I'm not especially hopeful about this game. Our recent games have been poor, our midfield is pretty much gone, what with Beckham and Gerrard out for this game. Or maybe that could be what really gets us going? Maybe we needed a challenge? Well last time we had even a reasonable challenge we lost 4-1, not a good sign...
I think it is Sven's fault though, our players need someone to shout at them and get them motivated, they've become lethargic and unenthusiastic, and Sven's calm and controlled approach to the game is not really helping. While he may be a good manager and be tactically brilliant, although the recent games against Wales and Northern Ireland makes me doubt this quite alot. We need to pull our fingers out and damn well play with some pride, or we might as well not bother going to the world cup.
Other than that though my website for the Breeders' Cup at work is nearly finished, it's supposed to be done by friday, but I've got most of what I can actually do done, the rest Ryan is working on at the moment, I can't really help as it's to do with live shows and stuff like that.
The gym is going well, I've gone Monday and Tuesday this week, I'm starting to push myself a bit more and I'm gonna start upping my weights and stuff like that to help myself along. No gym tonight though footballs on, Viv said she may be going though, if she can get in and its not too busy, otherwise she'll go home and come and pick me up in the car, which'll save me a bus trip.
Not much to do at work now, I'm trying to think of some websites I can visit while I'm waiting for some updates to do on the site, as I think I'm pretty much finished other than that.
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Music to work to - suggestions welcome!
Another day at work, but this time I remembered my headphones! As far as I can tell though, they're quite poor, considering I spent £12 on them. The bass seems awful, but that could be the quality of the music I'm listening too... I don't really know either way!
It's definately better working with music, I get less distracted as well bizarrely. I downloaded 50 free MP3s from eMusic, they have a very poor selection though, it's not a mainstream supplier, so not many bands I know or like. I ended up with Kerplunk from Green Day and Mastadon's first album, as well as a few other songs, and some Bill Hicks, which is very good. Inspiring stuff when your listening to it and coding :P I'm gonna bring in a bunch of CDs tomorrow as my bag will be empty.
Off to the gym again today, so I can watch England in the football tomorrow, we're gonna do badly though, I know it.
I ordered a couple more CDs from Play, Prodigy's greatest hits, which is out on the 17th, and looks great, I love prodigy! Plus it has a bonus second CD with lots of remixes and live stuff, sounds great! I also bought an album by a fat hawaiian guy who plays the ukalele, he had a song on Lost as has been recommended by a few people as easy listening stuff, so I got it anyway.
It's definately better working with music, I get less distracted as well bizarrely. I downloaded 50 free MP3s from eMusic, they have a very poor selection though, it's not a mainstream supplier, so not many bands I know or like. I ended up with Kerplunk from Green Day and Mastadon's first album, as well as a few other songs, and some Bill Hicks, which is very good. Inspiring stuff when your listening to it and coding :P I'm gonna bring in a bunch of CDs tomorrow as my bag will be empty.
Off to the gym again today, so I can watch England in the football tomorrow, we're gonna do badly though, I know it.
I ordered a couple more CDs from Play, Prodigy's greatest hits, which is out on the 17th, and looks great, I love prodigy! Plus it has a bonus second CD with lots of remixes and live stuff, sounds great! I also bought an album by a fat hawaiian guy who plays the ukalele, he had a song on Lost as has been recommended by a few people as easy listening stuff, so I got it anyway.
Monday, October 10, 2005
Serenity
Now this was a cool film, it was, in the words of Jonathan Ross, what the new Star Wars films SHOULD have been. If you liked the old trilogy, go and see this, you wont be disappointed. It's a great little film, nice effects, a decent story, good characters who have some great lines, even Viv was laughing at some places, I was laughing much more :P
It's a sci-fi space flick, but not your standard space flick. It's kind of wild westy, with no lasers or aliens, just humans in space and guns that fire bullets, like the future probably will be like. The crew is filled with good characters, and they dont always get along. The storyline isnt exactly outstanding, it's not gonna win any awards, but it is interesting and well thought out, with a good point to it. And the final battle in space is mint, in fact all of the action is pretty mint!
Overall, I loved this film, it was right up my street. I love sci-fi, especially sci-fi with a decent script, none of this new Star Wars crap, which I felt was truely awful and lacked everything the first trilogy, and this film, has in bucketloads.
It's a sci-fi space flick, but not your standard space flick. It's kind of wild westy, with no lasers or aliens, just humans in space and guns that fire bullets, like the future probably will be like. The crew is filled with good characters, and they dont always get along. The storyline isnt exactly outstanding, it's not gonna win any awards, but it is interesting and well thought out, with a good point to it. And the final battle in space is mint, in fact all of the action is pretty mint!
