AWOL: Day 4

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Day 4 of my self imposed exile away from the blog, the gaming and basically most people and it basically blows harder than one of those friendly women in Amsterdam.

I find myself lost in the urban tundra, alone, desperate to do naughty, but unable to unleash the beast of Doombah to quell the tax accountant that has taken resident in my ever decreasing sense of child-like wonder (aka the brain). Cobwebs are starting take up space, and all the while I’m starting to think if Father Jack had life down to a tee: DRINK! FECK! ARSE!

Sure as s**t beats Where's Wally?...

OK, well the truth is, at the moment I have nothing interesting to post so I figure I’d write a load of crap to keep myself sane more than anything.

There was something interesting from the Weekend, which I am more than happy to post here, a slightly naughty skype get together with some people for the Gamers with Jobs podcast at 1am Sunday morning. That went slightly wrong due to this modern day wonderful stuff we use every day, so that was rescheduled for the weekend after. Which brings a bit of a quandry to my salty head wound.

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Cupid, the God of Cashing In

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This is what the future holds.So yes, today is Febuary the 14th, and yet another year of men running around Tescos last night, looking for roses, a card and chocolates, all to make sure that their respective ladies does not visit harm upon their souls. It was amazing, how many men were running around the store, just seeing what was the best.

It’s almost to the point where you just go through the motions of doing the dinner thing, giving all that crap over to the loved one, just so you have an easier life for one evening. Now I should point out, this is the second Valetines’ Day I’ve been with the Russian Assassin, Miss Levkovska, so already you could argue I’m on borrowed time before the inevitable battle on a cargo ship where I meet my end with some terrific special effects and witty dialog.

But I also want to take great pride in stating; I was not one of those men rushing around looking for aformentioned bits of tat to make the Lady of Leisure happy. Instead I was purchasing some jelly, the ready meals of joy which as we all know is the cornerstone of a balanced diet, and some bananas for my bizarre habit of eating breakfast, while trying to drive to work one handed at various (safe-ish) speeds.

I swear that’s the only thing I do while driving one handed.

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Midweek Review

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As promised here is an awe-inspiring yet ultimately shallow blog entry which will make you guys wonder why you even bother waking up in the mornings. So, business as usual.

The truth of the matter is, is that I could turn around and say, it’s just been work work work again, but then that would be a complete and utter fabrication, wouldn’t it? FOr the sake of the readership, something had to change. And like Tarzan, we swing into action, banging into trees along the way to help you say your prayers and drown you in the waters of entertainment.

This post contains information about naughty. Nice.SO…aside from the degree work, which actually is proceeding at an acceptable pace and I do indeed see the end of the production of the product in sight, which should come the weekend, which will only leave a mountain of paperwork to write only for the tutors to shred later, to do. Isn’t it wonderful?

As I was saying, aside from that naughty business, I find myself mouth open at the news this week, not just because Amy Winehouse is getting better and getting lots of awards for the fact her hair stays upright, but, what’s this? The Government aren’t content with taxing us to death and telling us all we are better off, when clearly that is not the case any more.

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SORRY!

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You will have to wait until the middle of next week for any extra content as I’ve busy busy fighting with Windows yet again. Why can’t the bloody thing just work as you want it to?

Never mind, while that’s going on, I’ve been spending the day playing a wee bit of the witcher and it’s a bit of a struggle. It’s taking some time to get going after the exciting first part with storming of not only that castle but of the big boobed woman. Nice. Not sure what the playing card of the conquest is all about… More coming soon!

It’s the end to a slow week. Thank the various gods (so we don’t piss people off!) and while we’re at it, let’s start making britain more repressive. The arch bishop who deserves bashing for real, Dr. Rowan Williams, has basically said as much by asking for Sharia law to be included in British law. Surely he should be concerned about his own religion before messing in both another religion and indeed the law of the land which would affect everyone?!?!? Yes, let’s stone the women for re-marrying!

And rightly so, most people have laughed at him, asked him to go away, all the usual stuff that’s said when someone says something that offends these days, so he’ll be out next week. After all this is how we deal with everything here in this country. Mind you that type of thing only serves to bore me more, it’s going to go away in a few days because it’s just so silly, just you wait and see.

That’s it, before I get onto a silly rant, I’m off to enjoy Predator while eating jelly babies. mmmm, Nice! 🙂

Changes

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Facebook Profile Link

MySpace Profile Link

Here you are, I’ve had enough of the links at the top, so in the meantime, I have relocated the links to the evil social networking things to the side in nice wizzy picture format in case anyone was bored and wanted to go and have a look at such things. They are there, just that they are buried next to the links section at the bottom, just keep looking!

I am also in the process of investigating gallery plugins to display the collection of dubious images I have on the old site. Well It will be easier to look for, rather than trawl through all the post blog posts. But at the moment, WordPress is not making it easy for me. B*****d.

This man does naughty with lots of women. He's my idol!Other than that regretfully my friends it really has been a case of work work and yet even more work since Monday night’s little insight into Cloverfield.

Seriously, this is how hard I am working on getting things done, there has been no real time to do anything else, Friday night basically goes this week due to work commitments starting at 5am Saturday (yes that is correct. No typo..) On the plus side, I will be taking a small bit of time out the weekend to work on the podcast script and play The Witcher, which has been sat on my shelf for the past month untouched due to having better things to do, like sleeping.

