Hard to believe that I've only been to 10 different countries.
Sunday, 18 April 2010
Places I've been
There's this Cities I've Visited thing on Tripadvisor.com that lets you make a map showing everywhere you've been in the world -- Mine are all in Europe but hey ho....
Hard to believe that I've only been to 10 different countries.
Hard to believe that I've only been to 10 different countries.
Saturday, 13 February 2010
Bored :-(
Dumped my ex partner of 2 years and 6 months a couple of weeks ago...
Had a friend round for the weekend last weekend and had good company with him watching Skins Series one on DVD and a couple of movies too.
Been on a couple of gay dating/social networking sites the past week or so and have 2 different young men who say they are interested but appear to be time-wasters.
Am a bit bored waiting for them to prove they aren't time-wasters but it's looking like they are :-(
I'm going to get the one that I'm meant to be having round today for a meal and cuddles and a movie until 14:00hrs to respond to a text message asking when he plans to come round. His phone is currently switched off -- just tried to phne him as my text to him hadn't had a delivery receipt.
And then I'm going to phone the friend from last weekend and ask if he still wants to see me today.
I guess that's what happens when you get chased by a young man half your age -- they mess you around :-(
Had a friend round for the weekend last weekend and had good company with him watching Skins Series one on DVD and a couple of movies too.
Been on a couple of gay dating/social networking sites the past week or so and have 2 different young men who say they are interested but appear to be time-wasters.
Am a bit bored waiting for them to prove they aren't time-wasters but it's looking like they are :-(
I'm going to get the one that I'm meant to be having round today for a meal and cuddles and a movie until 14:00hrs to respond to a text message asking when he plans to come round. His phone is currently switched off -- just tried to phne him as my text to him hadn't had a delivery receipt.
And then I'm going to phone the friend from last weekend and ask if he still wants to see me today.
I guess that's what happens when you get chased by a young man half your age -- they mess you around :-(
Sunday, 17 January 2010
Old Faces
Was out last night on the scene and bumped into an ex that I went out with about 3 years ago for a few months :-P
That was the first time in 3 years I'd seen him out on the scene -- different bars I guess.
That was the first time in 3 years I'd seen him out on the scene -- different bars I guess.
Thursday, 5 November 2009
Snow Leopard Upgrade
I upgraded my main mac to Snow Leopard just over a month ago :-)
I eventually setup Time Machine a couple of weeks ago which is quite good for my piece of mind.
Have spent a lot of time with iPhoto 09 naming faces in it's face recognition - I'm not really sure how wonderful this will be.
What is great is another feature of iPhoto -- the one-touch uploading of photos to the internet. You get severl host sites - mobileme -Apple's own web hosting, Facebook and Flicker. I don't think it's got Picasa though... You just select the photos you want to upload (I did it with my Facebook account) click the icon for the host and POW! it uploads them to an album in Facebook :-) no more browsing for each individual photo and waiting for it to upload before you can pick the next one. I went to town a bit and uploaded selected photos from the past 6 years into about 60 albums.
It was easier than transferring photos to my digital photoframe.
I eventually setup Time Machine a couple of weeks ago which is quite good for my piece of mind.
Have spent a lot of time with iPhoto 09 naming faces in it's face recognition - I'm not really sure how wonderful this will be.
What is great is another feature of iPhoto -- the one-touch uploading of photos to the internet. You get severl host sites - mobileme -Apple's own web hosting, Facebook and Flicker. I don't think it's got Picasa though... You just select the photos you want to upload (I did it with my Facebook account) click the icon for the host and POW! it uploads them to an album in Facebook :-) no more browsing for each individual photo and waiting for it to upload before you can pick the next one. I went to town a bit and uploaded selected photos from the past 6 years into about 60 albums.
It was easier than transferring photos to my digital photoframe.
Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Carrot Cake :-P
Made some carrot cake this evening :-P
A female colleague has been pestering me to make and bring in to work since I did in March for my birthday. I finally caved in and made because I had carrots left over from buying a bag to go with supper on Friday night. So, all I needed to buy was some cream cheese for in the icing.
Made 3 separate cakes by dividing the mixture between three one pound loaf tins - it also has the advantage of the cakes cooking more evenly in my ancient and clapped out oven. Got in a bit of a mess when I was making the icing as I kept adding too much icing sugar at one time and it getting everywhere which meant it got all-over my clothes as I was sitting on the couch in the lounge watching TV as I made it.
Am giving the female colleague one of the cakes as she's meeting a friend who's visiting from half a world away -- can't recall if her friend is from Oz or N.Z.
I'll take another one in to work to slice and share with other colleagues -- it wont last long there!
And the last one, which had a slight accident (it fell on its side and covered the kitchen worktop with icing - which tastes lovely! - you didn't expect me not to taste the icing that stuck to the worktop?) but I managed to repair its icing, will go with me to R's on Thursday night to share -- he enjoyed it the last time I made for him.
I do enjoy baking when I remember to do some -- I just wish there wasn't so much washing up to do :-(
A female colleague has been pestering me to make and bring in to work since I did in March for my birthday. I finally caved in and made because I had carrots left over from buying a bag to go with supper on Friday night. So, all I needed to buy was some cream cheese for in the icing.
