RichRock : Running Free

Well, it’s been a bit of a rollercoaster this week. My girlfriend’s in hospital, she’s just ha d a major op, and pretty rough at the mo. I’m hoping some of it is just needing sleeping off, and we’ll see about that tomorrow. I’ve been getting new treatment for a bowel problem I’ve had for many many years, and that’s been hard too.

Also - still reading Lord Of The Rings. I’m on The Two Towers, at the point where Gollum is leading Frodo and Sam through the Dead Marshes. It’s quite gripping. Compared to the film, the workings of Helms Deep doesn’t quite seem the same, and the last march of the Ents ended differently. If you want to understand more, read the book. Then watch the film. They’re both rather good. I also picked up Unfinished Tales, which I’ll get round to reading somepoint soon. I’ve also got the Silmarillion to read too. Eventually.

Well, that’s a little update. I’ll have some joomla tips coming next week. Work’s been hectic, juggling 3 projects at once. There is too much going on in my life.

Well, all the best intentions in the world never always get fulfilled… In many respects, being busy at work as a Web Dev has taken it’s toll. All the pressures of life seem to have weighed against me. I will continue the Joomla documentation at some point. I’ve been taking advantage of the system in the latest site build, reducing the chances of the end user borking it and making it so simple it will make people wonder why they paid us in the first place. Also, got the go-ahead on the first e-commerce site! Yay!

My babe’s ill at the mo, so that’s been pretty tough, just learning to deal with all the stuff around caring for someone else, even though you’re not physically there. I feel good in the respect of the information passed between us, but I still have that feeling I could have done more.

I’ve ordered a new PC case, plus a luxury of a fan controller. The case is an Antec 900, and the fan controller is a Zalman MFC-2. Both are awesome bits of kit, and I can’t wait to get them. I did receive some Akasa SATA cables, and also an Akasa cable management kit. That’ll take care of the 3 hard drives I have in my PC.

Now, to fix the recurrent boot issue…

Being the creative poet type I am, here’s another poem:

The Evening.

The evening has drawn in
the light has faded
from the earth.

With the fading of light
comes coolness of night
to accompany dark.

Darkness now surrounds me
in full embrace, to give
me no vision.

Light is my only source
a constant reminder of what
my life really means.

In the light I fully see
what I am meant to be, a
disciple of the Word.

What did you see today? I saw a few things of personal interest, I saw things coming to fruition, I saw my girlfriend (that nearly killed me on my bike), I saw blues skies and dark clouds on the same day.
In detail:
Things of personal interest. I went into the local art shoppe and had a mooch around. Noticed some rather expensive watercolours, some fine drawing pencils, and something caught my eye: A dipping pen. I have loved calligraphy since I really got interested in fountain pens, and have recently been seen in local stationers looking at cheap calligraphy sets. It’s a dirty habit, and one I must stop. However, this caught my eye because the nibs were relatively cheap, although I couldn’t get a price on the actual pen shaft itself.
Things coming to fruition. Today saw my training manual for the Content Management Systems nearly into final drafts, ready to be ported into Indesign, ready for printing and binding. That’s been a long road. The other long road has been trying to get domains mapped for one of our clients. They already own a lot of domains, and needed them all to point to the same site. That’s been the long and tedious tech road. It’s nearly over.
I saw my girlfriend. We’d had a bit of an ‘apart’ weekend, not in a a bad way, but in a ‘because of circumstances’ way. So I made the effort after work to get the ol’ mountain bike out and cycle a total of around 14 miles to see her. It was worth it. We had a dinner together, sat and chatted. I really shouldn’t have had so much food, as I felt quite ill on the way back. It was good though. I’ll be seeing her again tomorrow evening.
Finally, I saw blue skies and dark clouds in the same day. Lunchtime saw some fantastic weather as I mooched around town, yet the middle of the afternoon saw some horrendous dark clouds. I almost thought that it might have rained off this evening, but thankfully the dark clouds disappeared.
So those were a few things I saw today. What do you see?

It’s a lovely evening out there. I’m sat in front of my laptop at home, with a curtain stopping me from being blinded by the sunlight. Crazy.

I’m planning a couple of changes to my PC at work, a new case, restructure some of the internals and I’ve been looking up PC cases. Now I’m planning on leaving the laptop and doing some writing, possibly some poetry, as my girlfriend loves that kind of thing, and I haven’t written anything noteworthy for a while. Maybe this is the creative thing I need. I’ve discovered fountain pens, a great tool for writing, far better than a rollerball, ballpoint or even a pencil, and there’s a feeling of quality that comes to a piece of written word in fountain pen ink.

So that’ll be my evening, unless my parents call by and want me to fix their pc. Hope not. It didn’t boot, so it may still not be booting up. Ahh.. The life of an ubergeek.

So here’s something I wrote about 8 years ago…

‘Without You’

I can do without this.
Tension, gripping me like a vice,
Consuming what I am, who I am,
I’m dazed. Confused, I don’t know which way to turn.
So I turn to You.

I know I’ve done it wrong again,
I’ve been there before.
You’ve found me there, filled with the tension,
of being hurt, lost, lonely, but still lovely,
In Your loving sight.

You’ve seen it all before, many times in my past,
So why do I hide in shame?
I know You knew me from the start,
And will until the very end,
Also through all the times between.

Where do I go in times of trouble,
To You, my true friend, companion and saviour,
You lift me from the hassle and tension,
Show me a different way through it all,
And Your love shines my way.