Category: Other

  • I come bearing rain!

    I arrive in Atlanta and so does the rain. I feel at home!

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    Went to see The Incredibles on Thursday night, an excellent film, well worth seeing. Poker last night at Jim’s which was good fun, despite being hugely tired. I even ended a few pence up! Amazing! Having central heating again is great 🙂 I popped into town this evening and the whole late night Xmas shopping…

  • From the “Niiiiice” school of bike parts…

    Thomson seat posts come in cute bags! That is all 🙂

  • Still no heating…

    On Monday, after a weekend of no heating or hot water (well, I have a kettle) I managed to speak to the appropriate person at Criterion Asset Management who said she would organise a plumber straight away and have them call me to arrange access. Now, I’m not so naive as to expect a call…

  • Bastards

    So, this morning there is no hot water. I have an ‘on-demand’ system so I peer at the boiler, its looks okay but the ‘pressure’ dial is on zero. I have no manual, but sticker says this should be between 0.7 and 2.5, so zero is a bit low. I peer into the boiler and…

  • Can I have a bigger screen please?

    My new phone contract with Orange gives me “2 free downloadable Java games” a month. Joy, I so love playing game son my phone… err, not. Anyway, I thought last night that I would try it out, so I downloaded Repton, a game I remember well from playing at lunchtime in high school, on a…

  • Today’s something new…

    They say you should learn something new every day. Today I learned that the powerful A/C in a server room can be put to good use… http://www.canford.co.uk/commerce/item_11-231_3000967.aspx

  • Random rice

    It has occured to me that in a weeks worth of driving with my iPod playing in random, not one Eagles song was played. This is unacceptable. I am also becoming weirdly obsessive about cooking rice… hmmm.

  • Blinkin’ clocks…

    So I get home yesterday after a week away. I woke up this morning, looked at the clock and saw 8.30. May as well get up I think, so do and wander to the kitchen to make coffee, passing the VCR as I do, which says 7.30am… Bah! Alarm clock doesn’t self adjust, need to…

  • AFK (Mid-Wales)

    I’m off for a couple of days riding in mid-Wales. Need to give the new Heckler a proper shake down 😉 Actually went out on it (gender as yet determined) last Sunday and I died a death – not the bike, the bike was ace, but I am sooo unfit. Last night’s night race at…