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  • A busy week in Dublin

    Well what an exciting week it has been in Dublin! Monday they closed down the high street in Dublin as they were hunting an armed burglar who had abandoned his car at the bottom of the road that leads to my work and had jumped down to the river bed and hid. They closed the…

  • Oops!

    Can’t believe I haven’t posted since October on here, but I guess thats because most of the people I know are on Facebook – so that is where most of my updates are. Since the last post I had a great 5k run, tore my meniscus on my right knee, had knee surgery and started…

  • Would you like to sponsor my first 5k Run?

    So I’m almost ready to run my first 5k Run on Oct 29th in aid of Tyler Burchett, the son of a work friend who suddenly became paralyzed through Myelitis a couple of months ago. The run is a fundraiser to help support the family with medical bills and home modifications. So, if you’d like…

  • New Skydiving video uploaded

    For those of you who are not on facebook, you may not have realised that I had the awesome experience of jumping out of a plane last week. I was on vacation in the Outer Banks and was originally going to see if I could get a flight lesson above the Outer Banks to get…

  • New android app for Goodreads

    Goodreads just announced an update to their app for the Android which now allows you to very easily add multiple books to your Goodreads account very quickly. There is a batch mode to auto shelve all of the books at once (for example own, read, fantasy) as they are uploaded in. It didn’t take me…

  • Replace windshield wipers -howto.

    For the first time ever, I’ve needed to change my windshield (or windscreen) wipers. Today it was snowing like crazy and my wipers decided to completely come off of the arm. Annoyingly I had to go back out in the snow to go get some wipers (which I had stupidly put off doing). After getting…

  • Back to the zoo.

    It’s been a long time since I posted anything on this website due to a variety of reasons. However, I’ve worked tons of overtime this week so I decided to take the day off, enjoy the gorgeous weather and relax at the zoo. I picked up the camera and spent about 4 hours at the…

  • “I shall wear midnight” by Terry Pratchett coming soon.

    Terry Pratchett’s new book is out (in London) on the 1st September. I’m not sure how long it will be before it arrives in the US but the good news is that there are only 11 people in front of me in the queue for the book from the Columbus Metropolitan Library which means it…

  • My feelings about the World Cup and soccer/football in general.

    I think Bucky said it perfectly.

  • No longer using Vonage.

    I’m (at last) no longer using Vonage at home. There didn’t seem to be any point in paying $25.92 per month for their $17.99 plan – especially as we made no calls and only received about 5 calls a month – mostly from telemarketers or customer service calls. We’re going to use cell phones from…

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