So, two weeks without updating. Not much has been happening. Mostly dealt with by the tweets I've been firing off. First and most of the second week back at work have been immensely quiet - client work was finished before I left and picked up very little continuing case work initially.

First day back though did have the hell of about 2 hours on train platforms due to delayed trains. Was incredibly doubleplusunfun. We also found out we may be losing some colleagues as part of the union work is outsourced. That wasn't too pretty.

Social life is pretty standard. We won at the pub quiz the other week though which was nice. We did have an Andy though which always seems to help.

Learnt a couple more poi tricks to master with the Manchester HoPpers. Got an email advising of a new twitter follower - ethereallad - which led me to The New Gay blog and then a really interesting looking book I've had to order from America - Troll: A Love Story - and an amusing young (and cute) musician - Bo Burnham. The stuff you end up finding from one automatically sent email...

EDIT 2: Oooops... How could I forget Pol coming over and taking us out to The Swan With Two Nicks?!? Really good food there - Bangers and Mash (posh version with Wild Boar sausages). Oh, and the 2 hour kayak trip I went on one evening to help Mark build up stamina for WILD. God, that killed my legs - his spare boat is wider than I'm used to and has thigh rests in completely the wrong place.

Other than making my costume for the BBQ that's about all I've been up to really. Dead exciting life I lead isn't it?

EDIT: Looks like the Salmon is back after morphing into a trout - economicaltrout: You should really try to avoid using so many swear words in your next post. There are children on the internet too, you fuckwad. Sent just as I had submitted this entry. Which has only one swear word in it now... "fuckwad"...

Alex
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