Abigail Brady

pub this evening?

Weekend was good, and life is looking up. :)

karen2205's picnic in Cambridge in Saturday was a success, and people seemed to eat my flapjacks.

Horrible headache this morning was displaced by drugs. Some inconsiderate people were having a music festival in Finsbury Park, which didn't help, as all I could hear in any room of the flat was a dull boom boom boom. So I started listening to complicated-textured metal and that seemed to make it go away. Headaches are strange, sometimes.

Then went to pub this afternoon. At first it was just me and psych0naut, but then nyecamden and aster13, followed by shevek and then a surprise afpmeet, and then a ali_in_london and a khalinche (not forgetting all the people i'm forgetting, of course). so the evening was full of beer and talking and otherwise enjoyably interacting with nice people.

bedtime for abi now.

Pembury this evening for me. I am going to Leicester on Monday, and will not return to London for a week.

I'm off to the pub for the afternoon. Beer. Food. Peoples. Games. Come!

no really, I have

Seem to have discovered twitter. Username same as here.

Did good bit more of Belgrave on Wednesday, followed by lots of the West End on Thursday. On Friday I met up with eldritchreality for a late lunch, then with riak in the evening at firebug. where we were randomly joined by djlostbot and beltainethecat's pet human and a couple of their friends. Alcoholic beverages were consumed.

On Saturday ioannab and I went to Market Harborough and back via some very odd routes, trying to trace National Cycle Network route 6 and 64. The routes were quite low-traffic but insanely hilly. These should appear on the cycle map sometime later this week. Also, we saw lots of horses.

back from Leicester on Sunday, along the usually freight-only Oakham to Kettering Line. Since it was a class 222 with its evil anti-signal windows, I failed to get a GPS trace. Didn't bring bicycle to London in end, I had too much other luggage. May keep bicycle in Leicester until I have finished mapping it.

Pembury on Sunday was not bad. I sorted the Carcassonne tiles out for the expansions from the base set, and then we (me, timeplease, elise, aquarionical) had an actual game of normal Carcassone for the first time in ages. Tiles are now marked on the back so this problem will not arise again. Still need to sort out the Traders and Builders and King and Scout tiles from each other.

aquarionical brought along Risk Express, which was indeed less tedious than Risk (in fact, it seems to be a different game that has then had some of the same names for things added to it) but also seemed to even less skill (possibly I am only saying this because I lost).

is anyone likely to be at the pembury this evening?

fluffymark and antipodienne came round last night and we drank gin and watched dvds and listened to strange music and this was all good.

today i continued my solo circumnavigation of the london borough of hackney. i picked up the segment of the Islington/Hackney border down to old street that i'd missed; then walked along the border down to Sun Street, where it meets the City. The Hackney/Tower Hamlets border was quite tricky in comparison: especially confusing bits were the course in the Shoreditch High Street/Commercial Street/Bethal Green Road, what it does around Haggerston Park, and also at Hackney Wick. But hopefully my deductions aren't too wrong.

the remaining section is the border with Haringey, east from Manor House, then south down the Lee to Hackney Wick again.

the week is over, let's all go to the pub!

_lostinthecity has decided to move out at the end of February to be closer to work. thus myself and notajeep are looking for a new person to live with us. near seven sisters tube, is big room, 490 pcm. could also reshuffle so i take that one and new person gets smaller room (which is 415). anyone interested/know anyone who is interested? spread the word!

Dead & Buried on Friday; which was OK, but didn't dance much. This may be related to the fact my left knee has been hurting when I place weight on it for a number of days. Ouch.

Over halfway through Illuminatus!. I can see the fnords! Has anyone published annotations to this, I wonder?