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I am certain that if I lived in a hot climate I would use the Internet/computer very little.
Over the past week I have been online very little. It isn’t very often that I take such breaks.
I spent Saturday until Tuesday at my grandparents’ house. I saw this as an opportunity to spent some time away from the internet. Besides the fact that I find it hard to use a different computer from my own, this usually leads to nothing getting done if I’m away from home. So it was a long weekend of photographing, watching tv and kickin’ a ball around the garden.
The ‘Titanic Festival‘ launched on Saturday morning at the City Hall, and finishes today. It was mildly interesting.
It took me quite a while to find the local blogging community, but find it I did; at Starbucks on Saturday afternoon. Someday I will learn how to cope in situations of meeting new people. Generally when we meet people we have some background on them, common interests often we know what they look like, but this isn’t the case when meeting fellow bloggers. Of course I could have done a little more research by actually reading their blogs.
As I said, I have only discovered the NI blogging people quite recently, though not long enough to have read much of what they have to say on the world, let alone figure out what they look like, so walking to the rendez vous point I was feeling a little awkward.
As I walked in through the door I was sure I heard someone say “Phil” but I just couldn’t be sure. Then at the end of the queue was Ed, the one face I knew (from his blog pic). The others had a table outside. Marc, Nelly, Hannah, Stephen, Dave. A good bunch. I found out a after a while that CyberScribe was infact present, though he tried to claim to be his very own stand-in. Naturally I didn’t believe this, but it set me back a bit and I just wasn’t sure what to say.
There is definitely an art to talking to intelligent people about such a wide variety of topics. It’s just not a skill I have.
Although I didn’t participate much other than my presence, it’s great to meet the fellow blogging companions, and to see that they are all very friendly. Now I have more people to add to my RSS reader and read and comment on and keep contact with and hope they read my blog. Its all hard work.
I am having much trouble with lack of storage space at the minute, and as I suspected might happen, I have been taking more photographs than I have space for. It certainly doesn’t help that I bought the wrong type of hard drive (doh!) so I gotta send it back and get another one. Hopefully I will have things running up to speed soon.
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I really need to get into the local blogging scene more… that would involve actually blogging a bit more first, I spose …
It was good to meet you too Phil. It’s a very courageous thing to launch yourself on so many strangers. You did well.
Ah those meet and greets are fun. Don’t think I’ll be making the next big one though (Bar Camp next weekend), you heading along, tis in Dublin…
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