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sessifet25's now. Unfortunately I forgot the VGA to DVI converter to allow me to use my desktop machine with sessifet25's old monitor, and I wasn't paying the £21 for one from PC World for a few days, so I'm stuck using my little laptop. No shiny games for me.. bah.
Also, I appear to have a proper outbreak of coldsores on my top lip, which started the day after I got here, swelling to twice normal size and making me feel hideous. I've not had an outbreak like this before; last time was as a child and nothing like this and of course the timing is impeccable, so I've been feeling pretty sorry for myself.sessifet25 has been fantastic though :)
I was given a 10 cup teapot in red for Christmas, which is 3.2l capacity. I need a second kettle to fill it up! But this will make supplying tea for guests simpler :) I also got 6 posh new mugs to go with it :)
We're now in the lull for the job hunting situation (which I originally thought was going to start in the run up to Christmas, but I was called as I drove to my mum's on Christmas Eve by a recruiter wanting to put me forward for a job). I've got a telephone interview lined up, and some other reasonably promising things in the pipeline, so the outlook is reasonable at the moment :)
A facebook post by a friend reminded me about a 'sport' I used to watch as a kid. I think it's what got me into ridiculous engines and the like. I didn't know what it was called - but can you imagine as a young technically curious child looking at the boring morass of so called sports and regular stuff on television, then flicking over and finding this? (american one here, also see this 4 chinook turbine one here) Apparently it's called Tractor Pulling, and it comes from the time when farmers would compare the strength of their horses by getting them to pull a barn door along the ground and have people jump on as they went along until the horse could no longer pull them along...
Yesterday I went to the rather excellent Vale Inn in Bollington for a beer festival withsmescrater, sessifet25, the_ladylark and Thermobaric Tom. One catchphrase rapidly came to the fore - "blame it on the mammon" - of which I'm tucking in to a half from my 4 pint jug (it's 7.0% and not a beer to be consumed lightly) now :)
sessifet25's now. Unfortunately I forgot the VGA to DVI converter to allow me to use my desktop machine with sessifet25's old monitor, and I wasn't paying the £21 for one from PC World for a few days, so I'm stuck using my little laptop. No shiny games for me.. bah.Also, I appear to have a proper outbreak of coldsores on my top lip, which started the day after I got here, swelling to twice normal size and making me feel hideous. I've not had an outbreak like this before; last time was as a child and nothing like this and of course the timing is impeccable, so I've been feeling pretty sorry for myself.
sessifet25 has been fantastic though :)I was given a 10 cup teapot in red for Christmas, which is 3.2l capacity. I need a second kettle to fill it up! But this will make supplying tea for guests simpler :) I also got 6 posh new mugs to go with it :)
We're now in the lull for the job hunting situation (which I originally thought was going to start in the run up to Christmas, but I was called as I drove to my mum's on Christmas Eve by a recruiter wanting to put me forward for a job). I've got a telephone interview lined up, and some other reasonably promising things in the pipeline, so the outlook is reasonable at the moment :)
A facebook post by a friend reminded me about a 'sport' I used to watch as a kid. I think it's what got me into ridiculous engines and the like. I didn't know what it was called - but can you imagine as a young technically curious child looking at the boring morass of so called sports and regular stuff on television, then flicking over and finding this? (american one here, also see this 4 chinook turbine one here) Apparently it's called Tractor Pulling, and it comes from the time when farmers would compare the strength of their horses by getting them to pull a barn door along the ground and have people jump on as they went along until the horse could no longer pull them along...
Yesterday I went to the rather excellent Vale Inn in Bollington for a beer festival with
smescrater, sessifet25, the_ladylark and Thermobaric Tom. One catchphrase rapidly came to the fore - "blame it on the mammon" - of which I'm tucking in to a half from my 4 pint jug (it's 7.0% and not a beer to be consumed lightly) now :)
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Date: 2010-12-31 08:36 pm (UTC)happy new year :) x
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Date: 2011-01-03 11:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-04 04:29 pm (UTC)Also cold sores are so f*cking annoying - you have my sympathy!
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Date: 2011-01-04 04:49 pm (UTC)Could you possibly bring your kettle? I know that's a little cheeky but I'll need it!
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Date: 2011-01-04 11:14 pm (UTC)