Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
Sunday, December 9th, 2012
Along with playing EVE Online, writing about EVE Online, learning to play jazz drums, playing and writing about RPGs, and something about working a full-time engineering job, I have been studying. I like to keep my mind active.
Many years of interesting but hard work came to its conclusion this year. ...
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Sunday, September 4th, 2011
It's been a while since I mentioned my drumming, but I am still practicing and still getting lessons. I like to think I'm also still improving, and although progress can feel slow there are obvious ways I can tell I am getting better. Being able to play patterns smoothly that ...
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Sunday, June 19th, 2011
It's just me, Fin, and some combat probes in our home system today, and the probes are Fin's. I turn up just as our glorious leader has resolved the static wormhole and she warps the two of us in its direction. Having found the wormhole it's only fair that Fin ...
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Sunday, July 25th, 2010
Panda cat has been hunting again. She brings in another guest to play with, one that doesn't much like being in a cat's maw and is sadly scared to death. As unfortunate as this is for the poor mouse, such is life when a cat is around. ...
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Sunday, July 11th, 2010
My kitchen cupboard doesn't smell right. It smells of rodents. A bit of a tidy up finds evidence1 of a mouse having been in the cupboard. My Sherlockian mind then realises that the holes in the bag of kitty food were probably not there when I bought ...
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Thursday, July 1st, 2010
I find myself on the Eurostar train again, heading to Bruges. My previous visit to Bruges was very pleasant and enough to convince me to return. I go with family again, and with the same travel company. Indeed, it is the same package trip as before, because ...
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Saturday, June 5th, 2010
It looks like I won't be getting the ransom, kidnap kitty may well officially be mine. Some time back I accidentally steal my neighbour's cat and she has been living with me ever since, quite happily. I have bumped in to the neighbour a few times and she ...
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Sometimes, I feel I should live up to my promise. Although I haven't been posting many updates about drumming along in Guitar Hero 5 I am still playing, practising my favourites and pushing myself to improve in the more difficult songs. The single-song gig structure of the game, ...
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
Every year there is a large board gaming convention held in Essen, Germany, where many manufacturers show off their new releases and huge crowds turn up to play the latest games and pick up some bargains. Although there are simplistic games like Monopoly and Cluedo around, most of the ...
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Saturday, October 17th, 2009
The marvellous, national treasure that is Stephen Fry has released a new book, a collection of Oscar Wilde's Stories for All Ages. I am fortunate enough to get a couple of tickets to the book signing at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London, purely by the good timing of seeing ...
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