Busy

So much to do so little time to do it. Can't even make a cup of tea, have resorted to coca-cola instead - I am a corporate whore; sold-out to brand, just because need to stay alert and be awake.

I think come October, yep, come Sunday I am going to start a total life detox. I'll keep you all informed as I go and what I am doing. That should keep you all riveted - don't worry I'll probably lose interest come Monday. However am going to attempt it, and by total life I mean all aspects - ha ha the committment of a fool ;-)

Anyway back to work before my Desk Editor gets very dangerous with a letter opener.

Webhosting

Woohoo. Have found someone else to host my web empire ;-)

Not only do they accept cheque or paypal to pay - the issue with my previous host - but they are also offering a slightly better package for less money. Hopefully they wont crash the first time it runs. I'll tell you who they are once I get going but in the meantime I am very pleased with their response - online sale chat last night sorted out all my questions.

Now all I need to do is trnasfer all my domain names - hah what fun. All day meetings today so will feel shattered by the end of the day without feeling that i have achieved anything. Thanks to Katy I've been looking into GTD (Getting Things Done) have found several sites and also some interesting stationary ;-) (I like stationary) I'll tell you about this if it helps organise me and help me to finally get things done rather than have things half finished around the place.

Fingerbobs

Kendo my main man

OK, here it is. The link to the book that is topping my Christmas list this year. As seen on Jonathan Ross. I have linked to the image rather than the book beacuse if you can't find it on Amazon you've probably been in one too many half-nelsons.

The grapple manual

This looks like a great book. Not only is it put together by my all time pre-pubescent hero Kendo, but it also has a foreward by Mr World of Sport, Dickie Davies - you don't get names like that anymore. My only fear is that to make sure that the book sells they've added Hulk Hogan to the cover - now I am sure he never grappled with the likes of Mick Mcmanus and Giant Haystacks - hopefully he just has a footnote saying he existed. And so I look forward when I can open the pages and gaze longingly at Shirley Crabtree and Mr Nagasaki once again. I may even sit down especially on Saturday afternoons and relive my childhood.

Ladytron

Ok, I am a child of the 80's and as such I have to tell you about Ladytron. If you haven't heard about them before head over here and have a listen and watch of their new single You Destroy Everything You Touch. It is fantastic (no arguments) and you should all buy it! The video is reminiscent of Monkey on Mogadon (is that the right barbituate?) and the sound is everything Steve Strange could have been if only he had listened to Billy Currie and Midge Ure, and if he had had a very painful operation. Anyway the track is great, we're all listening and watching it in our house. We haven't been this unified since the new series of Dr Who started.

PS Did anyone see Jonathan Ross on Friday, not only did he have nostalgia aplenty when Simple Minds played but he also plugged the Kendo Nagasaki book? I feel like the world is a better place to live in.

Role models

Been thinking a bit more about the way the press has been dealing with Kate Moss and the big fuss it has caused. It then got me thinking about 'role-models' and how we idolise them and so on. This led me to the other hot news topic at the moment Mr Wayne Rooney. He is being condemned in some, well most, areas of the press for setting a bad example to young kids with his on-field, and sometimes off-field, antics. I can't help but think, hey this guy is only 19 (20 next month). When I think of all the things I used to get up to at 19 I am surprised that all he did was applaud in the face of Kim Milton Nielson...

Has anyone else noticed the resemblance between Kim and Ryan Stiles? Both seem to have extremely long necks, or should that be small heads, which emphasise the neck - biatch

Anyway my point is that we make these people into role-models when they are still only very young and 'shouldn't know better'. We only have ourselves to blame. I myself am continuinly messing things up and yet does that mean I shouldn't venture forth into the wide world incase someone copies me? No! We all make mistakes so get over it, accept it and simply try to do better next time. I think some guy back in Judea about 2000 years ago said something similar. He was, however, quite a good role model by all accounts, and what did we do to him?

Nostalgia trip

It's Friday but there is no Crackerjack. No changeover to London Weekend Television as the evening approaches.
Tomorrow's Saturday but there will be no World of Sport, Kendo Nagasaki or Shirley Crabtree and Dr Who is off the air until the Christmas special. My action man, lego and other toys have been consigned to the land that only Steve Strange could sing about (c'mon keep up, you'll get it if you think hard enough).

