Daves Random Ramblings

Not being a modern day version of the bard himself, I'm no Shakespeare that's for sure, I just dump out what's going on in my brain and a blog entry is just a lengthy feature version but with no structured beginning, middle and end. It's been an interesting past week.  I created an event on the singles group that I'm on to go to a pub quiz and we had a newbie join us for it.  Not that I've been in the group that long but I've been to a few of these and still remember my first ever meet so I could take an educated guess as to how the person could be feeling.  But its just the little things I think that make it much more comfortable for a first-timer.  Meet the person at the entrance to the venue / pub, buy them a drink bring them to the table and introduce them to whomever is there already. But definitely, and this is a biggie for me, make sure there's enough seats at the table for everyone.  Its hard enough going to something for the first time when...

This is going to be quite the mixed bag of a post ranging from hi's to lo's and in the middles.  But its not like any of my posts to ever follow a specific theme.  I already kinda know what I'm going to put into them and just think of some random "meh" title before I even write anything.  I could put it down to pure laziness as the title is the first box on the blog editor screen and I really cannot be arsed to scroll up or even move the mouse once I start writing away. So it all started last Monday, the day before the 11 hour snowboard-athon at the Hemel Snowcentre.  I got to work and still wasnt entirely prepared for the next few days.  Fortunately I was able to arrange a last second half-days annual leave which was awesome to do as I've had a .5 day on my annual leave for ages just waiting to be used up and it had been bugging the crap out of me, a lot more than it really should have been but thats just me and one of my oh so many foibles.  So, I get h...