The lesser mabinogion

I’m drowning in cables!…

You’d think I’d learn not to touch my set up once I’d got it right…but no….

And as always, I’m exactly one cable of the right type short.
damnit!

I didn’t really sleep well last night, but the sleep I did get was rather useful.

I woke up at about 2:00 having just had a particularly strange dream. The contents of the dream weren’t too odd, but the way it was presented was. There was a female voiceover telling a story, whilst I saw what she was describing. The story was very poetic. It started with her saying “I remember the first time I went to the beach”, to which I saw a couple walking hand in hand along a beach. The whole story was basically her telling what happened on each occasion that she returned to that beach. It was very powerful…and having woken from it, I wasn’t able to stop thinking about it. I thought about trying to write it down, but as I was thinking that, I started to form another idea, and turned it over in my head for a while, planing to try to get it down in the morning.
By 3:00 I still hadn’t managed to get back to sleep…so I gave up and went in hunt of pen and paper. In the end I grabbed my laptop and took it back to bed, and managed to write a page and a half between 3:00 and 4:00 before deciding that I’d probably be able get to sleep now.
It’s not the story from my dream, but it’s inspired by the first sentence.

I eventually managed to get back to sleep some time around 4:30ish I think.

Overall, I’m feeling rather happy with myself, because this is the first time I’ve ever had a complete idea in my head. So I feel confident that I’ll be able to finish it. Whether or not it’ll be any good is another thing.
But not a very important one.

Well, I was all set to post a morbid self pitying post about how no one cares that it’s my birthday.

but you know what?

I’m not gonna!

so there :P
heh

‘nyway, ‘m off to read the book I got from Tessa (thank you!).
g’night.

You know, I really can’t be bothered posting regularly about my life here, it’s dull enough as it is, without having to write about it too, and I’m sure no one wants to hear about it any more than I want to write about it….so I’ve decided that I’m gonna restrict my updates to exactly what this category says it is – random thoughts, meaning observations, rants, and anything else that comes to mind.

I’ll also probably make more of an effort to post impressions of things I’ve read / heard / seen / played with, and will probably put up info and status pages on my various unfinished (and probably never to be finished :P) projects.

Hopefully having actually defined for myself what I’m going to do here, I might actually do it, and if not update more regularly, then at least be posting stuff that might be vaguely interesting or useful (except for the rants of course, but you have to have rants on the web, without them it’d all fall apart!).

Or maybe I’ll not be bothered doing anything at all…which is always a possibility ;)

Emma was attending a wedding yesterday, so I got Caitlin for the afternoon.
We spent the afternoon playing SSX, messing around in the music room, and doing the dishes. Then she watched a video and played on the computer for a bit, and I spent my time reading stuff about celtic mythology on the couch.
All in all not an unpleasant day.
After Emma had taken her home, I spent what was left of the evening writing. Ideas are starting to form now, which is a good thing, not quite complete enough for my liking yet, but enough that I got some real words down, not just notes.
On retiring to read, I finished K.J. Bishop’s Etched City. It was rather different to anything I’ve read lately, and very difficult to pin down – just when you thought you understood it, it changed. It got rather surreal at points too. But it was very enjoyable, and definitely worth reading, especially if you’re getting tired of standard fantasy stuff.

Today I had all sorts of plans, I was going to finally do something about this site, I was going to finish setting up monitoring software, I was going to look at more CMS products, I was going to work on some music….
But it was Sunday…so I ended up listlessly poking at web sites, and wandering around the house aimlessly, until I finaly gave up around 3ish and curled up on the couch to get back to reading A Game of Thrones, pausing every now and then to lurk on the web again, or poke at my story.
I am now going to do a little more poking before heading to bed.