NIN and Foo Fighters in Edinburgh!

Hey there,

Saw NIN and the Foo Fighters last night and it was fucking great! :)

Pics and video for ya. Sound is shit in the videos but what the hell, here they are anyways.

Pics first:


The crowd.














Trent Reznor with guitar.














Trent Reznor singing with his laptop.











Now for videos. The NIN ones are 'bouncy' to say the least, I was up front in the pit. The Foo Fighters one is a bit more interesting, I added commentary to it so check it out. ;)

Spiegel Tent

It rained all day yesterday, really hard most of the time. Oh well, why should that stop us drinking?





Don't know why the sound didn't work but here is my buddy Scott's gig in the Meadows as a part of the Fringe Festival. His band is Jaded Playboy, they're on My Space if you're curious.



Here's Scott signing his first autograph. Awwww..... :)

Anyhow, waiting for my bike to arrive, looking forward to riding again......... been forever! Need to get on a bike again!

Living in the new flat too, got lots of space for guests too. Take that as an invite folks. ;)

I gotta go. I will blog more in the future. OOOOOOOOooooooooooooo.............. new mobile number here, new address too.

Mobile: (to call from Canada) 011-44-788-312-1704.


Address: if you need it email or call me. :)

Later!

Dave

Entry 67

Hallooooo.

Been busy, busy, busy with the thesis. Trial and error learning is FUCKING slow.

Oh well, only one day was shit so far. This week and next week until Tuesday are looooooong...... 10-11 hour days. But alas, some people do that everyday.

Pretty much got a flat lined up for me and Sharon too; today went well for me. :)


More on that some other time...


Alrighty, I should work more now. Gotta be productive!

Later,

Dave

Flats, mice & my thesis.

Flat hunting has been interesting so far... apparently I'm too prepared. Nobody here looks more than 1 month in advance generally and that means there's not so much available for late August/early September... yet. Still, if you look hard enough you seem to find them. I do owe the Student Welfare office at HWU a big thank you; they seem to be the only reliable place you can find private lets for the time period we're gonna need.

Stupid letting companies will want 6 months rent up front because me and Sharon wont be working when we move in AND we won't have a UK resident as a guarantor. Buggers...

We do have a mouse... not that I've seen it, just found poop so far. Also makes me wonder if it's the reason for the funny sour milk smell near the fridges... that could be sour milk though. I've vacuumed, swept out all around (inc behind) the fridges/freezer, no luck, still a smell. Oh well, gonna starve the mouse away, that's my plan, Tom's gone at the moment, which means a clean kitchen, and I hope the mouse gets the message. I am not leaving it a single crumb to munch on so I hope it decides to find greener pastures soon.

And the thesis, my life for the last three weeks. It's been getting along well, well enough to see all the problems that are gonna arise. Not gonna go into that, I could write you a 5000 word report on that before I knew I had.

I hope all's well.

Ooo, and if you want a custom T-shirt from Portugal (or maybe Brazil, I didn't see where) check the comments on my last blog. ;)

Dave

How does this work?

Look at the picture (NOT YET THOUGH!), it was taken here in Edinburgh.

This is like one of those kid's games you get on a place mat at somewhere like Pizza Hut. So, basically look at the picture and find what doesn't belong.
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Do you see it? I hope you do. A palm tree. You don't see these here, ever, I thought.

Anyways, here are a couple other little piccies I tool from Blackford Hill here in Edinburgh last weekend. I hope you like them. ;)































Dave

Flat hunting, mice, Billy Talent and (almost) a straight week of drinking

Hello, been a fun week.

Finished exams last Friday, went out caught some belly dancing at Octopus Diamond, then we narrowly avoided a fight with a stupified fella after the bar closed. Saturday was Scott's gig at Bannerman's in Cowgate, that was a blast, great location, awesome sound and fuck, Scott's getting good, was a great show. :)

Sunday we headed to Oni's, had a few beers, just chilled. A nice counter-point to the previous couple nights. Then Monday was Olga & Lenka's goodbye party for Tyler. Mmmmmm goulash and slivovitz. Took Tuesday and Wednesday nights off, worked on the thesis (it's going somewhere finally!) and got ready for Billy Talent.

