snakemeister's blog

It's 4.35 AM just now, and I am wide awake. Again. This kind of thing is happening more and more frequently recently, but we've got a lot on our minds just now, so I'm assuming that's a factor. I'll talk about it another time though, that's not what I want to write about just now; I just wanted to set the scene.

By now most of you will have seen that the first two entries in the 'write an article' competition have been posted, mine being one of them. If you haven't read it yet, then I encourage you to go read it. Now.

Done that? Good.

I suppose I should feel some guilt for breaking the site - I'm sure it caused certain parties some extra work they could no doubt have done without - but I'm not really guilty. The fact that my article has been linked on slashdot and joystiq just means that we'll be drawing more and more people's attention.

I am very tired today. LAst night we made the decision to go to bed much earlier than normal. We picked up dinner on the way home, to minimise time spent running around doing stuff, I took down/hung up clean/wet clothes, and we jumped into bed around 8.30.

At which point by brain kicked into high speed.

Feeling twitchy today. I've taken too many Pro Plus - a kind of caffeine/energy tablet - and my hands are trembling constantly now. I should be glad I don't have to paint for a living.

I had a wisdom tooth pulled this morning.

Ouch.

Ive always been lucky and had pretty good teeth, despite having a patchy record when it comes to dentist visits. This has meant that when I do go to the dentist, its normally because something is wrong, and it hurts. The time previous to this, I was with my old dentist. I had barely sat down and started to explain how my gum was hurting when he joyously excalimed that I had to get a wisdom tooth removed because my mouth was "Getting a wee bit crowded back there".

Crunch. Ouch.

So - introductions.

Im 27, native of Scotland, living with my girlfriend and working for a large IT Support company,  on one of their public sector contracts. This means I get to hear plenty of corporate BS from one end, and have to put up with the monumentally idiotic behaviour that only the UK public sector bureaucracy can generate from the other. That said, I do enjoy IT Support – I like computers, and I enjoy helping people most of the time – although I would like to move over to development/programming, Visual Basic probably.