I’ve been here almost a month and yet up until now I have only actually seen where I live, the office and the route from my house to the office. Excluding the detours I have made trying to follow that route. Therefore, today, I decided I would actually see some of the area where I [...]
As the title suggests today I played trampoline dodgeball. I’ve never played dodgeball before and although my strategy for football and rugby was to avoid the ball at all costs this was slightly different. Mainly that people tried very hard to get the balls near you, the complete opposite of what has happened every other [...]
Tonight was board game night, although this meant “serious” board games rather than the traditional fare such as monopoly. I’d only once or twice played board games like this so it was a fairly novel experience, although one that was great fun.
Despite playing for several hours I only actually played one game (albeit several [...]
Things have been quiet on this blog for the last few days, a reflection on how busy I’ve been (writing these posts takes a relatively large portion of my time). So, to make up for how lost you must have been without knowing exactly what I was doing, I’ll cover the last few days. Plus [...]
The perks continued today with a haircut in a mobile barbers salon (it looked like a converted mobile home). Americans have a very funny word for fringe, bangs. Not only is it unnecessarily plural but it just sounds, to me at least, very funny. Looking in the OED there is no entry for the word [...]
Today I was given a BlackBerry as my phone has failed to function on the funny US frequencies. As some people know I have previously abhorred the concept of a smartphone and I haven’t really changed my mind. On the one hand I will now stop getting lost (it has a GPS) but on the [...]
I forgot my camera today so I’m afraid there are no photos of San Francisco this time. Next week I think I will go to Alcatraz or the Golden Gate Bridge and I won’t forget my camera.
I followed my now usual Sunday routine of taking the Caltrain into San Francisco to church, going back [...]
Today was the big Nerf gun battle, mainly due to the size of my companies team we easily won. It was a capture the flag contest, with multiple half-hour long rounds. Originally it was planned for there to be six rounds but fortunately this was reduced to four, I think I might have died from [...]
So, it is now finished. I thought that, compared to the last few films, they actually did quite a good job of it. However some parts were left out for seemingly no reason, such as Aberforth’s goats. What was a great shame was that more of the back story, such as the details of Dumbledore [...]
In preparation for tomorrow there was a screening of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part one in the office this evening, I went along, of course. Unfortunately it seems the more you watch it the more tedious the camping scenes become, I am still at a total loss as to why it was split [...]
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