Jazz on the Old School Field (by sarah)

This post is about a week late - but the Blues Brothers Reloaded were good and I even danced with Catarina (apologies for spelling I dont know how to spell it!) and Clair. The band did start about 1 1/2 hr late but then people were tardy turing up due to the disastorous fotball. Which has me and Clair planning the next world cup song.

Poor Clair had desperatly arranged everything so she would be here with plenty of time for kick off when traffic delayed her by several hrs - she just made it in time for us to sort out some way to watch it - then we lost - on penalties as always - she made sure Jean had a thorough sporting education where football is concerned. I dread to think what words Jean might have picked up!

The weather was fantastic!!! So sunny and the sunset was pretty, add in the view from the location and it was fantastic!

The band sounded like they had stuffed up the sound desk but it turned out that all the mid range speakers were out but it wasn't the amplyfier at fualt, nor the leads etc.. it was a complete mistery - Al and Gavan failed to sort it as did the sound engeineers. Still I've heared worse from more professional people at more professional events!

The bands warm ups and sound checks were in my opinion better than the concert but thats only becuase they were playing metallica etc... Mum had a cool hat which I kept pinching - very in with the band it was 🙂

JEan apparently devoured over half a pig roast roll and couldnt get enough of the tomatoe juice I'd brought along - however she did end up covered in the tomatoe juice and Mum had a little accident with her LARGE glass of it! Its a bit scary to see your 10 month old duaghter covered in red ozzy stuff when you dont know the tomato juice has even been opened!.

My poor Brother and Michelle (his girly) their train ran late so they mossed a connection - blah blah blah - you know the normal story and they arrived just when the concert was supposed to be finnishing but becuase it was all running really late they actually arrived in the intermission!

Anyway I think everyone enjoyed it 🙂

p.s. I forgot to mention that Al and Gavan set fire to my citranella bucket 🙁 They made paper wicks and created an inferno - poor bucket - thier excuss - we were trying to uncover the wick! I had told them they could us a match as a wick as the real wick had been swamped in wax - but no! They got carried away and now the handle etc.. is black 🙁 I love fire but not if it ruins my buckets 🙁

Jean on #NetBSD (by alaric)

 "This is how it looks if you port NetBSD to a cute baby and make a screenshot:"...

#NetBSD Community Blog

Sunburn!? (by sarah)

Ok the day before the thunder started well actually it was the day the thunder started! I was sitting in a park with David (my bro), Micheal (his girly), Al and Jean - I was wearing factor 25 and was in the shade - I burnt 🙁 No one else did - including Jean who was only in a nappy (mind due she had factor 40 on!).

I didnt burn in Greece or Spain or Kenya but in England - I burn! Whilst sitting in the flippinf shade (Makes annoyed looking faces)

Missing Geology (by sarah)

Sigh - I'm keenly missing rocks!

I just want to be sitting at the microscope in the lab - desparing over what tyoe of feldspar happens to be at the cross wires, or at the museum photographing all those slides and finding obscure papers from the victorian era. I miss the smell of hydrochloric acid working on the sandstone.

I know I'm sounding sad but my MRes course have just told me I need to get a GP letter saying I am fit enough to continue - the GP already wasnt happy about the fact the course is in London. I just cant bare the thought of not being back in the lab for another two years :'(

I was so excited about my project - all those impactites waiting for my at the Mueseum, I should be just about finishing the thing now.

This really will balls up career plans and what not if I don't get that letter - sigh.

Apologies for the wading in self pitty.

Blog Sections (by alaric)

For those of you who read this blog to see how the family's doing, my computing / electronics posts are probably a bit irrelevant. And for tecchies, all the personal family stuff probably gets in the way of the bits you find interesting.

So I just thought I'd make sure everybody realised that the 'Categories' section on the right has links to separate sections of the site for Alaric (and my subtopics), Jean, Sarah, and The Family (which is about things that affect us as a whole, such as our domestic arrangements). Clicking on a section link takes you to what's basically a sub-blog only showing things in that section, with its own RSS feed and everything.

Enjoy!