Archive for October, 1998
October 27, 1998 at 9:09 am · Filed under General
Diary entry number three. I’ve amazed myself.
What an unpleasant week! Work involved horrible 3 day meetings (ok, so it was a useful meeting, but still..), and the weekend was wet, windy and generally nasty.
One bonus (for me anyway) is that the River Severn broke it’s banks, so there are some very impressive floods around town, and we have a few more lakes than we had this time last week. I’m just glad I picked a house on a hill!
The number of people coming to my housewarming party seems to be diminishing daily, but at least I’ve got a couple of confirmations. The local pub is having a pre-xmas party that night, so we can always decamp to there if things don’t go well. If anyone wants details, mail me.
Oh, one more thing; Jen tells me I don’t say hello enough, so in the words of George from Crazy People; Hello, hello. How’s it going? Hi. Hello.
October 22, 1998 at 9:11 am · Filed under General
Well, I guess I should type something instead of staring at a blank screen. This is my second diary entry. So far so good. Jen doesn’t have much faith in me continuing this venture, but let’s see if I can prove her wrong!
I’ve updated a lot of the website this week, got rid of a lot of out of date stuff, tidied up some pages, and even added a bit of content. I’m working on the page about my experiences in Hawaii at the moment, but it’s still ‘under construction’.
I finished painting the bathroom walls at the weekend, but the masking tape took some paint off the ceiling, so I need to put another coat up there, and gloss the paintwork. Then I need to get the flooring down, and that’ll be it!
Watched the film Nil By Mouth on Saturday. Good movie, but quite nasty. Kathy Burke was superb. It’s a gritty portrayal of working class life in London, showing how people deal with a life involving drugs, alcoholism, crime and violence. Also saw Casino, which wasn’t as ‘real’, but still very good. The ‘head in the vice’ scene made me cringe.
Ran a Blue Beter Pede on Monday night, which seemed to go down well. Tony, Will and Lynne revealed themselves as closet BP fans. The Americans didn’t complain too much…
Oh, and I bought some tables. I thought maybe people might want something to put their drinks on at the party!
October 15, 1998 at 9:13 am · Filed under General
This is my first attempt at a diary, so please bear with me. The chances are I’ll update it a couple of times, then get lazy, forget, and it’ll never change again. I don’t know, maybe I’ll stick with it.
Life is good at the moment. I have a wonderful girlfriend who is visiting me next month. My house is coming along, almost finished the bathroom! Even work is OK. I’m happily meandering along, with no fixed destination, it’s quite pleasant having no plan.
I do have a few projects which I should get around to doing. I need to spend a day scanning in photos so that I can add Daresbury II photos to the Chatgames page. I also want to create a page about my stay at the Kewalo Basin Marine Laboratory to add to the Earthwatch section. I need to jazz up the Webcam a bit, and try to find somewhere better for it than Geocities. I’ve also been working on some mIRC scripts which I need to get into a releasable state.
So what else has been happening? Well, I’ve been enjoying the last days of what we like to call summer. One of the advantages of moving to Shropshire is that I am surrounded by beautiful countryside. The leaves on the trees are rapidly turning to yellow and gold and red. My garden has been host to many birds over the past few days, and a robin with a glorious red breast seems to have set up home there.
Well that’s about it for now. Let’s see if I can keep this up. I’ll probably try to update this page once a week, as once a day would definitely be too much. If there is anything you’d like me to put here, mail me.
