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Went for a drink & meal with an old uni friend. Talked of family, health, politics, jobs, and Doctor Who. And really, what else is there?
On a long weekend in Cornwall. Drive down on Friday was longest ever, so not looking forward to drive back tomorrow, but it’s been good.
Nice. That makes sense.
My site was down for a couple of days. You probably didn’t notice. These things happen when you’re on holiday, it seems. The nice people at Linode were very helpful, though, and it’s all back up now.
The Rolling Donut, Dublin. Highly recommended. Good to remember how good donuts can be if you don’t get misspelled American ones.
Ice-cold Guinness. I’m reminded of the late Bob Shaw…
At Holyhead, on the ferry for Dublin. It’s taking a while to get going, though.
Further to this morning’s post, it looks like I’ll be in the City for a while, and only going to the client’s site later, or occasionally. Which is good news for my commute.
On my way to first day at the new job. This is at the consultancy’s offices in the City, though, for induction, not at the client’s site.
Just realised that ‘Blue Monday’ gets its drum pattern from ‘Get Off of My Cloud.’
I’m pretty sure that all of these are meant to be autumnal. Yet here it’s early August — high summer — and there they are, growing madly.
First time anyone has asked me for a more detailed CV. But hey, I can write about myself till the cows come home.
This is what Virgin Trains calls a window seat now.
Monster sky out my window. And time I tried some photos with this new phone.
Wait, Now ATP has gone back to the old outro theme. Was last week’s just a one-off? I’m so confused.
[@colinwalker](https://micro.blog/colinwalker) Did you know that your blog’s search page for the term is the second hit on DuckDuckGo for #indieweb? Quite impressive.
Not the Nails I'm Looking For
I got an email from Songkick about a forthcoming gig in Camden by Nails.
You’ll recall, being the avid reader of this blog that you are, that a while ago — OK, six years ago — I wrote about a great song called ’88 Lines About 44 Women’ by a band called The Nails. I know nothing else by them, but the idea of seeing that song live in a tiny basement club is pretty cool.
But I had my suspicions. Especially when the first comment on the Songkick page was all about how it was the loudest gig they’d ever been at. Clicked through to the band’s page, played the video there, and it was immediately obvious that the hardcore band Nails are not indie/new wave/whatever band The Nails.
Just goes to show the difference a definite article can make. Nails sound pretty good, but I don’t think I’ll be going.
Testing Micro.blog with the new server setup.