List of stuff I wanted to do today:

trip to beautician for painful stuff
bake olive cake
cut up mangos and freeze the cut up pieces
dinner
weave the ends on the cardigan and wash and shape it
proofread a document for a friend
close look at iPhone App development tools
reinstall Java development tools on the computer
change sheets on bed.
wash sheets from [...]

You know, I can’t actually remember the last time I was in Surfdock. No. I’m lying. I was windsurfing there with a group from work a couple of years ago, and I set up my first kite lessons  through Alan an awful long time ago now. I liked Alan a lot. Bought the odd bit [...]

I got up. I went to the shopping centre. I bought jeans. I hate shopping for clothes when I need clothes – that’s the way it is – it’s hell. Shopping centres on Sunday can be hell squared. So I was up early – didn’t even have breakfast.
When I came home, I had breakfast and [...]

I have no idea what the plans for 2009 were because the site that had the piece on them disappeared into nothingness in July. So I’m fighting blind here.
Good things I did this year

moved house back into the city after threatening to do so for 3 years. I realise now that after 7 years in [...]

Cool stuff:

racing driving lessons
climbing
Tarifa
boards.ie photography exhibition
moving house and living back in the city area rather than 10 miles out.
having fresh herbs growing in the garden.
having a garden dammit
two other personal things.

I tried diving lessons. They weren’t so successful. I have rope to make a rope mat as well – I haven’t worked out how to [...]

We have eight days or so to the shortest day in the year. December 21/22 is usually messed up by people looking for the sunrise in Newgrange (good luck to them), but the plus point about it is that it’s the turning point of the winter. It may get colder for parts of January and [...]

I swore I wouldn’t but some how I failed to say “no” when the opportunity presented itself. I intend to be less intense about it.

So, for my sins I have experience writing assembler (beat that), Java (hmmm) and that other stuff what’s it called, Visual Basic (cupla versions ago, let’s not brag about that) and am in the process of looking at possible Masters options. I can sort of battle my way around some php but with quite a [...]

I had one of the more painful trips to the beauty salon today, the one whereby they hurt you in the pursuit of beauty. Why’s this we do this again? Anyway, the bribe with which I bribe myself to do this is a trip into Easons in the shopping centre to check out the magazines. [...]

On Thursday, while browsing in Easons, I discovered that WhiteLines, the snowboarding magazine, had a free DVD included with this issue. As past experience has shown free DVDs on the covers of extreme sports magazines to be well worth 7E or so, I bought it, despite not being all that interested in snowboarding.
Part of the [...]