I’ll have to serialise this because I’ve got tons of work on… so how about Monday?.. Mario and Ange took the car and went to investigate the centre of town, I think, meanwhile I worked from home on all manner of lewis and clark related stuff. In the evening we went to see Glasvegas and Carl Barat (below) at the Douglas Fir,
Note to Mexicans heading to the Douglas Fir for a gig. Bring your passports, as national ID cards don’t cut any sway with the pig ignorant doorman. We felt slightly better about going back to get the passports when he almost wouldn’t let a roadie by with the thickest of Glaswegian accents I’ve heard. Other than that it was a fine old night, Carl played me favourite Libertines tracks and Glasvegas seemed to be labouring under the misapprehension they were in some huge stadium and took 2 hours to set up their floodlights, but they made a joyful racket. Nice tuneful scottish pop with beautiful lush guitar/synth soundscapes. Class.
I’ve finally uploaded my flickr stuff, and Mario has several hundred pix too… Stay tuned for an account of Tuesday…
"Over the Hill"
It’s been a great week with all our visitors. There will be photos soon. Promise. Meanwhile: Tonight… bowling, snacks, beer. Tomorrow, airports & farewells. Monday: catching up on a week’s worth of internet…
The fourth little piggy built his house out of snow.
So Christmas has been and gone, the dog’s chalked up another few thousand air miles and I’ve got lots of new warm clothes for the rest of the winter. It was a lovely break all in all. I sorted out several laptops, got dragged through dozens of sales, all but destroyed several ficus trees, ate better than during the last 6 months, read Sir Pratchett’s Nation (one of his best I reckon) and now have an iPhone Touch to keep me out of trouble. The snow has totally disappeared and I’m at a loss for where to go for photos, though the waterfalls might be pretty impressive at the minute…
Back to work on Monday, but for now we’re weighing up the options for this evening’s seeing in of 2009… The neighbours are having a knees up, there’s a pub crawl in the NE, then there’s always the town centre too. It’ll probably be pretty subdued no matter what, but I’m already eyeing the six pack of zider in the fridge.
Since I’ve been sorting out me iTouch and organising music libraries, I thought I’d do another meme. 20 odd questions and you randomly fill in the answers with whatever the next track is on shuffle. It’s blatantly not aimed at married, thirtysomething males but it’s a chance to go through me iTunes library. If the list doesn’t appear below, click the title or the “More” thing if you’re having a slow day…
Flash publishes a traditional meme at the end of each year. She posts the first sentence from the first post of each month from the preceding year. Here goes mine, and I’m going to make a comment after each one…
J: England was great, lovely to see all me nearest and dearest in person and share a pint or three. I shan’t leave it so long next time.
Can’t believe a year’s gone by without getting back 
F: Well, what with having bought another car and signed a 12 month lease on our apartment, we’re here for the long haul.
So young, so naive
M: Yep the 3:17 vowel-consonant ratio means it´s Saint David’s Day again.
And it was lovely to catch up with Ian and Yuri and their kids
A: This blog’s been a bit abandoned of late more due to an overload of work and little time to update it but in brief, saw Carrie Fisher’s show Wishful Drinking last Thursday.
And blimey, it was bad
M: The problem with not posting for a while is that it builds a certain level of expectation that the next post will be somehow life-affirming and brilliant.
Then I went on to announce Sita handing in her dissertation. I really ought to consider newspaper style writing, most important bits first, details later…
J: I just passed the 10,000 photos mark on Flickr.
And I’m at: 11,290 items / 65,673 views, but who’s counting?
J: We interrupt this prolonged silence to recommend this course to you in the Fall Autumn… Check out the last professor on the Faculty link too… Sign up now!.
And who knew that 6 months later I’d have admin privileges to edit that very page…
A: Greetings from our latest ZIP code!
I’ve forgotten what Alameda’s zip was now… seems like a long time ago
S: According to Peter Trigg’s Calendar – “My kind of Somerset”, it’s the first of September, meaning we can look at a grainy picture of All Saints’ Church, Aisholt for 30 odd days
I shouldn’t criticise his calendar. I’m just jealous.
O: Posting direct from Flickr… Here’s Nostromoo’s 2nd batch of Welsh Cakes… and evidence of probably the first time anyone has printed my blog out on paper.
7 months after St. Dai’s Day, we were all getting our Welsh on…
N: I’m off to watch ‘democracy’ in action with DrSita in a mo…
And lo and behold, Obama was elected that very evening. Oregon had an impressive 86% voter turnout.
D: Word Magazine just published an advent calendar with links to videos and suchlike, I thought, I could do that:
Presenting Countdown to Xmas with ‘Cus
And a calendar was born. Hope you enjoy Day 24
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When I get a chance I’ll do a first photo from every month type post too…
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