Happy Fastelavn

Well sod Valentines day. It can burn. I mean really how hollow a thing it must be to get a card just because it is valentines day.

So instead I did a little research and I found this little article

Fastelavn

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Fastelavn is a Danish holiday that is celebrated seven weeks before Easter Sunday. It originates in the Catholic tradition of Carnival, and the name derives from German Fastelabend ("night before fast"). It used be a large feast to celebrate the beginning of Lent. Today, however, it might be described as a Danish Halloween with children dressing up in costumes and trick-or-treating or gatherings treats for the Fastelavn feast.

Other traditional aspects include slå katten af tønden ("hit the cat out of the barrel"), which is somewhat similar to a piñata, except that there is a wooden barrel, which is full of candy and has the image of a cat on it. Historically there was a real black cat in the barrel, and beating it was superstitiously considered a safeguard against evil. After the candy pours out, the game continues until the entire barrel is broken. The one who knocks down the last piece of the barrel become kattekonge ("king of cats") or kattedronning ("queen of cats").

A popular baked good associated with the day is Fastelavnsbolle (lit. "Fastelavns bun", also known in English as "shrovetide bun" or "lenten bun"), a round sweet roll usually covered with icing and filled with cream. Similar buns are eaten in other northern European countries, for example the Swedish Semla.

Some towns in Denmark are renown for their large Fastelavn festivities and parades.

Sounds like the perfect way to have fun this day. Rather than pink and hearts everywhere... instead go trick-or-treating.

ANything to report? Well not really. Saturday was ok at Sincity. Not packed but some random music. Friday at Jilly's was good, some nice noise was played, I think due to Chris of Coreline being present. I have to say that entire Friday evening was quite the random one. I mean I had to tell a white lie to save myself from a "black pudding monster", got asked if I was a model, and was feeling filled with bile due to a persons presence. A good end to the week after the manic supervision of the project students.

So this week should be nice and simple. Have already got some new stuff written for roleplay, so I feel fulfilled in that sense. However I;m having to rehash some data at work as the first stuff I generated wouldn't work for what I need it for. Though it's not a total lost cause.

 

Picture time

 

Brain overload!!! Remove/Replace

Wow what a week so far. I feel like a tampura prawn... all frazzled and crunchy.

So whats been going on you may ask (or not...sigh... hard crowd to please).

Well the last few days in labs have been good, no better than good, lets say it's been a culmination of things well over due and finally there are signs that things are on the way to the ultimate goals.

Basically yesterday the computer churned out the numbers and god damn their nice. The theory seems sound and the predictions really nice. All the numbers and files and computations have given me some great stuff to put in my paper. There is still one thing left to sort out due to a well stoopid error I made but then thats what you get when you deal with vast amounts of data manually. Oh well seems Mike has premptively hit on the same idea as I had and those errors should not happen again.

Silly fucking human. remember guys.... KIBO.

So things are also ready for my presentation on Friday, just going through a few papers to give the group a quick overview of the theories and the problems (basically some bad ass quantum mechanics and how it can be used to classify chemical bonds, finally removing the ideas that even though being over 100 years old are taught to every undergrad today). Looks like I'm going paradigm killing. Plus it totally fits with my main project, the one I design for my Bsc student, and also the work by Alex in our group (QSAR using quantum mechanical descriptors).

SO yes Friday. 6:30pm, the Big G(C), drink. There is good reason for this all. Presentations and early morning meetings means no proper drinking Thursday night (tonight) or my birthday. Just gotta postpone things a bit.

Ok other news?

Well I finally slogged through writing a D20 character sheet for Etherscope, and wrote the character background for the main protagonist in my short story. So hopefully that should all appear very soon on a shop shelf.

Also finally, after running the game for a good year and a half, have written the last two episodes for the game. Feels like a weight has been taken of my shoulders completing that. It's meant that i can finally gorge myself on some books that have sat unread since the day I bought them. Forward ho!

Right so thats  about a wrap.

Oh this Sat i know most of you lot are off to Wendyhouse, and I will be there so much merriment is to be had.

Finally next Sat is my trek to London with others for a proper birthday outing (seems quite a few are going down that weekend with the same plan).

Oh and Chung Kuo.... read it... live it.... begin!

Yeah that looks like the lot.