Sunday January 4

  • 2:10 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Found an old Mr Scruff album in my music collection that I had forgotten about and not listened to in years. Really good stuff."
  • 11:19 AM: pad-u-like posted Morning walk scenery

Saturday January 3

  • 10:22 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "@skimini is it wrong that I'm immediately scared?"
  • 9:33 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "... unfortunately the sushi itself was nowhere near as good as that in midtown manhattan :("
  • 9:15 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Day of being reminded of elsewhere. Conveyer-belt sushi instantly transports my mind back to lunch in midtown manhattan."
  • 4:24 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "@skimini it's not as bad as it sounds. here's a video of how they make it: http://tinyurl.com/2g9mqh"
  • 3:52 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "@skimini Saturday dinner should always be haggis. Always."
  • 11:48 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Gorgeous sunny day in the park watching remote-controlled boats on the pond. Suddenly transported back to Hyde Park as a student. Peaceful."
  • 10:27 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "@annapickard I think the correct headline question is actually 'Doctor Who?!' ;)"
  • 3:11 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Can't sleep; out walking. I've noticed all launderettes keep all their lights on all night. Why?"

Friday January 2

  • 9:55 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "@borourke There seem to be loads of places around. I figure it doesn't matter how good they are - there's only one way down ;)"
  • 8:07 PM: pad-u-like posted Segway gang
  • 3:20 PM: pad-u-like posted Again with the space thing.
  • 3:20 PM: pad-u-like posted Comfort
  • 3:10 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "my laptop is beeping at me every few minutes and I can't work out why or what application is doing it. Some computer scientist I am. :("
  • 2:07 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Needing to train J&G in the meaning of personal space. You can't both fit on my lap at the same time."
  • 11:57 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Fighting the urge to shave off my beard. I know I'll look 12 again and I've hated it each time I've done it, but the temptation persists."
  • 11:26 AM: pad-u-like posted I guess I'll just use a different computer then...
  • 11:21 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Resolution 7: (extension of #4) Stop talking about that time skydiving almost a decade ago and just go do it again. Simon, you in?"
  • 11:02 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Yes, I admit it: best exercise when rainy? Elliptical machine watching Evita. Perfect tempo, and short phrasing to sing and still breath."

Thursday January 1

  • 7:11 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Sod's law that on this day of resolutions I'm craving a cigarette more than at any point in the last five years since I gave them up."
  • 5:58 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Resolution 6: finally learn how to be comfortable under water and be a more confident swimmer."
  • 5:55 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Resolution 5: learn how to do cartwheels and somersaults."
  • 5:25 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Resolution 4: more active, less passive. More action, less procrastination."
  • 5:04 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Resolution 3: more reading, less watching."
  • 4:55 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Resolution 2: marathon #2 (and maybe even #3)"
  • 4:40 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Resolution 1: make music again. Start relearning an instrument."

Wednesday December 31

  • 1:08 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "taco truck = yummy for my tummy"
  • 10:19 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "@annapickard contemporary bagpipes? not as melodic as classical bagpipes or something? wow."

Tuesday December 30

  • 9:54 PM: pad-u-like posted Fire!
  • 1:12 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "@plasticbagUK Welcome back!"
  • 7:49 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "@notcontrary To my English-schoolboy mind, Periodic top trumps sounds like an awesome Xmas gift! What are the categories?"

Monday December 29

  • 5:50 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Skateboarder just went 6 blocks holding the back of the bus all 'Back to the Future' style. Fantastic! Only saw him almost-die once too!"
  • 11:56 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "@davidmturner It's alright: no brains left anyway as a side-effect of the last week of constant medication with G&Ts. :)"
  • 11:34 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "I think I might have tried too hard to clear my blocked nose and blown it a little too hard. First nose bleed I've had in years..."

Thursday December 25

  • 4:09 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Why am I always sick at Xmas? Enough of this please!"
  • 2:03 PM: pad-u-like posted And the snow keeps falling...
  • 9:26 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Wishing you all a happy Xmas!"
  • 9:25 AM: pad-u-like posted Snow driving

Wednesday December 24

  • 10:41 PM: pad-u-like posted Xmas in Taho-ho-ho
  • 9:38 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Wish my cold would go away. Hoping huge quantites of food for the next 36 hours will help :)"

Tuesday December 23

  • 11:25 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Bollocks. Simon W is now better than me at pool. My world is imploding."
  • 5:18 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Make that 11 plumbers and they still couldn't fix it so now we have to move. :("
  • 4:41 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "How many plumbers does it take to mend a water heater? 6 apparently (and still counting)"
  • 4:16 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "the worst thing about renting a vacation house? finding it has plumbing problems and having to spend your vacation dealing with them :("
  • 11:41 AM: pad-u-like posted Lake Tahoe
  • 8:00 AM: pad-u-like posted Pristine

Monday December 22

  • 9:08 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "SNOW!!!"

