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Yes kids, I'm back! And I'll make an attempt to catch up with LJ (and messageboards) but to be quite honest, there's two and a half weeks' worth of it, plus 1155 unread mails*, and I suspect friends pages don't even skip back that far. So if there's something I should know - perhaps you're having a party, a baby, or a nervous breakdown - do feel free to post the link below or something.
So what have I been up to in my absence from the web? Well, I saw Fosca and Exile Inside at the Fan Club, which between the songs played and the clientele made me feel doubly out of time, as though I were watching legions versus dinosaurs, and then foolishly slept through the City treasure hunt. There was the marathon viewing of all three extended Lord of the Rings DVDs, which did peculiar things to my head. I spent a fair amount of time in various parties and pubs, including my birthday drinks which overcame a few logistical hiccups to be thoroughly good fun, and got through an awful lot of Doctor Who (plus the Quatermass Experiment remake, Who-affiliated by both personnel and continuity). I shopped on Oxford Street two days before Wobs, and lived to tell the tale. And I had a lovely time seeing in the New Year, mostly unimpeded by the RMT's mercifully half-@rsed strike. I am, on the whole, cautiously optimistic about 2006. At the very least, 2005 is mercifully done and gone.
Speaking of the RMT, my holiday reading included a history of daylight saving time which contained the following gem:
"In November 1840, England's Great Western Railway became the world's first rail system to adopt a single "railroad time"; it instituted London Mean Time for all its operations throughout the country. In the next ten years or so, almost all other railroads in Britain did the same (although one English railway company initially refused to make public its new, single-time-zone timetables, anticipating that such action "would tend to make punctuality a sort of obligation"." Plus ca change, eh?
(It was also amusing to read of the objections to DST by nitwit christians, who objected to the interference with 'God's time' - seemingly unaware that, unless they lived on or an exact number of hours from Greenwich's meridian, they were already operating on man's time)
Right, back to the killing fields of Inbox.
*Mostly killable, it's true - particularly 'your mailbox is over its size limit', which helpfully comes in daily batches of five - but that killing still takes time.
So what have I been up to in my absence from the web? Well, I saw Fosca and Exile Inside at the Fan Club, which between the songs played and the clientele made me feel doubly out of time, as though I were watching legions versus dinosaurs, and then foolishly slept through the City treasure hunt. There was the marathon viewing of all three extended Lord of the Rings DVDs, which did peculiar things to my head. I spent a fair amount of time in various parties and pubs, including my birthday drinks which overcame a few logistical hiccups to be thoroughly good fun, and got through an awful lot of Doctor Who (plus the Quatermass Experiment remake, Who-affiliated by both personnel and continuity). I shopped on Oxford Street two days before Wobs, and lived to tell the tale. And I had a lovely time seeing in the New Year, mostly unimpeded by the RMT's mercifully half-@rsed strike. I am, on the whole, cautiously optimistic about 2006. At the very least, 2005 is mercifully done and gone.
Speaking of the RMT, my holiday reading included a history of daylight saving time which contained the following gem:
"In November 1840, England's Great Western Railway became the world's first rail system to adopt a single "railroad time"; it instituted London Mean Time for all its operations throughout the country. In the next ten years or so, almost all other railroads in Britain did the same (although one English railway company initially refused to make public its new, single-time-zone timetables, anticipating that such action "would tend to make punctuality a sort of obligation"." Plus ca change, eh?
(It was also amusing to read of the objections to DST by nitwit christians, who objected to the interference with 'God's time' - seemingly unaware that, unless they lived on or an exact number of hours from Greenwich's meridian, they were already operating on man's time)
Right, back to the killing fields of Inbox.
*Mostly killable, it's true - particularly 'your mailbox is over its size limit', which helpfully comes in daily batches of five - but that killing still takes time.
