All the fun of the fair

Well, my life for the next several months has become a lot more complicated - The cricket Season is almost upon us!.
This means that my weekdays and nights will be spent worrying about team selection and tactics. Interestingly, my new Vice Captain for this season is normally angrier than me - this means that the rest of the team will be able to run a decent betting pool and who will lose their temper first and how long that will be from the start.

Heathrow Terminal 5 - I know I shouldn't but - ha ha ha ha ha. Just out of interest - what the hell where you expecting?

Problems in Zimbabwe - am I the only person who can't see a problem with somebody actually assassinating Robert Mugabe. Apparently inflation is now running at nearly 100,000%! In order to win the election he has ordered the banks to print more money to pay the security services, army and police. While the rest of the populace starves. Nice man.

anyhoo - it's Friday and i have money to spend - bring on the shopping

Metal Rocks

Courtesy of Mosh - Ed's fucking furry guide to Metal - absolutely marvellous.


Cheers mate - made me laugh loads(hopefully this will not detract from your site traffic - if it does, then I'll buy you lots of beer.

Damo

[almost forgot]
Currently listening to:-

Track - Blackbird
Artist - Paul McCartney
Album - Unplugged

What the hell is going on?????????

It's March and it's snowing outside - wtf?

also, lets talk about the week that was.
Had a couple of days away from work with a screwed up neck, skull, hip and leg due to cycling accident. Joy.

Newcastle United won yesterday - hooray! that said, Fulham were shocking.

Come on England! - After cocking up the first innings against the Kiwis (thanks to KP and SB for keeping us in that contest) - Shaggy takes 7 wickets to leave the Kiwis all out for 168. Heh heh. That said, I think it's time for Strauss and Vaughan to be put out to pasture - neither of them are getting any better.

It's super-duper-fantabulous sunday today - sky are ovver-hyping the terrible football on show again. It's just a game - Manure Utd aren't that good (come on Liverpool). I would like to see Arsenal beat Chelsea - but that because I despise the blues.

anyhoo, back to the rest of the day - hopefully having a clan match tonight with the guys from RaR - if I can get connected to the internet.

Monday, monday

had a fun day (am typing this with two finger of one hand only).
On way to work this morning, Foreign cyclist (Cambridge is full of them) is cycling the wrong way down the road - I don't see him until very late - swerve to avoid him and smash into moving bus. Tale of the tape so far - Knackered right shoulder, knackered right-side of neck, very sore right side of hip, right knee throbbing and swollen. - Thank whoever that I was wearing my cycling helmet. The best bit though?
Offending cyclist just cycled off and the bus driver carried on obliviously.
I love cambridge sometimes.

Fridayness

Well, what a wonderful day today turned out to be.
Had some work to do, tried to do it using pc - interweb connection dies destroying 6 hours worth of work in the process - I'd like to thank the person who turned off the internet.

From a witch of a certain hue - what's your favourite smell?

The weeks football action was a bit up and down - Inter got beat by Liverpool, spurs and everton went out to better teams. Now i get to wait after England get humbled by the Irish and the Kiwis(rugby and cricket) for monday nights hot premier league action - oh please, god/buddha/yahweh/satan/beelzebub/odin/thor/Tony Blair's conscience (insert fictitious diety/idea here) - Please let the Toon beat Birmingham on monday.

Other than that - no work today is a good thing. Maybe it would be better if I didn't go in on monday either.

Currently Listeneing to:-
Track - Fight the Power
Album - Power to the people and the beats - the best of Public Enemy
Artist - Public Enemy
One of Chuck D's finest.

Currently Reading - Parallel Worlds,.
Author - Michio Kaku
Top book on the science of alternate Universes and Physics.

Monday missvies 2

Monday morning blues.

Ok, reasons to be cheerful
MotoGP is back on the telly. James Toseland finished 6th, just behind legend Valetino Rossi. Good race as well.
It's the end of the six nations this week - Wales v France is the big one - Come on you French.
newcastle united get to play some similar relegation-fodder soon. Thank god for that - here's hoping we get a result or 5.
The FA Cup - Man Utd, Chelsea - HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA - here's hoping that West Brom get Portsmouth and then Pompey get beat in the semis. That way we wouldn't have to witness Harry Redknapp on the telly crowing about his win.
Whitley Bay FC are in the semi-finals of the FA Vase - next game in the competition is against Lowestoft in a couple of weeks. Then if the Bay win then it's off to Wembley.

