Beastbits, my main machine has failed, or rather, the graphics card fan has. It’s stopped.
It was making noises a few weeks ago, then suddenly stopped making noises. I didn’t realise I had a problem unti I touched the heatsink tonight, and almost burned off three layers of skin.
I suspect it’s back to the Geforce 4 for now. Not that it matters.
Well, the sun is up now, and blazing in the sky, therefore, I declare my Solstice photo shooting over, for the morning at least. Here are the best two (in my opinion)…
The other shots are here, consisting of 8 pictures. If you’re on my friends list (and signed in, naturally), you’ll get the extended bonus remix 12″ special edition mix, with more images…
EDIT: D’oh. I forgot to add the “bonus” features to the set. I don’t think anybody noticed anyway.
Today is June 21st, which means that it’s the longest day of the year. Which means, as of tomorrow, the nights will begin to draw in. Again. One good thing, hoever, is that for the first time in a few years, I’m awake to see the sunrise AND, it’s not cloudy, which is lucky, seeing as the past few days (since I cut/ruined the grass in the garden) and the last few solstices have been duller than one of my vlogs.
I’ll post photos on flickr shortly
All this talk about bikes, and today, I began to scan some photos which I found in the cupboard. Imagine my surprise when I found this…
Look in the background. Ignore the fact I’m wearing a hilarious wig made of grass. Ignore my nash glasses. Ignore my missing front teeth. Oh, okay, you don’t have to ignore then. Either way, I’ve noticed that there is a bike in the background, complete with stabilisers! How very odd. I doubt I’ll have had this out of the back garden.
You’ll be glad to know that there will shortly be another “trip” arranged with Chris, and also this time his brother Jonathan. This time we shall be travelling to the lovely city of… Berlin. Yes, I’m finally taking the passport out for its first trip. Now, although I’m looking forward to it immensely, there are a number of things I’m worrying about.
Firstly, the language. I have a very short amount of time to learn an entire language, or at least enough to get me there, and survive the trip. I suppose all I’ll need is to know “Kind sir, I would like 3 bottles of your coldest, least expensive alcoholic beverage”, and “Please help, I appear to have fallen, and now find myself in a situation where I am unable to get back up”. Ultimately, the thing I want learn most is “Chicken Madras and rice, please”.
Unfortunately, the entire knowledge of Germany I have, comes from the first series of Auf Weidersehen, Pet, which, admittedly was filmed mostly on the site of what is now Albert Square in Eastenders. So, to be perfectly honest, I don’t really think that’s the most accurate place to get all of my information from…
The food too… what’s that going to be like? I have just checked Wikipedia, and I’m staying clear of Sauerkraut and Eisbein. Fermented cabbage and… er, whatever Eisbein is? Apparently, “it can be an alarming experience for the unwary tourist”. No, thank *you*.
Luckily, Wikipedia knows everything, and in fact this article has been enlightening and interesting… woohoo! Currywurst is looking promising.
Right, that’s the first thing I’ve learned, and it feels good.
I’m not going to say exactly when I’m going away on here, just in case when I arrive at Berlin, there are hoardes of fans waiting for me at the airport, screaming my name, clutching prints of the time a few years ago when I accidentally appeared naked on the webcam. Speaking of which, I’d better delete the images I have up there at the minute. Ahem. Seriously, though, I’m one of those people who will tell everyone who knows me anyway… I think I’ve told everyone at work about 50 times already…
“I’m going to Germany, you know…”
“Yes, we SODDING KNOW”…
Either way, there’s an un-nervingly short time until this trip going ahead. I believe flickr have hard drives on standby to handle the stupid amount of photos I’ll take. OK, maybe that’s a slight exaggeration, however, I do have 3.5Gb spread over a number of SD cards, and I intend to use as much of it as I can.. Expect more mammoth blogs after the trip takes place. I have a feeling it’ll be either a complete disaster, or the best time of my life, in the whole history of the world, ever. I have let Chris do all of the admin, as usual, as I’m useless at that type of thing…
I’m currently listening to “The Volume” by Shy Child, a band introduced to me by Big Phil at work. It’s a quality tune, though I wish I wasn’t listening to it on cheap headphones.
Actually, if I’m honest, these headphones are really good for the price I paid for them…. 98p. They’re the Magnavox ones from Asda, bought around the same time as the curries in the previous post. If you’re looking for some headphones which are cheap as crap, but actually AREN’T crap, I’d recommend these.
I shall update you on my foreign and German-learning antics over the coming weeks. It’ll be fun. Allegedly.
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