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Last pub quiz at Molly Malone's Irish pub. I'll return home before the next one.

It was a fun evening. Struggled in through the cold and wet. A nice glass of Leffe was very comforting. Was immediately accosted by a woman who wanted an extra person on her team. That was nice. It's always nicer to be asked than to have to ask even if people do always say yes.

So nice bunch. Two Dutch women and a Chinese chap. Picture round was about toys. Except one toy was from G.I.Joe and I said Action Force. It's the same thing just a different national branding! We can 6th in the end, out of 11. I seem to keep being quite useful in the music round despite having no idea abut anything released after 1987. So won a bottle of Rosé. It was rubbish.

To make the night a little more curious - the other day I was showing prospective tenants around the flat. One of them was at the quiz and said "hi". Then seemed to be flirting with me. Which was nice. Then mentioned her boyfriend a couple of times... Oh well. Still had a nice chat. She really did seem flirty though. Also a little drunk. Did get her number though and invited her to see the Christmas Market with me. No reply though. Oh well. Was hoping I'd made a friend.

Additional entertainment was that traditional sight in an Irish pub, of a drunk person being very firmly persuaded out the door by a group of burly bar staff.

Pleasant night. I think I'll miss Molly Malone.

So many things I want to do, and yet seem to be completely unable to get around to it.  Those "to it"s are never quite round enough.  Here's the list.  Partly for my own convenience.  

When it comes to travel, I seriously need to visit Sweden.  I do have a vague offer of a guide/couch space.  I also want to visit Brussels by Eurostar.  I could leave work at 5:00pm, and be there by just after 8:00 (well, 9:00 local time).  This is something that I really want someone to do with someone though.  A weekend involving pub crawls and sightseeing would be more fun if shared. 

For single traveller stuff, I want to go to a convention.  There's Eurocon in Zagreb (at a time that would be inconvenient for work) and Worldcon in Chicago.  I have slight reservations about travelling to the US  Too many horror stories.  

From a less travellish POV, I plan to host an rpg session.  Lack of tables or space at my place will cause a slight issue here.  I will fix this.  

More first aid.  I did rather enjoy the course I did last year.  I don't want to get rusty.  I'm sure there's space for volunteers at LARPs.  Just need to talk to people.  

Movie nights.  This may involve Pizza and Scott Pilgrim.

Also have to remember the Geekest Link pub quiz is on this Sunday.  Perhaps this time I'll persuade someone to join me.  Unlikely but could happen.

It's actually been pretty hectic this weekend. 

Did the cocktail party.  This involved doing the essential stuff like stage 1 of laundry, and expenses and stuff before leaving.  Had to leave fairly early.  Also had to pick up a bottle of Creme De Menthe.  aside from the detour this also meant i had to actually struggle through the horror that is Sainsbury's on a Saturday.  And was delayed further by the security device malfunctioning. 

Kept forgetting odds and sods so kept wanting to return.  Driving back home took up rather more of the day than I would have liked. 

Also had to squeeze in a visit to my parents' place because I'd bought a printer and had it delivered there.  They weren't answering their phones!  Old people and technology, honestly... 

I was somewhat annoyed to find that it had a symbol saying it had no USB cable in the box.  Then slightly annoyed to find that it actually did have after I bought one (although the 5 metre cable I have is a lot more useful than the 1,8M one it came with).  Had to get that working...  Actually a lot less stress than the most recent HP printer I tried to install but why must *everything* run something in the system tray!?  Will have to sort something out there.

Needed to do another pile of computer stuff.  Conversion of some files, transferring from Angelus (desktop) to Chianna (netbook).  muych easier since I learned abut sync tools.

Then there was the Geekest Link at the Caroline of Brunswick.  Shame I know nothing about John Carpenter films, horror movie soundtracks, or horror video games.  And couldn't remember my Bufffy lore well enough...  We did abysmally.   Wish some other people could come to Brighton on a First Sunday Of The Month evening for a sci-fi themed pub quiz.  I know nothing of modern video games!