We met up with ickle_tayto, blackberry_roan & pearcider for lunch in town.

Was good to see ickle_tayto after her trip to the US & haven't seen blackberry_roan in ages.

Bit more sorting on the room. Had to put some boxes in the house side passage as the room was a tip. Took down some more shelves & filled holes.

Tired now.

Don't make me laugh

As lady_bastet has mentioned, we'll be renting a house with pearcider at the end of the month.

We spent the whole weekend packing up stuff from my mum & dad's house. Amazing how much stuff one collects over the years. Massive thanks to nephster13 for all the boxes. We've offered the room to my brother because we'll be moving everything out & the room will be empty (& we'll probably be over every once in a while now).

The farce begins though on the Sandyford side in lady_bastet's mum & dad's house. We had planned to move a lot of stuff out of the room but hang on to it for storage because we have so much stuff & don't want to clutter the new house. lady_bastet just rang me, informing me that her sister has nominated the room for herself & is not moving out with her partner (so much for commitment there).

lady_bastet has always said that the room would remain hers & we're both astonished how brazen & utterly lazy (down to the atomic level) her sister is.

Photos

Flickr's slideshow is great but scales the photos to the initial size of the browser window so I recommend maximizing and refreshing.

2007-09-30 Dominion
2007-08-18 Dominion
2007-03-21 Dominion

2006-11-19 Dominion
2006-09-17 Dominion
2006-08-20 Dominion
2006-06-11 Dominion
2006-05-20 Dominion
2006-04-29 Dominion
2006-03-05 Dominion
2006-02-19 Dominion
2006-02-04 Dominion
2006-01-28 Dominion
2006-01-22 Dominion

2005-12-10 Dominion
2005-12-03 Dominion
2005-11-26 Dominion
2005-11-19 Dominion
2005-10-22 Dominion
2005-09-24 Dominion
2005-09-10 Dominion
2005-09-03 Dominion
2005-08-29 Dominion
2005-08-13 Dominion

Brum brum miaow

Cat takes the bus...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=447527&in_page_id=1770

Xbox News

Leaked then confirmed news of the features of a new update due in May for the Xbox 360 dashboard.

Also a dinky keypad for typing in Messenger chats on the way.

Beautiful photos...

http://www.viona-art.com/
http://www.nadyalev.com/

New Shiny

I ordered a sweet external hard drive off Komplett. The one I have at the moment is quite bulky so I can bring this one around with me.

Massive thanks to karlthulhu & littlepinkfaery for having us over & taking care of us.

Had a great time at Carnival of Souls. Nice to have another festival to go to. They are fun.

Must remember next time to pick up lots of flyers for Dominion. Got some from Devolution mag though.

The Decemberists

I've been listening to Phantom in work (most of the day to be honest) & a few tracks/artists have caught my ear.

The Decemberists have a fantastic song called O Valencia which is played at least once a day. Love it, check them out. Especially karlthulhu, I think you may like them.

http://www.decemberists.com/
http://www.myspace.com/thedecemberists

(The video wasn't what I expected though but still good)

TV card

Got a Hauppauge WinTV PVR 500 MCE dual tuner TV card with FM receiver. Works perfectly with Vista.

I have it set up to use the cable off the NTL set top box rather than the digital as we need that for the main TV.

It's pretty cool though. So glad it worked as the one I bought about 2 years ago was a non starter.