I’ve been useless at writing recently. I’ve got lots to write about, and I’ve failed. I think generally I’ve had a few things to do in the evening when I would normally write this which have taken precedence (although I’ve been a bit useless doing most of those things, too). I’m going to try to catch up with a few things in one go here, but I’ll try to write in more detail about a couple of other things soon.
One of the things I’ve been doing which has been getting in the way of writing this is re-vamping a website for my brother. He’s part of a group which run a large Blood Bowl league and last year I made a site which they used to manage the league tables and match reports. They’ve grown a lot in the last season and now need the site to manage a lot more complicated things than it did previously. This involves doing quite a bit of rebuilding of the output and processing side of things although at least I can reuse a lot of the back-end code. I got the brief and some design documents a good few weeks ago and the deadline is the end of September. In my mind that’s quite a while away, so I haven’t been too bothered about rushing with it (in fact it’s probably fair to say I did nothing for a long time, to be honest). Occasionally my brother would give me a nudge about it, and I’d say something like “yeah, it should be ok” or “I did some last night, I’ll have something to show you soon”. After a while I started to run out of excuses and had to do some work. I worked late on the Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday night and then emailed him with a basic version of the site. This seems to have worked — he did say something about being worried about the deadline in his reply — but at least it’s put his mind at rest that I actually am doing something. I suppose I should do some more soon. Maybe tomorrow and Thursday.
I can’t do any on Friday because I’m off to build a set with Tiffany. She rang me while I was out with Phil and Cecile last night and we had a long chat. I’m glad she rang — I’d been worried following a short conversation on Friday night. I’ll write about that more soon, but Sunday’s conversation ended up with me offering to help her build the set for the upcoming Sedos production of One Flew Over The Cookoo’s Nest. I think it’ll be quite fun — certainly better being with her than being stuck at home all bank weekend by my self (Dana will be off at Tim’s parent’s house) — if a little tiring. I’m meeting her on Friday night in London and staying at her house so we can get a whole day’s work in on Saturday and Sunday. I’m not quite sure what I’ve let myself in for, but I’ll let you know how things go.
Talking about art, I’ve been following the events up on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square in the last few months. The One & Other project is a living art installation consisting of a different person occupying the plinth for an hour, 24 hours a day, seven days a week through until October. There’s a live web stream so you can watch and listen to the person up there from the comfort of your own home. It’s been quite interesting. Some of the people are certainly art while some I’d wonder. I think, in general, it’s got better as time has gone on with more people being creative than just sitting reading a book. Having said that it is supposed to be a reflection of the UK at the moment, so I do believe that sitting quietly is a perfectly acceptable thing to do… it’s just not very exciting to watch! There’s a very interesting collection of photos building up on Flickr of the project. I’ve also been following the project on Twitter.
Talking of Twitter, I’ve jumped on that band wagon. All being well you’ll see the latest tweet at the top of the front page of this blog. I find it’s quite good just to drop random thoughts on to — small thoughts I just want to put out there but don’t necessarily have anyone around to say them to. I know a lot of people who have Twitter accounts — most of my friends are on there — but having connected it to this anonymous blog I can’t really follow them. That’s a bit of a shame, I’d certainly be able to have more friends, but it’s a choice I made to carry on being able to write this blog without feeling restricted. If you’d like to add me then please do — @CarregsBlog. I might, at some stage, add another account as the real me (although all my normal usernames seem to have been taken, so I’ll have to come up with something else), but I’m not really sure what I’d write on that one!
I think that’ll do for now. I’ve lots more to write about, but at least that gets some of it out of the way. Sorry I’ve been so useless. I’ll try harder from now on, at least for a little while, I promise.
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