But on the other hand the promise of being able to digitally bed lots of women may be too much to resist. Yep, it’s one of those. Although from what it says on the game box, you fight lots of things and wander around a fair bit like most other RPGs. We’ll see if it is fit to be passed judgement on…

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RAR! And other noises.

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Indeed here we at the end of the start of the new week, fresh faced, raring to go…oh who are we kidding?

The last few days have been a bit of a knightmare in terms of trying to plow through writing documentation for the degree, as well playing with the site. I have been in contact with Jide, the man who was responsible for the site look (mostly his work it must be said, i’ve just “tweaked” it here and there) for a couple of pointers to something that’s been bothering me since the change yesterday and we’ll see how that goes.

With the slog set to continue over the next few weeks, I took what is to be one of the last few moments of joy and time-out so to speak to visit a couple of mates from sunny wales to see the new film Cloverfield starring random people.

well we're screwed. Let's video each other doing naughty (cue 70s porn music while the monster chews on their arse... That's wrong.)

Yes, it’s another shaky cam thing with people screaming and going oh my god at various points, but fear not. The best thing about it is that it’s like the blair witch s**te that bored me a few years ago (I was the only one it seems) but the fact is, that there is an awful lot more going for it.

For a starters, once it gets going; it’s going.

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I’ve done naughty again…

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Yes campers, the site has been slightly updated yet again, this time, more of an update to the theme currently used on the site, a updated main banner and one or two other tweaks here and there, such as making the width of the page slightly larger to make the posts seem a bit smaller to read, as some people commented there was too much text all in a bunch and believe it or not, most of the posts aren’t suffering that as much.

Overall I rather like it, except for the fact that for some of the links on the right hand bar, you cannot tell what is a link and what isn’t on the Calendar and also the recent comments are all over the place, but that is tweaking to be done for another time.

Carry on good people and enjoy!

Aftermath of Wolverhampton.

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Having taken some time off from working on the degree project last night, Both Nat and I took in the sights of the Wolverhampton Union to see a band called Tukazon (no relation to the Evil Takazuki Corp which I fear runs our daily lives but that’s another story) featuring one of my mates, Mr Russ H (you’ll have seen him on the Facebook malarkey) who basically mentioned it in passing and invited us.

Well who can pass up a relatively free meal of music, given that there were meant to be preceding music from some people called “Walko and the misterons” and “Py N Mash”.

The problems I have with student unions though are it is a student place filled with 3 year olds up their own bottom thinking that everyone else is stupid, and also the beer once cheaper than everywhere else, is now mostly the same price or as I discovered midway through the evening, out-of date.

Still that shouldn’t stop from enjoying the music.

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What’s happening?

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At the moment, most of the day has been spent in front of this machine working on the “work based” project for the degree, I have parts of the system up and running and I hope to have the final barebones system working by the end of next week which means I turn then to the documentation which will be a boat load of complete b******ks but it’s the stuff that those academic people like and get themselves off on, so what the hell.

I am out tonight, supporting Russ H at Wolverhampton Uni. His band is playing there and I missed the last gig, so yes I am there homies, getting down with the kids and all that jazz. Yes I’m a 25 year old “old guy” who moans about the “youth” of today, hell help me when I reach 30. I’ll be on Grumpy old people on BBC 2 remembering the good old days when the internet didn’t have Myspace.

Which is funny seeing as the news reported aside from the tax system going wrong, the weather being slightly outputting and various people either going silently into the night before their time, which seems to be a tragic occurence more these days (Heath Ledger springs to mind) or going into various rehab clinics, is that people are sick of social networking sites.

Big surprise.

Of course the novelty will wear off in time. After all the best social networking site is outside, away from the glaring screens we sit in front of day after day. How can they truly complete to seeing and talking to people in the flesh? One may even laugh at how much Microsoft spent on Facebook all that time ago, only now seeing whoops, maybe it won’t be worth as much.

Mind you, they are now trying to buy Yahoo! to compete with Google. All this money floating around, and you do wonder how all these things get to be worth so much? Hype it seems to be.

I’m off now to have a wash. Yes it’s that time of year. Stay frosty and Ooorah as those marines seem to say all the time… (what the hell does that mean anyway?)

Gamer’s Corner: Call of Duty 4

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And finally as promised all that time ago, from the end of Season 1 of the podcast: Call of Duty 4 complete with nice pictures though slightly different to just having the first person view all the time because by now most people would have seen those plasterd all over the place. Oh and funny captions too. Please, enjoy!

You know what's coming. Everyone: War, huh, yeah! What is it good for?

Of course, what’s one more War game, we’ve got loads of the bloody things all with screaming people with various attire on their heads blowing themselves up and then you’re the elite squad sent into single handily win the world war, while winning the heart of your loved lady for the chance to make babies. Saving Private Ryan sums it all up, even including the unnesercary bloody beach battle.

But the Call of Duty series had prided itself on setting up fantastic set pieces along with tragic War music and little speeches by your computer pals to make you think it was just an interactive film. And up until now they have all been set during WW2, the sequel to the award winning war, WW1 where lots of people died and a certain Mr. Hitler was being very rude at crashing various countries parties, stealing all the beer and urinating on the rugs, uttering (German accent) “Voops, sorry, my bad”

But after Call of Duty 3 which was more of the same except effing rubbish, it appears the producers have decided they’ve had enough of World War 2, killing Nazis using set-pieces and dramatic War Music, and decided to kill modern day baddies instead using set pieces and dramatic war music.

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