"You nimbly dodge their beards."

International book week apparently, find your nearest book, turn to page 52 and quote the 5th sentence. No telling which book, though. "Ser Robin raised a hand, and his archers lowered their bows." is what I got. I bet you can guess...

Fire spinning has started again, will post video as soon as Matt gives it to me. The oil I got works excellently, will try something a bit different out later... Expect a cool video by the end of the year.

My bike's in the repair shop, so I still have to walk to work. At least I'm getting something out of it. Going to start listening to audio books on my way. Downloaded Atlas Shrugged, because I cannot for the life of me read it on my own. Each part is half an hour, phone says: part 1 of 115. This might take a while.

In other news, Logan the Lab is gone now, found a new owner. He was nice and all, but too energetic, and we're all stressed enough as it is.

I am having the time of my life gaming with friends. The title is NOT the weirdest thing I've done so far, and I've only been there 2 sessions. :D It's a buttload of fun.

Nothing else new, see y'all!

Bikecurious

That's right, I bought a bike. We had a small accident on the way home...

That's right, it's picture time! This week, very little has happened, apart from getting the bike. I have a new computer mouse, so there's that... Otherwise:

There is this one song, I keep forgetting the lyrics, though... We all occupy a 570–590 nm uboat?

My room. It's small, but it's home.

Just watching a film with Matt, he falls asleep halfway through. I'll just turn off the lights, the TV, and sneak o- Like hell I'm touching that.

HAIL TESCO.

Rather elegant solution to how to do phone lines. I just keep thinking spiders.

Speaking of which... One has taken over my room. It was nice living here, but I guess I will take my leave now. I hear the park's nice to sleep in.

"I love penis"

-- Lisa, my housemate.

So it's all getting better. My firepoi have arrived, and I can't wait to try them out. But I saw armored police cars not long ago, and a 20-something guy walking by with a bottle of lighter fluid in the middle of a rough night might attract the wrong kind of attention, so I'll wait with getting that.

Today, I had a good day at work, nothing too stressful, and we went down to a café afterwards, a group of 5, mostly swedish people. Just nice relaxing, making jokes, discussing other coworkers. It was good. Today was supposed to be ju jutsu night, but last session, I landed wrong, and my shoulder's been sore since. Didn't want to tempt fate too much, so I'm having a calm week from now on. Otherwise I like ju jutsu - the teacher's always saying "you might recognize this from karate", things like that, it's not that different. Except more throws. Hip toss is so much fun!

We also have a new dog. Logan, a lab, just like Molly. Really nice and friendly, but way too forward, barking, playing, jumping around and licking anyone he feels like. Molly has some company now, and they're adorable together.

It is also nice to know my cooking is appreciated, Lisa wants me to make "that tasty salmon thing" again, which just limits it to most recipes I know... And Matt eats just about anything you put in front of him. So I feel like I'm right where I'm supposed to be right now, I've got a busy life and good people around me. I'll post some fire pictures later, I think. And the dog, of course. Now, sleep... Take care, everyone!

Pizza? Pizza.

Oh boy it's been a pretty good week. Started full of drama, due to the dog situation, but other than that, it's been all good. Monday, I'm going to start martial arts again, I think. Tuesday, going to join a group of people playing games every once in a while, thanks to a work friend, or alternatively spinning fire. We'll see.

Either way, I'm making the company I work for money now. I'm out on the floor, answering emails and answering calls. First call I got was over a bad phone, with a client with an accent and speech impediment. Could have been easier, as I was also SUPER NERVOUS, but at least I helped them in the end. Otherwise it's been pretty boring, VERY few swedish people have problems with their universal remotes.

I am rather proud of yesterday, though. A customer calls, angry and frustrated, having previously talked to someone who took about an hour and a half of his time, and did not fix their problem. Ten minutes later, xe's showering me in gratitude over fixing the problem. So I could get around to solving another problem that weren't fixable before since the first one was in the way. And another after that... Long story short, I had an hour of unexpected overtime that day. But now another client loves us. And I took care of it without having to ask anyone else. Hell yeah I'm awesome.