Thursday was BT night at the liquid rooms, got prepped up with Scott, Ysella and the boys from Scott's band in Grassmarket. I figured I'd have a pint before the show... he he, 5 pints and a whisky later we were off to see BT. Nice show, really beena while since I managed to get front row at a show like that. Was wicked! Odd too, I had 10 years on nearly everyone in the audience... well, so did everyone I was there with too. :)

Last night was the last Whisky Soc for the year... ok, they start again in October, so not that long. Anyways, we had 4 bottles between the 10 of us, 1 40 year old, a cask strength (~62.5%) from somewhere in Speyside, god knows which distillery it was. Sweet stuff these two were. Never got the others open, Andy, the Whisky Soc president made the night free but after going over-time by 1 & 1/2 hours, felt opening them was better another time. After that we headed to Huw's for a kegger. One of the other 4th year's'd, Matt, had just got a job and his brewery sent him up a keg from Glasgow to celebrate. They also managed to score anther keg from the Caley, personal connections of some kind.

Also, at Huw's, one of the 4th year's, Scott (different guy) and I got to talking and he said he'd done an exchange during high school and stayed in Oakville. Random. He's even got an OT rugby jersey. Go figure, small world, eh?

Ummm... yeah, looking into other flats now too, getting all excited! Checking into Polwarth and Merchiston, both on my bus route and even closer to town. Better shops around too. Also, apparently we've got a mouse in the house! Fun shit. Oh well, I haven't seen it, probably never will but Tom ( the new guy here) said he was gonna buy some traps.

Well... I want to look online at flats. I hope you're all having a nice warm weekend wherever you are. ;)

Bye.

Dave

Ok, also, I WILL BE IN OAKVILLE this JULY 17th to the 1st of AUGUST. I know everybody's gonna be fighting to spend every minute they can with me so I thought I'd let you all know in advance. :P

But anyways, I'll call people when I get back or maybe if I get to it email??? I don't know who checks email, or if I have the right ones anymore... I'll put something on Facebook and there's this now. Oooo, I'm thinking maybe a weekend in Collingwood?

Perhaps the 27th, 28th, 29th?

We'll see, no idea what'll actually happen once I'm back on hopefully familiar Canadian-soil.

Later!

Dave

Ma knees, ma poor knees.

Hey,

So I've kinda had wonky knees since Rome, funny little discomforts when my knees are bent, random little reminders of how shit my knee/knees eventually felt during the Rome run. Started looking into it today, (been running a lot less, much more walking) but today I think I've confirmed that it's not the end of the world but I think maybe I've managed to give myself runner's knee (Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome, thank you Dr. Pribut) in both knees. :( / :)

I'm looking at this as a blessing in disguise. Gone are the days of running without considering what kind of effect it is having on my body. I used to stretch and warm up, stopped that, going to start that again now, also have a host of things that I've now found out I can do to help repair and also reduce the damage running can and will do.

I just felt that I'd like say that if anyone who reads this enjoys running at all, no matter if you run like a maniac or just casually on the weekend, check this website out, it seems to me to be about the best on the net:

http://www.drpribut.com/sports/sportframe.html

So, no pictures, no videos tonight, just a little "hello, this is what's up with me" info.

So now that I've explained how I'm going to fix my knees I'm off to wreck my liver again. Go figure, I guess it's true life's about dying. In this case it's my liver, little bit by little bit.

I hope everybody had a pleasant weekend. :)

Later!

Dave

It rained today/RaNdOm

Pic of rain. Not exciting.

Video of rain. Random. :)

Later.

Dave

Shit... found another, this one's from Rome

This is Rome, random communist protest I continually ran into as I learned my way around this part of the city. The previous video is Holyrood House Palace in Edinburgh, I'm there with my Mom and her friend Janet.

Later!

