christ, is it actually 4am? I got sucked into the new novel Goodnight Steve McQueen by first time author Louise Wener, formerly lead temptress^Wsongstress for britpop band Sleeper, who I *adore*. Is it sad to say that? Probably. Do I care? Not much. I was really into them while I was at uni, bought all their albums, and some singles, and then they went into hibernation. Rediscovered Louise in an Observer article a few weeks ago, where she proudly said “fuck the music industry”, basically. Sleeper broke up a while ago, it seems – how the fuck did I miss that?! Anyway, the book is somehow a britromcom about a guy bizarrely monikered Steve McQueen, and his problems being in a band (natch), trying to snag a record deal, dealing with his girlfriend, etc, etc. Lots of gratuitous “this is in the UK” stuff by mentioning Pot Noodles, the BBC, and Marks & Spencer’s … sometimes that just gets on my nerves, but I acclimatised to it pretty quickly this time. Good read.

Oh and she was only in bloody Border’s in bloody Buchanan Street last bloody Thursday for a fucking book signing …

decided to put my unused ultra 1 to use and picked up a 17″ sun monitor off ebay for 50 notes. i have a type 5 kb and a type 4 optical mouse + pad sitting here doing owt, so instead of the ultra 1 becoming another headless server box like everything else in here, including my sparcstation 4, I thought – to hell with it, let’s actually make it do something cool. So I will. Once I get the monitor that is! Oh, and I’ve got a sparcstation 10 en route too – that was only a tenner, lol! Now I just need to think up cool names for them …

did i mention i love Sun kit? :)

+++ medical update +++ (cue teletype noises) … I finished my course of amoxycillin antibiotics from my teeth evil last week, SO I CAN DRINK AGAIN!!! one bottle of hardy’s stamp shiraz cabernet sauvignon (fave tipple bar none at the mo) shall be demolished tomorrow night while Licence to Kill is on in glorious digital widescreen on ITV1, or as we call it up here, Scottish :)