Lets actually write something!

Had a weird day, started really badly, awful night, mental fneugh right left and centre, all the usual crap.

But the actual day has been ok, been productive, been fun-ish, had a calmish night with minimal bugging kids (they're all worryingly well behaved around here) and a storming Liverpool win on the telly.

So its hard to decide how I feel about today, I'm still not 100% in my head but at least there's nothing too problematic on the horizon till I try and do sleep again...

Ah well, day off tomorrow cause I work at the weekends so I get time off in the week.

Recent quips from Late Night.

"The election is three weeks away and there are rumors the Republicans are getting ready for an election night disaster, which would be a first -- a disaster they were actually prepared for." --Bill Maher

"On Tuesday, the U.S. population hit 300 million. 'Oh, that's so cute,' said China." --Amy Poehler

"If recent polls are correct and Democrats win back control of the House and Senate, President Bush's administration will be transformed into an early lame duck. Worse, Cheney will then shoot it." --Seth Meyers

"This is a bleak time for the Republican Party. You know you have trouble when the least embarrassing guy in your group is Arnold Schwarzenegger." --Jimmy Kimmel

"In Las Vegas, a 32-year-old mother told police that Republican Congressman Jim Gibbons, who is running for governor in Nevada, got drunk, put his hand on her thigh, complained about his marriage and then tried to have sex with her in the parking garage. A congressman trying to have sex with an adult woman? This is the best news Republicans have had in years." --Jay Leno

"U.S. Intelligence this week confirmed North Korea's claim that it exploded a nuclear bomb deep inside a mountain. This officially makes North Korea a nuclear threat, but only if they can lure their enemies deep inside a mountain." --Amy Poehler

"Elections are only a few weeks away and it looks like the Republicans are going to lose a lot of them. I guess desperate times require desperate measures. [on screen: RNC's TV ad depicting another terrorist attack by Osama bin Laden, followed by a reminder to vote 11/7]. Let me get this straight. Osama bin Laden is threatening to attack America again, so what we should do is vote for the people who haven't been able to catch him for the last five years?." --Jimmy Kimmel

If Restaurants Functioned Like Tech Support

Patron: Waiter!

Waiter: Hi, my name is Bill, and I'll be your Support. What seems to be the problem?

Patron: There's a fly in my soup!

Waiter: Try again, maybe the fly won't be there this time.

Patron: No, it's still there.

Waiter: Maybe it's the way you're using the soup. Try eating it with a fork instead.

Patron: Even when I use the fork, the fly is still there.

Waiter: Maybe the soup is incompatible with the bowl. What kind of bowl are you using?

Patron: A SOUP bowl!

Waiter: Hmmm, that should work. Maybe it's a configuration problem. How was the bowl set up?

Patron: You brought it to me on a saucer. What has that to do with the fly in my soup?!

Waiter: Can you remember everything you did before you noticed the fly in your soup?

Patron: I sat down and ordered the Soup of the Day!

Waiter: Have you considered upgrading to the latest Soup of the Day?

Patron: You have more than one Soup of the Day each day??

Waiter: Yes, the Soup of the Day is changed every hour.

Patron: Well, what is the Soup of the Day now?

Waiter: The current Soup of the Day is tomato.

Patron: Fine. Bring me the tomato soup, and the check. I'm running late now.

[waiter leaves and returns with another bowl of soup and the check]

Waiter: Here you are, Sir. The soup and your check.

Patron: This is potato soup.

Waiter: Yes, the tomato soup wasn't ready yet.

Patron: Well, I'm so hungry now, I'll eat anything.

[waiter leaves.]

Patron: Waiter! There's a gnat in my soup!

The check:
Soup of the Day . . . . . . . $5.00
Upgrade to newer Soup of the Day. . $2.50
Access to support . . . . . . $1.00

Newly Issued Alcohol Warnings

The American Board of Health has proposed that warning signs be placed on all alcohol bottles to tip off drinkers about the possible peril of drinking a pint or two of any alcoholic beverage.

1. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may cause you to wake up with a breath that could knock a buzzard off a wreaking dead animal that is one hundred yards away.

2. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol is a major factor in dancing like an idiot.

3. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may cause you to tell the same boring story over and over again until your friends want to assault you

4. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may cause you to thay shings like thish.

5. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may cause you to tell the boss what you really think of him.

6. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol is the leading cause of inexplicable rug burn on the forehead.

7. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may create the illusion that you are tougher, handsomer and smarter than some really, really big guy named Psycho Bob.

...even though it means nothing to anyone else on here but...

My Cards won the baseball World Series!

I have to admit I'm a fan of the Rockstar games, ever since the original Grand Theft Auto came out and, so far, I'vemanaged to avoid becoming a psycho gangster going n a murderous rampage and stealing cars while building up my power base. Funny that.

So, I decided to flick around for news on their new game Canis Canem Edit, if you havent heard about it before it's basically a school sim.

It uses the GTA freeform gameplay and engine but instead of a moral-vacuum gang junkie you're a kid trying to get on in schools.

