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For those of you in the correct part of the city, Myself and the rest of the Dancing Frankensteins will be on Near FM next Thursday evening (May 15th) from about 7:00pm, we've been asked to come into the studio for a chat and to play a couple of songs. I suspect there will be about a half dozen people tuned in, but it's still pretty cool. If you've nothing better to do, pick up the live stream here.
Dermot is currently spending his weekends in studio finishing off the album, (which was recorded ages ago with another band, but has been in production hell ever since) furthermore, we will be playing in the Lord Mayor's pub in Swords on Friday 30th of May before taking a baby related hiatus.
Otherwise things are moving along quite nicely, now into what the hospital predicts to be the last 5 weeks before parenthood, and have begun to share the house with an increasingly large pile of assorted infant accoutrements and other tiny person paraphenalia.
Generally very excited about the whole thing and looking forward to meeting the baby, who so far has only been able to communicate with the outside world by means of the occasional kick or outward push. The next few weeks will be taken up with the final decoration of the baby's room, and buying a pram and car seat thing. Baby wardrobe from Ikea in Belfast is sitting in the room waiting to be assembled and a crib for it to sleep in is similarly flat packed and waiting in my parents place.
Apart from the incredible amounts of hard work and sleepless nights that lie ahead, I am looking forward to being able to re-visit all of the child-centric places I was brought to as a nipper, the zoo for example, also thinking about family holidays, will be unlikely to be doing anything this year with a newborn, but there's plenty of places you can take a one year old, plans are afoot to drive to the Cambridge Folk Festival next summer and potential trips to varied parts of rural Ireland over the following years mean that a bigger car is something I am thinking a lot about.
I hope to be able to run the Fiesta for another 10 or 11 months at least, despite it's size it should be suitable for our day to day purposes, and switch it for a family sized model before summer 2009 arrives, I've been looking at estate cars on the roads quite a bit, the quintessential family car if you ask me, perfect for camping trips and long journeys.
I have spent the last 2 weeks covering for one of the other team leaders in the fancy HP Technology Campus in Leixlip, where my job will be based from August onwards, it's an enormous place, from the front reception to my desk is a half kilometre walk down a corridor, followed by a couple of hundred meters across the production floor where various inkjet bits are made. Luckily, I can drive around to a nearby carpark and avoid the trek. The campus links directly with the M4, which runs into the N4, which is about 90 seconds drive from my house, in the worst traffic, with one lane closed for roadworks, getting to and from work has taken between 15 and 25 minutes from my front door to my desk.
Next week I will be back working in Belfield, which is 45 minutes to an hour's drive each way, every day of the week.
Roll on August.
Dermot is currently spending his weekends in studio finishing off the album, (which was recorded ages ago with another band, but has been in production hell ever since) furthermore, we will be playing in the Lord Mayor's pub in Swords on Friday 30th of May before taking a baby related hiatus.
Otherwise things are moving along quite nicely, now into what the hospital predicts to be the last 5 weeks before parenthood, and have begun to share the house with an increasingly large pile of assorted infant accoutrements and other tiny person paraphenalia.
Generally very excited about the whole thing and looking forward to meeting the baby, who so far has only been able to communicate with the outside world by means of the occasional kick or outward push. The next few weeks will be taken up with the final decoration of the baby's room, and buying a pram and car seat thing. Baby wardrobe from Ikea in Belfast is sitting in the room waiting to be assembled and a crib for it to sleep in is similarly flat packed and waiting in my parents place.
Apart from the incredible amounts of hard work and sleepless nights that lie ahead, I am looking forward to being able to re-visit all of the child-centric places I was brought to as a nipper, the zoo for example, also thinking about family holidays, will be unlikely to be doing anything this year with a newborn, but there's plenty of places you can take a one year old, plans are afoot to drive to the Cambridge Folk Festival next summer and potential trips to varied parts of rural Ireland over the following years mean that a bigger car is something I am thinking a lot about.
I hope to be able to run the Fiesta for another 10 or 11 months at least, despite it's size it should be suitable for our day to day purposes, and switch it for a family sized model before summer 2009 arrives, I've been looking at estate cars on the roads quite a bit, the quintessential family car if you ask me, perfect for camping trips and long journeys.
I have spent the last 2 weeks covering for one of the other team leaders in the fancy HP Technology Campus in Leixlip, where my job will be based from August onwards, it's an enormous place, from the front reception to my desk is a half kilometre walk down a corridor, followed by a couple of hundred meters across the production floor where various inkjet bits are made. Luckily, I can drive around to a nearby carpark and avoid the trek. The campus links directly with the M4, which runs into the N4, which is about 90 seconds drive from my house, in the worst traffic, with one lane closed for roadworks, getting to and from work has taken between 15 and 25 minutes from my front door to my desk.
Next week I will be back working in Belfield, which is 45 minutes to an hour's drive each way, every day of the week.
Roll on August.