Floods, delays, loss of internet and shortly water, illness, Harry Potter (although not for me), friends, Guitar Hero, Wii and a party. Gosh.

I received a call from my manager earlier tonight informing me that I shouldn't go into work on Monday as they won't have any clean water. I should work from home - but I don't have my work laptop, meaning what work I can do is somewhat limited (even if I had my laptop my server has a problem routing the VPN connection for some reason)..

Still not feeling amazingly well in any case.

Finished watching Ulysses 31 tonight. Was quite teary - silly I know, but it was probably the most significant influence in my childhood (that I can remember).

Lets see what tomorrow brings in the never-ending adventure.

On holiday; visited izzy_stradlin over the weekend where we went to a Marillion gig and then spent the rest of the weekend relaxing, which was nice. The weather on the ride up wasn't quite so pleasant. Spent Sunday evening with beeby and my sister, and learned that one of my younger cousins is getting married shortly and will also be having a baby! I also learned that my dad and step-mum are planning to go to the wedding, which makes me want to go to the wedding more.

Yesterday I came round to see blaadyblah and we went to the pub, had a few drinks and came back and watched Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey and Black Books, which was also fun. Today I called olsw who I haven't spoken to in ages and seen in even longer and arranged to go and see him tonight. Tomorrow I go home, recoup and spend some time with kissycat1000, before going to visit ninneviane on Thursday, possibly with kissycat1000 :)

This is probably only of interest to those planning to attend Dylanstock 2006 tomorrow (Wednesday) and Thursday. This post will be updated to reflect the latest information, so keep checking back :). I will email those involved with address and phone numbers. Please let me know on this post of any changes to the arrangements :)

( Arrangements under here )

dylan wishes to announce Dylanstock 2006! It will be two days of bikes, photoshoots with cute girls and hifi: July 5/6 (yes, that's Wednesday and Thursday next week). If the weather's good we may even go to a beach somewhere :)

So, who's up for it? Comment here with which you're interested in and which day(s) you're free! We can work out arrangements when we know who's interested in what and where they are...

This weekend ev1ldonut and I went to a cave near Symonds Yat with sacha37, Jo, Mungo, flannelcat, penguin_worship, chaosdeathfish, oxfordgirl and agentfluffy. I hadn't seen chaosdeathfish for years - we used to go to college together; it was really nice to see him again. Hopefully I'll see some more of him now he's moved to Oxford. It was also nice to meet oxfordgirl too :)

I stubbornly tried to get some tough DIY done on Saturday morning before we left, and actually got quite far before ev1ldonut came to the rescue as I was seriously flagging. We have been fighting off a bug; ev1ldonut had been off work and kissycat1000 was feeling very run down but somehow I seem to have missed it (so far), despite the stubborn DIY attempt. Luckily, ev1ldonut was well enough to come, but kissycat1000 wasn't up to it, which was a shame.

The trek up to the site was very steep and slippery. We had loads of gear, plus I was carrying a bunch of logs brought from home for firewood; I tripped and fell just getting onto the path and sprained my right thumb a fair bit and my wrist a little. So out of breath, but then I did have lots of beer and food in my bag :)

When we finally arrived, we had to descend down something I would have to describe as a ravine. We couldn't simply progress as before, but had to form a human chain and pass bags down to the bottom. It has to be said that the bottom of the ravine claimed three injury victims in all I believe - none very serious, but certainly a few bruises and a bashed coccyx.. :/

We ate, drank and were merry, including dreaming up a solution to the world energy crisis based on the principle of a torch you shake to charge in combination with the world's population of teenage boys.. :) Some songs were sung to flute and guitar as well, not that I happened to know (m)any of them ;) The place was beautiful. Although it rained, the tree cover was dense enough that only the rain later on Sunday morning proved enough to penetrate to the forest floor in any serious manner.

( Have a look at some pictures )

All in all, a very rejuvinating weekend, despite all the physical effort. I'm contemplating LARP as a fun way to get some exercise and increase my exposure to the outdoors :)

UPDATE: ev1ldonut has made a post here.