Technology and randomness, since 2002
Things that have happened in my life
Last week, I said:
So, with a bit of luck, within the next couple of weeks I could have a full driving license and a proper, decently-paid full-time job on the cards. We’ll see.
Unfortunately, I failed my driving test (although I dispute my score) and came ‘a close second’ in the job interview. Which isn’t much when there’s only one job position available. So I’m still a learner driver with part-time casual work.
Just like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas 🙂 . I hope Santa brought you everything you wanted and that you have an enjoyable day.
A brief overview of what arrived for me this morning:
And socks, of course. It wouldn’t be Christmas without a pair of socks.
Tomorrow is Valentines’ Day, and for once I’m actually looking forward to it. This is the first February 14th where I’ve been in a relationship, and so rather than sulking about the fact I’m still single, I can enjoy the fact that I’m not.
Because we’re both quite busy tomorrow with various things, Hari and I are not doing anything special tomorrow, though we are planning to go somewhere nice on Wednesday instead. Wednesday also has more significance to us since it’ll be 4 months since our first date. It doesn’t feel like 4 months but I suppose time flies when you’re in love.
(Feel free to throw up now if you like.)
We spent the weekend at my parents’ house in York. Saturday was spent shopping, where we bought lots of chocolate, hot chocolate, and meat (over 2.5kg of beef mince between us), and yesterday we went around the Yorkshire Museum.
When I came home 3 weeks ago, it was the first time I’d brought most of my clothes back with me since Easter, during which time I’ve amassed additional garments. Trying to fit all of this in my drawers and wardrobe at home became somewhat of a challenge, so today I had a clear-out of clothes that I no longer wear or that don’t fit. This came to:
These will all be going to a local charity shop sometime soon. There was another pair of trousers that won’t, on the basis that it had that many holes in it that it wasn’t really fit for anyone. That’ll be going to a textile bank for recycling.
I also found some clothes that I hadn’t seen for years which still fitted, including a pair of jeans that are probably 4 or 5 years old that fit almost perfectly. I’m guessing they get relegated to the back of my wardrobe because they were too big for me at the time, or because I was starting to lose favour with jeans in favour of khaki trousers with big pockets.
Probably about time I posted my annual Christmas Message, so:
Since it’s about 9am here we’ve opened our presents here already – I’ve got:
In other words, I’ll be sat watching DVDs wearing some new clothes and hiking boots, eating chocolate and getting drunk on cocktails 🙂 .
Anyway, for those of you who celebrate Christmas (in whatever way you choose), I hope you have an enjoyable and happy day. 🙂
I’ve just got back from my 21st birthday celebrations, which, as you can probably tell by me being able to post here, means that I haven’t managed to totally inebriate myself. I am pretty well-plastered, but on the other hand I have been much worse before. I’ll blame it on the fact that we got kicked out of a club due to one of my friends reproducing the contents of her stomach, after which we decided to go home.
Thanks for all the ‘happy birthday’ comments and the TFT screen recommendations; I think I’ve decided on one now so I’ll be ordering it in a few days time. But right now, I really, really need to go to bed.
Oh, on a totally unrelated note, congratulations to Lucio Buffone on getting a Sony Award and a contract with XFM. Lucio is a former University of Bradford student and was Communications Officer of the student union for a year as well as being a DJ on our radio station, Ramair.
Hope you are all having a good Christmas! I got lots of presents this morning, including:
My dad also got a DAB digital radio, although it only gets a digital signal upstairs for some reason (and even then can’t pick up all the channels), which is a pity because he wanted to have it in the kitchen.
Update: It would appear that the radio itself is actually faulty – it also has FM and while every other radio in the house gets perfect reception this one seems to pick up interference from somewhere.
My grandparents got a Freeview digibox and a DVD player, along with some DVDs to go with it.
Just letting you know that I’m back from Cardiff okay. It was a good day, despite traffic problems and a poor turnout (both from Bradford and nationally) and I had a good time. I’ll post a full report and my photos either tomorrow or Saturday.
Meanwhile, here’s a BBC News Online article on the demo (and a Scotsman.com one), for your perusal.
You may remember the beach party back in June, which I waxed lyrical about for a few days and then nothing. I took around 170 photos over the two days (a total of 130MB) and still haven’t really got around to sorting them.
Anyway, the student union were given copies of my photos (since I was effectively their photographer) and the good news is that three of them have already been used in union propaganda publicity material, in the form of a leaflet given out to prospective students introducing the union and what it does. Surprisingly enough, student unions are somewhat more than a cheap source of alcohol.
You can have a look at scaled-down versions of the originals. Incidentally those were taken quite late in the day when the sun finally came out.
