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 :)

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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!

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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.

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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!

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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

A note to the young Tyrion

My dear dear boy...

A) I did *not* poison you, if you'd been properly drinking with me you'd *still* feel sick!
B) You *will* be coming properly drinking with me again and we'll see how you square up to non-medicated Reilly-ness
C) You wanted me to get you drunk and, in all honesty, you were doing a fairly good job yourself...
D) I still owe you
E) You'd better get your drinking up to par boyo cos you don't get any toilet breaks next time

....

F) Sorry Sith!! In my defence, he was getting ossified all by himself! Plus I think that I came out of that night worse off than anyone bar the boy himself! :(

-d

Oh, and congratulations to the happy couple! :D
Thanks for inviting me, it was a lovely wedding, many happy returns and such and things :D

Random Craziness

Please note before I begin, *NONE* of us were drunk! We'd had a couple of pints each, nothing to make us lose our minds or anything...

So, my friend's mother was giving me a lift home last night, we were already at the place we were to meet her and she was delayed, so I went into a nearby shop to get some food whilst my friends headed towards a random pub to use the bathroom. When I got back, there was still no sign of them, so I rang one..

"Around the corner, outside the pub, we have a stool!"

Was about all the answer I got, sure enough, around the corner they were standing around a stool. I used the facilities of the establishment and left, the others had turned the corner ahead of me *with* the stool.

An entertaining twenty minutes then occurred. I sat on the stool, to demonstrate its worth, whilst one friend chased people along the street trying to sell the stool to them, claiming that it was 200 years old amongst other things, and my other two friends stool beside me alternately splitting their sides laughing or yelling at the people to buy the stool.

We *almost* sold it to a couple. The wife claimed that she would exchange the tux her husband was wearing for it but we got greedy and asked for what was in the suit. At that point the hubby hurried his laughing wife past.

When our lift finally arrived the stool got transported across the road and into the boot. Who knows where its adventures will take it next ... most likely it'll be smashed at the next party..

-d

Grrrrrrrr

*growls at having to create a new gmail account just to leave a God damn comment on someone else's blog*

The Irish Politicians

Now, I'm no Politics fan, but I saw something funny and felt like sharing!

On the walk down to my bus there's a huge poster with a picture of Bertie Ahern standing and joking with two average looking people who appear to be in their 60's or 70's. He's acting as the friend to the people, someone you can trust.

Yesterday morning, some graffitti artist named Mongo, drew red devil horns on Bertie and dollar signs in his eyes. This was mildly amusing, I did enjoy the dollar signs..

This morning, the billboard had been freshly redone, sending Bertie back to his former glory. :D Aaaaahhh the vanity!

I just hope that Mongo sets up war with the billboardists and starts re-defacing those billboards as soon as they're fixed. *That* would be a good waste of the taxpayers money!

In other news, my landlady is calling by tonight, *YIKES*

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Voting For Webcomics

This is so cool. A guy I know, let's call him Adam, has been keeping a webcomic for two years now. He's been steadily building up readership and his artwork has drastically (excuse the pun) improved. He's now been nominated for an Eagle Award, which is awesome! If you have a spare minute, could you give him your vote? Here is the form, he's down at number 27, Drastic Comics.

Thanks!
Durshka

Vivid Dreams

I love remembering my dreams, there's a certain gleam in my eye as I try to figure out just exactly what they could mean, so I love remembering them, and for that to happen, they have to be vivid! I don't remember all of last night's dream, but what I do was very odd. The following excerpt is from the latter part of the dream...

