Another birthday celebration last night. This time my friend Fiona having reached the tender age of 27. Makes me realise that it is now nearly ten years since I left school, a longer period of time than I spent at my secondary school.
Found somewhere else to do salsa in Maidstone, from the 3 April, Monday nights in the Spanish Restaurant in Earls Street, I’m tempted to give it a go.
Well I’ve just returned from 18 Plus’s 2006 Brean weekend over at Brean near Weston-Super-Mare. The second year in a row that I’ve been there and I had a great time meeting people I’d met last year for the first time and making new acquaintances.
Still single and didn’t meet anyone special at Brean. There are times where you do meet someone one and it nearly goes somewhere but fails and the reason’s not obvious, not the right time, not the right place, too far away, too much trouble, too little faith in one’s self. This time I was just on planet Zog. Did have a cracking good talk about fusion reactors though
Driving back through Glastonbury I had a fantastic view of the Tor frame between two hills but trapped behind the wheel with the camera in the boot it will be a memory I will have to hold in my head and perhaps only one day capture on film.
Had some excitment on the way back when I managed to stall my car at a roundabout in Salisbury and then couldn’t get started again. I ended up having to call a mechanic out to fix what turned out to be a problem with a module that controls the distributor. It’s a first time for everything and I’m glad I didn’t break down on the motorway as it would have been far more dangerous and expensive.
Given that I would need to upgrade my computer to run Windows XP let alone Windows Vista I can’t see any problem with keeping my old PC to run legacy applications: – Diablo II, Freespace, Independence War. Perhaps someone will write an emulator fast enough so that I can carry on playing it in on the PS3. 60 GB of space is more than ample to store my photo collection and if it works as a network server as well as is hinted than it can join my PS2 doing archive duties. All I need now is a facility to play Atrac3’s on it and I’ll be sorted.
With 3 ethernet ports and wireless ethernet it could well be the network hub and make a steal on Microsoft given that these facilities aren’t standard on an Xbox 360.
Just have to wait and see what comes out and at what cost.
Saw something that I’ve never seen before today. A massive flock of birds wheeling across the sky. So large that it didn’t have the typical V shape that one imagines but more lumpy with a prescene of a group that knows it’s going somewhere.
Well, I’ve been working at Coryton for two months now and apart from the people at work and one trip out to a curry house I haven’t seen life in Essex yet. Is there anything more than bombing up and down the A13, Lakeside and the Dartford Crossing. Perhaps now I’ll have time to find the answer.
Not quite yet my mum’s 60th birthday, that’s tomorrow but we celebrated it today with a flight on the London Eye with 25 of my mother’s family and friends followed by a party. Strange to think how full a life can be after 60 years marked by memories, friendships and photos. It makes me wonder where I’ll be in another 33 years.
On my own side I’ve not had the energy or the time to post stuff recently having been involved with a turnaround at work. I think that it might be over for me. Just have to wait and see what tomorrow brings.
Well I’ve started work in Essex. Trot along the M20, M25 and A13 to get there but I’ve got there. Still not entirely sure what I’m doing yet but I’m sure I’ll learn quickly.
This evening the plan was to go out for dinner with Kirsty to Kachina in Shirley. Kirsty dropped by just after seven and we toddled off down Shirley High Street. Looking through the window outside the restaurant I thought I spotted people I knew but wasn’t sure as they were all wearing party hats.
On walking through the door I was pleasantly surprised to find Kath, Shelly, Jane, Ali, Hugh, Richard, Steve Thomas, Caz and someone who I hadn’t met before Phillipa already waiting there for us. Here I am in Southampton with a bunch of friends that are prepared to turn up for a meal to say goodbye and now I’m off to Essex with having to start over again with it all. As I always thought its this fact that giving me cold feet about going to work in Essex rather than the new job itself.
