Norman Ralph http://www.normanralph.com Musings, News and Achievements Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 What I have been up to this week 2012-01-29 http://www.normanralph.com/2012/01/29/what-i-have-been-up-to-this-week-2012-01-29/ http://www.normanralph.com/2012/01/29/what-i-have-been-up-to-this-week-2012-01-29/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000 Norm http://www.normanralph.com/2012/01/29/what-i-have-been-up-to-this-week-2012-01-29/
  • Train broke down :( means top speed is limited so running an hour late already. #
  • Oops, totally slept through alarm :( full on sprint to the station and made the train by the skin of my teeth. #
  • You know it's bad when going to bed at 5.20 and I'm not the last one in!! #
  • It's official! @GodwinsLawyer is my new best friend after she sent me a tiny @profbriancox :) http://t.co/RizwIvt4 #
  • Watching mrs doubtfire. Hi-larious! #
  • At this rate I will still be working at 10pm! #
  • Gah, this document is killing me… #
  • Giants – Pats in #superbowlXLVI should be a good game. Revenge for 2008? @chrisworfolk misses out on his shirt choice #
  • “Sanvean” by Dead Can Dance is my new jam. ? http://t.co/GFymFG1l #thisismyjam #
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  • A night of shenanigans all round. #
  • Getting drunk… #
  • So @citychurchleeds are following me. Wonder if that means I will get invited for tea. #
  • I wish early stats converted to early finishes. #
  • Nothing quite like porn with your friends. #
  • Apparently @christopherowen has been signing our furniture http://t.co/sUYULKkI #
  • Well that was one shit of a day #
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  • “Teardrop” by Massive Attack is my new jam. ? http://t.co/GFymFG1l #thisismyjam #
  • Do late night record stores exist? #
  • Can I manage 3 full weeks at work til my next day off? Spoiled having not worked a full week in a while. #
  • Lol, the house on location in #sherlock was on a relatively recent episode of location, location. #smallworld #
  • "Bad Moon Rising" by Creedence Clearwater Revival is my new jam. Listen: http://t.co/OiZ1k1OO #thisismyjam #
    • ]]>     http://www.normanralph.com/2012/01/15/what-i-have-been-up-to-this-week-2012-01-15/feed/ 0     2011 – So did anything happen? http://www.normanralph.com/2012/01/10/2011-so-did-anything-happen/ http://www.normanralph.com/2012/01/10/2011-so-did-anything-happen/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:52:42 +0000 Norm http://www.normanralph.com/?p=1174 Ironically, 2011 started with me questioning the value of New Year whilst recovering from my new year hangover. The comings and goings involved in Blackpool’s January transfer window dealings was also at the forefront of my mind.

    February saw a flurry of tweets about the AHS as it geared up for the convention in London. The World of Warcraft guild I belong to started raiding properly and I moved some parts of my online presence onto a new host.

    I went to see Taylor Swift in concert at the MEN before going to see Bradford Park Avenue in the first of my Yorkshire Football Weekends. Kieran finally got his Eurotrip photos online.

    I spent most of May in mourning as my beloved Blackpool were relegated from the Premier League but I did have time to tweet about the Yorkshire pub crawl for MC’s stag party.

    During the summer I spent time in Tewkesbury with the AHS’s Questival camp before pondering over whether exams were getting easier. I took up live poker again just as I started my new job.

    September saw me join the ranks of zombies who own iPhones and making some final tables in the casino. I celebrated my birthday by hitting Wendy House.

    I went on a mini-break to Guildford and delivered an address to Leeds A-Soc. I published my first ever post written on my iPhone and then spoke about the BHA to Sheffield Atheists.

    I started to wind the year up with doing some charity work and sending an awful lot of tweets.

    So, it seems that stuff did happen but mainly on Twitter.

