The Wedding Party. A last minute dash across town, and eventually to Burnham. Half pleased to be doing something different, half troubled by needing to be polite and sociable. Needn't have worried, as I was greeted by lots of familiar faces, and people who seemed really pleased to see me. Music provided by Mr Tim and Mr Paul - including a startlingly unsuitable rendition of "Quicksand". Late and somewhat drunken evening, but pleasant nonetheless.
Cancellation of travels further afield allows me to assist a friend on a short trip to Bristol today. Didn't expect much entertainment from this, in the sense that the trip's purpose was by nature not a happy one. However, it turned into a pleasant day of wandering, eating, shopping and drinking far too much. Happier than I've been for a long time today. Bed early however, feeling drunk and queasy. I clearly am not as young as I used to be.
In retrospect, this was not a good week to be off - wrong end of the month financially, and at a time when the rest of the world is either hard at work or on its holidays here in Weston, which has made for a frustrating week. Hid out indoors in a self-inflicted state of misery for the beginning of the week. Relieved the boredom by playing with Red Hat's new beta - known as NULL. Impressive, with only a few annoyances. Worked on Foundation stuff a bit, to the extent that I learned some PHP and reacquainted myself with MySQL after a long period of absence.
The world has gone mad! Well, at least my little corner of it has. No-one is very happy today, even on IRC there are rumblings of confict and discord. I mostly stayed in, ate too much, and tried in vain to get mozilla to build with PSM properly. It won't, but galeon2 is now playing nicely. I suppose having no browser with SSL will preserve my bank balance if nothing else. Starting to consider what to do with next week, might disappear to Wakefield to find George's birthplace. Finished "The Emancipated" today - its taken a long time, partly because conditions have not been conducive to reading, also because bits of the story have been uncomfortably close to real life. I should really be writing up the minutes of the GNOME Foundation Membership Committee IRC meeting yesterday. Evolution is just about the only GTK+1.x application on my desktop, now Firestarter has ported.
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I've had a home on the web for more years than I care to remember, and a few kind souls persuade me it's worth persisting with keeping it updated. This current incarnation of the site is centred around the blog posts which began back in 1999 as 'the daylog' and continued through my travels and tribulations during the following years.
I don't get out and about nearly as much these days, but I do try to record significant events and trips for posterity. You may also have arrived here by following the trail to my former music blog Songs Heard On Fast Trains. That content is preserved here too.
