16 days
it's getting closer, i'm starting to freak out a little. the whole paying off debts from the USA hasn't quite worked out as well as i'd hoped, and as a result i'm still not quite sure how i'm going to afford to pay to get home. but, as things do, i'm sure it'll all work out. there's two tax returns to get in (last years will go out tomorrow and this years will be done around july 11th) so that should cash me up at least a little to buy a few things like plane tickets, insurance, accommodation, food, and all that stuff.in other news, arno is back in the building for a few days. he's back down from aberdeen till the weekend for a bit of a visit, and is hopefully coming back for the leaving do in 2 and a half weeks. poker at louise's place this friday nite, will be great to play again as it's been a while. did i mention that we MIGHT be getting a limo to drive us around for our last nite in london? i can't remember.
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is anyone still reading this thing? cause, no one's left a comment in ages. maybe i'm just not writing controversial enough stuff. but i'll try soon - tonite is friday which means hardman in the bar, and since i've taken a half day holiday i finished at 7.30 rather than midnight, so i can watch hardman for the first time in months! with any luck we'll have some grear pics of half naked people posted in the next few days...it's been bloody hot here in london the past few days. there's a temperature thing on my alarm clock, it was reading 32 degrees - and that's INSIDE the room. not the most comfortable temperature to be sleeping in, thankfully i have my wonderful argos fan to keep me from going completely insane.just on three weeks till i'm out of london, 2 weeks till i finish work, and 22 days till i see underworld LIVE!!! generally on friday afternoons i listen to radio 1 for the essential selection with pete tong at 6pm...and today was no different. i tuned in to find out that glastonbury, one of the longest running annual music festivals worldwide, is pretty much drowning in water. these big storms are hitting all over the country (london's no exception) - there's some great pics here of tents and toilets falling down from the rush of water (not sure how long the link will last thou). i REALLY wish i could have gone - we were going to start this journey of ours at glastonbury back in 2003, but tickets were impossible to get and hideously expensive (as they still are). anyways...i hope the festival goes on as planned - would be a shame for all those people who payed upwards of £125 for tickets to miss out cause of the weather. welcome to england.tomorrow sees the Live 8 concert in hyde park. i was trying to get tickets to this (they were free, but you had to enter the draw cause so many people wanted to go). i, of course, didn't get one. and milton (aka jim, a friend here from way back) told me he GAVE AWAY his ticket the day before he came to visit. so...i couldn've gone had he not given it away. very annoying...i might head down there tomoorw afternoon anyways and check out if i can get in somehow. i really doubt i'll be able to, but could be some good pics down there anyways.everyone have a fantastic weekend, whatever it is you're getting up to. oooh, and if anyone wants to buy me a present, going away present, welcome back present, a 'hey your rock, have this' present...i really, REALLY want the technics SL-DZ1200 cd turntables...oooh baby...mommy i want it!!ciao
ok, so maybe not daily
but i'll try to update a little more. i've been listening to triple j a lot at work recently...god i missed my triple j! driving down the freeway, 9.30pm, hot air blowing in through the open window, river flying by on your left, triple j pupping out on the stereo...good times.tomorrow sees yet ANOTHER party. as i said prevviously, the monthly gen parties are now fortnightly, so we can get more and more trashed than usual (more? maybe not more...we just have an excuse now). it'll be a 70's prom party, with a hint of 50's grease themes, a king and queen of the prom (of course), drink specials, etc etc etc should be a lot of fun!i'll be sure to get some pics up a little quicker than i have for the summer party. yes i know, i'm slack - deal with it! i don't have a lot of time to do these things anymore, but i am trying. how? well, feast your eyes below...
so that was the summer party - i'll try to get the rest of the pics online at some point in the next week or so (maybe the weekend). and of course, i'll be taking a few hundred photos tomorrow nite. at last count (about 2 months ago) i had something like 13,000 photos on my laptop - 13,000 photos taken since leaving perth. that's a crap load of photos - i'm so glad i bought my digital camera, imagine the cost of developing 13,000 photos...hmm best not to think about that.ok, a quick update - um...nothing's really changed. oh, we kept the yellow lights in the bar from the summer party. so, above the bar where the blue fluros used to be, there's now blue AND yellow fluros up there, and above the door to the bathroom, there's green AND yellow lights...makes the bar a lot less cold, more summery. you can't really see them in the above pics, so i'll try to get more up later.there might be a new menu soon - more on that if it happens. um....my room is so hot i only had about 6 hours sleep in two nights before i went to argos and bought a fan for £8.99, tied it to the top bunk, and now i can sleep in (relative) peace.can't really think of much more -- oh, there's a countdown timer for the number of days i have left in london on the right here...add one day for the number of days till i see underworld LIVE IN AMSTERDAM!!enough from memike
bring on summer!
so it's been pretty damn busy here the past few weeks. weekends are pretty much completely packed, the bar is jumping most nights of the week, and there's people all about. which pretty much means one thing...it's time for the start of summer party.the party is set to be a crap load of fun, if last years event is anything to go by. russ and i will be dj-ing from 1am till 3am, so if you're in the area (or even if you're not, you can pretend) slap on your sunscreen, grab your beach towel and get ready to dance till the small hours of the night. i'll be sure to post a heap of pics later in the week.as my time in london is almost over, i'm going to try to make a conscious effort to make daily (or at least every second day) updates to the site. bare with me, as there may be very little to write about from day to day - maybe i can reveal a different company secret each day for the next 42 days till i leave? could be interesting (thou i think louise may lynch me :P)and bryan, i promise, more pics and updates to come - i'll be sure you get your gen fix more often :)till i get bored later...mike
