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Just back from a pretty cool BBQ.
It has me thinking. I might move, so that i can invite people over. i am never comfortable inviting people here, as it is not the most comfortable or friendly of places.
However if i move, thats it. i won't be moving again for awhile, and that puts paid to a couple of plans i have had.
hmmmm wish list for new place:
1. On Luas Red Line, or Dart line.
2. Free Parking
3. Large living areas.
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Have spent a lot of the day listening to Newstalk and watching Twitter and reading the Echo Website. Lots of Election Coverage.
Dublin is looking like their will be a left Wing alliance in charge of the City Council. Tallies are saying that Labour may win as many as 21 seats. The Majority point is 27 seats. Given that PBP will probably have 2 seats, maybe 3, and a couple of Sinn Fein seats and well things could be interesting.
George Hook on News talk has made a good point about how Parties in the south won't deal with Sinn Fein in the south, but insist on them having a voice in the North! Still I don't like the party, but if the people are voting for them, well then politicians will have to deal with them.
All very exciting. Next time though i think that i will have to have an Election Results party, that could be great fun.
Hey, it could be happening before the end of the year.Current Mood:  cheerful |
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Apr. 30th, 2009 @ 02:41 pm
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Am now settling into new desk. It's a lot smaller, but am able to put feet up on desk. Anyway, long weekend ahead. Should be able to catch up on sleep! I am going to have to go to a doctor at some point soon, not for anything serious, just to get something checked out. I am in a high risk part of population, and am currentlly suffering from three of the major symptoms.(fatigue, irratablity, excessive thirst) Oh well. Posted via LiveJournal.app.
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So we are moving floors on Thursday, down one from where we are at the moment. It has given us oppurtunities to clear out large amounts of print offs of stuff on computers. So far four wheely bins full of paper for confidential waste destruction. Of course the move has some downsides, my new desk will be smaller and more crowded as I shall be in a modular furniture situation. So now there will be
Many people who will be able to see my computer screen, shall have to be more discrete about what I am looking at. Anyway guess I should get back to it.
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I have being quiet on Livejournal for awhile, but for once, it is because i have being busy on other Journals!!
I have put up a gaming Blog on Wordpress (Here) which i have put some focus on. It helps that the workplace has yet to Block Wordpress, but who can say how long that lasts. I have being putting up a lot of information on the Traveller Campiagn i am running with my Thursday night group. All is going well after one session....Current Mood: indescribable Current Music: Crash Test Dummies |
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ok so supernatural was great.
( spoilers for 4x17 )
This season has been great in nearly every episode.
Mar. 27th, 2009 @ 08:27 pm
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So a quick note after a first pass. I have not read any of the short stories, novels, novella's or even noveletes. Though anathema is on the bookshelf, Might give that a shot over the weekend. However I have read thee of the graphic stories. However the ones I have read are parts of ongoing stories, and that's were they get how great they are. The movies are pretty much as expected, one I have not heard of. The real interest is the short movies. How does anyone thing turn left is that good of a story? Still if I was voting it would not be for either of the doctor who stories. It would be doctor horrible or battlestar galactica. Revalations is a fantastic episode, but needs a lot of setup to make sense. Oh well I will have a closer look.
Mar. 20th, 2009 @ 08:22 am
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Another Con year begins.
So what to say. In general I enjoyed myself. Got in a number of boardgames, and got to meet new people, and generally relax. Which was my aim for the weekend.
While it never affected me, but the Con seemed to have a certain level of disorganisation.
The biggest problem i personally saw was that when i looked at the Con Timetable, and was told there was errors, to the point that the larp that was on Friday was timetabled on Saturday afternoon. This is not a good thing.
Even though they had a printer, and where advertising things all weekend, they never attempted to print up a new time table, to let people know what was going on.
There was also the return of the feature of Warpcon i have always hated. RPG's in the main hall. That being the case i never attempted to play an RPG for the entire weekend.
However on the Plus side. The guest they had were the usual friendly people. David Nykl is a lovely man to talk to, We had some intresting conversations in the bar and also the main hall. There was also plenty of people willing to play Battle Star galatica, and while i only got in the one game, i think that i was witness to 5 games played at various stages!
In general the weeknd was full of positives for me, because i spotted what i would find negative, and avoided them. I would recomend Warpcon, Because it is invaribly fun.
Also i broke my long stop on Werewolves of Millers Hollow and GM'ed a game of it at the closing Ceremony.
Jan. 26th, 2009 @ 03:45 pm
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So am booking accomadation for warpcon, and while I liked jury's last year, it's a bit expensive with no one to share with. So does anyone have an opinion on the Killarney guest house? Good/bad. Or even recomendations of places close to ucc to stay. Posted via LiveJournal.app.
Jan. 7th, 2009 @ 01:06 pm
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A Brief Meme
List the towns or cities where you spent at least a night away from home during 2008. Mark with a star if you had multiple non-consecutive stays.
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Dec. 24th, 2008 @ 05:41 pm
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Got back into house about half six. Being locked as long as I was is not good. So spare key to brother. Will also revisit plans to hide key somewhere! Posted via LiveJournal.app.
Dec. 16th, 2008 @ 07:02 pm
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In case any of you were worried, I am sleeping at my brothers. Hope I can sort this mess out tomorrow. Posted via LiveJournal.app.
Dec. 16th, 2008 @ 01:25 am
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I have locked myself out of my house. I is special, and not in the good way, housemate won't be back till after eleven so have called some friends to ask for a rescue. So stupid I had to tell the Internet, but you know keep it to yourself!!! Posted via LiveJournal.app.
