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31 Macrolog entries tagged with ‘weeknotes’
Weeknotes #533-550 Thu 29 Mar 2012
The first quarter of the year’s almost done and there’s so much I haven’t written here. I’m well overdue a catch-up, I know. This one may be brief, but it’s better than nothing. The highlights: Hitting the four stone mark...
Weeknotes #526-532 Sun 04 Dec 2011
I should probably start calling these Monthnotes, shouldn’t I? Anyway, let’s review the last few weeks. The highlights: Michael D winning the presidency, even though I voted for Norris / Seeing The Silence of the Lambs for the first time...
Weeknotes #517-525 Sun 23 Oct 2011
So August flowed into September into October, and I have little to report. Such is life. The highlights: David O’Doherty at Vicar Street / Ruins Alone at The Twisted Pepper / Dava Sobel at the Science Gallery / Dinner at...
Weeknotes #510-516 Tue 23 Aug 2011 | 0 Comments
Thanks to Twitter for helping me remember the following: 4/7 — I find a hole torn in the back of favorite plaid shirt. Annoyed. Proper, durable (non-fashiony) plaid shirts are hard to come by round these parts. Later in the...
Weeknotes #494-504 Mon 04 Jul 2011 | 0 Comments
Eleven weeks, eh? Feels both much longer than that and no time at all. Let’s check the calendar and see what I’ve been up to… – April closed out nicely with Knut and Keelhaul playing a free show at the...
Weeknotes #488-493 Mon 18 Apr 2011 | 0 Comments
Some highlights (and lowlights) of the past few weeks: – My commute to work in the mornings takes me over the old Broadstone rail line, of which only the trackbed remains. I’ve got a thing for disused rail lines (maybe...
Weeknotes #484-487 Tue 08 Mar 2011 | 0 Comments
A whole month has gone by! What have I been up to? In the middle of February, Bee and I paid a visit to IMMA to catch the last day of The Moderns. It was portrayed as an exploration of...
Weeknotes #483 Mon 07 Feb 2011 | 0 Comments
Fed up with the Wii Balance Board’s fluctuating readings – and the time spent getting through the menus in Wii Fit – I’ve bought a proper doctor’s weighing scales so I can keep better track of what I’m losing (or...
Weeknotes #481-482 Sun 30 Jan 2011
Looking back over the last two weeks, I find two prevailing themes: reviewing the past, and predicting the future. The past I’ve already alluded to in my first Blogfodder link dump. Some of those links are nearly eight years old,...
Weeknotes #480 Mon 17 Jan 2011
I’ve been ploughing through The Creation Records Story over the past few days. By now I’m at the stage where my interest is trailing off – I can’t stand Oasis – but that’s only the last couple of hundred pages;...
Weeknotes #478-479 Mon 10 Jan 2011
Little to report from Week 478. No big New Year’s Eve partying for us, just lunch at Nando’s and adding to our puppet collection. Seriously – The Puppet Company and Melissa & Doug come highly recommended. Oh yeah, and we...
Weeknotes #477 Sun 26 Dec 2010
The pre-Christmas rush to the shops was all the more intense this year due to an extra blanketing of snow, and the infrastructural craziness that came with it. Lucky for us we’d done the majority of our shopping in the...
Weeknotes #475-476 Mon 20 Dec 2010
Monday — Train is quick into town this morning. Getting home takes longer, however; these icy pavements are frustrating me no end. Tuesday — I finally get around to watching Aguirre, Wrath of God only to find the DVR missed...
Weeknotes #474 Sun 05 Dec 2010
Monday — Another day working from home, as I twist my ankle heading out the door. On the plus side, home is much warmer than the office. But my ankle’s sore, the backs of my legs hurt, that weird malaise...
Weeknotes #473 Tue 30 Nov 2010
Monday — Dublin Bus is really pissing me off. Missing buses on the 37 in the morning and afternoon, and bad traffic on the 39 in Blanchardstown means it takes me nearly two hours to get home. I thought this...
