December 2007
I’m off to Mayo for the next few days, happy new year everyone!
The Christmas booze ticker - Update#6
Beginning on December 13th I decided to keep a tally of my Christmas season alcohol intake. I’ll finish the count on Wednesday 2nd January. Day 18: Guinness: 22 pints Wine: 23 glasses Coors Light: 5 bottles Carlsberg Export: 3 bottles Stella Artois: 3 bottles Champagne: 1 glass Corona: 1 bottle Heineken: 1 bottle Original post here My friend Keeley kept a log too, it’s here
Ristorante Da Enzo, Fairview Dublin 3 →
Off to our favourite restaurant tonight, MMmmmm.
Went ice skating today, my knees now feel like I’ve been bashing them with a hammer for 4 hours.
A successful day
It’s 19.15 and I haven’t left the apartment or gotten dressed.
The Christmas booze ticker - Update#5
Beginning on December 13th I decided to keep a tally of my Christmas season alcohol intake. I’ll finish the count on Wednesday 2nd January. Day 16: Guinness: 22 pints Wine: 16 glasses Coors Light: 5 bottles Carlsberg Export: 3 bottles Stella Artois: 3 bottles Champagne: 1 glass Corona: 1 bottle Heineken: 1 bottle Original post here
Me: Do you wanna use the toilet before I do?
Evie: Yeah
Me: Um ok. But you better go quick, it's becoming a high priority in my biological pecking order.
Year in Review: Lifehacks, lifehack.org, and Your... →
Quote: “The idea of a “lifehack” has changed a lot since Danny O’Brien introduced the term at NotCon in 2004. For O’Brien, life hacking was about applying the lessons of computer programming — the systematic logic and habits used by committed coders — to life in general.” Nice piece on lifehacking.
“If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the...”
– Lyndon B. Johnson
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WatchI can’t stop quoting this Mighty Boosh scene, “Look at them shine!”
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“My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare”
– Mike Myers
The Christmas booze ticker - Update#4
Beginning on December 13th I decided to keep a tally of my Christmas season alcohol intake. I’ll finish the count on Wednesday 2nd January. Day 14: Guinness: 20 pints Wine: 16 glasses Coors Light: 5 bottles Carlsberg Export: 3 bottles Champagne: 1 glass Corona: 1 bottle Heineken: 1 bottle Original post here
“In a mere two posts, Travors sets the fight to eliminate Irish stereotypes back...”
– Told or Known - Rob Knowlton. Yup, guilty as charged, won’t even try to defend myself!
The Christmas booze ticker - Update#3
Beginning on December 13th I decided to keep a tally of my Christmas season alcohol intake. I’ll finish the count on Wednesday 2nd January. Day 11: Guinness: 20 pints Wine: 9 glasses Coors Light: 5 bottles Carlsberg Export: 3 bottles Champagne: 1 glass Corona: 1 bottle Heineken: 1 bottle Original post here I feel like I’ve swapped kidneys with Shane MacGowan.
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The Christmas booze ticker - Update#2
Beginning on December 13th I decided to keep a tally of my Christmas season alcohol intake. I’ll finish the count on Wednesday 2nd January. Day 8: Guinness: 11 pints Wine: 9 glasses Champagne: 1 glass Corona: 1 bottle Coors Light: 5 bottles Heineken: 1 bottle Original post here This experiment is already quite eye-opening.
“You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget”
– Cormac McCarthy, The Road. (I’m really enjoying this book)
The Year The Industry Broke - MTV News →
Quote: “Make no mistake about it, 2007 was a b-a-a-a-d year for the industry. According to Nielsen SoundScan, album sales were down 15 percent from 2006 (a trend that’s continued for eight straight years now); big-name artists jumped ship in increasingly complicated — and messy — ways; and the powers-that-be seemed to get even more heartless and disconnected, thanks to a series of...