And to top it all, it looks like it is going to rain tomorrow. When I was young the summers were much warmer and sunnier, and weekends were never wet...

Ahh when I was young.

Too self-obsessed

Just noticed that I have been blogging about cold tea for a year now. Happy birthday was yesterday. Seems I am so self-obsessed at the moment that I am missing out on the really important things in life, like celebrating birthdays!

Webhosting

Aaargh. OK, we're short of money (please click on the Ads) but I thought I had managed to scrounge the cash to pay for my web-hosting where I have sooooo many projects about to break free (not wind) - including the return of disclosure. Anyway put the money into the account and changed payment details but another cheque went through and payment was refused. Ok it's my fault, actually it's not because it was into someone else's account.

Anyway upshot is I either need to beg, borrow or steal to get money into that account again, look for another hosting company that will accept paypal or find a rich benefactor to bankroll my life. In the meantime I'm going to drink some stella, listen to some great music (Dead Can Dance at the moment) and browse the net for alternative solutions. Pain is I have soooo much on the current web host that to move it all will be nigh on impossible and will take ages, plus they have all my domain names. Still I'm not Kate Moss.

Actually the press coverage of her is really hypocritical (hey I'm a guy and have always liked her doe eyes). I may elaborate why I'm so annoyed at the press but you may be able to work out when I say that I think jesus is sitting at home saying 'let him who is without sin cast the first stone'!!!!

The Fly

Aaargh, was happy posting away and reading blogs with a nice cup of tea - first cup of the day is always nice - anyway, after I clicked send, I picked up the tea and saw, floating on the top, a small fly. OK it wasn't Jeff Goldblum proportions but it totally ruined my appreciation of this fine beverage. A bit like Jeff's acting spoiling my appreciation of the films he is in - biatch!

So what's up in my life? Nm! I feel in a state of limbo at the moment. I'm waiting for a few things to happen and until they do I can't seem to focus and get on with things. I may have to resort to a to do list. However, it does give me the chance to use one of my favourit phrases. I feel like I am in a 'funk' - there done it.

On a happier note I would just like to say that to anyone who is reading, or does read, this - I love you all and wish you all a nice happy time.

Aaaargh

There are more ways to be knocked down and put into a vegetative state than being hit by a 'Hell's granny'. After the high comes the low.

I'll try and cheer myself up with an all-day meeting and perhaps post later.

Decided to drink lager instead - after the meeting and not post.

We all fall down

Having such a good day that I expect to be knocked down by a 'hell's granny' in an invalid carriege and be reduced to a vegetative state on my way home. Have finished some work that was taking ages to do, recieved a nice gift from my family and with the news that the Cardiacs are touring there isn't much that could make life better.

Made the mistake of wearing a shirt and tie to work today, now everyone thinks I'm off for an interview somewhere - chance would be a fine thing. I used to think that it was only at school that people would notice, comment and generally fill their tiny minds with the clothes you wore. However, when I ventured into the big wide world, I realised that 'adults' were worse. You can't wear a new pair of shoes, have a haircut or grow an extra limb without someone making an inane comment - are our lives really so empty that that is the only conversation we can have?

So next time I post I'll be able to tell you all about the disaster that will inevitably strike due to the day being 'so' good 'so' far (I'm calling fate's bluff here).

Beyond proof there is a God

If anyone ever needed proof then here it is, beyond doubt, there is a God. The Cardiacs are doing a mini-tour and I can get (if I had the money) to all but two very easily:

CARDIACS TOUR DATES -
November:
6th Brighton Concorde 2,
7th PortsmouthWedgewood Rooms,
8th Oxford Zodiac,
9th Northampton Soundhausand
11th London Astoria

I can now go and praise Tim off his tiny pins

Knowing me, knowing you, Morten Harket

Ok, it's a bit late in the day but according to my little book, today is Morten Harket's birthday. Now I have always had soft spot for the boys from Norway, Morten Harket, Pål Wankatar and Magne 'Mags' Furuholmen. Well when I say soft spot I don't mean I have ever been a fan. I mean Morten could well be David Hasselhoff's twin brother and ever since 'Mags' rode across the Top of the Pops stage on skateboard any street cred they had went right out the window - a pity 'Mags' didn't follow on his board. However for many Thursday nights down the Hippodrome in London, on Frizby Foxx night (Peter Stringfellow's lady at the time), they often played the Sun always shines on TV and I did enjoy bopping away to it.