Overall, I loved this film, it was right up my street. I love sci-fi, especially sci-fi with a decent script, none of this new Star Wars crap, which I felt was truely awful and lacked everything the first trilogy, and this film, has in bucketloads.
Uneventful Weekend
Didnt really get up to much over the weekend. We went out Friday night, I had quite a lot of vodka while watching Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, then Viv and I got a bus back into town and went to O'Neills to meet up with Jayne, Al, Martin and Jim, and to see Viv's work mate Kerry's husband's (Zack) band. They were pretty good, they did lots of covers of otehr bands, but did them well and it was a good choice of music, Nirvana, Metallica, Foo Fighters, Green Day, all the favourites :) After the band we went back to Jayne and Al's and drank some more before going home very drunk.
Didnt do much on saturday, I started reading 'The Drawing of the Three' the second book in the Dark Tower series, which is pretty good. Viv went to work during the day to do some overtime as she is very busy next week. Then we watched Elizabeth and that's about it.
Sunday we drove to the Designer Outlet, to get some bras for Viv but couldn't find any she liked, then we went to Monk's Cross and Clifton Moor to have a look there as well. Viv didn't get anything, but I got some ear phones (which I forgot to bring to work today) and then we went to the cinema, which cost us £6! And they wonder why fewer people are going to the cinema nowadays. It's not because of piracy you dumb bastards, it's because the ticket prices are ridiculous! I can watch as many films as I want, less than 6 months after they are released, for £15 a month, OR, I can go and see less than 3 films at the cinema for the same price, what are you gonna do? Yeah, I'd save up for a decent sized TV and just watch them at home as well...
Which is a shame, because I like going to the cinema...
Didnt do much on saturday, I started reading 'The Drawing of the Three' the second book in the Dark Tower series, which is pretty good. Viv went to work during the day to do some overtime as she is very busy next week. Then we watched Elizabeth and that's about it.
Sunday we drove to the Designer Outlet, to get some bras for Viv but couldn't find any she liked, then we went to Monk's Cross and Clifton Moor to have a look there as well. Viv didn't get anything, but I got some ear phones (which I forgot to bring to work today) and then we went to the cinema, which cost us £6! And they wonder why fewer people are going to the cinema nowadays. It's not because of piracy you dumb bastards, it's because the ticket prices are ridiculous! I can watch as many films as I want, less than 6 months after they are released, for £15 a month, OR, I can go and see less than 3 films at the cinema for the same price, what are you gonna do? Yeah, I'd save up for a decent sized TV and just watch them at home as well...
Which is a shame, because I like going to the cinema...
Thursday, October 06, 2005
I'm in pain!
Yes I am! I went to the gym for the first time in quite a while yesterday, and I'm in pain today! My elbows, well technically my triceps, are really sore and tight, I can't bend my arms all the way. The top of my chest near my shoulders has only just started to hurt, and strangely my legs are ok. I'm going again tonight though, YAY! I'm not looking forward to tomorrow...
Works still going well. The site is much closer to completion and it's supposed to be done by the end of next week. I put a big bit in today, that I copied from the old site last year, and it 'should' be working fine, although we have nothing to test it with at the moment.
We're all going for chinese tomorrow apparently, I hope it's not too expensive, but I like chinese. Jayne and Al may be going out tomorrow, but things are a bit tight at the moment, so I don't think me and Viv should go as well. I'll see what Viv says, but I don't want to go out anywhere, I always end up paying more...
Works still going well. The site is much closer to completion and it's supposed to be done by the end of next week. I put a big bit in today, that I copied from the old site last year, and it 'should' be working fine, although we have nothing to test it with at the moment.
We're all going for chinese tomorrow apparently, I hope it's not too expensive, but I like chinese. Jayne and Al may be going out tomorrow, but things are a bit tight at the moment, so I don't think me and Viv should go as well. I'll see what Viv says, but I don't want to go out anywhere, I always end up paying more...
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
Six years together
Yesterday was officially mine and Viv's six year anniversary. We had gone out to Old Orleans to celebrate, but our anniversary was fairly uneventful. My present to Viv isnt released till the end of the month and Viv can't afford to buy my present till the end of the month either. But I got a card from Viv, I didn't get her one...
I went to the Drs to have my rash looked at on my back, turns out it's a 'fungal infection'. I have some tablets for it. My health check was OK, I have to give another urine sample as I may have a possible ear infection, you get blood in your urine apparently if you have an ear infection. Go figure...
