A’right dog, you fancy some paella tonight, Juan (my Spanish flatmate) is cooking some.

And so it begins…

So through to the kitchen I go, only to be confronted by a huge paella dish and Juan cooking one hell of a mean meal. Chicken, beef, rice and veg… about enough to feed 6 people! So we sit down at the table all civilized, to have the meanest meal ever. One hell of a plateful of paella and a few beers later and we were all stuffed.

Then it was onto the wine, a nice bottle of Bordeaux accompanied by more beers. Then I had the ingenious idea of having a game of poker, so it was off to the bedroom to find some cards, after a quick check of the rules on the internet we were off, playing with matches as chips. I then commented that we really need some cigars for this to be a proper poker night. With that myself and Craig (my other flatmate) were off to Oddbins in search of cigars, a hasty 10 minutes later and we were back at the table, more poker and cigars.

After a few more rounds of poker we were all getting a little peckish for something else to eat, therefore the 2 day old pizza was fished out of the fridge and heat up in the microwave then wolfed down by all. More poker, more beer, more wine and some left over paella.

More beer has been supped and I leave you with a text message which Rob got from Juan during the exams before the summer:

Tomorrow I will get fisted and God will shit on me!

Have fun all,
- Chris

Matt suggested to me yesterday that we each blog at least once a day, I feel dubious about doing this as if I have nothing useful to blog I will end up writing a post about what I had for dinner or what other people had for dinner.

So everything is coming together at once, I have my newly updated site up and running now, with just a few minor changes to make before I can start properly populating it. I have, as I mentioned earlier just finished my job, after a long grueling 11 weeks (1 week more than originally intended) I have finished working on the DECS project. It feels good to be free, I can stay up as late as I want, stay in bed all day without feeling guilty, not have to clutter my computer with that hideous, hideous code anymore. Altogether it has been good working on this project, especially getting the opportunity to see what working on such a large scale legacy system (or at least the beginnings of one) is like, by the way I don’t recommend it to anyone, at least not to anyone who doesn’t like reading lots of source code.

So now I have some extra time on my hands, in fact a hell of a lot of time. I recon that it’s time to get myself a new hobby (rather than sleeping, eating and drinking as it has currently been). I intend to learn to play the guitar (properly). I have owned a guitar for years and have never been so inclined to learn to play it to any great extent. With all this free time on my hands I can hopefully aquire some sort of musical skill, if not I can probably get some cool pictures of me holding it… more likely I’ll get a whole album of pictures then get bored again. So for now it’s off to dust off the axe and try to remember the pitiful number of chords which I once knew.

Are you ready to rock?
- Chris