Posted by gus on Jun 30, 2008 in
cars,
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football,
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work It’s been a lovely weekend. My best friend Matt and I held a bit of a barbecue and gaming evening at his house on Saturday which was great fun - Sarah, Louise and Jo came round and we played Monopoly, baseball on the Wii and Guitar Hero. We also got rather drunk which was fun, until such time as I got a phone call from my brother saying that he’d had a car crash. It turned out that my parents couldn’t drive and neither could I, but I got a lift down to go and see him as he sounded a bit shaken up on the phone.
When I got there, it turned out that the car that hit him had driven off with a broken radiator - my brother’s car was in a pretty bad way, so they must have hit him pretty hard. I just let the police do their job and gave my brother a comforting arm round the shoulders - not a lot else I could do really. I’m unsure if they’ve caught the people who did it yet or whether that’s still in progress.
I watched the European Cup final last night, thought it was a brilliant game - Spain totally deserved to win as they were all over Germany from about 15 minutes in until right at the end of the game. Torres scored a lovely goal, and Spain were unlucky not to get two or three more.
It’s rather hot today. Work is going alright, but it’s a bit loud thanks to the 3 HP DL140s running by my feet. Configuring servers is a noisy process!
Posted by gus on Jun 20, 2008 in
humour,
procrastination My parents are away at the moment, and so my brother and I have my house to ourselves. This is absolutely awesome, and means that I can do lots of things I wouldn’t usually do at home. The place is starting to look a bit of a state, actually, but it won’t do it any harm.
I can’t describe how nice it is to be able to leave something on a table when you go out, and then forget about it and have it still there three days later. It sounds bizarre, but it’s such a change from the way things usually are in my house that it’s unbelievably refreshing. Unfortunately it’ll all be over next Tuesday, but I’ve only got to finish work today and then I’ve got four days off. Sweet.
In other news, Today’s XKCD is pretty similar to the way that I think in a lot of situations. Neuroses are fun!
Posted by gus on Jun 3, 2008 in
computers,
geekery,
musings,
procrastination I’ve recently got quite into watching the previous series’ of “The Apprentice” - it’s really compulsive viewing. Once you start, you can’t stop watching… you just want to see more of what happens. I’m going to try and get myself up to date on all the old episodes (I’ve got ever episode to date ready to watch so far) and then get into the current series - see if I can manage to make it there before the current run finishes.
I’ve also been levelling my warrior up to 70 on the ever-addictive World of Warcraft. I’ve been doing this most evenings for the last week and a bit, and I still haven’t got bored with it. I think that WoW is one of those games that you just fall in and out of wanting to play - it never quite gets too old for you not to carry on, you just might not renew your subscription and forget about it for a couple of months. Then at some point in the future, you always come back…
My brother’s got himself “Age of Conan”, which looks rather cool. Don’t think I’ll be purchasing it myself just yet, but never say never!