My life may not be that interesting by some standards, but by golly, I mean to make it at least look interesting. Which is why I have switched to WordPress and slapped this oldé worldé stock theme on. So with these new tools I move my blogging into a new era of ….. what? The need that is actually filled with WordPress is the abilityfor people to leave comments, I have actually had a request (thanks Anner) for this feature, other than that the rest has just been a way for me to do something, anything other than the essay I am supposed to be writing. Not good!
Well not all bad. I have the first draft nearly done and all the work on this site have been done at the end of my study sessions for a wind down (possibly a wind up – who knows?) I know, surely I have better things to do with my time than play around with WordPress, obviously, write some more essay would be good. Anyway I have basically been devoting Gaming / TV time to this as a way to stop thinking about Homer, Achilleus, Hektor, Arete and Timé, which believe me is a good thing to do before bed.
So back to the original question, what do you think? Please post a comment, even if you strayed in from some 9th dimension, or were forced to read this by a sadist, at knife point.
To my amazing children, two boys as bold as brass. Together always fighting, I could kick ye up the ass.
To the way you look together, when the sunlight hits your hair. A right annoying couple, a most confounding pair.
I’d love to live your promise and I hope to see your dreams. Someday we’ll watch the footie, and argue over teams.
Until that magic moment, when you both are buying pints. I wonder if ye’d both mind, staying in your beds at night.
I am off to bed now, wine heavy upon my head. As to be expected, there’s no room for me in bed.
That’s it I am going to have to take up smoking again. All I want to do is eat and eat and eat and ……well you get the idea.
With the holiday booked to Bulgaria, it looks like there may be beached whale reports coming in from the Black Sea this summer.
On the tech front my faithful Xbox 360 finally succumbed to the RRoD (Red Ring of Death) or three red lights problem which you can find out more about here by downloading the podcast.
This left us with no HiFi or DVD player as being the suppposed techie that I am, I would not have those wasteful archaic devices in my living room, not when I can stream my media direct from my home server to the 360 and get 5.1 DTS sound, blah, blah, blah. I think my wife wishes that I would just get normal stuff, that works, easily.
Ta, da, her wish is my command. I purchased a Playstation 3, which is now having the media streamed from my home server and getting 5.1 sound? oh, well, it is a bit easier. The Playstaion 3 works a lot better with TVersity, the program I use to stream my media. The Folders, Tags, etc that are set up in TVersity actually mean something to the Playstation, so it makes navigation a lot easier. Also I am going to dump some of our favorite music on the hard drive of the Playstation to make sure it is always there (even at 2am when the network won?t work and the party is in full swing – should that happen at any time). I think that the interface of the PS3 is also a lot less cluttered making it easier for her and myboys to find their way around.
I think she would still prefer a €49 DVD player and mini HiFi, now where are the rest of those apples pies I had a minute ago.
I had my first tutorial today, for my latest course, Exploring the Classical World. The tutorial was most enjoyable and unlike my last course I did not feel that my day had been wasted, quite the opposite.
The one thing that still gets me is why the hell does Dublin not have sign posts directing you to the various areas / boroughs within it? I mean if you are in London you you will see sign posts for Clapham, Chelsea, Battersea or where ever (spot the South Londoner). The same is true in Galway, Paris and I presume (not being that widely travelled) all over. Get some bloody road signs Dublin. I was saved by using google maps and a third party app called Locate Me on the iPhone, not quite GPS but it did the job.
I was really happy to find out that I did know quite a bit about the works of Homer. Why this is a surprise to me you may wonder (as in if I know, why do I not know, I know, you know?) well sometimes it is only when you sit in a room of people with a similar interest or focus and discuss something, that you realise that you have quite a good grasp of the subject.
So happy day (6 hours driving for 2 hours of turorial) then home to bugger up the iPhone with an update, still soring that one so night, night.