Distant thunder rumble. Distant thunder rumble.

[reddragdiva]

Antilight pictures from Saturday! Lots of shots from the Ixus 400 with no flash, typically requiring 1.5 or 2.0 gamma to lift them out of the noise ... but some good and interesting results, even if they break the rule of "don't take a shot that requires fiddling, you'll never get around to putting them up." I'll have to experiment further with this — it worked better than I thought.

Everything's happening at once. Elwood died and we cleaned and put away the rat cage. We cleaned this house yesterday and this morning and had a house inspection this afternoon (all OK, we politely mentioned the completely shit cupboards, the dodgy bath and the dodgy kitchen light wiring that keeps popping a breaker). We will be stopping at arkady's flat tomorrow and doing the same there. Our bed is arriving on Friday (HOORAY AT FUCKING LAST) so I have to perform some miracles of tidying. My record collection has cleared Customs and is on its way to a nearby self-storage place. reddragdiva.co.uk should be shifting to the good server soon, not the deprecated one. The weather continues to be vile.

Still no work, but I'm sure one day I'll get a pimp call about a job that I haven't already been put forward for and that's not in Staines, Slough, Leeds or Belgium. What is it with Staines and Slough? Is there a tech boom in Berkshire?

Two more cameras One more camera and an Ixus mains adapter arrived this morning — I must get more up on eBay. (This is your last call to get in first, and every one of those items is damn fine and personally recommended.) Arkady has been having some success selling doll wigs on eBay. redcountess has been busy organising the world.

Update: Just had a desperate pimp calling at 8:25pm. What on earth.

Update 2: Nearly forgot — New DeathBoy Track: "Anuism" (featuring Mog Xykogen). Download and enjoy.

Comments

[wednesday]

Why are all the tech jobs in Berkshire, more specifically, for your skillset and not mine? Have they reversed our CVs? A while back, I was getting all the random Solaris admin jobs in central London thrust at me.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Staines isn't in Berkshire.

[wednesday]

It's *like* Berkshire.

[reddragdiva]

We measure these things in terms of the extent of the Slough Friendly Bombs Zone.

[kirstenlj.livejournal.com]

Berkshire is traditionally the UK's 'Silicone Valley' though. It is where most technology companies are located. My boss won't stop whinging about the fact we're based in London and that "it's not possible" to hire technical staff in London; utter bollocks, but there you go.

[megabitch.livejournal.com]

ITYM "Silicon Ditch" :)

[reddragdiva]

"Silicone Valley"

Because so many of them are absolute tits, of course. (boom, tish)

[sprezzatoura.livejournal.com]

What and where and how often is Antilight? Google has so far managed to turn up a flyer that you have to be a Myspace member to read (no thank you) and your photos.

[reddragdiva]

antilight_uk. A club set up by I think sumnaa and yog_sthoth. Flyer front, flyer back. June's is free before 11pm. arkady and I are so going to be there early.

[sprezzatoura.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Damn the tantalising possibility! I am in London that day but I will have K with me and I can't really ask the inlaws to babysit. :( Is there a date for July or more likely August yet?

[reddragdiva]

No idea. But I've asked!

[(Anonymous)]

Staines smells like shit, Slough is shit and there's that poem. Hence, office space is cheap to rent, and/because employees would rather work somewhere else.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

Office space is cheap to rent, *and* there's people who'd rather be employed and live in hell than be po' and live somewhere decent. (allegedly. I'm not one of them).

[reddragdiva]

They live in suburban Berkshire themselves so they think it's a good idea. They don't know they're dead.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

The anonymous comment about Staines smelling of shit was me, LJ logged me out. I don't know why they're trying so hard, when it comes to being in some order against the wall when the revolution comes, there's not a lot of queue left to jump :)