Tuesday
Aug022005
Back to work
Tuesday, August 2, 2005 at 10:47PM
Well that is it , the holidays are over and I am now back at work. It always comes as a bit of a crashing realisation to me that I will have to go back to work after being off. It seems particularly hard in that I have had 2 weeks at home with Robert where we can spend all day every day together and now we will be not be able to do that. It makes me miss the fact that we no longer work together. Yes we worked together in the same office with me testing the code that he had written, and I have to say I really liked it.
Anyway while off we decided to work our way through some of the DVD's that we had managed to accumulate what with one thing and another. I had recently received a box set that contained the Blade films. As you may have already seen I am not a huge fan of the second film - in fact I may go as far as to say as I remember thinking that it really did suck. Anyhow following watching the first film, in the interests of completeness we decided that we would watch the second, and it was then that something quite odd happened. It turned out that the film works much better on the small screen than on the big! This time I could actually see what was happening in the fights and could take in everything that was going. Anyhow I have revised my opinion and I guess it is fair to say that it is not as sucky as I recalled. It still does not come close to the first and third films but then again not a lot does.
If you are looking for a nice trip out then I can recommend going to Great Cumbrae (Millport) and taking your bike. You get there from going to Largs and getting on a wee ferry for 15 minutes and then you are there. They are really cycling friendly and it makes a really nice change to see that in the summer there are more cyclists that anything else. At only 11 miles round is is a manageable trip for even novice cyclists and you are sure to have a good day.
A cool place that you all must visit. Amazonia. I know it sounds eird but it is a new attraction that has opened at Strathclyde Country Park. Sounds naff but actually it is kind of cool. Basically the idea is that it is Scotland’s biggest indoor tropical rain forest. You need to pay about £5 to get in but when you do you can spend as long as you want walking around the exhibits looking at the animals, listening to talks and taking part in the animal handling sections. They guys that run and own Amazonia really care about the animals and are one of the few teams who have managed to successfully breed pygmy marmosets. It is well worth a look. They have a website (http://www.ama-zone-ia.com/) it is not the beast that you will have seen but you can at least find out about them.
Anyhow it is late and I am going to crash out as it is another busy day tomorrow - but hey it will be Wednesday (my least fave day of the week) but if nothing else we will be half way to the weekend ;-)
Anyway while off we decided to work our way through some of the DVD's that we had managed to accumulate what with one thing and another. I had recently received a box set that contained the Blade films. As you may have already seen I am not a huge fan of the second film - in fact I may go as far as to say as I remember thinking that it really did suck. Anyhow following watching the first film, in the interests of completeness we decided that we would watch the second, and it was then that something quite odd happened. It turned out that the film works much better on the small screen than on the big! This time I could actually see what was happening in the fights and could take in everything that was going. Anyhow I have revised my opinion and I guess it is fair to say that it is not as sucky as I recalled. It still does not come close to the first and third films but then again not a lot does.
If you are looking for a nice trip out then I can recommend going to Great Cumbrae (Millport) and taking your bike. You get there from going to Largs and getting on a wee ferry for 15 minutes and then you are there. They are really cycling friendly and it makes a really nice change to see that in the summer there are more cyclists that anything else. At only 11 miles round is is a manageable trip for even novice cyclists and you are sure to have a good day.
A cool place that you all must visit. Amazonia. I know it sounds eird but it is a new attraction that has opened at Strathclyde Country Park. Sounds naff but actually it is kind of cool. Basically the idea is that it is Scotland’s biggest indoor tropical rain forest. You need to pay about £5 to get in but when you do you can spend as long as you want walking around the exhibits looking at the animals, listening to talks and taking part in the animal handling sections. They guys that run and own Amazonia really care about the animals and are one of the few teams who have managed to successfully breed pygmy marmosets. It is well worth a look. They have a website (http://www.ama-zone-ia.com/) it is not the beast that you will have seen but you can at least find out about them.
Anyhow it is late and I am going to crash out as it is another busy day tomorrow - but hey it will be Wednesday (my least fave day of the week) but if nothing else we will be half way to the weekend ;-)
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