22August2008
Posted by Christopher under: Family & Friends; House.
So The Girl has moved. In.
I’m not sure how this happened but she now has the keys to the house, my car and - most crucially - the bike shed. How do they do that? Anyway, suffice to say there’s a few boxes about the place. I’m writing this from the Peterborough services on the A1. I’m not going home until I can swing a cat again.
24July2008
Posted by Christopher under: Family & Friends; Travel & Leisure.
It topped Glasto due to sheep with red dye, Sigur Ros on Saturday night after sunset, woodland glades, punting on the lake, car park 5 minutes from the camp site but above all, how incredibly clean it all was. A festival done right. The comedy tent was nowhere near big enough but its hard to fault. No wonder Glasto found it hard to sell tickets when there’s alternatives like this on. Here’s a pic for those that missed out. From r-l, Me, The Girl, The Girl’s Big Brother.
Niki, The Girl and Me at Latitude Festival, 2008
26May2008
Posted by Christopher under: Family & Friends.
So having neglected The Girl due to overworking, I subjected her to My Day Of Awesome.
12pm Lunch @ Trof (caution, flash-heavy page) - if you’re ever visiting Manchester and don’t come here, more fool you.
2pm Buy Tent for Glastonbury
3pm Bodyworlds @ MOSI - real chopped-up dead people. A bit gruesome - the plastinated foetuses were especially moving, particularly given the current debate over the abortion age limit. Fellow WYLUG’er Tommy Hall has some great pictures…
7pm Dinner @ Wagamama. Awesome asian food and great atmosphere
9pm Mad dash over Snake Pass to see The Futureheads play the Sheffield Leadmill
It was awesome.
In other news, I’m now on Planet Fedora. :)
13April2008
Posted by Christopher under: Family & Friends; House; Linux & Open Source; Travel & Leisure; White Noise.
Sometimes people conspire to make you feel like you live in a nation of Very Bad People.
Incident One - A few days ago the house was broken into. I was away visiting older brother and so the house must have looked deserted. Said intruder got a surprise when younger brother greeted him when he walked into his room at around 11pm. He left taking with him one of my old mobile phones and leaving us with a hefty bill to replace the windows frame he had used as his entrance.
Incident Two - I was involved in a minor collision (my fault entirely) a week or so ago. I have received a letter claiming personal injury and GBP £1k plus in damages. Err, no.
Incident Three - Two snotty emails at work, one sent late Friday, just in time for the weekend. Thanks!
Not great. Still, here’s the bright side.
Wordpress 2.5 (on which this blog is written) is awesome. Upgrade was a cinch too.
Metal Michael continues his awesome adventures and I continue my persual of travel sites.
Tomorrow is another day.
5April2008
Posted by Christopher under: Family & Friends; Travel & Leisure; White Noise.
Okay, time to name and shame the people who fell for the previous post/email.
Th(Rob)erto (on left)
Older and Better Brown
G.G.B. (second left)
Travel Brown
The Girl (ten minutes of crying followed by ten days of vengeance)
Top prize goes to Mr Clifton Firth (on right, obviously) who thought I was leaving mid-day!
UPDATE: Okay as Rob has pointed out then, I add myself to the above list.
31March2008
Posted by Christopher under: Family & Friends; Travel & Leisure.
So my younger brother has hit the road at long last. Good for him. Already some ace pics on his blog (see right - Metal Michael’s travel blog) and my personal favourite.
21February2008
Posted by Christopher under: Family & Friends; Linux & Open Source; White Noise.
Hectic week and dog-tired but here it is in bullet-points:
- New job rocks but don’t like publicly blogging about work so that is that
- Sold guitar and amp (ostensibly to upgrade to acoustic but actually for the readies)
- Log4net has been accepted into Fedora (it only took 5 months!)
- The road to my driving license winging its way back to me is truly in its final stretch as the DVLA are talking to the doctors
- Virgin media have only just realised after three months that I am on the wrong tariff
- The girl is moving house tomorrow so I am supplying rippling muscles of steel to smooth the process
- My new job rocks
22November2007
Posted by Christopher under: Family & Friends; House; Travel & Leisure.
Its Thanksgiving in the U.S.A. today so I guess I’ll join with the thousands of other bloggers in mentioning what I’m giving thanks for in 2007, in no particular order.
The New Passions - Sailing & Mountain Biking
Brothers who give me a lift at the end of a long trip/day
The ability to fly the world over
The house in which I live and the people I share it with
Log fires on dark winter nights
Things that give me hope because they don’t sell out.
25October2007
Posted by Christopher under: Family & Friends; Linux & Open Source; Travel & Leisure; White Noise.
So I just handed in my notice. Two years of working as a geek in a distinctly non-geeky field is fine. I’m happy with the choice and now I’ve got a couple of weeks to think about what to do next. Its time to throw the dice and see what lands…
24August2007
Posted by Christopher under: Family & Friends; Music; Travel & Leisure; White Noise.
Ride-to-work music today was the latest Editors album. It’s a pretty rare day with barely a cloud in the sky and warmed up nicely - my drinks bottle was empty by the time I rode in through the doors at work.
I have booked my flight to Sydney for Rob’s wedding. I have known Rob since age eight or something and am best man for his wedding. We have travelled across the outback together and are still somehow on talking terms. He once rode from one end of New Zealand to the other to raise money for charity which gives a measure of the man. Although I have to wear a pink shirt for the wedding which I’m a bit worried about. How does the best man score wearing pink?
This week I’ve been lazy and only ridden into work once - today. The rest of the time I’ve dossed about which I hate but is always the easy option. Although I did get high yesterday sniffing damp sealer in the downstairs loo.
Films
Anyway, I’ve been watching films. Specifically:
The Bourne Ultimatum Latest Bourne films doesn’t disappoint. Matt Damon karate-chops people and the camera can’t keep up. Features London Waterloo with no McDonald’s trash floating about the place plus plenty of scenes of people performing computer cracks in less than ten seconds flat a la 24. 9/10 though.
Soylent Green Sci-fi film set in future. Planet has food shortage where everyone eats stuff called Soylent blue, yellow, green etc. Charlton Heston is annoying. 4/10.
Logan’s Run. Essential viewing for any nascent 30-year-old. People live in bliss until 30 when they get a chance to be re-born. Some get scared and get chased down by Runners and terminated, much like the replicants in Bladerunner. 8/10
Demon Seed. This came out in the year of my birth and is basically about a supercomputer that wants to become human but cant and solves the problem in an interesting way. 6/10
