I’ve been woken up by someone at the door for the last 4 mornings.  This is not a good thing.  I’m sure my body has a certain time it needs to sleep, and any alterations to this schedule result in fucking it up… I’m gonna be feeling shit all day now… The guy is here to look at the boiler right now.  He was supposed to be here on Monday, but never showed.  Cheers for that.

Finally got a cheque off the freemasons, and a couple of other minor ones.  Thats makes about 10% of what I’m owed… Turns out that the masons are a nice bunch of people after all, just one guy was a bit slack sorting me out with a cheque.  His daughter’s got cancer so naturally his mind was elsewhere.  Makes me feel a bit guilty really…

I know that I’m paid to do my job, and that the final website has to be to the client’s tastes, but it’s really frustrating when a client wants his site to look like a Microsoft Frontpage Express job… he wouldn’t take my advice, and there is no way that I’m gonna be putting a link back to my site from his.  I’m ashamed to have “designed” it.  Isn’t webdesign about being creative? I feel like a grubby back street designer, exchanging fees for delivering whatever the clients wants, no matter how disgusting… might not be too far from the truth judging by the way his wife kept on touching my knee when they came round…

Was lying in the bath last night and for some reason decided to try and compile a list of my favourite ten albums… it was a bit harder than I initially thought… if I’m only allowed one from each band, then it would be something like…

1. Muse - Origin of Symmetry
2. Nirvana - In Utero
3. Queens of The Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
5. The Libertines - Up the Bracket
6. Radiohead - The Bends
7. System of a Down - Toxicity
8. and this
9. is where
10. I’m stuck

I could easily add three of the following - The Strokes, The White Stripes, RHCP, Foos, Garbage, Interpol, Kings of Leon, Modest Mouse, Placebo, Ashcroft / The Verve, The Distillers, The Departure, plus probably a few more.

Have been trying to summon up the energy to enter this.  Would be amazing to have some artwork printed on a snowboard.  Let’s face it, I wouldn’t have much chance against the calibre of the other entrants, coming from a webdesign background, but it’s the kinda thing I enjoy, and need to do more of before these dull B&B websites suck the creative juices out of me.