Sleepypete's Pillow

🙂 It's a cooler (as in warmth) colour scheme, hopefully easier on the eye. Could have been a white text on dark, for less brightness going into readers eyes but I found on the techie blog that editing white text in the Google editor was … awkward 😉

Keep blogging, lol. Your blog has better content than mine.

That police thing seems fair enough… As you would expect police to remain confidential about the cases they are working on, and be neutral about politics. They are paid by taxpayers to uphold law, not get involved with politics, or abuse/exploit there position, even under an alias.

As for the Media, your right in that they are to blame. Its gotten to the point where I accept the fact that almost all news is propaganda and false.

I get better news from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, which is just wrong. (We need a UK version of that show by the way.)

these are adorable

I love feed me
and monday
and …

I can chose from among cuteness 😉

I like the new colors

I confess to never using a reader, I bookmark all my buddies and visit as often as I can

And added in about 10 seconds too with the new Blogger template changing thingy !

Gotta admit, it's a lot easier to fiddle with the template now than before they changed things. Shame the new version of my old colour scheme didn't look too good.

A RSS Feed! Yes! o/

just testing comments …

Been tinkering with the blog layout a bit …

The most significant change is that the olde HTML based layout has been retired and replaced with one of Blogger’s newer XML based layout.

Huh ? What dat mean ?

Kicking the geekspeak capitals to one side, it’ll hopefully mean the blog’s compatible with RSS readers and other things that can interrogate a site’s content without actually visiting it. There’s a few kinks in there too that I’ll try and iron out while falling asleep in front of the cricket 🙂

We shall see how it ends up.

Watching the cricket at the moment, England are doing rather better than their “Get-Out-Of-Jail” performance last weekend 🙂 Long may it continue. I’ve been at a bit of a loose end with my gaming, where the old ones I have don’t really seem to keep my interest going. Tried out Dungeons and Dragons Online (DDO) Stormreach yesterday and while it’s not bad, it’s a bit of a pale imitation of Warcraft. World of Warcraft does it better, prettier, easier, simpler. D&D is a great game for tabletop gaming with friends but it’s a little too complicated for what I’m looking for in a twitch game.

Been a bit bored with Eve lately too – decent game, good people but interest wandering away again. Massive Multiplayer Online games tend to depend on a Play-Reward system, where a player will see a reward shortly after a period of play. With Eve, the Play-Reward happens on a much longer timescale and in a rather different pattern. Character improvement is tied to the ship you fly and the guns you can fit and when you get past a certain point it can literally take months for the character to learn different ships and guns. Plus, with my pattern of play I don’t tend to change ships much so I’ve not had the “Hey – that looks cool” thing of a shiny new spaceship lately.

So I have that state of wanting to get deep into a game, without knowing which game to dive into.

Oh – back to the blog, I’ve enabled anonymous comments for all those people who I mention this blog to but don’t have accounts somewhere that would let them leave comments. Will see how long that lasts 🙂 If there’s spam I’ll kick it back to what it was.

One of my quirks is that I like cute things 🙂

Hence the Pocket Dragon avatar. They’re instantly recognisable, fairly unique (not spotted anyone else using one for an avatar :-), lots of variation and there’s almost always a joke with them.

I’m likely to be changing my avatars quite a bit, just wondering which is the best choice 🙂 I have a few available to me at the moment :

Pizza Dwagon is the latest one. Not a great picture at the moment, my sister still has this one so I’ll get a better pic when I can point my camera at it.

Feed Me and Zoom Zoom – on a telly that I thought I’d dusted before taking the picture. Flashes uncover all sorts of sins 😉

System Crash – which points to one reason why I’m considering a Macbook … think I’ve got a little tired of all the quirks that crop up with Windows PCs.

Ahh – the old favourite, Zombie Dwagon 🙂

I also have an I Smell Chocolate (Pocket Dwagon with nose in the air having caught the Chocolate Scent) and my sister’s MSN avatar is now a Stalking the Coffee Jar :

So I’m likely to be changing avatars a fair bit for a while 🙂

Not going too far … I have the next week off work and I intend to spend as much of it as possible asleep on the sofa in front of the cricket 🙂

Or Torchwood. I’m watching the first of series 3 off iPlayer while I wait for dinner to burn.

Been getting more and more tired lately and I’ve really been needing this time away. I tend to drive myself on until I burn myself out and then I keep on going. The burnout’s been manifesting itself this time by me having trouble thinking through things. Hoping to get a chance for my back to heal itself up a bit too 🙂

Yesterday was a good day.

Well – kinda starting from Wednesday when the WYWS Girl asked what my name was. While I don’t actively seek the limelight, I love getting attention. I like to know that I’m the kind of person that other people might be interested in or want to be around. So when it comes to about 3pm and I’m eager for a bit of Muffin Therapy (tis good for sore backs, honest :-), I get the big surprise of Little Miss Cantina wanting to know more about me.

So that’s Wednesday – how about Thursday ?

Hmm. There would be a proper name to attach to the WYWS and Little Miss Cantina (she is a bit little) and that set me off towards a rather good evening 🙂 As per my tradition, I’m keeping the name quiet … but KT is a good label 🙂 The K for the proper name, the T for “Trouble” (one of her friends said “you don’t need her name, just use ‘Trouble’ – we all do :-)”. And the KT fits with the “Love Is In The Air” incident from a couple of months ago 🙂

Anyway – I now have the pleasure of knowing Miss K’s name. I promise I won’t abuse the privilege – much 🙂

Also had the pleasure of an evening yesterday with Craziequeen, BionicDwarf and Cyberkitten, as we raided Bella Pasta for dinner followed by Public Enemies at the cinema. The combination of the company, the munchies (not had pasta for too long) and excellent film, plus me knowing a new secret, got me turning from a downer into a hyper again 🙂 Which always helps me fight off the bugs and the bruises.

So – halfway through Torchwood first episode, dinner bell is getting more insistent and my tummy is growling … A full week without getting my lunch from the canteen girls ! I’ll fade away 🙂 (not a bad thing …)