MOT, Life, Pics, Stuff, Catch-up...

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Well it's now Tuesday and I am still snowed under, sort of but I am going to make more time for everyone, I promise! I will make this catch-up as concise as possible! Got my Plasma TV bracket (£150 reduced to £60 - Bargain) and put that up last night as you can see by the pic a few posts / bulletins back and again below. I still need to sort cabling, placement of all the boxes and get my speakers on the wall but I am very happy with it and will post a better pic of it complete!

Speaking of pics, I posted a new pic on my MoBlog and will sort a few more soon. The new one is waiting outside for my MOT, which my car passed, yay! Was a complete nightmare with Renault, lots of problems and if that can't be resolved a damming post will be made here!

Reading & Leeds Festival was very good, with a lot of not so well known band performances covered. Kate Nash did a little live piece and on the strength of that I got her album, only really listened to a few tracks but Foundations is just a brill song and I sort of fancy her a little but not as much as Lily Allen, is that wrong??! While on that subject, would one of Amy Winehouses family please step in and save that girl

I watched 6 hours of the WSOP 2007 on Monday, all very interesting and a great way to spend Monday! Friday stayed up to half three in the morning watching the festival and then was up at 6am to get ready for MOT. Family BBQ in the afternoon and took my older, special needs, niece out for a mini pub crawl, which ended the day with 12 hours on the drink for me, lovely!!

This week includes, poker, cleaning out PC and a few mods, a quite Friday night playing a little online poker and then Saturday we have Snow Patrol in Ward Park, Bangor. Now the last few years I have lost my way when it comes to showing (read as feeling) my emotions but I see this gig as a shedding of some skin, emerging as something of my former self. There is a lot of meaning in them there songs, holding memories of places, people and situations. You will find me at the back (read as close to a bar) singing along, drunk and seemingly unhappy! Then I think I want a GF but I doubt anyone would have a nerd like me and at the risk of offending people (you know who you are) I really just want an easy, hassle free woman but there is not point in looking because that does not exist and finding a chick that would accept me would be impossible, probably my standards are too high as well! My 9YO niece said that I will never get married, so clearly even she can see that!

Anyway I hope to post more this week so check back soon. Finally, in the news, Sony has unveiled a TV tuner which plugs into the PlayStation 3 (PS3) and turns it into a personal video recorder like Sky+. The device allows transfer of programmes from PS3 to PSP and users in Europe will soon be able to record and playback digital TV on their console. How cool is that?! Also milk has gone up again, that's bloody 7p in like the last 6 months, what's going on? That's retorical by the way!

TODAY'S LINKS :: Real Life PIc of South Park Families :: The Creative Anniversary Calculator :: Scrollovers are a way to quickly and easily add flair to your web pages :: 5 things you didn't know about English :: The $40 hidden inside a 12V battery hack :: DualMusicPlayer, designed by Yong-Seong Kim - VERY COOL

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Where Have I Been....

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So here we are and I have not posted in ages! Believe it or not I have actually been very busy. There is not much I wanna say about the last few weeks except sorry to all those I have neglected! It's so easy to do, putting off texting to tomorrow, not using MSN, picking up the phone, commenting on friends sites, e mail, aaaarrrrgggghhh! All these forms of communication and you still have to make time, unless it's just a "hello I am still alive", which I clearly am!

Anyway got completely hammered at the weekend, lunch on Friday turned in to 12+ hours on the sauce, followed by Saturday on a little mini pub crawl! I truly died on Sunday. I was fun trying to find places to smoke and I have to say there are a few nice beer gardens that popped up which I did not even know existed, why does no one promote them? Anyway that's going out sorted for me again!

Just some quickies; I watched all of Dexter last night (had to stay up so late to do so) and I must say it built to a nice climax, go check it out, go on! This weather we are having is fantastic! BB is boring me!! I got a mic for PS3!

This week is another busy one. It will be next week before everything has calmed down, so if I have not been in touch this week, expect something next week!

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A Mixed Bag of Goodness (possibly boring)...

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Last weekend I was watching the Live Earth gig for like the umpteenth time and I have to say that Dave Grohl is a god! That man just rocks and is my Hero! Check him out here!