The basis of the story is the old Hero to Zero plotline as you face off against bullies while keeping yourself going to lessons for the right time and basically doing what a kid in boarding school does.

Now, despite many of the game's reviewers pointing out the do-right anti-hero nature of the main protagonist the DSG group of stores have refused to sell it... even though that shouldn't damage sales too much, lets be honest, when's the last time anyone here bought something from Dixons or Currys?!

There's also been all the usual bible-belt outrage in America over it, including the very sweet moment where one complainant outguesses the judge, releases a long tirade about how the law will now stop bad games, momentous ruling etc... and then the judge says it's no worse than late night TV and lets it ship to much egg over power-hungry evangalist face!

BUT... the ironic point here is that the DSG group are saying: "The title is not appropriate for our family-friendly image".

But never fear, it's in negotiations with Rockstar to have a heavy promote of it's latest GTA title which obviously does come under the heading "family-friendly".... (PS, I've heard a rumour it's gonne be London based)

EDIT: Ordered it, good old Amazon

For a whole gallery, click the pic.

It's been a weird day, had some good news but also, through no fault (or even action) of my own have seemed to have ended up on one side of a bit of a rift with someone I did get on great with.

Problem is I can see his point of view and agree totally... but it's all down to decisions made by them on high, and although I agree with it and am very happy with said decision it wasn't really anything to do with me!

Ah well, cest la vie...

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Click the pic for more... I will be bringing a few more to you over time

Me, a credit card and town...

NOT a good combination!

1 copy Madden 07
1 copy Football Manager 2007
1 new PS2 Memory Card

ALMOST 1 copy NHL 07...

And I wish I knew if my MSN is working... seems awfully quiet, I could understand one or two but I can't have annoyed SO many people all at once...

...from the one they call... Subs.

1) Where did you take your default pic?
Was made up off a site where you can do your own South Park Character.

2) What exactly are you wearing right now?
Shorts and a tshirt, day off and it's toast warm in here.

3) What is your current problem?
Trying to pick a problem... it's most problematic!

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Chapter 1:

1) Middle names: Beelzebub Damien Lucifer

2) Current place: Front room

3) Eye colour: Blue

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Chapter 3: Favourite...

1) Ice Cream: Mint Vienetta

2) Season: Don't have a favourite

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Chapter 4: Do You..

1) Write on your hand: Nope, barely write at all!

2) Call people back: Normally as soon as I can.

3) Believe in love: Not right now.

4) Sleep on a certain side of the bed? My bed isn't big enough to have sides.

5) Have any bad habits? lots and lots.

6) Any mental health issues? Officially? No. UNofficially, yes.

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Chapter 5: Have You....

1) Broken a bone: Nope.

2) Sprained stuff? Lots of times.

3) Gotten stitches: Nope, once screamed blue murder asa kiddie cause they tried to give me stitches, didn't have them in the end.

4) Taken painkillers? Yeah.

5) Gone SCUBA diving or snorkelling: Not being able to swim is it's own answer to that.

6) Been stung by a bee? Yep, a few times.

7) Thrown up at the dentist: No

8) Sworn in front of your parents: Fraid so

9) Been sent to the principal's office: Oh yes

10) Been expelled? Nope, I was boring enough to only do minor bad things.

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Chaper 6: Who/What was the last....

1) Person you called: Tried to call my sister at work.

2) Person you hugged: Chloe.

3) Thing you ate: Toast with marmite

4) Thing you drank: Tea (drinking while typing)

5) Time you cried: Not sure.

6) Wished on a star: Yes, used to yell at a shooting star "I want world peace!!!" But then Bruce Willis got that damn restraining order...

Music: Weird Al Yankovic

I almost feel insulted...

Not doing the one that tells me when I'm gonna die though!!!

"With so many politicians being taken down by sex scandals this year, I tip my hat to Wisconsin Secretary of State candidate Sandy Sullivan who has written a book detailing her sexual exploits with multiple members of the Green Bay Packers during the team's heyday in the 1960s. It is so refreshing to see a candidate whose closet has been so thoroughly cleaned out." --Stephen Colbert

"This weekend Ohio Republican Bob Ney plead guilty to Abramoff-related bribery and corruption charges. Congressman Ney's district encompasses -- this is true -- most of Licking County, Ohio. Which early odds have it will also be the nickname of his jail cell. Ney asked for leniency in sentencing because he says he has a drinking problem. If you're keeping score at home, that now makes alcohol responsible for corruption, anti-semitism, and homosexual pedophilia." --Jon Stewart

"A strong 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit Hawaii yesterday morning. Pretty scary. President Bush says he wants to do anything he can to help them because he considers Hawaii to be one of our strongest allies. Of course, FEMA was there immediately. Actually, some FEMA had arrived a day earlier to assess the the damage from the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor." --Jay Leno

"According to the latest poll about the 2008 election, many voters in Iowa consider Hillary Clinton as their second or even third choice. After hearing this, Bill Clinton said, 'I feel the same way.'." --Conan O'Brien

"Bill Clinton came out in support of the estate tax last week. Clinton said that some people think he should leave all his money to his daughter when he's gone, but he doesn't think he should. He said he should spend it now on other people's daughters when he's still alive." --Jay Leno

"A politician in Denver still wants voters to support him even though a videotape has surfaced of him masturbating. His campaign slogan is, 'Think of me when you're about to pull the lever'." --Conan O'Brien

Ok, so, following the trend...

