Monthly Archives: June 2010

Soggy homecoming

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It’s too hot to sleep, and since I have an awful memory, maybe I should start documenting my life more thoroughly. If nothing than for me to look back in a year and think “gosh, I really had an easy life back then; I wish I knew it”.

I have a boyfriend these days. It’s going pretty well, other than the occasional worried “do I really want to be with someone who I will barely get to see?” thoughts. After all, Jacob’s from Redditch which is two train rides and about two hours away from Leicester. When I’m in Portsmouth it’ll be about £40 and five hour train journey. Irck.

Fortunately though I’ve become a pretty solitary guy, and having someone around me full time is just exhausting. Once in a while is more than enough really. I’m not sure he’ll be able to handle it as much though. We’ll figure something out.

I just got back from his to find that my bed room window was left open and so my room was flooded; the mattress is soaked, and the floor is too. A part of the window sill below is really damp, and likely to just fall away at any time. Hopefully it’ll all dry up before I leave though, and I won’t lose any of my deposit. I don’t blame them if they decide to dock me any though.

Products I can’t live without

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Last year I did a post on products I can’t live without with the intention of doing the same this year and comparing. I totally forgot about it until now.

Lets just go through last years list and see how it matches up.

digg.com – gosh. I can’t believe how much I actually loved that site. I use Reddit now, and would never dream of going back to digg.

WordPress – Meh. I don’t use it so much these days. It’s still something I use (obviously), but more and more rarely.

Google Talk – It’s only my Android, and people talk to me sometimes on there, but I don’t use it these days. Back into MSN!

Youtube – I use this more these days, thanks to 4oD being on there.

last.fm – I still store my plays on there, but I use Spotify to listen to music now.

4chan – What the hell? Not been there in years.

Google Reader – I’m using Fever now!

Google Notebook – this got retired. I mostly just use actual physical notebooks now. If there’s a link I want to jot down, I bitly it first.

Almost everything has changed then really. I didn’t think my habits had changed as much. Here’s this years list:

  • Fever – it’s just so much more beautiful and personal than Google Reader. I guess I like controlling it on my own server.
  • Google Listen – for podcasts on my Android
  • Spotify – I’m a premium member, I like it so much.
  • Steam – I really like having electronic copies of games. I’m not so bothered about physical media.
  • World Of Warcraft – it’s a phase, I’m sure.
  • Facebook – of course.
  • Reddit

It’s odd to see how many of my favourite things are all paid for now. I’m not sure if paying for something is a thing that people do as they get older, or if I just feel better about paying.