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For the past few weeks I have been catching up on some coding for The Bauble that had been building up. Mainly The Gallery section of the site. When I originally coded that part up it was meant to be a temporary fix, just something to fling up a few images now and then.

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Most people spend the weekend relaxing. Watching tv, catching up on projects and hobbies and that lark. Myself and the ladyfriend? Well we, along with a large portion of our friends and family, all decided to spend Saturday dropping from the roof of Lansdowne Stadium into the seats.

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Sometimes you just need a day at the weekend to just relax. Not catch up on pet projects/hobbies. Not visit friends or family. Not finish DIY projects or clean the house. Just a single day with no obligations. A free day to spend as you please.

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One thing I have been meaning to fix on The Bauble for a while is the Gallery section. When I first coded it up it had been meant as a stop gap measure, something to just fire pictures up to when the need arose.

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Sometimes people do stupid things, that is a well known fact of life. It can't be helped. One second everything is going fine, the next the idiot gene kicks in and the world goes crazy.

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It's that time of year again. That time when the lady friend is asked by her female pals "Just what the hell are you doing with that clown. Really?".

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So I recently got fraped, recently as in within the last fifteen minutes from posting this entry. I foolish left my laptop unlocked and took a call in another room, only to come back and see that a few people had commented on my Facebook status.

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There is a phrase that says "There is no such thing as bad publicity". I reckon that in this day and age of Internet and Youtube and phones with video cameras built into them that phrase might need to be updated.

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It's 2012 and apparently getting broadband installed to your home is among one of the most difficult things to get done in Ireland today.

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As most everyone knows, money is tight in the Governmental Coffers of Ireland these days. There just isn't as much coming in as their is going out. This has nothing to do with the fact that politicians are all on wages that in most cases rival the President of the United States own salary, hell no. Sure what would that have to do with anything? But how to fix the finances of the country is something of a mystery to the boys in Leinster House these days, one even the mighty Sherlock Holmes would have trouble solving.

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RTÉAs of right now I officially own some property with the lady friend. We are grown ups in the eyes of the banks and kids with a new toy in the eyes of our reflections in the mirror.

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We've officially started packing up our bits and bobs in the apartment, yet another step in making the house move a reality.

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Before Christmas myself and the ladyfriend handed in our notice to the landlord, a thing we had both been looking forward to for a while now. Even before we decided on buying a house, telling the laziest man alive that we were moving out was going to be a moment to cherish.

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First post of 2012, guess I might as well use it to wrap up what I did in 2011 then. :)

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For once in many a long moon I am prepared for Christmas early. Not only early, extremely early. In fact I had the bulk of the present buying complete by the third of December, no mean feat.

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Over the weekend the lady friend suggested that I read an article in a newspaper about a truly sad story. The story of a young woman who took her own life for reasons fully known only to herself.

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I probably could have ranted about this before now, but what would the point in that be really? I noticed recently that my entries are becoming a bit more sparse on The Bauble these days. Just an indication of how busy I have been lately. Any spare minute found has been used to catch up on other things or just relax for five minutes before the next wave of madness.

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I have mentioned before my hatred of hospitals. Purely based on how The Soup works merely stepping into a hospital, any hospital, causes a lot of memories to jump up to the fore that I would rather not remember. But alas sometimes you just have to grit your teeth and step through those disinfected doors.

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The season is once again upon me, the one that happens twice a year: Migraine Season.

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It's voting day in Ireland today. Not that this is anything near the scale of an American Presidential Election. I made my mind up on how I was going to vote a few weeks back, but something that didn't seem to happen a few weeks back was the more important aspect of the entire affair.

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It's kinda quiet in work today. Which is nice for a change. I've had a lot of hectic days that went on a few hours past home time in the last two weeks, so it's nice to have nothing to do for a change. I can tidy up some scripts and catch up on documentation that has been left in the "Not important enough to get done now" pile.

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As has been my habit over the years on stage I tend to take videos of some of my gigs. Generally these videos are for my own purposes. I watch them back after the gig, trying to piece together what worked well, what needs work and what should never be said again.

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I've said it before and I will say it again: I love comedy clubs that are in underground rooms. I dunno why, it just feels right when it comes to comedy. Like the armature acts should all start out in basement clubs.

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It's been a little over a year since my last gig and tonight marks me getting back up on stage, mic in hand, trying to make people laugh.

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My last gig was the Comedy Dublin Final in 2010. June 2010 to be precise. Meaning that I am now officially over a year off the stage.

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So myself and the lady friend are just back from a trip to the wonderfully magical city of Venice. A place that people really should get to visit at some stage in their life I reckon.

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I finally got my new passport today, after a bit of an adventure with the whole renewal process. With the exception of two very helpful people it appears that everyone that works in the Passport Office/Department of Foreign Affairs are lazy wastes of space that should have been fired years ago.

