Wow, wasn't that last post violent??

Yeah, well, I still say that she deserved it. I hang around in male dominated areas and I do find that some women are just complete bitches. They think that they can get away with anything because guys won't say or do anything back. I'm sorry, I'm female too and I don't agree with the way you just treated me. Nor do I agree with the way you've been treating my friends... so bugger off!!!

Oh, and don't worry, I didn't start a fight or anything last night. I don't feel right fighting girls, so as soon as I'd pushed her back I left the pub. I wouldn't want to have to actually hurt the girl...

-d

Yes, it's late, but that's no reason to be a prick!

This is a post which hits me right in the heart. I'm just back from the pub. I'm not particularily drunk. However, as I left the pub tonight some guy shoved me and I ended up accidentally bumping into some random girl. Now, in general, in any pub you enter, this is going to happen now and again. It's no big deal. This is in a metal bar where it's likely to happen more often, therefore you should learn to deal with it!

Therefore, when this happened, I was quite insulted when the girl; before I had the chance to apologise; decided to respond by elbowing and shoving me backwards! Like, what the fuck?!! At the very least give me a chance to say sorry before you attack me!! I caught hold of her shoulder, explained what had happened and how she shouldn't have reacted as such, before I pushed her in the shoulder. Yes, I pulled it, she didn't fall over or anything and she'll be fine in the morning, but hopefully it gave her something to think aboot because a guy in my situation wouldn't have the same outlet.

But seriously, what a bitch?! Look behind you before you attack! I feel bad aboot shoving a girl, but I do believe that she deserved it! Hopefully she has learnt her lesson!! Namely, don't shove me before you look behind you to find out what happened, I will retaliate to unfair treatment! >:(

-D

Random crazy dreams...

I dunno why, but my dreams are generally fairly vivid, the one I had last night was just insane though!

In my dream a load of boring random things happened and then I went to bed. I woke up to banging at the front door, people were rioting in the streets and trying to get in. I was somehow with my family who were screaming at me to lock the door, which I did, but the lock didn't work and they managed to crash through. I attempted to hold them back, which I was doing, until one of them pulled a gun. We all froze. The thing was, it was an older guy, his daughter and her son, who couldn't have been older than six and was doing his best to beat the shit out of everyone. The older guy was waving his gun in our faces and they were both showing off bullets and screaming at us. They wanted to know everything about us, see proof of ID, our passports and whether or not we were actually Irish and supposed to be there. I thought that there must some ulterior motive going on but when someone is screaming and waving guns in your face, you're not going to think about it for long. All I kept doing was, stupidly, crying and exclaiming over them waving a gun around when there was a child there who could get hurt. When they were satisfied with us they returned to the riot and moved on. I went outside and hunted around a bit, I was looking for the purple Ka that my mother had bought me earlier on in the dream. I was doing a bit of parkour and discovered loads of graffiti very high up, all interlaced and hard to make out, but after trying for a while it turned out that the riot was actually part of the Che Guevara anniversary that I'd seen posters for in the streets earlier this week. The breaking into homes and invading your privacy was a statement for how the government is being run and where it's headed, a statement that this could become a routine thing.. Odd to say the least, probably completely incorrect as I don't know what Che stood for or anything, but this is what I see the world coming to.

I also found a bright shiny ring just sitting on the balcony of a pub whilst searching for the car, I swear I heard Zelda music in my head when I picked it up...definitely been playing too much Zelda...too much, or not enough :)

-d

And I'm back

Yes, my new baby has arrived and I am very very glad, I've missed having a home connection; between moving flats, fighting with broadband providers and breaking my old baby, Dagon, I've been offline for quite some time. Now just to think of a new name, it has to be male, beginning with D and have some measure of coolness.

In other news, I saw the most ignorant and stupid individual ever today. I'm going to say he was aboot 16 to give him the benefit of the doubt, his conversation with his mate went as follows:

MATE: *sings Transformers*
FUCKWIT: What's that?
MATE: Cars that turn into robots
FUCKWIT: Ah, they just ripped that off from the Citreon ad

I actually stopped dead and stared at this guy gobsmacked! Now you may say "but he's young, they didn't have Transformers back then". Believe me, he should have known! If his friend knows enough to think it's cool to sing the *original* theme tune then where the hell did that other fuckwit's childhood go?!!

