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[Jul. 11th, 2009|05:03 pm] |
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Noooo! I've just realised that The Asylum is the same weekend as Sword Fest.
They are 300 miles apart so no popping from one event to the other and back again :-(
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[Jul. 10th, 2009|12:51 am] |
I have to be up in 5 hours. I don't think I want to go swimming tomorrow. Can someone write me a note?
I promise to get lots of work done if I don't have to get up early. |
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[Jul. 9th, 2009|11:31 pm] |
Cool! Google is celebrating Nikola Tesla's birthday with this graphic today.
 I really, really want a Tesla coil. Incidentally my birthday is September the 21st A really, really big Tesla coil. |
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[Jul. 9th, 2009|08:33 am] |
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Went to Ealing Beer Festival with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ian_wyrdness . We formed the Association of Goffic Landlords, drank way too many wonderful porters and dark milds... some how found our way home with a combination of Ian's knowledge of the streets of Ealing and my homing instinct on the London tube network.
Ian has decamped from the sofa and is on his way to work. I'm nursing a mild (and porter) hangover. I need to start on boxing in the bath today but the idea of making any noise above a whisper fills me with dread.
I'm never drinking again until the next time. |
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[Jul. 7th, 2009|03:20 pm] |
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It's chucking it down outside. I may as well order another coffee. |
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[Jul. 6th, 2009|06:22 pm] |
I never really thought of these people as contemporaries...
I guess I always thought of Dads Army as a fly on the wall documentary secretly filmed during the second world war... and Blue Peter ended the day I left school.
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[Jul. 6th, 2009|01:05 pm] |
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This month sees the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing by humans. Or as the calender at the swimming pool states....
Armstrong's discovery of the Moon.
So as far as the calender writer is concerned, it went probably went something like this... After travelling about 380,000 km for no apparent reason, the intrepid astronauts looked out the window and noticed something.
"Err... Huston, you aren't going to believe what we've found out here."
I'm sure I remember some mention of the Moon in art, history, mythology, popular culture... prior to the 20th of July 1969. |
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[Jul. 6th, 2009|10:41 am] |
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I've found it! Surprisingly where it should be and where I looked first of all... it was tucked to one side and I couldn't see it with the cursory glance I gave the tool chest on the off chance it really would be where it is supposed to be kept.
I guess I had better go do some sanding. |
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[Jul. 6th, 2009|09:25 am] |
As I suspected or hoped rather... Agents have changed company and the letter from the old company unnecessarily puts the fear of God into old clients. It almost seems like revenge to me.
PHEW! All the same.
Now if I could just find my belt-sander. |
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[Jul. 5th, 2009|10:58 pm] |
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I have just calculated that I swam just over 2480 fathoms last week or 0.00001513 of a light second. |
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[Jul. 2nd, 2009|09:47 pm] |
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I wish it was 7am tomorrow. If it was 7am tomorrow I'd be in the swimming pool. Hmmm... that sounds a bit like...
If I were John and John were Me,
Then he’d be six and I’d be three.
If John were Me and I were John,
I shouldn’t have these trousers on.
In other news...
Marking up the floor for the bath panel was slightly more complicated than surveying prior to starting work on the Great Pyramid. I guess most of the techniques I used would have been familiar to the ancient Egyptian builders as my work today involved set square, plumb-line, lump of wood... anyway it's all marked up now and ready to go. pity it's too late to saw up wood and drill holes in the wall.
RJ arrives from deepest Wiltshire tomorrow, I believe drinks by the river may be happening. |
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[Jun. 27th, 2009|12:21 pm] |
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Headache and sore throat.
This doesn't bode well for finishing the bathroom woodwork today. I've only just got up and feel "blah". If you're reading this on LJ and not a feed you can confirm I'm "blah" by checking my Mood status. |
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[Jun. 23rd, 2009|04:11 am] |
It's 4am and I can't sleep.
I could go to the 24 hour store I guess... If I hang on an hour I could come back via the swimming pool... That sounds like a plan. |
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[Jun. 20th, 2009|07:02 pm] |
To go to Invocation or not to go to Invocation?
Can't make up my mind.
Still feeling Meh!
I know I'll enjoy it once I'm there... but... |
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[Jun. 18th, 2009|12:46 pm] |
So far today I have...
Cleaned around the bath/wall interface.
Sealed around the bath/wall interface (second layer of water behind the bath defence).
Scraped of the old mastic on the quadrant tiles, scrubbed, and put them in the oven to dry.
I really want to finish doing the bathroom, it's only a tempory fix (2 years) until I replace the whole bathroom. |
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[Jun. 17th, 2009|06:44 pm] |
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Matt Harvey's "Empath Man" is one of the funniest things I've heard on the radio.
It's available here for a limited time only.
OptiAgra - it's designed for middle-aged men to help them keep their hopes up.
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[Jun. 15th, 2009|08:43 pm] |
For a short little clip from a mobile phone it makes for a very emotional roller-coaster. I flipped from worrying about the people in the crowd to fearing for the policeman pretty quickly.
I'm very impressed with the protesters who helped the policeman to safety after he crashed his bike (got pushed off)... all the more impressive considering he'd just been baton charging them... But you've got to wonder what sort of idiot thought that motor cycles would be a good crowd dispersement tool. If they tried that with a more aggravated crowd the bikes would have been on the floor in seconds and all the riders would have been lucky to get out alive.
How long before Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sends in the tanks? |
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[Jun. 15th, 2009|12:03 pm] |
Got home at 3am. The drive back from York seemed to take forever. Had plenty to listen to and a flask of excellent coffee, so it was a good drive all the same.
Today it's back to the bathroom. Checked under the bath and it's definitely leaking around the edge, which was the cause of most of the trouble in the first place. So today it's remove the quadrant tiles (very carefully) and dig out the old mastic, remove a few blown tiles and replace them, then reseal, clean the quadrant tiles and replace. Hmmm... that doesn't sound like too bad a job... but I bet it finds a way to spiral out of control into knock down wall and rebuild half of the flat ;-)
I need to finish the bathroom by Friday. Then I have about 5 weeks to get the workbench / desk built for the machines that will be turning up sometime in July.
Crikey! I had better stop dicking about on the interweb and get on..... |
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[Jun. 14th, 2009|04:24 pm] |
I really would have liked longer up here but everyone has to get back to real life come Monday.
Had rather a good time. It's felt like a real holiday. Fiona is excellent company and a wonderful hostess. |
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