Author: Dan Q
Dan Q is a software engineer, a director of a voluntary organisation, a trainee counsellor, a keen geocacher, and an amateur magician. He lives with his partner and her husband in a polyamorous triad, and occasionally finds time to blog.
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Thirty - Part One
On his 30th birthday, the other Earthlings threw Dan a surprise party. Which wasn't much of a surprise, because one of the guests hadn't realised that it was supposed to be a secret and had let the cat out of the bag. Nonetheless, a great time was had by all, and the night wasn't entirely without its surprises...
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Found GL4ZB04Z WW1 With you in a jiffy lad!
This checkin to GL4ZB04Z WW1 With you in a jiffy lad! reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Visited with pacifist_049 and first-timer Andrewsean85 on 2nd Jan, but only remembered to get around to logging it twenty days later! A nice little find made a little too-easy by bumping into another …
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Found GL4WWE7T Splash
This checkin to GL4WWE7T Splash reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Fantastic cache! pacifist049 and I took a look this morning as we happened to be in Preston. A match was due to start this afternoon so we wanted to make sure we were done before then! It took us …
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On This Day In 2004
Dan looks back to six years ago, when he and Paul argued about the usability of the Steam digital distribution platform.
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Found GL4WVX47 The Circus
This checkin to GL4WVX47 The Circus reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found it immediately by thinking "yeah, that's where I'd put the cache" and the co-ordinates were spot on. But I still had to be quite sneaky while my co-cacher provided cover in order to get this one.
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Found GL4WVWZM Going Underground (not anymore) #2
This checkin to GL4WVWZM Going Underground (not anymore) #2 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Paced up and down the street quite a few times before we found this beautifully-hidden cache. Then had to stand around looking like lost tourists while we waited for the area to clear so we …
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Couldn't find GC1KKT8 Flonopoly Cache 12 - Piccadilly
This checkin to GC1KKT8 Flonopoly Cache 12 - Piccadilly reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Co-ordinates seem to point to the wrong side of the street (based on the clue), but even armed with the clue and the logs of those people who eventually found it on their second or …
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The Wedding - Unanswered Questions
Photos from Ruth & JTA's recent wedding, as a "teaser" to keep you on the edge of your seat until the bride and groom get around to actually announcing that the photos have been published, and where you can see them.
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The Wedding - Feedback
Ruth & JTA haven't gotten around to blogging about their wedding since it happened, yet, and I've so far failed to make available copies of many of the photographs I've been sent (although you can find a link to a few photos on this page) - although, in my defence, I've only just gotten the …
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Productivity
When we woke up this morning Oxford was caked with a blanket of snow, about two inches thick and growing fast. Ruth, JTA and I thought that we'd make the most of it and go for a walk along the Cherwell, and by the time we were heading back the snow was ankle-deep. Reaching the …
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A Very Confused Courier
I've just had a phone call from a very confused courier. My mother (who many years ago for reasons both too long and silly to go in to I nicknamed "Crusty Pasty") texted me last night to say that I was to be delivered an early Christmas present that would arrive today, and that she'd …
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Leslie Nielsen was admitted to hospital earlier this month
You: To Hospital? What is it?
Me: It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now.
Sad to say, he died yesterday. The world has lost a fantastic actor and comedian.
Just a short post, here: the wedding this weekend was amazing, but I'll be writing about that at a later point, once I've caught … -
Action Stations!
It's the morning of the wedding. Somehow I've found myself only the smallest number of tasks to be responsible for between now and the ceremony itself, at 10am, but I'm sure we'll find some way to make that balloon soon enough! My primary mission in the meantime is to act as a communications hub in …
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Off to a Wedding!
Ruth, JTA and I are on our way to Telford where, tomorrow, they'll be married. Ruth is bouncing with excitement. The car's chock-full of suits and dresses and cases and wedding favours. It's been a crazy few weeks and a crazy morning, but the ball's rolling now.
I'm feeling really energised about the whole thing. Bring … -
Hectic (so let's look at Paul, instead of writing a proper blog post)
Between SmartData work, Three Rings work, freelance work, strange new bits of voluntary work, and the rapidly-looming wedding between Ruth & JTA (along with handling all of the crises that come with that, like the two mentioned on the wedding blog and the threat of rail strike action on the weekend of the event, which …