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I think I deserve a proper pat on the back and a hearty “well done” for the effort I put into keeping this blog fresh and up-to-date with interesting and informative content…. And pigs fly and I live in a house made of pink butter and the world is flat and overrun with 7 foot lizards….

I have a plan…. I think I might change the way I do my blog…. I’m considering putting it fully on my website and then getting anyone who cares to add it as a feed to their journals… Still making it really simple to comment etc… And then to go with that change I was considering forcing myself to write on it all the time… Then because there won’t be anything interesting to update with I will have more time to write real content, musings and other pointlessness… You never know… My plan might work. Well, as I finish work in about a month I should have more time at least.

So, as we are on the old style of blogs… Update:

Last weekend (bank holiday) I was camping with the explorer scouts. Not without purpose mind you. This year is the scouting centenary (celebrating 100 years). Our district decided a big camp for the weekend was in order with a concert on the Sunday evening. So guess which nut they asked to organise, setup and run sound, lighting and power for this “concert in a tent on a field”…. You have one guess… Suffice to say I ended up semi running it in my own special way (those who have helped me with these types of events will know exactly what I’m talking about). It went off without issue and actually (to my great relief) ended up being really very good (even with the rain on the outside causing “issues”).

Ah, bugger, already screwed up chronological order… The Saturday before the concert was my 21st birthday. Suffice to say nothing really very interesting happened on it, but then again, I was pretty happy with that. I had to wait until the Monday evening though for my presents…

So ok, Monday I came back from camp and got my presents. I’m not going to list them all as it was loads and loads of little thing in recognition of me moving into the house in Brighton, but the main things were some money to put towards the new Digital SLR I plan on buying tomorrow (camera for those who find TLAs a bit complicated) and a driving day thing at Goodwood that involves instructor training in an Alfa, then some laps in a Ferrari etc. So I’m very much looking forward to that.

Tuesday was a pub quiz with various people from church… I think we came forth…. Although to be honest I can’t remember… It turns out my best round by a very long way was the weekly news… Meh

Yesterday (so Thursday) as there was no explorers on account of it being half-term so I went to watch Pirates of the Caribbean 3 with Joiners and Paddy. Very good film, as usual not what the critics had said (oh that makes a change, although story was a bit fragmented on account of them trying to achieve quite a lot in a relativity short time…. Well, I say short… 3 hours really isn’t that short actually.

So that pretty much brings us up-to-date… perhaps I shall start posting things of value soon…. There goes that pig again….

I have just got back from an amazing holiday. There are so many things to talk about, so many things that happened. Some of them worth saying, others of no consequence to anyone but me. Right now most of them mean pretty much nothing. When pigs fly, the moon is blue and when airlines can finally cook carrots properly then perhaps just maybe I will put some photos online. To keep you satisfied for now I can not recommend you watch the film “stranger than fiction”. Perhaps its the mood I’m in, perhaps its that lack of sleep I have had or perhaps its that my holiday coming to an end has finally caught up with me, but that is one of the best films I have seen in a long time and I couldn’t recommend it enough.

Well that was a close call. I almost lost a testicle to a pointy umbrella wielding deranged commuter. Perhaps I shall start wearing a box to compliment the necessary padding required to make it through the daily commute.

I think it would be fair to say there is a certain level of neglect being demonstrated in my current blog.

Unfortunately I have so much to say (hence I’ve been too busy to update) that you will never read it all. As my clarinet teacher once taught me when referring to practice, the trick is little and often. I however replied “I’ve done the little, just not the often”. I have yet to see a copy of his memoirs, but he promised to put it in. I live in hope.

As a simple update, I have spent much time shopping, traveling, making a mess of my room and visiting various friends. I seem to have spent rather a bit of time at Jonners, hanging around with people from his Uni (that I have really known long enough to consider friends in their own right). Notable events were Beth’s birthday, a shopping trip in Brighton with Thomas and another shopping trip with George in London which ended in a computer bashing session with Jonner’s. Lots of trips to pubs and catch-up conversations in all sorts of odd places have also taken place.

As ever I am doing my best to look to the future without getting too bogged down in the present. Work has been trundling for a bit now, may be something to do with the 7 months with no holiday.

All is not lost though as my holiday is happening in 8 days times with a timely trip to Malaysia and Singapore to visit a friend (em) from church while she is on her gap year. I shall do my best to update my blog while I’m out there in a desperate attempt to adhere to the “little and often” ethic.

In fact, I think I shall call this an entry now and let my little rants that I’ve been saving up wait for another session.

It’s funny how there are some things you just know. The card I have to get into the building lasts for 3 months at a time, not a day less or a day more. This is simply because I’m a form of temp and their system doesn’t allow a temp to hold a card for more than 3 months. As I walked over the bridge this morning I was thinking about how close mine was to its 3 months. I put it on the sensor and it did two beeps. It ran out. Its just pretty impressive that the brain does that all by itself…

Oh, and a new picture here:

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