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Work's going ok. Cracked a problem yesterday with some help. It wasn't anything I was doing wrong, it was a problem with a connection from one server to another and it had to be done using a direct IP address instead of a server name. Have got quite a lot of requests on the board which is good plus a fwe other ongling projects. Training on Mondays to learn html5, css3 and PHP programming, also going well.
Mom's birthday was the 17th and we had a family party for her. We went together and bought her Keurig coffee maker, similar to the popular Tassimo that uses a little pod or cup and makes one cup of beverage at a time. Everyone seems to be getting them and she wanted one. They're best for coffee though they do make tea and other things but for tea, I still find boiling the kettle is the best. I don't expect I'll get one until G. and i are living in the same apartment since he's a coffee drinker. My nephew's birthday was yesterday and we had another family get together on Sunday for that. Gave him the reusable filter for his Keurig that he got at Christmas. My birthday is this weekend and yet another family get together for that. My aunt's is the day after and we will have a joint party which is nice. My cousin, the one that lost his wife recently is coming over to my place on Friday to help me put my birthday bookcase together. I have to stop off and get some groceries because i promised to cook!
Also this weekend, my friend and i are going to a movie, possibly Quartet which looks wonderful. It's about a senior citizen's home for retired musicians. The ex-wife of one of them arrives and there's all sorts of friction while they are trying to put on a recital. Great ensemble cast including Pauline Collins, Maggie Smith, Billy Connolly, Tom Courtenay, Michael Gambon and Andrew Sachs (That's the guy that played Manuel in Fawlty Towers!)
This is the first year i watched none of the Oscars. Usually I watch the first hour or so but i just didn't bother for some reason. I did record it and i might FF through some of it over the weekend just to see some of the musical performances and the dresses, of course! I didn't see any of the nominated best movies this year. I'm not sure what it says when I can only say I've seen four of the five nominated animated movies! Pretty much everything else that was nominated for anything I also didn't see. Last year was not a year that i managed to get to see that much in the theatres though i did download a number of films.
I've been struggling to keep up with various tv series that i've been following, mostly British things including Utopia, Being Human, Mr. Selfridge, Ripper Street, US Shameless, Big Bang Theory, and soon Grimm will be back, also Game of Thrones. On top of that is my daily Corrie and Young and Restless as well as UK Corrie. Something has to give!
Now to catch up on 2013 books below the cut
9. A Taste of Honey - Eileen Gouge
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/469860082
About a nun that quits before taking her final vow, she's pregnant and gives the baby up for adoption. She finds the child many years later. It's basically a romance, the second in a trilogy about a California town called Carson Springs.
10. An Echo in the Bone - Diana Gabaldon
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/246484645
Rereading the entire Outlander series, this is the last published book. Next in the series due out later this year.
11. Tales from the Tower of London - Daniel Diehl
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/488600527
A series of historic tales that take place in England from the time that the Tower of London was built by William I up to WWII in the 20th century. It advertises itself as tales *from* the Tower of London but mainly, it's about the people who may have spent some time incarcerated there. Lots of interesting information about the Peasants' Revolt, the Gunpowder Plot, a Great Escape among others. Not bad if you're a history buff.
12. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/532883247
Iris finds out she's got a great-aunt that she didn't know about. Esme has spent 60 years in a psychiatric hospital and her family had banned all mention of her name. Iris' grandmother Kitty can't shed light on things as she's got Alzheimer's. Quite a good story, back and forth from Esme's girlhood to Iris dealing with Esme for a weekend.
13. Armageddon - Leon Uris
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/488600753
Hated it, couldn't finish it. Too preachy, too patriotic for a non-American, too much detail in the history textbook sections. Get back to the story !
14. The Malice of Fortune - Michael Ennis
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/488597834
Rennaisance serial-killer hunting. Macchiavelli and a Roman prostitute try to figure out who's killing several women and what is the connection to the Borgias, Pope, son Caesar and son Juan who was killed five years previous. Told in part by the prostitute and by Macchiavelli. Not bad at all.
Mom's birthday was the 17th and we had a family party for her. We went together and bought her Keurig coffee maker, similar to the popular Tassimo that uses a little pod or cup and makes one cup of beverage at a time. Everyone seems to be getting them and she wanted one. They're best for coffee though they do make tea and other things but for tea, I still find boiling the kettle is the best. I don't expect I'll get one until G. and i are living in the same apartment since he's a coffee drinker. My nephew's birthday was yesterday and we had another family get together on Sunday for that. Gave him the reusable filter for his Keurig that he got at Christmas. My birthday is this weekend and yet another family get together for that. My aunt's is the day after and we will have a joint party which is nice. My cousin, the one that lost his wife recently is coming over to my place on Friday to help me put my birthday bookcase together. I have to stop off and get some groceries because i promised to cook!
Also this weekend, my friend and i are going to a movie, possibly Quartet which looks wonderful. It's about a senior citizen's home for retired musicians. The ex-wife of one of them arrives and there's all sorts of friction while they are trying to put on a recital. Great ensemble cast including Pauline Collins, Maggie Smith, Billy Connolly, Tom Courtenay, Michael Gambon and Andrew Sachs (That's the guy that played Manuel in Fawlty Towers!)
This is the first year i watched none of the Oscars. Usually I watch the first hour or so but i just didn't bother for some reason. I did record it and i might FF through some of it over the weekend just to see some of the musical performances and the dresses, of course! I didn't see any of the nominated best movies this year. I'm not sure what it says when I can only say I've seen four of the five nominated animated movies! Pretty much everything else that was nominated for anything I also didn't see. Last year was not a year that i managed to get to see that much in the theatres though i did download a number of films.
I've been struggling to keep up with various tv series that i've been following, mostly British things including Utopia, Being Human, Mr. Selfridge, Ripper Street, US Shameless, Big Bang Theory, and soon Grimm will be back, also Game of Thrones. On top of that is my daily Corrie and Young and Restless as well as UK Corrie. Something has to give!
Now to catch up on 2013 books below the cut
9. A Taste of Honey - Eileen Gouge
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/469860082
About a nun that quits before taking her final vow, she's pregnant and gives the baby up for adoption. She finds the child many years later. It's basically a romance, the second in a trilogy about a California town called Carson Springs.
10. An Echo in the Bone - Diana Gabaldon
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/246484645
Rereading the entire Outlander series, this is the last published book. Next in the series due out later this year.
11. Tales from the Tower of London - Daniel Diehl
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/488600527
A series of historic tales that take place in England from the time that the Tower of London was built by William I up to WWII in the 20th century. It advertises itself as tales *from* the Tower of London but mainly, it's about the people who may have spent some time incarcerated there. Lots of interesting information about the Peasants' Revolt, the Gunpowder Plot, a Great Escape among others. Not bad if you're a history buff.
12. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/532883247
Iris finds out she's got a great-aunt that she didn't know about. Esme has spent 60 years in a psychiatric hospital and her family had banned all mention of her name. Iris' grandmother Kitty can't shed light on things as she's got Alzheimer's. Quite a good story, back and forth from Esme's girlhood to Iris dealing with Esme for a weekend.
13. Armageddon - Leon Uris
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/488600753
Hated it, couldn't finish it. Too preachy, too patriotic for a non-American, too much detail in the history textbook sections. Get back to the story !
14. The Malice of Fortune - Michael Ennis
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/488597834
Rennaisance serial-killer hunting. Macchiavelli and a Roman prostitute try to figure out who's killing several women and what is the connection to the Borgias, Pope, son Caesar and son Juan who was killed five years previous. Told in part by the prostitute and by Macchiavelli. Not bad at all.
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