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March 31st, 2011
11:08 pm - Annual update
Life is going well, new house in Bristol, making good money, beautiful son.
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July 4th, 2010
07:40 pm - Johnny at five months
About time I posted a picture of the young chap to my near-defunct Livejournal. He's the best.
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July 1st, 2010
12:38 am - Writer's Block: No bloody way
I once knew this guy who was a member of this exclusive hunting club operating out of some Eastern European country. You could tell by this weird tattoo he liked to show off to his closest friends that it was serious stuff. Anyway he'd exchange a few texts with the owners and sporadically off he would go on one of his jaunts. He never gave much detail but it always cheered him up and besides, we shared a mutual interest in the early comic films of Steve Martin.
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June 27th, 2010
07:46 pm - Writer's Block: Planet friendly
The best case scenario set out by the IPCC is a rise of 2 degrees by the end of this century; this is not now a realistic possibility since our governments failed to commit at Copenhagen. Even a 2 degree rise will mean enormous changes for humanity, not least because - for example - it will devastate America's ability to produce its own food supply, let alone the effect it will have on African nations. A 6 degree rise would effectively spell the end of the human race as we know it, and without at least some mitigation this is a serious possibility. Do I think it's possible to reverse the trend? We already know how to limit warming to 2 degrees, so from a scientific and technical perspective yes. From a political perspective many people still do not believe in any anthropogenic factors despite vast amounts of evidence so, depressingly, no.
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May 3rd, 2010
04:52 pm - Writer's Block: Pet central
If you have a cat then you already know that you're only ever its guardian anyway.
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April 25th, 2010
04:01 pm - Election
Who gives a fuck? Everyone I know seems to have morphed into a smug Liberal Democrat-supporting tosser. Newsflash: Clegg is a cunt.
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February 2nd, 2010
12:26 am - Here's Johnny!
Things went almost according to plan. The main issue was that Johnny was back-to-back so Jen wasn't getting any respite between contractions (which began at 5.30am). Despite this, we both managed to get some sleep in the afternoon and the midwives turned up at about 6pm. From there, I attempted to fill the birth pool that we both went to huge effort in procuring and setting up but as was entirely predictable Jen never made it back downstairs again and Johnny was born in our bedroom at 10.21pm. I'll leave out the gory details suffice to say that it was both one of the most traumatic and amazing experiences of our lives (more so for Jen of course!)
He weighed in at a whopping 10lbs 2oz so his mum is a true superstar. He they both are just minutes after he popped out.
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January 30th, 2010
11:13 pm - Parenthood
At 10:21pm, 26th January 2010, I became a dad! Welcome to the planet, Johnny Shaw.
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September 8th, 2009
12:54 am - I mean to have you Livejournal... even if it must be burglary
My brother recently returned from an extended trip to Vegas, where he stayed in a mansion and frittered away over $20,000 of a famous British poker player's stake money on World Series events. He was entertained by strippers who hawk their wares more liberally than in the UK ("one rule, no fingers in the pussy, boy..."), his brothers-in-arms faced attempted robbery from naked prostitutes, and then he lost his passport. Adventures, good times.
Meanwhile back in the bat cave I've switched to headsup NL exclusively - for the time being at least. Although I am only playing the $50 games I find the stress of headsup fairly intense and, more importantly, I'm not actually very good at it. All superfluous activities have been suitably defenestrated as I concentrate on cracking this damn game. I have approximately four months before my girlfriend gives birth to my firstborn son and in this time I would like to make some money.
After all. Can you imagine. Me. ME. Having to do some kind of normal job. Like a regular schmoe. Disgraceful.
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August 4th, 2009
03:31 am - Everything's Gone Greenish
Just returned from a brief jaunt to France to celebrate another marriage of another friend. I wish the British middle classes would marry off in their early teens and be done with it to save the bother of the endless treadmill of marriage ceremonies we're in our thirties. That said, we had a lovely time in Lyon. The highlight was, I suppose, the British contingent stifling a round of giggles when one particular member of our party - a GCHQ spook no less - robustly accused a friendly American guest of harbouring racist beliefs. We blushed and fluttered our copies of The Guardian a little more vigorously as the American grew agitated. He ended up storming out. If the French stereotype is to appear arrogant and rudely aloof whilst maintaining progressive political beliefs then the American is gently humble and polite whilst holding all sorts of filthy reactionary ideas.
So we travelled by train and not plane because in case you hadn't realised I am fully committed to green issues. I realised this when my girlfriend decided that we could never set foot in a plane again because of the quantity of its carbon emissions. My entire life until this point has been lived in wanton excess, yet these days I duly place used teabags in the composter, water the tomato plants religiously, and read from the book of Lovelock, which states that modern man's leisure time is best served sitting around playing computer games and watching telly because they don't involve travelling anywhere.
I intend to sit back and live a worthy hermetic existence tending my potatoes and looking forward to when the bombs start crashing down.
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