Monday October 13th - Jan flew to Hamburg for work and I planned a week at home, I could finally get stuck into some of my hobbies. I could spend some time by myself and have a great week. I had a fridge full of left overs that would last all week too. I did have a good night watching heroes but hit the sack soon after it finished without even stepping into my craft room. Wednesday October 15th - I met up with Laura and Martha at the Long stone for an unofficial Geek Girl dinner, it turned out to be a nice night chatting. There was even some talk of having a few more events here in Dublin. Thursday October 16th - I went along to Annamaries scrapbooking crop at Whitehall. On the bus I went up my favourite street 'Great South George' and I enjoyed seeing three old ladies infront of an old fashioned sign for the amsterdam beat club. The first was leaning against an upside down chair she was carrying and the other two were resting on their shopping trollies (you know the two wheeler granny ones). They were having an animated conversation but my mind saw this as a moment from the past days, something I wish I could have captured on film. At the class Annamarie brought along a bunch of books and sketches and the idea was to put together some layouts using the patterns. I did quite a few layouts with halloween and autumn themes that I'll now have to figure out some photos to go with them. It was a good night to be out and chatting with the girls too, plus there was delicious apple pie and cream with our tea. Friday October 17th - Jan was back. Quiet night at home. Jan brought lots of wine and chocolates from Germany. Sat Oct 18th - Unfortunately we slept all day and then lazed about all weekend. Oct 20 - 24th - I can't remember what we did this week, I bet it was lots of watching west wing, entourage, my name is earl, grey's anatomy, Mad Men, Tin Man, Dr Who, TorchWood, The Daily Show, Colbert Report, keeping up with election gossip, Arrested Development. Wow we're TV addicts :D. Twitter says I also did a lot of reading about open source, PHP, MySQL, SEO, Robots and web technologies. I also won the work lotto, about 50 euros, all in coins, which I've been using to pay for my bus rides in the morning. Friday 24th - I had lunch at a chinese restaurant with the guys, It was quite quirky, definitely a family place where the cook put the food in containers like caserole dishes and mixing bowls to serve them to us. Oct 25th - 27th was a long weekend, we made a big stew and ate that all weekend with different breads and hommus. We bought Okami for wii so played that for a few hours. Monday 27th - I tried to be productive and made Nanna a birthday card, planted 30 daffodil bulbs and dyed my hair. Tuesday 28th - We had tea over at Tim and Bob's place and collected our new washing line. It was so cold on the brief walk my toes felt like they'd snap. Wednesday 29th - My work social club had an event for charity at the Laughter Lounge. Jan came along too and there was plenty of drink and four comedians (Australian, American, British and Irish). We all had a great night. I found it amusing to catch up with my workmates who have been learning english to see how much of each comedian they understood. They had no chance with the Aussie guy who spoke so fast. Jan and I tried to speak as quickly as he did to try and baffle them but they could understand us fine. Thursday 30th - I was excited to find Paddy Power had "White Christmas in Dublin" at 4-1. That would be so awesome. However I was very disapointed to find that the Niel Gaiman book signing event had become ticketted in the last day or so and had sold out. This night was the Ireland Ubuntu Release party at the Long Stone so we went along for a few drinks and to chat about Open Source for a few hours. It was a great party in the end with people mixing and showing off machines and software all around the room. Friday 31st - I was very impressed with the Dutch coin made entirely with open source. I had lunch with the guys at Zatoons, the local sit down kebab restaurant. Oh yeah and the weather has been absolutely abismal, freezing cold and wet. It also is dark all the times I'm not at work.