this year's anniversary weekend is sorted

we got married on 29 May 1999, and we always have a long weekend away around then to celebrate.

Paul Buchanan, one of the members of the incomparable Blue Nile, is playing solo in Glasgow on 26/27/28 May. Flights from Bristol to Glasgow that weekend will cost about a hundred quid.

tickets go on sale on Friday. Guess who's buying a brace?

*bounce*

[edited to change our wedding date to the right one - thanks, timill]

more assimilation

well, we took ourselves off to see Ming Campbell speak at the Bristol City ground on Friday night. He had a nasty cough, and looked tired but, as I suspected, he has my vote for Libdem leader. I've never liked Sim Hughes, and I don't know anything about Chris Who?ne.

we had an e-mail from one of the local LD suspects this morning mentioning - yet again - the local area annual dinner on Saturday. We've decided to go, so I mailed him back and copied it to the indefatigable Angela, with the prediction that she would be around within the hour to collect the £31.00 it would cost for two tickets.

I did her an injustice - it took her 2.5 hours :) And I found myself volunteering to help set up on Saturday afternoon ...

boxed set finished ...

we finished our West Wing boxed set last night.

I do have [cough] series 7 up to date, but it was in AVI files that someone had kindly sent me on DVDs, and we really don't like watching television up here in the study, and have no means at the moment of putting computery stuff through a television.

so I set to tonight to transfer the AVIs onto a DVD format that would play downstairs. Some googling informed that I could do it with Toast, which is great - I got Toast. but oh my word, isn't it *slow* to do this ...

despite much chivvying along, this usually quite nippy dual 2.5Ghz Mac took bloody ages to do the first three, to the point where we were reduced to watching *something else* while we consumed supper (goulash, since you ask).

at 10 p.m., I popped in here to see if the DVD was written; it was, I tested it on this machine and it was fine, so whipped it downstairs to the televisual stack to try. And it worked there too - how we managed to watch just *one* episode I have no idea. Currently converting and burning the next three.

I'm going to miss it *so* much when it's over.