We have the Hungarian Grand Prix on ITV this weekend, come on Kimi! Watch it here:

Live qualifying Saturday 4 August 1230-1415 ITV1
Live race Sunday 5 August 1200-1530 ITV1
Highlights Monday 6 August 0045-0145 ITV1
Highlights re-run Monday 6 August 1800-1900 ITV4

Check out My Football Club. You own the club, pick the team. 50,000 people, including me, who registered have been invited to become members. Once all the cash is in we will buy a team and all have a say in how it's run! Why don't you become part of a community that will make football history?? I am hoping that they can buy Leeds, how funny would that be!

This weekend I have some friends round to get trashed and play PS3, have not even played it much so it should be fun! The rest of the weekend I am taking it easy, chillin and catching up on all the movies and TV I have to watch, with heaps of munchies! Have a good one guys!

TODAY'S LINKS :: Dread-Pirate Cat - Funny, Funny, Funny! :: The best ad ever! :: Copying Thoughts :: 10 Causes and Cures of Unhappiness

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TV, Playlists and The Future...

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So we are heading towards the new TV season of shows like Lost, South Park and Heroes! Also some new US series to watch out for include; Bionic Women, Reaper, The Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Cavemen, Chuck and Lipstick Jungle??! Apparently they are all evadible on the net!

I don't know what this says about me but here are the songs in my current iTunes Playlist:

Either Way ~ The Twang Everlong ~ Foo Fighters Starz In Their Eyes ~ Just Jack The Logical Song ~ Supertramp Do It Again ~ The Chemical Brothers Dance Tonight ~ Paul Mccartney Battle Scars ~ The Chemical Brothers Times Like These ~ Foo Fighters Breakfast In America ~ Supertramp High and Dry ~ Lele De Los Van Van/Radiohead Give A Little Bit ~ Supertramp Gravity ~ Embrace Dreamer ~ Supertramp Set The Fire To The Third Bar ~ Snow Patrol Featuring Martha Wainwright Sirens ~ Dizzee Rascal Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors ~ Editors Famous Last Words ~ My Chemical Romance It's Raining Again ~ Supertramp Let Me Love You ~ Mario The Salmon Dance ~ The Chemical Brothers Best Of You ~ Foo Fighters Could Well Be In ~ The Streets Teenagers ~ My Chemical Romance Foundations ~ Kate Nash Real Girl ~ Mutya Buena New Shoes ~ Paolo Nutini Track 09 ~ The Go! Team Standing In The Way Of Control ~ The Gossip Either Way Remix ~ The Twang Ft. Mike Skinner & Professor Green Signal Fire ~ Snow Patrol Crazy In Love ~ Snow Patrol The Girls ~ Calvin Harris Teenagers ~ My Chemical Romance Mr Brightside ~ The Killers Saturate ~ The Chemical Brothers Umbrella ~ Rihanna Feat. Jay-Z Somewhere Else ~ Razorlight So Here We Are ~ Bloc Party Open Your Eyes ~ Snow Patrol Beautiful Liar ~ Beyonce And Shakira Love Today ~ MIKA Glamorous ~ Fergie Feat. Ludacris Learn to Fly ~ Foo Fighters Dying In Your Arms ~ Trivium Ass Like That ~ Eminem Foo Fighters ~ Everlong Acoustic White & Nerdy ~ "Weird Al" Yankovic We Are The Night ~ The Chemical Brothers Wanna Be (Ft. Lily Allen) ~ Dizzee Rascal Somewhere Else ~ Razorlight The Sweet Escape ~ Gwen Stefani Feat. Akon

Until tomorrow, have a good day folks!

TODAY'S LINKS :: The Feckin' Search Engine of Ireland :: Will You Get in to Heaven :: Lords of the Logistic :: New T-Shirt Hell Shirts :: A Real Electromagnetic Pistol! :: Why Daddy Shouldn’t Buy Baby Clothes

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Secrets of the Truphone ring...

Normal service to resume on Tuesday!

Heroes Transform Our Public Transport System...

