semble sad motherboard hopeful

made it out into the world last night, over to bush hall to catch own little world & semble... on my own which scared me slightly...

i met with M the student of mine who drums for own little world, also J, another student on the same course, both really nice fella's and clever, in the mountain of essay's i still haven't marked their's are both really good...

i didn't catch much of own litte world's set, my last train home called to me, i could see they were good but it wasn't a great performance (by the end of the set they may have really rocked), semble however were simply marvellous, and more than a little tragic...

they're quiet and they had a dedicated group of audience who were listening and a larger group of audience who were talking... they had a tough time of it and the whole thing was all the more emotional because i really wanted them to win through... quite apart from how emotional their stuff is anyway...

i spoke to S & then M after the set, it turns out what i took to be a joke was in fact true, they're splitting up, they have only 2 more gigs, one in brighton and one in kingston...

very sad, wonderful band...

and then today i went out into the world armed with 1 each of the defective capacitors, intending to investigate new motherboards and pop into maplin to get new capacitors... but i didn't get beyond the computer fair...

i was weighing up the different options of new motherboard, from about £120 to £220, when i chanced upon a motherboard & CPU for £30 which was my exact motherboard with a lesser CPU... of course i haggled because i only wanted the board and i walked out of there with the motherboard for £15...

i'm about to go plug it in... a little scared but hopeful..

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