One more thing... I'm beginning to think that I'm living in a dictatorship, a bumbling ineffective one, but evil nonetheless. Their entire campaign was "you voted for us before, and sure, we weren't all that bad were we?" Now, in their third term, they're showing their true colours. I saw a trailer ad for them. I didn't get a chance to read it fully but I'm fairly certain that the main tagline went along the lines of "We're watching you!" Fucken Big Brother has made his evil sadistic way to Dublin. That sort of psycho shit is the reason why I hate democracy. Yeah, yeah, it means that we don't get stuck in some dictatorship shit, but look around you, look at Bush, look at our Bertie...the general public cannot be trusted to choose an appropriate leader who is not a complete retard who's going to fuck up the world! I'm not saying "let's get rid of democracy" but, could we please please pretty please *think* aboot who you're putting in charge! I'm not normally into politics, I generally take them as a huge joke on the world, but that sort of fucken shite pisses me off! >:(

Billy Connelly says it best: I think that the desire to become a politician should stop you from ever BEING one!! Don't vote, it only encourages them!

-d

Netless

I ain't gonna be blogging again for a good while, work blocked off my access to here and my laptop's kinda dead. The new one will be here in a few weeks though so I'll be back to my usual antics later.

-d

Worst Day Blues

Hehe, blues :) One of my friends will be home from China tomorrow, three week vacation, damn him! But anyways, that bit of the title is in his honour!

Now then, yesterday.. I dunno what sort of bad karma I was experiencing, but it was just one piece of crap after another!

* I slept in, this resulting in me being 15mins late for work (bit of good news in that the boss is on holidays).

* Due to me being so dopey-eyed in the morning, I'd worn a normal (ie: heavy metal) t-shirt. The contractor then told me that the meeting with the Business types *would* be going ahead. So I spent lunch in taxis legging it home to get changed into something more suitable.

* I was just finishing up work for the day, using a template, saving-as, cutting to pieces, saving and reopening the template to start again, when I discovered that I had in fact overwritten the template, I'd gotten through doing it correctly FOUR times and the fifth time I forgot to do the initial save-as and basically managed to fuck up the entire thing which was supposed to be reviewed the following evening.

* Whilst moving things between my new flats (I'm moving btw) I was talking to my mom on the phone and some little shit ran past and tried to grab my phone out of my hand! >:( It's actually quite fortunate that my phone got stolen out of my hand a few years ago so now I always keep my finger over the top of it (as most of them who do the snatch 'n' run just try to slip it outta the top of your hand) so the little prick didn't get hold of it and just ran off. It's amusing that in the six years I've been in the "Big Smoke" this is only the second criminal act I've been subjected to, when moving here I was told repeatedly that I was going to be robbed, mugged, murdered, etc. but all that's happened is two guys (one ~16, the most recent ~10) have ran past and tried to grab my phone...not really too bad *sigh*

* My flatmate asked me if her sister could move into my current room as soon as I'm out of it. Not a chance! Our landlady isn't all that happy with us so I'm gonna be scrubbing that room up until our lease is up and no one other than me is gonna set foot in it!

Thankfully today is going better, I've been up since 6am and in work since 7:30am. I've managed to fix up everything I broke yesterday and it's now 3:30pm, home time is in an hour and a half and then I get to move more stuff into my pretty new flat :D

Oh, and did I mention?! My new flat's very pretty :D I stayed over last night and myself and my new flatmate watched spaced and drank beer. It's kinda upsetting that Gir can't be moved over just yet otherwise I would only be back in my old place to pack up things and clean!

-d

Exciting times

Everyone is out to get me! Well, as of leaving work yesterday evening this is how it seems...

