Dragon's Eye News

Ugh. I went to power up the table on Saturday and discovered the main controller wouldn't come on.

At first I thought the laptop had frozen (it doesn't this every once in a blue moon) but no, it was running just fine.

Poking around under the table revealed a slightly melted fuse cover on the main controller and a fuse with no wire at all.

The recent electrical storms had apparently tried to toast the controller.

After purchasing some new fuses I found that the recent electrical storms had succeeded in frying the controller. As soon as I turn it on the fuse blows in a spectacular way. Short in the transformer? That's what I'm hoping.

For some time Susan and I have wanted to move to the UK or Ireland. Mostly because of the dancing and also because we really like the people and country over there.

Over the last several years I've lost some of my desire to move to the UK as the number of ways the citizens are monitored have grown since 9/11.

CCTVs everywhere. Cars tagged and tracked on the major roads around London. More and more people behaving paranoid whenever someone pulls out a camera.

Hell, even science geeks are getting paranoid. He's lucky he didn't get shot by some overly paranoid and zealous rent-a-cop.

The terrorists are winning. They can stop their planning now because our governments and news agencies will take care of bottling us up for our own "safety."

Technorati : cctv, orwell, uk

This was a fun session with Jean, Brandy, Heather, Andi, Karen, Pam, Susan and myself.

By the end we had Jim, ?, Wendy, David and James playing music.

The feis is over but by all accounts it was a well-run success. I do wonder how long Leslie will be sleeping. I imagine we'll see her sometime next month.

If you want to start reading about it and seeing pictures in order, start with this post and follow through by clicking on the post links you'll see at the top of each post. The post following the first is "Feis beginnings".