This is a blog really, but I'm just posting it on the front page because there's been no news for a while...

Sometimes, technology can overrun. Certain points are reached at which, essentially, the technology is perfect – it does exactly what us unchanging, un-evolving, ham-fisted bipeds need it to do to the most perfect degree, at which point anyone sensible would simply say "there, that's done" and just sit back and enjoy it. A spade is still a spade, no matter how many different shapes and materials you make it in.

Of course industry, in its wisdom, is never ready to pack up and go home – it has to keep working – so it pushes ever forward, tweaking this, "improving" that, until that moment of perfection is long since forgotten and we all merrily march into the shops and buy new products that are just that little bit worse than before. That's the "progress" that old people like to mutter to each other about, and the older I get, the more I see their point. I suppose that’s the way it goes.

This last Saturday, Lisa and I had the happy duty of attending the wedding of two of our best friends, Martin & Kristen - Lisa as bridesmaid and myself as (gulp) best man.

I disappeared from here about 6 months ago, and the reason why is a little odd, so I thought I'd explain it.

Basically I'm a completist. I like to have the full set of something. So I buy the third book in a trilogy, even if I wasn't too sure about the second. I read the full archives of webcomics, before I add them to my daily trawl. If I get a hole in Wednesday, from the day-of-the-week socks I got for Christmas, I'll probably throw the whole lot out.

Tim and I have had two weeks lovely leave the past fortnight. We didn't do much but it was lovely all the same. Now I am back at work. That is less lovely.

Thank you to all that have, or will have wished me well, either here or by text. As ever I have no credit, even today!

I did indeed have a lovely day, well, weekend......

Friday night I went out with Gav, had a few beers and I did a bit of singing on the karaoke, as you do. We then went back to the 'Luxury Townhouse Apartment', as he jokingly likes to call it (because I don't live with him, I live out of the town centre, mine is 'The Country Residence'!) and spent a very relaxing evening eating junk food, watching trashy telly and suchlike.......

I found out I'd got the part of Calamity Jane at 11pm, having auditioned at 8pm! (I love that the secretary of our society is a friend, or I'd've had to wait 'till much later today!)

I didn't properly read the e-mail, stating the cast list, at first, so I didn't see that it said...

.."You are Calamity Jane."

at the top......

Then, re-reading more carefully, I got the point and yelled, "WAAHAAAAAAAGGHH!!", rather loudly, as one would in such a situation. Mum came rushing upstairs to congratulate me and my poor, neurotic, cat went rushing downstairs to hide in the living room!

Just one last then, to let you all know how it's going so far.

I've been living with Mum since November 27th and I don't quite feel settled yet. I need a blind that stops the 5 street lights, all placed within mere feet of one another, from keeping me awake most night for starters!

Dolly is absolutely loving watching all the different birds that come into our garden to the numerous feeders Mum has out. I'm loving watching them too, as a matter of fact it's been ages since I had a garden.

So it looks like this will be the last blog entry as Tim's blowing up the site (I could have sworn that happened before). Since last summer I started up my phd, I've been playing badminton 3 times a week and I'm actually becoming quite good at it. I'm now playing official competitions which is always quite exciting, but takes up a lot of time. I have almost no time left to visit sites like these (I'm one of those few people who're not on Facebook or any other crap like that).

I killed my Facebook self on Friday. I've finally had enough with the thoroughly hyprocritical way in which I couldn't stand Facebook, but wanted to be on it regardless.

Here's an assorted list of reasons why Facebook irritates the hell out of me:

1. It's a successful community website, which this isn't.
2. The applications drive me mad.
3. I don't have a funwall, so how can anyone have posted anything on it?
4. Why the hell would I want to bite chumps?

... I just clicked the "render" button for the presentation version of The Forest II, which we will be showing in Liverpool tomorrow. It's been a long time coming.