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Shit Happens
Shit happens. [archived copy]
Shit really happens.
Shit really happens.
Shit continues to happen.
But while there's a job to be done, those of us that care will hang on and will pick up the pieces and will fight and sweat and will put things together again and we will … -
Back From Barcelona
Claire and I got back from Barcelona this weekend, after our short break away there with my mum and sisters. We were staying in a reasonable-sized second-floor apartment right in the middle (it was advertised as being in the "lively" district) of Barcelona: in an alleyway off a sidestreet to the famous La Ramblas.
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Preston, Houghton Tower, etc.
Claire and I are in Preston. Saturday evening we went to an orchestral concert at Houghton Tower, which was better than the year before last, but still not as good as the year before that. Live outdoor music, dancing, drinking, and fireworks are all fab, but my mum got a little more drunk than she …
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Off To Barcelona (Via Preston)
Claire (on a new blog!) and I are off to Barcelona, via Preston (for a concert by an orchestra & a fireworks display at Houghton Tower, as we did a couple of years back). Here's the usual series of updates for everybody who remains:
Troma Night is on this and next Saturday. Sort it out … -
The Scat Men
Don't usually go in for these memes, but this one was too funny not to publish.
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The Scat Men Stats
Formed: 29th June 2005 Split: 10th September 2011 Best Album: 'Supremo' 7/10 in the NME Best Single: 'Unstates' 6/10 in the NME Records Sold: … -
Abnib Gallery
As you may be aware, Jon is developing the next generation of Abnib (preview - looks fab, eh?). To coincide (and integrate) with this, there's now an Abnib Gallery, to which Abnib-ettes can post photos relating to the activities of themselves with other abnib-ettes: a place to collate our photographs of the fires we have …
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Sewage Leak Update
I see that the council are still recommending that people don't swim in the sea off Aberystwyth, with signs all along the promenade, after a pollution incident at the weekend, although they've allowed access to the beach again. I called the hotline number and determined that the sewage leak most likely occured at the pumping …
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Catch-Up: Back In Aber
Yeah; more catch-up stuff. Server was down, and I was lazy. Get over it.
Having returned from Preston/Manchester/Milton Keynes/London, this week has been spent back in Aberystwyth. Thursday's Naruto Night had us in front of Future Boy Conan, an early Miyazaki cartoon series, among other things. Friday's Geek Night saw us play two of the games … -
Catch-Up: Concerts
Yes, it's true, I'm bad at blogging. But as we all know, weblogs suck anyway. Regardless: here's the long-awaited catchup of my whereabouts and doings of the last week (as all I'd previously said is that I'd left and that I'd got back again.
Claire and I went to Preston a week last Thursday evening, for … -
Claire’s Birthday, and Preston
Well, Claire and I are in Preston. We travelled up here last night (after a few false starts, including getting to Mach before realising we'd left the Green Day tickets blu-tacked to the wall "so we don't forget them" in Aber and having to turn back). Claire's been made out to be a bookworm again, …
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SmartData (And French Visitors) Night Out
Dan and his co-workers (and plus-ones) go out drinking.
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Good Stuff
Well; everything's going notably well this last day or two: Naruto Night I, our new weekly Thursday Night anime night, went off well: only Paul, JTA, Claire and I were able to make it, but that's pretty much the number we got to the first ever Troma Night, and look what a success that turned …
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Naruto Night
Okay, okay, so I took my time to look at and get into Naruto, a most fantastic anime series. Thanks to Rory and Gareth for showing me the movie, and Paul for providing episodes.
We'll now be having a weekly "Naruto Night" (to go alongside Tuesday's "Knightmare Night", Friday's "Geek Night", and Saturday's "Troma Night"), on … -
HSBC Account
HSBC have closed my bank account with them: a bank account I'd had with them since they were Midland Bank, back when I was still in high school. I hadn't used it for, well - anything at all - for the last 9 months or so, and didn't know it had been closed (they'd never …
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Finished Psychonauts
I've just finished Psychonauts, so I can have my life back. It's a surprisingly good third-person platform/shooter/RPG from for the X-Box and PC, from some of the minds of people who made Full Throttle and Grim Fandango.
Taken at it's simplest level, it's a jolly 3D romp through twisted landscapes in the style of American McGee's …