No man’s land December 29, 2008
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I do like to think of the time after Christmas and just before new years as no man’s land, no one is quite sure what to do, we all go back to work for a few days knowing we will be off aging for some fun and drinking so we kind of just get through. To be honest it’s a nice break from drinking as the last 5 days have been hard on the old liver, but it is the festive time and fun is to be had.
So after doing 350 miles in 3 days it all worked out well, I had a really nice festive time even with all the drinking involved. I got my really nice retro Casio watch so now I can tell the time without looking at the sun, Christmas would not be Christmas without socks, YAY! Some supper cool t-shirts (Best is the silver surfer), box of smelly stuff, beer (YAY again) a board game (thanks to the girl friends brother for keeping it retro) and cash, 28 and I still get cash off my parents, its just awesome. So with my new cash flow I decide to sink some of it in to more of a musical fund, yes Guitar Hero 4, I can now play with all the greats and sound just as good and it’s just so cool.
So as I said it’s the few days of winding down and its welcome after the Manchester – Sheffield – Manchester – Liverpool – bury – Manchester – Liverpool – Manchester 3 days, it’s a good job I love my car. So I’m just coming to the end of the first of 2 days at work, nice 13 hour days though so tomorrow will just be as long as today but then I’m off for a few days and back for one before being off for a few days again. It’s a good job as I have a list of things to do around the flat one of which is play guitar hero but that seems to be missing of the list my girl friend gave me, strange, typo maybe?
I think this Christmas will be remembered for all the people I got to see, I nearly got to see everyone who I care about over the 4 days and I got it done without someone being unhappy I was late or not there on such a day, its been a while since it all came together this well, that said I’m going away next year.
Weekend of TV September 13, 2008
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Hallo there you lovely Manchester dwelling people.
I have not been blogging as much as I would have like for some time now, think it all breaks down in to a few areas that could have affected this.
- Just moved flats.
- Lack of internet connection
- Work is very busy
So I’m all in now, as the title of the blog may hint I now have a TV, you may think that this is not really important in a life and I would agree but not, we all watch TV and films and films are my friend, so I got a new tv, well I say new we just got our very first tv and what a TV. Prices have dropped very rapidly over the last few years when it comes to Plasma and LCD and with the cheaper LCD catching up in quality it was time to get one.
After searching around (that’s what I do) for a good few weeks I finally found the LG 37LF75, 37 inches of 1080i High definition glory, it took some haggling at Richer sounds, well I just stood there while he came down in price for about 30mins until he told me that I should go buy it from somewhere else as that’s as cheap he could go. I have now moved all my computer as that was our make shift tv for the time and now everything has its place.
Be final connect me to their internet after messing round for 2 weeks, to begin I was not too impressed with the time it took to get things sorted out but I have to say they are slowly getting better, the internet connection is very very fast, the fastest I have seen and I look around. So now I can email, blog and facebook like a trooper. I have to say not having the internet when you move could be the worst time to go without. So now I can catch up on some TV shows and the World Wide Web community.
My boss is off and has been for the last 2 weeks, I have someone keeping an eye on what I do so I can keep an eye on what my boss does, its working sort off. I cant expect anyone just to step in to my role and not make any mistakes or get everything covered but I have to say he is doing a good job and has made this time that my boss is off much easier to cope with. One thing I have been dealing with this the word premier of Ryan Gigs DVD where all the Manchester United Team are coming to the Printworks on Thursday evening, to be honest if it was Blackburn Rovers I would be excited but ManU are like marmite, you love them or hate them. I hate marmite.
So one more week at work then I have 2 weeks off, it has been a very long time since I have had a full 2 weeks off at the same time and I’m looking forward to it.
Holidays August 2, 2008
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Good afternoon one and all,
So I have a week off, had to take some time at some point and seeing as I have about 3 weeks left I thought now was as good a time as any. So what I’m I going to do? Well apart from playing on some new Xbox 360 games I go the other day looking a flats would be one of the main things, got about 13 booked in for Monday and another 4 on Wednesday, I hope to find a new place to live out of that list but if not I have some time to have another look around.
Got a really nice email of my boss, his boss and then his boss for all the work I had put in over the last week and the problems at work, you know I never expected it but I cant tell you what a good feeling you can get from something so simple as an email, I think its just the fact that tease people took time out of there day to say thanks, its nice.
