Showing posts with label Holiday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holiday. Show all posts
I've been formulating some ideas of what to do with my holidays I need to take before April. There's a few front running ideas; cycling the Great Glen Way, walking the West Highland Way (apparently cycling it is horrendous), and an intensive 2 day snowboarding/ski-ing course down in the Nevis range.
All three ideas really appeal to me. I think as things currently stand I'm going to opt for the snowboarding course and the Great Glen Way cycle, but I'll see. I'll try to find out more about the snowboarding tomorrow. I've never done any form of snow sports before, so I think it would be a really cool thing to try out.
I was doing one of the van rounds at work today, so I got to listen to the radio. A rare treat for me nowadays. Anyways, as a result, I discovered that Owl City's "Fireflies" is at number 1 spot in the charts. I was really surprised. Yeah, it's a good track, but I didn't think it would get to that position in the current musical climate. I managed to get an import copy of Owl City's newest album, "Ocean Eyes" when I was down in Glasgow last year, and there is another, much more beautiful and touching track on it called "Vanilla Twilight". The song is about someone who's girlfriend has died, and has such gorgeous, heart fueled lyrics. It's the track I fall asleep to, at the moment.
I took a couple of, what I thought were, cool photos today while I was working. Mainly to test out the camera on my new phone, in a way. The photo I've embedded just caught my eye when I was getting back into the van. I liked how the trees sort of framed part of the loch. It was actually a beautiful day to be out on the round today, so I'll probably add a couple of the other photos I took, in future blogs.
I found out today that I have 18 days of annual leave left, to use up before the end of march. Whether or not I will actually be able to use these is one thing, what the hell I'm actually going to do if I get them is another!!
I've had a couple of ideas which were pretty much ridiculed by everyone I mentioned them to, so I don't know. All I know is, I can't sit around my house for 3 weeks. I'll try getting in touch with my boss and see if/when I can take them, and take it from there.
MC Lars has literally just announced a UK headlining tour, which consists of England and Wales. Super :/ As a result I'm pondering a trip down to Liverpool to see him. Never been there before. It's pretty close to Manchester so I'm wondering if I could squeeze in a Man United game since I'm down. I'll look nearer the time, but from the information I've got, there's a 1 in 4 chance there could be a Champion's League game at Old Trafford the following night. That would be simply awesome.
I'll add MC Lars into my playlist. "Guitar Hero Hero" is about all the people who played the likes of Guitar Hero and thought they were awesome because of their guitar skillz, but really, they wouldn't have a clue. Guitar Hero were actually enquired about using the song on a new version of the game, but then they kinda realised it wasn't really putting across the best kind of message about the game. Enjoy!
I've had a couple of ideas which were pretty much ridiculed by everyone I mentioned them to, so I don't know. All I know is, I can't sit around my house for 3 weeks. I'll try getting in touch with my boss and see if/when I can take them, and take it from there.
MC Lars has literally just announced a UK headlining tour, which consists of England and Wales. Super :/ As a result I'm pondering a trip down to Liverpool to see him. Never been there before. It's pretty close to Manchester so I'm wondering if I could squeeze in a Man United game since I'm down. I'll look nearer the time, but from the information I've got, there's a 1 in 4 chance there could be a Champion's League game at Old Trafford the following night. That would be simply awesome.
I'll add MC Lars into my playlist. "Guitar Hero Hero" is about all the people who played the likes of Guitar Hero and thought they were awesome because of their guitar skillz, but really, they wouldn't have a clue. Guitar Hero were actually enquired about using the song on a new version of the game, but then they kinda realised it wasn't really putting across the best kind of message about the game. Enjoy!
