SAN FRANCISCO MAN BECOMES FIRST AMERICAN TO GRASP SIGNIFICANCE OF IRONY – Jay Fullmer, 38, yesterday became the first American to get to grips with the concept of irony. “It was weird,” Fullmer said. “I was in London and, like, talking to this guy and it was raining and he pulled a face and said, “Great weather, eh?” and I thought “Wait a minute, no way is it great weather.” Fullmer then realised that the other man’s ‘mistake’ was in fact deliberate.
Fullmer, who is 39 next month and married with two children, aged 8 and 3, plans to use irony himself in future. “I’m, like, using it all the time,” he said.
“Last weekend I was grilling steaks and I burned them to shit and I said “Hey, great weather!”.
(This joke was copied from Cardiff City FC forum, ’cause it was funny!)
I took Friday off, and although I was a but nervous before I went to the show in the afternoon, inept, but I was really glad I went and came back feeling inspired. I had stopped doing what I loved because of bad things happening to me and around me, but as it was pointed out to me, I have grown up a lot since I was in college. I’ve had to. You take some knocks, get a bit damaged, and what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, at least once you’ve shrugged off your complexes. Ok, it’s taken a while but I feel more happy with myself than I have for a long time. At the party afterwards I got to catch up with some old friends, re-establish a few ties, and although I haven’t had a lot of luck recently I am actually not that bad at what I do and I actually left feeling quite appreciated. I’m afraid I had to do a Cinderella, leaving when the night was still young in order to catch the last train home, but in doing so I was spared the mother of all hangovers.
Saturday was a relaxed day. I browsed round the charity shops, bought some magazines, cleaned out the chinchilla cages, went to PC World because my new Mac software required an operating system update, went to Blockbusters, 2 DVD’s, chips on the way home and a quiet night in. Fantastic!
Sunday started with a lie-in, followed by a long walk around a car boot sale in glorious sunshine. I caught the sun on my arms and nose a bit. I brought back a rough surfaced tray for trying felting on, a few candle sticks, a book, some small glass bottles with cork stoppers, and… a spinning wheel – I am so excited over that! I will take a photo soon.
My Powerbook is now completely full to the point where there isn’t much space left for updates. That’s what I get for adding all those mp3’s. I’m trying to copy the contents off onto an external drive so I can wipe it and then start again. I’m using Tiger, not Leopard, so no Time Machine. The problem is that copying the files off is turning out to be a bit of a pain in the backside, because I am having to transfer files via a PC. The external hard drive is NTFS, and that has caused some accessibility problems. It would probably be so straight forward otherwise. Whenever a long file name is found everything stops. It doesn’t give you the option to skip that one file, everything comes to a grinding halt and then you don’t know what has been copied over and what hasn’t. Start again… Grrr!
Earlier I watched the Big Brother launch. I probably won’t watch the rest but this evening’s telly has been quite entertaining.
On Wednesday a O’Neill’s pub in Cardiff burned down in a fire started by a chip pan. People didn’t realise there was a fire straight away because there has been a lot of dust kicked up from the building works nearby. Most of the staff were on a trip that day so only skeleton staff were manning the pub. Thankfully the pub hadn’t opened for lunch yet by the time the alarm was sounded. The nearby shops, indoor market and department store were all evacuated. Business has been closed in many places today because their stock is smoke damaged. The structural integrity of the shell of the building that burned down cannot be checked yet. I haven’t been into town yet, I will be there tomorrow, and apparently the area still smells a lot from the smoke.
I’ve decided I will go to the exhibition tomorrow, I signed up earlier this week and I’m taking a friend with me. I’ve taken the day off, it’s going to be ok and I’m going to enjoy it!
I do have a bad habit of obsessing over relatively small and unnecessary things, stressing and blowing them out of proportion.
I’ve put a new stylesheet on my website and given it a quick update with larger images. I’ve also uploaded my AutoCAD work. I’ve been feeling a bit better recently.
