Lord of Leisure

Hello Campers, I have returned from the weekend all goose pimply. Had a very good time on Saturday Night with Will, Karen and Natalie. Will and Karen btw I should have mentioned are two other people who have been doing the same Radio Thing as I have been, there was another fella, Andy, but he stayed behind in the Windsor (which i kept thinking was called the Winchester like off Shaun of The Dead) to put out some “emotional” fires.

Long story, don’t really know it but it revolves around the two women from Will’s workplace’s leaving doo, and well it was an eye-opener then let me tell you. It made for an interesting evening to say the least.

Once we escaped from the SS, we wandered along to the Bar Academy, and well, my idea of what it was was changed from what I thought, to what I saw. My god, it was a student hangout! The place was tiny as well considering, and i swear the place was a double as a sauna. Reckon if we waited longer we would have seen two Swedish businessmen walk around in just towels. And it has been a long time since I felt so old.

Remember kids, I am only 24, that is considered still to be sprightly these days, but in the bar, it did look like the 4 of us were the oldest! There was a band on before the Mexicolas, who well, didn’t excite the imagination with the crowd (I say crowd, well eh, we’ll call them a gathering for the time being) and their second to last song was the best one, quite mellow, it had a tune.

Then after we pushed our way through the cro…..air, to see them perform and I have to tell you, their stuff is not that bad. Some good tunes all in all and their single, Shame is quite a catchy number as well. I do suggest you go to their MySpace page and give it a listen Mexicolas MySpace Link.

Right that’s enough plugging, the evening actually ended rather earlier than I thought it would, this was simply because Will had this strange ability to lose control of his legs. Now if I were a cynical man, I would have said that was due to the amount of drink. We all agreed to call it a evening and wandered off, though there should be a full night out in Brummieland soon I hope as I rather enjoyed the night.

Sunday went into just messing around with the PC getting stuff sorted out as you and and Monday was spent having the day off, catching up with other bits and bobs for the course, and monday night, watched a Russian film called NightWatch.

It revolves around good vs. evil and there is this truce between, there are two watches and both go after each side if either brake the truce. And apparently the worst thing you can do is curse another human. Sort of confused me as it seemed disjointed in the story, but hey you have to see these things.

Today have been getting used to work again, and well it’s been a tad slow, so have been suing the opportunity to one, type this, and two get some more work done on the radio course. I should also start revising for the 70-290 Windows 2003 exam, as I don’t actually have that skill in writing. It would be a boost to say the least.

Well campers, once again My time is up, all that remains to say is Good Hunting!!

Strange name I know, but I do love curries and I have never had one on a Tuesday hence the title. I would like to have a tandoori on a Tuesday. Mind I would love it every day except one, my stomach wouldn’t take it and two, my arse wouldn’t take it either. I am at my most lethal after having some Indian food, I just cannot stop, it’s a free force of it’s own!!

Anyway enough of my bowel movements, I need to write about some things which I have been doing today. While at Work today, in between doing lots and lots of auto logged calls about servers which have nothing wrong with them, I rebuilt the Dell laptop with Vista (Strange choice I know, but for my purposes it will do fine until something better comes along) and installed the relevant progs I need for playing with the design of the web site.

Also finished doing the Dev Web Server (Windows 2003, I have the License, may as well use it) so I can start playing off-line instead of wreaking this place all the time. You see, I have done a lot of changes in the background to this blog, and every so often I do mess up. Took the site down one time because I was trying to tidy up the place. Eep!!

So in theory, I will be able to do a bit of homework at work now, however this hinges on the fact that nothing else is going on whatsoever, which being honest doesn’t come around that often. But it does and it is good that I still have something to get on with.

Now this is all very geeky and boring I grant you. But alas dear viewers It is what I have been doing and regretfully every post can’t be filled with tales of excitement battling hordes of evil plants or whatever while swinging on a tree to save a loved one from a slightly angry cat with a sinister history, although that does give me an idea for an advert.

Didn’t really remark on the outing to Manchester, did I? Well campers, it was at the invitation of Glyn that Nat and I made our jolly way up to Manchester, to have a socialised evening filled with talk about things happening in the world, talking of culture and the refined ways of life.

And they invited me? I have all the social grace of a cabbage set on fire.

Still that didn’t stop the evening from being a good un. We all sat around outside again, the rain staying away yet again, twice this year now, what’s going on? Rainy Manchester is losing it’s reputation!!

