Wow - Not on a Sunday

Okay I know, I'm sorry I've been busy with real life stuff....
So on to our Not on a Sunday topics:

What is that one song that most often gets stuck in your head and "CAN’T GET OUT"? This one comes from abraleah over at cross-eyed
I would say go over and say Hi but I seem to be having trouble getting to that site myself...

Or if you don't fancy that one, here's another, okay I know it's a cheat but hey I'm allowed to do that sometimes ;)

Why did you start your blog and what keeps you blogging?
This one is from bob-kat over at bobkat's house
That one is working so go over say hi...

I'll post mine sometime I know not when!

It's Sunday so that must mean it's time for the "Not on a Sunday Topic"

Okay as usual I'm taking a break from anything I'd remotely normally post about as it's a sunday to bring you this weeks topic

What is the naughtiest thing you’ve ever done in grade school?
Thanks to Shane over at Reflekshins for this weeks topicano - I know it's not a word it just looks cool, wander over and say hi to shane..
This is kinda like ye olde blog fodder remember that...

Well I can answer this one quite simply I was the good guy at school, I did my work when asked, didn't talk back to the teacher and was rarely in trouble as school, I can probably count on 1 hand the number of times I was in trouble.
Being the little guy helped, meant I kept head down and just got on with it..
The only time I can really remember is one time at primary school I must have done something in the playground, can't remember what but I was sent to the "wall" which was basically the section of wall in front of where we all lined up to go back into class after the breaks, it was scary kinda seeing all your classmates staring at you, that and one of old teachers saying there must be some mistake what are you doing here kinda of thing, never did it again either. There was one time I was sent to see the headmistress at primary and this was back in the days when the "belt" was still a usable tool, one crack off the desk was enough - straight n narrow...

Wow - Not on a Sunday II

Yet another sunday break from World of Warcraft...
The question this time is:

When was a time in your life that you felt closest to God? Thanks go to John for this one

Now for me is a tricky one as I think even from birth god has been close by, even when I wasn't sure of myself he was there gently guiding. I don't go to church, I don't feel the need to go is all. God can't be everywhere at once so he sent angels instead we call these friends or sibilings or if we are really lucky both.
Now it's over to you - I know this is a brief one from me but that is it really my life isn't my own anyway.

Wow - Not on a Sunday

Ha got ya, you really think I was going to talk "non-stop" about World of Warcraft even I'm not that insane, although I play it a lot, I do take breaks from it, it's called work, when I was on holiday I couldn't play it all the time as it just got boring doing the same things over and over as I hit a point where that was kinda needed, there are times this happens yes..
Now on to the true subject of the day..... It's an old favourite revived with the kind permission of Moogie, it's question time once more.

If you could live in the world of any particular book (or series) what would it be and why? Thank you loremistriss for this one

This one I'm leaving up to you, meanwhile I'm going to find some new batteries for this keyboard as it appears it wants not work too faaassst.

A none to subtle Hint at someone...

Hey anyone read this still? I know I said I'd given up and stuff and argh well you know me by know - must be the librian in me - must seek balance in all.. yeah RIGHT!

Anyway enough about that - this is aimed at one person and one person only, Moogie someone needs to go and remind her of Blog Fodder it's erm kinda went a bit fallow of late and it might be useful to some of us for a topic to appear ya know! So if someone please ask her real nice - I have hinted before but alas hmm nada.. :P so could some kind soul please go give her a prod please that would be so nice..

Sidenote: I go back to work tomorrow :( argh 2 week holiday gone already!

Blog Fodder - "What fashion trend you followed was very cool then, but now looks ridiculous?"

This weeks topic from me is a little late, we can thank the lovely Karen over at Karen Writes for this topic..

What fashion trend you followed was very cool then, but now looks ridiculous?

I must confess I am not a dedicated, even remotely dedicated follower of fashion trends. I wore what I wanted to wear and if it was "cool" then it was "cool" if it wasn't so be it..
I don't think I've ever worn anything that I'd now consider "ridiculous", although saying that how would I know.. See nice short reply from me as always.