My To Do List:

1) Make trail for Sunday Lunchtime Request Show
2) Make trails for weekday 9-10 program
3) Make jingle package with new idents/jingle lines done with John Briggs recently
4) Load new trails into system for Sunday evening Brass Band show.
5) Load in new Rock Show trail if done

And the confession to help unburden my soul...

When I did a paper round I used to conveniently "forget" to collect the money on a Friday from a couple of houses because then they'd leave it on the side and it meant I wouldn't have to talk to them for five hours about their ailments.

Oh, and I had a mjaor crush on the daughter in one house that wasnt helped one day when I rang to collect the money and she called "hang on a moment, I've got no clothes on!" After some stumbling noises in the hall she opened it in a towel...

To this day I don't know how I managed not to look through the letter box...

...That is all, return to your homes, nothing to see here...

...was merely because I found the gif funny!

Guess what I've found an online version of...

You can keep your next gen graphics, I'll have the insane levels of playability and addictiveness please...

CLICK HERE

This news is of no interest to a single person on this site other than me but...

My team are in the World Series again and it starts tonight

So it turns our business blogging is the new big thing in Fortune 500 companies Article here...

Course I dunno how many of you remember the aborted attempt of our favourite shouty person Barry Scott to have a "blog" which was no more than a transparent campaign that was even more cringingly bad than his adverts, especially when one of the guys got too big for his blogs and started writing those now fairly infamous comments on other blogs.

It's a bit of a decisive issue, I know a lot of splogging goes on here (IIPM and viagra etc) and I know I don't like it, but we're now looking at a whole new thing, a lot of these new ones aren't badly designed marketing folly but actually, in a true sense of the word, are blogs.

The Sun Microsystems CEO does write about his company... but he's writing it as himself, he's writing a blog about his work and lets be honest, that's what we do, we write about our lives and our experiences, if I was a CEO would I still blog? Probably.

Course, pitiful attempts such as the Wal-Mart ones deserve to be buried under flame but I do wonder if there is a distinct difference between splogs and business blogs now, would we mind IIPM so much if it was a student writing about his time there?

BTW, now you're reading my blog can I interest you in purchasing one of my books...

Wild hecticness at work but bizarrely good hecticness.

I was really busy doing stuff but it was all fun stuff, making trails, doing a big playlist thing for our cars to belt out at carnivals etc.

It's strange how even the busiest day can actually go pretty well when you're doing work you enjoy...

Anyway, now I have to work tomorrow doing less exciting stuff, but after the seven days in a row I get Sunday off to watch the Pool vs Scum

Is it too late to pull a sickie...?

You know the day won't go well when you're having to run out the door...

My train was late so there I was pounding through the door, flinging on accessories as I run, patting pockets wildly to make sure I have all my neccessary items (MP3 player, mobile, watch, wallet) and hoping I could get into the station in time to catch the earlier train.

Sorta went downhill from there, I ended up doing about three jobs in work and generally being everything in the office people needed me to be.

It's only really when I get home any day I can relax, telly on, laptop on with my email, blog and MSN, all the things that make a night in sociable in my world.

Which brings me to the now.

So right now, I'm writing this. It's a bit weird really, even as I type the moment my brain invented the words has gone. If any poor sod ends up reading this in the future then as you finish each word, yet more seconds have ticked by in which a million different things happened just on the planet you're sitting on, let alone the billions upon billions of things hapening around the endless universe...

Makes you feel pretty small really...

But pretty lucky too.

Two and a quarter Harry Potters down, two and 3/4s to go...

I got so engrossed yesterday I almost missed my stop on the way home...

The thing is, this is me with books, they're good, not great I'd say, it's fairly obvious their more for the kiddies, a little predictable and a little too sacharine "young boy saves the day" for me to think they're great but for what they are they're not an unenjoyable way of spending some time.

Had to rush to leave the house this morning early when I spotted my train was late... ruddy public transport, glad I got the earlier train, turns out my scheduled train just went kaput!

It was hard to even think with the harsh wind rattling though the broken windows of the grey, silent, residences to either side of him.

He trudged slowly, almost insolently down the centre of what had been the main road, his heavy booted feet crunching the glass from a thousand shattered car windows like thick snow.

He knew that here, now, at this time he had nothing to fear from the rusting hulks of what had been powerful bringers of death on the highways and byways before... the now.

It had been so long since any meaningful conversation with another that it was compounding the problem of the terrible gale that swept into him, even through him with it's biting, invisible teeth cutting through the torn remnants of his clothes and causing a numbing slashing through his skin, giving him the feeling if he looked down he would see himself flayed to the bone.

All that could enter his head was one lingering thought, sitting like a deep engraving in his frontal lobe, "You shouldn't be h