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Somehow its already February. this means theres a few beer festivals imminent.

10-12 February - battersea - http://batterseabeerfestival.org.uk/
25-28 February - bricklayers - http://www.bricklayers-arms.co.uk/?p=295
10-12 March - london drinker - http://www.camranorthlondon.org.uk/ldbf/

I should be there on the thursday of each of them. maybe see you there.

... or I may have just found a killer combo of alcohol.

Im on the second day of hangover after my birthday meal at Hawksmoor. The steak was great. I really enjoyed my 1.1Kg of Chateaubriand. I perhaps should have eaten more vegetables with it but that would have probably meant wasting steak. Their prawn cocktail was pretty good as well. I wasnt sure about the trifle though. Trifles should not have jelly in them.

Im probably still suffering from the hangover because of the mix of drinks I had. ESB, Fuller's Vintage, London Porter, Pineapple and Sage Mojito, lots of Malbec and a port plus a few normal beers. It could of course have been the evil GIN in the dessert I finished for kake. I blame the gin. Entirely its fault i tell you.

I suppose if I have to clean up my fathers computer there are worse places to do it than the pub. Currently in the Crown on brewer street which has made the good beer guide this year. Some of the beer is really quite cheap for central london. London Pride is £2.50. rgl review to come once kake has uploaded the new gbg data.

So now I've seen england win the ashes in the flesh the only thing left on my list is to see england win a rugby world cup in the flesh. roll on new zealand in 2011.

I do have another life goal but that gets done during my plans to go and watch the rugby world cup in new zealand.

thinking about it there is another. Being at all the games of an England grand slam. I've done all the home games before.

So ive been going through my boxes of technology. I seem to have a lot of spare power cables. This calls for a poll.

Poll #1009 Power Cables
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 8

How many spare power cables does one person need?

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1
0 (0.0%)

2
1 (12.5%)

3
1 (12.5%)

4
0 (0.0%)

5
0 (0.0%)

6-10
1 (12.5%)

10-20
3 (37.5%)

30-50
0 (0.0%)

50-100
0 (0.0%)

100+
1 (12.5%)

Millons!
1 (12.5%)

Current Mood: busy

Going to Petersham. Mainly to meet up with people in the Dysart Arms

Shouting at co-workers. I got a touch angry during a live deployment on wednesday.

Drinking! Two days of supping tasty beer at the gbbf. The st austell black prince was the only thing to really stand out. The gunpowder mild was pretty good as well.

Eating pig! I probably had far too many pork scratchings at the gbbf. Although there was a disturbing lack of hairy ones. I also had a 20 inch bratwurst.

Staying at home! I couldnt face another day at the gbbf on friday and the weather didnt look too good so didnt go to croydon for the surrey match at whitgift. Instead listened to a fantastic england batting collapse. just like bad old days. ahh the memories.

Blogging! I actually wrote a technical blog post after over a year. signed apt repos if you like that sort thing. also in a meta kind of way this post.

Current Mood: apathetic

You have voted havent you? Or you intend to I hope.

For the first time in a while I actually didnt spoil my ballot paper or vote for the Monster Raving Loonies. I may have even voted for a mainstream political party.

( Image and poll. May contain flesh (sfw) )

Current Location: La Mora, Tarragona, Spain

Its warm and sunny in spain. Although it is cloudy at the moment. I seem to have tanned quite a lot already.

The trip down was relatively uneventful. We did Godalming to La Mora in just under 18 hours in the car. We actually did the eurotunnel to the french/spanish border in just under 11 hours.

We had 62 confirmed sightings of windsocks[1] in france. We think there were another 2 but didnt see them. One of the ones we missed was on the villau viaduct. which is pretty impressive.

Biggest sign the machines are taking over is that one of the roadsigns told me i was going to fast. It did freak me out a bit.

Finished 1 book so far. House of suns. I had stopped reading this after about 100 pages a few months ago but made an effort to carry on during this holiday and it was worth it. Obviously just a slow start. Now finally reading Executive Orders by Tom Clancy after having owned it for about 5 years. Its been pretty good so far. I get the impression I might be missing stuff by not having read the previous book but I dont feel to out of the loop. A lot of what you need to know gets regurgitated.

[1] Windsocks are an important part of every car journey. honest.

Current Location: La Mora, Spain

yet again i win at teh interwebnets.

so, kake forced an invite code on me. given that i ended up with bob as my account name that might be enough of a reason to switch from lj. then again i have a permanent account on lj.

decisions decisions

then again there is a lack of goats here.

Current Location: sunny bermondsey
Current Mood: bah

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