week so far

Hi people in blogger land, so the week so far has been a good one.

Had to drive down to Birmingham on Tuesday for a digital conference, it’s all about how digital cinema works and how it is rolling in to the main stream cinemas to replace 35mm, now we have 2 main digital projectors capable of playing full movies in what would be said as being the equivalent of 35mm and personally I think they are great, trip was good but there were a few time I so nearly pulled over and told my boss to get out on the hard shoulder of the motorway, you know the type of passengers! The one who thinks he is driving, well listen up, you don’t like it get out and walk (and now I wait for the comments) or just check out Echo11 blog ->

So after getting up at 6am and doing 200 miles I still had the energy to go and watch a band called Shmoo at the new Troff in the northern quarter, now I had heard some of their songs before and I also had many many people telling me there are very worthwhile watching so I was glad to still have the get up and go to go watch them (you should all check out there myspace) and there are as good live as the recording I had got, well worth it.

So for the last year I have not had a haircut, now you may think scruffy bugger and you may be right but I have a reason. I have never had long hair and always got it cut short, every time I ever tried to grow my hair it got to a Certain length and I could not put up with it any more so I would just get it cut like I usually do but this time was different, so a year down the line and I have long hair but I started to become a bit TO long so time to get to cut. As after weeks and weeks of me not getting round to booking in and my hair getting longer and longer I finally got booked in last Saturday at Toni and Guys on deansgate in Manchester! Toni and guys! Me! Well at first I told the lady on the phone I just wanted a dry cut but now I know that places like that don’t do dry cuts, why would I pay someone to wash my hair when I can do it for free (hope it’s not just me thinking that) so after feeling like a plonker I got booked in and off I went. Now never having long hair I was slightly unsure how to get it cut so I decided that to keep the shape but have some off the back and sides to stop my head from looking like a mushroom but even getting such a simple cut still made me smile as I have never had my hair cut when it has been so long. Now for a little of the back and sides and a wash I still don’t think it should have been £30 but seeing as I had not paid for a year it wasn’t so bad, on my way out they wanted me to book in again, I explained that seeing as my hair had not even had chance to grow I would book in at a later date.

So this week at work it has become my week to train some of the managers and team leader in the fine art of projection, and can I say it is a fine art and you release this when you see 7 people all finger and thumbs trying to do the simple task of putting film in the projector, but bless them they did try! Well were trying!