Back in Cambridge since xmas day and have been living as lazily as possible. I think apart from xmas dinner leftovers we've largely eaten chocolate and crisps. Adam popped over for an evening, but apart from that it's been us, the dvd player and the junk food. And all the lovely shelves for our films that Jo put up while I was away as a nice surprise. It were proper bo, I tell thee.
I've uploaded some xmas pics to
a new gallery on fotopic - recurrent themes of the last week have been:
My father editing three hours of DV tape from our visit to Ireland this summer in Windows Movie Maker using a lot of the more advanced stuff you can do (not finished yet, but I'm sure there will be a web highlights version at some point). I just updated dad's
family homepage with this year's xmas pic in which, as is customary, we all look like we've just overeaten and need more sleep.
My chums from when we all lived in Bromsgrove spending the evening at the Golden Cross, which is too bright, has no music or atmosphere, and is generally devoid of seats - but where a pint of John Smiths is £1.30 - and then returning to my parents' house just as they were calling it a night and sitting downstairs shouting at each other until 3am. It was really nice to see everyone, though, as we're still prepared to have involved abstract debates about daft philosophical things, and while that's silly, it's a nice change of pace from discussing houses, decorating and other stuff with Fairly Adult Themes.
Jimmy being slightly (but understandably) overstimulated on the topic of presents. He was good about it all, though - he might have been a bit impatient but he was nice about all the presents and didn't get grouchy as it got later. And he did entertainingly demonstrate everything - though interestingly the most popular stuff out of what me and my parents gave him seemed to be a small wooden dog puppet-type-thing held in shape by elastic that collapses when you push the base on which it stands. And a pop-up book about monsters, which is conspicuously easier to explain.
Anyway, hopefully we'll actually leave the house today in order to see
Return of the King. And hopefully this site will still work next week - after charging me a fiver to transfer my domain away from them, Easyspace are still sending me final warnings that it's going to expire... so I dunno if they just can't be bothered to update my account details, or if they're going to bugger it up in some way and just repoint the DNS instead of taking over my domain. So if I sort it out, more later.
# posted by Carl - 2:25 PM
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