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I'm back!
Posted Feb 9, 2004
It's been a long time, about ten months, since i last had net access at home, but here i am. It's been busy and 2004 looks like it's going to get busier, but more about that later...
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...taking a back seat for a while
Posted Mar 27, 2003
been a bit busy lately, my flat has been totally transformed and my computer is no longer in the front room (where the phone line is), so I won't be online at home after the end of the month. I'll still be calling in here and checking my e-mails from time to time, whenever I can get on somebody else's 'puter.
"hang on", I hear you say, "I thought he had a laptop". It is, but it's donkeys years old and the screen is very temperemental, so there's always a 15" monitor plugged in the back (which isn't exactly portable). in fact, I'm typing this in notepad out in the bedroom so I can just copy&paste it later on the net. I tried to write something last night, but the screen went all ghey as I was typing it.
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after living here for a year with bare cement floors except for in the kitchen & bathroom, I had a laminate floor laid right through the flat a fortnight ago. it only took a day to do. I'd spent the previous day with some friends picking up the wood (well, MDF really) and underlay and moving all the furniture into the bathroom & the kitchen and onto the shelves in the bedroom. on the day, after putting my bed in the bathroom, my uncle and cousin (both carpenters) turned up with a load of tools, kicked a roll of underlay down the hall and started laying the wood in the middle. one worked towards the front room and the other toward the bedroom. one by one, other friends and cousins turned up to help with shuffling around what furniture we couldn't fit into hiding the day before and making tea, and rolling numbers.
we stopped work about fourish to go up the pub to watch Wales lose pathetically to Scotland. bah 
never mind, they did much better the other day against Ireland, now if France can just have one of their off-days...... and, we may have lost, but that means Ireland can still do the grand slam. C'MON EIRE!
anyway, we had our coats on before the final whistle and when it came, we got back to the grindstone and the entire floor was laid, doors planed off and tools packed up & dust swept away by about half-nine. then, me and three of the boys started unpacking the furniture, but ended up just partying. the following day we finished unpacking and started to set up and plumb in my project studio in the bedroom. ......which brings me back to my laptop,
all the musical gear that was dotted around the front room is now assembled together in a semi-organised manageable little studio. computer in the corner, mixer to the right, effects & amp underneath and synth, organ and beatbox to the left. I will shortly be getting my brother's old Pentium II, complete with network card and a clean windows install. I'll connect my laptop to it, transfer over my files & documents and then completely wipe the laptop. then I'll take it to have the screen looked at and then, hopefully, I'll get back online. knowing how long it usually takes me to get things sorted, it'd probably take me 'till November to do.
er, that's it for now.
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Latest reply: Mar 27, 2003
Woo-Hoooo!!!!
Posted Mar 7, 2003
at last, it's arrived!
Just taken delivery of a Viscount DB3 drawbar organ. Based on the classic Hammond B3, but a lot more affordable and quite a bit smaller. Look out Charlatans, look out Booker T, I'm gonna get soulful.
Right, I'm off to play with my organ. Solo. [fnar, fnar]
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On my own, again.
Posted Feb 23, 2003
As of yesterday, I'm a single free man again. No more best-behaviour, no more shaving every bloody day, my flat can now degenerate into the chaotic, messy batchelor pad it should be. No more conversations with her mother, no more Eastenders or Corrie Orrie, no more umm, no more er..., no more regular sex
My woman has left me, duh-duh-du-Duh.
She done left me alone, duh-duh-du-Duh.
I got those moaning blues, duh-duh-du-Duh.
and I'm gonna moan, duh-nuh-na-Duh. Duh. Duh.
looking on the bright side, though, my phone bills should be cheaper now.
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