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1st off, Heroes starts tonight on BBC2, just bloody watch it, best TV show of the year! Hero rocks!!

I watched Transformers on Saturday night, not nearly as dark as I had hoped, a little cheesy maybe, funny even, that's not what I expected really but hey, the reason to check it out is for the special FX and big robots fighting. This, it does with ease, the fights could not really be improved upon and it's open for a sequel, just bring it!!

Todays rant is about the public transport system. I don't know what it's like in England but ministers are set to announce billions of pounds to remove bottlenecks and increase capacity on the railways. Cost does not seem an issue, everyone is using public transport and they need to expand to seemingly cope with demand! Here in N.I. we have new trains, great busses, plenty of routes but it's so expensive you can only use it if forced too. It's actually cheaper to drive and what use is that to the environment? If you buy a monthly ticket, and travel to the City I can see that you may save a little but come on, is this incentive enough to share a carriage with the Proletariat, I think not!

There must be a way to bring down fares and then you may tempt me. I walk past the bus stop, in the town I work every morning on my way to the corner shop for milk and a cig, and there are only kids and oldies there, paying reduced fares or free with there buss pass! I actually watched this morning 2 busses drive past with not one passenger on board!!? What's that about, is that what a full fare paying passenger is subsidising? I think it's wholly possible to look at the service, reduce rates and make it a more attractive service to use, ergo, more passengers, revenue and less car usage!

Finally I set up my PlayStation®3, hooked up seamlessly with Vista and streaming media from Media Player 11 is a doodle, even using my PSP wirelessly to view videos stored on my PC. High Def cable and games come today and tonight I will hook that up with the optical digital out to my sound system and Bob's you uncle! Played some demos I downloaded last night in SD and I can happily say I am very pleased but bring on HD and HD movies (Blu-Ray), imagine Blade Runner *cries a little*. My Gaming Tag is - GAD123 so don't forget to add me!

TODAY'S LINKS :: Awesome Skittles Commercial :: Quit Complaining About Your Job :: Free Management Library :: Charlie Brown? Manga designs woah, what the fuq! :: Cute little animals :: Top end iPhone = $3,515

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Spending Money Is Depressing...

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I was supposed to post this yesterday but never mind, reading through it and my last posts I think we could do with some fun here but anyway;

God bloody Monday again, how depressing?! How many times have we heard that? It does not really mean that you are depressed, it's an off the cuff every day phrase, right? I am not so sure. It might just be me - please someone correct me on this because I am just talking from my own, recent experience and I am not belittling anyone who is suffering as it must be a complete mare to deal with - but is everyone depressed? Maybe I should quantify that, why are most of the ladies I come in to contact with depressed? Seriously I know so many that have been diagnosed by their Doctor as being depressed. Why is that? I mean I can think of like 1 guy, compared with like 50% of the women I know! Is it the pressures of being a modern women in the naughties? Which is funny, because YOU feminists asked for this, career, kids, home maker, whatever! Is it the Doctor / Patient relationship? A loss of coping skills? The weather?

Maybe more men feel this way but just don't speak about it, we have all seen those TV Ads aimed mainly at men with the tag line "Look after your mental health"! Is it better to suffer in silence? Is it that MORE women really suffer with this disease or is it just that I find myself friends with them? I am really just thinking allowed here but I have two questions that I would like answered. The first is how come I rarely heard about it 10 years ago and now it seems like it's everywhere? The second is why do so many women seem to suffer from this condition? I bet if I visited my Doc today and explained that I don't sleep, spent the whole weekend in my house alone, getting trashed, stuffing myself with junk food and can't be bothered going to work on a Monday morning that I too would be found to have a mental illness! Obviously I would fail to mention that I actually had quite a nice weekend and was happy to do that!

The reason I mention all that today is the uncertain time that I face. I have been talking about it for years and now it's fast approaching, some people will know what that is and some will not but it's coming and I will need to make life changing decisions and I just don't know what to do. I like the status quo and find the whole thing very depressing saddening!

