The sun is shining outside in Manchester and I’m back playing my own game after getting involved in other people’s games at work (which are characterised by the words, arrogance , bullshit, and academic fluffy headed boss).

The weekend was a grand relaxing one. Went to see Oceans Twelve on Saturday Night with Giles and Ness who were in chipper if slightly subdued form after a very boozy Friday night. The film was entertaining nonsense and while not as dire as some critics have made out, it wasn’t as slick as the first one, relying a bit more on belly laughs produced by the banter between the characters.

Sunday was another play with Linux day, with the emphasis being on finding a working web design tool. There doesn’t seem to be anything to rival the mighty Dreamweaver MX, but there were packages which do bits much better. Bluefish for scripting and NVU for HTML design. Also installed a Wiki for my upcoming RQ Pavis and Big Rubble game. The idea being that people contribute locations, items, characters and adventure plots for a free rooming game. Not much to see at the moment but here it is PAVISWIKI.

Monday was full of fun and games of the bosses looking over the school website redesign, making lots of suggestions which leave the project after 3 hours of meetings….EXACTLY THE SAME. I came home and snuggled up with Rach, who is on nights until Friday.

Well what a surprise this was Mr Newt interfacing with the commercial entity that is Manchester City centre. Yes I’ve been shopping, mainly for trivial items such as magazines, rechargeable batteries, flax seed oil (veggy version of cod liver oil), but I also picked up a cheep (5quid) mic n headset for on-line gaming nonsense and fifty quids worth of computer books, (Visual Quick Start to Photoshop CS and the Linux Cookbook) which work will pay for yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Now all I have to do is consolidate my goodies into one easy package for carefree transportation home (which occurs in 1hr 45 mins)

YAR!!!

So another weekend is on the way. Hoorah! I’ve broken the back of a busy period of work and the train journey is becoming less tedious and soul destroying. Got a ton of stuff I want to get done, but not enough time to do it 😦 I think some projects are going to have to go by the wayside and I’m going to have to discipline myself to get the remainder done.

Thats enough of my serious head stuff. The weekend is on its way and its time to play. I wonder what games I’ll get upto over the weekend ??

After a couple of busy previous weekends I was due for a quiet one. For some reason my mind woke up on Friday morning with the instruction ‘ this weekend is Iron Maiden weekend’. Not willing to argue with instructions from the depths of my subconscious, I decided to revisit my heavy metal youth.
Let the games commence!
My Iron Maiden Weekend

bitvacuous is to blame for posting this quiz on her LJ. Sheep like I felt the urge to complete it myself and hurtle into the abyss of……
Politics

I’m not going to dwell upon this, because life is too short, but I do believe I found a new pet peeve.

People with Laptops on trains

Here’s Five reasons why.

Lately life has been so busy.

A couple of weeks ago realised that I had been at my job for six months and being on a 12 month contract , guess what!!! Yup six months to milk the system and get a better paid more groovy gig for Mr Newt. So being good (or passable on a bad day)at my job is no longer an option and I’ve been stepping up a gear.

Also despite February being traditionally sleepy, cold and pennyless I’ve been away most weekends thus far. Off to a wedding in Derby this weekend 🙂
March is clear so far, except for the inevitable Mothers Day/Father’s Birthday trip.

This has actually been up and running for a week or so, but its time to unveil it to an uncaring world.

Welcome to the world of Newt

Whoa, today has been such a fast moving set of wobblers* that Mr Newt stood on the brink of losing his sense of humour.

Thankfully the world has come to a stop now. A quick cup of coffee and I’ll be on my way to my exercise class, to return home dead late tired and sweaty.

Life got to love it 🙂

*events that put you not just off balance but positively wobbly

I love my job. No I really do 🙂

But I hate the commute to Manchester. Every two or three weeks it reaches a peak and I’m at that stage now. I’m fighting through with a happy smile, but this morning the train stood still for ONE HOUR TEN MINUTES just outside Manchester.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!