Exciting situation number one (thankfully not really aimed at me):
I went for a drink with friends, I was standing outside looking in the window at them, one was making threatening gestures at me out the window with a candle so I leaned over and pretended to be kissing the window where she was seated. She leaned over and did the same thing, forgetting that she'd just put the candle down... This girl is very proud of her appearance and spends a lot of time on her hair and makeup...and had hairspray/something in her hair, it went up in flames! I was outside banging on the window and she didn't even realise that a chunk of her hair was on fire. Thankfully when she did it went out quickly but there was a lot of burnt charred hair and when I went back inside the place stank of it! The poor girl had to go home and shower to get rid of the smell :(

Exciting situation number two:
I was waiting at the bus stop, a bus had just arrived and I was letting other people on while I finished a cigarette. I threw the butt away and started getting on the bus, turning as I did to blow the last of the smoke out the doors (because I wouldn't want to be a bus driver and have people blowing smoke in my face all day long). It was only because I was doing this that I realised that the bus doors were closing, on me! Now, this does happen accidentally a lot of the time, but what had happened in this incident was that the bus driver had *purposefully* closed the doors on me because he didn't want smoke on his bus! He then gave out to me that I should have stayed on the side of the road because he didn't want any smoke on the bus. Arsehole! He refused to give me his name but I took down the license plate number and I'm very tempted to go into CIE and complain about him for reckless endangerment. Accidents happen, but closing the bus doors on someone is dangerous and I could have been hurt while he was protecting his clean air!

Exciting situation number three:
I was walking down a narrow street this morning which is generally littered with lorries making deliveries. Due to it being so narrow, they have to park on the footpath to let other traffic by. I was on the footpath when one driver decided to do just that, except he didn't seem to notice that I was walking along beside him. He put his first bumper over the kerb and just kept going, getting closer and closer to me without seeming to have any intention of stopping until he was right beside the wall (and most of them do park right against the wall). I had to jump forward and thump on the passenger door so that I wouldn't be crushed! He hadn't been checking his mirrors and hadn't even seen me, my head barely cleared the passenger door into his line of sight. If it had been a small child they'd have been crushed and he probably wouldn't have even noticed.

So now I have returned to the sanctuary of my office, I don't think I should have left last night :(

-d

Identity Crisis

I have an 11 month old bearded dragon named Gir. He's my pride and joy, I think he's fantastic, though he can be a bit moody at times (like his master) and doesn't like being outside.. He's always been a good eater, he eats and eats and eats. However, every now and then, he'd go off his food for a few days, then perk back up and gobble down a load of it. So I wasn't too worried two weeks ago when he only ate half of what I put in front of him. I did get worried though when this continued to happen, he's been barely eating at all now. He hasn't lost any weight but he did pick up a couple of new traits.

1) He was now depositing all of his "material" on the opposite side of the tank than he usually does.
2) The now clean side of the tank he was ripping to shreds. He was spending ages clawing at that side of the tank, trying to rip through it.
3) Every time that I took him out he would go galloping off exploring, now this isn't unusual in itself, beardies are very curious, but generally he'd explore, then settle down and go to sleep somewhere out of the way, now he was racing back and forward searching for something.

I had my suspicions as to what might cause this, but wasn't at all sure, so I brought him into the petshop I bought him from on Sunday to have my suspicions confirmed. He is a she.

It's very hard to tell the difference in lizards until they're older, so I had thought that he was a he all of this time. Even looking at photos on the web didn't help much because, unless you know beardies well (and this was my first one), you couldn't tell the difference in the size of the head, width of the tails, beard colour or behaviour (she is *not* passive, she actually enjoys displaying at herself when she thinks that no one is looking). The one certainty is bumps under their tails, two with a dimple in between == male, one == female. Gir had none, so I couldn't tell. Anyhews, bringing her in they were able to discern the eggs under her skin and tell me that she should have laid already, hence the clawing at her tank.

In lizards, this is a potentially fatal problem. Without a proper place to lay, the lizard will become eggbound and that's not good. Anyways, to cut things short, I now have a laying area in her tank for her to use, and put lots of greens (with a *load* of calcium supplement) in for her. Hopefully she'll have gotten rid of some of those eggs by the time I get home.

Oh, and the petshop were also very impressed with her, they said that she was "perfect" and "the best beardie I've seen in here" and "I'm not just saying that" and they were thrilled that she was one of their own, and a little disappointed that I wasn't selling her as she'd be perfect for breeding. She's also gone up in worth by aboot 100euro. So I'm well chuffed in all, I've raised a fine healthy lizard :D It's her birthday next month, can anyone think of any good presents to get her?

This nature lesson is ended.
-d