New toy alert - a Music Clip. Definate cool toy potential - size of two AA batteries and stores 170 minutes of music. Totally N.A.F. (nice as fuck). Only downside is that Sony are playing super-retentive by only supporting Windows 98 (the VAIO standard deploy) and I have Windows NT. Ho hum.

Meanwhile getting involved in two cool eCommerce bids - one for my current project and one for an old client. More news as and when and if. Very excited when I'd been seriously lacking work direction for a day. I need to learn to stop taking the high ground and accept that things aren't always perfect whilst striving to get them there!

Today I are mostly being happy. Thank you.

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Back in the US of A again. Had a superb weekend back in London thanks to Steve, Craig, Bob, Dan, Jon and everyone else for their company at various stages of inebriation. Saturday ended up at Strawberry Sundae in Holloway dancing to heavy trance/house till 4am then driving back to Camberley in the Quidnunc red Alfa (TM) at speeds more than slightly over those preferred by the local constabulary. Driving in and out of London late at night to go clubbing is definately a winner. Nice. Good club too.

Sunday was spent at my dad's house playing croquet in the sun and giving Abigail way too many helicopter rides for my poor back! I need to get seriously fit to keep up those fun and games, although Nicole had a ride a few weeks earlier and I survived. I think Abigail was a little less scared than Nicole though! Caught up with Jon with a quick pint in the P&P in Chiswick then a Thai before wandering back to Richmond and harassing him about buying Glasto tickets (which he's now done - good lad). I still find myself weirded out that he lives where I used to live on Lower Richmond Road for various reasons so I can never stay too long there.

Monday was a meeting then flying back to the US courtesy of Virgin shaglantic. Usual flight trauma but got to see the Pokemon movie in lieu of The Talented Mr Riply. Don't think I got the best end of that deal... Collected more of virgin's cute little toy ducks from their packs of goodies. Soon I'll have a whole flotilla.

A superb four days. Hectic and full of friends and family. Started to resolve some life conflicts and totally failed to resolve others - overall score: 12 - 1 in favor of good resolution though. Result. Living in a different country can be very stressful sometimes but one of the cool things is going on holiday at home. Yay.

More jet lag. Bought some essential oils to try and revive me on the recommendation of Angela from work. She recommended eucalytpus and grapefruit - tasty. Body shop could only supply lemon as a citrusy flavour though - should be good.

So why do I need reviving? Well, I'm off up into town to catch up with some more London chums at Gemma Wilson's birthday drinks somewhere near Picadilly Circus. Not sure if I'll last too late since I've had 6 hours sleep in the last three days... but who knows. I've had a good day at Camberley even if the traditional Pizza Express tuna and tomato pizza was not up to their usual high standards. Thinking about it that's a nightmare trans-atlantic pizza - in Brit-land it's pronounced 'tuner and tom-ah-toe' and in Yank-town it's 'tooner and tom-aye-toe'. I would do some sound samples of me saying this but I'm feeling way too lazy... Off to town I go! Wish me good parking karma...

Yep. I've come back to the UK for a long weekend in order to look into WAP on Monday. Today was spent shopping at Cyberdog to replace t-shirts I destroyed for lack of washing abilities and new trousers (pants to the Americans in my readership). I also got sidetracked by a cool watch that flashes when you move. Nice!

So now the world seems a little blurry due to the 1 hour of fitful sleep I achieved in Virgin's Economy class even with 3 seats to myself! I ended up watching Sleepy Hollow which was beautiful but lacking in substance. Tonight I'm catching up with Quid-Brits then tomorrow my mum and Sunday my dad. It is, as always weirdly familiar yet different now I'm here...

Had a fun trip away to Montauk at the very North Eastern tip of Long Island this Saturday. Hired a car admidst a mad rush of people at Dollar and got upgraded from an intermediate to some huge XRS thing with leather seats.

Simple pleasures. Walked on the beach in the sun. Threw stones at a rock and into the sea. Flew a kite. Superb. The beach around the lighthouse is made up on one side of thousands of mussel, hermit crab and normal crab shells - amazingly crunchy. Around the point the beach is covered with beautiful stones of all sizes rounded from the sea. Brought a few home and wished I'd bought more - they make my apartment feel more serene. Helped erosion by trying to hit a large rock with flung stones to explosive effect - brilliant.

On the way back saw the Unisphere at Flushing Meadows, Queens from the road and veered over to have a closer look. This lump of 700,000 lbs of steel floats like some hole in reality over a small pool area (currently empty). The sense of weirdness when you look at this at night is amazing - blue lights really help the mood along with the close proximity of the World's Fair Towers that turned out to be spaceships in the Men In Black movie. The whole place was deserted apart from a few breakdancers practicing their moves.