And Lisa, my housemate... Her sister just had a baby! :D She and Matt could possibly be dancing to Shania Twain right now. Not going to confirm. Matt can't dance.

I have been eating way too much pizza these days, though, need to start cooking on my own more. But I should be getting my bank card next week, so I can use my first paycheck. :D Aww yiss.

Now I'm going to party. See ya!

Interesting week.

Going to sleep monday night, calm day, nothing interesting happening. 3 hours later, I get back from a gay bar. Juuust as I was going to start getting ready to sleep, one slightly less than sober landlady knocked on my door. She and her friend Dean were going to party, since he was only going to be here for a while, and they dragged me with them. It was actually pretty cool, dancing, good music, no one had THAT much to drink, so for a night out, pretty calm.

I'm also getting used to the UK now - understanding the accent a bit, remembering they all drive on the wrong side here, setting up a bank account, national insurance number, and everything. Felt I'd moved in properly when I got into the bathroom, and someone had moved my toothbrush into the communal toothbrush cup. We share meals, walk the dogs, make jokes... It's good. Matt and Lisa are great people.

And yesterday, I had my final exam and mock call in our universal remote training, I'm all done with that part now. Only peripherals left, then I'm out on the floor, shooting troubles.

Today's been calm, gaming, making some food, until just now. Zeppelin, the massive Akita, was eating out of the trash, told him no, went in to grab whatever he was eating out of. Stupid move. He bit me, and now my right arm hurts like a son of a bitch. It'll be fine, but they're going to have to get rid of him for now, unfortunately. They're worried he'll do it again. Bit of a downer to the weekend. Hopefully I'll just end up with a cool scar and story, though.

I'mma go internet now, sleep tight and don't let the akitas bite!

"I was talking about MY CROTCH."

So I've moved in properly. I now find my way around the kitchen, here. The last few days have been good, my colleagues are nice, Matt and Lisa are great, and last night, I had my first Irish Pub experience. Matt took me out to meet one of his work friends, Paul, and his fiancée. They were both swell people, and they lived so that they could see the place the Titanic set off from, as well as the actual Game of Thrones studio. Cool getting to meet them, but even better once we took a cab down to the city centre.

We were going to a place another friend had told me about, the Limelight. Only it was payday, and monday is a bank holiday, and studies start next week, so there were people EVERYWHERE. We went to a less popular pub, and even then that was packed. Loud, both from the music, and the people there. It was good music, but too loud to talk comfortably, and too packed to dance. I even had the full Irish experience (apart from the booze and rioting); A guy with a black eye fell down just behind me, and was half carried out of the pub, followed by security. And trying to get a cab at 2 in the morning is almost impossible.

All in all, for me, it was a good night. Not as good as the Bar'am parties, but still, good times were had by all. Might get forcefully invited to Paul's band. And I found out that on tuesdays the Limelight has Circus night - juggling, fire dancing, acrobatics, it seems. I'll check THAT out in a few days. If I get good enough, I might actually get paid to fire poi. Getting paid for doing what I'd usually do (fix swedish people's electronics, spin my poi), good friends, and a nice city so far without any riots. Could N.I. get any better?

No, I have things to do, bye for now!

We don't go to Ravenhill.

Must resist urge to dance in public...

The training is going fine, it's all fairly simple once you come down to it. I don't have to understand the technology behind it, just how to fix it. The instructor keeps going on about how to make it as easy as possible. So far so good. I'm getting to know and like my colleagues more and more. While hating both the technology and its developers more and more.

On a better note, I've found an apartment. 3 floors, kitchen and dining room bottom floor, upstairs a bathroom larger than my bedroom, said bedroom, and a livingroom, and another floor up, the other people, Matt and Lisa, live. They also have the gaming room there. And fiberoptic internet. And 2 dogs, a lab named Molly, and an akita named Zeppelin. It all seems great, about 4 km from work, view towards the park just outside, quiet neighbourhood, and they're easygoing, fun people. I think it's all going to be just fine. :D

Pictures tomorrow. See ya!