Start as you mean to go on

• [when | 3rd January 2008]
• [under | friends, geek, new year, socializing]

Well, so far, 2008 is alright with me. Saw it in over at coalescent and bibliolicious' flat, already fully unpacked and looking great. Didn't actually stay up much past midnight - we started moving around 12:20 and finally managed to get out of the door by 12:50 :)

New Years Day was lunch with white_hart, topicaltim and lslaw, which is becoming a New Year tradition. Managed to downgrade topicaltims computer without anything horrible happening (bar one problem with the sound that they didn't discover until yesterday but has since been resolved by Google) which was a relief. Lunch was delish as always and it was followed by the also now traditional showing of films that I haven't seen but really should, in this case It's a Wonderful Life (liked it) and Monty Python And The Holy Grail (v funny indeed).

Just to round it off, Alex and I had a nice walk back from the centre of town to home instead of catching the bus and then I played Guitar Hero III for a bit, scoring my first perfect - 100% of My Name Is Jonas on medium.

Not a bad start to the year, all told.

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• [when | 6th April 2007]
• [under | friends, games]

It was such a gorgeous day yesterday that I dragged Ian & Ruth over for an impromptu barbeque in the evening, suggesting they bring Order of the Stick with them for us to try. If I'd realised how long a short game takes I might have saved that for anther time and suggested Settlers, but it was quite fun to play and as I didn't have to get up at 7 the next morning to drive to a science fiction convention, I wasn't too badly off, after all - sorry Ruth!

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• [when | 14th February 2002]
• [mood | sore]
• [under | friends, socializing]

Tea with Suz last night - always nice. Sat around and she told me about teaching English as a foreign language (she's off on her TEFL course at the end of next week) and I gave her the cheque for my sponsored fast. It's always so relaxing hanging with Suz (unless she's hyper of course :) ) - we sat around and chatted and then read Dilbert and Calvin and Hobbes books and stuff. I shall miss her when she goes (her TEFL course is in Bournemouth) but she'll be back in London for a while before she leaves for Turkey. At least I'll be able to read her livejournal :)

Why is it that when you buy new shoes, you wear them around the house for a bit to break them in and they seem fine but as soon as you wear them outside they rub like crazy? :(

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