the weekend in failures and successes

[baratron]

This weekend I have been mostly failing to meet hobbitbabe.

Went to the pub with the drunkbisexuals on Friday. Haven't been out with them for ages because of my general inability to cope with smoke, but I thought I'd make the effort because of the visiting Canadian and nitoda trio. Having been delayed at work, I entirely failed to get there in time to see hobbitbabe, and no one managed to give her my phone number before she disappeared. Having been delayed even further by bus shennanigans, I failed to arrive at the pub in a good mood and didn't feel like staying, although I was there for long enough to note that I'd probably be able to come again as long as all the smokers were at the other end of the table. So that counts as a partial success, I think.

Went to the Science Museum on Saturday. Failed to meet johnckirk for lunch because I felt too ill to get out of bed earlier, and failed to meet hobbitbabe for reasons unknown. Successfully met nitoda, thekumquat, meirion and mjl, and had a successful trip round the Challenge of Materials and Making the Modern World galleries. Had a less successful trip around the Who am I? gallery on the basis the museum closed before we finished. Neither failed nor succeeded in seeing the free Earth from the Air photo exhibition in the grounds of the Natural History Museum - my legs hurt too much to look at it in detail, so I sat down for a long time and then looked at the pictures very quickly. Found David and Toni, and had an extremely successful dinner.

Today, I failed to get out of bed at a sensible time, but successfully got to work only a little bit late. Tonight, I'm entirely failing to connect to irc. Apparently every single server of Freenode is dead, which seems rather unlikely. I can connect to EnterTheGame, but not to a server where there are other people on the #sims channel, which is also rather wrong. Hmmm.

Comments

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Pubs here haven't got smoke in them. I'll bring you to one, some day. :)

[wandra.livejournal.com]

So it's not just me, then. I can't get onto freenode either. *grump*

[ceno.livejournal.com]

Freenode was dead for me earlier too, although haven't tried since.

Caroline and I tend to go to pubs that have No Smoking sections because of her asthma, usually Wetherspoon pubs.

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'll be in London again in three weeks (August 1st until early on August 3rd when I fly home.) We should try again.

I didn't catch up to you at the Science Museum because I got there at 3 o'clock and couldn't remember where you were going except not Space, and my feet hurt. Did you like Challenge of Materials?

[mjl]

My trip around the Who am I? bit was fine - I think I was skimming around faster than you. Nice afternoon generally, in fact.

And I think this post has enabled me to connect LJ usernames to real people whose names I didn't manage to acquire all of, which is good.

[baratron.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately we're in Brussels then, I've been reminded. I may try to come down to visit you in Sussex(?) - it can't be too far from here.

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

When are you going to be in Brussels? I will probably be in Brussels sometime during the week before Aug 1st - I think I will spend my week off in Belgium and Holland but have no clear plans yet.

"Here" is a 12 pound cab ride from the nearest train station (Polegate).

[kixie.livejournal.com]

It was a b'day party, right?
If so, Happy Birthday H-L!!

[nmc.livejournal.com]

According to some sysadmin spam Betty got, the freenode people waited until after the last minute to renew the freenode.org domain. So lookups aren't working great. According to the spam, the propogation to all the other DNS servers should happen with 24 hours, but who knows.