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Wednesday last week I pretty much went home, can't remember doing anything special... though that night the tone of the rest of my working week was set, for in the morning I arrived to find, ta dum!, my hard disk at work had failed. This isn't such a big problem as I had everything pretty much backed up (I am the 5th person in 2 months to have their hard disk fail - fair enough warning). The only problem is that, because of our contract with our supplier, it took until Monday (yesterday) for my HD to get replaced, then Monday was written off as the techs installed software, and today has been written off as _I_ install software.
So I haven't really got a lot of work done in the last few days.
Friday night I went to a gig at the 'Garage' to see 'Mika Bomb', who describe themselves as 'Japanese Chic Trash Rock', and it was pretty much what I expected : 'hard rock' done the japanese way, ie poppy :)
Saturday I lounged about, went for a climb, and then in the evening went to see my flat mate Leo's brand new Ska (Jazz) band play at a birthday party. Unlike a lot of people I even congratulated the birthday boy (some guy called Richard) on his coming of age (somewhere around 40 I'd guess).
Anyhoo, the variously named 'New Skatellites' or 'Army of Ska' blew me away. After 2 hours practice (that's it - even we had more before the Battle of the Bands Mark!) they were totally awesome! One of the guys, Chris, was playing Sax and did the first solo and I loved it. I think the big difference between this and other Jazz is a) it was fun (Ska is fun) and b) I had a connection with the musicians (via Leo, his girlfriend, and being introduced to Chris). Great Night.
Sunday I mucked around some more, didn't go shopping, but did go to see two Fellini films with Jo. Didn't even fall asleep this time (but then, it wasn't Saturday afternoon). La Strada was the stand out, though I'm happy I didn't know what the name meant before seeing it.
Finally yesterday I stayed at work for toooooo long in the vain hope of getting something done, but didn't.
Wednesday last week I pretty much went home, can't remember doing anything special... though that night the tone of the rest of my working week was set, for in the morning I arrived to find, ta dum!, my hard disk at work had failed. This isn't such a big problem as I had everything pretty much backed up (I am the 5th person in 2 months to have their hard disk fail - fair enough warning). The only problem is that, because of our contract with our supplier, it took until Monday (yesterday) for my HD to get replaced, then Monday was written off as the techs installed software, and today has been written off as _I_ install software.
So I haven't really got a lot of work done in the last few days.
Friday night I went to a gig at the 'Garage' to see 'Mika Bomb', who describe themselves as 'Japanese Chic Trash Rock', and it was pretty much what I expected : 'hard rock' done the japanese way, ie poppy :)
Saturday I lounged about, went for a climb, and then in the evening went to see my flat mate Leo's brand new Ska (Jazz) band play at a birthday party. Unlike a lot of people I even congratulated the birthday boy (some guy called Richard) on his coming of age (somewhere around 40 I'd guess).
Anyhoo, the variously named 'New Skatellites' or 'Army of Ska' blew me away. After 2 hours practice (that's it - even we had more before the Battle of the Bands Mark!) they were totally awesome! One of the guys, Chris, was playing Sax and did the first solo and I loved it. I think the big difference between this and other Jazz is a) it was fun (Ska is fun) and b) I had a connection with the musicians (via Leo, his girlfriend, and being introduced to Chris). Great Night.
Sunday I mucked around some more, didn't go shopping, but did go to see two Fellini films with Jo. Didn't even fall asleep this time (but then, it wasn't Saturday afternoon). La Strada was the stand out, though I'm happy I didn't know what the name meant before seeing it.
Finally yesterday I stayed at work for toooooo long in the vain hope of getting something done, but didn't.
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