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Following the stream of protest comments, I suppose I should update this here blog shouldnt I?
I'm currently in bed typing this and watching "Ong Bak", which I was recommended I see after I was so enamoured of "Born to Fight" that I saw at the FrightFest. Gotta love these Thai action films.
What you all seem to want to know is what I have been doing these past few weeks, so I will start with the short visit to Cornwall. Shell's mum and step-dad were staying in a holiday cottage in Trelash (note: don't try and get online directions from The AA Website as it has no idea where Trelash is. Google however, does.) The cottage sleeps 10 in 5 bedrooms - so it was pretty huge but very much in the middle of nowhere (apart from next to a field of cows and a pig barn).
Anyhow, we drove down there on the Thursday afternoon (the 15th) and stayed til the morning of the 17th. On the Friday morning, we visited Tintagel Castle to climb the mount and look at the ruins. I was OK on the way up, but the steep and uneven steps on the way down freaked me out. I had the chance to go up to the courtyards but the mass of steps put me off, so I took the dog back down with me instead :) My fear (I would say phobia...) of steps is all due to when I smashed my leg up back in 2000 walking down the stairs. I can manage normal stairs without too much problem, providing no-one is mucking around on them and I'm not carrying anything. But these steps were a disaster!
The views from the top were pretty amazing though - the surf smashing all around the little peninsula and the slightly eerieness of Merlins Cave. Great stuff.
We then moved onto Boscastle. Back in August of last year, the small fishing village was pretty much destroyed as floods ravaged their way through it. If you live in the UK, you would have heard about it on the national news. Anyway, we saw the repairs and rebuilding work that has taken place and there isnt much left to see of the devastation it left behind. Apart from the water level indicators up near the eaves of lots of the houses. It was a serious bit flooding...
The Friday evening saw us all dressed up and having a Murder Mystery evening. We played Murder by Candlelight. It was excellent. You need a couple of people who can ad-lib and keep the momentum going and work from the scant details the plot sheet gives you. In all it took about 2.5hrs to run through and the included eating time throughout. At the end, we all had to make our accusations and I accused Shell of the murder - and I ended up being right. Maybe I'm in the wrong job!
Anyway, Xmas presents. I've been buying some. This time of the year is expenseive!- December 6th - Chandlers Birthday
- December 25th - Christmas (Shell/Rhiannon/Chandler)
- January 4th - Shells Birthday
See what I mean?
I cant say what I have bought on here as Shell reads it on a regular basis. The only present she and her mum know about (its a combined present for them) is that they have tickets to see Billy Idol in Wolverhampton sometime in November.
In other news, I got myself a Belkin F5D7130 access point and already had a generic make PCMCIA card for my laptop. I've been having all sorts of problems with it, but these have now been sorted out. Essentially, what I did was install the latest firmware for the F5D7230 router onto it, disabled the extra bits that it does and hey presto - its been stable ever since - touch wood...
I also finally got my A4000T back from Motorman - man have I missed it! It now has a Cyberstorm PPC card in it with 128mb, replacing the GVP 4060 card with 32mb I had before. Boy does it fly! Due to the offloading of certain things to the PPC card (gfx handling, etc) and the UltraSCSI, I think.
On Friday (just gone) myself and the rest of the guys from the network team in the UK (bar 2 of us) went across to Dublin to meet the rest of our team in HP. An ace time was had and our manager Declan funded the very large bar bill (�1170) for the 14 or so of us!!! What a man!
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