Contrary to the above, thinking about my future, needing to be careful with money and that, I bought a Play Station 3 but I will talk about that more when it arrives! I can justify this purchase all I want (It was a VERY good deal) but on top of holidays, entertaining visitors, etc I am spending a lot of cash. Obviously being single again, not doing restaurants, pub, clubbing, dates, presents, etc is saving a fortune but I NEED to reel it in a bit before I am officially skint!

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The Pet Connection Northern Ireland and Things...

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Well that's the holidays done and dusted and I really wish I had something exciting to tell you all but in fact I just kept my head down and hid from the world, watched a lot of movies, slept during the daylight, drank a fair bit and lived off complete junk food! Needless to say I am back at work (on Monday) and suffering, lack of sleep, bloated, drowsy, I really don't recommend it!

Played Poker last night in Wolseys, it's a great, friendly and fun get together. I was doing OK, rubbish cards like last week and eventually went all in with pocket Q's, called with AK, flop comes AKA and my night is over, goodbye! There is always next week...

So on to The Pet Connection Northern Ireland. A buddy of mine (Clare) has set up a pet walking / minding / caring service in the Belfast area. The rates are very fair and she just loves animals. So if you don't have time to walk your dog, don't want to leave you pet at kennels or just want someone to pop in from time to time while you are at work, look her up at www.thepetconnectionni.com!

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Last Post For A Week...

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So I am off all next week for the 12th July holidays here and that will probably mean that I will not post that week, boo hoo you say!

Not much to talk about tho, tonight off to John's, Sat I will be watching the Live Earth event, it's on BBC TV: 12.30pm - 4.00am, where you'll be able to see the London concert and highlights from around the world on BBC ONE and BBC TWO. So I will be watching that and drinking beer all day. The line up is fantastic, some of the highlights for me are:

Beastie Boys ~ Bloc Party ~ Corinne Bailey Rae ~ Duran Duran ~ Foo Fighters ~ Genesis ~ Kasabian ~ Keane ~ Madonna ~ Metallica ~ Razorlight ~ Red Hot Chili Peppers ~ Snow Patrol ~ Akon ~ Bon Jovi ~ Kanye West ~ The Police ~ Wolfmother ~ Snoop Dogg ~ Rihanna

Sunday we have the British GP and that leads me in to next week, no plans really except Poker on Tuesday night. Amy is away on hols all week too so that sucks but such is life!

Have a fun weekend everyone and I will be on MSN as usual!

TODAY'S LINKS :: World Clock and Info :: Yotel - I wanna stay there! :: Live Earth :: Tower defence - You will loose your life if you play this... :: Relations Break Down Between U.S. And Them :: Comic Vine

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It's A Bloody Post - Shut Up...

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How good were the last 3 episodes of Doc Who, "Here come the drums, here come the drums, baby, baby, baby...." Just brill! It's the first time I have enjoyed it since Rose left, roll on the next season and a new companion, I believe!

It's just ironic, Northern Ireland enters a new phase just as Mainland UK starts to take a step back in time to the old days of good old fashion heavy handed policing and the potential for your next door neighbour to be a terrorist!

It was not that long ago that towns were shut at 11pm with barriers on ever street, stop and search check points where set up randomly and every shop you went in to had burly security guards searching you! No one cared about the violation of our human rights and to top it off we now have former terrorists running our country. I really don't feel anything concerning what is going on in the mainland right now and, as I have become accustomed, did not notice anything mildly shocking in the news over the weekend, it's all a bit, well, been there, done that! To be honest it all seems a little OTT, these guys are not the IRA and should be fairly easy to stop, yes?

I had the 'pleasure' of flying to England recently and the checks at the airport where just unbelievable. Of course being a single with guy, coming form N.I. and clearly looking like a terrorist, I had my photograph taken and was tracked through that whole airport. I felt a bit violated and now there are talks of putting similar checks in place on the Tube and Trains, what a mess!

It looks like what has happened here has been a waste of time, all those lives lost and what is there to show for it, we are still part of the UK and it looks like nothing has been learnt dealing with the terrorism threat here over the decades! It's a sad state of affairs.

Oh played poker last night, went to a chip count and lost by the smallest or margins, maybe one less hand or one more and I would have had it *gutted* Thanks for the game Kayeso!

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