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Still here

Alex — Mon, 17 May 2010 11:55:00 +0000

I should be on a plane at this point, however ash has conspired to cancel my connecting flight this morning. I’m now re-booked onto another flight this evening so I’ll still be in South Africa in time for meetings just on considerably less sleep.

The weekend was lovely and relaxed. We attended to some wedding preparation on the Saturday including measuring me up for my suit and picking up the wedding rings. As I very rarely wear the things it still feels a little odd making my left hand hang a little oddly, I’m sure I’ll get used to it soon enough though

As I was due to be leaving home at 3.30 in the morning on Monday we time shifted Sunday to try and make the morning less painful. Fliss cooked me a wonderful roast Chicken dinner and we enjoyed a quite evening together. I was fairly relieved when the flight cancellation notification finally came through. It was much nicer waking up at a civilised time in the morning with my soon to be wife.

Here comes the Sun

Alex — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:09:08 +0000

The weather this weekend was a lot nicer, not only sunny but also well on the right side of the thermometer. Fliss and I spent Sunday in front of the Grand Prix going through the wedding spreadsheet and started mailing out the wedding invites. However it’s already become apparent that we’ve not been nearly inventive enough with the hidden code. The next one will almost certainly involve a cipher of some sort – although possibly not as advanced as the ones in the xkcd book.

While the Facebook group is a handy solution for those on Facebook we are actually managing the responses via our own website. For those (very few) interested people the hacked up version of the Events Manager plugin can be found on my github pages.

We are up in Manchester next weekend and the following weekend we climb Snowden. It certainly feels like I’m awakening from hibernation. Today was the first day I got into work without having to massage the live back into frozen fingers.

Start of Spring?

Alex — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:26:29 +0000

In many ways February has been a bit of bumpy month, the sort when your never quite sure if your going to hit take-off speed for the year. Luckily it’s a short month and this morning I cycled out into bright sunshine on my new bike.

Since the death of my old bike I’ve been muddling along with walking in and using the bike my Dad loaned me. All too often I’ve taken the easier car route and driven the 1 mile (as opposed to 4 mile bike route) to work. However I now have a bright new shiny, off road, well geared and well braked Giant Talon 1 and no more excuses for taking the easier route in. Hopefully I can start reducing the post-Christmas spread that I’ve obtained over the winter months.

Smooth Running

Alex — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:37:21 +0000

I came home on the metro today after a month or so of using the pretty efficient bus service. The ride is certainly a lot smoother although they seem to be taking it easy on the new rails at the moment. I knew it was quieter as I could hear my radio without having to turn the volume up to silly levels. We shall see if the other promises of increased reliability materialise over the next few years.

Last weekend was the second weekend in a row I’ve spent in London. Hi-lights include seeing Jo O and her new physics bloke. Apparently I engaged in some willy waving although I like to feel my question about the practical use of the knowledge of the Standard Model was a conversational gambit.

We went to see All About My Mother at the Old Vic last night. It was a preview night but despite Spacey’s “Just in case” speech it all seemed to go quite well. It certainly wins a lot of technical points for the amount of scene changing involved. Diana Rigg was excellent playing Huma and plaudits should also go to Mark Gatiss for his portrayal of the transvestite prostitute Agrado.