What makes you happy ?

Sitting here working and copying music to the HD (‘ripping’ is such a stupid word. That’s what you do to material, not shiny discs) and I find this not-heard-in-along-time:

I’m pretty sure I was in London, met Veal (from IAM), went to a veggie restaurant and I came back on a Sunday. And I have no other clues as to when or with who. Though Claire was there possibly. I wonder if it was when I was drinking? that would explain the gaps. Oh well, I shall have to see if hearing it again helps.

(and a Tina Turner CD? And All Saints? I bought them? The shame….. though Mel Blatt was damned good to look at.)

New plugin installed below – WP-Zeitgeist by Whoo. As someone who never ever looks at stats but who used to be amused as to how people arrived here it’ll be a diverting plugin to watch. It shows the search terms that brought them here from a search engine. In time the text should increase / decrease in size and also in colour (Whoo – can we have that cloud class for the LastFM one?). Neat plugin.

Been futzing with the theme too. Apologies if when you dropped by at the few moments when I broke this css and the blue blob showed. There are some changes for me but I doubt you’ll notice. I want a theme. I like veryplaintxt but it has some defaults I really don’t like so possibly…… A bare bones Gemini is what’s needed I think. Something to play with at some time.

And tomorrow I ring Breed316 to get a custom 7mm barbell (paracetamol shaped base, smartie top) made for my tongue. I am almost convinced that the day after he has posted it the one I already own but have ‘lost’ will turn up. The last one cost me somewhere around £30 I think so 2 the same at that point would be pointless. And then my attention will turn to 8mm.

Walked into abody yesterday and a lad – about 18/19 – was just coming down the stairs from the upper studio. He left the place with his girlfriend who’d been sat waiting. She sounded excited, he was trying to act cool as they left. Less than 5 minutes later they flew back in. She was crying rivers, sobbing, almost wailing. He looked really worried. He asked if the tattooist was upstairs I said yes and to go straight up. The girlfriend took up position back where she’d been and the crying – it real full-on crying – continued. (You just know what’s happened don’t you…) I hear chatting and a while later he comes down. They get reassured that once it all settles the “mistake” can be corrected.
After they’d gone, I was shown the printout from the computer. It was the Old English curvy serif script, the stencil had been done from that, the stencil had been applied, some penwork had been done. The lad had been asked every step of the way. But his girlfriend did not have the initials BD. They were DB.
Whoops.
So the lessons…
1 – Don’t be nervous
2 – Check check check
3 – Don’t be an idiot and get a girl’s name on you at that age. I bet he’s back within 6 months for a coverup. Or he’ll be after a girl with the right initials.

The girls are watching streaming films on the laptops, J is playing a game on another and muggins here is doing the work. No change there then…
Did 1050 calories on the ‘elliptical trainer’ today – a record. Though I was listening to 132BPM music all the way through – music which I totally credit with getting me through the 10 and 20 minutes walls I hit. After 20 minutes it’s a breeze. I have some 180BPM I’m slowly building to. I’ll be a veritable blur.
Two machines I wanted to go on were the bicep / tricep curl. But there were two huge guys doing there bit – the sort with huge arms and lifting 50kg with one arm. So I stayed away. As you would.

I’m going to see if I can get a piercing tomorrow. For fun. Not sure if my anatomy is right though. I’ll have to nag Brian at abody. I just redid their website so I’m in a position to nag. And my post to UPB seems to confirm that Breed316 are still good for custom steel so I’ll give him a call when I have the beans to do so. A 7mm bar is now called for. And the Law of Sod will then kick in and the one I own already will turn up.

And the latest update of Parallels did something strange to my XP install and trying to re-register gets a failed key. And when I get past that, XP will do the same. I’ve got 2 codes from Microsoft, but will I get a third…. hopefully.

Ecto is cool, Endo I am starting to like. And my PC? I switched that off 5 days ago. It’s due for a move around a corner and across a room but I haven’t used it.

Back to work…

An awesome tattoo at Modblog. I can’t remember the last time I literally said “Wow” at a tattoo but this one is just superb.

A different perspective.

I felt fine yesterday. I’m always tired right now but that’s a lack of sleep issue not a health one. I ate okay before the visit to see Neil, I drank less caffeine. Last night I felt rough and today I feel like I’ve been hit by a fleet of trucks. Nothing feels good. Work should have been done and is just slow to stop because I can’t concentrate. I feel really ill but all-over ill. I guess that my body doesn’t like injury so much these days. And I still have an arm and a half left to be tattooed. More ill ahead then.

It’s not all visible – pics of that as/when/if I get round to it. The image had the color balance altered a bit due to the flash.

About an hour of increasing persuasion with a taper has persuaded the hole in my tongue to stretch back up to 6mm. The custom barbell (flattened ends like a paracetamol) I used a couple of years ago is now embedded through the flesh. I have no idea what I used for 7mm last time but the feeling I have right now suggests that waiting a good amount of time will be needed. Going up to 5mm made my tongue feel tingly – this is verging on Ouch. So why am I doing it this time around? For fun, amusement, because I can.

Took a bit of a shove and it feels a bit zingy right now but it’s there :)