So I'm in Liverpool still, feeling rotten this morning. So while I have no energy to leave my bedroom I figure I'd post something on my somewhat stagnant blog.
The last few weekends have been fun, I've been around the country a fair bit, mostly the south-east with the Great British Beer Festival in Earls Court early August, and Broxbourne the other weekend for Thom's moving-out party. Last weekend I was in Ireland again. As I mentioned
before, they were house hunting and have now found, signed for and received the keys of their new house in
Aughagower, Co.Mayo. So my dad and I drove over there to sort a few things out with the house. See what needs fixing/installing/buying and so on.
Whilst over there I spent a fair amount of time with the extended family. I watched the Mayo-Dublin
All-Ireland Gaelic Football Semi-Final on the Sunday at my second-cousin's house. Possibly the best
GAA Football match of recent times. I may tune in to the Mayo-Kerry final later this month if I remember. Up Mayo!
On the Mac front, a login problem meant I had to reinstall windows again on the Macbook. I'll be so glad when I finish work and I can start to use OSX on it more.
Also, I've been taking advantage of the
TVMini and
FilmFour more these last few days. I recorded the Godfather Part 2 the other day, and yesterday Apocolypse Now. Then using
EyeTV's editor I quickly removed the ad-breaks before using the 1-Click 'Toast' button I can burn it to a DVD to watch later, no re-encoding required! *
I'm also going to keep an eye on
CrossOver for Mac. A
Wine-based platform for running Windows GUI apps on the Mac natively. So far I've tried a couple of apps on the beta version, to different outcomes. Google's
Picasa 2 runs fine, whilst iTunes won't install and Google Talk can't connect to the internet. I've heard good things about running Microsoft Office on it though. Plus, if Half-Life 2 runs on CrossOver as well as they say it does, I may have to invest in the full version.
Nowt much else to say besides that I'll be back in London permanently from the 30th of September, moving into a new flat in Hammersmith. My 21st birthday is coming up soon after that, which I really must organise something for.
Until then I still have to decide how long I'm keeping the job here in Liverpool for. I may work until the 29th or I may decide to give myself a week off to coincide with pay-day.
* It spent 2 minutes 'multiplexing' before burning, nowhere near the usual encoding time taken for DVD burning.
