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My brother visited this afternoon with his girlfriend. We spent a lovely few hours shopping around town. I got a new stud for my lip piercing - I'd provide a picture but my webcam won't produce a high enough quality picture without being 2cm from my face. I'll save you from the close-up.

He also brought up Christmas(!) presents from people that I haven't been able to see over the holiday season.

We went to the cinema to watch "Runaway Jury", but I was called out as I was going in and I couldn't fix it remotely. When I arrived I found out that it had been fixed by someone else. Annoyingly my brother was also called out for his own work-related reasons so was unable to stay the night. Anyway, after all that hassle we went out for a curry and came back to the flat for an hour or so, people-watching.

I'vwe been playing loads of chess with choric and his dad this holiday. The last time I played must've been at least 12-18 months ago. The current score is 5+1/2 to 2+1/2 (to him), so I'm not doing too badly, though it does mean I'm not crap *g*

Saw the film "A beautiful Mind" at the cinema, in English of course ;-) . It was very moving. I'd heard mixed reviews, so I was not sure about going, but I'm glad I went.

I went to the cinema with sanjibabes and saw From Hell. It's about Jack the Ripper. I never really knew what he did, just that he was a criminal in the late 1800s. It wasn't particularly scary, just harrowing and gruesome. I miss going to the cinema; I used to go all the time, but work long hours so I'm quite often tired in the evenings.