I haven't been spending so much quality time with the Internet lately. I had an idea that making this moref a photo blog might help it keep limping along, without too much effort from me. On that basis, went for lunch at a localish café. Had a pretty decent vegan breakfast plus decaf coffee.
The boarded-up White Lion pub is a bit melancholy. At least it hasn't been bulldozered yet, like Cine City which was previously to the right
It was a fairly spontaneous thing, and we got the tickets with just minutes to spare. From the description - a kind of punky Bjork - I didn't really know what to expect, but it turned out to be pretty good. Not particularly punk to my ears, but I could detect some of the influences cited like the Stooges, Interpol, the Strokes, Sugarcubes. Put me in mind of the Detroit Cobras. With the added bonus of a top hat.
A sustained period of hot and dry weather has lead me to the inevitable purchase of a barbeque. Got a nice one too, folds up really small but held enough fuel to cook food for the four of us: our guests G and L, my lovely gf and me.
Didn't take any photos till it got dark, and then took a snap on my phone. Photos taken in the dark always look poor, so grainy. I've tried a bit of photoshoppery, but the only technique I've found that improves things is colour invert.
Since I'm on a nocturnal shift this week I had the chance to get a cup of tea with MV at a charming little deli in the village. Licorice tea turned out to be the opposite of normal herbal tea - it smells bad but tastes good. Freaky.
Today I changed the oil in my motorbike. Not a massive achievement you may think, but it's the first time I've done my own oil change and now I consider myself to be among the ranks of people who say "doing your own oil change is pretty easy".
Actually I still need to get rid of the old oil. For this I will need about three old detergent bottles and a trip to somewhere to recycle oil
There's a strange feeling to a house after a party. The cranial fogginesss of the participants (heh heh - i said pants) is just part of it. check out all those empty glasses and half finished plates. A-and the way that all the furniture is pushed against the walls.
Part of the wierdness is that my entire MP3 collection has been on random play tonight, and there has been a number of tracks that I didn't recognise. On the other hand, my MP3 collection has a folder called "Unlistenable" and I don't think any of these have hit the play list tonight - which is probably a good thing. Some peolple may have thought that songs played were in the "Unlistenable" folder but that is their problem
Anyway, it's been good to meet some of the neighbours and to see some of my friends who havent had an excuse to come round until now. Now I'm going to polish off the ?th bottle of wine and the 68th vol-au-vent and get some sleep. The washing up can wait
... we played Risk. I was blue. I had to concede defeat shortly after the picture was taken.
And I updated my blog, something I've not done for a long time. Did you miss me?
I often see references to xkcd but I never really looked at it much,till recently when I saw this one that really made me laugh. out loud. several times.
It took me back to the days long ago when I found matrix transforms baffling. So much has changed since those days. Not my reaction to matrix transforms though.
I think spending time on facebook has resulted in a decline in my blog postings. Now when I have trivial and uninteresting stuff to relate FB tends to be my first port of call. I'll try to fight it though and keep this blog alive. Here's some uninteresting stuff which won't be on FB ever:
Status: I am pleased with the result obtained when I took my bike to the jetwash. It isn't amazingly clean but it's cleaner than I usually get from handwashing and with much less effort
Two milestones in one, but not the topic of the hour. I'm thinking about energy.
After hearing the news yesterday and today I'm disappointed that the UK has decided the future of energy is nuclear. Which I don't agree with, and makes me regret voting Labour. Although since the Torys supported the decision and the Liberals didn't lose the election by just my vote then I guess it isn't all my fault.
Apparently in Cuba energy shortages have brought about the revival of bicycles and animal-drawn vehicles. But that isn't all and this very interesting article suggests that with a bit of help Cuba could have a much more renewable/sustainable energy infrastructure than we are likely to have here in the UK.
