Good morning world.
It’s a grey Tuesday morning, yesterday turned into a session in the pub, and I’m stuck in work here. For some reason I’m in a really good mood! It was a good weekend overall. Not too busy but not as quiet as I had thought. So a recap.
Thursday. Well it kicked off in the pub for a leaving lunch at midday. That really carried on across multiple pubs until around 1am. So it was a good day. I was in a foul mood (and worse, not even realising) by around 7pm. I have no idea why but anyway. Overall a good day with some funny moments.
So Friday was quiet. A wander to Camden for a few comics and that was really it. Played some games and read for a while. I managed to get KOTOR 2 working again thanks to some tips on editing a saved game on a forum and that was good. So almost finished with that one and it’s fun. I like it lots.
Saturday. Strange strange day. I decided at around 1pm I’d go for a walk along Regents Canal and take some photos. I had been planning on doing it sometime over the weekend but then it struck me that I had to go out for a walk. I stopped at about 5.30 when I reached the pub for the party that evening. I don’t know why and I wasn’t even that deeply lost in thought but I was just walking and walking. I walked to Little Venice which was a big disappointment, not living up to it’s name at all, then onto Paddington, Nothing Hill Gate, Bayswater, Queensway into Hyde Park down to Marble Arch. I did at this stage stop in HMV to pick up a couple of things, I needed some more music to keep me going strong and then I carried on around Charring Cross Road, Covent Garden, TCR (stopping for a pint in The Ship) and then back to Oxford Circus. It was a really nice day, the sun was shining and it was warm and I just walked. I was a little tired after all that unsurprisingly. It was then a quiet enough night with a few people out for Alastair’s birthday. Finished up in The Scream around 12 and then home. A good day.
Sunday. Again quiet, not a huge amount done other than fucking around on the computer. A couple of drinks in the Washington with my flatmate and that was that. Chilled.
Monday. Well a couple of the lads were coming around to play some games for the afternoon… but the sun was shining so we adjourned to Steeles for some nice outside sitting and some dinner. That finished up around 10.30 and was quite a session. A good night with good company. A nice rounding off to a long weekend.
It feels like it’s been so much longer than 4 days. I actually feel refreshed. That’s a good thing to be able to say in my book. It won’t last in this place but ya know I can enjoy it this morning. Still while it lasts!
Lots of music over the weekend. I’ve been getting some stuff from proper and “favoured” stores. Lots and lots of Irish music. I finally picked up a couple of the Planxty albums I’m missing and I’ve been testing out some other stuff via the joy of the internet. Lots of live stuff, always always good.
There are a couple of tunes doing it for me a whole lot right at the moment and they are very separate things. Dakota by Stereophonics which is just a decent rock tune with an intro and some lyrics I like. The second is hitting a lot harder, it’s intro, for just a few seconds it takes me somewhere else. It’s a wistful little intro and it just sums up a sense of loss perfectly. It’s a great great piece.
Sometimes I’m not sure I recognise myself, a few years ago I’d never have thought to listen to any of this, it was so not my thing. Strange how things change as time goes along.
Post Secret. I’ve mentioned this before and I probably will again. I love it. It’s a wonderful site and it hits sometimes. It’s such a smart simple idea and sometimes it’s so much easier to get that secret out to someone but at the same time to have it still be a secret. A sense of freedom I guess. Sometimes it’s just nice to tell someone. Great great site, I love it.
Along the same lines So there is another wonderful site. Not always the easiest thing in the world to read but another damn good, simple, idea very well done. Both of these are part of what reminds me about the joy of the internet.
Tonight I’m meeting a friend for coffee, tomorrow I’m playing pool with the lads from work, Thursday is the usual V and then it’s almost like it’s the weekend already!