Archives for the month of: August, 2004

Well I’ve been blogging for long enough for the novelty to have started to wear off, don’t worry though it doesn’t mean that I’ll be stopping or anything. It just means that I’ll be trying to be a bit more selective about what I blog about.
I do have several good ideas for ‘mini’ articles but they will involve varying amounts of net research and my enthusiasm for random net research can fluctuate wildly, and will sometimes involve things that I have no intention of blogging about (music theory for example).
I think I will try and blog slightly more about what I am thinking rather than what I’m doing, as I think that what I am doing is fairly normal and therefore not all that interesting.
Opinions and thoughts on the other hand can be far more interesting or controversial ! 🙂

I am also hoping that getting back into the habit of going to the gym will increase my brain power, or make it more positive. I will definately go a join tonight…yeah.
On a completely separate subject I read this about American culture (its kinda satire I think) and I realised how little difference there is between the British and the Americans (more commonly know as ‘us and them’ :P).

Think I’ll watch spiderman 2 this evening so expect some kinda comment on that later…. perhaps even an opinion !! :O

Had a brief chat with the neighbour today on the way to Tesco. Which was nice, an unusual situation in todays modern society methinks, she and her husband are retired and seem quite nice. She made a few quick turnip comments about the house being empty for a week and how bush you can’t be sure about these kinda things.
Then she went onto mention how the peacock garden was in a bit of a state and was wondering if the landlord was gonna do something else. Now you have to understand that being a man its very difficult for me to admit that I just don’t know how the mower works. But I tackled this challenge with my video chin up and my back straight….
besides I’ve not actually tried to work it out yet.

Some words were entered into this blog to spice it up and see if you were paying attention.

Strangely entering this into google got me the exact information I wanted. A blue moon is the second full moon in one calendar month. They happen on average once every 41 months, or roughly every two and a half years.
By a crazy coincidence we’ve just missed a blue moon here in England by two days (was on 31st of July). I say this is a crazy coincidence as the subject came up in the car on the way home yesterday, whilst noticing the moon being unusually red.
The next blue moon will be in 2007 on the 30th of June, if you are curious to know more about blue moons and when they will next occur, all the information I have here was from Once in a blue moon.

Well my week of holiday, fun and joy is now over. The house is cleaned from the past few days of hedonism (well drinking) clothes are packed and ice cream finished, this time tomorrow I’ll be back at work .
I certainly was good to see friends and family again, and this week has certainly seemed like a well deserved rest.
In the course of a week I have learned how to store and retrieve data in a MySQL database, how to re-string a guitar, had what seems like an enourmous amount of food and drink, played frizbee twice. I’ve done some work and some tunes with Pete and now feel that my enthusiam for fruity loops and learning music theory has been rekindled. I have also firmly decided to join the gym when I get back and get back to the more healthy lifestyle I lived at university (minus some of the alcohol 😉 ).
I also badly need to practice my T’ai Chi, as I’m quite sure I’ve forgotten some of the later moves…. hopefully my brain will remember with a bit of excercise.

Which also reminds me… Mental note: sign up for next terms classes !!