Monday May 20 2002 at 12:24 GMT
My weekend was FUN! On Friday, (Iain) Nicol arrived, and we kicked off with a few early beers. We started at 2pm and completed our Tour of Many Bars at about 2am. We had a lot to catch up on, including a visit to Fopp, our favourite rekkid store.
Saturday morning started early (WAY too early for my liking). 11 of us headed out to Skirmish for the start of Dave Smith's stag day (Nicol is best man and I was there after offering to provide accomodation :). It was a lot of fun, and the yellow team, of which I was a member, successfully won four games out of four and I was part of the final few left standing at the end of every game. My patient hiding and then striking paid off!
In the evening, we headed off for food at The Khukuri - a mighty fine Nepalese restaurant. After that it was on for a few beers at the Hogshead, a venue of questionable intent and finally on to Revolution after a KB from the doormen at Gaia because ... uh ... because more than 56.397% of our group had dark hair, no glasses but sideburns longer than 1.2". Rev (as the kids call it) is a pretty divey place, but, as we found out, there is a limit as to where a group of guys can go at 12.30 on a Saturday night. You can read some 'informational reviews' here.
Sunday morning began early AGAIN as Nicol had a train to catch. We enjoyed(?) our early morning sauage and egg McMuffins in the gardens, then I took an invigorating walk home in the sunshine!
I've managed to pick up a cold over the weekend, so Sunday was spent blowing my nose and drinking orange juice with my brother. I also finally found a good MP3 ripper, so I grabbed the stuff I just bought and got ripping. CDex has totally rocked thus far and I am finally able to create high quality MP3s. After some thought, I've just gone for 192kbps as I want others to be able to listen. 256kbps, whilst sounding better, just increases the filesize too much.
All of my Friday purchases were 'random':
Saturday morning started early (WAY too early for my liking). 11 of us headed out to Skirmish for the start of Dave Smith's stag day (Nicol is best man and I was there after offering to provide accomodation :). It was a lot of fun, and the yellow team, of which I was a member, successfully won four games out of four and I was part of the final few left standing at the end of every game. My patient hiding and then striking paid off!
In the evening, we headed off for food at The Khukuri - a mighty fine Nepalese restaurant. After that it was on for a few beers at the Hogshead, a venue of questionable intent and finally on to Revolution after a KB from the doormen at Gaia because ... uh ... because more than 56.397% of our group had dark hair, no glasses but sideburns longer than 1.2". Rev (as the kids call it) is a pretty divey place, but, as we found out, there is a limit as to where a group of guys can go at 12.30 on a Saturday night. You can read some 'informational reviews' here.
Sunday morning began early AGAIN as Nicol had a train to catch. We enjoyed(?) our early morning sauage and egg McMuffins in the gardens, then I took an invigorating walk home in the sunshine!
I've managed to pick up a cold over the weekend, so Sunday was spent blowing my nose and drinking orange juice with my brother. I also finally found a good MP3 ripper, so I grabbed the stuff I just bought and got ripping. CDex has totally rocked thus far and I am finally able to create high quality MP3s. After some thought, I've just gone for 192kbps as I want others to be able to listen. 256kbps, whilst sounding better, just increases the filesize too much.
All of my Friday purchases were 'random':
 | Gonzales:Presidential Suite - a kind of weird hip-hop, opera singing, jazz type deal. Pretty cool. LISTEN |
| Koop:Waltz For Koop - I think they might be Finnish or something. Mellow jazz-ish influences. A relaxing album. LISTEN |  |
 | Aphex Twin:Druqks - I've not actually had a chance to listen to this yet! I am hoping it is some of the more ambient stuff, although the Amazon reviews seem a touch mixed. LISTEN | Global Underground:Arrivals - a lovely sampler of dance tunes. My tunes for showering this morning! LISTEN |  |
| Moving Shadow:02.1 - a sampler of phat tunes (apparently) and another one I haven't listened to yet! LISTEN | |
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