This is going to be a short post: Why? Well, I’m pecking this entry on a SonyEricsson P800 phone, standing up on a crowded Midland Mainline train on the way to yet another Speed Dating event-this time in Derby (around 30 to 90 minutes on the train depending on the route). Just hope I have better luck than the last two times when I had no matches at all! Whether I’ve just been getting overconfident or something, I dunno.
Category: Life: Personal
Well, I’ve just got the results of last nights Speed Dating event (with When The Music Stops) which was held in Leicester and for the first time I was really disappointed. No matches! (previously, I’ve had 1, 1, 2 matches in that order). But saying that, there weren’t really that many people at the Marz Bar (where the speed dating event was held) – only 9 of each gender were there: normally it’s more like 15. But saying that, I’m going to the event at Via Fossa in Nottingham tomorrow where I know I’m going to be meeting up with 2 ladies (as we’re just getting on swell as friends and keep meeting at the events) so I’m not too disappointed.
What I am slightly disappointed about though, is despite my best efforts it seems that things with the girl I matched with friend-wise on the first speed date event have gone t-ts up. Things just don’t seem to have worked out between us – whether it’s because she lives around 35 miles away (on the other side of the East Midlands area of the UK), or if we are both lacking too much in confidence or if we don’t have enough in common or…. I dunno. Oh well – such is life. I just wished she had let me know before I had brought the train ticket to Derby (where we were going to meet on Sunday). I still might go as there’s another Speed Date event there on Sunday and I’m “fully paid up” to go to as many events as I want for the next 3 months (cost me £100!).
Well, it feels like I’m going to have a very strange 48 hours in my life shortly. It started today really – I had quite a bit of work to do at the office, yet hardly managed to get a thing done: it didn’t help with my boss having to work from home because of the snow (and hence there was a higher than normal level of emails flying backwards and forwards). I felt knackered at the end of the day and was sooo glad he allowed us all to go home at 4.30pm to make sure we got home safely.
Well, last Friday I went to a “speed-dating” event held by When The Music Stops in Nottingham. For those of you how aren’t familiar with the concept of speed-dating, basically what happens is that you are are all given a number (no “Prisoner” references please 😉 ) and all the women sit down at numbered tables. Then the men work their way around the tables staying for around 5 minutes at each table (or “until the (background) music stops”): after each table you add the person’s name and number to a list and then tick if you find would like to be “friends” or if you think there is a “match”. Then after the event, you are either sent an SMS text message to your mobile/cell phone or an email listing any people that your matched as a match or a friend (ie you ticked them and they ticked you). I believe the whole concept started off several decades ago to help Jewish people find partners.
Well, it’s time to place a nice big order from Amazon.co.uk again – this time:
- 2x Yamada DVD 5520 Multi-region DVD Player at £39.99 each
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(one for me, one for my sister which my Dad is buying off me) - Al Murray – The Pub Landlord – Live – My Gaff My Rules. DVD £14.98 (for my sister).
- Open All Hours. Series 1 and Season 2 . DVDs £25.98. (for my Dad)
- Tenko – Series 2 Complete. DVD £43.99 (for my Mother).
- Gerry Anderson’s Terrahawks – Vol. 1. Video £9.89. (for GESF’s birthday)
- Lynne Truss: Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. Book £6.99. (for GESF’s flatmate)
- Helen Fielding: Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination. Book £6.49. (for GESF)
- Philips HR2303 Comfort Ice Cream Maker. £28. (for GESF + flatmate to share)
- Robert X. Cringely: Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition and Still Can’t Get a Date
. Book £6.29. (for my OU course) - Philip Evans, Thomas Wurster : Blown to Bits: How the New Economics of Information Transforms Strategy. Book £11.34 (for my OU course)
- John Naughton: A Brief History of the Future: The Origins of the Internet . Book £6.39. (again for my OU course)
So that just leaves my other sister and my grandparents to shop for…