Tophe Adventures

Sunday, April 16, 2006

Paella....

Pub: 0; Alcohol Units: 2-3 (sangria, vine); Activity: ??

Nice and international party at Laurent House to celebrate his wedding. And thanks to Ruben who cooked a fabulous paella....

Fun, when I came back from, I check out Flickr and saw that someone put a comment on one of my Lego pic, and linked it to the Adventures of the dinosaur and the robot.... LOL !!!!

And here's the blog of the guy who posted the comment: http://dunechaser.blogspot.com/

Tomorrow Killarney....

Saturday, April 15, 2006

Lego - Day

Pub: 0; Alcohol Units: 0; Activities: Shopping, Garden, Lego building
Main activity of my day: build LEGO numero 7903.

UPDATE photos removed from FLICKR

FYI:

LEGO has a new service Lego Factory, you build your model within a CAO software and then you can order the pieces you need to build it in real.
Mindstorms .... are coming this summer.
LDRAW a free CAD software for Lego
Adult Lego fans: http://www.legofan.org/brickjournal/
Stop Motion Movies with Lego http://www.brickfilms.com/

Except that, today was a lot of shopping, and I've started to grow some plants in the garden (mint, thyme...)

Friday, April 14, 2006

Lazy day

Pub: 0 ; Alcohol Unit: 0 (good friday) ; Activity: Mown my lawn.

A bit of culture with some of the differents local Beers you can drink in Ireland:

Beamish : stout, Brewery: Beamish and Crawford (Cork)
Guinness : stout, Brewery: St James Gate (Dublin, Diageo)
Murphy (Murphy's Irish Stout): stout, Brewery: Cork
Smithwick's: Brewery: Smithwicks (Kilkenny)
Kilkenny: Brewery: Smithwicks (Kilkenny)

Some beermat (coaster):

And finally tonight TV movie: Ghostbusters , in summary: "Do not cross the streams !"

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Something like Bridget Jones...

Pub: 2 (Daffy's +++, Glen Tavern ++) ; Alcohol units: 0 (yes, 2 orange juice) ; Activities: Salsa

New idea for the blog, copied from BJ.... see where it ends....
About alcohol, irish people tend to take the booze quite seriously : MEAS ?!?!