Bleh

It seems the office server is in one of its moods again. The NWO forum is notoriously slow in responding at the best of times, and over the past couple of days it has just timed out when I have tried to access it from work. Home access is more forgiving, and it will eventually let me take a look, or post a message - but not, generally until I think it's not going to.

This sluggishness is symptomatic of my existence at the moment. I am going through one of my periodic lacks of enthusiasm for just about everything. I have no energy: I am always tired and I'd be quite happy vegging in front of the telly. Even, sad to say, Richard and Judy wouldn't be enough to bestir me in this mood.

I can't think of a word to describe the mood. I'm not depressed or upset or annoyed or anything like that. It's more a kind of aggressive apathy; Meh with knobs, on as it were. I think I need a holiday, but I can't afford one; I seem to be leaking money at an alarming rate, but I'm not enjoying myself doing it. I am going to have to look at the old finances carefully over the next couple of months. Sad to say, I am not sure that I can afford the luxury of living in the Athenaeum Club. Until and unless I can find savings elsewhere, that monthly rent plus other bills (but primarily the rent)is like a millstone around my financial neck. I know DT sans LJ doesn't find the expenditure easy either.

As much as we like the space at our disposal, I'm not sure that it's a luxury we can afford. I'm not certain that the situation is tenable in the long term.

But what's pissing me off right now, is not being able to log on to the NWO boards. The bastard things never seem to work properly, and the amount of data that was lost when they fell over last time...

Time, I think, for more coffee. Then I shall pop down to the smoking room for a few minutes. Give me an hour or so and I'll be all cheered up again. I can't maintain these moods for long.

Bleh

It seems the office server is in one of its moods again. The NWO forum is notoriously slow in responding at the best of times, and over the past couple of days it has just timed out when I have tried to access it from work. Home access is more forgiving, and it will eventually let me take a look, or post a message - but not, generally until I think it's not going to.

This sluggishness is symptomatic of my existence at the moment. I am going through one of my periodic lacks of enthusiasm for just about everything. I have no energy: I am always tired and I'd be quite happy vegging in front of the telly. Even, sad to say, Richard and Judy wouldn't be enough to bestir me in this mood.

I can't think of a word to describe the mood. I'm not depressed or upset or annoyed or anything like that. It's more a kind of aggressive apathy; Meh with knobs, on as it were. I think I need a holiday, but I can't afford one; I seem to be leaking money at an alarming rate, but I'm not enjoying myself doing it. I am going to have to look at the old finances carefully over the next couple of months. Sad to say, I am not sure that I can afford the luxury of living in the Athenaeum Club. Until and unless I can find savings elsewhere, that monthly rent plus other bills (but primarily the rent)is like a millstone around my financial neck. I know DT sans LJ doesn't find the expenditure easy either.

As much as we like the space at our disposal, I'm not sure that it's a luxury we can afford. I'm not certain that the situation is tenable in the long term.

But what's pissing me off right now, is not being able to log on to the NWO boards. The bastard things never seem to work properly, and the amount of data that was lost when they fell over last time...

Time, I think, for more coffee. Then I shall pop down to the smoking room for a few minutes. Give me an hour or so and I'll be all cheered up again. I can't maintain these moods for long.

Cardinal Points...

Most lunchtimes I pop across the Boots on Victoria Street to buy a packet of sandwiches and a bottle of Lemon flavoured Diet Coke for lunch. I usually wander across with a cigarette in my hand and stand on the end of Bressenden Place while I smoke it.

Over the past few months this has afforded me the opportunity to watch the progress of new building being constructed on the corner of Bressenden Place and Victoria Street. Two or three years ago (time flies, I can't remember how long ago it was, now) a bunch of perfectly serviceable buildings were demolished both on that corner and on the block behind it so that a big combination office block/mall development could go up. Since then, the new building on that corner, Cardinal Place has been steadily taking shape.


The picture is a few months old, and the end of the building is being finished off with a rounded top coming to a point where it arches down to the ground.

I assume that the name derives from the fact that it is opposite Westminster Cathedral on Victoria Street (The Catholic cathedral built in Byzantine style, not Westminster Abbey). Over the past few months, as the builders have installed the outer fittings on the corner, and started glazing the building, I have noticed that from that angle at least, it looks more and more like some bloody great steel and glass bird of prey that has landed flat on its belly and stuck its beak into the ground.

I wonder if there's a deliberate architectural pun here; maybe it's meant to be a Cardinal Bird, and is nothing to do with its location opposite the cathedral?

Or maybe it's just my overactive imagination.

Cardinal Points...

Most lunchtimes I pop across the Boots on Victoria Street to buy a packet of sandwiches and a bottle of Lemon flavoured Diet Coke for lunch. I usually wander across with a cigarette in my hand and stand on the end of Bressenden Place while I smoke it.

Over the past few months this has afforded me the opportunity to watch the progress of new building being constructed on the corner of Bressenden Place and Victoria Street. Two or three years ago (time flies, I can't remember how long ago it was, now) a bunch of perfectly serviceable buildings were demolished both on that corner and on the block behind it so that a big combination office block/mall development could go up. Since then, the new building on that corner, Cardinal Place has been steadily taking shape.


The picture is a few months old, and the end of the building is being finished off with a rounded top coming to a point where it arches down to the ground.

I assume that the name derives from the fact that it is opposite Westminster Cathedral on Victoria Street (The Catholic cathedral built in Byzantine style, not Westminster Abbey). Over the past few months, as the builders have installed the outer fittings on the corner, and started glazing the building, I have noticed that from that angle at least, it looks more and more like some bloody great steel and glass bird of prey that has landed flat on its belly and stuck its beak into the ground.

I wonder if there's a deliberate architectural pun here; maybe it's meant to be a Cardinal Bird, and is nothing to do with its location opposite the cathedral?

Or maybe it's just my overactive imagination.