Arcoarena

I know I’m going to miss something…

June 3, 2007 on 11:13 am | In Life |

….after all the last time I wrote anything was in March. That implies I’m either going to forget to mention something or my life is meaning less and empty, I’m going for the first.

To start of with something geeky. I got a laptop for my birthday (well when I say got I mean I paid for it my self, when I say paid for it myself I mean it’s on the credit card and will be paid back at some point in the near future). It’s a HP nx6325, more of a business laptop allegedly but I didn’t want Vista (it’s got XP Pro on it) and I didn’t really want a widescreen (sort of defeats the point of a portable device if it gets too big).

Anyway to cut a long story short I barely use XP as I have installed Ubuntu Feisty Fawn on it, which was one of the least painful installations of anything I’ve ever done. Most stuff just worked out of the box, wireless was a bit of a problem but I realized I was using the wrong driver and got it sorted. Basically everything just works, I was very impress.

It’s been quite busy at work and barely less hectic at home. I guess the real reason I’m writing this is because I was up in London recently on Phil’s stag do and it was a little shocking that I hadn’t made more of an effort to see people. I’m quite bad a keeping in touch with people I don’t see everyday. It’s odd how quickly it seems like you’ve never left though.

I’m already running out of things I’ve done since last time. Went to Cornwall for a week in March (the week just after the really hot sunny week, yep that’s the one, the one where it rained most of the time and battered me with hail-stones for the rest of it, still beats being sat in the lab at work though).

I went to Oxfam Live in London, it’s a sort of conference for volunteers and supporters. I’ve been being dragged into doing stuff for Andrea’s shop so I figured I’d go along. It was quite interesting, I was surprised to see a few volunteers around my age, unfortunately I didn’t get the chance to ask them how they found the time to actually work in the shop. I obviously don’t as I’m at work during the week and I’m too selfish to give up half my weekend. I have given up all the bank-holidays so far this year (apparently pensioners don’t work bank holidays, don’t ask me why). The event was cut short by a fire alarm but it was quite interesting anyway, some of the figures are amazing.

I’m still doing some theatre stuff. I helped out down at the Station Theatre on Hayling Island. It’s been converted from the former engine shed of the railway station (the Billy Track still runs down from Havant but is now a cycle-path rather than a railway). It’s run by the Amateur Dramatic Society (both in man-power and financially I believe) and is really well equipped for a venue of it’s size so kudos to the people that run it. I’m also going to light ‘How To Suceed In Business’ at the New Theatre Royal in Portsmouth (can’t be bothered to find the links, just google them if you’re interested). I’m slowly getting prepared but obviously I’m slightly nervous about it as it has to be good.

I’m sure there’s more but I won’t bore you with anything else. I’d say I’ll write sooner next time but I’ve done that before and then haven’t so I won’t lie. Expect something around September at the current rate of posting.