Glyn hopefully will be getting new employment and I wish him all the best with that. We are still all doomed if the egg heads switch on their fangled contraption to prove some particle exists and it could wipe us all out. That was such a nice thing to learn that…we are all royally screwed by people who don’t know what they are doing.

Having said that of course, you could say that we are all royally screwed over by Life (and it’s dirty brother death) itself all the time so what’s new? But that would be cynical 🙂

Anyway it was jolly nice being up there, Sunday was spent again talking about various things as we did, eating a hearty brunch, and in the afternoon Nat and I strolled around Manchester taking in some sun, some egg mayo, and some shopping again. She said it was too nice to be inside a museum….HONEST!

Got back quite late as it goes, and I missed the Hospital Radio Show, so got to make sure I am back for that next weekend. Can’t afford to be tardy on that now can we? After all it’s a hoot playing what people want while talking rubbish. Speaking of which, The radio course itself is not long before that is finished. Shame. Boo hoo and woe is me, what will I do next? Probably some other course….:)

And finally day two of the Kitchen Refurb is over, and bloody hell it’s coming along well. Mum’s phrase of “It’ll look nice when it’s finished” won’t come close, will take a pic and post online when It is all over. That’s if people are interested.

Mind you, still don’t have a clue half the time if people are interested in the crap happenings of this old chestnut. As I said last week on that Wednesday when I was feeling particularly silly, there are lots of things happening, you just have to look for them, and to some all this is boring, but to others, there is interest. Which is nice, at least writing all this is not a complete waste of time, which fills me with joy.

The blog is one of the few things I have stuck at, it’s now been a year since the first post (1st August at around Midnight) and well the thing has been going from strength to strength. Here’s to another year of waffle!! I think there should be some cake or something.

Speaking of year celebrations, it’s also been a year, since I met Natalie, and we started seeing each other so hooray!! She has put up with my shenanigans for so long, don’t know how, maybe it’s one of those unexplained mysteries? We’ll have to do something for that too methinks. Hopefully something involving whipped cream……

And another note, Hello to Dave and Chris in sunny Wales, hope all is well and Transformers is out you know. Methinks we should see that. Also hello to Sian, hope the job comes through ok. And to Chez, hope all is well on your side of the world now.

2nd August is Haydn’s Birthday so Happy Birthday to you sir, and wish you all the best.

And I think that’s it for the Tuesday Tandoori, maybe it should be a feature? Ah who knows…
Take it easy campers and for now, this is the Space Adventurer signing off for another blog post, untill next time! BYE!!!!

The weekend beckons once more dear campers, and well after going through a few bits and bobs, it appears I am going to be very busy over the next few days. Need to get stuff sorted out at home before work on the Kitchen starts, clean-up the house, do the ironing, and get the car ready for our little trip back up to yonder place in Manchester.

Also have been slightly annoyed by an “extra” that comes with Windows Vista Ultimate. It’s called Dreamscene and is basically a moving desktop background program. It plays whatever movies you want and that is your desktop backdrop.

Now because I have el uber PC, I figure what the hell, give it a go, and last night it blue screened the PC while I was in the middle of just finishing off sort out a VM Web server to start playing around with the sites content off-line before uploading it. The wee scamp. So the thing has been switched off again for now. Never mind eh?

Actually I have a big need to get on with the web site, getting things sorted out so after this weekend till V, I think I will be mostly staying in being a geek like the olden days of yore, when I did that for just playing games, i now have actual productive things to get on with, as Natalie would like a web site creating to showcase some of her work and herself. This requires a lot of thought and planning, as to what functionality goes in, useablity, that sort of rubbish.

Well normally, I mean, I just chucked this thing together courtesy of WordPress in about an hour, and the longest time was taken porting the previous entries across. But no, even this will be changing soon.

And actually I have been trying to eat less, in the fact that I get hungry quite regularly as most fat people tend to do, So I am trying to eat nothing else but celery when I want to snack, and so far so good actually, I feel less bloated, and have slightly more energy, so this course of action will continue till I become uber buff. And now I have mentioned the uber two, no three times now. I am beginning to like that word again, it’s coming back in style!

I will keep you all posted with developments as they go on, and also yes other bits will be coming online soon. Can’t say too much more, as when i do, i miss the deadline and it keeps on going and going, much like something which i don’t want to mention as it just annoys me at the moment.

BYE!!!!