Maybe I'll catch a ride as it comes past,
Sit on it's back and enjoy the fresh air
And views afforded by such a lofty position.
From up there, I'll be able to see forever.
There is something big on the horizon, but now's not the time. Soon my sweets, soon.
Anyway I realised my blog had been up for over a week and decided it was time to put pixels to virtual page again. I had been holding off in the hope that I would soon have some more finished artwork to show you, but after the inception of the SGUK Guess who thread, I've been spending all my time drawing various SGUK members for that instead. Those will stay under wraps until they are all ready.
So, what else?
Well the car has to go in tomorrow to have the exhaust fixed, but I knew it would need doing when I bought it, I just hoped it would last a little longer. Another month would have been good.
I'm getting my pay rise at work, albeit a month late, (but backdated to last month,) which is cool but it's not as much as I hoped. In fact it's just about enough to cover the loan repayments on the car. We are however, going to be having appraisals over the next couple of weeks and my boss hinted that we might look at my salary again at that point.
Work whinge spoilered for those who can't be arsed:
When I had evil kitteh done, the tattooist was trying to convince me to join his tattoo academy course and learn to tattoo. I am so fucking tempted right now. The course is extremely expensive (8.5K covers tuition and all equipment - plus you'd have to support yourself for the 6 weeks it takes as it's full time,) and I'm already paying off an 8k loan for an IT course that was so crap I dropped out. (Starting it despite most people I knew warning me about it was not one of my better decisions.) I have just over a year left to pay back on that one, so maybe the sensible thing is to stay here another year and then see what happens.
In other news, I got an xbox 360 and lordy, it rocks my fuckin' socks. I got Halo 3, Lego Star Wars (original 3 films version,) and Assassins Creed. Halo is cool but I've always felt it was a little over-hyped and overrated, compared to something like, say, Half life 2. Maybe the co-op mode will change my mind.
Lego Star Wars is something of an oddity, but fun, even if what you are supposed to do or where you are supposed to go isn't always clear.
But Assasins Creed - oh Assassins Creed... 
It's so fucking pretty... the cities are huge and bustling with life and the citizens react to things - you climb a wall and you'll hear some passer-by say something like, "why is he doing that?" or, "He's gone mad!" or my favourite, "He needs to stop acting like a child!" 
It plays like a grown up version of Prince of Persia. Awesome.
Lastly, (before this becomes a short novel like normal,) Pinklet and I are planning a UK tour of sorts at the end of the month. Because she works weekends and I work in the week, we only have to take off 2 and 3 days respectively in order to have 6 days off together! (including bank holiday Monday!) 
So, we start on the 30th by driving up to Merseyside to visit a couple of friends of mine and stay over there. The next day, I'm hoping we might have enough time to pop over to see Ortus (if you're around bud,) as this trip means we'll miss his Manchester drinks meet. After that it's over to Grimsby (ugh,) to see my parents and for Pinks to meet them for the first time. We may pop over to Hull to see my other relatives too, time permitting. Then on the Friday it's down to Cambridge and drinkies on the evening with Pink's girlies and a mate of mine who wishes us to get, "Viking drunk". Fun. Saturday we meet Pink's parents and then Sunday we're going over to London to meet up with a few people, before returning to Cambridge on the evening. Monday we drive back home to Bristol/Bath, tired, travel-weary, possibly belliguered and maybe even bewildered, but also older, wiser, having met new people and caught up with family and old friends and maybe a new tale to tell.
