I’m currently sat watching Punk’s Not Dead, and the only person that they’ve seen fit to subtitle is Wattie from The Exploited, and it’s not as if he’s particularly difficult to understand. They musy have a particular problem understanding the Scots over in the US.
Update: They’ve subtitled his brother as well.
Partly inspired by Andy resurrecting a load of old photos last week, I finally got around to sticking some old photo sets up onto flickr.
In the last week I’ve picked up the Rambo Trilogy, Planet of the Apes box set, Omen Pentology, and Black Adder - The Complete Collection, all for silly prices in the HMV sale.
I also ordered my ticket to see Spiers & Boden at Widcombe Social Club, it’ll be strange going to a gig in the dingy dump where I played skittles for 14 years.
"Go-live" is off again.
E-Health Insider :: Royal United Hospital Bath shelves Millennium go-live
We took four children bowling tonight, ostensibly to celebrate Ethan and Lucien’s birthdays. The bowling wasn’t too bad, although I didn’t win, but the subsequent meal was chaos. At least they were other peoples children and I could come home on my own to some peace and quiet.
A lateish ride tonight. Despite aiming to leave at 6, Al wasn’t actually ready until 7. We did a quick trip round the Uni and Sham Castle in the evening sunshine, it could only have been improved if I’d remembered to stick a couple of cold beers into my bag for a mid-ride stop. Back home by 8:30 in time for a late dinner and the forgotten cans of beer.
Same again tomorrow probably.
After another few hours work I’ve now collected all 160 gold bricks in Lego Star Wars. Technically I’ve still only done 88.5% of the game, but there’s nothing left to gain, only those last few percentage points.
Time for Lego Indiana Jones?
After a quick trip out to the local Nissan dealer this afternoon, I now have both keys for my X-Trail, they’d got things mixed up and sent the wrong one out. I’ve also just fitted a proper set of mats to try and keep the rather impractical cream carpets clean. Hopefully that’ll be the last of the car-related faffage for the moment.
I spent a fair amount of time this weekend working my way through more of Lego Star Wars, I’ve just got the last two sections of Return of the Jedi to finish on free play, then most of the Bounty Hunter Challenges to complete. I’d nearly finished the last-but-one section and was down to the last cannister, when the PS3 decided to freeze meaning a reboot and a wasted 30-minutes of playing. I’ll try again one evening this week, then it’ll be time for Indiana Jones.
I shall mostly be watching coverage of the Le Mans 24 hour race.
Since the weather improved at the weekend I’ve not seen Mulder and Scully in the house at all. They were both in when I got home Saturday night, but have been outside ever since. Mulder was wandering round next doors garden yesterday evening, and Scully was in the garden of the house over the back this morning, both probably looking for somewhere cooler to sleep. I dare say they’ll return soon when the weather changes again.
30 miles round Chew Valley Lake on the road bike chasing Ian and Brendan. My legs ache now.
Out on the bike at 5:45 with Sandy and Al for a "hilly" route. Al and I were disadvantaged by being on singlespeeds, but it was a nice evening for a walk anyway. We climbed up out of Weston then dropped down into North Stoke, climbed back up onto Lansdown for a play in the woods, then dropped back down off the other side and climbed up to Swainswick before heading home. We did about 14.5 miles with 1600+ft of climbing in perfect weather.
To be honest though, I didn’t really need a 4×4 to drive across that field.
Another Bath Music Festival concert and also the last concert and therefore the closing party. It turned out to be one of the most energetic gigs I’ve been to, though not for me as my back was playing up again. Bristolians Babyhead opened the night with their infectious mix of Ska and Hip-Hop (Skip-Hop?), warming the crowd up nicely and getting everyone moving, and then keeping them moving for a good hour or so.
After a short gap the eleven members of Bellowhead all managed to fit onto the stage, and proceeded to work their way through most of E.P. onymous, Burlesque, and a fair chunk of the forthcoming album due out later in the year, culminating about 90 minutes later in second encore which was the 5-and-a-bit minutes of on-stage anarchy known as Sloe Gin.
All in all a fantastic night.
As Simon pointed out, I should have mentioned in my last post that Campagnolo is going to eleven for 2009 by bringing in an 11-speed cassette. They are also resurrecting the Super Record name, presumably as the new top-end group above the existing Chorus and Record.
Al and Ginger Dan failed to go climbing tonight, so we ended up heading out to the local curry house for a curry, where during the course of the meal Al and I discovered that Dan had never seen This is Spinal Tap, something we had to rectify straight away. So on our return we sat in front of the TV with a few beers and my DVD of the film and chuckled our way through 80 minutes of genius.
Despite having watched it on numerous occasions, it’s still one of my favourite films. The curry was pretty damn good as well.
I rand the local big Halfords to ask about them fitting a handfree kit to the car as their fitting costs are quite cheap. It turns out that they will only fit them between 9am and 4pm on weekdays. That’s not a lot of use to anybody really.
As I was back from the garage early and had a parcel to pick up at 4:30 I decided to head out on the 69er for a spin. Usual Uni route to start, but I skipped Rainbow Woods, took the back route to the Cats and Dogs home, then a different route along some footpaths round the back of the Uni into the descent through the woods that I’d not done for a few years. To be honest the last bit through the woods was a bit of a mistake, lots of wet and slippery rocks and roots which is one of my least favourite surfaces, the Bonty tyres seem particularly slippy. The tram line descent was "interesting" and I managed to crash part way down when the bike slid sideways underneath me on some slick rocks. Other than that it was good to be back out on the bike again, even if it was only 12 miles.
After 20 minutes work and remarkably little swearing, the garage have removed the old locking wheel nuts and fitted new ones which actually have a key. It’s safe for me to have a puncture or wear a tyre out now.
Did you miss me? Why do we only get power cuts here when I’m away. There was one when I was in Kettering last, and another when I was in France last week.
Monday could be interesting at work.
Update: French photos
