Thursday 27 May 2010 by Orphi the AweKid.

Well, let me see now. Last night was my Rock & Roll class. I turned up and paid my fee. I also paid for a Rock & Roll exam. It’s official now; I’m entered!

Although there were people there, there sure wasn’t many of us. In particular, Debbie is missing, so Laura was leading the class. It was a fairly cool day, so I decided to wear my nice long-sleeved top. Apparently I failed to learn from last time I wore this top that it’s just far, far too hot for R&R dancing! Damn I’m slow.

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Wednesday 26 May 2010 by Orphi the AweKid.

On Monday, my PC died.

Oh, it still runs. But it’s behaving very strangely. Running a memory test almost immediately produces a huge stream of errors. So we’re looking at an actual hardware fault here, not just a corrupted file due to a system crash. Turning the CPU cache on and off has no effect on the errors, so I don’t think it’s a cache error. That leaves the motherboard or the RAM.

In summary, this might be fixable. Or I might be upgrading my PC a whole lot sooner than I expected…

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Sunday 23 May 2010 by Orphi the AweKid.

I have no idea how all this started, but I’m sure it’s all POV-Ray’s fault.

Actually, I think it started while I was researching old computers. So I started talking about the old systems built from discrete relays or valves, and Mike suggested that he always wanted to build his own computer. And that reminded me of my ambitions to do the same. And there begins a story of no doubt significant expense, toil and frustration.

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Sunday 23 May 2010 by Orphi the AweKid.

Well, another evening of dancing last night. Once again, very few people present. Unfortunately that meant I ended up dancing with the little old lady again. And we’re still trying to learn this complex new figure in the Rumba. (I think Steve said it’s called Turkish Town or something.) So yeah, not a barrel of laughs. (Val gave me her business card because it has her phone number on it. Apparently she’s a midwife. Hmm, nice.)

After class I spent a very enjoyable evening with Paul & Pauline down at the pub. When we got there, it was still light enough that there were people actually sitting outside, for the first time this year. Fortunately, it was reasonably cool indoors, in our cosy little corner. Steve & Mavis did show up for a while at bit later. This was one of those encounters where, for whatever reason, I couldn’t seem to get a word in edgeways. (Probably explains why I didn’t get to ask about the exams.) After a while they left again.

When it was finally time for P&P to leave, I left quite sad to see them go. Still, I’m sure I’ll find something to do with myself this weekend…

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Thursday 20 May 2010 by Orphi the AweKid.

Another Wednesday, and another nearly-an-hour of Debbie’s craziness. Good times!

I have absolutely no idea why there were so few people. There was almost nobody on Friday, there was very few of us last night… what’s going on? Has somebody declared a national holiday and not told me or something? Has some cataclism occurred and I just haven’t noticed yet??

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Tuesday 18 May 2010 by Orphi the AweKid.

So having completed Assassin’s Creed, I returned my attention to Cryostasis. Man, this game gets weirder by the minute!

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Monday 17 May 2010 by Orphi the AweKid.

So on Saturday I decided to head out to the village for some organ practise.

I’ve recently become interested in the toccata from Boëmann’s Suite Gothique. I can vaguely play part of it. It’s interesting in that the main melody as such as a pedal part. I had delusions that maybe I could play it… but, um, no. It far exceeds my pedal skills. So I sat and practised BWV 590; it turns out even this is somewhat beyond my pedal ability today. Odd — I’ve done it once before.

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Monday 17 May 2010 by Orphi the AweKid.

Friday’s dance class didn’t go too badly. I don’t know where the hell everybody was… there really wasn’t all that many of us, actually. I got to dance with a lady named Val. She’s not fantastic — but then, neither am I. It didn’t go too badly.

As usual, we danced the normal bevvy of dances (I recall Paul and Pauline appeared part-way through the Cha-Cha-Cha). After that, we added a new figure in the Rumba — which I’m desperately struggling to remember anything about. After that we danced the Mayfair Quickstep, which Val apparently doesn’t know. We did another walkthrough, but by the time we came to actually dance it, I think I was the only one keeping her from being completely lost. (She actually said so herself, and thanked me for being so good at it.)

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