Sunday December 21

  • 8:50 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Grey shirts w red shorts looks terrible on Liverpool and hurts my eyes. Too early in the morning to have to put up with that."

Saturday December 20

  • 8:52 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Remembering my childhood music - so cool to see Fat Boy Slim doing a capella - http://tinyurl.com/6j7n4l"
  • 7:41 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Woah. Rioting in town? Crazyness. Hope no one is hurt. Glad I did my shopping this morning and not this afternoon."
  • 2:12 PM: pad-u-like posted An average SF street on the weekends
  • 10:19 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Bracing myself for Xmas shopping. Not sure I'm keen on crowds this morning."

Friday December 19

  • 7:47 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "I hate comcast's ISP service. Really really really really really really badly. Might also need more coffee again today."

Thursday December 18

  • 3:37 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Brain. Dead. Head. Hurts."
  • 7:39 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "I think I might need to have a wee bit more caffeine than normal today."

Wednesday December 17

  • 9:05 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Something I love about winter: riding with lobster-claw gloves. Awesome. No idea why though. Weird."

Tuesday December 16

  • 4:36 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "@bobbiejohnson Noooooooooooooooooo! Say it ain't so? You guys are having some bad luck...."
  • 8:34 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Feel like I should make every use of sunny non-wintry weather whilst it's available but also conflictingly lazy this morning. Bus in."

Monday December 15

  • 11:10 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Just caught up on SNL: sooooo disappointed that even my boyhood hero Hugh Laurie couldn't save such a dismal awful crappy terrible show."
  • 6:46 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Immersing myself in my classical upbringing. Remembering how amazing Faure was and wishing I did more singing than just in the shower."
  • 4:35 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "@hitherto All that done in one day, yet no Modern Music Monday? ;) Good luck with the comcast - I'm thinking of ditching ours already... :("
  • 4:30 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "@annapickard As discussed, it happens to the best of us. I feel your pain."

Sunday December 14

  • 10:57 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "There's something about hail that makes me smile. The roof of our car does not concur."
  • 10:02 PM: pad-u-like posted Chapeau dessert
  • 9:56 PM: pad-u-like posted Work Environment
  • 2:16 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Rain rain go away already! I want to ride!"
  • 9:29 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "feeling thwarted by rain :("

Saturday December 13

  • 12:00 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "When you have to acknowledge toasts with tequila, it's definitely a good Xmas party."

Friday December 12

  • 12:55 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "@bobbiejohnson Bad luck! :( All the good drivers fail once anyway though :D You should have seen the skid I did in my first test..."
  • 11:10 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Note to self: when listening to music on headphones in the office, don't start conducting."
  • 9:58 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Happy morning. MUCH nicer inbound commute route (if I remember it properly) that avoids Market st. Nice to see the water in the morning."
  • 7:03 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "@bobbiejohnson Good luck!"

Thursday December 11

  • 7:57 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Woke with theme to dangermouse in my head. And it won't leave. Annoying as I don't know all the words. "He's the greatest, dum de dum dum""

Wednesday December 10

  • 7:41 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Turns out that after not playing for about 5 years, I'm rather bad at pool. 20-minutes-a-rack bad."
  • 3:54 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "7 hours of bug finding is enough for 1 day"
  • 11:21 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "@benward :( That sucks man. Unlucky."

Monday December 8

  • 4:04 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Yay. Driving test passed. Now I can drive on the left hand side too. (Of the country that is)"
  • 10:45 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "On a Pandora station based on the Beatles the 4th song it plays me is by the Rolling Stones. I thought it was almost illegal to like both?"

Sunday December 7

  • 2:39 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "On top of hill 88. Even with the haze it's a gorgeous view."
  • 12:54 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Another gorgeous day, another trip north of the bridge. Yay!"

Saturday December 6

  • 11:09 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Hamachi in mint sauce at Minako rocks. :D"
  • 6:14 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "First time ride round Sausalito and Tiburon - awesome, awesome, awesome! A fantastic day! Now for sushi to round it off perfectly....."

Friday December 5

  • 5:07 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Looking forward to a cycle intensive, party intensive, and cycle-party intensive weekend."
  • 11:15 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Been reminded that I should spend some of my weekend revising for my driving test on Monday. :( Was looking forward to the weekend till then"
  • 10:12 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Drinking lots of coffee to stay awake, but it's making me very jumpy. 4 hours of sleep is not enough for a school night."

