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Archive for May, 2004
May 31st
Spent a pleasent bank holiday today. Whilst the rest of the world, or at least my world seemed to be working, I was having a stroll round the grounds of levans hall, which was very nice. Following a fine walk in the contry I enjoyed far too much BBQ food at some friends and played with perhaps arguably the two most wonderfull children in the world, so life is very good.
I should perhaps appologise for all my spelling. I can’t spell at all, and so most of these posts will be riddled with spelling errors. I guess that I should try to learn, but I’m not sure how to. I’ve always been a bit “special” where spelling is concerned, they tried to correct it at primary school with some special teacher with a magic black box, but it just did’nt work out. Perhaps i’m a bit dislexic (that’s probabbly spelt wrong as well) I wonder if there’s a test you can do… Um… food for thought there.
Must go now, to watch Darren Brown. He does some really clever stuff. Find out a bit more here. Hopefully tonight he is going to prove that Seance’s are a load of rubbish, so should be well worth it.
Emma however won’t let me take part, so I’m just watching with interest. I’ll let you know.
May 29th
Enjoyed a pleasent evening in last night, first time in a while. Thought it would be nice to watch some telly, and indeed it was.
First, the last ever friends. I must say that the ending was a bit pradictable, although I guess that people would have been up in arms if Ross and Rachel hadn’t got together. Personally I say “Bing Back Mona”. Not only was mona a much better match for Ross, she was a nice and attractive lady, and surley the programe would have benefitted from her good looks. It would have also made for a shocking ending.
Then, disaster as I watched the farce that is big brother. What, please tell, is entertainment coming too. Gays, Lesbians and a ManWoman all rolled into a house designed to make them fall out.
It seems that the selection process was designed to select compleate freaks, and if that was the aim then in has certainly done that. I look forward to not watching it and wasting my life on yet another reality TV show.
May 27th
Wow… it’s hard to find any time to update this. It’s been a manic week and looks like it will continue that way. Feeling tired and lethargic, but certain events serve to pick me up. An example, is playing bar billiards with some guys and girls from work to celebrate Lee’s and Malcolm’s birthday. Bar billiards is actually quite a fun game, even if you get no score for all your games.
It has quite complicated rules but have a read and all will be well.
Tried to get a world cup sticker book for the office, but “imagine my suprise” when they did’nt have one, still.. I supose its a load of money saved.
Still working on mikekerrigan.com. Sometimes I’m amazed at my own stupidity in these puzzle scenarios, or perhaps it’s just I’m too clever 
May 25th
An interesting day out at selefield. It’s always good to re-visit my nuclear past, but it was nice to see the team for my MSc and chat about some stuff.
It was also interesting to get close to some of the old reactors at selefield. The windscale reactors are particually interesting, especially the one that set on fire (not whilst I was there) you can read about that here
May 24th
Document editing is done! Well for now anyway, so I’m most happy.
Also happy about the barenaked live recording of the Manchester gig which arrived today, and guess what? If you play the “Another postcard” track and goto 3mintes and 33 seconds into it then you hear someone scream, and thats me! Honnest, it really is. Ask Dave and Marsha if you don’t belive it, anyway I don’t need to prove it to anyone else, cos I know it is.
I have given up on my last puzzle site and am spending my spare mouse clicks on Mike Kerrigan which is a good site, but I’m not even up to the registration page.
Forgot to mention that my good friend Lee Ashworth got married to the lovley Susan in St Lucia recently and I had the pleasure of attending his do (with one o ) on Friday night, which was an excellent affair, and who knows if the lady in question is a “two bagger” I think not
And as to my flirting efforts with rachel, I’m afraid I declare my massive faliure.
(some of this post may not make sense if you do not understand some of the finer issues of working at lancaster university)
Did I also mention that our remote control magazine, is now getting most exciting. I look forward to pictures of the finished car!
May 23rd
Very Sleepy today….
Have spent the entire morning formatting word documents for my MSc. You might think that six people producing documents to a standard would produce fairly similar results. *WRONG*. You might think that Microsoft Word was consistent in that when you press a button or drag a slider, it does the same thing every time. *WRONG*
The nightmare continues….
May 22nd
Perhaps it’s my recent diversity awareness traning at work, or parhaps something else, but Church is great now. The meeting was very productive and even though there were a few people who were a bit pessimistic, we have to respect their opinion and recognise that it’s good to have all the view represented.
So all is well.. and I feel a bit better. Guess I’ve just been stressed out a bit with work and stuff.
Had to replace my printer, as the old Epson C40 has given up the ghost. I chose a hpdeskjet 5150. Hope it’s OK, but time will tell.
finally… check out this pic. It’s an example of what happens when you deside to hit each other with cardboard tubes in the office!
May 20th
Feeling a bit better about things today. It’s just frustrating sometimes when dealing with churches and politics. I think that we have the funding to do the building work on the church, and I think that it is a worthwhile thing to do.
As long as alongside the building works, we put together a plan of action on how to grow the congregation then all will be well.
I will try to work on some kind of Vison day, to get everyone on board. We have lots of skills and people that are willing, sometimes in unlikley places, but the Church council can be a bit stuffy at times.
For me the root of the problem is lack of empowerment. So that a small number of people end up doing everything and can’t cope (the methodist rule book doesn’t lend that much of a hand either)
Ah well.. we will see what this evening brings!
May 19th
Cross and stressed!
I’ll explain later (or maybe I’ll delete this)
Situations with Church are being a pain at the moment and getting me down. 
May 17th
Ate some mealworms today! YUM…
It’s true you can eat a bizare range of stuff. My friend Kev from work brought a bag of chedder flavour meal worms back from a trip to London, and they were’nt half bad! They didn’t taste particually of Chedder though. Check out www.edible.com for some more tasty treats. I’m going to order some scorpians in candy!
Others in the office also ate some (well done David, Malcolm and Kev) everyone else, you’re wimps.
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