Diary: July 2005
This week Leela and I have been in Sevenoaks, visiting the exciting local attractions and using our new national trust memberships. We also went wandering around Tunbridge Wells, her looking for a pair of jeans and me looking at nintendo ds'. I'm rather tempted by them, but the £30/game thing is putting me off - 3 games would double the price, and they'd hardly be San Andreas. I also think it's a bit chunky to fit in my pocket, but DSLinux would swing it if I could SSH over wifi, even though it sounds like a lot ...
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So, on Sunday Leela and I picked up the keys for our flat in Cornwall. It's a 2 bedroom upstairs flat with a very large dining room and lounge. The first thing I did was to activate the phone line, and I have now ordered ADSL. There's no furniture in the flat, but there is 2mbit internet.
Having done an insane amount of work yesterday, I felt justified in playing a little bit of San Andreas at 2am. Ahh, I love that game. Still haven't got very far into it though, which is a shame, but since ...
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Last Thursday was, amongst other things, Tristan's birthday! Happy birthday Tristan! He arrived home that evening in a rather intoxicated state, with a friend from work and a desire to sample the many bottles of wine which he had been collecting for such an occasion. I believe they managed to get through most of one bottle by the time I finished my work and joined them, and I watched them start on a second. Tristan excused himself, declaring that he would just be a minute, and wandered off in the direction of the toilet. I was left to make ...
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You may be wondering why I have not updated my diary in weeks. Well, I have been busy. In particular, I have been driving. A lot. Over 1600 miles, in fact.
As I said in an earlier entry, I am moving to Cornwall with Leela, and we rented a flat that is the perfect size and in the perfect place, but unfortunately it came unfurnished. All we had were the carpets and curtains. Seeing as I'm moving out of my other two homes (Sevenoaks and Bath), it seemed to make sense to bring things from those. Just two little ...
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Ok, so on 03/07 I contacted BT to say that I was taking over the tenancy of my flat, would they please connect the phone line, which had been disconnected by the landlord a few days before. They said yes, that would be lovely, activated it on 04/07 and then sent us a bill on 06/07. Bless.
So, on 06/07, satisfied that the line was now working and that it was in my name, I went ahead and ordered ADSL. I recieved an email on 13/07 saying that BT had now activated adsl on my ...
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