Thursday December 4

  • 9:56 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "@hitherto then prepare for the daily "lets reboot the modem for no discernable reason" dance"
  • 9:43 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "@bobbiejohnson what happened? lost lots of your work?"
  • 9:35 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Feeling excited about being into a healthy lifestyle again today. This morning I started the gradual path to another marathon next year."

Wednesday December 3

  • 7:06 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Came home via a lovely ride to find the house opposite us burned down :("
  • 12:36 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "getting grumpy at a coding issue thats taking way longer to solve than it should"

Tuesday December 2

  • 6:34 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Yay, our power is finally sorted and the plugs are no longer hanging limply out of their sockets. That definitely makes me feel happier."
  • 1:58 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Grrr. Recruiters cold calling. Seriously? There aren't enough people on the job market already so you need to bother the happily employed?"
  • 11:59 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "finding it hard to concentrate whilst an electrician drills holes in the wall 10 feet away. If only the wireless were working properly."

Monday December 1

  • 7:45 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "lovely way to start the holidays - a sudden (and huge) tax bill arrived today. Thanks taxman! Bollocks. No shiny gadgets for me for Xmas. :("
  • 2:28 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Thanks @annapickard . As long as I'm not the only one, I can now happily switch into the Chrimbo mode: "Baby it's cold outside!" :D"
  • 10:28 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "fighting the urge to listen to cheesy xmas music whilst I work"

Sunday November 30

  • 10:47 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "actually looking forward to a normal week again from tomorrow. This much time off without going anywhere seems weird."
  • 9:25 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Slept horribly. Ugh. And now I'm feeling happy when Arsenal just scored twice, which is an even more horrible, twisted feeling deep down."

Saturday November 29

  • 5:51 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Lovely afternoon by the beach eating more food, and now I'm back home next to the fridge again. The weekend better end soon or I'll explode!"

Friday November 28

  • 10:01 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "How can we possibly still have food left in the fridge? How much more do I have to eat???"

Thursday November 27

  • 7:48 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "watching football in the morning before eating too much in the afternoon seems the wrong way around."

Wednesday November 26

  • 4:22 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "How do I manage to cycle 1 hour home in the rain, ready for the long weekend, before realizing I left my keys in the office? :("
  • 1:09 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "glad I have a friend with a big couch who lives near my office as beer and endless talking till 1 AM does not cause a desire to cycle home"

Monday November 24

  • 7:40 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "so it turns out it's quite a steep ride almost up to coit tower. lesson learned: shorter route home doesn't equal easier route home. :("
  • 4:53 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "@daveman692 I thought gambling was supposed to be recession proof..."
  • 12:47 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "feeling like my music-listening world has opened up with Pandora on the iPhone: in my own cocoon, immersed in code and Paul McCartney. :)"

Sunday November 23

  • 8:50 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Sundays are supposed to be lazy days of doing absolutely nothing whatsoever aren't they? Goal achieved."
  • 2:26 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Consider the house officially warmed :)"

Saturday November 22

  • 9:12 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "If I was disappointed by Bond, how come I'm kind of looking forward to maybe seeing it again today?"

Thursday November 20

  • 10:14 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Oh ffs. Seriously? Falling asleep on the bus and missing my stop? It's like I'm 12 again."
  • 9:23 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Not the man I used to be: 5 pints = quite drunk"
  • 4:55 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "All those hours of Top Chef paid off: people loved the pie. :) Maybe I will become a chef after all."
  • 2:10 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Just made my first pecan pies ever. Scary eh? Was I really let loose in the kitchen? Pot luck at work should be fun...."
  • 2:01 AM: pad-u-like posted My first ever time baking pies!

Wednesday November 19

  • 4:43 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "whole day so far re-factoring. yummy. Feel like I need to actually achieve something new by the end of the day..."

Tuesday November 18

  • 9:16 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "@davidmturner hiya! Middle-aged is right, so I thought I'd finally start using all the tech the kiddies are using to try and fool myself :)"
  • 10:18 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "It's really hard to work from home with one cat on your lap and one on your computer."

Monday November 17

  • 8:46 PM: pad-u-like posted The beast needs sun.
  • 7:34 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "wow. I love SF! I can't believe I get a commute that takes me up through the Presidio with no traffic around me. Mood no longer grumpy. :)"
  • 9:30 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "late night Sunday = no exercise Monday morning = grumpy start to the week :("
  • 6:40 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "still can't believe I had a bbq at the beach in mid november"

Sunday November 16

  • 8:43 AM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Come on Hull!!!!!"

Saturday November 15

  • 9:55 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "Is it just me or is L&O SVU is getting worse and worse?"
  • 9:46 PM: pad-u-like tweeted, "hoping steak tomorrow is nicer than they were tonight."

Sunday October 26

  • 1:31 AM: pad-u-like posted IMG_0101
  • 1:31 AM: pad-u-like posted IMG_0100