The photocopier at work is one of them machines that make a supersonic high-pitched 'eeeeeeeeeeee' sound that seems to annoy no one but me. I really don't know why my hearing has not deteriorated enough for this not to be a problem - I've barraged my eardrums since I was 14 with walkmans, iPods, gigs and practises, yet I can still hear monitors squealing and other electro-buzzes that 90% of one of my classes last year were blissfully unaware of. I don't know if I'm cursed or blessed!

So if anyone ever installs one of these horrible things in my vicinity I'll be destroying it quick smart.

In other news, or should I say otherworldly, Darth Vader's failed, drunken attack on a Jedi church has landed him a suspended sentence. I'm not kidding.

I've made some amusing mistakes at work this week, all part of the learning curve according to my manager. The best was perhaps when a popup menu came out of nowhere just as I was clicking into the article edit tool, and instead I'd somehow moved the national news stories to the top of the page.

It seems I'm not the only one who thinks Lisa Lewis' boobs are kinda freaky. Quite an amusing article, that one is.

Out of interest, I wanted to see if my last post about Larry Baldock being a cock comes up in a Google search for the guy, and sure enough, of 115,000 reported results, my post is already the 36th hit. Sweet. I'm sticking it to the man.

I'm the fourth person in my team of six or so to take time off this week from sickness. I know I haven't got what the guy who started the meme has got, cause he had tonsilitis, and I have no tonsils. I could do work today, but my boss said it's more important that I'm available tomorrow than tonight - presumably 'cause no one wants to do Friday nights, haha. But damn it'll be good getting to bed at a proper hour.

I've spent this morning/afternoon working on what I imagine will be the first Raid Over Moscow recording ever, an old, old song of mine called 'DNA'. I have to rewrite the entire lyric though, as it's pretty farkin' emo as it stands, and the melody could do with some work too. This is what I have so far - keep in mind the guitar solo is missing and it's a very rough mix - there's probably way too much room reverb on the drums at the moment, and I haven't gone through and EQ-d/processed everything to hell yet. Oh, and no vocals. I ran it through a brick-wall slammer without much care and saved it to low-quality mp3 too. I can definitely hear it's still my work, but it sounds so different to luna spark, being more live/guitar based. Any thoughts?

I'm going to have some lunch. All I've had to eat today is a banana, and I'm not that hungry. Hmmm.