Archive for the 'Me' Category

• I went to a Western themed Murder Mystery party which was a lot of fun. I was the murderer and I got away with it! muhaha
• My parents came up to visit and we went to the Balmoral Hotel for afternoon tea which was tea/coffee/sandwich/cake heaven in fantastic surroundings. Oh and we had a day in Glasgow as well.
• I was attending a one day conference in Dublin for work, so Ria and I made a wee holiday of it and did some sightseeing. Lovely city, quite similar to Edinburgh. Thanks to the RyanAir sale our flights cost a whole £8.
• I got promoted at work. Oh yes, I now have the word “Senior” in front of my job title.
• I’ve signed up for evening classes in Graphic Design at Edinburgh College of Art. Had my first class last week which was mainly an introduction to Illustrator and admin with our tutor. They’ve got some nice kit: 22″ iMacs fully loaded with the complete Adobe suite. Should be interesting to see what I learn.
• Ria and I are taking Ballroom dancing lessons at Dancebase. We’ve had five lessons so far and we’ve just got to turning in the Waltz. Trickier than you think…

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It has been almost a month since Ria and I were in Paris and I’m only just blogging about it. My excuse? I’ve been busy!

We flew out from Edinburgh on a Wednesday and stayed all the way through until Sunday. Not too short, but also not too long. We stayed in an Apart-Hotel, basically a hotel room with an attached wee kitchen. It was a pretty good size and superbly located just off the Rue de Rivoli, about 2 minutes walk from the Louvre.

We managed to cram in a lot of sights: Musée d’Orsay, Eiffel Tower, Palais Royale, Rodin Museum, Musée des Arts et Métiers (science & technology), The Louvre, Cathédrale Notre Dame, cruise on the Seine, Musée Carnavalet, Sacre Coeur, Pompidou Centre, the cafe from Amelie, Montmartre, crazy bookshops and of course, lots of sitting drinking coffee and watching the world go by.

Being a geek, I took along my Bluetooth GPS receiver and had it logging when I remembered to turn it on. You can see an amalgamation of our wandering on Google Maps here. The crazy straight lines are when we descending into the Metro and then popped up somewhere else.

I have rather a lot of photos on Flickr, so here are some of my favourites:

Browse the rest of photos…

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Happy New Year!

So yeah, this is one of of those “catch up” posts for the new year that everybody seems to be doing. It seems my last post all about me was over two months ago when I moved into my new flat. Slackness.

What has happened since then you ask?

• I went to Prague - lovely city. Weather wasn’t great and we attempted to visit the Jewish Cemetery on the Sabbath (skills). Lost Ian a couple of times, drank Bekerovka and developed a taste for Mojitos.
• My sister visited for a weekend - we climbed Arthur’s Seat, went to the Samhuinn Halloween thing and general did touristy stuff
• Met a Girl
• Spent Christmas at home with the family. Got lots of shiny things including socks, chocolate and booze.
• Listened to a lot of Girls Aloud
• Spent Hogmanay in the Opal Lounge with friends - terrible food, but they compensated us with an extravagant amount of free Moet, wine and cocktails
• Played far too much Scrabulous on the all-encompassing world destroyer that is Facebook
• Went to Edinburgh Zoo for the first time - Honey Badgers rock! (so do penguins)
• Played Crysis (omg shiny), BioShock, Halo 3 on the 360 and just bought the RockStar back catalogue on Steam
• Assisted in the making of Tapas and had a great evening eating said Tapas accompanied by Mojitos

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So I all moved into my new place. The move was pretty painless, mainly thanks to the help of my Mum and Dad who came up for the weekend. My Dad drove a van we had hired and we got everything shifted fin two trips. Got my ADSL from Be activated within about four days and after some firmware updating shenanigans with the modem I’m all up and rocking. I did manage to trash my desktop PC in the moving process though, so I’m taking it as an excuse to upgrade to an uber-rig. I’m getting a dual core Pentium and 2 gigs of RAM (which is crazy cheap at the moment). Check out some quick snaps I took of my new place on flickr.

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I have a new flat! Kerry and I have amicably decided to split up and so for the last month or so I’ve been looking for a new place. I finally found a nice play on Causewayside in the Newington area of Edinburgh. It’s a good bright flat in a decent area of town and has been refurbished recently with new fittings. I’ll be properly moving all my stuff in two weeks but in the mean time I’ve got to buy all that fun stuff like: duvet, cushions, decent curtains etc. I’ve never lived on my own before, it’ll be nice to do whatever I want, whenever I want!

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Yay, woo.

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I went for a nice ride along the canal this afternoon. Behold my route using the fancy new Google Maps embedding:

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