Wednesday 18 Apr 2012 by Orphi the AweKid.

OK, so last night I had a lovely evening with Jayne. We spent rather more time than I would have liked talking about careers (and the fact that I don’t have one). Apparently she works for Network Rail now; maybe I should go check them out. Oh, and she seems to think that LinkedIn is not a complete waste of time and Internet bandwidth, which is surprising.

She has a new toy. She’s got an iPad. So we spent some time playing with that. I rather, *I* spent some time showing her around the ski resort on Google Earth. You’ll be unsurprised to hear that it’s still laggy and unresponsive as hell, even on an iPad. It still freaks me out slightly that it’s possible to access the Internet without using a network cable. Or even being in range of a device connected to a network cable. She took it out of her bag, and it somehow just works. Far out, man.

Anyway, as always with these things, it was all over far too soon. Jayne is only in MK because her kitchen is being demolished. It seems she won’t be around again for a while. Ho hum. It was a good night out…

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Tuesday 17 Apr 2012 by Orphi the AweKid.

Well, Friday night wasn’t much to talk about. We wasted more time doing the Foxtrot. And we spent a little while doing the Jive (which Helen seems to really like, oddly enough). It’s surprisingly hard to do the backstep in a straight line, not a diagonal, but hey.

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Thursday 12 Apr 2012 by Orphi the AweKid.

It’s only been a week without dancing. It seems like a month, but it was in fact only one week. Perhaps it’s the long weekend that made it seem longer. I’ve been playing with NetBeans and Git and doing some heavy Java coding. It makes each hour seem like a long time. (Java being such a blunt language, in an hour you can write a lot of code which doesn’t do very much.)

Yesterday I finally got to do some dancing again. Initially it looked like there was hardly anyone there, but it soon filled up. I got to sit next to Helen — but that it did me much good. It was pretty quite cold, so we did two warm-ups. Karen and Michelle turned up half way through the opening Stroll and apparently had completely forgotten what they’re doing. And then we did the Baby Workout, and they seemed lost there too.

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Tuesday 03 Apr 2012 by Orphi the AweKid.

Well, today is Lynn’s birthday. I spent most of yesterday trying to make a birthday card for her. This consisted of buying a few images off Fotolia and then printing them out to make a card.

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Monday 02 Apr 2012 by Orphi the AweKid.

I asked Nicole to come to Heath & Reach with me. But she’s going to a hen party, so she couldn’t make it. I asked Helen to come with me, but she was busy too. So Lynn was my third choice, and we went out to go some ballroom & Latin, like she’s been wanting.

I went to pick her up and found that a black lacy curtain now adorns her back door. Which amused me. Complete with magnets holding it shut. Took me a while to work out how to get in. Lynn seemed to be in good spirits — until she asked whether I got the birthday card she sent. I hadn’t seen it. (It later turned out it was just buried under all the junkmail.)

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Saturday 31 Mar 2012 by Orphi the AweKid.

No Nicole last night; she’s apparently going to a hen party this weekend. So no change of hitting Heath & Reach either. Fortunately, Helen came out to play, so I had somebody good to dance with. Unfortunately we spent almost the whole class doing the Foxtrot. After that, we started learning the Jive. I can’t do the Jive. And it’s no good Steve saying “get rock & roll out of your head”; I’m competing at Bracknell in a few weeks’ time!

I did try to get Helen to come with my to Heath & Reach, but she’s unavailable too. As usual, after class she quickly vanished. Apparently she has to go bake a birthday cake or something. (I should have got her to do me one!) But it’s OK; it looks like I’m taking Lynn out to a tea dance tonight instead.

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Saturday 31 Mar 2012 by Orphi the AweKid.

Well, OK, it was my birthday on Wednesday. And I spent it doing the things I love — shopping and dancing!

My grandparents sent me money, so I bought myself a whole bunch of diabolo kit. (Two pairs of handsticks and three new diabolos.)

My new red and black bowling shirt turned up the day before, so I wore that to my dance class. Unfortunately, no Helen, which is a pity. Nicole liked it though. It’s polycotton, so it sticks to me when I’m wet. I was a little concerned what it arrived; it looks huge. It seems to fit me reasonably well though. Gordon actually asked me where I got it. Oh, and apparently it was Donna’s birthday the day before mine!

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Tuesday 27 Mar 2012 by Orphi the AweKid.

Well, I’m back from sunny Switzerland where I’ve just spent a week watching the snow turn to slush. Well, no, that’s not quite true. Tuesday it snowed all day, and it snowed more heavily overnight. For a few days we had quite nice snow. But by Friday, the lower slopes were slushy, and the higher ones were like concrete.

Most years I go out, spent 5 days trying to remember how to ski again, just about start to get good on the final day, and then go home and don’t ski for another year. This year, I seemed to be skiing kind of OK from day one. I’d be lying if I said I got really good by the end. But it’s quite conspicuous that my legs weren’t in agony at any point. Usually after the first day of skiing I can barely stand up, never mind walk. But this year I never got anywhere near that point. I can only imagine it’s because I spent more time standing around chatting to people and less time actually, you know, skiing.

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