Maroon 5 and Counting Crows @ Shoreline
Wednesday night… I hadn’t planned on doing anything much, when F2 offered cheap tickets to Maroon 5 & Counting Crows at Shoreline. I’d forgotten about it. When the concert was announced two or so months ago I was adamant I would go – I mean, c’mon, it’s Counting Crows – but I couldn’t find a… Read more
Bohemian Carnival
Friday before last I was itching for something to do after work, and upon prompting Steve along such lines, he suggested attending a Bohemian carnival up in the city. This sounded like an interesting idea, though I had no real idea what a Bohemian carnival was. Wikipedia filled me in on what Bohemian supposedly meant… Read more
Back online
Well, I’m finally moved in properly; the desk arrived, was setup, along with my other furniture, and I’ve started to populate them all. It turns out I have more books than I realised; I need another bookcase already. :) It’s somewhat surprising how long it takes to move everything. It was always a fair bit… Read more
Orwell who?
Someone is supposedly posting Orwell’s diaries online, 70 years to the day after they were penned. I’m not sure I’ve ever actually read any of his books, which seems a sad thing for one to say, but nonetheless his diaries are hardly inspiring. Thus far at least. Perhaps they pick up further on. :) ‘course,… Read more
We need you to get us to prove you exist
So…. banks. Yay. I went to open an online savings account. Which should be about as hard as logging in and clicking “Create new account”. Why it’s even necessary – just pay me damn interest on my checking account already, stupids – I don’t know, but let’s ignore rationality for a moment. We’ll soon have… Read more
Yay for not having to sleep on the floor!
My bed arrived today. I was down for the “8am to midday” slot, sorta kinda maybe of my own volition, or at least complacency, so I had to be up at 7am to get ready and out to the new place in case they did in fact decide to drop by at 8am. Naturally they… Read more