Personal

According to most people I have spoken with today, I am now officially old. Oh well.

At least today I know that there are other people that don't like that man:

"How can something this watery and bland have such a bitter aftertaste? If I wanted that sort of experience then I would buy a James Blunt album."

Looks like a Jaguar. Yep, went to see Feeder last night with Cathy. I think this is the first time Glen's ever been jealous of me .

... and given the available information, I don't blame him.

Wow, what a crazy weekend. After that 3am start on Friday morning, we had some hardware issues, and I ended up working until 4am Saturday morning, and finally got home to bed at 5.30am. I felt pretty bad about this late on Saturday afternoon, when I woke up, as Jake was staying at my place, and I had basically slept the whole day away.

Fortunately, it turns out that Cathy was being very sneaky, and Jake and everyone else had played their parts perfectly (at least to my befuddled, sleep deprived mind) and the dinner I thought I was having alone with Cathy was, in fact, also with Jake, Glen and Diana, and David and Kathryn. So, it seems that I was right when I said that Jake's visit "must be something to do with the fact that I'm getting older."

Dinner was at the Oxo Tower, and was amazing. I think everyone had a great time, even if I was a little spaced out, and the incident with the Russian/Turkish/Unknown man trying to impress his date by buying us bottle after bottle of champagne was just the icing on the cake .

Of course, there was more wine and conversation once we got home, and finally managed to get to bed in the early morning. Spent Sunday afternoon with Cathy and Jake mooching about town, and then had dinner and watched the F1 GP at David and Kathryn's. Glen came along too.

So, all up, that was an amazing weekend. Thanks guys!

Jake has come to London for a surprise visit! Turns out I was the only one that didn't know about this. Must be something to do with the fact that I'm getting older.

Hopefully we can get a chance to get out and do things. Not knowing that he was coming, I hadn't really planned for it, and had things like a 3am start for this morning planned, to re-rack some kit for work. For some reason, I'm getting a little bit sleepy at the moment...

I've restored some of the older posts, as promised (mostly for 2005 - earlier stuff is still yet to be done). However, due to lack of backups, I'm not entirely convinced that I have them all, and I'm not sure that all the dates are correct. Oh well, live and learn...

Is it wrong for a grown man to get excited about snow? I hope not! I'm currently in Manchester, and it snowed yesterday, enough such that it lasted all of today, too! Yay! Went out to Lyme Park with Ness, and had a walk about. I have some pictures, which I'll put in the gallery, as soon as I get it up and running...