Is how I feel today. I’ve got this wonderful cold that is making me feel this way. Its like being wrapped in cotton wool. I especially like the muffled effect all sound has at the moment.

Spoke to Ginger Matt last night and he might becoming to Tentacles with me in July (German Cthulhu/Chaoisum/HeroQuest con in a Castle overlooking the Rhine in the Blackforest) which would be outstanding.

Got the house tidy, despite the stroping of my inner 15yr old, last night and still had time to spend playing Call of Duty 2 (which in my absense seems to have been overun with various cheats)

Having a mellow day at work doing some database design and programming (result), then going home to a double bill of Battlestar Gallatica. Yay!

It must be a bullet train that I’m in command of hurtling through time at a rate of months per second. Turned round to Rach the other day and idly said I’ld be done on some task or another by March, and she gently pointed out that it was already the middle of March!!! Now were in the final straights of March, whoooosh!

Sheffield Trip

Being without t’internet for about of month, I’ve been catching up with films and TV.

what I’ve been watching

I’m back on t’internet at home. I am a happy man. I feel like the last piece of the jigsaw puzzle has been put in.
(its all a bit sad)

In a rather mixed mood at the moment. Mainly due to suffering withdrawal symptoms from not having broadband at home; BT is swamped with activation work (I blame all these offers from ISPs and PC World for cheap wireless connections) so apparently can expect the green light on the modem to come on any time between now and the end of next week!! Grr my inner 15th teen year old is stropping.

However I’ve been suitably entertained this week. Old skool PC gaming rules the roost, with me returning to the simple joys Halflife and marvelling at its sheer genius of game play and level design, which goes on forever!! Deus Ex is up on the menu next. Also been enjoying Sky + which we got earlier in the week. Watched Layer Cake, and its the best British Gangster film I’ve seen in ages. Up there with the Long Good Friday, and more twists than a curly wurly!. Well recommended.

Work is developing nicely, with me taking more steps away from simple content management towards web programming. Also as a bonus they’ve finally got our regrading exercise sorted and the Head of School Administration is coming round with the letters this afternoon.

Life is good 🙂

Well the latest broadband at home drama continues….with a cast of tens…

NTL turned up with a crew of ten today. One construction crew ,to dig up the public road and find the access point which someone has buried, and an installation crew to dig up the block paving and landscaped garden here at Castle Von Newport.

Lots of umming & rring ensued around my very short wife. Even the Supervisor was racked with indecision until my short, but not to be
messed with (shes a midwife), wife got him to be on the level. “Well I’m not meant to be saying this but if this was my house I wouldn’t have it done.”

Hence after almost a month of arsing about we’re cancelling the NTL account, and Pipex will be providing our broadband from now on.

So if you need to contact me via email please contact me on mrnewt AT gmail.com effective immeadiatly.

Shefield 26th-28th Garrison Hotel, a small intimate roleplaying games convention for 50 attendees.

Yours truly is on the organising Commitee as Games Czar, along with my good friends Tom Zunder (Treasurer posts here as tzunder), Graham Spearing (Comitee Chair) and Darran Sims (Venue liason).

See http://www.rpgfurnace.com for more details.

Work has finally become beclamed. Read Mr Newt is back on top of things. One website, one results system, lots of minor niggles sorted. Haven’t passed the finish line (site goes live/system totally loaded with data) but crusing towards it.

Same can be said of home. Did the final bit of packing at the Leeds house and a couple of trips to the tip on Saturday morning aided and abeited by the inlaws. Took less time than I thought, and by lunchtime we were in the pub round the corner from our new house supping the ale. Yay!!

Thursday is the final move, when the big van comes to pick up furniture and the last of the boxes.

My head has been an interesting place this week.

Monday – I was hyper, Tuesday I was demotivated, Wednesday I was snappy, Thursday I didn’t know where I was, and Today I feel serene.

Probably because of all this moving lark.

Talking of which, it ain’t over yet kids. Tomorrow yet another trip back to the old house in Leeds (I was there breifly on Monday night checking it was still secure) to do some last miniute packing and take some stuff to the tip.

I was going to wait until NTL had sorted us out with t’internet at our new residence and make a long blow by blow account of how the move went.

Well after the fourth attempt yesterday (new excuse “we meant NEXT Tuesday”) I’m not waiting for hell to freeze over. Hence a quick summary written over lunch at work.

• Oldham is nice but the wettest place on earth. Being an amphibian I love this 😀
• I now get the bus and it takes 1hr door to door as opposed to 1.5-2 hrs and it is bliss.
• Due to shorter bus journey I have much more energy to crack on with work, and I have my evenings back!
• Cats have settled in and all flew solo outside by the end of the first week. So nah to the idea you have to keep your kitties in for a month. Saying this however BBC was very naughty and spent 12 hours out the first time he flew solo in the fields and garages behind our house. He made his mummy cry.
• I have three reasonable pubs 5 mins walk from the house. Apparently there’s a really good pub that time forgot a short walk over the fields, which only serves real ale and only cheese and ham sandwiches on a Saturday lunch, IF YOU ASK FOR THEM! When the weather picks up defiantly trying that one out.
• The house is gorgeous and despite teething troubles keeping it clean not the huge task that I thought it would be.
• While living in a town with all that entails, good transport links, shops, we also are surrounded by countryside. The air is fresh and clean

Two of our cats summed up how I fell about the move. I was in the lounge and in walks Holly purring away. Now that’s something I’ve never seen before a cat purring on its own! Then Tiswas walks in purring away. Which gets me thinking, apart from the occasional niggle, that’s what I’ve been doing since I moved in 😀