Below are the 7 most recent journal entries recorded in Podrick's LiveJournal:

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
9:34 am	Another LJ entry. This is getting almost regular. There is apparently some sort of virus in my hotmail/laptop, which spams everybody on my hotmail contact list. Apologies to anyone who got the spam. I will see about fixing it but the simplest solution was just to delete my contact list. So I deleted my contact list. Hopefully that means everybody else wouldn't be affected. (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
12:53 am	Meetings 2 things. When 3 of the BwB met last month in Dublin, one of the items that cropped up was meeting when the HBO series came out. Ideally, I was going to suggest a meeting on the first Friday after episode 1 but that is Good Friday. That's not really a go-out in Ireland night... So i'm now suggesting 29th April for a first episode/whatever else strikes us discussion. Aghrivaine is also visiting these shores in mid-May, so i'm going to see can we organise something around then also. I'm not saying both will happen but might as well aim for both until people say otherwise. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, February 19th, 2011
5:52 pm	So 3 of the Dublin BwB met up in Dublin yesterday. We all agreed that I should have mentioned the meeting on LJ before hand. Oops. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, September 10th, 2010
10:33 pm	When I went to India before, I thought it would be a good time to do some LJ posting. That didn't happen. Instead, I thought I would return to the old reliable (you could almost say annual, given I have done it once before) Worldcon post. But I have been here almost 2 weeks now and everyone else has recounted what they have been doing at Worldcon. I have had some very good days in Australia outside Worldcon though. So i'll focus on that instead. 1) Rented a car for 2 days to journey down the Great Ocean Road outside Melbourne. Fantastic scenary. Beaches, walks, 50km (or so) cruise high up the side of the actual ocean, waterfalls, lighthouses, guided tours, a treetop walk and finally the amazing 12 Apostles, Loch Ard Gorge, the Grotto and London Bridge (which actually fell down). 2) Took a flight up to Uluru (Ayers Rock). A seriously big rock. Weather wasn't great but it meant I did see rare(ish) waterfalls off the rock. Impressive. I wasn't allowed to climb because of the weather. I wasn't aware there was such a major controversy about climbing the rock though. So maybe it was just as well that I didn't have the choice. 3) The Olgas were as good. A huge number of big rocks. But the best experience for me was Kings Canyon (which is on the way to Alice Springs from Uluru). Marvellous walk into evocative places like the Lost City and the Garden of Eden. Lots of wildlife, waterfalls and fauna. (I was fascinated by a bird with a feather like horn but somebody told me it was a mere quail. Bah.) 4) Alice Springs is a little old town. A lot of Aborigines compared to everywhere else so far. 5) Adelaide is fine. Nice botanic gardens. 6) Taking a 2 day Kangaroo Island tour from tomorrow. I've been mainly renting cars, so this should hopefully be an alternatively good experience. 7) I had a rough idea of what I wanted to see when I left. I've kept pretty much to it, except for realising that I needed an extra day to do this Kangaroo tour. It all means that I wouldn't have much time to see Sydney. Oh well. I'm fine with that. 8) The way to Sydney should be good though. Wilpena Pound. Broken Hill. Muyawintji. Blue Mountains. All are supposed to be amazingly scenic. Its all a whistle top tour but I wouldn't be back for a long while... (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
6:29 am	***Yawn*** What a con! And now i'm supposed to wander around Canada for a few days. Oops... (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 16th, 2009
3:30 pm	6 years of failing LJ There, now I have finally posted something! Current Mood: ditzy (31 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, January 26th, 2003
7:26 pm	Jumping in Well I’ve had this account for a while without ever getting very close to posting on it before. Considering the person who gave it to me, I have thought about posting though. Thought it would be safer to say I made an effort at least. :) The name is Padraig and I am Irish. I came closest to posting at New Years actually. An ideal time I thought. I could even whinge about my failed attempts to find a new job. After looking around for months I hadn’t got very far. But time was against me. And a week or so later I was been interviewed which led to, before I knew it, been offered an interesting opportunity in an airport. So there went my chance to complain. Always good for a laugh. But of course I was delighted to find a job, so I have still something half interesting to say. Might actually use some of the Maths knowledge I learnt in college. After a week in, I can’t say everything went perfectly. The people themselves seem very nice at least. But I have to travel miles to get there through brutal traffic. This might be hard to believe, but I am not at my most patient in a bus for over a hour. :) So I can look forward to searching for a new place to live. OTOH I have been thinking of leaving my current abode for a while so I’m not very unhappy. I just have to put up with been exhausted by all the travelling in the meantime. Not sure what to make of my actual job so far. I am to work in the airports strategic department analysing data. If you like playing with numbers you might like it…for everyone else it could be nightmarish. But it is the kind of thing I am good at. I have spent a week trying to grasp what they are doing. I am seriously worried about how much help I can be, but its impossible to say much after one week. And that’s my initial thoughts. Hmm…that wasn’t that difficult. :) (17 Comments |Comment on this)