The Rock + Run Blog: Gripmaster Training Tips

I have a library of journals, just like how I have a library of blog posts, kind of like a flashback to times and thoughts that my brain would otherwise fail to mark.  

Here I am missing NYC again.  

Alas, June is coming up and I shall be heading to the tropics!  Bankok, Krabi, Singapore with Gwen, Vivpoo and Clement!  

And then maybe a transatlantic trip later on in the year or in the following year for a music festival!  

Careers advice
Enjoy yourselves. The vocation you have chosen is not a job but a way of life. It’s a great life and I don’t regret a minute of those long hours. You will never be bored. The patients are all somebody’s loved ones and you can make a big difference to many aspects of their darkest hours by the way you deal with them and their families.

I’m having a resurgent thrash metal and hardcore period at the moment, but i realise there’s an outer boundary I cannot appreciate.  The UV of the spectrum of music I simply can’t process, those who know me know I have a taste for everything, including country.  And cocaine K-pop.  clownstep…doomcore…neurofunk…mountain goat tribe chants.

Alas! The beauty behind Mayhem are like bluebells which are invisible to me because they are UV coloured.  Is that the point, completely?

Mayhem [norwegian black metal] is a morsel too dark and deathly for me.  I’m not being literary either,as  there have been a string of murders and deaths associated with the band.  Music is my religion, but it shouldn’t be that way!  I shudder a tad.

Lying safely within this newly discovered boundary are notable bands such as 

Slayer [Californian thrash metal]

Anthrax [NYC thrash metal]

Megadeth [Californian thrash metal]

Metallica [Californian heavy metal]

Dream Theatre [American progressive metal from NYC]

The Dillinger Escape Plan [American mathcore from New Jersey, NY], brainchild of Mike Patton of FNM.  pure freakin genius.  

A trip to Cali is overdue.

Celtic explorations this weekend, after a wierd friday night out eating dim-sum to hardcore house in old street in aid of the ageing of Beth.   

Red and green on the top of brick lane and their amazing homemade lemonades.  Receives the cheryl flag of approval despite being mexican.  Good call Jules/Sunny

London Paddington - Swansea - Haverfordwest (6hours+)

Kev/neil/diane pic me up and we drive to the Preseil lodge in the middle of nowhere [unpronounciable name].  Nice!  

Coasteering eat drive climb run jump.

Scrambbling around rocks, jumping into bays (!), and being talked into eating a live Limpet on the way.  Abercastle in the northern Pembrokeshire coast, further east to St Davids and its cathedral, even further east on a lifeboat to Ramsay Island to say hello to the seals and wierd birds.

Village-hopping and randomly turning up at and crashing at Tom’s pad in Bradford upon avon, Bath.  

Gorgeous fry-up at the lock-inn Dick and Jane, running hills at the white horse, cream tea and scones…

Pics to follow, because film takes time to develop!

Thus begins the addiction to the outdoors. 

Introducing the fuji finepix F100fd, the Sigma DP1, and the Ricoh Caplio GX100

All three wide angle point and shoots with aperture and shutter speed priority modes, and the sigma with the largest sensor on the planet, basically a DSLR in a pocket format.

I’m pretty sure god made that camera.  and i want it.

check out the comparison here.

, originally uploaded by -gadgetgirl-.

The cheekiest expression ever!

Instead of blowing my money on a droolworthy Olympus E-420 with 25mm pancake lens (thus kitting up to the world’s smallest DSLR), i shall concentrate on the lovely film cameras I have and invest in slide film, and possibly a good wide angle lens.  Clicketty click, Here I come!  Shame this part of Kent is such a shithole.

Worthy lens article here, since you don’t come across good lens articles very often.   Also see pbase for great examples of camera shots, film and digital, classified according to camera, lens, and even film used.   Bloody awesome!

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