Drove up to Dundee again yesterday afternoon, with a car stuffed entirely full of stuff. The most important piece of this stuff was my Chair. It deserves the capitals: it's a massive leather executive chair which was originally for my dad's surgery office; for some reason or another, it got diverted and I ended up with it. So I unbolted everything ( Read more... )

Well, I've worn the Boots of Hell for two days running now, and walked reasonably far in them, and my feet are just fine. I suspect that the foot-agony was probably something to do with trying to speedwalk to the station because I was late two days in a row. Resolved not to do that again ( Read more... )

Beware of first impressions ( Read more... )

Saturday's party went pretty well. My Dad's 50th, and we'd gone for a 'nightclub' theme - Dad had set up a stack of stereo equipment and a couple of lights, and I'd agreed to mix cocktails ( Read more... )

Today was a meet-up-and-do-stuff day, in celebration of several things: one, that there was a Digital Electronics exam today that none of us had to take because we were all granted exemption from it; two, it's my birthday in a few days; three, it's Jake's birthday in a few more days, and four, since Sean is leaving tommorow, it's his last chance to ( Read more... )