While I normally reserve my blog posts for Jabber / XMPP / Psi topics, and try quite hard not to flood Planet Psi or Planet Jabber that feed from here with personal nonsense, ramblings and self-indulgence, just for once I’m going to make a personal post.

On Friday 23rd February, the wonderful Catherine Morgan-James had a momentary lapse of reason, and accepted my proposal of marriage. For those who are interested, it happened outside the Palais de Justice in Brussels, yes I got down on one knee (this resulted in a wet knee, as it was raining!) and yes, I presented a ring (which getting to Brussels without suspicion was an almost Herculean undertaking). This is obviously a source of great joy for me, and I include a somewhat blurry photo of Cath’s hand and the ring.

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I have a chair. It spins, and goes up and down and back and forth.
My old chair also did these things but not by design and with great risk of personal injury.
The new one’s better

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Been playing a great deal of the open beta of World of Warcraft this last week or so, and it’s the greatest thing since pre-cut baked products.
Reason I’ve had so much time: Managed to pick up a strain in training and haven’t trained in a week, and had a filthy cold so have been off work. ‘Great’.

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Ordered a drum kit a couple of weeks ago, got a phone call while I was in Manchester on Saturday saying that it’s now in stock, and I’ll have it Tuesday The kit
YAYYYY

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Forgot about my blog. As such, all the disinteresting things that haven’t happened to me have been lost. This is a shame, so they’re provided here

Last Thursday was the first TKD demo. Went well enough. Dosed up on caffeine and sugar beforehand so I was sufficiently hyper. All good.
Saturday was back to the traditional Seven Stars lunch with Dave and Gareth. Sunday was the fresher’s squash, which involved me standing outside in the rain for *far* too long. Went home and read a book in the evening. Today was work, and that’s going reasonably well for a change.

On average: good few days.

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Oh well, Ryzom beta’s over, and it appears the developers/publishers are not sufficiently competent to get it released in the UK. This looks like a call for another MMO. Asheron’s Call(2), here I come.
Have also ascertained that it is indeed the lab that gives me headaches. Haven’t worked out what to do about it yet, although asking to be moved as Alex was seems to be an option.

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Right, the blog appears to be (fingers crossed) running. I don’t have much to say though, unfortunately.
Had a headache, came to work. Work’s not aiding matters as the lights in the lab give me headaches at the best of times. I suppose I should try and set cath up with a blog too at some point.

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