wallpaper. Makes a change from plasterboard!

Thanks to everyone who intimated that the boss thought I was some sort of fab person, instead of just dragging me out of bed to punish me, after my last post. We actually had quite a good day. (I shudder to think how much it cost our company in total though - eeep! Just the sort of thing we really don't need right now. Money is über tight, the boss is not wonderfully happy - understandably - this is his entire life, everything he's built up has been put on the line by this move). But anyway, we did what was needed, we even had a bit of a laugh. The artist bought me lunch, too, which was nice. Having read all the bumpf which goes with the photos I did like them slightly more - although I sort of feel you should be able to understand and enjoy artwork without having to read what the artist intended. I mean, they were lovaly quality images, but it was the subject matter I was less sold on.

You know when you know something and you can't tell anyone, even though you know they'd squee like crazy, cos you've been sworn to secrecy? And it make you want to explode just a little bit? That's me, right now.

It's a wonderful day here - lovely and sunny, blue skies with wee fluffy white clouds. And I'm sitting in the sun in Starbucks. I don't actually like Starbucks, but I've had these free drink vouchers for years a while, and I just thought I should use them. They are, in fact, so old no one who works here had ever seen them before...and the till wouldn't accept them. (I did say they were a little bit old...whilst buying the most expensive drink on the menu with one) But as they have no 'use-by' date on, the woman eventually just ripped it up and threw it in the bin and gave me the free drink without running it through the til. Ha, take that, Starbucks. But I'm looking over at the lovely coffee shop over the road and thinking it looks so much nicer in there...but free is free, yah?

I've just changed my desktop image. It's been this:



Approximately forever.

And now it's this:



Which I'm not sure I like quite enough. I wanted it to be sort of cartoony, hence the vague hint at Ben-Day dots going on on Raymondo. I really wanted to do the same sort of thing as last time - big general background image, with a nice pose over it and general 'stuff' going on. but I couldn't think of a big bold A2A image to use (didn't want to go with the chequer ceiling, and whilst the locker room/gents loos is nice, I don't want a maroony pic. I really like the strange hospital-greeny cells, but it's a bit too bland. So I will think, and see how I like this one and quite possibly change again.


I'm alos in a bit of a writing doldrums. Whenever I finish something long (Like .... completely forgotten the name of the thing I just posted...erm...Previous Convictions!....) then I always get a sort of come-down of bleh. And I want to write, but I just...don't. And I always blame it on other things (like work being nuts) but actually, it's just what I always do. So now I need some wee shorts to write to get the mojo back. Any stupid challenges/words/songs etc. you think will inspire me, feel free to throw 'em out.