Dave

Ok, so one more video... :)

I was able to let it upload while I studied. Multitasking, not my strong point but I managed to. ;)

Later,

Dave

No Will, screw you! :P

I'm blogging more again, and now with videos too. So it's like you have a 2D me.

Gotta study, playing with you tube and blogger is too much fun.

Dave

PS, Your hot tub better be open when I get back!

A windy afternoon up on Scald Law. :)

Rick Mercer & the TTC, woo hoo!

More pics, this time of stuff. :)

L-R: Brendan, Amanda, Tyler, Onintza, Li, Michalis & Scott. Having a little beer tasting in the caf.



I don't know why the Queen protects these, they're nasty beasts. This one kills the baby ducks in the pond at school. See? Evil things.

Second last exam tomorrow. Basics of Business for Brewers and Distillers. :) Looking forward to this one to say the least.

I have a funny feeling, by the way, that I write this blog to myself now. :) Oh well. I find it fun. Screw you if you don't read it! :P

Later.

Dave

More pictures, thus making the Extravaganza an Extravagant Extravaganza that Supercedes Everything! (aka a long blog title.)

Look what I made. :)
I figure since I'm in Scotland some of ya may have expected to see pictures of these. Here ya go.
Me, trying to fly. Pretty close to it too. Pentlands again, lotsa wind.
Home made slivovitz. Straight from the Czech Republic in a PET water bottle.
Deuchars and... dunno what's in the other glass. Anyways, was Olga's b-day. a few of us did some celebrating.

Dave's Picture Extravaganza!!!

Me and Ty. 56 mph winds, the pics can't do that wind justice.

A lake in the Pentlands, had to go down and around; our trail continued on the other side.

11pm twilight outside my flat.

My study break today. Voyeurism at the Union Canal.

McEwans 80 Shilling (Warning, HEALTH RISK)

Nasty puke beer!

If you like beer with apple vinegar dumped in it then this drink is for you. Definately not for me...

Maybe a good choice if you're the DD and you're gonna have ONE pint because this crap takes all night to drink because it's SO NASTY!!!!!!

Just making sure you all stay healthy by avoiding garbage beer!

Later.

Dave

Evil in my inbox...

My Google Mail has been possessed by the Devil itself!!!!!!!!!!

I now have 666 messages in my inbox. Fuckin scary.

Not really. I just thought it was funny.

Blah, gotta go to school.

Later!

Dave

My Mommy and her friend Janet in Edinburgh... the story...

Flowers... pretty... at the Holyrood House Palace, Residence of the Queen in Scotland. Wandered through the gardens here, they were nice. Dunno what else to say... um, purple flowers. Donkey Kong. Etc...

I had a nice time this day, a Saturday, we even went to campus and saw the ponies and monkey puzzle trees.


This is an old chapel (?) maybe a cathedral (?) that was built into the palace. I'm not up on my Catholic architecture (don't think it was Protestant) but who the hell knows. If you do please correct me.

You can see Arthur's Seat behind the ruins.


A close-up of the archways on the far side of the ruins. You can see some of the palace window between the arches.

That's it... no pics of my Mom, I'm a dick... I didn't take any, just one video.

Oh well, we had a nice time.

The end.

But seriously, I love ya Mom, if this blog was a bit stupid then you can throw a book at my head the next time ya see me. So I suppose on the 17th of July. Get practicing that book toss!

Back to studying...

Syonara. Wish I could actually type that in Japanese.... hmmmm... one sec.

Goodbye - さようなら

Dave

I could have been dead it's been so long.

Heya,

Not dead. Just... preoccupied. Seeing Sharon, MSc thesis, beerfest yesterday. Kinda left this blog in the dust for a while. I've also been putting lots of effort into Facebook too, kinda prevented me from playing with this the last while.

Well, this'll be a shorty, I want to make my bed and sleep tonight. My Mom gets here tomorrow, gonna go surprise her and Janet at the airport tomorrow. :)

Nighty nite, enjoy the random pic I'm about to choose for y'all.

Bye!

Campus...