Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
Friday, April 25th, 2008
As I go to most gigs by myself I wondered how long it had been since I last went with someone to staged wrestling matches. So I got my pile of tickets and started flicking through them. The pile isn't a complete record of all the gigs I've been ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
My new guitar, a white Les Paul Custom, was delivered yesterday. It was quite exciting to unwrap the well-packed guitar, and my first look took my breath away a little. It is really quite an attractive instrument. I didn't have much time to do anything apart from ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Along with the new guitar I ordered an extra packet of strings. The guitar will have its own strings, and I am fairly sure I have a packet or two of strings lying around, but I wanted to practice with something different. When I first started playing guitar ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
I made the choice on what to spend my small bonus. I decided that even though I would be able to use the Eee PC easily enough I didn't really want to make a move away from Mac OS because it is precisely the OS that makes me enjoy ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
The Gemote got together at the weekend again and amongst the fun of console games, RPGs, and eating more sugar in a day than I normally do in a year, we headed out to watch London Irish play host to the Harlequins. This is quite possibly the first rugby ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
The journal of webcomic xkcd has a recent entry about how few women get lead roles in modern films, highlighting figures that show almost no mainstream and popular films produced in recent years that have two female lead actors. The author then goes on to write about how excellent ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
There were three motorbikes, including mine, filling up at the petrol station I visited yesterday. Apart from when an instructor brings his duckling learners in to a station this is the most number of bikes I've seen filling up at any one time. With motorbikes being quite a ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
I heard a rumour that because Weyland-Yutani has been profitable in the last year we employees are due to receive a bonus this month. The bonus is nothing particularly extravagant but it's something, and after so many years of no bonuses at all this new culture, and I hope ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
I saw an advertisement for Blitzen Trapper playing live soon, so I am off to get myself a ticket. I picked up their second album some time back, although I can't remember how I found out it had been released. The advertisement for their gig states that the ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Wondering what to do next with my Draenei warrior last night I ended up logging out without really accomplishing anything, feeling a little WoW-malaise again. This malaise is affecting me more these days, although I can shake it off and spend another evening gaining easy XP soon enough. ...
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