Cymraeg

Fy radio newydd for the Cisco access point (the 802.11B/G one) arrived today which I promptly installed after getting home. All up and running. I've also ordered esgidiau newydd since my old ones are falling apart. Hopefully they'll be delivered in the next few days.

Went out to the Killer for a meal tonight which was quite interesting. The service wasn't what we're usually used to - slow, and we were overcharged. The table next to us had slightly worse service - their starter, of prawn cocktail was off. It was rather niffy, all things considered. They immediately skipped to the main course (through no choice of their own) which was... cold. Oh dear. The chap in the couple kicked off though, which probably won no favours with the kitchen staff.

The last few days have all been rather busy. I've got a nice hefty new project at work which is going to take a good couple of weeks, doing interesting things in getting Excel to talk to an MS SQL database and do automated data analysis. Not really the right tool for the job in some senses, but perfected in other jobs. Unfortunately I don't know any other way around it.
Tuesday was spent tidying up the last of the hangovers from the problems experienced during the last week-and-a-bit, and documenting where we are and what's happened as a result and so on. In other work related stuff, I've been given a pay rise. Which is nice.

#I had information about a contract in South London punted my way which is pretty close to what I'm doing for 300 a day. Unfortunately it's sixth months, which is pretty bad timing since that brings us horribly close to the wedding day. It'd have been nice to take, but as I say - it's at the wrong time.

Reading news.bbc.co.uk yesterday, there was mention that CNN are re-running their coverage of the September 11 2001 incidents. This made me realise that, quite strangely, one of my close friends - Kev, has moved down to London almost five years to the day that I did. I think it was about two days difference. If there's another terrorist incident in the next couple of weeks, I'll be starting to get extremely concerned.

The weekend & Monday were rather nice, all things said. Did pretty close to nothing, although a few things have cropped up which need doing: The guttering definitely needs clearing out around the whole house being the main one. We've had some pretty heavy rain here recently which has seen water pouring over the edges of the guttering. Poo. I'm sure it wasn't that long ago I did it last.

Mi wnes i tri recordiadau! Hit my target for the day, which is nice.

Got home about 6ish. I went via Bangor as I tried to return the GPS I'd bought, but found I need an RMA from Navman - apparently you're not able to return one of their items without going through this process first. My mobile battery died whilst I was on the phone to them, and by the time I got to my office in Bangor, they'd closed up for the day. Ho hum.

I met quite a few interesting people today. As with last week, it was certainly nice getting out of the office and meeting new people, but it's really shown up my weakness with understanding & siarad cymraeg.

I've noticed that a lot of people are talking about the comments on the North Wales Police blog regarding bikers in National Parks - BBC News online are covering this as well - it certainly seems to have caused quite a stir. Hopefully we'll see a retraction or an apology, but I hold out little hope.

S'mae!

After the Eisteddfod, and what with going to the Anglesey Show tomorrow, I've decided I really should get my arse in gear with it.

I've spent the last few days buying up kids books on eBay since I tend to learn quite well that way. That's not to say I learn well with kids books generally, but reading something I don't understand and working out what it means is how I learn new concepts.

Anyhow, I've got a copy of Sam Tan coming, and another one as well. I've also picked up some material from work since we run Cymraeg courses as well.

Dw i ddim yn dallt llawer, although I'm already able to put a few basic sentences together - I'm getting there slowly. I had a (very) brief e-bost conversation with the head of Welsh teaching today as well which was nice. Blog entries that are under the Cymraeg category will gradually (hopefully) have more & more Welsh in them. Mae'n ddrwg gen i ;-)