It’s been a while 2007 February 21 23:27
Posted by diamond in : Random , trackbackSo, since the last post. I’ve decided to try and list some of the things that have happened since:
- Moved into the new apartment with niall
- Spent most of the christmas holidays doing IT support at home
- Went to zurich for a week on buisness. Motorised beds, that’s all i’m saying.
- Went on the company ski trip to italy
- Went snowboarding for the first time. In jeans. Didn’t die
- Planned and booked my second snowboarding adventure
- Stepped down from the Vice Presidency of skynet
- Had ~E1.6k taken from my credit card in fraudulent transactions
- Went to the opera for the second time. To see what i thought i had seen the first time
- I was wrong
- Went to SkyCon. Enjoyed
- Entered my first programming competition, set and judged by Alan Cox
- Won. Cheekily.
- Jumpstarted more cars than i cared for
- Watched Aladdin. Admitted it wasn’t awful
- Started playing Guitar Hero
- Bought a new desktop (aisling)
- Upgraded fluff (my server) at last
- Have only been back in balbriggan once
- Tried to donate blood, got rejected
- Got a performance review which noted that ‘Becoming known for truly terrible puns is no bad thing.’
- Reduced my medication back to 50mg, which is where it was 1.5 years ago
- Went to the dentist for the first time in 10 years. Apparently i’ve gotten away with it by having ‘very good oral hygiene’
- Read all of the Sandman comicbook series
- Oh, and got engaged tonight. Yes, to noirin

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Impressive list. Congratulations on winning the coding competition!
… Oh. and the other things too!
Despite not wishing to repeat the sentiments of either myself or others, I will wish ye both muchos congratulations(!) and demand a brownie of my own
Congrats
Congrats!
STEVE: How can someone who styles himself as Captain Pedantic Pants, have misused the apostrophe in his pic’s? You say Captain Pedantic Pants’ Pictures. WRONG. It’s Captain Pedantic Pant’s Pictures. If there were two CPP in the world, and thank the Lord there’s not, it would be Pants’ Pictures. However, there is merely one of you.
Also, congrats on the engagement and the competition winning.
Congratulations!
All the best for the future.
Good and well done, Steve. Congrats to you both from all back in the IDC!
Congrats Steve on your engagement!
Well done Steve…On all the great things you listed, especially the engagement!
big congrats on engagement and competition…… what about the opera????
Hi Steve,
My name is Adri.
I was surfing thru the net and found your really interesting blog, haha and I must say I really liked it. Btw, congrats!
Hope everything is going well for you.