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Another long day of meetings today, this time in Gilford. I'm clearly a geek at the amount of amusement I'm getting out of hearing cities and towns mentioned in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and visiting Ford Prefect's claimed home town.
Had a hard time getting to sleep last night and lay awake until about 3am local time before finally getting to sleep, so this evening it was really hard to stay awake. A really short nap and a half-dozen Cokes through the day helped, although I'm hoping I get sleepy again soon. Late-night UK television is deeply strange, particularly a comedy show called "Badly Dubbed Porn". They cut the hell out of porn films cutting most of the sex scenes into short segments and then overdubbing the vapid dialog with very strange alternative storylines. Weird and disjoint, more so when you are jet lagged.
We headed out for dinner about 8pm local time, heading into Chinatown not far from the hotel. We ran into an Xbox Online Magazine Award show party purely by coincidence, but the lack of actual eats pushed us along. Neither myself nor my co-worker were really hungry, so we settled for a fast-food Mexican joint. There is a tendency for shops to cluster, and we happened to be near a block full of sex shops. Seymore's Spankoroma struck us as particularly amusing. We came up with the 'quote of the day' in the subject line walking through the area.
Stopping in for a quick drink before bedtime, we visited one of the many pubs in the area. There seems to be some kind of law requiring the majority of them to use a name in the form of "Noun & Noun". We skipped Angel & Crown, Slug & Lettuce, and Greenman & French Horn in favor of Bear & Staff.
Tomorrow is yet another long day of meetings, then we are heading to Reading for presenting at a conference on Friday before heading back to London for the weekend.
Had a hard time getting to sleep last night and lay awake until about 3am local time before finally getting to sleep, so this evening it was really hard to stay awake. A really short nap and a half-dozen Cokes through the day helped, although I'm hoping I get sleepy again soon. Late-night UK television is deeply strange, particularly a comedy show called "Badly Dubbed Porn". They cut the hell out of porn films cutting most of the sex scenes into short segments and then overdubbing the vapid dialog with very strange alternative storylines. Weird and disjoint, more so when you are jet lagged.
We headed out for dinner about 8pm local time, heading into Chinatown not far from the hotel. We ran into an Xbox Online Magazine Award show party purely by coincidence, but the lack of actual eats pushed us along. Neither myself nor my co-worker were really hungry, so we settled for a fast-food Mexican joint. There is a tendency for shops to cluster, and we happened to be near a block full of sex shops. Seymore's Spankoroma struck us as particularly amusing. We came up with the 'quote of the day' in the subject line walking through the area.
Stopping in for a quick drink before bedtime, we visited one of the many pubs in the area. There seems to be some kind of law requiring the majority of them to use a name in the form of "Noun & Noun". We skipped Angel & Crown, Slug & Lettuce, and Greenman & French Horn in favor of Bear & Staff.
Tomorrow is yet another long day of meetings, then we are heading to Reading for presenting at a conference on Friday before heading back to London for the weekend.