Dec. 15th, 2008 @ 06:02 pm
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So I am told that the canteen building at NUIM has gone on fire. Apparently the building has being gutted. Today and tomorrow is the open day for the college, so to add to the confusion of lots of third level students after being evacuated from nearby buildings, we have a large amount of second level students hanging around as well. In the short term this is a problem for the college, as the sport halls that are used for exams share the Complex. So this will cause problems there as well. Posted via LiveJournal.app.
Nov. 28th, 2008 @ 01:04 pm
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So spent the week, on a training course. We use the stuff a lot in work, but the technology is horrible to interact with. The course material is incredibly boring, I am hoping that tomorrow will not be to much of a drag. After work I am heading down to my mothers for the weekend, and I may be offline. Posted via LiveJournal.app.
Nov. 20th, 2008 @ 10:57 pm
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So had fun at con. need to sleep now though, just totally shattered.
May grouch about con at a later point.
In a related point. at this point i am pretty sure i have attended more dominicons than anyone else.
I know i missed the first couple. but since 1999 i have being at every one (that's ten, there were 2 in 2006). So am i wrong, has someone being to more dominicons.....
Nov. 16th, 2008 @ 08:12 pm
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Every so often I come along and put a post up about not posting in awhile. This is another of those posts. There is stuff going on that leaves me to tired to post, which is no excuse, it is my reason though. Work is not very fun at the moment, but hopefully that will pass. Of course it's a lot better than if I was working same place as last year, which has contacted me about doing some work on the next few weekends. I do need the money, but other stuff planned. Oh well.
Nov. 13th, 2008 @ 08:54 am
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I must admit that i like the McCain speech. It is a speech filled with hope and all of that. I wonder how it will be for him to go back to the senate, and work there with a much weaker position for him. Back in 2000 i would have preferred him over Al Gore.
Was going to wait for Obama's speexh, but tired now. Going to go to bed now.
Just a thought before bed. CNN is predicting 56 senate seats for the Democrats (well 54 and 2 independents), along with an increased majority in the house of representatives. Which puts a lot of pressure on Barrack Obama to deliver on what he has promised.
Change.
Nov. 5th, 2008 @ 04:21 am
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I must admit watching the american election is very different than an Irish Election. This is mainly because we have a much fairer system in PR.
Of course the Electoral college is unfair. win the state by a single vote and, in all but 2 states, you get the entire college. It is sometime that needs to be looked at to change the system away from certain key states.
Anyway at this point in time Obama is looking good for breaking the 300 mark. of course this is just projections, so i am thinking that everything should be ok, as long as there hasn't being too much in the way of fixing votes.
I am probably going to go to bed once he hits the 270 mark. Though i am thinking i may wait for florida.
Nov. 5th, 2008 @ 03:49 am
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So about a year ago I joined eventful and listed Jonathon Coulton as someone I would love to play in Dublin. Last Friday it happened.
( adventures in music )
Oct. 28th, 2008 @ 06:27 pm
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So coulton concert on Friday, what are peoples plans? At this point I am heading straight from work. Anyone want to join me for dinner or whatever.
Excitment may be building, however I am too busy to notice.
Oct. 20th, 2008 @ 08:46 pm
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So cold at the moment, which may be part of why i am feeling crap (or i may feel crap, and thus more affected by cold, either way) so i am being quite mean when it comes to given up seat on the luas and what not.
Of course today had it's speical moments, when two girls from the Traveller Community decided that they were annoyed about some random crap, adn where going to drag some Romanian girls off of the Luas. Random fighting occured, where other passengers intervened and basically kicked hte travallers off. then there was spitting and other such stuff.
All this was of course a bit of excitment more than i wanted or needed. Anyway Sleep now, and hope i feel better tomorrow....
Oct. 20th, 2008 @ 08:11 pm
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So heading into work for a short bit of overtime. Probably not worth my while, however it will mean a lot less work on Monday.
After which I will be making my way to Octocon(www.octocon.com). So a busy enough day foe me.
Oct. 18th, 2008 @ 09:23 am
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So busy week in work. Doing a lot of prep work for The new version of the PROGRAM to go live this week. it got delayed till the weekend, so i am working overtime tomorrow. No idea how long it is going to take, but doubt much more than two hours, and probably not even one.
The whole thing has me wrecked mentally, so i am looking forward to the switch in mental tracks that Octocon will bring.
Of course having Octocon and Gaelcon in One Pay cycle is going to be fun. The question is, will i bother with Gaelcon?
Oct. 17th, 2008 @ 03:42 pm
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Last week myself and ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) timeslider had lunch, and as is want when we meet up our conversation turned to politics, and the upcoming budget.
I made a few guesses, i.e an increase in Vat and a suspension of decentralization are the ones i got right.
He said that if the higher rate of tax was increased, then the economy was in trouble. if the lower rate was increased then we were screwed. The question is what does the 1% increase on everyone on their gross income actually say....
Of course not mentioned in the speech, but talked about by the Minister of Social and family affairs were changes in the Jobseekers benefit scheme.
It used to be you needed to have worked for 52 weeks in your life. that has now doubled to 104 weeks. This got you JSB for 312 days (12 months, a 6 day social welfare week). If you had worked 260 weeks you were entitled to 390 days of Jobseekers benefit(15 months, a 6 day social welfare week), this is now changed, 260+ stamps gets you 12 Months, less stamps than that gets you 9 Months. after which you are on the means assessed Jobseekers allowance.
These changes kick in from Today, including certain people who are already on those schemes, if you have less than 260 and were on for less than 3 months, your period just dropped. those with 260+ well if your on less than 6 months, your period just dropped as well.
This is a major change in how things work, and will probably produce more confusion and trouble. especially as the letter sent to customers would have indicated a longer period than they are now going to get.
Oct. 14th, 2008 @ 06:27 pm
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