Courtesy of 'default'
I'm sitting near the front of the Roxy Art House, online thanks to a mysterious unsecured wireless network with the moniker of 'default'. There are no less than six wireless networks around here (a couple of which appear to be the Roxy's own) which is nifty.
Been in Edinburgh since about half past two. The journey here was pretty nice - shiny new trains, plenty of space, random Gaiman interview podcast on the laptop that I'd been meaning to listen to for ages, cute girl sitting opposite me reading a history/philosophy book... Got to Edinburgh, wandered up to the bookshop and picked up my ticket and a copy of Anansi Boys, then shopped for a while without buying anything. Nowhere sells nice chunky turtlenecks any more, it seems, and I'm desperately in need of some new jumpers.
Dinner was at 'Saigon Saigon' Chinese buffet, and was unfortunately not that great. I went in at about four, so I got the soggy lukewarm leftovers from lunch - the broccoli had been brutally murdered, and I had a plateful of about six different main courses, all of which tasted almost exactly the same. Mind you, there was incredibly tasty watermelon, banana and apple fritters coated in toffee, and no less than six flavours of ice-cream, so it redeemed itself very slightly.
Passing time until six o'clock, I wandered into a Bookworld and picked up a copy of the Long Way Around hardback on sale for six quid - I'd seen one episode on TV, which looked pretty cool (if it weren't for the fact that it felt like a single episode could have been spun out into about six individual eps) and the book looked rather nifty. Handed the guy on the till a fiver and a crisp, new one pound note which I'd got when buying my ticket - I've never seen a pound note like it before, and I thought they'd stopped making new ones? The design on the back was quite pale and 'modern'-looking, almost like a Clydesdale fiver, and indeed that was what the guy on the till mistook it for: he rang up £10.00 on the till and was about to give me four pounds' change until I corrected him. Perhaps I'm too honest?
Annoyingly enough, when I eventually headed up to the Roxy, I walked past so many nice-looking restaurants, including Jimmy Chung's (the one in Dundee is the chinese buffet Nate and I frequent occasionally, and it's pretty decent), The Piemaker (which I remembered being recommended by The List), and various others. Wish I'd waited for dinner.
So now I'm sitting here with a nice cup of tea waiting for Call and Dorothy to turn up. Hall's getting busier - kinda glad I got here a bit early, since I've got a nice table just back from the front.
Been in Edinburgh since about half past two. The journey here was pretty nice - shiny new trains, plenty of space, random Gaiman interview podcast on the laptop that I'd been meaning to listen to for ages, cute girl sitting opposite me reading a history/philosophy book... Got to Edinburgh, wandered up to the bookshop and picked up my ticket and a copy of Anansi Boys, then shopped for a while without buying anything. Nowhere sells nice chunky turtlenecks any more, it seems, and I'm desperately in need of some new jumpers.
Dinner was at 'Saigon Saigon' Chinese buffet, and was unfortunately not that great. I went in at about four, so I got the soggy lukewarm leftovers from lunch - the broccoli had been brutally murdered, and I had a plateful of about six different main courses, all of which tasted almost exactly the same. Mind you, there was incredibly tasty watermelon, banana and apple fritters coated in toffee, and no less than six flavours of ice-cream, so it redeemed itself very slightly.
Passing time until six o'clock, I wandered into a Bookworld and picked up a copy of the Long Way Around hardback on sale for six quid - I'd seen one episode on TV, which looked pretty cool (if it weren't for the fact that it felt like a single episode could have been spun out into about six individual eps) and the book looked rather nifty. Handed the guy on the till a fiver and a crisp, new one pound note which I'd got when buying my ticket - I've never seen a pound note like it before, and I thought they'd stopped making new ones? The design on the back was quite pale and 'modern'-looking, almost like a Clydesdale fiver, and indeed that was what the guy on the till mistook it for: he rang up £10.00 on the till and was about to give me four pounds' change until I corrected him. Perhaps I'm too honest?
Annoyingly enough, when I eventually headed up to the Roxy, I walked past so many nice-looking restaurants, including Jimmy Chung's (the one in Dundee is the chinese buffet Nate and I frequent occasionally, and it's pretty decent), The Piemaker (which I remembered being recommended by The List), and various others. Wish I'd waited for dinner.
So now I'm sitting here with a nice cup of tea waiting for Call and Dorothy to turn up. Hall's getting busier - kinda glad I got here a bit early, since I've got a nice table just back from the front.