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Spent most of Saturday in town. Tried to phone [livejournal.com profile] lnr and/or [livejournal.com profile] ewx to ask if they wanted to meet up with me and [livejournal.com profile] sion_a for lunch, but couldn't get through; [livejournal.com profile] sion_a and I had a nice lunch in Tatties anyway, where we also bumped into [livejournal.com profile] simonb, [livejournal.com profile] ejde and their friend Amanda (?) who as far as I know doesn't have an LJ. :-)

I bought all the things I intended to buy, which was rather an odd assortment including insoles, cards, toothpaste, henna, a violin mute, and a knee brace. While I was in the music shop looking for a mute (and some viola music so that I can learn to read alto clef again), [livejournal.com profile] sion_a took the opportunity to ask about trombone rental.

I just want to say "trombone rental" again, because the phrase is really much funnier than it should be.

Anyway, a combination of good sales technique from the nice girl in the music shop and unsubtle encouragement from me eventually persuaded him that he really did want to rent the trombone; so hopefully (assuming he does get back into playing again) he'll be able to join the Concert Orchestra next term too. And having heard the noise a trombone makes, I don't think I'll need to feel guilty about practising violin while he's in earshot any more. :-)

Back home we recovered from shopping with the aid of lots of tea, before heading back out again for [livejournal.com profile] acronym's birthday party / [livejournal.com profile] antinomy and Nigel's engagement party. Eventually found Kate & Nigel's place despite [livejournal.com profile] sion_a transposing the digits of the house number in his head -- still not quite as impressive as [livejournal.com profile] emperor accidentally adding up the digits in his head before passing the address on to [livejournal.com profile] atreic.

All in all it was quite a good party -- great to talk to [livejournal.com profile] acronym properly, lovely to see [livejournal.com profile] lnr for a change, and good to chat to various other people. Though really I was quite lazy and stayed on the same sofa all evening, so only really talked to the people who happened to end up near me ... I blame tiredness. And I feel like I didn't say much to the Happy Couple at all (apart from a bizarre and confused conversation with Kate and her sister, about aeroplanes and eBay) but I hope they do carry on being happy, and I hope they had a good party anyway.

[livejournal.com profile] sion_a and I got home some time after the clocks had gone back.

Today I will be mostly discovering clocks I'd forgotten to set; re-henna-ing my hair (if I have time); tidying up; generally pottering. And [livejournal.com profile] hoiho gets back this evening (hurrah!) so will probably be going for dinner with him.

Date: 2003-10-26 05:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] acronym.livejournal.com
It was lovely to see you. Here's some of the URLs I was hurling at you :)

Flash animations:
http://www.rathergood.com/lightsabre/ - McLusky, Lightsabre...
http://users.wolfcrews.com/toys/vikings/ - Led Zep, Immigrant Song

http://www.rathergood.com/pants/
http://www.b3ta.com/realistic-internet-simulator

Webcomic:
http://www.phdcomics.com/ - "Piled Higher and Deeper"

- A

Date: 2003-10-27 12:56 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] emperor
still not quite as impressive as [livejournal.com profile] emperor accidentally adding up the digits in his head before passing the address on to [livejournal.com profile] atreic.

The moral of this story boys and girls is not to ask your SO for important detailed information whilst they are still 98% asleep.

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