08/29/2006: "Weekend Blast"

Back to work from a long weekend that marked the last summer bank holday and the last bank holiday before Ramadan smile (and Christmas).

I spent most of this bank holiday in Manchester. Coincidently it was the 26th of August i first stepped foot onto English soil back in 1992...I visited my friend Steve L., and we went to watch Man City versus Arsenal at the Manchester city stadium. It turned out to be a great game. I was hoping to see Samaras playing but he didn't feature much (came of the subs bench 5 minutes before the end).

I was also watching the palyers I had picked for my Fantasy team. I had 4 players in that game which feature in my first fantasy 11. None of them scored many points, although overall i did better than last week. I am still way off the 250K Telegraph is handing out to the winner though. smile

Later that night we went to Jillies RockWorld nightclub and that really brought back memories from my time as a student there. We had a blast. I should make more of an effort to visit Manchester more often.

This week I have to prepare some slides for a talk I am giving at a workshop on business grids, wrap up the demostration code for the AHM2006 conference and sort out my travel for Washignton which is only about a week away!