All apologies

taitsukun kicks balls...
Originally uploaded by decentred.

It's been a while. Oops. I've meant to sit down and blog for a couple of days now, but real-life got in the way. Hmm.

Some things have happened. Other things happened (but they were to other people and I'm not really sure what they were), and many more things didn't happen at all. Still more things looked like they were going to happen and then didn't. Who's to say?

However, in the interests of being succinct, I'll try to put the things that actually happened, and the things that didn't into some form of tabulated list:


Things that didn't Happen

• We didn't manage to call Laura. No matter how hard I try, I can't get it into my thick head that when it's calling-time here, it's middle-of-the-bloody-night there. Sorry, Lou; we promise to sort it out soon :)



• I didn't buy a Nintendo DS lite, despite protestations from Dylan, and the fact that they're only 75 quid. Later, later



• I didn't do anything of note on our days off, due to the constant drizzle and occasional torrential rain. boo

Enough of that.

Things that happened:

• I joined a band. In truth, I joined it a couple of weeks ago, but this week was the first practice. It's not the kind of music I usually play, in that it's a Salsa-Ska crossover band (yeah, I know - anyone who knows me from or in relation to Marzano will know my feelings on Salsa as a genre), but it's not too bad, really. I just have to hammer out some chords, and occasionally do a solo. However, there's definately some promise there; after the regular set that we have to run through, we're more or less free to jam for about an hour and this produced some nice sounds. Hence, might be fun. We'll see...



• In order for me to play in said band, I was given an electric guitar last weekend, along with a practice amp, which saved me about 20,000 yen. It's a piece of crap, but once I'd set the neck, lowered the action and sorted out the pickups, it sounded, well, like a piece of crap that'd had an hour spent on it. Meh.



• We saw Pirates of the Caribbean 2. Not impressed, really. Was quite drunk (on rum, to get into the spirit) but that didn't really make up for the inexplicable nonsense which at times seemed to be shoe-horned into it just for the hell of it. But I suppose it's a Disney film.



• Played tennis the other night, with Kazkun, Taichi, Kouji and Paddy. I haven't played since I used to bike up to the Wollaton Park Tennis Club as a little nipper, apart from a couple of frankly half-assed games with Lukas last summer, so I was surprised to find that I really enjoyed it. However, we did play under lights, so there were more bugs, mosquitos, moths and beetles than I've ever seen (not to be outdone, Jack, I swear that there was a moth there 6 inches wide, with closed wings - I thought it was a sparrow).'Good times', as Paddy would say. 'Super-good play serve' as Kazkun would say.