Gwyn’s Blog- now in glorious widescreen

Friday’s trip to SCruz went great, lovely to see our sociologist/non-sociologist friends again in what might be one of our last visits (except in we’re going again in half an hour and there for graduation on Friday…). I didn’t sleep so wonderfully due to a heady mixture of garlic bread and a sweltering hotel room, so I got up at 5am and managed to catch the sunrise and greet the sealions dozing by the pier.

Here’s the set of all the pix and if you hover your mouse over the picture above, you’ll see the picture Elias’s watercolour is based on (painted in less than 90 minutes if my calculations are correct). He’s the artist behind the butterfly a while ago. One of these days I’m going to have a go at this watercolour thing and if I’m only a fraction as good as Elias I’ll be very happy.

Not Los Angeles…

Look it! I’ve rejigged the blog a bit. Film reviews are back along with sporadic book reviews. Some horizontal navegation stuff. Erm.. archives… You name it. Just have to actually write stuff now. And fine tune the Book Review page which is playing up a bit. And change the stars to Lulus… And move over all GwynUnlimited’s content to agaveweb… Another change is I’ve deactivated the human detection type-these-letters comment thing, to see if I get any spam. Cos I’m imagining that was a pain to do each time you comment and if you get it wrong, your comment got deleted. Akismet seems to be handling the spammery quite well, so I’ll see how that goes.

What’s going on here in L.A.? Well, the usual rampant capitalism, christmas decorations aplenty, car repairs, dining out/in, and LOTS of time on the internets… erm… and yesterday I found out that fig tree sap is a powerful irritant. Otherwise all’s pretty quiet really.

Can you do better than 13/20 on this here “What films do these stationery related pictures represent?” quiz? Let me know if you work out what the yellow post-it one is. It’s not “The Wall” nor “The Wizard of Oz” and now it’s bothering me no end…

I cleaned the lens on me camera today before heading off to Tonala, but by the time I got there the lense had steamed up on the inside with the special cleaning fluid. I’ve been googling ways to get rid of it but all the results come up as “DON’T put drops of cleaning fluid directly onto the lens as it can cause condensation inside”, well, I worked that out for myself. How do I get rid of it is the question… I’m hoping that leaving it to bake in the car for a while will sort it out. In the meantime, I’ve got some interesting pix of Tonala with a hazy frame effect… Just hope it won’t be a permanent feature of my photography…

Also, M & D got their wardrobe. Here’s Monica in the back of their car with it:

Seems like everyone else is doing this meme so I’ll have a go too. I expected a high linguistics score, but not 100%… I’d put biology on a par with dance too. And drama should NOT be on the list at all… Otherwise, not a bad little quiz. Someone should make a What’s your perfect university quiz. Questions like: Do you like incessant rain? Do you mind living in a glorified bomb shelter that is admittedly within driving distance of a gorgeous beauty spot? Which sounds better: Mature student or Ma-choo-er? Would you happily swap Channel 4 for S4C? …. University of Wales, Swansea it is then…

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Last night we went to Tinto y Blanco for the first time. It’s owned by a sommalier/chef bloke and is famous for its wines, so we felt quite safe ordering carafes of the house red. Sita reckoned the Pinot was where it’s at though. The portabella appertiser was the best thing we had there, though my asparagus and mushroom crepe was well nice. Having returned recently from the British Isles it’s nice to convert the prices to pounds sterling and feel even better about what you’re eating. Anyroad, then on to bowling. Somewhere along the line, my thumb’s got bigger and thus a shot where I couldn’t let the ball go and ended up chucking it in the air and it landing somewhere half-way down the lane, amazingly without leaving some smoking crater… It was a dodgy game all round, though Monica improved 10 fold, Daniel was consistantly brilliant and Sita’s always been a great bowler. I was not on form… Any road. We’ll play the decider once our scars heal.