My housemate had a bit of a result last weekend. He met a Mexican girl who seemed pretty keen on meeting up with him. She suggested that they watched the Mexico v Argentina game together. Not a bad offer. I think most blokes would be happy to have a date with a foreign girl watching the world cup, but he then remembered he’d offered to “look after” a friend’s very attractive Swedish friend who was in Madrid. She suggested watching the Germany v Sweden game together. Still doable… watch the Mexico game, make excuses and then go see the Sweden…
The weekend didn’t turn out quite as expected. We turned up at the dive center early to find it closed. 45 minutes later, we got a call from a friend of Philippe/Ana saying where the hell are you. It turns out that we were supposed to go round to the back of the center. They leave the front closed as there is no one to man the shop… So for a good start we missed the first dive. As a form of compensation, the dive center offered us a special trip with two bottles to get a double dive in.…
It’s all a bit exciting really. We haven’t been diving since last September and thanks to the persistence of Philippe we’re off to the Islas Hormigas this weekend. Allegedly one of the best dive sites in mainland Spain so it should be good. Espe, Ana, Philippe and I will be heading down to the Med’ tomorrow evening. It will be Espe’s and Ana’s first dives after completing their open water course last year. As I said, all very exciting stuff.
Gareth has left us once again, after 5 erm… typically Gareth type days. I think I escaped lightly but top marks to Philippe who kept up and managed to go to work everyday. So what happened? Well, if you’ve been reading, you’ll see that we had a steak last Wednesday. Thursday we went down to Kitty of Shays to watch the England v Trinidad game. A much more entertaining game than England’s first, and quite tense until (the aptly named) Crouch finally put one away. There were a fair few of us there, including a couple of random English lads…
I feel the need to share this. Day to day I take cases for customers who have problems with their computer servers. It can be quite monotonous with little reward, but every so often we get cases that can only make you smile. Yesterday I took a case which had a summary of “something exploded and system shut down. but when powered back up worked ok”. I arranged to have an engineer go to site to inspect the system and this morning I saw the following in his site report: “On powering down and removing the lid I found the…
Gareth arrived back in Madrid last night. Gareth is a Welsh chap who we worked with before he left for Australia back in December. He’s back in Europe for a couple of weddings and is paying his work colleagues and friends a visit this weekend. A group of us last night went out for a wonderful steak in Cebon, a restaurant that Philippe & Jon have raved on about for ages that until last night I’d yet to sample the goodness. The place certainly lived up to its reputation producing large succulent steaks that we were able to cook to…
I’m somewhat pleased. A mail has just gone round the office stating the following: “Me gustaría recordaros que la jornada intensiva comenzará el 1 de julio y finalizará el 31 de agosto.” Ok, so you don’t read Spanish, but it is good news. Basically we will be working “intensive hours” for the whole of July and August. Intensive hours means getting into the office by 8 and having no lunch break, but the bonus is we only work a seven hour day and get to leave the office at three! Not sure my boss in the UK is going to…
Sorry, no links last week. I had a few prepared but with a hectic last day in Krakow I didn’t get round to posting them. For the car nuts, take a look over the third post on this Vauxhall forum. How to get the most out of your Corsa! Even more amusing, take a look over The Rigister’s report on the revenge of a disgruntled ebay buyer. Then take over a look over this guys blog: www.amirtofangsazan.blogspot.com