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Last Saturday night it was Laura’s birthday. So Charles and I headed upto someones flat for a suprise birthday for her. A good night of drinking games and general debauchery, before we all headed down to Fat Sams for some dancing. Whilst down there I bumped into Louise and I met her sister Rachel.
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Headed back to the flat and fell asleep on the sofa. Sunday was a nice relaxing day, in which I cooked up at Charles’ flat then headed to Tonic and discovered that they are now doing live music on a Sunday evening which was a pleasant suprise.
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Went out last Satruday night with Kerry and her friend Chris. Was good to see her and a lot of her friends since I hadn’t seen them for rather a long time. All was good, until I bumped into Sarah. I was perhaps not the nicest chap, and may just of been a tad insulting. Cest la vie.
Wednesday morning was spent at work as usual. However there was a certain amount of delight in the air as I got excited about the Brewers playing Man U that evening down at Old Trafford. Thanks to Kim, I’d been able to get tickets 
I left work at lunch time and headed to the station having previously, planned my journey to the smallest detail. However I should not underestimate my own stupidty. I got on my train in Dundee and travelled down to Edinburgh…. however I travelled a little too far. Getting off at Waverley instead of Haymarket.
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I wondered why my train was early! So I sprinted to the train, just to get there as the train doors were closing. I have to admit that I nearly swore…. but thanks to the precense of a BTP Officer I managed to hold my tongue. I managed to get onto a York bound GNER service, although that cost me £50 
However in the end I got there. The atmosphere was superb. The biggest ever away support at Old Trafford. I wouldn’t of missed it for the world. We lost 5 - 0, which was expected, although everyone had a good time. The evening was spent in a nice hotel, before having a look around the city art gallery and getting the train back up.
I’ve never really been much of a football supporter. Having been to a handful of games in my time. However this week I’ve already been to one match at Dundee United, and will be heading down to Manchester for the FA Cup replay against Burton Albion.
I’m really looking forward to it. Not just because of the football but because I’ll be a chance to catch up with some friends. I haven’t seen most people for a while. It’ll be good to be out of Dundee for a while too. Get my mind off of some things that have been niggling at the back of my mind.
Early Thursday morning was punctuated by several power spikes at work the last one of which fried my motherboard. That left me in the position of being able to do very little work for two days Very annoying. On the plus side I will get a very nice new machine. RAID mirrored, 4GB of RAM ( Most of our tools aren’t 64bit ready ), Dual cored. Should play Swat4 nicely 
I really do think that politicians aren’t the most honest of folks. Just a few days ago we had Mr Kennedy publicly admitting Westminsters worst kept secret, and now we have Mr Cameron going against thier previous policy on tuition fees. Just a few short months ago, during the election, the complete opposite was true. Do they really think that the public are so quick to forget!
Alas something in me thinks that we are
As Andrea so wonderfully put it
Message 4 - posted by andrea4thebrewers, 1 Hour Ago
YES! But most are down the pub, having gone for a Burton!
Yay for Burton Albion getting a 0-0 draw with Man U. We seemed to be the better team in the first half, and managed to fend them off in the second. The FA Cup is good for a game like this… the minnows have always got a chance against the big clubs. It did highlight the difference in fitness between the two sides.
Now I’m trying to sort tickets out for the rematch at Old Trafford. Should be good. Hopefully a lot of the town will make it. Its good for the club. Congrats to all involved in todays game.
On a sadder note former sports Minister Lord Stratford has passed away after suffering a major stroke. He was obviously ill, shame that the BBC accidentally published this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/prep_obits_-_will_not_publish/4591570.stm URL on the main page of their website. Doh! As usual sympathy for the family members
This is perhaps the best blonde joke
Have a good laugh here
Well it turns out I’m pretty much broke. So I’ve spent a few minutes having a quick look at my finances. Rather simply I’ve applied for a Halifax One Credit Card, which I can do a balance transfer on at 0% pa for 12 months. Dead simple, quick, should save me some money and they have offered me a limit of £5300. Time to go shopping
Update:
That should of course say time to start saving 
We should write a spoof called “Marrowing for the enquiring mind”
Well that’s exactly what I thought.
This whole festive season I’ve not actually felt that festive. So new years eve instead of heading out and getting pissed I headed upto Lochee and did a 7pm -> 3am night shift. Nothing that interesting happened. Dare I say it, but Lochee was rather quiet. By all accounts town wasn’t that mad either.
So with the new year upon me, time to think about what I plan to do with it. So far my list consists of
- Stop drinking booze - 3 1/2 weeks in already
- Concentrate on work more
- Lose some (more) weight
- Generally be healthier
- Learn to play the Saxophone
So not that interesting and certainly similar to a large number of people I imagine
Today has been rather lazy. I’ve managed to upload some more photos. Take a look at the gallery.
