Ended up heading up to Sloane Square to meet a friend for a couple of drinks (non-alcoholic in my case) and a chat. I hadn’t planned on going out but seen as I had been abandoned in my hours of need (and naming no names here) because a basement was flooded. Tch, some people will come up with any excuses! So anyway went out for chat and did talk about some stuff and it was good. Didn’t cover all that much, but *shrug*.<\/p>\n
I really need a new computer. Unfortunately there isn’t one anytime soon on the horizon. There are also lots of things I want to do with this site…like making it into a site rather than just one page ramblings. One thing I do want to do soon is create a page for the origins and credits of the quotes which come up for the page title. Also the long mooted section for photography and a random section for stuff. Someday I guess.<\/p>\n
Oh thinking about the album I’m listening to at the moment has reminded me of something. It is Adore<\/i> by The Smashing Pumpkins and it is one of my most listened to and favourite albums of all time. It reminded me of a story I meant to share, along the lines of ‘Tales From a Past Life’<\/p>\n
Sometime in the mid to late nineties Red Bull was taking off in Dublin. Add some vodka and it was the ‘in-drink’. I went out one night with a group of friends to a 21st birthday party in a pub in town. We go there and found the party and got in some vodka and Red Bull pitchers. It didn’t taste anything special and there was no noticeable effect from it. So we had some more….and then we had some more. So fast forward a few hours and its time to leave the pub and go home. I’m perfectly sober and we walk out the doors no problem. A few seconds later as I walk straight into the light post by the side of the road I suddenly realise that perhaps I’m not as sober as I thought. Anyway we walked back down town to get a night bus home after being dragged from the middle of a very busy road by one of the less drunk members of our group.
\nSince that night, I have avoided vodka and Red Bull and indeed have developed quite a dislike for the taste of Red Bull. Lessons have been learnt.<\/p>\n
The Guardian | Hello world <\/a> Although that did remind me that Iain is off in Oz at the moment and is right now I suspect recovering from Mardi Gras’ Harbour Party. Lucky bastard. Leaving the country sounds so very good, but it does have it’s disadvantages. Well, there isn’t even really one of them I guess.<\/p>\n Oh yes, I note with some fear that one of my ex-girlfriends did not know the origin of Daredevil. I note with some confusion that she considers The Stereophonics to be ‘arty’. I was kinda lost for words a couple of times reading her email.<\/p>\n I need more comics to read. I’ve not got much around. Saying that one of the guys in work lent me Uncle Sam<\/i> which I really enjoyed. A lovely little story which easily slots into today’s world and a couple of really great Alex Ross pieces. The image of a giant Uncle Sam striding forward with the bombers is truly excellent. I shall more than likely end up picking this up for myself.<\/p>\n On the subject of reading, I was sorting through some of my books today and discovered I have well over 40 unread novels. Very few of that is stuff I picked up for a rainy day, it is mostly books I want to read. So that is good news. I just have to get back into the novel reading habit. I’ve not been very good at reading Fear and Loathing ’72<\/i> and I shall have to work on finishing it soon and getting my teeth into a proper novel. Should get some read to and from work tomorrow. No pubbing tomorrow night for sure, no reason to go there at all so I intend to make a point of going straight home and perhaps even continue that during the week. Of course with Tuesday being pay-day I suspect there shall be some drinks. We were talking about this earlier tonight in the pub and expecting there to be quite a good turn out then. There was also talk of a pool night later on this week. That could be good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ended up heading up to Sloane Square to meet a friend for a couple of drinks (non-alcoholic in my case) and a chat. I hadn’t planned on going out but seen as I had been abandoned in my hours of need (and naming no names here) because a basement was flooded. Tch, some people will … Continue reading “what if what is isn’t true?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nInteresting reading. I find these days reading about blogs to be more interesting than reading blogs. I know I’m not one to talk but nothing is really grabbing my attention at the moment. <\/p>\n