What to do on a quiet weekend.
Nov. 22nd, 2011 10:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luckykaaOn Wednesday I was wondering what I'd have to do over the weekend.
By Friday I had a very full Saturday planned. By Saturday I also had a full Sunday planned.
Firstlym, I wantedf to buy a Blu-Ray player. I'd heard rumours that the Toshiba BDX1200 was region hackable. It's also end-of-line. Makes actually buying one a bit tricky... Found one in Comet. Ex display so haggled a bit. Then turned out that I suffer from sudden onset dyslexia, and ended up with a BDX2100. Doh! On the plus side I did get it cheap.
I was invited to a geeky get together at the Caroline of Brunswick. I aimed to be a little late because everyone else would be. My obsessive nature made me feel very anxious about this. Turns out the pub was empty when I got there except for the barmaid. So I chatted a bit and exchanged mobile phone tips. Eventually people arrived. Yay!
In the evening was the Castle Greyskull joint birthday party. I attended. Listened to people froth. Found myself way too tired to really interact so left earlyish. Sorry guys.
Sunday![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
erestania had mentioned wanting to see the engineerium! It's only open once in a blue moon these days and probably isn't going to re-open again until refurbishments are complete. Gune would have liked the place and converted it to do something completely different from pumping water. Erestania squeed a lot ina disturbingly cute way over all the pretty steam powerd shinies. Got lots of nice photos. Chatted to some engineering geeks - one guy had built a half scale steam tractor. It was beautiful! And road legal. . Ross the stoker gave us a full description of how the boilers worked and what not to do if you want a boiler to not explode.
Finished off the day with dinner at parents place.
I have another busy week coming up.
Soemhow the house has become a complete tip again. How!? I'm never there!
By Friday I had a very full Saturday planned. By Saturday I also had a full Sunday planned.
Firstlym, I wantedf to buy a Blu-Ray player. I'd heard rumours that the Toshiba BDX1200 was region hackable. It's also end-of-line. Makes actually buying one a bit tricky... Found one in Comet. Ex display so haggled a bit. Then turned out that I suffer from sudden onset dyslexia, and ended up with a BDX2100. Doh! On the plus side I did get it cheap.
I was invited to a geeky get together at the Caroline of Brunswick. I aimed to be a little late because everyone else would be. My obsessive nature made me feel very anxious about this. Turns out the pub was empty when I got there except for the barmaid. So I chatted a bit and exchanged mobile phone tips. Eventually people arrived. Yay!
In the evening was the Castle Greyskull joint birthday party. I attended. Listened to people froth. Found myself way too tired to really interact so left earlyish. Sorry guys.
Sunday
erestania had mentioned wanting to see the engineerium! It's only open once in a blue moon these days and probably isn't going to re-open again until refurbishments are complete. Gune would have liked the place and converted it to do something completely different from pumping water. Erestania squeed a lot ina disturbingly cute way over all the pretty steam powerd shinies. Got lots of nice photos. Chatted to some engineering geeks - one guy had built a half scale steam tractor. It was beautiful! And road legal. . Ross the stoker gave us a full description of how the boilers worked and what not to do if you want a boiler to not explode. Finished off the day with dinner at parents place.
I have another busy week coming up.
Soemhow the house has become a complete tip again. How!? I'm never there!
