This thing had better be worth it, given the trouble I had actually getting it out of Currys!
Celebrate!
Finally, I can call myself a TASC graduate 🙂
Niagara Falls!
Some of you may suspect that I’m not having a great time over here, having read my previous posts. Well, yesterday we drove to Niagara to see the Falls.
Okay, so the drivers were still idiots, and the roads are full of lumps and bumps, but the 2.5-hour trip out (only two back – how odd) was well worth it. Even though the temperature was around 30°C by the time we got there, and the humidity correspondingly high, it’s just such a lovely place to wander around.
We didn’t have time to do more than cruise the part of the town on the other side of the hills, and Niagara-on-the-Lake was a bit of a whistle-stop tour, but we’d seen the falls, which was the main thing. I could spend hours there, with the right person and the right camera; as did many of the other tourists, politely walking around other tourists who were having their photos taken with the Falls as backdrop.
So you see, it’s not as bad as I may have painted earlier. Mind you, I’ll be back in the UK in about 40 hours (as I write), so I’d better make the most of the last 24 hours here… and top up my tan a bit…
Dancing Queen
Well, it was the Big Party last night, and some unlucky souls didn’t quite make it, so there was plenty of food left over. And getting people to dance was a nightmare sometimes.
But them that came seemed to enjoy themselves!
I, of course, as your genial host, never quite got around to having a sane or sensible conversation with anyone, including my family. And, as event organiser (must add that to my CV), I was the first one in and the last one out (after paying the bar tab), so I couldn’t even get all that drunk. Which is a shame in a way, but I did get loads of belated pressies, mainly rum, but also two bottles of champagne (bad news for when Pam next visits, she’ll have to drink half) and some red wine, some German liqueurs and a kettle (thanks, Charmaine).
Fit, fab & forty!
Oh well… one out of three ain’t bad!
Apparently, I share my birthday with Therese Russell and Spike Lee (both 50), Holly Hunter, Steve McFadden, William Hurt, Vera Lynn, Michael Redgrave, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Henrik Ibsen and Ovid. And lots of other people, too. And Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity today in 1913.
And my lovely colleagues, bless them, raided this very web site for pictures to stick up on the walls around the office and lifts. Gosh, but it looks good!
Tree-mendous!
Yes… I’ve bought my first Christmas tree. Never, ever had one before while living on my own (and this is the second extended period of alone-living I’m in in the last 20 years). But there’s actually space in the living room now for a five-footer, standing on a small table, with the lights built-in. Now, if only I had some decorations…
Awww!
Back now from my nephew’s christening (well, one of the nephews, anyway).
Good grief!
Got an email today, telling me that the web site I manage for 59 Squadron has been short-listed for an award: a CIPR (Yorkshire & Lincolnshire) PRide award!
I’m… shocked.
You can read more about the awards at www.cipr.co.uk/prideawards. Posh dinner to look forward to in November then!
Read it and weep
I have in my hand a piece of paper that says I know what I’m talking about!
Party on!
Well, there you go… one 3,000-word essay and one 2,000-word critique finished, and to be hand-delivered to TASC tomorrow. Although, if we’re being strictly accurate I did take advantage of the ±10% guideline. I think you can guess which way, too…
Still, time to relax now, next (and final) module is in April 2007. Better check the resubmission dates though… just in case…