11.14.04
This and that
Maybe it’s just the gloomy winter weather, but as Ferd recently pointed out, things are looking bleak in the world. And, as if a monkey ruling the world wasn’t bad enough, how about the Terminator? But enough about that… time to start making the christmas cheer!
Christmas is drawing ever closer… and as Claire (one of my roomies from ye olden dayes of university) used to say: it’s getting quite pearl harbour outside (there’s a nip in the air… hah!). Because I’m no longer a man of leisure I won’t have time to travel around the world to be with my parents in Boreo, this holiday season 
ButHanne has bought me a ticket to come and spend Christmas and New Years in Norway with her family! woohoo! It’ll be my first really white Christmas for quite a few years, so i’m really looking forwards to it.
Incidentally her parents are coming here next week as there’s a cat show on at the NEC next weekend (Mrs Holst breeds Siamese cats, as you can see on her homepage!). My grandparents will also be coming down for the first weekend in December, as there’s a model train show on at the NEC which my grandfather wants to attend, so it’ll be nice to return the hospitality they’ve shown Hanne and me over the years, including this past weekend which we spent up there 
Furthermore there are a couple of new websites on t’Internet:
- Arash - another roomie from student days gone by (yes, yet another WP + Gallery installation)
- my parents (no WP, yet, but there is a gallery!)
and
Finally, tomorrow at work I shall be listening to Bloom (which FINALLY arrived the other day), so the workdays should go by in a jiffy (see, i’m still supporting those impoverished electronica artists, Hesam ;-))
Hesam said,
November 15, 2004 at 1:27 am
I think the second disc is better then the first.
Nothing like some Gabriel and Dresden to make the days go by.
Only problem I have is that when the iPod changes songs there is a split second delay. Kind of takes away from the “continuous mix” feel. This is easily circumvented by using a one-track version of the CD. The problem then is that you can’t change tracks easily.. If only it supported CUE files..
On another note - what’s with the URI of the post being different then the title? (Birds and snakes and aeroplanes vs. This and that). Same thing with the last post..
Also - why don’t you and Hanne do yourselves BOTH a favor and buy some tickets to the U.S. - with the exchange rate, it’d probably cost you less than a night out at the pub.
GaZ said,
November 15, 2004 at 9:26 am
Oops.. the URI difference is because the post-slug was named after a working title for the post, then I changed the title without changing the slug.
As for tickets to the U.S… Did you mean favoUr?
We’ll be over as soon as Hanne gets a job / holiday time!
Mum said,
November 16, 2004 at 1:05 pm
Boreo?? Have you been reading my mind?
Hesam said,
November 17, 2004 at 3:13 am
Isn’t NEC where they through some of the Gatecrasher parties? A kitty show and a party? Count me in!
Hesam said,
November 17, 2004 at 9:48 am
Wow..I meant throw