You'll all be pleased to know that I'm still a single man. My date on Thursday night wasn't quite up to scratch in a number of areas (notably the superficial and the intellectual), but the evening itself was quite good. Any restaurant that lets you draw on their paper tablecloths makes for a great date location. I may have to use this idea again ( Read more... )

I recently spoke to my sister about various things, but mostly the trouble with our parents and their general unsociable natures. (Avid readers will recall that when I was between homes a coupla years ago I noted that they never went out and never had anyone over. This has been confirmed to be the norm.) I assumed that I was the only one of us not ( Read more... )

I spent the weekend playing card games and UpWords at Teh Pat. We sat on the porch (sans swinging chair) and ate toasted "rustic" bread rolls with magnificent toppings of savoury delight. How good was the weather? We were out there in t-shirts, yo! T-shirts! I'm feeling so ebonic right now and I don't know why. When that wasn't happening I was ( Read more... )

I knew it wouldn't be a good idea to watch a sci-fi horror film before going to bed. But I had a plan! After Pandorum finished I'd watch an episode of Community for light-hearted fun... but the halloween episode is a lot more scary than I expected. Sporadic sleep and unsettling sex dreams ahoy!

Y'know, I thought that AnnaSophia Robb would grow up to look like Susanna Kallur.
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I had grand plans to wear new cufflinks to a dinner I went to on Saturday night... however! *raises finger* Despite my expedited delivery they didn't arrive until yesterday. I'd ordered cufflinks with a spirit level! I'd ordered cufflinks with dice on them! I'd ordered cufflinks with 8Gb of RAM on them! But noooooo. Apparently that's not the sort ( Read more... )

I took delivery of a new tiny compy on Monday. It's a barebones kit for use as an HTPC. It requires you to install RAM and a HDD. Last night, after walking through the freezing cold wind and rain to buy said hardware, I began the setup. It was then that I discovered that I don't actually own a USB keyboard, just a USB mouse. It's very hard to ( Read more... )

I do not know what kinda cold I've got misself, but it doesn't seem to be going anywhere quickly. I've got the nasal decongestants happening and followed them up with some antihistamines for good measure. Sometimes I wonder why we have so many orifices.

I was inspired to clean the house yesterday... but only because I couldn't find the remote for the TV. You'd probably not be surprised at how little of the TV works without it. It turned up between the cushions of the couch, the place I always tell everyone else to look first. I am an idiot, but at least the place is presentable now.

I'm all for long weekends in which nothing more stressful than driving to friends' places is done. I've been fed soup, Mexican, meatballs and banana bread (anyone would think they were trying to fatten me up for slaughter), played board games and watched movies. I bought a suit. I'm six episodes into season 1 of Community... and my sleeping ( Read more... )