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I was meeting up with my brothers and my Dad for some drinks last
night and I stayed up in town, but I was really quite hungry so I
decided to go and visit somewhere we used to drink in before.

Max’s Kansas City Bar nee, The Twisted Wheel, nee The Rock Garden has
re-opened again after being closed for a couple of months. I only
really knew it as the Twisted Wheel, walls covered in Mod memorabilia
and eclectic mix of music and a fairly good atmosphere. Now the music
memorabilia has gone, the walls are pretty much bare save for the new
wall paper and a couple of oddly placed mirrors and some strange art.
Gone too is the panties on it’s head wearing stuffed bear from the
main window, something which everyone seems to point out. For some
reason the inside seems smaller although it hasn’t changed in
dimensions at all, still the same tables, in the same places and yet,
I can’t quite put my finger on it, it seems more compact. I wondered
last night if it always felt this small.

So starving we went in and I ordered the burger with Alan ordering the
cheese burger, ok priced for what they were. Big home made burgers and
steak chips. You can’t really go wrong with this and if you do, you’ve
messed up somewhere. The burgers were big and beefy coming with a nice
ranch / caesar already applied, and the steak chips were steak chippy
but already salted I think. They could have been coated in something
but it was a bit salty for someone that doesn’t add salt to anything.

Not the worst burgers I’ve ever had in my life, see South Street
burger vans for that… Alan couldn’t finish his and I was tempted to
finish it for him, but I was stuffed after mine and couldn’t eat
another bite.

All in all not bad and now with the Courtyard closed down we might
actually start heading back to the wheel, sorry Max’s.

This task is now 8.82% complete.

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Oh, I hadn’t even realised I did this until updating the list a moment
ago. I’ve hit 15 films watched taking this task to dizzying heights of
6% complete.

The films watched in this block are:

Startrek ( The new one)
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Dark Knight
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
The Godfather

So far so good, only another 235 to go…

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Yep, still a bit ill so nothing much happening.

I was playing about with my self inflating ground sheet thing for
camping last night. It was apparently supposed to self inflate but it
wasn’t really doing it. So after a little while of rolling it,
deflating it, rolling it, inflating it, it now self inflates. Its kind
of weird to open the valve when it’s deflated and hear the air rush
inside it. I’m not sure how far it is supposed to inflate but it seems
to get so far and then I think it will require a couple of puffs of my
own breath to get it fully inflated. I’ll test everything this
weekend, well depending on how I’l feeling.

Apart from that, nothing else to report.

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I’ve been sick since the weekend so haven’t made any headway with the 101. I have however been sleeping in my new sleepingbag to stay warm while feeling ill. The only complaint I have with it is I wish I had picked up a right handed one instead of the left handed one. I didn’t even think it would be a big issue but it makes things a bit more fiddly, enough to make me wish I had bought the other one. Too late to do anything about it now though so I’ll just live with it.

I picked up a couple of books from Borders during it’s sad chaotic closing phase, The Rough Guide Phrasebook Russian, The Rough Guide to Seattle and Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic by Redmond O’Hanlon. I am currently reading his Congo Journey book and finding it quite interesting. I look forward to the Trawler book.

Can’t wait to go home tonight and just get to my bed.

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I am fed up with our banal, closeted, lack of forward thinking life in
the UK. I want more.

I want life, adventure, excitement, to feel proud of things, openness
and a freedom to express without fear of ridicule

I feel held back, smothered, stifled by state & conventions, by what I
perceive people think.

I choose life, adventure, excitement, to feel proud of things,
openness and a freedom to express without fear of ridicule

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I was asked today to recommend some Android apps to a friend, I
thought I would share here some of the ones I would suggest.

My Tracks

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This application makes great use of the Google Maps API and while
active records everywhere you have been. Once you have finished you
can then send the newly created track to Google Maps. This not only
allows you to see the track in finer detail, but allows you to share
the tracks with anyone else. The application also allows you to see
your current trip details like speed, distance travelled and other gps
like data. I found it quite useful.

ATrackDroid

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This is a fairly simple application that checks the applications
installed on your Android device, then looks in the App Store for
updates and lets you know when there is a new update. Easy peasy. The
only downside is that you have to manually go in and update the
applications yourself which ends up being like a 6 or 7 click chore.
Still, useful none the less.

Wifi Analyzer

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I’ve found this app to be very useful ever since I was having issues
with the wifi back home. Turns out someone else’s router next door was
on the same channel and was interfering with mine. Using this app, I
was apple to see what channel the near by routers were on, how strong
they were and what I should change mine to. If you are having issues
and you have an Android phone, then give this one a shot.

Robo Defence

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This game has helped train journeys melt away. The number of times I
have almost missed my stop while playing this on the way home from
work exceeds the number of fingers I have. It’s just a simple basic
tower defence game but it works well on Android and plays very nicely
on my HTC Hero. Theere is a free version and the paid for version is
only a couple of bucks, well worth it in my mind.

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Another week gone by and nothing much to report. Planning for things,
like 38. Camp in the woods for a weekend. Emma and I were discussing
camping over the new year, I’m up for that. I really can’t face
another new year in Glasgow. So I want to try something a bit
different and the camping sounds like fun, it also maybe means that I
could cross off 40. Start a fire by rubbing two bits of wood.
Although, by the time we get there it may be too damp.

So after hunting about it turns out that the two man tent we had is
sadly no longer with us, from what I hear poles were broken and it was
left where it lay. A little annoying but I just went and ordered a new
one for myself, it is a Vango Alpha 200, and it only cost me £27.99.
The reviews I read about it seem to be pretty positive so I may camp
out for a little while in the back garden to see how good it is. I
need to get myself a sleeping bag too, but I’ll check them out in more
detail as I would like to get a good one cheaply.

So yeah, nothing much else to report yet, got a couple of books on the
go, watched some more films, just been a bit too busy to do anything
else at the moment, which is to be honest, quite annoying.

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