Happy New Year!

May this year be full of happiness and adventure.

Still feeling rather flat after a superb NYE. A great night indeed. Went to a few bars - BRB was cool - Paul Quinlan and his friends were throwing a party upstairs with 20/20 sound, Tom Taylor, and a few others. Good deco - my fish tank DVD got some more air-time there. Next we went to Blues Bar - in past years this has been one of the best and most hedonistic venues in Harrogate but not this year - it was quite.. well.. Radio 2 ? - perhaps we just picked the wrong time. A quick pint in Crabtrees - this place is like a time warp at the moment - it's like the Arms, or Franks was a few years ago - same faces. By this point in the evening it was snowing heavily. We decided upon a mission of getting to a party by midnight. A cry for help went out because the amp that was powering the decks and speakers had blown. (It was the second of the evening!) A half hour trek through the blizzard across the stray and we were there. A load of the nicest people in town were there and we had a super nice time until we left around 06:00 to get home in time for the boys getting up.

So - New Years resolutions ? nope - I was not inspired. I think I'll de-tox for a bit though. Been burning the candle at both ends a bit much so I think we will hibernate through January. Our new telly should help with that cause.

I was looking through the blogs I made last year - interesting to see the highlights I made of 2002. I think the main highlights for 2003 were:

Borrowing Daves S3 [2026 review : Oops, dead now. Get well soon] for a few weeks
Lord of the Rings
Eirene's ever changing hair (this time last year she had blond dreads!)
DragonDrop's 1st birthday party
Loads of camping in humbrum
Simon's stag weekend
Garden Parties at Mark and Vicks
Gran Tourismo 3
Phonecams
Adventure to Turkey (more pics)
Starting my own company
The Sunday Sessions
New hall carpet
The day Felix learned how to ride a bike
Second Life
Adventure to India
Fire and

Fire II

Christmas and NYE
Countless nice people, parties and gigs.

All in all - a top year - right - what's next then ?