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Bodies, Madams and Stones.
May. 13th, 2003 11:22 pmWell it's the end of another busy day and I'm off to bed.
I've been coding away at work like a mad thing. I've been asked to perform miracles *again* but as I'm trying to get a promotion and associated good payrise I don't mind. It's actually quite easy work as I had thoroughly analysed the requirements and formed a design before being asked to write it. Scotty used to keep his reputation as a miracle worker by quadrupling time estimates and then doing it in half the time. I keep my reputation by being pretty good at guessing future requirements and having thought about them before being asked to think about them and so be a head of the game.
I had a request played on TotalRock radio today and it's not the first. I listen to it at my desk at work. Today's request was actually a short list of some of my favourite songs and they played more than one. The one dedicated to me was Temple of Love (1992) by, of course, Sisters of Mercy.
I had my usual forensics fix tonight. CSI-Crime Scene Investigation. I love that program. I find it fascinating and forensics would have been an interesting alternative career. I know it's not as glamourous as that really and can involve hours in the cold, damp and rain literally looking for a needle in a haystack but still I think I would enjoy it. Tonight's episode had one of the leads involved with a Mistress at an S and M house. I hope that story line continues but I don't think it will as it's too "risky" for US networks.
Most Mistresses I know are well educated, civilised individuals. Other similar programs I enjoy are the Cold Case Squad staring "Shoestring" (The actor's name has, anoyingly just popped out of my poor little brain) and Silent Witness. I also like to read Patricia Cornwell novels.
Speaking of reading I'm off to read Children of the Stones which is actually a children's book. In the 70's it was made in to a TV series and was filmed using Avebury, which, for those who don't know, is a village in Wiltshire built within a large stone circle very much like the village in the book. I recently noticed that it's been released on DVD so I may have to buy it. It was in the children's section of the local HMV but since it's not been aired in a couple of decades I would have thought all those who had last read it are now, like me, in their thirties. I really believe there ought to be a 'big kids' section in media stores for just this sort of thing.
I've been coding away at work like a mad thing. I've been asked to perform miracles *again* but as I'm trying to get a promotion and associated good payrise I don't mind. It's actually quite easy work as I had thoroughly analysed the requirements and formed a design before being asked to write it. Scotty used to keep his reputation as a miracle worker by quadrupling time estimates and then doing it in half the time. I keep my reputation by being pretty good at guessing future requirements and having thought about them before being asked to think about them and so be a head of the game.
I had a request played on TotalRock radio today and it's not the first. I listen to it at my desk at work. Today's request was actually a short list of some of my favourite songs and they played more than one. The one dedicated to me was Temple of Love (1992) by, of course, Sisters of Mercy.
I had my usual forensics fix tonight. CSI-Crime Scene Investigation. I love that program. I find it fascinating and forensics would have been an interesting alternative career. I know it's not as glamourous as that really and can involve hours in the cold, damp and rain literally looking for a needle in a haystack but still I think I would enjoy it. Tonight's episode had one of the leads involved with a Mistress at an S and M house. I hope that story line continues but I don't think it will as it's too "risky" for US networks.
Most Mistresses I know are well educated, civilised individuals. Other similar programs I enjoy are the Cold Case Squad staring "Shoestring" (The actor's name has, anoyingly just popped out of my poor little brain) and Silent Witness. I also like to read Patricia Cornwell novels.
Speaking of reading I'm off to read Children of the Stones which is actually a children's book. In the 70's it was made in to a TV series and was filmed using Avebury, which, for those who don't know, is a village in Wiltshire built within a large stone circle very much like the village in the book. I recently noticed that it's been released on DVD so I may have to buy it. It was in the children's section of the local HMV but since it's not been aired in a couple of decades I would have thought all those who had last read it are now, like me, in their thirties. I really believe there ought to be a 'big kids' section in media stores for just this sort of thing.
