What are all these yuppies doing here?! The site an abandoned multifloor structure, a skyscraper that ran out of funds midbuild - somewhat developed on a few levels, barely anything but floor and beams on others. Is the event location for an art show or some sort? I had suggested the very idea to my team: How very meta of you. Large prints of ( Read more... )

Bunch of us were hanging out in a sweet ol' library, updating a wiki on this crusty, antiquated mainframe, but it was equipped with bleeding edge virtual display - when you're using it you appear as if swatting at gnats in the air, but you're grabbing at menus and such like. The entry on xurvandus1 was going nowhere: Some weirdo ecclesiastical ( ( Read more... )

Nine-year old me and a younger cousin sit on top of a coffin, guarding it from unknowns until someone comes to relieve us. The night is dark, moonless, and there's a fierce banshee wind howling and screeching. The ground is damp from dusk showers, there's a fine mist rising from the earth. Shadows move about in the trees, the branches are alive ( Read more... )

It's taking a remarkably long time at the barber's and not only is the last train/bus1 already long gone (how am I ever getting home!?), but there's parts to the play that's on first thing tomorrow I haven't memorised my lines - all of them, not a clue; and a maths homework that looked like a monster when it was handed out. You know, you give it a ( Read more... )

Taking time off from work to spend time with family: Drove to deep country, took long winding picturesque backroads showcasing the best and brightest green held together by the bluest, most wonderful sky. A restaurant near the edge of the beach serves very fresh, highly recommended fare. A small midafternoon beer while we marvel at an island in the ( Read more... )

Everyone helped in the move. Modular office-space/hotdesk type 5x1, that is, 5 of the same single floor all-white basic furni and outlets for every imaginable electric, electronic contraption in the current age. Each box just the right size it seemed, for 2 two-man teams plus the odd contractor or client. Somebody phones in Chinese, just right for ( Read more... )

Remarkable, how I rewrote the 2-hour long Looper in dreamtime, neatly tying up all loose ends just before the alarm (nap duration about 2 hours) starts buzzing. I'm aware of it too: Transitioning sweetly from deep dream, coming up slowly like a diver carefully avoiding the bends, to waking state and upright position sans groggy in mere minutes ( Read more... )

Motoring from Basildon to Brighton with C., sort of a finally! reunion after the never happened meetups during ______ training. All that big sky coastal gorgeousness, the smell of the sea, wind in your hair is simply invigorating. Stopped at a shop for legs stretch and before long we're at Krumt's, this emporium of stuff. You can find anything here ( Read more... )

Blue skied an' clear when you run out the doors. The Chinese girl (she might be Chinese) zipping up the hill on an oversized bakfiets? frankencontraption vehicle. "Pretty great gearing!" you yell, with a week's groceries in the box part but she's barely breaking into a sweat. Two tiny pairs of eyes peek from underneath a blanket, her little sibs ( Read more... )

"Sibellus and Parnasson" sounded like utter snobs over the wire, but as mages go (I know, don't laugh) they seemed to know their stuff. Aligning the dish required a 2-man team over there and over here my assistant trainee intern sidekick dogsbody Arthur to my Merlin, Chas to my ...nevermind - was on his best behavior, less shoddy than usual, not ( Read more... )