Since Gavin tagged me way back when, I’ve finally gotten around to doing this.
1) I didn’t get braces because I’d have to give up drinking coke. I pretty much live off the stuff so giving it up could possibly kill me.
2) I am a cubical man, I flat out refuse to use urinals. Why I’m not too sure (cue the penis jokes) but I just don’t use them. I’ll go find another toilet instead.
3) Still single, the one person who showed any interest in me (That I was aware of), I went off and called a stalker and now she’s no longer talking to me.
4) I love my sunglasses so much that I’ll wear them at any chance I get.
5) I had something else to go here but I’ve totally forgotten it. My memory can be pretty bad at times, its coming to a stage where I’m forgetting passwords that I’ve known for over a year.
If you’d like, consider yourself tagged.
To see what all the fuss was about I went off and got myself a twitter account here and already I’m loving it. At first glance it didn’t seem to be worth much but now I’m really beginning to like it.
My Junior and Leaving Cert English teachers have both commented on how I work with the policy “less is more” with regards to my essays and pretty much everything else I write for english. And then it hit me.
Usually when I’m (trying) blogging I have one simple idea which makes it into draft form and not much further then that because I feel there should be more there then there currently is. Like I have a draft currently on how I rediscovered I hate clothes shopping so much. Instead of going to the big effort I currently do to flesh out a blog post I could just send a text from my phone “back from shopping, forgot how much I hate doing it” and thats it. And stuff that I considered too trivial and boring to bother writing about I can now do in less then 140 characters.
Time will only tell if I keep the love up for twitter.
So now that its done for another year. Let me tell you what happened that evening.
I texted Damien to see if he needed a hand with anything before the awards kick off. Within minutes I got a text saying show up at 5:30 and then thirty seconds later followed by bring a laptop. Then after a bit of digging, it turned out it was going to be for SecondLife Ah, problem. Since I’m using Vista, driver support is still a bit naff and SecondLife wouldn’t run. Trying an older laptop with Windows 98 it turns out SecondLife doesn’t work on 98 at all! So I popped off to Intel’s site and downloaded the newest drivers for XP which wouldn’t install at all on Vista. Extracting the exe and pointing Vista to use those driver however did work. A reboot later SecondLife was sorted. I put my Oakleys on, shoved my laptop in to my bag and hopped into the car
Slightly delayed from trying to get dinner in McDonalds (classy I know) I arrived at six into the Alexander Hotel with my McDonalds drink in hand. I headed quickly down stairs where I found Suzy who I met last year there doing registrations and a moment or two later Damien came down the stairs and introduced me to Conn (won some awards too!) and Brian who were the two awesome people doing audio for the night.
After getting hooked up to the projector we were good and waited for the place to start filling up. Rick asked me could I set an explosive off in the SL version of the Blog Awards. In fear of the resulting abuse reports I decided against it. The whole event kicked off and awards and raffles were done. You can find a list of the winners here but something that should be noted was that Bernie handed over his award of Best Contribution to the Irish Bloggersphere to Damien instead.
After the awards and the music kicked off. Some things that I saw were
TwentyMajor showed up in person (Or was it actually him? We were debating this). He also called me “pure” whatever that means….
I ran into Tom Raftery later on where I got the brilliant quote from him of “I’d love to offer something insightful and witty, but I’m pissed” That man also has some dance skills.
Clare Dillon can also be seen on that photo in the pinky/purple top. I have never seen so much concentrated and dedication given to dancing before in my life. If we were to time how long people spent on the dance floor and total it up. They’d have nothing on her.
The only picture of me on the night that I am aware of is this. And thats all that really comes to mind at this stage.
Firstly kudos to Damien for hosting another brilliant awards show. Our fearless leader at it again.
I have a draft post currently being composed with a break down of what happened through the night. I’ll have it finished within the next day or two.
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