Dammed cold again!

I used to be never sick. IN fact I prided myself on NEVER having to throw a sicky. Even for alcohol related illnesses….!!!

However, since moving to a desk related job, working in a crappy air conditioned office, I seem to have a lto of colds! It’s a bugger.

So today I have the second day off of the year. This has got to be stopped. Perhaps it’s me getting older, or lazier! Whatever, combined with going climbing on sunday for the first time for ages, and realising I am (a) shit and (b) incredibly weak, means I am motivated to become active and fit again!

how to echo, echo, a line return

Whilst trying to echo a line return (why use 8 lines when you can use one!!), I found the following…

    Irix 6.5.13

%echo '1\n22
1
22

    Gentoo linux (very recent one).

%echo '1\n22'
1\n22
%echo -e '1\n22'
1
22

So far so good!!!

    RHEL 3.0

echo -e '1\n22'

-e 1 n 22

    Solaris 5.8


% echo -e '1\n22'

-e 1\n22

WTF?

King Kong

Wow. A real piece if old fashioned crash-bang-wallop entertainment. Well enjoyed it.

BUT, did the maggot really have to suck Andy Serkis’s head off!!!

Suprisingly, I’ve never actually seen the original. I’ve seen, and like, Dino de Laurentis’s remake. I must make it a task to see the original.

Geetar continuity

Well, waddayaknow. I have actually kept up practising and attending lessons for 6 weeks now. I can almost play a tune start to finish, and I can alomsot play notes (single ones) without looking at either the strings nor frets. I am quite chuft!!

My teacher is quite patient. Well he must be, I don;t think he’s quite had anybody quite as crap as me before. Initially I was doing little practise at all. This lead to embarrassment at each lesson as of course I could play hardly any different since the end of the previous lesson. However, this has lead me to practise and I now practise at least 4 out of 5 days. Which has amazed me.

It helped that I got a guitar stand the other week. Now the guitar is always stood in the centre of the room. Quietly reminding me that it’s probably time to practise.

Perhaps this time I may get to critical mass, and continue to keep playing as I actually enjoy it!!!

My normal mode of transport to work!

russian climbing – Google Video
russian climbing – Google Video

Pretty cool! Obviously nothing new to me, as I do this all the time! hehe!!
I once saw a guy in Cambridge with a Le Parkour t shirt practising vaulting a rail. Looked quite cool, although I really saw him catchign his foot and cracking his skull open on the wall. He didn’t though. It does remind me of buildering (bouldering on buildings). When I was a proper climber, instead of a wanabe, I was pretty enthusiastic. Always after a few pints, Barclays Bank (in Huddersfield) looked so dammed attractive! Although generally the dutch courage of a few pints, wore off, when I realised I was high enough to do some damage. traversing over and around the ATM was so cool though!