The rest of the day was fairly uneventful, tidied the house a bit, Viv carried on arranging photo albums, I played on my DS as I got Advance Wars: Dual Strike that morning, it's ace! I love the AW games, I played the first one for ages, and this one seems like it's gonna last a looooong time. Hopefully it will anyway, as there still don't seem be that many great DS games around. I am gonna order some more of the Dark Tower books as well, so it's not like I'm gonna have a shortage of things to do on the train.
We also watched Sin City, it's much better on the big screen, but still cool. Not much else happened. Viv watched CSI, I played on my DS. Work tomorrow...
I went to the Drs to have my rash looked at on my back, turns out it's a 'fungal infection'. I have some tablets for it. My health check was OK, I have to give another urine sample as I may have a possible ear infection, you get blood in your urine apparently if you have an ear infection. Go figure...
The rest of the day was fairly uneventful, tidied the house a bit, Viv carried on arranging photo albums, I played on my DS as I got Advance Wars: Dual Strike that morning, it's ace! I love the AW games, I played the first one for ages, and this one seems like it's gonna last a looooong time. Hopefully it will anyway, as there still don't seem be that many great DS games around. I am gonna order some more of the Dark Tower books as well, so it's not like I'm gonna have a shortage of things to do on the train.
We also watched Sin City, it's much better on the big screen, but still cool. Not much else happened. Viv watched CSI, I played on my DS. Work tomorrow...
Monday, October 03, 2005
It's been a long time, Baby
It has indeed! I havent updated for 5 days! Well I have been on holiday...
Friday was the usual getting drunk, although this time it was at my house. Blizzard was stressing me out. He was upset as he was getting left out, but I wish he would just calm down. After a stressful hour or two he calmed down and we left him in the kitchen to chill out. The rest of the night was good, me being the first to go to bed, just before everyone else left.
Saturday we weren't going to go out, but ended up doing a bit of pre gaming and then leaving around ten to meet up with Jayne and Al in the Lowther. Jim and two girls he knows where there as well when we got there and Martin and his girlfriend turned up later. We had a few drinks then got a taxi to Jayne's, which took ages as the que was huge. Then we smoked and drank and listened to Queen, Blur and various other old bands, till we got another taxi around five. I then made tuna toasties as I was starving, they were goooooood...
Sunday was uneventful, we didnt do much as everyone was at work and stuff and Viv had an interview on Monday. Most of the day was spent reading (me) and sorting out photo albums (viv). We did go to ASDA though to get more albums and I got Projet Rub for my DS as it was on sale. It's pretty cool, uses the touchscreen and is amusing.
Monday Viv had her interview, which she said was OK. I went to the Dr, got registered and got an appointment for Tuesday. We joined the gym, I got a bodystat done. I'm pretty big at the moment, can't wait to start going and getting fit again! Gayle came home from Barcelona and Viv picked her up from the station, cleaned the house. Then me and Viv went out to Old Orleans, which was good, lots of cocktails, ribs and bruschetta for a starter, I had Chicken Jambalaya, which I thought would be bigger, and Viv had a 8oz steak. We sat at the bar for a bit and had more drinks, then nearly got the meal half price, but they sorted the bill out eventually. Got a lift home from Gayle.
Friday was the usual getting drunk, although this time it was at my house. Blizzard was stressing me out. He was upset as he was getting left out, but I wish he would just calm down. After a stressful hour or two he calmed down and we left him in the kitchen to chill out. The rest of the night was good, me being the first to go to bed, just before everyone else left.
Saturday we weren't going to go out, but ended up doing a bit of pre gaming and then leaving around ten to meet up with Jayne and Al in the Lowther. Jim and two girls he knows where there as well when we got there and Martin and his girlfriend turned up later. We had a few drinks then got a taxi to Jayne's, which took ages as the que was huge. Then we smoked and drank and listened to Queen, Blur and various other old bands, till we got another taxi around five. I then made tuna toasties as I was starving, they were goooooood...
Sunday was uneventful, we didnt do much as everyone was at work and stuff and Viv had an interview on Monday. Most of the day was spent reading (me) and sorting out photo albums (viv). We did go to ASDA though to get more albums and I got Projet Rub for my DS as it was on sale. It's pretty cool, uses the touchscreen and is amusing.
Monday Viv had her interview, which she said was OK. I went to the Dr, got registered and got an appointment for Tuesday. We joined the gym, I got a bodystat done. I'm pretty big at the moment, can't wait to start going and getting fit again! Gayle came home from Barcelona and Viv picked her up from the station, cleaned the house. Then me and Viv went out to Old Orleans, which was good, lots of cocktails, ribs and bruschetta for a starter, I had Chicken Jambalaya, which I thought would be bigger, and Viv had a 8oz steak. We sat at the bar for a bit and had more drinks, then nearly got the meal half price, but they sorted the bill out eventually. Got a lift home from Gayle.
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