Weeknotes #472 Tue 23 Nov 2010
Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday — First two days of this week are a write-off. Wednesday I’m up earlyish, cold still getting me down. I briefly flirt with the idea of going out to the shops. But then I remember the Tesco delivery guy...
Weeknotes #471 Tue 16 Nov 2010
Monday — Work at the office is blah, and cold. I skip out early to beat the rush and finish things up at home. I’m finding that work is eating into my thinking time. Can’t let that happen; don’t want...
Weeknotes #470 Sun 07 Nov 2010
Monday/Tuesday — I wake up feeling rotten on Monday. Time to take a sick day. (The fact that it’s officially the first day of winter is just a coincidence.) I worry for a while about catching up at the end...
Weeknotes #469 Sun 31 Oct 2010
Monday/Tuesday — Monday is a bank holiday, but not for me. At least I get to work from home and wind up at a reasonable hour. Early start again on Tuesday for the deadline, but there are few headaches and...
Weeknotes #468 Mon 25 Oct 2010
Monday — A very slow day at the office. Thank goodness I have to leave early to meet the electrician, who’s coming over to look at the dodgy stovetop. Regarding said stovetop, it will indeed need to be replaced. I...
Weeknotes #467 Mon 18 Oct 2010
Monday/Tuesday — Nothing much happening. We take the train out to Raheny on Tuesday evening – timing things slightly better on the return journey this time, so it takes little more than half an hour to get home. I’m getting...
Weeknotes #466 Mon 11 Oct 2010
Monday — An unremarkable day, other than my dismay at the golf overrunning so I miss University Challenge. Nobody makes me miss University Challenge and gets away with it! Okay, they do get away with it, but I’m certainly not...
Weeknotes #465 Mon 04 Oct 2010
Monday — This cold is hitting me hard, feels like the walking ‘flu. Work is a drudge. A chicken and chickpea curry for dinner helps me breathe a bit easier, but it never lasts long enough. Tuesday — A half-six...
Weeknotes #464 Mon 27 Sep 2010
Monday — A morning of admin, followed by an afternoon of work. Also looked up where the 39 bus stops, so we can have an alternate route home to the new place (integrating Google Maps is the best thing Dublin...
Weeknotes #463 Mon 20 Sep 2010
Monday/Tuesday — Work work work, busy busy busy. Just enough energy left to get to the shops. Not sleeping well. Wednesday — Still in zombieland, but I revive somewhat in the afternoon for an IKEA run. In the evening Declan...
Weeknotes #462 Sun 12 Sep 2010
Monday — Wet walk to work this morning. Parnell Street stinks of wet dog. Then the sky gets darker and the rain gets harder and my enthusiasm goes out the window. Blah. At least I survive the walk home without...
Weeknotes #461 Sun 05 Sep 2010
Monday/Tuesday — End of production cycle means little else (aside from meals and a few hours’ sleep) but work from Monday morning till Tuesday afternoon. I’m used to it, but also tired of it. After all the files are gone...
Weeknotes #460 Sun 29 Aug 2010 | 1 Comments
Monday — Bored in the office with little to do bar some more production prep, and steeling myself for the inevitable deluge at the end of the week. On my lunch break I upload some photos to Flickr that I’ve...
Weeknotes #459 Sun 22 Aug 2010 | 2 Comments
Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday — Beginning of this week is a bit of a blur. I spend some time on Project Hannibal, but mostly watch movies from the backlog on the DVR (nothing I’d go out of my way to see, though the...
Weeknotes #458 Sun 15 Aug 2010
Monday — Long day at work; got more done than I expected, but still not enough. Home around half six. Left a message for the landlord, then spoke to him later re: us moving on. He sounded disappointed, but I...
Weeknotes #457 Sun 08 Aug 2010
Taking my lead from the weeknotes meme that’s spread across a number of blogs/feeds I follow, but mostly inspired by my reading of Brian Eno’s A Year with Swollen Appendices, I’m making a go of keeping note of my thoughts...
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