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Can't remember at all what I did Friday. Hm, not a good sign, I reckon. Saturday was spent on various errands and, in the evening, 'Vagabonds'. I had planned to go to the Slime after but sense prevailed, as I had a number of lessons scheduled for Sunday. Well, as it happens most of them were cancelled or re-scheduled. It was a very good night, at least for me. Strange to see tubes and streets filled with people dressed in black, black make-up on, etc. Only the white trainers gave them away:P Sunday then was a bit quieter work-wise than I anticipated. In the evening it was the gig by Faith and the Muse at Dingwalls. And very good it was, if rather very late to come on stage. I liked them a lot. Might even buy their records:P. Took about 600 pictures at the gig, will have to sort them out and do any processing on Friday as the next three days will be quite busy. I think some of the pics might even be more or less good. The only mistake I made (apart from poking ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) djpsyche in the eye when I was going to congratulate her on organising the concert) was to forget that I had to get up at 6:30 this morning.. have I mentioned how much I hate early mornings? Still no solution to car parking problem, but at least the permit hasn't been revoked so I may have a breathing space while I find a solution. Knock on wood.. Tags: bands, life, stuff, week end
Current Mood:  tired
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Never made it to the Slime, or Anti-Christ or any of the other events or parties on offer apart from a while spent in Vagabonds, which, on the other hand, was very good. Day started quieter than planned, with two lessons cancelled already. No worries, I'm happy to have a long breakfast while catching up with the news and looking at that grey, soggy world outside being happy to be indoors. Happy post-Halloween Dia de Todos los Santos* Sunday, everybody! well, I think it is...Tags: life, stuff
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After my early lesson of Thursdays in Tufnell Park, a little more sleepy than usual as I was awake half the night. There was a frightful row upstairs somewhere in the building, lots of door slamming and stomping and shouting, seemingly for hours, and creative and original use of the English language, the highlight of which was probably the guy shouting "GET THE F**NG F**K OUT MY F**ING HOUSE YOU F**NG C**T -YOU KNOWWHADDA MEAN?" It was the use of the latter tag that intrigued me enormously... what do you think, Professor Interweb? This might be an example of ex-tempore usage of local colloquial idioms by wild Briton South East tribes, while engaging in their customary social-ranking definition ritual ceremonies, usually involving the imbibing of sacred ritual potations, probably that most commonly used, exotic one known as 'vodka...' Today is going to be a long day.. Tags: life, stuff
Current Location: the literary café, tufnell park
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Week end was ok. Saturday I only made it to two of the many parties, missed quite a lot of other stuff happening. Both beric and featheredwings's, on the one hand, and logothetes and hotel_noir's parties were fabulous. Sunday was some last taking stuff from the old flat, taking the car to the mechanic in Watford and just one lesson and, in the evening, birthday drinks for bootpunk which was a very pleasant occasion at the Pipeline near Bishopsgate. Had been using a T-Mobile 3G dongle for the last couple of years; was paying £9 a month -or so I thought; a few days ago browsing my bank statement I find that t-mob have been charging me almost £20 since May,which, on checking, is the date of the end of the contract. No advance notification, no notification of any kind. So I ditched them and got myself a Huawei E5830 from 3. I would like to say it is a fantastic device and I love it. But unfortunately I can't. The idea is indeed fantastic, a 3G access box which is a little wi-fi router. The device refuses to work, though and although it gets full signal,, etc, it trickles along at unusable tiny fractions of a Mb/s. It doesn't seem to be malfunctioning in the sense that I can use it as a wireless network router. Maybe it is a dud? Will have to take it back to the shop... shame, I liked the idea (although the implementation is not that great; it is clumsy to have to press for several seconds each of the tiny buttons to get first power, then 3G connection and then Wi-Fi. Oh well. And this is while I'm still waiting for British Telecommunications Plc to finally install my phone line so I can have proper internet... Tags: stuff, the information age, week end
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first of all, Happy Birthday, monted!! Hope it's a very good one! At this end of things, this was a second week-end of moving house. I had moved most of my stuff last week-end but there was a lot left behind -and a horrendous mess which I had to try and clear. With a lot of help with redd_foxx and several trips to the dump recycling centre. Haven't been out much this week-end, apart from a brief excursion to Blacklist at the Elixir and then Inferno, but I left early (around 2:00 am) -maybe a bit tired after the whole moving thing, shifting stuff, or maybe I'm just getting old... or maybe I'm just enjoying the being in my own space just now, even if I'm surrounded by a million cardboard boxes at the moment.. Tags: birthdays, house, stuff, week end
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Ok, installed in new flat, surrounded by a million cardboard boxes. A pile of stuff still at the old flat, which ended up left in an incredible mess which I'll have to wade through, sort and tidy up before I leave. No solution to the parking problem yet. People keep coming with Street-Car clubs, the 'get a bicycle, you'll be healthier' (I won't; never been on a bike, would be dead in minutes and in any case it is not practical in my particular circumstance). Someone said 'get a motorbike, then'. Err.. If you didn't see me at any of the clubs in the last couple of days, it's because I wasn't there. I was completely knackered after all that box shifting, drinking hectolitres of fruit juice and having long hot baths. Clearly, exercise is bad for you:P I have to say tenkewtenkewtenkew to redd_foxx, atr0pine, ninja_badger and bellajonez (well, some of these are not using their journals so might not read this, but nonetheless), as well as Ozzy of the Slimelight for amazing help. Flat is lovely, apart from the parking nightmare, and I like it. Tags: house
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So I didn't make it to Black Plastic, Invocation or any of the other options. Instead, I've been sorting out what CDs, records, DVDs and books I can keep and which I can not, when I move. Also reading 'The Singularity is Near' by Ray Kurtzweil. Fascinating exercise, but I wish I could be so optimistic. Tags: house, life, stuff, the inexorable march of progress, the information age
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