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Housewarming success

Monday, September 25th, 2006

What a busy weekend. On Saturday Jennie and I hosted our housewarming. Thanks to all those that attended. I cooked for everyone, which gave me the slightest flavour of how stressful it would actually be if I were working as a cook in a kitchen preparing meals to order. It was immensely satisfying though. For those that couldn’t attend, you missed the chance to get a curry cooked for you to order a la real Indian restaurants. I think it turned out OK, with the curries certainly looking like takeaways nicely nestled in their foil containers.

After the cooking… the oral sex! Well actually just large amounts of drunkeness and discovering that all that was cool and left to drink was wine and all that was left to drink from was a half-pint tankard. As one might imagine I got quite pickled. I must easily have had an entire bottle to myself.

On Sunday I had a wine hangover which left me in bed for most of the day. Yet another reminder that I am not as young as I once was :).

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Ways you know you’re an adult #34…

Monday, April 24th, 2006

I’ve just got back from the Nationwide in town with Jennie after setting up a joint account for mortgage/house/bill/etc purposes. Also the Nationwide is where my savings account resides and so shuffling money will become slightly more trivial. The process was far longer than I was expecting and quite suprising in that they didn’t ask for any ID from me (being as I was a member already) beyond being able to produce my address and DoB on demand. Jennie just needed to hand over the passport since proof of address then came from the electoral roll.

The chappie was very nice but very, very, very chatty. All very well and good but some of us have to get back to work for a living :). Once he found out I work for what I tell people is a games company he immediately started geeking out over computer games with Jennie. Joy! Eventually everything got sorted modulo having to go back to half way through the process to add in Jennie’s middle name.

For the Internet banking I had to think of things such as important dates and places rather than a password. Now people might be able to remember these more easily but I can’t. I just have a hash function I can apply mentally to whatever I can remember which produces a sufficiently strong password in most cases. Having to think of non-password style things to remember was remarkably hard.

The credit check was pleasing. We have an overdraft limit of 1.2MBP[1] and a credit-card limit of almost 2.5MBPs.

[1] MBP == Money equivalent to one Mac Book Pro. I find it a more useful way of measuring moderately big sums of money.

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When trailers go wrong

Monday, April 24th, 2006

This weekend Jennie and I watched American Dreamz [sic]; a film which has been severely under sold to the cinema-going populous. To first order (and in the trailer) it appears to be a light parody of the Pop Idol genre of television but after a while it becomes clear it is instead a gentle satire of said genre and the US government, specifically the way the government acts when the plebs would rather vote for a TV show than a politician.

My view is probably coloured by the fact I went in expecting a mind candy style parody film rather than something that raises valid points. They also suceeded in making some very deep points about the American McCarthyism-esque approach to terrorism through some absolutely wonderful throwaway one-liners.

Oh and one more thing… Even if you don’t want to go and see it because of the gentle satire go and see it for Hugh Grant trying to do a common man’s English accent and some good ol’fashioned blacking-up-and-putting-on-a-silly-accent.

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Morning world

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

Up bright and early this morning after having an interesting period of being semi-awake since 6am. I actually predicted the alarm going off with remarkable accuracy (woke up, thought ‘hmm the alarm should be going off’ and lo and behold it did).

Jennie had fun last night going for dinner with some exciting new-media gaming chix0rs (expect a name drop post from her at some point :)) and I ended up getting semi-squiffy with work when we went to the pub to celebrate the new person arriving and our CTO not being around for another week and a bit.

This brings me onto a classing LiveJournal (or temp.l4.me.uk depending where you read this) wibble about work and my life that I shall hide behind a cut…

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