Whooooooooa it's been a long time

So, as you might have noticed I haven't blogged in a while. I decided to give up on that whole blogging once a day thing because I realised that I had nothing interesting to say anymore. I was always tired when I was writing the post and it just wasn't working. Unfortunately *now* I managed to forget to blog *ever* Sooooooo here goes a MAHUSIVE catch up!

Testing week went well, version 24 of the company project was released. Yar for them.

MY PROJECT WAS RELEASED!!!! Seriously this time. It is actually actually actually out there. In the big wide world. I'm *so* proud. And it's nice to think that, given that I have firmly decided to leave this business behind, I have left something out there in this field that people are really using. And not just that, this technology is, I'm told, really quite desirable so the company having it available might well just have been the deciding factor in people using it. It's not the same as some interns projects that never see the light of day or aren't used widely but mine...Is really out there. Yay for me.

I have been lazy on the book-writing front too, so! I decided to write some stories from some sub-ops Paperback Writer mentioned. They're very *very* different from my story but I figured they might get me back in the writing frame of mind, plus then I can write some stuff and get some feedback on it, even if it's just "No thanks that's not what we're looking for" I haven't got my heart completely set on being in their (e-)book though I'd be immensely proud of myself if they did print it. But it's good practice and thinking in other genres is quite fun.

Oh, and the lovely Marilyn actually commented on a post to ask how thing were going *sends Marilyn a hug* specifically to do with my website. So here it is: http://faeryforest.co.uk/ Slightly different from before lol I'm working to work on the "theme" as Drupal calls it. You can use a whole bunch of set themes or there are configurable ones. So I decided to get one of those so I can fiddle with it, make it my own. I'd encourage any readers I might have to sign up so you can join in the forums or something but a) nothing much is going on and b) I'm not sure how much you'd have to discuss with 18 yr old computer science students in Wales! But hey, it'd be nice if you wanted to :)

I guess those are the big things, people are coming to visit me soon though, my mother is coming today and my boyfriend and some friends are coming over easter!

The weather's turned lovely over here which is nice, I've made some fun cakes, I made brownies last week - yum!

I should go - work time and all that jazz!

Love love love.

Maybe I'll write more often again. *sigh*

P.S. Happy Equinox every one

Too good to be true

Well it would have been wouldn't it? I knew it and it was. *sigh* I almost blogged yesterday but I forgot to hit the right button. Anyway I was having testing issues which Sietse fixed, followed swiftly by authentication issues. Not yet fixed. And then! Coding changes. Bye bye 20th February release. Probably... That or a late night >_< *sigh* fun fun fun. And all that jazz.

I was chatting to my new Italian housemate again today. She's so lovely ^_^ The only down side is that she's so chatty and I wanted to come back and talk to welp and people. She distracted me a bit from that needless to say. But it's ok really hehehe.

Ummmm. I've been playing with adding stuff to my website. I actually have a proper home page and stuff now! www.faeryforest.co.uk heeheehee.

Bed time...

Buggrit!

I forgot *again* This is not going well...

So yesterday was JB's last day at work. I'm really going to miss him, he was one of the few always-lovely guys at work. But he's getting paid more and I think he'll be happier so that's all good.

Not much else happened. Welp started walking! He's on crutches now and very mobile it seems! He may even not have to go back to another hospital, just straight home or back to Aber as he so wishes.

The IRC channel #fresher was "usurped" by #42. Basically we encouraged everyone to move over to the new one due to the fact that not everyone on the channel was a fresher *and* all the freshers on it wouldn't be next year!

This time next week I'll be at FOSDEM! I wish Welp was going to be there :( I *might* have a small crush on him >_>

My black and white photos from last week aren't done yet, they should be ready on Tuesday. On the up(?) side. I now own a scanner. A non-cheap one, eeks! But still, it means I can scan all my pictures in - woo!

Tomorrow is D-Day... Download-Day. Tomorrow I *will* sort out my computer, I *will* do it. This is getting ridiculous. And now I don't have an excuse because I have an extension cable. A black one. Yes, I did specifically buy a black one, even if it possibly cost more. Yes... I have issues! But otherwise it wouldn't match!

I finished Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs. I think I'm getting soppier, I got a little teary at the end lol. It was very good though a little too much "OMG he's dead! Oh... no... wait, he's still alive!" going on but that's not really a big problem lol. I think I might start on one of the nice hard backs tonight.

My website is closer to being set up. I still have to create a fireFTP account (I think) and then I can upload proper HTML files. Then my website will be truly my own! I also found some people to do an online "book club" type thing with so I'm going to work out how to fix up that forum thing. For the other online book club we might be reading Fight Club, Catcher in the Rye or Brave New World. I loved Brave New World but I haven't read either of the others, I'm quite looking forward to this months. Perhaps if I've gotten the forum up in time I'll set it for our book club too. Or maybe just review it ^^

Night night xx

P.S. *big* crush...

Snow and art and hobs...

Right, so I totally forgot to post yesterday, I wish I had one of these excuses but I really don't sadly.

Not much happened that I can remember... The canal outside the office was *completely* frozen over, real thick ice too so people were skating on it and then we had snow today. Snow! It was so pretty, I brought my camera to work in the hope of getting some photos. I lucked out; it was lovely and sunny during my lunch break. I went and took lots of photos and then my colleague had brought his skates in to work so I took a couple of him skating too. Who knows if they'll be any good.

Oh! So my daddy told me over the holidays that to pass the time I should create some kind of online my-wishlist app. People would be able to log in and create their own wishlists, of whatever they wanted. Kind of like the Amazon one but for everything. So I spent time at work planning what would go on that. I've registered two domains but haven't got proper hosting for them yet so I might try another provider, so there's nothing there yet sadly. But when something turns up, even without wishlist I shall post it here. I've decided that I might as well make a whole web site and then have the application be one part of it. This also means that I have the option of creating a web-based app for my dissertation and already having somewhere to put it!

Anyway so I want to put some art on it, y'know, to make it pretty. I've decided on doing some photomanipulation 'cos it's the only kind of art I can really do to any decent extent. Besides, if I'm using deviantArt stock (which I am) I have a guarantee of starting out with decent images! So I'm messing around with that at the moment, I need to download some kind of decent photo editing software. The GIMP frustrates me! I'm thinking of downloading a free trial of Paint Shop Pro seeing as I'm planning on getting a new computer so I don't want to buy it and then do various things to be able to put it on the new PC but if I just use a free trial it may well last long enough for me to do some interesting things! I'll post links to any pictures I make here as well. They'll be of faeries ;) Hehehehe.

I finished Hob's Bargain by Patricia Briggs yesterday. It was good fun though at the end I thought there couldn't be enough pages to actually conclude the story so I probably finished it off in a hurry to find out what would happen and if it would all fit! It did :) I'd quite like to meet a Hob you know, he seemed like quite a friendly creature :) Now to read one of the other billions of books I dragged back with me :D

Night night x