my true potential
  • hurting those close to me
     

3 things I do every day

  • Check my emails
  • have a cup of tea
  • think of what i’m doing with my life

2 things Im trying not to do right now

  • Smoke
  • stay up late doing things i could do in the morning – ahem

1 person I want to see now

  • Ruth

Amazing

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I’ve jus had a really excellent evenin! I had my second date with Ruth. Some of you may ask – Who the hell is Ruth? Well – she’s cool and wonderful and kinda my new lady friend. I aint gonna go on about it all. Lets jus say she’s a wicked girl!

I’m feelin good bout it and it’s AAAALLL GOOOOOD!

Burns & Bake Off

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Last night in Steve’s honour we had a Burns night. We did the full traditional thing complete with speeches in bad scotish accents and haggis. Was a good night. I was knackered though. I got up early and i jus aint used to it!

 I went round to see Angie and we baked some delicuious Mocha Squares. They were yummy.

I met up with Ruth for  a coffee before that too – She is yummy.

And i also saw Bishwop and Ruth again – great!

check me out!

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So I’ve found a tutorial on how to work the CSS in wordpress themes and am now working on introducing one of my originals – it looks a mess but so far so good:

Things to do today:

  • Go See Ruth – Yay
  • See Angie
  • See Mom
  • Do more CSS

That is all for now.

Snow Yay!

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Woke up and looked out the back doors to see the above! – Its soooo cold but i love snow!

Feelin groovy today!

grinnin

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Yes today i find myself grining ear to ear becuase of a certain someone. Not quite ready to go public but needless to say the grin factor is high!

It was a good weekend. Friday eve my sis Angie picked me up and we wnet to the pub to see a friend do a Jazz set. Angie and I had a good ol natter. The first in a loooong time. It was ace even though it was an early night. The perils of parenthood for my dear Sis.

Sat I went to my folks for dinner. Had a nice meal with them and a good ol chat.

Sunday was the usual followed by the pub which was really quite good too. that certain source of grinage was present as were a bunch of other friends. I was forced into eating a bit of humble pie which was painful but also a very good thing. When i got home I watched the first 2 episodes of 24 season 6.

Jack is back!

Afterwards i started a new video graphics project. I’d been wanting to try something for a while and it clicked on how to do it while watching 24. The results so far were excellent.

Taday was spent sorting through all that and developing it further. However Orange are now threatenting to cut me off on my phone bill. The bastards  have still not sorted out their screw-up which is why i aint paid my bill. Then bulldog cut my broadband for the same reason. They too have still not sorted my bills! Argh.

But I’m still grinnin!

Stealth HD – Brand Development

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 Stealth TargetFlare sqaure copy

Stealht HD was a company idea by Danny Bowes & Mark Wilkinson that never took off.

good day!

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Today was a gooooood day! Partly cause last night was a very very good night. Those involved will know why. Even though today did start on a weird note. I woke up after having a weird dream sort og gone badish. I dreamt that i was batman and i was running with catwoman. At one point Catwoman was jumping through the air between a couple of buildings. She was aiming to grab onto a pole traversing the two buildings but she wasn’t gonna make it so I as batman swung down to try and save her.

As we flew she just missed the pole but she was grabing out with her hands and her long claw-like fingernails were tapping off the pole. I then woke up to the same sound which was the ivy outside my window tapping on the glass. It was very odd indeed. Any readings into this would be appreciated.

My afternoon was pretty dull – didnt really get much done. This eve I went and had dinner at Victoria & Richard’s place and James was there too. We had chicken and it was gorgeous. a very tasty meal!

So all in all a good day!

PHP and techie stuff

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ok so I really have bitten off a little more than i can chew on this whole wordpress game. I’ve found a few tutorial sites that show you how to build your own wordpress themes (the layouts and style) but they are all very complicated. It makes me realise how limited my webskills are. It is all PHP scripting and such which i have bugger all experience in and its alot to take in.

 Implementing the styles from my old site is looking to me more difficult than i previously hoped however its good as this means i will be advancing my knowledge of it all. Watch the site for more developments!

Smoothies

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Apples, bananas, strawberries, mangos and oranges! – hey make a nice smoothie!

Tomorrow am due to go to a Pirates & Princess’s party! – need to sort some sort of dress code

shabba

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I finished the animation – Tom did his audio magic and we got the other stuff out and over to the client!

Here is the animation: WARNING: do not watch if you are easily offended by bad language

[flv]http://www.irishmark.net/MEDIA/Films/Maris%20-%20Branson1.flv[/flv]

Busy busy busy

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today has been a busy one. Tom came over this morn then we went round to his. Its been kinda non stop all day. Got a bunch of stuff to get done for the morning! Its jus all a bit last minute and hectic.