A few years back I bought their greatest hits CD (it was about a £, so don't worry) and on first listening there was another track on the CD I quite liked. Now a couple of days ago I was well into a bottle of wine and nostalgia kicked in. I pulled out the A-ha CD remembering there was this track I liked and thought I'd listen to it (yes the wine was flowing). I didn't know what track it was and so had to skip through them all until I found it. The problem was that as the opening strains kicked in I was saying to myself, 'Oh please don't let it be that one, it's awful'. Fortunatley I finally found it and my faith was restored as it still sounded fairly reasonable. If you want to listen to it you can here and the track is called 'I've been losing you'.

So happy belated birthday wishes Morten and thanks for the songs.

Tired and busy

So, I work so much yesterday that today I am knackered and yet still busy. Why do I bother? Anyway am broke already, with no sign of income till the end of the month, and still have several bils to pay - time for 'russian bill roulette' ha ha.

So before the tea gets too cold I'm off to dirnk it.

However, before I go, I just want to congratulate the boys who beat the Aussies to regain the Ashes for first time since 1987. I must admit the tears welled-up when the umpires ceremoniously removed the bails form the stumps. It feels like I achieved closure on an unhappy period in my life, a period defined by England being unable to play a game that they invented.

I can't believe it

The most critical day of the test match and I am in work. Not only am I in work but I am really too busy to keep checking on the score. Oh, well will dash home at lunch time and try and catch up. In the meantime I'm also too busy to blog - what is the world coming to? Although as you can see I have just managed a quick post. habits die hard, unlike my tea which is rapidly cooling.

Speak soon

One week survived

Well, I'm coming to the end of my first week back in the office and I have just survived. Things are still the same, the same issues are still gnawing at the heart and soul of sane people and the insane people are still in their jobs.

Having some fun though editing a new book. It has been written by 'field workers' and not 'writers', so when I say 'written by' I am using that phrase in the sense as 'sung by' would be used to describe Axel F by Crazy Frog. Now I don't claim to be a great writer, as Andrew will tell you, but I do at least try to express my views and concepts when putting finger to keypad. These peeps however, remind me of an infinite number of monkeys and an infinite number of typewriters during an outbreak of monkey flu and a particularly nasty occurence of arthritis.

Anyway see you soon.

Woohoo

It's my birthday today. It seems a little strange though. With all the issues going on at the moment I don't feel like celebrating but at the same time because I am sorting out all the issues going on I do.

I've bought a bottle of wine anyway and so I'm going to have a little drink later and will listen to some music v loud, that normally brings a smile to my face.

On the plus side I'm back in the office tomorrow for work and so that should be fun, catching up with all the 'polotics' there is normally interesting to say the least. However work load is very high for a couple of weeks so perhaps some extra hours will be put in. I can then lose myself in writing and creating ideas. Also writing a book in my spare time at the moment and that needs to be finished soon so I'll be typing like mad for a while - it seems my fingertips are hard from typing these days instead of playing the guitar, I need to strum a little more frequently.

Thanks to Andrew we're now addicted to The Mighty Boosh. The kids and I have been wetting ourselves watching it on TV and the web, but the the BBC have now stopped the online shows, v cold tea for them.

I should have known better

Found this at Steve's blog and couldn't resist, however now that I have taken the quiz I'm not sure I'm none too happy with the answer. OK, I'm not a king nerd but I am well on the way. Does this mean that I will one day make a killing on the dot com market? More like I'll die fat, lonely and with my mom's dead body in the attic.

Back again

Well I've been on hols and am now back fully refreshed - yeah sure.

Will speak soon - btw got bored with the layout so had a change.

Goodbye, dear friend

I had just one text, four words; perhaps the saddest four words I'll ever hear (well almost).

You can find out all the information here.

In the meantime here are the words of the text (thank you Andrew)

'Mr Bronson is dead'

Actually makes me want to shout out in reply, 'long live King Rolaaand'