A strange thing happened last night. I went to the cinema, but before going in I was told that all the staff were on strike over wages. To be honest, they sounded like they had a point - they were paid the basic minimum wage (£5.65ph or something) whereas the London poverty wage is something like £6.40 per hour and a recent study has suggested that the London minimum wage should be £7.something. Given that the company had apparently refused even to raise their wage to today's poverty level over 3 years, they had decided to strike. Fair enough. However, I'd spent the money travelling to where we were, we'd had a nice dinner out and were looking to watch a film. I appreciate what the staff were trying to do, but making us cross some sort of picket line seemed a bit heavy-handed. Oh well, film was confusing as well.
In other news, we got a Wii. It's great! I need to hook it up to the wireless now. :)
I've been slightly busy this month, hence lack of updates. I'm doing a show 5
nights a week and this leaves little time to do anything else. This particular
show happens to be:
The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas which is on at The Landor
Theatre which is in Clapham. We're running until the end of the
month, so turn up to that! If you need a reason, then scantily clad dancing
girls should be good enough. If you need more reasons, then this really isn't
your show. Don't turn up on a Sunday or Monday though, it's not happening
then.
I've been working on my latest project, Grawgle which should make my
photo galleries look better. However, lack of time means I'm stuck on v0.2 at
the moment. Hopefully 0.3 will bring more improvements.
I like England. I really do. I like how it's nearly July and properly raining
and cold outside - you don't get that sort of thing anywhere else. Well, maybe
in the southern hemisphere, but that's not really what I mean.
The show I'm doing mentioned here has only one more week to run and I'm
told that we're all sold out. This is bad for anyone who wanted to see it and
hasn't managed to yet (it's really good and I'm not just saying that) but good
for me, as I get a cut of the profits. Doing the maths though, I realise that
at 18 shows, 60ish seats, £10 a seat and a company of about 45 people, that
might not be a particularly large slice of this pie. Oh well, at least it's
fun, which is important.
Excitingly, I'm changing my job in a few weeks. Not proper getting a new job
with a new company or anything, but moving around doing something different.
I'll be doing some sort of technical auditing thing for about 6-7 weeks.
Sounds dull, but they are sending me to St Louis for most of August.
Having never been to anywhere in the US other than New York, this should be a
good thing. However, the fact that I don't know if I'll be any good at doing
whatever it is I'll be doing means that I'm slightly apprehensive about it.
In other news, things are possibly picking up on the psplant front - I've
gone and bought http://www.psplant.net and am in the process of putting
trac on it. However, trac doesn't seem to want to talk to anything that
isn't sqlite or postgres, and I can't get openid working on it. Much still to
do I think. Aside from that, trac does seem perfect for my current needs. If
only I knew python.
I'm also in the process of re-thingying the photos bit to get everything
into the grawgle format. However, there are rather a lot of pictures, so
it may take a while.