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I should revive this LJ...
OK. Last weekend went camping with gothstew, mmmarcus, aradia_uk + Damien, and Rose. It was brilliant as usual and as usual we caught excellent weather. And as usual we drank beer, talked nonsense, had a fire and stopped off at the carvery at Mottram on the Sunday. All pretty normal. And on the 24th I'm doing it all over again with a different bunch of people because it's oo_cymoril_oo's birthday on the 25th and she's coming over from Ireland.
I've started an IT course. It's dead boring, not much to say on that front.
I've pretty much finished my single-handed pet project of voluntary community work: Project Clearing-up-all-the-fly-tipped-rubbish-from-Drinkwater-park-and-the-bottom-of-Prestwich-Clough. It doesn't have a catchier title. Anyway, most of the crap has gone that was small enough to move. Plus some stuff I probably shouldn't have moved as it was far too much work (cutting up a waterlogged sofa and armchair and dragging them up a steep bank out of the stream). The guys at the tip lend me a wheeliebin so I can haul stuff back and forth more easily. You wouldn't believe how many bicycles people dump.
Today I also pleased myself by fixing an ATX PC power supply which someone gave me with the usual "you can keep it if you can make it work". Usually I can't fix things that explode when I plug them in to test them, but this time I did. Frankly I'm amazed it works. It blew a 5 amp fuse and covered the inside of its casing with black soot. I replaced a handful of components and it worked first time! Freaky.
Can't think of anything else right now.
OK. Last weekend went camping with gothstew, mmmarcus, aradia_uk + Damien, and Rose. It was brilliant as usual and as usual we caught excellent weather. And as usual we drank beer, talked nonsense, had a fire and stopped off at the carvery at Mottram on the Sunday. All pretty normal. And on the 24th I'm doing it all over again with a different bunch of people because it's oo_cymoril_oo's birthday on the 25th and she's coming over from Ireland.
I've started an IT course. It's dead boring, not much to say on that front.
I've pretty much finished my single-handed pet project of voluntary community work: Project Clearing-up-all-the-fly-tipped-rubbish-from-Drinkwater-park-and-the-bottom-of-Prestwich-Clough. It doesn't have a catchier title. Anyway, most of the crap has gone that was small enough to move. Plus some stuff I probably shouldn't have moved as it was far too much work (cutting up a waterlogged sofa and armchair and dragging them up a steep bank out of the stream). The guys at the tip lend me a wheeliebin so I can haul stuff back and forth more easily. You wouldn't believe how many bicycles people dump.
Today I also pleased myself by fixing an ATX PC power supply which someone gave me with the usual "you can keep it if you can make it work". Usually I can't fix things that explode when I plug them in to test them, but this time I did. Frankly I'm amazed it works. It blew a 5 amp fuse and covered the inside of its casing with black soot. I replaced a handful of components and it worked first time! Freaky.
Can't think of anything else right now.