Blog posts tagged "personal" – Posts 1..5 of 10 posts found:

2011-01-13: Perverse laptops and an unexpected guest

Posted at 2011-01-13 10:52:08 by SHD

The title of this post is probably more interesting than its contents, but there ya go. When I went to sleep last night, there was a unexpected guest in my bedroom. I certainly didn't expect to see this in the middle of a winter night:

2010-04-18: Smells like something burning

Posted at 2010-04-18 05:31:55 by SHD

Never thought I'd have a legitimate reason to call 112 (the European equivalent of 911), but I just did. About an hour ago (4 am or so), I went for an early morning walk... or rather a late night one as I couldn't sleep. Roughly halfway, I noticed what looked like a large bonfire in another street. This turned out to be a conifer hedge on fire.

2009-12-17: Let it snow!

Posted at 2009-12-17 15:36:24 by SHD

The first snow of the winter fell this morning. It makes for a pretty picture.

2009-07-09: I am such a geek

Posted at 2009-07-09 08:16:57 by SHD

It's rare for me to wake up and remember a dream. It's even rarer for me to remember word for word every conversation from that dream. Not to mention those conversations (and almost everything else in the dream) making sense. No purple elephants or monsters from outer space, just somebody with the social skills of a thermonuclear device.

2009-07-07: Gruesome

Posted at 2009-07-07 22:51:18 by SHD

Death stops everything in its tracks on the tracks. I would've been home at a comfortable 18:30 today, after a 7 minute train ride. Instead, about a minute before pulling into the train station (and coincidentally within a very short distance from my house), the train came to an emergency standstill. Not long after, the passengers were told that the train had hit "something or someone". This turned out to be a "someone"... a young woman.