OK, it looks like Sunday 18th for Thutmose III - probably meeting at 2pm, but I'll check tonight if that clashes with a Solstice meeting. And the wheel and German market can be Wednesday 21st at 5ish.

I'd like to hold the mulled beverage do on the 30th - sulis_minerva were you planning a party then?

Tonight I shall be at a Solstice meeting and then at the Hoose. If anyone wants me to pick up a ticket for the meal and can have the money for me in the pub, comment here before 5.00 or text me... leila_child - do you definitely want to do the door?

And in other messages, I need the addresses of ravenevermore and cujosmurf - mail me if you wish gifts!

It looks like I won't be at Vaudeville tonight as everyone I know is dropping out of going, so what *are* people doing tonight, and is there anybody who would like my company? Plans that are not The Auld Hoose get extra points, but frankly I may well turn up there if nothing else turns up, I realise I'm probably alienating myself from a lot of people by disliking that pub.

Does anyone want to come to the Weird Attractors gig tonight at the Liquid rooms? It runs 7-10pm and costs a fiver...

August schedulification

Monday 1st August - Doctor am then work. Beltane type party at the Counting House/Blind Poet? Maybe, but I have to get up in the morning...
Tuesday 2nd August - psychologist am, work pm, free in the evening
Wednesday 3rd August - work then free
Thursday 4th August - work then The Forest fifth birthday party with Jon and/or Bongo launch party
Friday 5th August - no work, sleep in, make food for Samba peeps then go to the workshops in the evening.
Saturday 6th August - Samba workshops all day followed by a party
Sunday 7th August - festival cavalcade with Samba followed by picnic
Monday 8th August - off work. Tao Japanese drummers 5.50, with Jon, Sandy and Martin
Tuesday 9th August - off work
Wednesday 10 August - off work. Afternoon in town with Jo
Thursday 11th August - off work, Nova Scotia launch 6.30pm Blackwells
Friday 12th August - off work, free
Saturday 13th August - free
Sunday 14th August - Fringe Sunday on the Meadows
Monday 15th August - back at work afterall
Wednesday 17th August - seeing Jon
Thursday 18th August - not in work till afternoon
'End of August' - Beltane Big Blether
Saturday 3rd September - Nuala's birthday drinks. Bitch at Marco's, worth a look?
Sunday 4th September - Fireworks
Monday 19 September - not at work, autumn holiday

What does one eat with cold meats in a buffet?

Does anyone know what the Auld Hoose is doing on Xmas day? (Or Xmas Eve or Boxing day.)

Do you like Stollen? Or some other kind of Xmas cake/pie/pudding? (No, I am not going to do a poll.) What about chestnuts?

Where in Edinburgh can I get cheap holly and mistletoe? (Please note that I am not prepared to climb over any fences)

What is everyone up to on Hogmanay?



*holiday in that hideously speshul American sense, that is

Does anyone want to go to the Japanese Drummers with me on Saturday at 6pm? Details here - tickets are cheap on Saturday and seem to be still available...

I'm feeling a lot better now - it's amazing how much people ticking the ticky box can help, really; that and not being at work, of course.

So now I feel strong enough to make some weekend plans:

Tonight someone is coming to pick up the walker that lilitufire gave me (sorry but I just couldn't get used to it, but it's going to a good home). And pavlos is coming round.

Tomorrow I hope to meet bunnyphone for coffee and then on to the beer festival to meet mathie, while not getting too legless too early. Maybe I'll get Jon to meet me there later, since I'm kind of supposed to be seeing him, too.

Saturday daytime I'll be at the farmer's market, maybe meeting Kisin for some hot-pig-inna-bun.

Saturday night I'll try to make it to cairmen's Bizarre Foods of Death, especially if I find anything suitable bizarre at the market.

Sunday it's possible that cairmen and/or skx will come round for tea and exchange computers, DVDs etc.

Oh, and I have free tickets for UGC - is there anything on there I should see?

Wow, I'm still happy and I've been sleeping fine for the last week. I'm full of food after Monster Mash with nickys, and I feel like I've achieved loads of stuff. Look wot I've done!
( or you could skip it, cos it's dull )

Am trying to decide whether to go to the Holyrood tonight. I know I've been drinking far too often lately, like nearly every night, but I do want to catch up with folk. And going and not drinking is just not an option - in the Filmhouse it might have been (except that I didn't) but not in the Holyrood... Also, I must go to the gym at some point, really.

Meanwhile some privacy related news in the Guardian:-

Suicide bid on CCTV may herald new privacy law


Police and MI5 tapping of phones and emails doubles under Labour

Yes folks, this week is Morphine week. Just to make life a little harder for myself, this week I am going to be using Morphine lyrics only in the titles. Next week will be They Might Be Giants week, and then maybe Momus week. During Cop Shoot Cop week I will perform a drive by shooting: during Elvis Costello week I may be forced to slit my wrists.

Meanwhile, back at work. Thanks to sibelian and ciphergoth I got up on time, which in turn meant I could weigh myself, find clothes, eat a little, take my medication, moisturise and still walk to work in time. I sat down and read my mail, then I opened Mozilla. Oh, well, it all went well up to 9.05am, which is a hell of a lot better than last week. I feel bright and alert and resoluted, which is the opposite of dissoluted, but not quite as useful as resolved. I feel capable of doing some work. Now I must actually do some work. Um.

( Meanwhile here are some future plans:- )

Right. Now some work.

Well I'm feeling a lot less ill and have managed to go out and brave the Orange shop without any medication stronger than mentholated chewing gum, so I am seriously wondering whether I should go to the Mish. I wanna wear my new giant boots, having given them a few test runs over short distances...