Me am 29!

In such a good mood today. The weather's promising to be a typical birthday day (mild early spring day, with sunshine), which always reminds me of playing football on my birthday at 16 — bearing in mind I hated playing when I was younger — and having a brilliant time. There was a really good bunch of guys in that class, and looking back on it, they gave me a lot of confidence.

Anyway, started off the GMT day listening to Bell X1's Snakes and Snakes, which is rapidly becoming one of my favourite songs of all time, even if the lyrics don't necessarily reflect the mood I'm in ("All this serves to tell me, is maybe there's no ladders in this game at all") and just got in to work about 20 minutes ago, and Pandora Radio played me Junkie XL feat. Saffron Crusher, which is a cracking record. Another record</Hi, I'm old> I'm particularly enjoying at the moment is the All-American Rejects' Move Along. In part, because it reminds me of "Move On!", but that's just my head. Mostly it's because of the tune. But especially, like half the feckin country, it seems, there's Gnarls Barkley. Which I spent about a month thinking was spelt "Niles", off of Frasier. There we are....

In short, then, today's plan is to take it easy. The main reason I'm in such a good mood is that I finally got over the hump of the TRACE UV calibration problem lastnight about 8:00, so I now have relatively calibrated sequence of 1600 Å images, which I can start to think about overlaying on MDI. Anyway, enough detail. Basically, I was going to get in early, then thought fuck-it</Malcolm Hardee> and gave meself an hour's lie-in. Moyles's show was brilliant, with loads of what felt like birthday quirks. Even Fatima Whitbread being on made me smile, 'cos I know we share a birthday!

Off to see about booking a fancy hurcut, and this afternoon I plan to get some decent underwear. A not-entirely-unconnected fact is that, during tomorrow's drink in the Big Shmoke (organised by Claire off of Simon off of Adrian, so I've relinquished most of my claim on the birthday celebrations), the Aussie has engineered — against my wishes — a blind date. I say against my wishes because I have to go to LS's birthday drinks anyway, so inviting someone he wants to hook me up with is especially underhand, I think. Plus, we have to dress up to make sure we can get into some places Claire has in mind, so I won't be feeling like I'm looking my best. Ach, feck-it</Malcolm O'Hardee>. I'm going to go up and enjoy myself whatever happens!

Back til the good mood now, though. Got movies to make, and hurcuts to try and book.

Happy Birthday to anyone else who's 29 today.