Posting from home

Been not able to post rcently - mostly due to addiction to a substance called - World of Warcraft.

oops.

anyhoo, posting will start again as I need time off from being an elf.
Title of the post says it all really. I am posting from home, my spiritual home.

back in Whitley Bay for a couple of days, going to watch the game and have some lunch with my brother, then hopefully have a nice drive back to Cambridge this afternoon.

hi to Mosh, yeah - I know i've not been around - hope the diving is still cool.
hi the the cricketers - AGM next week. I might even bring my trophies presented to me at the end of year celebration just for gloatings sake.

anyway - off to my brother's place to pick him up, then watch the footy.

bye

Holy shit!

I don't believe it - Newcastle won a game on penalties tonight!
that never happens.
Watford 2 - Newcastle United 2
goalscorers -
Antoine Sibierski (newcastle)
Damien Francis (watford)

full time 1-1
extra time
the delightfully named Danny Shittu scores for the Hornets
then
Captain Fantastic Scotty Parker scores to take the game to Penalties
Steve Harper saves the decisive penalty to take the Toon to the quarter finals.

thanks to the bbc for the photo

Utter Politics - or the fitting up of Saddam Hussein

So Saddam Hussein gets the death penalty, and surprise surprise - it's 2 days away from a crucial election in the USofC* for control of the House and the Senate.
Some people will say that it's a verdict against governmental killing of it's citizens, some would say that a nasty man is getting his just desserts.

Lets be honest here.
The verdict is happening now because the USofC's rulers in EYE-raq have been told by President Moron's advisors that this verdict will win them utter contrl of the US house and Senate. Period.
Let's set our memory bank back to when Saddam was actually put into power by the USofC and the chemical weapons he used were sold to him by the Americans.

All I am waiting for now is Bliar to start saying "it's a great victory for democracy".
The timeline of thought goes something like this:- (Bush advisors to Bush's minions)
Let's invade Iraq, they have oil
where is Iraq, isn't it near scotland?
Let's topple their dictator
how do we do that?
Let's have a terrorist attack on US soil, and blame it on Muslims/Moonies/the Wombles

Couple of months later - September 11th plane attacks.

Let's invade Iraq
the attackers came from Saudi Arabia
we can't bomb saudi arabia, they sell us oil and the Bush family owes them big style
Osama Bin Loafin is in Afghanistan
where's Afghanistan, near brazil?
let's bomb the shit out of Afghanistan
oh, but we want the oil, let's stop bombing this place and move to somewhere with oil - I know, IRAQ, and they have chemical weapons because the current secretary of defence actually sold the weapons to them in the first place.

What's the betting that they will start to say they have found nuclear bombs in Iran soon?

* - for those of you not up on you world history, USofC means United States of Cowards. They are a nation of cowards. FACT.

N -Z of me, stuff I like and more

had to actually get this finished, so here goes.

N - N is for Newcastle, city of my Birth and the place I look upon as home. N is also for Newcastle United, the football club I support. N is also for NCI - My current cricket club. I am third team skipper next season and am looking forward to scoring more runs than last season.

O is for nothing in particular - O is also for Owen, my godson. Top Lad, although I am not happy about living with the who he is staying with and the smoking. At this point I brush off my smoking jacket, handlebar moustache and act like a 19th centruy disapproving uncle. heh.

P is for Peter Jackson. Current favourite film director, although I am still a bit pissed about the ending of the third LOTR film.

Q is for nothing, mostly cos I can't think of anything.

R is for relationships, or my current lack of one. enough said really. R is also for my work, research admin is not the most fun, but it's a good job. beat the hell out of my last job, shite job for a shite company.

S is for sports. My life seems to revolve around a lot of sports. indeed if it wasn't for my busted knee I would be typing this after playing rugby today. hey ho. knee op soon though.

T is for Tony, my step-father . An all-around decent human being who makes my mum happy. top guy. T is also for telescopes. I love looking at the stars. I had a small telescope which got buggered; in my plans for the new place a big telescope is already included. T is also for travel. My favourite thing in the world. Next years travel plans now include:-
Foo fighters concert somewhere in the USofC
trip to Noo Yoik
hopefully a trip to thailand later in the year.

U is for Unhappy. I am hugely unhappy at the minute. Lonely, depressed, massively overweight. The list is endless. this is a cheery post isn't it?

however, I can't think of much else at the minute, and I am a bit iffy. talk later.