domdavis.com

Methinks it’s going to be a good night. Let’s just hope this Goth set doesn’t last all night

So, this is how the other half live is it? I’m currently in a tiny room with 2 bunk beds (one occupied, by a girl I think. Poor sod). The toilet is right next door and my head us some 2 feet from all the action. Joy. Still, for all its smallness its much nicer than the place I had last week and at the same cost (normally it’s cheaper here but this being a bank holiday weekend the prices shoot up to just over £25 including breakfast). As a space to crash it’ll do nicely… now, where is the room service menu?

…well, she said “I’m busy until April”. On the plus side the question was “Are you free tomorrow or Monday?”, there was actually an explanation of why she was busy and April is only a few days away. So I’ll ask again in a few weeks and possibly get to take Cute Bartender for a drink or a meal or something… or get crushed. One or the other

OK, so you’ll recall this Easter was supposed to be one of drunken debauchery, however, things have not gone as planned. Thursday ended early, Friday was canceled and last night saw poor Patch having to order a round that included 3 teas for the non drinkers in the group. Rock on!

Easter? Yup, spring has sprung, the grass has riz, but you can’t see it under an inch or so of snow which is sort of the icing on the cake for my favorite holiday. My daf’s also came out overnight. Of course, the true meaning of Easter is the chocolate so, along with a 400g bar of Fruit and Nut, I have bought myself a hayuge Easter egg. Tonight is Club Noir which should cap off a nice lazy day (didn’t get out of bed until gone 12 ). Hope you all have a good one.

I really do have it bad for my cute bartender. Today I gave her a small tube of mini eggs as an easter gift (not sure if I’m going to that pub tomorrow and I don’t think she’s working Sunday) and then proceeded to sit at the table with my mates and look all doe eyed (apparently) every time she came into view. And before you lot start telling me I should ask her out there is the small problem she may say no… or she may say yes… and I’m not entirely sure which one scares me the most.

Anyway, we did tonight completely arse about face going to the cocktail place first (where I got to drink expensive lemonades in small glasses with lots of ice), then kebab (which wiped everyone out as I insited we ate in and the kebabs were rather large) then the pub. Then we decamped to another pub as we were told our nurse friend was out with a lot of young student nurses, which turned out to be an untruth (or if they were out they weren’t in the pub we were told) so we just gave up and went home. It’s a far cry from the ‘out clubbing until god knows when’ that it was supposed to be. I’m off to bed

Sin have pulled the plug on the opening night for Pure F*ucking Industrial. I was really looking forward to that I’ll be going to the pub and sulking. Sunday had better be a good night. Grrrr…

Right, I’m sick to death of people calling computers ‘hard drives’.

A hard drive is small. Laptop hard drives are really diddy, but your average desktop hard drive is about 4 x 6 x 1 inch in size (bit smaller, but hey).  These sit inside the box thing which some people insist on calling ‘the hard drive’. Its not. It’s the bloody computer. It’s like calling a car an engine. You don’t say ‘I got into my engine and drove to work’. OK, so maybe you call it a ‘hard drive’ to vincere alla roulette onlineonline gamblingroulette casinòcasino baccaratall download slotsmetodi per vincere alla roulettegiochi gratis video pokeri video pokercasino’ on linegiochi casino gratis on linefree texas holdem poker download,free online texas holdem poker,free texas holdemtexas hold em tipvideo poker downloadfree online texas holdem pokerfree poker gameon line poker gameplay 7 card stud pokertexas hold em,texas hold em poker,how to play texas hold em pokercrazy game of pokerdownload game holdem poker texas,texas holdem poker game,texas holdem tv poker gameplay money pokervideo poker homefree video pokeronline roulette pokerfree texas hold em pokermac online pokerinternet poker siteonline poker,online poker game,best online pokerplay poker,how to play texas holdem poker,how to play three card pokerbest online poker sitefree poker softwareonline poker softwarefree internet pokerpoker gamesonline poker siteonline poker downloadonline poker cheatvideo poker gamepoker freeonline poker no downloadomaha hi lo rule,how to play omaha hi lo,omaha hi lopoker download,no download poker,download poker superstarstexas hold em poker online,texas poker,texas holdem poker odds7 card stud softwareonline poker review7 card stud hands7 card stud tournamentscard games 7 card studonline poker strategyfun game home play poker distinguish it from the other bits. Well they have specialist names too to help you out. There’s the monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, printer, etc.

Grrr!

The hotel room I had on Friday for the nights clubbing was… well… pants. £25 per person per night in central London tells you all you need to know really To top things off I had to wait for 15 minutes to be let in (the guy manning the desk was upstairs sorting out a problem with one of the rooms), 10 minutes to check in (it wasn’t him to let me in so I had to wait for him to come down) and they didn’t have the room I ordered. Instead I got a 5 bed room which, given everyone else had dropped out, was just a bit silly with a bathroom that was shared with another room (turns out the ‘private’ bathrooms are ‘private’ to a couple of rooms rather than being open to the floor which is nice). The shower was so bad that I couldn’t use it, the toilet seat was broken and the rooms were heated to about 60 degrees C.  OK, so I had a TV to watch (a teeny tiny thing with an aerial and a signal that would drop in and out depending where the people upstairs stood) and it allowed me to kill the time between arriving and leaving for the club.

I was also treated to a further 15 minutes stood outside when I got back after the club. The guy on the desk was clearly sleeping because, after much ringing of the bell and banging on the door) I managed to get hold of the phone number and rang the hotel. He suddenly came out of the day room looking like someone who’s just woken up. Since he didn’t know I was only supposed to be a party of 3 (you pay in advance so they don’t care once that’s sorted) and that no one else had checked in with me I claimed that everyone else had got bored waiting for him to answer the door and gone home. I packed my bag, demanded to check out there and then and stormed out in true ‘disgruntled customer’ fashion. Not that they care.

Anyway, hostel on Sunday (so we’ll be able to compare that to cheap hotel ) and then I’ll just be going to clubs that are open until stupid o’clock in the morning so I can just catch a train home.

For your delight and delectation I have provided photos of the room, photos of the clothes I was going to wear (including my new glow in the dark ‘meh’ tshirt), and photos of my clubbing toys obeying the laws of straight (I was bored, OK. I had three hours to kill and gardeners world in fuzzovision just doesn’t cut it). Enjoy 

While I may sing the virtues of Apple hardware, I’m the first to admit that the Apple Store is absolutely pants when it comes to delivery. Hardware seems to wend it’s way on a grand world tour from the Far East stopping at many of the intervening countries en-route. Meanwhile the ability to track your order only seems to work about 3 days after your order has finally arrived. Software is slightly better coming, as it does, from Ireland, but there can be an intolerable delay as the order is processed, packed and, finally, shipped.

With that in mind it was with great glee that I discovered that Aperture 2 had an option where I could just order a serial number rather than a box set and upgrade the trial version I had. Head to website, order serial number, wait for email, enter serial number, job done.

Wrong. Head to website. Order serial number. Wait a couple of hours. Get email acknowledging my order. Wait another couple of hours. Get email telling my my order was being processed and that the lead time was a couple of days [!]. Wait 2 days, get email saying ‘here is your invoice’. Still waiting for the serial number. Given the fact the price was the same I would have been as good ordering the boxed version.

I’ve ordered masses of shareware and cheap applications online at all times of the day (or night), even early in the morning on bank holidays, and they seem to be able to deliver my my serial number in a matter or minutes or hours (24 hours being the most I’ve ever really had to wait) so you’d think that a big outfit like Apple could match that. Ho hum. I shall continue waiting for my serial number.