Matt Charlton

I didn’t leave work until 19:35 tonight.

I got there at around 07:45.  Just under 12 hours.

Thats crazy.

The problem is, we’re getting that many calls and tickets in at the moment that it’s just all mounting up.  Today was one of those days where you just don’t seem to make any headway.  I think I managed to get through more work from 17:00-19:35 than I did for the entire day.  Just the chance to work through without interruption means you can get so much done.  I’m quite pleased with the progress I made and hopefully now things will level off and we can get through the rest of the week.

It’s funny – my back was really uncomfortable last night, woke up and it was much the same, most of the morning it felt like it needed cracking (like knuckles).  It seems to have eased off after we went for a walk at lunch.

Think I’ve decided on a direction for the linux box.  I think I’m going to either register a new domain or set up an A record and MX record for a new subdomain on a domain and work through setting up a mail server with various bits and pieces.  Once that’s setup I’m going to look at some sql and php development.

In other news, I’ve installed the new beta 2 of Wordpress 2.7.  There are a bunch of changes to the back end and it looks really, really nice.  Awesome in fact.

There probably won’t be so many changes to the front end, maybe one or two new widgets but this is mainly a backend thing.  Really loving the new changes, it just looks so much more web 2.0 rather than the old fashioned interface.

I’m sleepy.

I’m running out of inspiration for titles.  Not just with blog posts but with photoblog posts too.  Its crazy – I want to think up clever things but I want to avoid clichés and avoid being completely anal. 

Its like this morning, I had a nice photo of Scarborough harbour, couldn’t think of anything clever so it got called Scarborough – thats inventive, isn’t it?

The dark nights are really setting in now, I had to put my headlights on driving home – I definately had to have them on this morning, when I got up at 6:30 it was proper pitch black, it could have been 10pm.  Nightmare. 

This is getting to the stage where my SAD starts to get really bad.  I can’t explain what happens with it, it just turns me into a miserable bastard (whats the difference from the rest of the year? ho-ho).  The lightbox usually helps, this year it seems to be a bit hit and miss.

Take yesterday for example, we had a really fun day, spent most of the day lounging around watching TV and films (was nice for a change) and went out for tea.  Once we’d gotten back from tea I just didn’t feel like doing anything, my energy was zapped, interest levels were non-existent.  Its just a big ball of I can’t be arsed.  Very odd.

Feel a bit like that tonight, so I’m just listening to music, trying to zap myself out of it, I’ve used the lightbox, if anything I feel worse now that the light has gone.  I really need to look at moving the big light back in the room so that this corner is a little brighter because its darker than a narrow corridor in an abandoned space station and I have neither a flashlight or shotgun (Doom, for the non-initiated). 

Chemical inbalances in the brain suck balls. 

Plus the fact I should be playing the new Ghostbusters game, damn you Sierra! ;(

Still, Gears of Wars 2 is out in a few weeks, will I feel like playing then? I dunno.  Meh.