I have been thinking recently about Amnesia… and how do you figure out if you have it. Ok, if you can’t remember something big that you know happend, fine… but what about memories that are 15 years old… would you miss them? Maybe someday somebody you should remember comes up to you and says hi… but you just plain don’t remember them…
Before you think I have Amnesia… well I do, but I’m only missing about a month… as far as I know…
While Dad was home, he went to see Drogheda United play FK Start in the Uefa Cup with a couple of his mates. I had started going to see some Eircom League games over the last couple of years, but hasn’t made it to one in a while. The temptation of a European game in Dalymount Park was too much for me to resist.
The game on the whole was enjoyable with Drogheda Utd scoring to even the score up on aggregate. Some of the Drogheda Utd tactics didn’t make sense to me, but they scored a good goal and had a genuine shot at getting through to the next round. Nothing strange here…
The penalty shoot out ended up 4 - 4 after the first 5 penalties and it went into sudden death. And now for the bit that I will probably never see again, the penalties ended up going as far as 12 kicks each and FK Start won 11 - 10 on penalties. There were so many kicks that even the goalies had to take penalties on each other, and then the first player for Drogheda had to take a second penalty which he unfortunately missed. Incredible stuff.
Just booked my flights… leaving on December 19th 
With my family home this week, the apartment is absolutely full with bodies sleeping on pull down beds and mattresses on the floor. The place is a mess with half opened suitcases with all manor of things all over the place. But it has been fun having almost everybody together for the first time since early January.
On Monday night there was a family dinner in Eden in meeting house square with 12 of us for dinner. Fantastic food is all I can say but it was expensive. I walked in to get the exercise. On Wednesday night we all met up for dinner in the loacal Italian which was fun. I hadn’t been there in a long time… but the food was great.
I have no idea what is going on over the weekend, but there is talk of a bowling competition or something. As far as I know Dad leaves on Monday and the two girls are going to hang out in Dublin for a while.
With out doubt, this is the strangest film I have ever seen, and the strangest experience I have ever had in a cinema… I went with Niamh last Sunday to see it in the Dubin Cineplex or whatever it is called today.
First off, the film is brilliant despite the name (although I think they gave it a crap name on pupose). It starts off like a holiday movie, then goes to a gangster movie, a cop movie, a triller, a horrer, a comedy and then a romantic comedy. It must have been the directors pupose to try and cover as many genres as he could, and it all works superbly.
If you go to see it, wait until the credits are over… I saw Armagedon in the States, and so I had been in a cinema when people clapped, but never in Ireland. Clapping during the movie, and then afterwards when the credits were going up… never thought I would see it.
This post is really to warn people shopping for computers in PC World to be careful. This is a blog, and I fully expect it to rank Well for the terms: PC World Ireland and PC World Blanchardstown…
I bought a computer from PC World Blanchardstown last year. I wanted the computer and it had the specs I needed; plus the thought of having a brand new computer really appealed to me. But I didn’t get a brand new computer, I got a display model. Thats right, I wanted a new computer, I was told they had it in stock, and I was expecting to get same, I had even paid for it, but I didn’t get it. I was told that they didn’t have any new machines left… a contradiction to what my sales guy had told me.
I went back to them a week later becasue one of the cd drives made a lot of noise and I wasn’t happy. They told me I could bring it back (which was fair enough) or they would offer me a e50 gift voucher. I took the voucher and decided to live with my display model and that is fine with me. They offered me something and I took it. Full Stop. I am not complaining about my result, just telling people to be very careful with what they think they are buying in PC World, and actually what they get…
As far as I know Dad, Ailbhe and Niamh will be in Ireland within the next two hours… Just keeping everybody updated…
I had a cheese sandwich before going to bed last night… nothing strange there but Ais told me I shouldn’t eat cheese before going to bed because it can give you bad dreams. I wrongly laughed off this notion because I rarely dream which is strange, and if I do have a bad dream it is usually about accounts….
[Skip to the middle of the night]
I don’t know what time it was, but I woke up in the middle of the night promising myself I would ring my accountant after dreaming about accounts…
Strange… at least my worst nightmare isn’t too bad
Life has been hectic since May, and I needed a weekend off alcohol. I had been out every weekend since May and sometimes 3 times a week and I knew my body needed a rest and some sleep. I was nearly tempted to go into town to meet up with Damien… but I think I did the right thing by staying put.
Generally I did some work, read some books and watched some TV and really enjoyed the rest I know my body needed.
With Mar spending time over in Malaysia with my family, and me not seeing her in ages we decided to head out, get a few drinks and catch up. We visted 3 or 4 bars and generally drank too much. I don’t think it was the amount we drank that was the problem for me, but what we were drinking (wine / vodka & soda water cocktails). At 0230 I had to go because I had to be in work for 0930 and I needed to get some sleep.
Needless to say work the next day wasn’t much fun and I spent a lot of time looking blankly at the computer screen wishing the clock would move faster. You got todo it every now and again to remind yourself why you shouldn’t go into work with a hangover. I don’t know if I learned my lesson….