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Going out faoi dhó

I wanted to post on Saturday about Friday’s Tweetup, but unfortunately I ended up going out for all of yesterday to the hair day and a family barbecue for the rest of the afternoon. So here’s my belated post, although it probably won’t have as much info as I would have originally liked…

Tweetup

Friday’s Tweetup was really good, I liked meeting the people behind the blogs and the tweets. Once you meet people in real life, it changes your perspetive of who they are, and helps you to understand more what they talk about.

Met Alexia first in Starbucks on College Green. It’s actually quite funny, as when I first got off the bus and rang her to see where she was, I thought to myself “What are the odds she’s in the Starbucks right here?”, and it turned out to be that way! Laura met us there soon after, and Elly not much longer after that. I have to say Elly is the one who most surprised me when meeting up with her. She’s has a very “bubbly” personality, which is probably what surprised me the most!

As for the sushi dinner in the Hop House, it was lovely. It also gave me the opportunity to at least attempt to get to grips with chopsticks

Also there at the dinner were Darragh and Niamh, and Marie arrived later on during the meal. Fun times to be had by all, particularly regarding phones! Laura and Marie both had iPhones, and Darragh an N95. Which looked a lot different in comparison to my little 1101. Which is why I mentioned, and told I’d be quoted on saying: “Am I the only one who downgraded when they bought their last phone?”

Unfortunately, I had to head back home after the dinner. We finished at 11pm, and with the last bus leaving at 11.20, I decided to head back. I wasn’t alone, as Darragh and Niamh went back to Blanch, and Laura back home as well at that point. It would have been nice to continue on to the pub part of the meeting, particularly as there were more people there: RapturePonies, and Damien “The King” Mulley. Mulley is someone I would have loved to meet, but alas, my logistical properties prevented me from doing so

All in all, the Tweetup was a great time. Hopefully there will be more meetings soon! (In fact, I think there is another less formal meeting planned by Debz for this Wednesday - although I think I need to look into it more!)

Pictures: Mine, Alexia’s. Will add more once I find them!

Family Time

OK, so maybe there isn’t really much to say about this bit. Other than being called at to come down and get in the car, while I was in the loo, and then having them drive off on me, forcing me to get the bus much later in the afternoon, leaving my DS behind because when trying to add more stuff on the memory card is fucked up and deleted all but one of my games and almost all of my saved data, and staying there until around 11pm, and having to sit through crappy 80’s music on VH1 instead of the really interesting The Match: Forza 2 that was on Pulse in which Stune from the London Mint was participating.

Wow, run-on sentence.

So yea, I think that’s about it for those two events. I’m not sure if I already mentioned my DS card screwing up - if I didn’t I’ll get onto it soon. It’s a busy period around here, and I’m finding it hard to not only post here, but also to continue the task I took upon myself to improve a few Pokémon articles on Wikipedia