For some reason, I had magic (now this wasn't exceptional, before bed I read a book involving witches and vampires), it took some concentration, but I was able to disappear somewhere and reappear somewhere else. When I reappeared, I was standing on a path near a bridge, the bridge was one of the old Dublin bridges across the Liffey and therefore had loads of traffic across it. In the river, there were two guys who work in the same company as me. I have never before spoken to these guys, I don't know their names, I only know them to see. Anyways, they were standing on these greenish grey rocks, waving at someone off to the side, when I noticed that one of the rocks had spikes down its back and its head poked out of the water. I screamed at the two guys who hadn't realised that they were standing on crocodiles, they looked down at their feet just as the crocs started to slide away and jump backwards with their jaws wide open. The two guys managed to jump to safety on some grey rocks just in the nick of time (if the crocs had spun the opposite way they'd have been caught). As the crocs slid back beneath the water, I saw one of the grey rocks move and screamed again, but not in time.

A giant great white shark rose up, again in a looping jump, and just managed to catch the man's leg in his teeth. I furiously tried to concentrate enough to think of a spell that would save the guy's life, when I heard honking behind me. A car was coming up on the inside lane, bashing through the river wall and other cars, heading straight for me. I couldn't gather my thoughts enough to disappear and reappear somewhere else, besides which, I had nothing but cars, crocodiles and sharks in every direction, bar one. Gathering the tendrils of thought, I quickly rose straight up in the air, out of the way of the onrushing car, I was so close to being hurled into the river by it that I felt it scrap my legs as I shot upwards. I looked down on the scene below me and I saw the white shark swimming past, upside for some reason, with the guy still trapped underwater, his leg in the shark's mouth, which was odd because that shark was big enough to swallow him whole! He was very dead, and totally beyond my help. Damn that car.

That's pretty much when I woke up, aren't dreams fun?!
-d

You know it's been a bad lunch when...

You arrive back to work with a MacDonalds under your arm.

So my friend's girlfriend told us we should really try out The Bailey for lunch. She told us that it had a good lunch menu and that he wouldn't be hard pushed to find something he'd like on it. This is to a guy who likes good normal wholesome Irish food and nothing else! The menu had very little of that. When the waitress appeared, we all looked in our wallets and decided that a tenner for food we weren't even interested in wasn't a good choice, so we ordered tea, black coffee and a latte. He decided to ask for a ham and cheese sandwich, which wasn't on the menu but which we all hoped they could whip up. Apparently they don't do the whole "specialised sandwiches" there, so he had to settle for a chicken roll which apparently tasted like "chicken poo". Due to the rest of us only having drinks, we had to move to a less comfortable out of the way table, even though there were only about four other groups in the place and no real need for extra lunch table space.

As we sat down, the waitress double checked our drinks orders;
Her: So that was two cappucinos and a tea right?
Us: No, a black coffee, a tea and a latte
Her: Ok, a black coffee, a tea and a cappucino.
Us: No, no cappucino, just a latte!
When she arrived back she had a black coffee and two lattes, honestly, if you can't remember the drinks we ordered after we've told you three times, GET A PEN AND PAPER!!

We drank our expensive drinks whilst my friend picked at his expensive roll then decided he'd had enough and we asked for the bill. The waitress came over to my friend and started quizzing him about why he had barely touched his food. She behaved kinda like the stern mother who forces you to eat all of your greens. I can understand her being concerned over him barely touching it in case the food was bad, but to come over saying "why haven't you eaten your food?!!" was a bit over the top, she should have kept it simply to "did you not enjoy your meal sir?" or some such thing instead of giving him the third degree.

So after finally escaping, and feeling that all of the waiting staff must hate us since we didn't eat anything off of their *superb* :/ menu, we left, knowing that we will never go back there again! I ended up queuing in MacDonalds knowing that at least I would eat and afford the crap they served up.

The Bailey gets four unanimous thumbs down!

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Work Work Work

They've made me be busy :(

It only took a year and two months, but I now have stuff to do, alas my freedom-loving days are gone!

In other news, I'm going snowboarding! :D Unfortunately I'm horribly unfit so I also get to go to the gym :/ Ah well, maybe I'll soon be healthy enough for Taekwon-do!

-d

Also: I'll be over in London seeing NIN in March!! *squeeeeeeee*

It's me!!

There I am, leading the crowd!