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  • Just watched the #Sherlock pilot episode. Glad they reshot it. #
  • Half 1 is not a sensible time for me to be going to bed. #
  • Will be hitting up Radio Leeds to talk about #resolutionrevolution #
  • Halfway through first week of the year. Not been too bad. Got theme hospital to get me through til sporty summer :) #
  • Right, I think I am going to have to dump all my friends in couples. Just too depressingly icky. #
  • "Local Boy In The Photograph" by Stereophonics is my new jam. Listen: http://t.co/OiZ1k1OO #thisismyjam #
  • Recovery steak consumed :) got some ice cream and wafers to watch prince Caspar with and then it's #sherlock #
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  • Last tweet should say screwed not whatever I drunkenly wrote. #
  • Looks like all the people that ever a tweed me over are all in one place this year. #newyearirony #
  • How many technophiles does it take to sort out shared desk topping between a MacBook and a Linux media centre? #
  • Tickets booked for @ahsstudents Biard meeting and visiting @GodwinsLawyer :) #
  • Great night at the ballet with @christopherowen and Cara :) not a bad way to finish an otherwise crappy day. #
  • Just had a tooth out. Not fun :( stupid abscess and high pain threshold. #
  • Ballet tonight with Cara and @christopherowen #
  • Worlds most pointless cheque… http://t.co/rebAyTdD #
  • Captain America, rise of planet of the apes, theme hospital, civ 1 or original tron when I get home? #toughquestion #
  • Or it would had I not left my tickets at home. 17 quid lighter and I can start again, lol. #
  • Journey home starts now. #
  • "Keep It Simple" by Delays is my new jam. Listen: http://t.co/OiZ1k1OO #thisismyjam #
  • Last day at home today. Drinks with friends later then train back to Leeds. #
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  • Carols from Kings, mince pie baking and prepping the bird. Fun times. #
  • Last leg of the journey and my iPod serendipitously shuffles on 'home for christmas'. #
  • Surprise surprise its fucking freezing on Preston station. 15 min wait for connection to Kirkham. #
  • On the train back across the Pennines. Feels odd that Lancashire is starting to feel foreign :( #
  • "Wolves" by Josh Ritter is my new jam. Listen: http://t.co/OiZ1k1OO #thisismyjam #
  • I may have gone a bit extreme… http://t.co/0B6FJH5G #
  • Off for a Christmas hair cut, lunch and then off home for some festive cheer. #
  • It's Christmas Eve Eve. The best night to get rat arsed as you have a whole day to recover before seeing family. #
  • First eye test in 20 years where I dont need new glasses. #
  • Hoping that Verdi's Requiem Mass will cheer me up. #
  • Now the stupid bus is late :( worst day in ages. #
  • Stupid floods in Thailand causing consumer electronics to be twice the price!! #
  • Can't believe @o2 is claiming that Apple's 12 days of Xmas is their own idea. #
  • Literally feel like I've just had the spanking of a lifetime. #
  • Lol first bus broke down and second bus is driven by a guy that makes the driver me and @andrew_gibney had one time look sane. #
  • 1.5 days of work to go! Heading home to finish some calls. #
  • Only a week to go now until this Christmas nonsense is all done and dusted for the year :) #
  • Win. @ProfBrianCox is on tv tonight. According to the Radio Times he is not sat astride a Peruvian temple… #
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  • Awesome times @ShinyPyroGirl and @theblindking have rocked up :) #
  • Hitting up #Wendy with @MR_OJR @chrisworfolk @TeeEssEll @thealchemist88 @elanlei and some new faces :) #
  • How hungover do I need to be to get out of Christmas shopping? #
  • Why is no one awake to entertain me :-( #
  • Off to Xmas party. In shorts. #
  • Work done for the week. Time for a nice chilled out weekend with the #wendy crowd @ShinyPyroGirl @chrisworfolk etc #
  • So it looks like @O2 are screwing over my Christmas plans. #
  • Last call of the day now done :) #
  • Looks like work massif has found me on twitter – say hi to @chandler_liz and @jamiex #