Reasons to be pissed off.
Back in the office again - staff meetings - I am too busy - do me a favour and shut up in meetings.
office again - seemingly we have decided that rather than trying to help people we will actually try to put as many obstacles in the way of people as much as possible - makes a mockery of why we do what we do.
Football - Newcastle lost another game on Saturday to a decent Liverpool side. Relegation is a very real issue at this point.
Women talking about their children at work - give it a rest please - I do not have children for a reason - i don't want to hear about little Corinthian having a rough day at school.
Me and women. this subject is now becoming a massive annoyance.

saturday morning

After another ridiculously shit week at work the weekend has arrived.
things of note.

First of all - MOTOGP is back! - i love the bike racing. Hopefully with enough money saved it's plane to Valencia at the end of the season to see the final race. I'm looking forward to watch James Toseland race. should be fun.

Secondly - the hair-bear-bunch man took a hat-trick against the Kiwis - that said, i wtill think the test will be a draw.

Thirdly - Scotland vs England today - if it rains, England play shit at Murrayfield. Come on you English Roses.

Other than that - it's Liverpool v Newcastle today - currently Liverpool could play their Under 15 side and they'd still give the Toon a humping. Here's hoping it's not that bad - or Rafa decides to rest everybody. If nothing else, a few women at work will be happy on monday.

talk laters

meme

From Mosh, I have been tagged with a meme.
so here I present 6 quirks of me.

1 - If I am doing something I really want to get done or continue, I will quite happily go without sleep until it's finished. My record is 34 hours before I started seeing things.

2 - I am one of the most injury-prone people I know. Last sports season I injured myself with niggly injuries more than anybody else in our sports club.

3 - I am a bastard - literally. My parents weren't married when I was born - and let me tell you that at the time this wasn't a common occurrence. The relationship was such a bad thing in my dad's family's eyes that his name does not appear on my birth certificate.

4 - I once had my arse truly kicked by a girl in middle school. With a riding crop. As a result I am effectively the worlds biggest coward/dirty fighter. And yes, i know that people have to pay good money for this kind of treatment now.

5 - I am possibly the most ticklish person I know. really, all you have to do is touch my sides or feet and I just turn into a quivering mass of jelly.

6 - I have an amazingly low threshold for pain.

Interesting things

Well, it's a Wednesday morning and I am officially toast. Got knocked off my bike this morning by another cyclist who decided that red lights don't need to be stopped at. Joy.

Watched some of the football last night and although I hate to admit it, it is entertaining to watch Arsenal play. That said, the Italians did have much better close control and awareness, whereas the English (alright, there were no English players in the starting lineup) looked to take an extra touch a lot of the time.

Other than that, I actually worked from home last night - this isn't a good thing.

anyhoo, this Wednesday means that I've got a bit of work to do for an important deadline - what fun.

talk later - alt5hough it may be much later, I am going to the pub quiz at the Carlton tonight.

More monday thoughts

Well, my nightmare period at work is well and truly over.
deep breaths.
YYYYYYYEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

so back onto my usual stuff.

1 - After having a weekend of party Friday, shopping Saturday and a relaxing Sunday it's time to focus on the fact that we are having a house BBQ in two weeks time - the house needs tidying up and I am not looking forward to that.

2 - Got blatantly busted staring at a really fit woman today - I think I need sunglasses with the mirrors on the inside.

3 - Newcastle United contrived to throw away a vital apart to the part-time footballers from Blackburn. 3 points off a relegation place at the minute. never mind - we've only got Liverpool on Saturday. Suppose I could support Lyon against the Manc scum this week - but as St. Etienne are my favourite French team, that might be a bit of a betrayal.

4 - It was lovely this morning - I can deal with the cold and wind if its sunny.

hopefully i'll do some more interesting posts sometime soon.

currently Listening to:-
Track - Crazy English Summer
Artist - Faithless
Album - Outrospective.

monday missives 2

Just a quickie at the minute.
had a very busy weekend and spent most of last week going mental at work over the hardest piece of work i've ever had to do.
will talk later in the week.