Traingasm and stuff

Weekend was good. One of the now traditional Chinese/Wii night meetups with the people from the company I used to work for. The guy who normally hosts it has moved to Crewe so we ended up going there and staying the night. Their house is in the middle of a load of identical terraces but it's really nice inside, with nice high ceilings and big windows making the rooms feel airy.

It was a good day on Saturday, we got there early enough to go over to the Crewe Heritage Centre with lots of old trains. It was really good, and it was great to see the APT prototype, looking much better with a nice fresh coat of paint. There were lots of old trains and in a surprising move in this day and age, no signs saying keep off so we quite happily examined old steam and diesel engines. We also found a set of points that we tried out, unfortunately after setting them to the other direction, the lever suddenly stopped working and flopped pointlessly back and forth, so we beat a hasty retreat from there. Don't think they used them much though.

The evening was spent in the usual way, plenty of food, Wii action and general nonsense. The next morning everyone awoke in various states of tiredness but were soon brought awake by copious amounts of bacon, sausage, egg and crumpets.

Work wasn't good today, one of those days where everything I touched seem to turn to disaster. I had to move some data and phone points and all was going fine when until I suddenly realised I had six phone cables hanging out disconnected and had no idea which went where. Embarassing as I had to then call someone from each line so I could find out what number it was. Fortunately I hadn't unplugged anything crucial so it wasn't too bad.

Ever since Denbigh badminton started, my shoulder has been giving me pain and it's proving very irritating. I can feel the muscle in my shoulder that is the problem and if I lift my arm in a certain way it's really painful.

Got a cheapo GPS and did my first geocache on Friday. It was good fun and took me down a road not far from my house that I've very rarely been down, and it turned out there was a lot of interesting and lovely scenery, a friendly horse and some very nice views down the Vale of Clwyd.

Still loving the 6 string bass. I don't know why but it really feels easy and natural to play, something about the shape of the neck just feels right. It's wide but I can reach all the strings no problem. I have noticed that I don't use the highest string much, if at all, but it still feels more natural to play than the 5 string I had a couple of years ago.

Sold a lot of stuff. The white Flying V bass has gone, two Nokia tablets, the Precision workstation and the DSi. Only now do I look back at the last decade or so and realise how pointlessly materialistic my outlook on life was. Problem is I'm not sure how to move on, change things, before it's too late.

Poo.

This is probably my most listened track at the moment: Alkohol by Eisbrecher. They're sort of like Rammstein but with electronic stuff mixed in. One nice thing is they put translations of the lyrics on the website. I think I actually prefer Eisbrecher over Rammstein but the stuff I've heard from the forthcoming Rammstein album sounds pretty good.