Hurrah my snotty cold is clearing up! HURRAH HURRAH HURRAH.

Was completely miserable yesterday because of it. Ok not completely miserable, downloaded and watched the penultimate episode of Rome (where Titus Pullo got into yet another kick ass fight!!) and a couple of games of Multilayer COD2, which is silky smooth in a WW2 FPS sort of way (and shites all over DOD Source).

Quickly nipped to B&Q to pick up a wooden pole for our “For Sale Sign” and then had great fun putting it up with Rach.

The day ended on a bit of a downer. Rach’s Grandma fell and fractured her leg, in the same way as Foz did in his infamous Skateboarding accident. No this for an 85 year is going to lead to all sorts of complications. We might be moving to Oldham sooner than anticipated, to house sit Rach’s parents house as they move into Rach’s Grandmas to give her full time support. Watch this space sports fans.

Well I’m still with cold, and its got worse if anything else. So I’ve taken today off. I’m determined to be as productive as possible, while getting the right amount of rest. Which probably means doing stuff this morning, and having a nap this afternoon.

I’m getting a tad concerned that since the onset of Autumn, I’ve been hit repeatly by a series of stinky colds. It probably has something to do with giving up going to Kung Fu, which was getting unmanagebale due to the commute to and from Manchester (where I work) each day. This was my only form of exercise and a bloody good one at that!! When we’ve moved I’ll be able to get to an exercise class of some form. In the mean time its upto me to do what I can, eat sensibly, get enough sleep, keep up with my meditation and chi-kung.

“I said before, but I’ll say it again
We all believe what we want to believe
Don’t just question authority
QUESTION EVERYTHING!”

1. Life is full of weasels, I may have to keep the weasels happy for now but they will choke on their own vomit eventually. I shall be not concerned.
2. Green tea is ace.
3. I can exceed my expectations quite easily, and remain calm. Just think of Indiana.
4. You can be a mousey bore on your mobile phone on the train, be verbally abusive to a fellow passenger when they reprimand you, but god will put loud Asian students in the seats behind you when you get to Huddersfield.
5. You can be racially abusive about the driver and other passengers, while discussing your shoplifting strategy with your junior apprentice and nobody will say owt cos your the “Psycho on the the Bus”.
6. (and this is important) Cat poo magically disappears if you apply hot water and bleach via a cloth.

Now who said life is dull?

When Corrosion of Conformity cancelled due to Hurricane Katrina (the band live in New Orleans) back in Oct I was sad but quietly resigned.

Well as they say all good things come to those who wait, they’ve rescheduled for the New year…and…..wait for it…they are co-headlining with

Clutch

YEAH-FUCKING-HARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!

Dates:

Saturday 21st Manchester Academy, already signed up for this one with Nice Andy, will be a good opportunity to go out in Manchester afterwards 😀

Monday 23rd Leeds Cockpit, when I have the funds I’ll get tickets for this one too 😀

Full dates http://pro-rock.com/v6/tour.html

So far this weekend can be summed up by the following words;

Tired Was so wired and tired by the time I got home, delayed by being stuck behind a slow train from Huddersfield (grrr). Went to Boarders with Rach, bought zip, and then had a quick tea. Was grumpy then went to bed.

Productive Went to Morrisons, stocked up on provisions. While we were there stopped by the HSBC branch and sorted out our joint finances. Also got a mortgage certificate which shows that the HSBC will loan us a silly amount of money. All in all really set my mind at rest about money matters (which have been bothering me recently). Then came home and sorted out about a hundred records to give to keefybabe and finished off the “Song for Keef” project (see cut below for results).

Party keefybabe was five yesterday so I and a bunch of other peeps went round his gaff for a parteeeee. Been a while since I’ve been to one of these ‘hey lets cram everyone in a room” type affairs and I nearly passed out with the heat in the first hour or two. Had a great time and chatted to a bunch of people that I have previously known only from keefybabe’s friends list. Was a wuss and came home at 11, because I’m an early morning person these days, and the bedroom needs painting today.

Crap Finished off House of Flying Daggers, which I thought was a pile of tosh. Completely overdone bullocks! Also struggling my way through “A touch of Zen”, a martial arts film from the 70s, which although lovely filmed and very evocative is as slow as a turtle. One hour in and there’s been one, rather good, fight scene. Sticking with it (will watch rest later) since it has had positive reviews, e.g. this one at Kungfucinema.com. It could me however going off Martial Arts films, so I’m going to watch Enter the Dragon or Hard boiled later to test if this is the case.

Procrastinate Is what I am doing now. I’ve a bedroom to paint and a house to tidy…hum more COD2 I think 😀

Lonely Is what I’ll be tonight, since Rach is at work today and is going over to stay at her mums tonight. This shouldn’t bother me but after the “wayyhey I can do what I like” wears off after a couple of hours, it gets very creepy being in the house alone.

A song for Keef the final results

Not that I’m feeling at all pessimistic or shaky, this just fell out of my “Complete book of pocket positives”

“Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will create the fact”Wiliam James 1842-1910 American Psychologist and Philosopher

Thanks for all the people who have given me songs for keefybabe’s compliation so far.

This is how it looking so far;

1. Lawnmower Deth – Ooh Crikey [Richard Bartlet]
2. BBC Radiophonic Workshop-Dr. Who Theme
3. Leonard Nimoy & William Shatner – Ballad Of Bilbo Baggins
4. Nasenbluten – Cuntface [Cloneboy]
5. Madness – House of Fun [Gillywoo]
6. Lawnmower Deth – Seventh Church Of The Apocalyptic Lawnmower [Richard Bartlet]
7. Village people – YMCA [LittleRach]
8. Front Line Assembly – Mindphaser[Glennkenobi]
9. Stephenwolf- Magic Carpet Ride[deputydoug]

Note there’s still a couple of tracks I’m still tracking down.

If you stil haven’t sent me a song, hopefully the above list should give some inspiration 🙂 Either post here or email me at newtus at ntlworld dot com.

Nikkyboy has sent some cracking images of Keef for the cover, but if you have any more send them on.

My lungs and body is aching from the tail end of yet another cold. However from Rach’s experience it is short sharp and eck so today should be the end.

As well as gaming nonsense spent most of the weekend enjoying having Rach about the house, since it was the first entire weekend she’s had off since she started as a Midwife a month ago.

Work is steady but calm. Got quite an exciting piece of work to do which will see me flex my programming muscles, getting me away from the awful process of procuring content and reviewing (which in this place is like extracting blood from a stone). I’ve also got to procure a major piece of software, which should see me be able to put another point on my CV.

…on my computer screen.

Yup I’ve been wasting more time and money playing Call of Duty 2, and the above is one of the many user-friendly messages the game gives you at any applicable time. Its abit like the Microsoft Office Assistant has snuck into the game engine, “I see you’ve found an MG42 you might want to press F to use against the mass of Germans rushing your position”. Playing wise its like the first game on steroids. bigger maps, frighting amounts of enemies and more explosions. The big strength of the original Call of Duty games was the fact that you had an AI squad fighting alongside you. This time there’s more of them, and overall it plays less like a game of Tag (“Hey Jenkins your it, go over there and blow up that bridge while every Jerry on the map tries to shoot you) and more like a game of British bulldog (“Hey Jenkins, lets all rush the bridge while the whole of the third Reich charges to met us!”) where if you go too far ahead you suddenly find your self surrounded by big burly Germans pummelling you to death with the butts of their rifles.

My only gripes with this awesome game.

• Its too short
• Russian campaign far too short
• What’s with the fat comedy Germans? (I kid you not)

Here’s some images of playing catch the grenade in the Moscow level with my Russian chums