Made 3 separate cakes by dividing the mixture between three one pound loaf tins - it also has the advantage of the cakes cooking more evenly in my ancient and clapped out oven. Got in a bit of a mess when I was making the icing as I kept adding too much icing sugar at one time and it getting everywhere which meant it got all-over my clothes as I was sitting on the couch in the lounge watching TV as I made it.
Am giving the female colleague one of the cakes as she's meeting a friend who's visiting from half a world away -- can't recall if her friend is from Oz or N.Z.
I'll take another one in to work to slice and share with other colleagues -- it wont last long there!
And the last one, which had a slight accident (it fell on its side and covered the kitchen worktop with icing - which tastes lovely! - you didn't expect me not to taste the icing that stuck to the worktop?) but I managed to repair its icing, will go with me to R's on Thursday night to share -- he enjoyed it the last time I made for him.
I do enjoy baking when I remember to do some -- I just wish there wasn't so much washing up to do :-(
Monday, 8 December 2008
Xmas Myth
I’m always reminded of the Sermon during Advent that our Church of Scotland Minister gave when I was in my early teens which he called “Taking the Christ out of Christmas?”.
The Press had been banging on about using the abbreviation Xmas was replacing Christ with an X and attempting to secularise the feast.
He went on to explain that the abbreviation of Christmas to Xmas originated many centuries ago when it was common place to refer to Christ with the Greek letter Chi which looks like an X.
So, in fact, people when abbreviating Christmas to Xmas are still keeping irt Christian!
The Press had been banging on about using the abbreviation Xmas was replacing Christ with an X and attempting to secularise the feast.
He went on to explain that the abbreviation of Christmas to Xmas originated many centuries ago when it was common place to refer to Christ with the Greek letter Chi which looks like an X.
So, in fact, people when abbreviating Christmas to Xmas are still keeping irt Christian!
Run-up to Christmas
How ready are you for Christmas?
I finished buying all my presents last weekend and wrapped them too.
Wrote all the cards that have to be posted and posted them on Saturday this weekend past. All I need to do now is write cards for workmates but, having changed jobs in July, who do I send to? Do I send to my immediate colleagues and all the cute younger men in the office? (Even those who are married?)
The office Christmas meal is on Wednesday 10/12/2008... The team I used to be in there was a lot of drinking the past few years and last year I was too drunk to have gone home on the bus and got mugged for my mobile phone which made it an expensive night out. And a very traumatic experience and a lot of worries for my loved ones as they made abusive phone calls to my family before I got the SIM card blocked and saying that I was in hospital and they'd beaten me up etc.
I don't intend to get that bad this year and have been made to promise my partner that I will get a taxi home if I do. He lives 170miles away and was very worried about me last year.
I finished buying all my presents last weekend and wrapped them too.
Wrote all the cards that have to be posted and posted them on Saturday this weekend past. All I need to do now is write cards for workmates but, having changed jobs in July, who do I send to? Do I send to my immediate colleagues and all the cute younger men in the office? (Even those who are married?)
The office Christmas meal is on Wednesday 10/12/2008... The team I used to be in there was a lot of drinking the past few years and last year I was too drunk to have gone home on the bus and got mugged for my mobile phone which made it an expensive night out. And a very traumatic experience and a lot of worries for my loved ones as they made abusive phone calls to my family before I got the SIM card blocked and saying that I was in hospital and they'd beaten me up etc.
I don't intend to get that bad this year and have been made to promise my partner that I will get a taxi home if I do. He lives 170miles away and was very worried about me last year.
Tuesday, 3 June 2008
Success in merging gmail account with blogger...
Just had to post this as it was so useful:
how-to-change-blog-owner
Was on the google groups help for blogger and found a guy called panther's reply to a thread asking how to move a blogger blog to a different gmail account.
link to thread
His answer was great and now both mes are one me according to Google and blogger :-)
how-to-change-blog-owner
Was on the google groups help for blogger and found a guy called panther's reply to a thread asking how to move a blogger blog to a different gmail account.
link to thread
His answer was great and now both mes are one me according to Google and blogger :-)
Looking forward to camping...
Going camping in the New Forest this coming weekend with R and a friend of his.
Main thing for me is will be going to the Mini Cooper event at Beaulieu so I can get some trim parts for my classic mini :-)
Hope the weather will be good as there have been some rather wet days recently. We had it a bit wet when we were camping with OUT near Uffington.
Main thing for me is will be going to the Mini Cooper event at Beaulieu so I can get some trim parts for my classic mini :-)
Hope the weather will be good as there have been some rather wet days recently. We had it a bit wet when we were camping with OUT near Uffington.
Macified update...
Unfortunately, the loads of memory was DDR memory not PC100 or PC133 that would have been compatible with the iMac :-)
Just won an ebay auction for some 256MB PC100 DIMMs so can make the iMac Snow have double the memory. Currently bidding on an iMac which has a DVD drive in it as an external DVD drive on the Snow isn't fast enough for playing DVD movies. should get it on Saturday if I win the auction...
Just won an ebay auction for some 256MB PC100 DIMMs so can make the iMac Snow have double the memory. Currently bidding on an iMac which has a DVD drive in it as an external DVD drive on the Snow isn't fast enough for playing DVD movies. should get it on Saturday if I win the auction...
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