Yesterday at 2.10 am dizzicizzi's Dad, Jimmy, passed away after a battle against cancer. For those who wish to go to the funeral, it is in Mount Argus in Harold's Cross at 10am on Saturday...the same place she and Steve were married and their son, my godson Breandán, was christened. She asked me to pass this on so that any of her friends who wished to pay ( Read more... )

BREAKING NEWS:

I just got offered a job in GOA as a Network Monitoring Tech on the new WAR game. That has to be the fastest I have ever been offered a job. I was only interviewed at 10am this morning. Got the callback from the agency at 5pm. Thanks to larpexiles( both of them) for the help in getting this (i.e dealing with bad agencies! New agency much ( Read more... )

Arrgh, job hunting is now becoming boring. I have applied for 19 jobs and heard back from one of them who rejected me immediately for not being qualified enough (Heh, I was chancing my arm there), but I have not heard back from any of the rest so I thought I would start at the top and ring people ( Read more... )

I kave 2 Tickets to see Little Feat (www.littlefeat.net) tonight in the Academy on Abbey St. Anyone want the other one? Let me know either here or on 087 6494891. they are VIP and teh gig starts at 7.30pm

For those who haven't heard yet, I am now unemployed as of Thursday 19th due to redundancy. It wasn't unexpected and it wasn't unwanted. Time to change. So, I am looking for offers. Anyone?
Oh larpexiles, I have applied for 3 positions in your place via the agency...lets see what happens this time.

On other things word_maker and Jen (do you have an LJ?) got ( Read more... )

*knock, knock* Is this thing still on? Wow..it's been so long. Anyway, to business ( Read more... )

This is what I get for not reading peoples LJ's etc., nearly 48 hours after the fact I finally get the world-shattering news that the father of modern roleplay, Ernest Gary Gygax, has died. This guy influenced my life from the age of 15 in so many ways that, as Mike Mearls(D&D 4th ED lead Developer), said, 'I don't think I've really grokked it yet ( Read more... )

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This morning a young lady, by her very existence, made me an Uncle. Charlie Niamh was born at approx 6:15am on the 9/1/07 to my brother, Stu and his wife, Lisa. Charlie weighed in at 7 pounds 9 ounces . Mother and Daughter doing well....Father still somewhere around the light fittings and climbing (or if you ask Stu - Baby doing well, Mother ( Read more... )

So I finally got WoW to work. It took me 4 days :-( I borrowed a copy off a friend but his Guest Pass had been used so i couldn't (I did try). So I went to the WOW Eu site to get a Guest Pass but their security prove-you-are-not-a-'bot system was repeatedly shagged...no matter how many times you put in the correct sequence from the random image ( Read more... )