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My house’s electricity bill is controlled by a pay & go system. Using a card which is swiped in the shop and when a minimum of £5 is handed over we get electricity. Nice and simple.
For the last 2 days there has been no electricity. Fortunately I had nothing in the fridge or freezer. I decided would use the opportunity to bust my cycle. Although I actually have major problems with the PC at the minute and desperately need to reformat (I also think I need a need a new motherboard but thats not too urgent, and a story for another day), it can wait another day or two. See, the weather is just great and I look so cool in my sunglasses I just gotta get out.
As I mentioned the other day, if I lived in a hot climate I doubt I would use the net as much at all. My dream is to have a ‘work-flow’ sorted, whereby I can have times set aside for each thing and spend longer on each activity, including general time wasting, youtubing etc. Instead, I insist on following link after link after link, reading so much crap, and not reading so much crap (I have too many del.icio.us bookmarks tagged ‘toread‘). Someday soon I want to be able to take photographs, put em on computer, edit, add watermark, add border, upload - enjoy the outdoors, repeat. I also wish it was easier and not as time consuming to read the news, read all 500+ items in my reader, comment on blogs, write blog etc. Maybe I should concentrate on fewer things.
Unfortunately Northern Ireland spends most of its time under dark clouds with a wind chill factor of really really cold. This is why I love my computer so much, cos for most of the year there is just no reason to go out. I hate Winter. I hate Autumn. In fact, I hate the months between September and March. Autumn and Winter sometimes look nice - but thats often about it. Now the weather is just awesome. Brilliant blue skies and no need for a coat. So when the opportunity arises to get out for a few hours - I take it. Right now if I look to the side or above my beautiful monitor I can see the sunny sun shining on the white and red bricked buildings across the street and the blue blue sky above. I wanna go out.
Having no electricity was just the latest excuse. On both Monday and Tuesday I hung out with friends at number 34 all evening. Ciara and Ciaran, half of Mary’s Great Idea, were playing singer/songwriter open mic night at The John Hewitt. This was their first gig in over 4 months, it was so good to hear Ciara’s amazing voice again.
Duke Special made an appearance that night, unfortunately he didn’t play anything, instead he was just hangin’ out with his pals. Not wanting to appear all ‘fan boy’ I didn’t use the 10 seconds I was alone with him in the gents to tell him how much like the album. Unfortunately it was only 10 seconds too; just as I was leaving, he walked in. He said ‘hi’ to me though.
Another highlight of the night was Wayne Carr. Accompanied by his guitar, he sang some great songs. Here is one called London Town:
I was glad to come back to an electrified house yesterday, its scary not having an alarm clock to get me up in the morning. I just don’t like relying on my phone at all.
It’s nice to have friends who don’t use computers/internet as much as I do, it gives me a different perspective on things. Generally lazing around, watching tv, conversation. I sometimes even walk away wanting to read a book.
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