To leave you with something I spotted walking round the other day,
Can this be called an ‘Action Figure’ hahaha, this is just not right.
Was that just 7 days? May 31, 2008
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Ok, apparently I have not updated my blog in some time! So here I go.
Work! Very busy! So I thought Indiana Jones would be busy but I missed the pull of Sex and the City, it have been very busy. I have to say well-done to the woman of Manchester, not only did everyone seam to dress up for going out to watch Sex and the City but they all look fantastic, it has been a wonderful atmosphere in the cinema over the past few nights and that all down to the audience.
You know how ever sad it sounds work has been my week, I finished the stories on GTA much to my girl friends delight (got her some flowers yesterday just to say sorry). Watched the last of The Wire which was just awesome, one of the best TV shows ever made.
I’m going to the concert in Liverpool tomorrow, Paul McCartney, The Kaiser Chiefs and the Zutons are playing and I quote “including a very special international superstar guest.” It should be a good day, its going to rain but I would expect nothing less.
Ok ok, trying to think of ANYTHING I have done this week ……………………. I ate, at the Trafford centre, with my dad ………… watched Street Kings, American Gangster and Doomsday which I thought they were all great film, ok Doomsday just for the gore. Spotted some girl from Girls allowed visiting the cinema the other day, could not really tell you which one, its all a bit too thin and fake for me, sorry.
Nope that’s it, quite week, busy but quite.
GTA May 14, 2008
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PS – need to have a break for GTA, not just for me to regain the use of my hands but as I would like to keep my girl friend.
Peace!
Xbox 360 wifi May 5, 2008
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So when you get your lovely Xbox 360 out of the box there is no Wifi, not a problem if you don’t want to use it but if you like playing online games this is a slight problem. You have 3 option, 1 – sit your Xbox next to your router and plug in via RJ45, 2 – buy the box Wifi usb thing but at £60 ish it is not cheap, 3 use another computer (ie a media centre) as I have done.
I have a media centre computer sat next to my TV for music and videos, this has a Wifi card that only cost about £10, you can connect your Xbox via RJ45 in to the back and jump on the internet connection is uses. You have to tell xp to share the Wifi internet connection and to allow other computers to use that connection but it works and only take’s 5mins to set up.
So now everyone is gone GTA IV mad myself and 4 other people at work have a little idea, working in a cinema with very big screens and a room full of portable digital projectors and internet it would be a crime not to set up 5 projectors with 5 Xbox’s with internet and play each other online. It would take a little setting up but I think it would look fantastic, will post a photo if I get chance.
GTA IV May 4, 2008
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So I now have a Xbox 360 and nearly all for GTA IV. I love this game and have everyone and I have been excited about tit for sometime but then I find out that it won’t be out on the PC until October. October! I would like to point out that the first game came out on the pc, where is the loyalty?
So it was PS3 or Xbox 360, well if you look at how much each costs and take away the fact that the PS3 has a blue ray drive (you can get them for the pc for around £70) the xbox was the best looking. Now I don’t just have spare money hanging around so my lively girl friend decided to help me out with the cost, well she is paying for it, just thought this post should go on about how my girl friend has just got a Xbox 360 and she lets me play on it! Ok so now I have GTA and a Xbox all I need is something to play it on, I could use the normal tv in my living room or even the 22″ TFT I have for my computer but hang on, what’s this?
It would be the projector I have, full high Deff and as you can see its a good and big image. The small monitor next to the image is my 22″ TFT so you can see the size. Now this is not as big as it can go, if I moved it to my living room you can fill a wall about 10 feet across.
Now about the game, I’m not going to go in to all the little new thing about this game, if you want to play it I think you should find out for yourself, that didn’t sound right, I mean it is nice when you come across something you think is cool and didn’t know about. The graphics are wonderful and that is not where it stops, they have taken a lot of time about the game play and now with the online side of things it makes this a game that you could play for a year and never get fed up with it, now pc users may have been there already and if not you should, for the last GTA game there was a mod that allowed online racing and that was a lot of fun.
I would like to tell you more and I have still not gone on about my racing day but to be honest I want to play more GTA!!!!!!!!
