Dad just published the fruit of years of research by my Uncle David and Auntie Liz in his Flickrstream- the family tree dating back the 18th century. It’s altogether humbling and an impressive project in itself.
Click to view HUGE file, involves a bit of scrolling...
Today DrSita headed off to New Orleans, back on Friday. News as and when. Mario & Ange Pt II:
Last Tuesday, did 9 to 5 on campus, while M&A went to the zoo (i think…), then in the evening Sita cooked (again) and we played a new board game, Sequence, which is like Connect 4, but with cards, teamwork and a lot more vitriol…
Wednesday, 9 to 4 on campus for me, then a walk with ‘Cus and in the evening M&A&me saw the Curious Case of Benjamin Button, in the frozen mists of Moreland. 3 hours long or so, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Like a sci-fi Forrest Gump. 4 Lulus.
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…
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