Well,
seeing the weather forcast for the rest of the week last night rather put
a dampener on expectations for the Cropredy music festival this year.

As
things go, Thursday doesn’t seem too bad with some showers, similarly, Friday.
However, Saturday is supposed to be the day a big low pressure system sweeps
in from the atlantic depositing copious amounts of rain over southern Britain
and blowing a gale. Oh, and the temperatures are going to plummet to autumnal
levels too.

Now, I can see that this may generate a few problems for
a festival held in fields with people camping in tents. I can see that tents
will be becoming kites, and the fields becoming mud baths due to people not
knowing how to drive properly on soft ground and churning the whole thing
up.

It was bad enough last year and then the ground was only soft and it only rained on the last day, really.

Seeing
as I live only half an hour’s drive away, I may not bother with the camping
experience and drive home at night and arrive back again early the next morning,
at least for Friday night/ Saturday morning. It all depends upon the weather.

It’s
my first afternoon back at work and I’m sitting around waiting for the alarm
installers to finish enough that I can be taught how to use the windows control
software for it.

Why is it that my holiday seems like a rapidly fading dream already?

During
lunch one of the slices of tomato made an escape bid from my baguette and
rolled down the front of my white t-shirt. I guess that’s a ruined t-shirt
now, unless tomato stains are fashionable currently.

*sulk*

Well, that was a nice fortnight.

I did various things including walking and visiting places. I took 71 photos with my camera and generally had a relaxing time. Howerver, where DID all that time go? It doesn’t seem like 2 weeks. Oh well. It’s back to work again in the morning.

I’ve 3 days at work this week until it’s time for the annual Cropredy visit.

I wasn’t going to go along this year, originally. However, Lindsey persuaded me that I should as they needed an extra car space for their tent that they’re bringing. I hope the weather’s better than forcast otherwise it’ll be even more of a mud bath than last year.

It’s now coming up to a month since the BBQ at which Sam hugged and kissed me after asking if I’d like to join herself and her house mates for dinner one evening if she could get them to arrange it. Now, nothing has happened since then, which isn’t surprising seeing as (a) I’ve been away for a fortnight and (b) the house mates through whom I have any contact with Sam haven’t been around. I’m typing this because I’m curious as to how this whole thing will play out.. if she even remembered anything the day after.

Another coming event will be having lunch with a friend who’s left her second husband recently. I was basically her emotional crutch during her first marriage break up. Indeed, I was the first person to find out about it as I was due to go around to her family house to fix their computer the night she decided to tell her husband about leaving him.. As it happened I knew before he did as i turned up to fix a computer and was asked to stay as a sort of emotional dampener and a friendly face to keep the kids occupied. Further interesting times… Maybe.

It’s
Friday again and nothing special has happened since my last proper entry
other than having a nice evening with paul and Jenn eating pizza and watching
X-Men on my DVD on Wednesday night.

Today is no ordinary Friday, however, it’s the last one before I go on holiday.

I’m just off down to my parents’ place in Cornwall again for a couple of weeks, but it will be nice to get away.

So, there’ll be no more entries here for a couple of weeks and I’ll be playing with computers very sparingly.

TTFN!

Continuing the day’s quiz of the week…

Take the What High School
Stereotype Are You? quiz, by Angel.

The
Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS) are having problems with the
network firewall between us and the outside world and have been doing so
since Saturday afternoon.

this has meant lots of problems for people
trying to access Bullet and lots of problems for me trying to access patches
and things for software. Grrrrr.

At least the weather’s nice.. And
so are the nice young ladies in skimpy summer dresses out on the lawn outside
the department… it’s nice out there! *grin*

Sorry. 🙂

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Well, it’s nearly time for holidays.

Solar mumblings and stellar events

I almost forgot about Sunday, which is easier than you might think.

Now, what did I do?

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Saturday night was “interesting.”

The BBQ was good, the company very pleasant and rapidly getting drunk. Which wasn’t really a problem.
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