Have been excited about prospect of writing, and have spent portions of this weekend responding to emails I received almost a year ago – long overdue catch up on correspondance, which was satisfying in itself, but has depleted my capacity somewhat to do any writing here or on my new WordPress.com blog.
Will hopefully have a bit more time to sit, think and write over the next week, but Christmas is proving to be ridiculously busy — and bizarre that I’m thinking of it as Christmas in November, but hey; the parties have clearly started! Might roast a turkey next week…
Anway: doing lots of interesting reading and thinking at the moment and hopefully will post more substantially when things start to quiet down. Off to India in a couple of weeks, so that should make for an interesting post…
Once again, work has been ludicrously busy and when I’ve got back from it I’ve been committed to finishing Raymond E Feist’s “Serpentwar” saga — lots of lovely pulpy fantasy (although strangely disappointed at the end of this one). I do seem to have that addictive personality type that wants to see things through once I’ve got into them. My Dad always used to say that if he liked an author, he’d read everything by them; I find myself doing the same, and shopping on Amazon to find any oustanding books… Its a tricky one. They should have a “buy all by this author” button…
Normal service will soon resume – have a huge backlog of stuff I want to blog about, and I think I’ll explode if I have to keep it in, or relay it via conventional conversation (yes, some of it is probably only interesting to me and a few odd people around the internet. Well, I hope so – I’m playing the numbers, there’s like a billion people out there on the net).
Chris has made something of a tradition with the photoshopping…
More photos & anecdotes around the evening to follow.
Update: Still too tired to blog today; it was, in short, though, a great party and the innovations / eccentricities (no shoes, plastic cups, etc.) made the clearing up today slightly less painful! Think Damian has as good a time as I did, and much help from Gem, Marion, Louise, Robin, Chris, etc, made light work of preparations and cleanups. Great turnout, small B2L posse in fine form (commandeering my camera for substantial portions of the evening). Many photos posed, I don’t hesitate to add, if you choose to check them out at my photostream (link on right, somewhere…)
Anyway: finally done celebrating birthday, now, so can start thinking about Christmas…
My NAS drive (of which I have recently blogged) stopped working last night, much to my chagrin. With much need of the library of music on it (today in particular), I was quite concerned. Reinstalling drivers, fiddling with Windows hard drive utilities, all did nothing.
Then I ran “chkdsk”, (or, more precisefly “chkdsk /f”) Microsoft’s old disk utility. Fixed it a charm.
Not quite getting on to those substantive posts of which I spoke, but rather a requested post from a man more egocentric than even my humble self, the great SK had his birthday do last night at the ever-popular Sway bar, and it was an entertaining evening indeed.
It’s been a couple of years since I’ve witnessed drinks ignited midway through the process of being imbibed, but Sam, having valiantly paced himself through the evening, was appropriately and sufficiently waylaid by his friends into consuming a number of flaming vials of that most aniseedy of elixirs — [[black sambuca]].
The net result – an entertaining evening. Whilst my rapidly approaching middle age had me home at a relatively early hour, it was not before I witnessed a fair few flaming shots, and a number of bongo-offs between SK and the resident, erm, bongo-er, and, indeed, borne witness to Steve’s more pyromaniacal tendencies.
And if questioned as to why I didn’t set fire to drinks in my mouth? Well, this should be enough answer for anyone…
Been a busy weekend; have implemented about 4 new plugins on this website – fun as it is for people to read about the updates to the blog, suffice it to say that its simply been an effort at digital housekeeping…
…which has been accompanied by literal housekeeping. We’ve completely reorganised the living room; its amazing! Like waking up to a whole new house. Feels pretty good…
Anwyay, more substantive posts to follow. Have finished yet another Raymond Feist book this weekend, as well as the housekeeping (including the minor DIY already referenced), and made it out on Sat night (more to follow…).
Phew. Busy Saturday so far. Inspired by Sheila, we’ve had furniture rearrangment, hardware buying, picture hanging, [[dim sum]] eating, and general life reorganisation. Had I been lacking in enthusiasm for the project, I’d never have indulged in the dust-kicking-up expedition that has been today: Don Quixote now hangs in pride of place above my bed (I would, after all, fight the unbeatable foe just for the hell of it), and our living room is transformed.
No doubt part of the same batch of pro-activity that has seen the addition of the wp-audioscrobbler plugin (that tells you what I’m listening to somewhere down the right had column of the blog, and the Wikipedia plugin (link for which I can’t now find) that lets me link to that wonderful repository of information with nothing more than two pairs of [[square brackets]]…
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