It’s a pretty few days for many people it appears, and I certainly know the feeling, it must be said. Just look at BBC News for the latest on all that “tomfoolery”, the ministers are like flies on a windscreen at the moment, it’s only a matter of time before public hanging comes back and the Queen from Alice in Wonderland comes storming in shouting “off with their heads!” accompanied by that green alien laughing thing from Return of the Jedi.

Now I cannot possibly comment on the fallout from the missing data discs too much, but as you can imagine I will say something. Big mouth like me can’t resist.

From all this, you can only surely see people overreacting and the HMRC tightening the belt so much that you struggle for breath and you won’t even able to have a poo without some director saying “yes, you can.” And with the merry go round that is our political system the opposition will keep on using this to say we are better than you and you smell of Vic.

And it will solve nothing. At the heart of any system, the weak link is always a human. And until we develop into energy or something uber good from Star Trek, that will always be the case. Never mind.

That’s as far as I am going to push that subject for now so let’s move on.

In other bad news, England got knocked out of Euro 2008 qualifying thingy and for once I am actually glad. I must confess I never really follow the football as much as most people but in-between doing naughty last night, I got glances of the play and I must say Croatia were the better team. They played with more passion and went for it more than England did. And they have done very well, so all the best at the tournament next year.

And once again the manager has been sacked. Quelle Surprise.

That always seems to be the answer, it’s the manager’s fault, but you also should always look at the players. They are the ones on the pitch and the manager has no control once they are out there. So I refuse to believe that Steve Mcvitty or whatever his name is is solely to blame.

At the end of the day, teams will still be beaten by others and last night, Croatia was better. Perhaps we also need to accept we can’t win everything in the world ever and have some humility, and not jump the gun blaming everyone (the butcher, the bread maker, the bus driver, the list goes on) and in some cases, objects and just work at it for next time. England has the time to sort out now, use it wisely. Perhaps whoever comes in should not look to the overpaid over hyped underachieving premiership players all the time and try something different?

After all that, you’ll be wondering about the Lord of Leisure and what news of the Pot Noodle eating competion? I’m sure I mentioned that somewhere? Ah well, turns out I’ve had a bit of a mare the past couple of days too.

My UberBeast’s installation of Vista has died due to a dodgy installation of a driver for the Samson Microphone, so I have effectively been offline for the past day or so, which has meant I haven’t been able to send some emails I wanted to do (Sorry Glyn, I will send all those links as requested as soon as I am fully sorted) or indeed work on the podcast some more that I wanted.

At present the Beast stands proud, having reinstalled all the bare essentials required for the forthcoming works of genius: World of Warcraft, Adobe Audition 3, and Office 2007. All the rest will be put when I have the time as I still have to play more of Call of Duty 4 (for a reason other than just laughing and killing various things) and I have to start again from the beginning. Ooh the life of a geek, you could just bottle the excitement and sell to people who can’t smile, it’s that good.

Now if this was audio, I’d now be playing “Bad Day” by REM. but it’s not so please just hum it to yourselves, you’ll get the jist! 🙂