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So apparently I, along with the ladyfriend, have the ability to sell ice to Inuits. At least if you take 'ice' to mean 'Megan the oh so irreparable Megane' and 'Inuits' to mean 'Romanians looking for something car shaped'.

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As the fates would have it, for the second week in a row I have had a killer migraine on Saturday. First thing in the morning, woken up by it, lasting for a large portion of the day. I generally get three to four bad migraines a year, really bad ones. Ones that destroy entire days. To have two of them so close together sorta ranks high on the unfair chart.

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Oh it's been a while, my hands are shaking :-)

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At least once a season a migraine sufferer will get one mother-fucker of a migraine. One that destroys an entire day if not longer. One that wakes them up from their sleep with such brain destroying pain in the skull that smashing your head into a wall repeatedly seems like a great way to relax.

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I have a large dislike of the NCT. Mainly because, as anyone who doesn't work for them will tell you, they are a shower of con-artists that make up reasons to generate money.

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I've been using an Android phone for the last few months. It has to be said I really like it. I was never one for "smart" phones until I got a Nokia 5800 and it had wifi and gps inside. Suddenly these two things that I had never used before with other phones became a requirement for phones going forward.

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Even though the weekend isn't over yet (it's a Bank Holiday, awesomeness :-)) I have had a pretty damn fun one so far.

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Being the constant tinkerer that I am I am forever adding little bits to any websites that I maintain. They might be ones somebody mentioned would be nice to have, or just something I saw on another website and figured would be good to have on my own. Regardless of the reason I am always tinkering in the background.

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Yesterday marked the end of Wedding Season for myself and the lady friend. I tweeted at the start of wedding number three that I was going down the route of 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' and somebody said not to jinx it. Oddly enough I did manage to jinx it, as I did manage to have a funeral in there. With The Boss passing away and yesterday now in the past we really did have four weddings and a funeral.

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A while ago I posted an entry saying that I had a lot of things on the go. As is normally the case these days. One of the things that was being delayed due to everything else was my brother's website. Thankfully the delay didn't last as long as I had feared and shortly after that post Half Baked Potatoes was born.

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Sometimes I look back on my education choices and wonder if I made the wrong call. This IT lark it isn't all it's cracked up to be. I should have gone into medicine and become a GP. Hell these days when I visit one it seems like I do most of his work.

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Today was The Boss' funeral.

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For as far back as I can remember, which is pretty far back given how The Soup works, my Mam's dad, my grandfather, has always been called 'The Boss'. I never really knew why or how the name came about, only that everybody in the family refereed to him by the title. He was, simply, The Boss.

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Hmmm...it's been a while since I posted anything but there are reasons for that. I've been really busy doing so much crap, a sizeable amount of it being stuff I don't want to post about, that I haven't had anything to post about for a while.

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As noted a good few times in the last couple of months it is wedding season for Jester and the lady friend. We have had, in 2011, four weddings to attend since the start of the year. As everyone knows weddings usually, not always but more often than not, have a stag do or hen party attached to them. Sometimes more than one.

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One of the things I love about living in Dublin is the entertainment that can be found in every nook and cranny with the minimal amount of effort. I'm not talking about gigs and comedy clubs and movies and the likes. I am talking about the living, breathing, insane thing that I like to call 'The Theatre of the Street'.

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Myself and the lady friend are just back from the wedding of one of my oldest friends. Two if you include his new wife, although I've known her a little less.

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Five years ago today I posted the first ever entry onto The Bauble, with exactly no clue what I wanted the site to be. A blog? A location to vent? A pet project to keep me occupied in the evenings? Literally I had no idea. I sat down and started to play around with some code and designs and on May 29th 2007 posted this.

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In Dublin there are a small few venues that are viewed as The Big Ones. Gigs at these places for comedians are Holy Grail quests when starting out. They are the places you aim to get to in a few years, preferably before you pack the comedy thing in, to play along side the greats that you long admired.

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I've never liked hospitals. Never. No real reason for this dislike I suppose. My earliest experience with them was obviously my birth, which is generally a good thing to have happen at some stage in your life. My earliest memory of them was when I had my tonsils taken out. Neither event made me look kindly on the Buildings of Medicine that we rely so much on. From my tonsils operation all I can remember is the smell, the strange sounds. The sight of my mammy sleeping in an armchair bed by my side. The darkness of the ward at night time. It hammered home a desire to avoid hospitals as much as possible.

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Dear Government,

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One thing that the lady friend will tell you (or complain about if truth be told) is that when I have a migraine I tend to not rest as much as I should. She's right in a way, I push myself when I should just take pills and do nothing. But I don't.

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Sometimes the randomly made plans are the ones that always turn out the best.

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