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We had a good year, you and I, didn't we? I think we did.

I read through all of my blogs form the last year and I accomplished quite a lot this year. Quite a lot indeed. I think I can look back on this year and even though it's a bit shit in places, I know I did good.

January:
I spent New Years last year walking home from Paul Mullally's house with the lads and the girls. It started snowing that night as well and usually I hate the snow but it was fun that night. Richie and Byron had a Kopperberg and were drinking it to keep warm. Dopes.
I remember being trapped at home by the snow, and then eventually getting into town on a ridiculous bus journey which only left me in glasnevin. The next month or so was awesome. Snow Date ftw!

We went to the good bits before Becca went home. Then her bus got cancelled so we continued on our night out and walked home. We both slept in her sitting room. We didn't watch LOTR and we stayed up till half 8 one morning. We found the Indian Restaurant which worked wonders. All in all, it was a good time.

Then I had exams but I don't remember them much.

February:
I remember two particular events from Feb, one of which stemmed from the other. Amy had only been back for a while and with snow and everything we hadn't been hanging out much. We had the chats one day amongst rude waitresses and then we walked through town. It was a good time.
This stemmed from the chats after a significant event. We don't talk about that here though.
Rebecca's birthdays were fun as well. I had the buzz in Dicey's and then the next day there was a surprise bday in the Turks head. Which was also quite good.

March:
I didn't celebrate my birthday. Which meant I didn't have to celebrate anyone elses throughout the year. Ha! Me and Greer put up the first of many rubbish recordings and my grandparents moved into a home.

April:
We went to Navan for Flem's bday. There was also Kate's song and Paul Conway playing with children.
Me and Becca went to the zoo but the Red Panda had eaten it's mate so it was rather unsuccessful all in all. Shame. I went to Doran's after with STace and White and it was loads of fun, surprisingly.
Rebecca started staying over in my gran's because I hate being on my own and it's our primary format for hanging out. No regrets!

May:
All I can remember about May is going on some ridiculous walks for hours and hours and having an ingrown toenail as a result. It was gross. I also stopped blogging loads so the next few months are a blur.

June:
I got a new job in June. They wanted me to start on a Monday but I had to go to a funeral so I couldn't. That funeral was the worst. I remember trying to just keep talking with Greer to distract myself and then I ended up on my own and then when I tried to talk after that, I just burst out in tears.
Work was a unique experience. And my attitude towards it further increases my confidence that I'll be as mature as I need to be, when I need to be. Grand!!!
I also didn't get to see FYS and TWY. :( Then Amy left again.

July
I spent most of July working and hanging out with Becca. She got baby turkeys and a cat and the cat hated her but loved me. Stoked. I also brought my PS2 down to her Dad's house and we played lots of Crash Bandicoot and Abe's Odyssey. There was also a lot of cooking involved as well as jam making and solstices.

August
Everything happened in August. I remember the day before Rose came over I such a panic attack. It was crazy. Then I calmed down and everything was fine. We spent almost 2 weeks together and then everything couldn't go back to normal again.
Highlights included Ryan's, Stephen's Green, Howth/Malahide, Iveagh Gardens, The Pint, Doyle's, Ice Cream, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Phoenix Park, Dun Laoighre and I'm sure there are countless more things I'd like not to forget. It was the best of times.

September
Work experience finished. We went to burger king on my last day. It was a nice thought. I started back in college as well and we did that Donkey Kong on the SNES sleepover thing in Bob's. That was good.

October
The receeding hairline of September became the unconvincing comb over of October and by the looks of things, I just played loads of computer games. That's not really a bad thing. I assume it was combinations of that, college and Becca and Greer hanging out in my Edenmore. I think I'm going to start calling it Edenmore instead of 'my gran's house'. It hasn't been her house for a long time now. There was also a depressing halloween somewhere in there...

Novemeber
Rose came over again and we had a great old time. I'm sure I did something for the first half of November as well but it seems unimportant in comparrison and was probably just college anyway.

December
Rose left and the snow started, It was like uni flu giving me the old one two. Unpleasant on both counts. We got a taxi to the airport at all hours of the morning and then we said goodbye probably for the last time. I went outside to wait for a bus for what felt like days in the freezing cold and watching the lightning. I slept for most of the bus trip because I was up quietly sulking for most of the night. There was a period of about of week where I felt like shit. After that, I distracted myself with computer games and college assignments and that was adequate until I handed my college work in. Then I felt like shit again.
When I got back to edenmore I spent hours cleaning because I hadn't for ages. Amy was supposed to be staying over but then her Dad wouldn't bring her bike or something ridic. I slept on the sofa for some reason and listened to mix cds all night.
Then Christmas happened snd I got sick so I spent most of it in bed, pretty much up until New Years. Cousins from South Africa came over and we had the buzz.

And now for 2011. Hopefully my hair won't fall out this year.

Happy New Year, everybody!

Good Morning, World!

I couldn't sleep and as such stayed up all night. It's been a while since that happened. I couldn't concentrate as much as I'd have liked to on my college work so I watched How I Met Your Mother, organised my i tunes library onto my netbook and watched ridiculous videos on the internet.

It was slightly productive. But only slightly...

I have the best idea for a present for Greer. I don't know what to get for anyone else. Disaster!

Fun with MIR. Yay!

I'd very much like for it to be some time last month again. I liked having some sort of direction in my life along with a something to work for. Being a lot happier overall was quite pleasant as well.

Life goes on...

I'm designing a functional spec for my Multimedia Information Systems. It's to do with using inputs such as a wearable camera and microphone and outputting helpful information based on these inputs to a handheld screen or earphones. It's incredible when you get into what it could actually do. Image detection would match items in shops and give them a rating based on your needs as a consumer (price comparison, quality etc) as well providing extra info on dvds by matching the cover you've picked up with an online image and returning a review or something.
I also quite like the idea of having a GPS system built in. It can use this to check your location, look for nearby bus stops on google maps, and return a time table for buses that go from there.
Over time, it could potentially detect patterns in behaviour such as if youre in a certain environment (bar) in the early hours of the morning, you'll probably want to order a taxi soon. It could check your locations and provide phone numbers for you.
There are so many endless possibilities.

It's quite similar to SixthSense Technology which is worth a look if you're bored or interested in that sort of thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SixthSense_(device)

Also, Bobby D's coming back on Monday. Excited for the return of the lad and the babe.

Heya!

I played guitar and really enjoyed it for the first time in a long time there. The past few days have been a constant headache. Trying to focus on anything that requires my attention has proven quite the challenge. I think I'm good now though... Well for a while anyway.

The last 2 weeks or so have been very eventful. My lecturer said today 'You shouldn't worry too much about things that are outside your control. There's not a damn thing you can do about them'. Let's give it a try shall we?

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