  • Fun night out with @leedsatheistsoc and always a bonus to see @christopherowen and Cara :) it is however 2am on a school night. #
  • Do I risk it and watch series 9 of scrubs? #
  • Got a present for @elanlei today. #
  • Didn't know that Stephen Jay Gould was an honorary Doctor of Science at university of Leeds. #
  • Just seen that I've got 9 and a half weeks leave next year (inc bank holidays). Sweet. #
  • First Christmas card of the season. Thanks Janette! http://t.co/FuohrS3d #
  • I think I'm going to have to risk another brothel finding a physio to look at my shoulder. #
  • Better dig out the loose pants for tomorrow as I'm hitting Spice Quarter with @leedsatheistsoc . #
  • #mindblown @elanlei is using leg warmers to actually warm her legs… #
  • No Chinese for me :( @chrisworfolk @elanlei and @BinaryMage forgot about me. The D it is then. #
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  • So @BinaryMage found £20 so kebabs on him #
  • Doing the #safetydance at @fabcafeleeds with @binarymage #
  • Cara getting her grin on. http://t.co/3lx1RLNo #
  • Big bag of chillies for tea tonight :) #
  • I do love finding random pics of folk I don't know on my phone. Give me a shout if this is you? http://t.co/AyzONzIs #
  • Today's advice: Do a little dance. Make a little love. Get down tonight. #
  • Oh god. http://t.co/IZWPb8ff #
  • Beer good. Food good. Company good. Work Christmas do is over and now time for me and @BinaryMage to hit up @fabcafeleeds #
  • My first official Christmas pint :) taken with Pencil Illusion as recommended by @kieranohea http://t.co/I8ET2WQl #
  • Twitter crowd, is there more than 1 pub in Leeds referred to as 'the taps'? #
  • Work Christmas lunch today. Traditional Christmas Thai food. Tho Liz missed the bus. Was it wrong for me to leave anyway? #
  • At least I will be able to get bit more excited about itv4's Europa League coverage. #
  • Only half way through the day and im counting down to home time. Not feeling at all well :( #
  • My twitter topics tonight… Teen promiscuity, fave geometric shape, @ProfBrianCox and integration (calculus) #
  • Mind blown. @ProfBrianCox and @timminchin duet!!! #
  • A little bit emotional after the space shuttle video montage. #
  • At @O2 Apollo for #uncagedmonkeys with @aislinfrancis and @theblindking . @timminchin playing some ambient music. #
  • So excited about #uncagedmonkeys :) #
  • Tickets for tonight printed :) now @theblindking and @aislinfrancis better remind me to bring them home :p #
  • Also got tickets to Beauty an the Beast ballet at Leeds Grand for 30th December #
  • Excited about #uncagedmonkeys tomorrow with @aislinfrancis and @theblindking #
  • Today has just been shocking. Started badly with me pulling a hammy running for the bus the got worse! #shouldhavestretched #badday #
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  • Steak slash ribs tonight :) #
  • Survived til 4pm at work today :) which is very good going seeing how I felt at 8am when I got up! #
  • Not a good morning today. Should probably have worked from home. #
  • Rocking out at Fab for @BinaryMage birthday. Prime number birthdays ate the best!!! #
  • Out with @chrisworfolk and @BinaryMage at Stick or Twist but the freezers are broken so no food. #
  • Bus driver is playing carols and Christmas pop :( #
  • Queue for KFC is out the door. #
  • Less than a week til seeing @ProfBrianCox @timminchin @robinince and the rest of #uncagedmonkeys #
  • Hmm, think the BBC are wrong to look at voting system for SPotY. Why should there be gender balance in list method?Same furore if all women? #
  • Gah, missed the bus. Does that justify KFC for tea? #
  • Anyone out there with mad massage skills want to give me my Xmas present early? Neck is stiff as a board today. #signsofgettingold #
  • 2nd Christmas present is now purchased and ready to go :) #
  • Not sat at the back of the bus for ages. What once was a sign of status is now a massive inconvenience. #signsofgettingold #
  • What is it with gearboxes? First Vettell and Hamilton and now my bus home from work… #
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