BEWARE, I LIVE!!
Happy belated new year to you all!
So I am back home again, having spent the holidays on the Canary Islands (La Palma, to be specific-a lovely place). I have lived here since June 2010, when my move from Oxfordshire took place. Several months later, I decided that one properly working laptop for two net-addicted geeks was one too few, and decided to reactivate my aging Athlon X2-4400+ based tower PC. By "reactivate" I mean installing a WinXP and Ubuntu 10.10 dual-boot system. By now, I barely use the WinXP part anymore - not least because it crashes whenever more than one hard drive is connected at boot-up.
The house I live in (which I've designated /home/bugarupMkⅠ.Ⅱ/) is now a semi-detached one again. Before around spring 2010, my family owned both this and the house sharing a wall with it, and had knocked said wall down to create a larger mansion with two entrances for our family of six. As my parents have decided to split up, however, they re-erected the wall in between, and my mother is now living next door with my younger siblings. This house is inhabited solely by my dad, tz119 and li'l old me. Last I heard, my mother is in a new relationship and has therefore requested a divorce. This surprised me a little.
Oh, also Shadow and I went on a week's trip to Tokyo on less than 48 hours' notice in mid- to late September. Our target was 例大祭SP at Tokyo Big Sight on the 19th, but we also did plenty of shopping in Akihabara, at Book-Off and at 100-yen shops (almost enough to require an extra suitcase, luckily we managed to avoid that). We spent the nights in manga cafés and Shibuya love hotels, leaving our luggage in coin lockers during the day whenever dragging it around seemed too inconvenient. It was a glorious time, and surprisingly warm for the time of year. Shadow remarked that the cicadas were noisier than she'd imagined them from Japanese TV. A pity we couldn't meet up with naruki_oni, assuming he's still in the area.
I am still mainly active on Facebook and Twitter. Education-wise, I am going to apply in Germany this year-Universität Tübingen, to be precise. I will be going for a combination of Japanese and either general or computational linguistics. Should my application not be accepted, I plan on applying for a professional education in electronics instead. The German space agency, based not too far from here, are looking for applicants to start every September, I hear.
That pretty much covers most of the news from me, except that my older sister, now living in Hamburg, tells me I will become an uncle this year. She's still trying to decide on a name for her son, but reportedly it will be something Scandinavian-inspired. There go my ideas of Sergey and Raúl out the window.
So I am back home again, having spent the holidays on the Canary Islands (La Palma, to be specific-a lovely place). I have lived here since June 2010, when my move from Oxfordshire took place. Several months later, I decided that one properly working laptop for two net-addicted geeks was one too few, and decided to reactivate my aging Athlon X2-4400+ based tower PC. By "reactivate" I mean installing a WinXP and Ubuntu 10.10 dual-boot system. By now, I barely use the WinXP part anymore - not least because it crashes whenever more than one hard drive is connected at boot-up.
The house I live in (which I've designated /home/bugarupMkⅠ.Ⅱ/) is now a semi-detached one again. Before around spring 2010, my family owned both this and the house sharing a wall with it, and had knocked said wall down to create a larger mansion with two entrances for our family of six. As my parents have decided to split up, however, they re-erected the wall in between, and my mother is now living next door with my younger siblings. This house is inhabited solely by my dad, tz119 and li'l old me. Last I heard, my mother is in a new relationship and has therefore requested a divorce. This surprised me a little.
Oh, also Shadow and I went on a week's trip to Tokyo on less than 48 hours' notice in mid- to late September. Our target was 例大祭SP at Tokyo Big Sight on the 19th, but we also did plenty of shopping in Akihabara, at Book-Off and at 100-yen shops (almost enough to require an extra suitcase, luckily we managed to avoid that). We spent the nights in manga cafés and Shibuya love hotels, leaving our luggage in coin lockers during the day whenever dragging it around seemed too inconvenient. It was a glorious time, and surprisingly warm for the time of year. Shadow remarked that the cicadas were noisier than she'd imagined them from Japanese TV. A pity we couldn't meet up with naruki_oni, assuming he's still in the area.
I am still mainly active on Facebook and Twitter. Education-wise, I am going to apply in Germany this year-Universität Tübingen, to be precise. I will be going for a combination of Japanese and either general or computational linguistics. Should my application not be accepted, I plan on applying for a professional education in electronics instead. The German space agency, based not too far from here, are looking for applicants to start every September, I hear.
That pretty much covers most of the news from me, except that my older sister, now living in Hamburg, tells me I will become an uncle this year. She's still trying to decide on a name for her son, but reportedly it will be something Scandinavian-inspired. There go my ideas of Sergey and Raúl out the window.