Rhythm is a Dancer

I really need to get back into the swing of blogging. I've been busy at work lately and as work is my only access to the 'net at the moment it has made it difficult to do any proper blogs. I've not really been reading anyboody else's blogs either, so that's something I need to catch up on too.

I've been so busy because I want to get the website out of the way at last and do something different. It's very much time for a change. So I've spoken to my boss, he has agreed a list of things that need finalising with the website, and then when they are done I can start doing something else (he mentioned some sort of automated reports in Excel tied to some VBScript).

It's not all work though. On Tuesday I met up with Tom for a beer or two. I went out for a drink with Burt and co. on Wednesday before they all went to the graduate ball. Then I went out last night with Burt, Dave and Randy. I now have a slight headache from the beer. D'oh. Tonight I will be out for my colleague's open-to-all Hen Night, and there's a possibility I will be out for a beer tomorrow night too with Tom, and maybe Burt if he's still around and fancies a pint (he can't decide).

Tonight shall be interesting. With Liz's flat not completing by today (like it was supposed to) I won't be able to move her in this weekend, so I shall be doing so next weekend instead. Therefore I won't be going to the colleague's wedding. To make up for this I told her I would dance at her hen night. She's not stopped going about the fact I don't dance, so it's my wedding present for her. I shall make a complete fool of myself on the dancefloor for her entertainment.

Last night I got a new toy: A Dell Latitude laptop. Mmmmm nice, many thanks to Burt :D Had a few minor hicups, but nothing serious. Windows doesn't want to let me log in as anybody other than "chris", it simply hangs if I try to log in as "matt". Stupidly I removed administrator privellages from the "chris" account (before I found out I couldn't log in as myself, I might add) so I'm a little bit stuck now. It looks like it might be a permissions issue, so I shall be faffing around with it tonight to see if I can fix it. The other problem is interference on the sound. It seems to be worst when I use the trackpad, and better when I press a key. This person seems to have had the same problem, and describes some mental procedure of opening it up and ripping cables out and stuff. I think I'll just live with the sound problems if that's the only solution; I just don't trust myself inside a laptop.

The best thing about having the laptop is that I can now install Jeskola Buzz and play with some excellent Buzz Machines which allow all manner of effects to be produced. Hopefully I'll be able to make some great tunes with it.

Speaking of tunes, I've made some more recently which I must put online somewhere. It's a question of finding space, though.

Now I must do some work.