Wow, been a long time, LJ! Well, I've been ludicrousbusy doing all sorts so here goes with brief updates on each aspect ( Read more... )

I am at work, waiting for a CD to do something. Anything, to be honest: I've tried going through and opening series of images (which is why I've got it, to upload brain scans to the database), but it takes forever and then they won't load because they're just 'files' not a particular format. The downloaders supplied on the CD, either of them, ( Read more... )

I rang my parents last night to find out how they got on on holiday a few weeks ago: it was during the Central European floods and they were, you guessed it, in Central Europe! Well, they were pretty much OK except when they were going on their only direct train, from Graz to Innsbruck. They were told they'd need to get off and get a bus the rest ( Read more... )

Wow, where does the time go, eh? Only feels like last week we were busying ourselves with manic phonecalls as our house things came back into possibility, while trying to get freshers to sign up to RPGSoc and SFFS. Yes, that does mean we’re back in the market: the vendors had their own damp survey done and, come late that Monday morning in the ( Read more... )

So, in a week and a half I'll be embarking on a railtour of central Europe with my parents for the first time in 8 years and probably the last time. I thiught I'd post the itinerary here as I hope to update fairly frequently while I'm abroad, thanks to the power of free wifi.

( Zum Deutschem Zweitem Heimat )

I'm rather impressed with that subject :D ( Read more... )

It's been a busy couple of weeks ( Read more... )

I'm currently 'listening again' to a radio programme I missed yesterday: I heard about it as I was driving down to Leicester to visit lil_gothic_me_2 and it's Ian Livingstone talking about his life and work in games, notably Fighting Fantasy (my first experience of roleplaying) and Games Workshop. You can listen here, and he starts about 46mins in ( Read more... )

( My courtesy car )

First, you'll want to hear about my ( week at home. )