dan le sac

the other guy that was renegotiating his contract, is working again, although from home. does not matter to me, and its been good to have an extra pair of hands and someone else to deal with all the shit and to ask any questions i have. it has meant this week i have mainly been concentrating on 2 projects instead of the 4 or 5 that were going on at the same time, and i have been able to concentrate on one thing for at least a few hours as opposed to do 20 mins on one thing and 20 mins on another and a few minutes on something else. its not very productive and it ends up being chaotic. its been better this week. i could complain and i often do, but i cant really now. 


am reading a lot of books. i dont really know too many people in my new company so i tend to read at lunch times as well. am getting over 2 hours a day reading time a day. have just re-read 'the graves are not yet full' and also 'all the shahs men'. this week i will start a new book all about the revolutionary armed forces of columbia. despite doing an engineering degree and only studying physics, maths and chemistry from the age of 16, history was always my favourite subject. 


had football on thursday and it wasnt that good. its been lame the last few weeks i have played. we got a couple of new people playing and they play like 5 year olds by never passing and just running with the ball every time they get it trying to beat the whole team on their own. its shit when you are on their team and its shit when you are playing against them because whoever is on their team seems to stop trying after 15 minutes because they know they wont get a pass from them. its one thing if you are lionel messi and can dribble past a whole team, but these guys are not even close to that. it just makes for an uneven broken game. if its like this for the next couple of weeks, i might start missing the occasional week and go to the gym instead. i play football not to just run around or even to win or lose. i enjoy the game and i cant enjoy it when those 2 clowns are playing like little children. we are better than that, and i definitely am. 


had been asking a couple of friends if they wanted to go to cali in september. one of the guys said he might be interested but actually when i think about it, part of me almost regrets asking. i dont think they are going to be into the same stuff as me. i dont think they are going to want to see bands play or go to the beach or try out different food and explore the city. i think they will mostly want to just go drinking. its good to go out in the evenings but those guys tend to get very drunk by the early hours and its not a good look. 


anyways, they are my friends and so it means they have no money or curiosity or are just disorganised and wont be able to book themselves a ticket by the time it comes to it, and i will probably go solo....again. no bother. might try and go to chicago for a few days this time round as well. its one of the great american cities and i have never been. will be interesting to see what its like in the midwest. new york and LA have a certain type of atmosphere and feel to them. 


today i have mostly been listening to dan le sac v scroobius pip - thou shalt always kill. awesome lyrics.