the net seems very full of hate today, i'm reading through all these other blogs and everyone is getting angry about something and venting it into the great grey hole that is the internet. i don't wanna read people being angry and whingy, i wanna read something that makes me think, something that touches me, about a victory or something that makes me laugh and if not then i wanna read something pointless and rambly.

kinda like this.

so i'm gonna ramble on. i mowed lawns for half of today. grass that was so thick that it would stop the mower if you mowed it faster than very very slowly and it nearly did stop a few times. it's nice mowing grass like that - it feels like you're actually mowing something. you can see the progress, you can see you're making a difference even if it is only moving the grass from vertical to horizontal. they don't make things like they used to. things should last, something that as an engineer really bugs me. there are two mowers available, one is ancient and is a bit of a beast. nothing can stop it (metophorically of course since the thickness and sheer amount of grass nearly did, like i've already said). it sits in an old shed with spiders and bugs and looking at the condition of the shed today probably rain too but it still starts in the first 5 pulls and runs well no matter how long it's been since it was last used. now that's the tough and durableness that is missing in pretty much everything today. computer chips in mowers?! the other option for mowers is a newer one, it never works. in fact the whole time while it took me to mow the whole place (and there's lots of place to mow too) someone else was working on getting the other one started. he ended up taking it home.

i got to go back to uni today. i had to sort some things out before the "official return". it was nice being there without the usual crowds. i did think of having a traditional kebab plate or the traditional fried rice from alice's but it wasn't lunch time. i did get to have a snooze after lunch today, it was very relaxing and something i should do a lot more often. i think it made me much more alert and energetic for the afternoon, in fact i'm sure of it. it wasn't long but it was good. anway (a word i've gotta stop saying) i noticed two different things about the journey between the station and uni. 1. there was an new smell. it smelt like indian food but was in a different spot. i'm not sure if it was a one off thing but it was different. i'm thinking as i write this that noticing something like that might be a little worrying but there it is. 2. ont of the dodgy clothes shops has gone. the one that has all the ties on the rack out the front. i hope they build a good shop there instead, not like the health food snadwich bar which is still there. it's tables block a part of the tunnel off and it smells bad.

i got to go into the city with pez (this is her blog) yesterday and it was a lot of fun. i have now discovered how the two halves of the city i know connect to each other. i know the area around uni pretty well and the area around the domain too but i didn't know where they are in relation to each other. i went into gowings and looked at the hats, laughed at the school excursions, though about going into the museum but decided not to, overheard some amusing mobile conversations in matrin place, watched them weld bayonets onto guns on a war memorial statue, found a train line and watched trains go past, and i discovered a very cool sculpture in a park we didn't know existed. it is of a giant match sticking out of the ground and there's a burnt match sticking out of the ground next to it. i don't get it if it means anything but i though it did look cool. it's not often anymore i get to hang out with just one person for any length of time and i really enjoyed it. i should do it more often though it always seems weird and suggestive if they say "who did you invite?" and you say something like "just you". especially if it's with a female. i don't know, i've never done it but i guess it would. maybe that awkwardness might be fun, well for me anyway. not that i'm saying being in a group is a bad thing, it's just that in a group you don't always get to talk to everybody. of course pez and i were wondering if 2 people can be classified as a group and we decided they could for a very simple reason - if you add a third person then the group dynamic changes. if the group dynamic changes then it must have been in existance in the first place for it to change. it didn't appear, it didn't materialise it changed implying that it was there and had something to change from. therefore 2 people is a group. of course this ignores the possibility that it could change by being non-ezistant and then change to being existant, which also makes sense.

this just keeps on going doesn't it? and i'm gonna keep going. this huge post means that i'm catching up for all the time i should have posted before and gaining some credit so i shouldn't have to post again for a while. not that posting is a chore, i'm actually enjoying sitting here and typing whatever comes to mind. i think i'll keep going. or maybe i should just post more often. i should only post one paragraph of this at a time, string it out so it looks better. nah, too much effort for no reason. the hardest thing about being on a blog (or having a blog) is always thinking of stuff to say. i think blogging is a great idea and i used to have one but in reality there's never anything worth writing. my thoughts aren't deep and wise, i have nothing much to share, i don't write poems or stories (ahem *elbow*) so i got rid of it. but i still like the idea. i wonder if it would be possible to have a running blogger type joke. like in a group people have private jokes and running jokes which no one else gets, i wonder if it's possible to do that over a blog. i guess not. for a start i can't think of anything funny to say.

i should start a website in the tradition of "the hole i dug in my backyard" and similar. except i don't think it'll ge down well if i dig a big hole in the backyard, people like me might fall in it. i should start one about my castle. and now would be a good time to do it too since i've only just started building it. i still haven't decided how to make it coloured, i could use paint but then i can't really use boxes because the writing would show through. i was thinking of making all the boxes myself which would be handy since i could start at the bottom and they'd alwasy fit together nicely and look cool. except i'm not sure where i'll get all that cardboard from. the lady in the newsagent might think i'm a little strange when i go in every week and buy more of the same cardboard. i might have to go to a heap of different ones and rotate them. i did come up with an idea i think is really cool. well i think it is. instead of just building a plain castle tht just sits there and looks cool, i should cover it with ramps, holes, wheels, moving things etc and have marbles running all over it, and a little belt that takes them back up to the top. now that'd be worth it. though i have no idea how to start or what to make. i sguess i should start by building the castle before i wory about marbles or something else if i come up with a better idea but i don't think that's gonna happen. and not because i can't think of ideas better just because that's pretty cool and so i probably can't think of ideas better anyway. it makes sense in my head as i write it.