Went ceilidh-ing last night with Kerry, Flinty and the gang from work. Was good, danced a few new ones and thoroughly messed them up. I still can’t believe how rubbish the staff are at pouring pints at the freakin Caledonian Brewery venue, oh the irony.
We piled off to Opium (one of Edinburgh’s few decent alternative clubs) after the ceilidh which was a nice contrasting venue. Me and Kerry rocked our stuff on the dancefloor and left just before they closed at 3am. Went to bed knackered, got up this morning and staggered off to work. It was actually a very pleasant day at work, I hadn’t drank that much last night and I was doing the new window displays. Which is nicer then being glued to the tillpoint with an “ask me dumb questions” sign gaffer-taped to my forehead. Which is what it sometimes feels like…
archive for February, 2004
Went to see 2 many djs (aka soulwax) on Friday night with alex. Then venue was City Nightclub, some new fancy-pants place under North Bridge. It was a very nice venue if a little over-sold. The dance floor was getting rather cramped and rock-concert like at times. The support guy (Erol Alkan) was actually just as good as soulwax, they did a good set but it was more like an ordinary dance music set than a kerazy-mad-soulwax set. That was a little dissapointing but they had some brilliant moments such as managing to fit in Stone Roses and Nirvana, which the crowd loved. The only downside was at then end when the cloakroom staff managed to misplace alex’s jumper which meant we had to wait for 30 odd minutes, even though we can see it! This drove us nuts, as we were totally knackered. Good night in all though, and I saw loads of people from computer science, bizzarely.
Huzzah! With some faffing around with the courier I finally got my new phone. Unfortuantely they ran out of red ones, so I got the ordinary shiny one. Still verrrry nice. Packaging is very cute aswell, I like sony/ercisson’s latest stuff, they’ve got style:
Anyhoo, the phone works fine and I’ve got the bluetooth all hooked up to my pc through some very nifty software called Float’s Mobile Agent. When someone calls me or txts me I get a little pop-up in windows, with their name and picture! So cool!
The brad-ernator has had a redesign. Quite a severe redesign, hes going back to his tDr roots :). I like it, its a bit of a change from his rather stately Georgia font, green and brown of late though.
Attempted to order a new t610 off the o2 website last week sometime and I didn’t hear anything after the order confirmation email. I emailed their support about and after about 2 days I finally got a straight answer, they had sent some credit check email to my o2 (web only) email account……
MORANS
So, I resubmitted my order and got this mystical email and so sent off pictures of a gas bill etc…and then got back that they have to to dispatch to the billing address of my credit card. They don’t have a ‘delivery address’ on their website….
MORANS
So, I thought: screw that for a barrel of laughs. Went on the carphonewarehouse website this morning and got a t610 in RED on vodafone 100 for free and its been dispatched already…..credit check all done on the web….no email delays….delivered to my Edinburgh address and billed to my home address. Vodafone win.
Well, me and Kerry had a very nice valentines weekend. We did the whole dinner thing last Tuesday as that was our six month aniversary. It really doesn’t seem like six months, I think thats a good thing 
.
We went to The Tower restaurant in the Royal Museum and had a pretty fantastic meal. I had leek and cheese tart on leaves to start and courgette linguine with pinenuts for main course. It wasn’t veggie intentionaly, just happened to end up that way. We relaxed in the nice atmosphere there for a couple of hours and then went to the Auld Hoose to do the pub quiz, which we won! yeee-haaaaa! A gallon of beer was the prize, which, in the real world mean 8 drinks from the bar. There was six in our team so we have one each and gave the bar staff the others. They love us now.
Anyway, getting back to this weekend. It was my mate Ian’s birthday dinner at some Tapas place in the Omni Centre, so we went along and stuffed ourselves with the very yummy morsels. I has some cheese thinf, a chicken thing and a sausage thing. I still hate olives, I want so much to like them.
We basically slummed around on Saturday morning and then Kerry cooked a superb and huge breakfast. Full works, she even made me coffee (she hates it). I joined this new 24 hour dvd rental place in the evening and we rented League Of Extraordianry Gentlemen, I’d seen it in Kansas in the summer but Kerry hadn’t. I have to say, its not as bad as I remember, quite good fun infact.
Sometime on Saturday I started feeling absolutely terrible, just totally full of cold. Had a very interrupted nights sleep on Saturday and then muddled through a day at work on Sunday. I slept better last night but I kept Kerry awake with all my wriggling around. I’ve decided to miss uni today on the grounds of still not feeling 100%. Got a handin for Wednesday aswell, wish me luck…
Bizzare, but intriguing:
http://www.bobbyneeladams.com/age.html
Lots and lots of light fluffy snow, spiralling down from the clouds.
The kerazy changeable weather of late has meant that we often leave the heating on all the time in the flat, mainly due to sheer laziness. Therefore when we’re having a warm spell it can get quite warm in my room. I’d noticed my PC was bluescreening quite a lot lately, but only last night equated it with the temperature. My CPU was pushing 60, which is far, far too hot.
I dismantled my case and found a small world that would be heaven for any dust eating mite. My exhaust fan expelled a small rugs worth of dust when I tappped it out of the window. The CPU heatsink is full of dust aswell but getting rid of that would mean turning my PC off. Anyway, with the fans cleaned and the side of the case off it runs much more smoothly and idles around 45. Still far too hot I know, but hey, I’m gonna upgrade soon.
I had a project presentation yesterday at uni. We have to give these from time to time to show “progress” on our dissertation project. It went pretty well, I was using my supervisor’s mac laptop to demo my stuff and the wi-fi kept cutting out. This was quite handy though as I could just explain what should have happened rather than actually showing them (bugs included). I got the comments back from my supervisor and I’m supposedly ahead of schedule! wow!