swiss docs

Waiting for an X-ray in the Swiss Doctors surgery and i turn around and look at the wall... it has a lot of scary things on it. The scariest of them all was the drill with the saw on it... bloody Swiss...

hot

The proof, even if the Met Éireann said that it only reached 30°C

pop up tent

With the Scouts off to Switzerland next week, we needed a new tent for one of our leaders. I couldn't help but suggest and eventually tracked down a nice new pop up tent! It is pretty sweet and yes, its it does pop up once you open it. It took me a while to get the hang of folding it up again, with several attempts ending up with a complete pitched tent again!

Have a look at the video here

next purchase

I have decided I need a new camera. My old one, dating back to the late 2003 is grand and all, but I need something with a bit more... umph!

Mind you my HP Photosmart 735 has done good these last 2 ½ years. Back in the day it wasn't too shabby at all, and i got it at a nice price as well, under €€200 if i can remember. The one bad thing about it is the battery life, but i got over that fairly fast by buying rechargeable ones! Duh!

Any ideas?

who said that

I'm back again... from what I'm going to call sabbatical. (or have I used that excuse already?) A month in Kandersteg, Switzerland will do funny things to you!! Altho I really liked the newly installed WiFi there! It encouraged me to be online, it's a pitty it didn't have any affect on my blogging urge! I will post a few posts about the previous month when I get around to it.

For now, I'm enjoying the easy life! Nothing much to do for now except get ready for Camp on the 20th! 10 days... feck!

Talk to you when I have some interesting things to say... eh?

hoff 2 no 1

Need i say more?

the wedding

Ciara Crowley & John O'Mahony

They were married today in St. Patricks Church, Rochestown. Altho it said 1.30pm on the invite and all the leaflets (is that the right word?) she didn't show up until 2pm!! We were wondering if John was going to make a run for it!

It all went off without a hitch, except for my cousin Barry giving out the wrong flowers to the groomsmen and female members of the grooms family!! But all was sorted in the end. Oh and the weather was shite. It rained all day and it was rotten. When you book your wedding for the 8th of July, you kinda expect at least a sunny day!

I also got to wear my new suit today as well. Doesn't he look well?

But the highlight one of the highlights of the day was the chocolate fountain at the reception. Comon! How can you loose allowing your guests at one of these! There was a choice of profiteroles, marshmallows and strawberries!! If only it wasn't guarded by the people who they got it from, I'd of climbed up and stuck my tongue under it. Funnily enough, the chocolate was cold... I still don't understand how it's kept flowing considering its bloody cold!!

Modern technology eh?

my present

One of my Beavers dropped over a present for me to say thank you for putting up with him for the year :oP It is a cactus!It goes down as one of the weirdest presents I have received off a Beaver Scout! Thanks :o)

finished!

Got my Exam results today!

From now on you shall refer to me as Mr. Darran BBSinIS, or is that too long? I have a Bachelor of Business Studies in Information Systems Degree, but I'm not sure of the letters behind my name... Must ask around...

But yeah, the news is good, got a 2:1, which as I learnt is not very international as many people have said wha? You got what? Basically its a second class honors!

Yay me... No more College/University/3rd Level Education!

northern ireland

Ok, I have now added one more flag to the list of nationalities that I have worked with. Northern Ireland. But tomorrow I will have a few more when the summer staff arrive!

Northern Ireland

whazzup!

Posts have been put on hiatus for a while. I have been hanging out with friends and what not. Finding out that people have been reading my blog. Not that they are regular readers or anything, but they know that there is a Langers Blog out there and I post messages to it now and then.

The next week should be interesting. I'm just going to be hanging out here and not getting much done. Just waiting for my exam results on the 20th (I think...) so I can in theory update my CV and start looking for jobs.... That's all after Canada! (Of course...)

The weather has been beautiful last week, but this weekend has been pitiful! Ha!

Contemplating whether or not go head down the pub now, I know its late but sure it's summer... Nearly anyway...

Catch you on the flip flop!

ga cratestacking

Marthine and myself were the only two who wanted to go crate stacking, so we got Rachel out and down to set up for us! There is the proof that Marthine successfully did 22 crates!

finished the game

Mike and Foley spent about an hour playing The House of the Dead III and they finished it!

Watch the Video!

x

Walking home at 4ish in the morning and i look up at the sky and there is a sign, a giant X in and sky! Is it meant to mean something i wonder?...

spike

Seb and Brick decided to go out to to Spike island as we were walking down the beach and found the bottom of a boat. Good idea in theory. Watch the Video!

taking the piss

Ian taking a piss in a HUGE tree on the road trip!

And the fire at camp on the last night. The light sticks, as we call them, made it!

langers blog as a graph

I came across this website that generates a graph of any website by reading the html on the page, and then makes a a graph to represent what it finds!

langersblog.blogspot.com

Try it yourself: www.aharef.info

road trip

Just home from our Road Trip. Last week we decided we had nothing to do for the weekend and beyond, so the most logical thing to do is go on a Road Trip!

You can download see the Route with Google Earth with this file: File [right click, save as]

We started here in Cork, went to towards Sligo, The Giant's Causeway next and then back to Kerry and then home! Over the 4 days, according to the GPS which i had on when traveling, we covered 1444km, just under 24hours moving and nearly 8 hours stopped. Max speed was 140km/h and average moving speed of 61.7km/h!!

Here are some of the Photos!

Bunratty Castle!Gayest Pose EVER!!!!

Welcome to Lovely Leitrim!I don't like Conor!!

The Giant's Causeway!

Welcome to Muff!!!!

Bow Chicka Bow Wow!

new images of castlegregory

Following my post last summer of the location of castlegregory i have been looking at google Earth and notice that the satalite imagry of the place where we stayed has been updated! You can now see the whole beach and town. Oh the memories. Who knows what kind of summer is in store!!
See it here on Google Maps!

radio shake up

RTɉ have announced yesterday about the new autumn cabinet re-shuffle. Big changes coming to both Radio One and 2fm (I'm still refusing to call it RTÉ 2fm) I'm not surprised considering the recent news about the drop in listener ship figures.

So what does this mean to 2fm? (I really couldn't care less about Radio One, I'm not that old yet)

Current state of 2fm: Old man Dave Fanning is on for about an hour and a half at 6, followed by NewsBeat for half an hour and then one of those Nikki Hayes for 2 hours and then Rick O'Shea for 2 hours till Mid-Night. Its all very confusing and feels rushed.

Basically they made their evening and night time programmes more simpler.

New line up: What they will be doing from now on is 2 DJ's, Rick from 6to9 and Damien Farrelly 9to12. Rick O'Shea seem happy about this news, altho he is being moved again from his night time play what he likes to a more main stream post drive time slot. Nikki then replaces Damien in the afternoon.

So they got rid of Dave Fanning. I think think they might be onto something here. Altho I still see the fact that Marty Dry Arse Whlean is still on in the morning. I don't like that man. Maybe suited to 2fm in the 80's, but not now. Worst Breakfast Show EVER.