Blog Fodder - "You get to “restart” your life at any age. When, and why?"

This week’s topic is a good one. It really makes you think about your life, and everything that has happened. You can thank Toy Reviews for this topic.

You get to "restart" your life at any age. When, and why?

I don't think I could "restart" my life at any point as I'd then do something different and take a different path and I wouldn't have "met" any of you guys.
I probably do a "hard restart" on my life and go back to being well 0. As to why well hmm seems like the logical place to start at the beginning once again, simplifies the whole deal does it not? It would possibly mean a few other things turn out differently as well - then again maybe not, maybe if I was to somehow do this I'd end up exactly where I am now who knows. Well I think that just about in a round about way answers this question :P.

Blog Fodder - "What was the catalyst for the time when you REALLY went over the edge temper-wise?"

Okay Moogie I'll bite so to speak. Last weeks topic was interesting but hmm I just couldn't write about it, darn mental block someplace.
Now on to the topic this week brought to us by margalitc, owner of What was I Thinking?....

What was the catalyst for the time when you REALLY went over the edge temper-wise?

Now this is a rather interesting one as well let's just say you used to be able to have me got 0 to real nasty in the time it took to say "0 to real nasty" this was all because I was always being picked on at primary school for being smart at maths.
17x14 I can still do in my head it's 238 if your interested and no I didn't use windows calculator to do it or even check, that and I was small. Stood up for myself - no-one else would didn't get me into that much trouble. I grew out of it thankfully. Calmed down a lot, there isn't really a specific catalyst that sets me off so I can say what it was when I did go Over the edge temper-wise, just that I'm now a lot nicer but can still let rip when needed, generally I give fair warning that I'm going to go "BOOM!" enough that any sensible person should either a) clear out or b) stick around for the fireworks.. normally it's a) especially if it's them that's the problem. Fair warning being "I'm getting annoyed stop doing that.." etc, 3rd times the charm so to speak.
It's best to say you can tell when I'm going Postal and that's generally enough. Oh and you can pretty much insult me all ya like with in reason that sort of crap bounces right off but insult my friends or family (well most of the family) and you get the idea!

Blog Fodder - "Define your musical tastes in 10 songs." Additional

I know it's over a week since I posted the original post but don't mind me :P.
I haven't really included any classical pieces although I do listen to them sometimes although my favourites have to be Pachebel's Canon in D and Baber's Adagio for Strings just for the sheer emotion that is in them.
I mean just looking at my CD collection as it is:
Dizzie Rascal - Showtime, Damien Rice - O, Lost Prophets - Start something, Travis - 12 Memories, Various Artists - Born to be wild 1, Morcheeba - Parts of the process, The Streets - A grand don't come for free, Keane - Hopes and fears, Faithless - No roots, Outkast - Speakerboxx / The love below, Franz Ferdinand - Franz ferdinand, Scissor Sisters - Scissor sisters, Embrace - This new day, Katie Melua - Call off the search & Piece by Piece, Joss Stone - Mind, body & soul, Michelle McManus - The meaning of love, Norah Jones - Come away with me, Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten and that's only 1 like column of 'em.
Just thought I'd add that given a few of the comments made :P nice wide enough selection with a few weird ones included.
This is also to show I am still alive and with it *laughs*

Blog Fodder - "Define your musical tastes in 10 songs."

Okay it's back with a bang, okay maybe not a bang but hey it's my topics turn on Blog Fodder this week.

Define your musical tastes in 10 songs.

Okay this is actually quite a tricky one as I have well quite a varied taste in music, but I'll try and see if I can't summarise it.
Let's start with an anthem shall we..
1) Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody - Why it's a good song and a good start point I feel.
2) Meatloaf: Bat out of Hell - This song would never make it in "modern charts" where they insist a chart song is around 4 minutes - this 9 minutes of magic, guitar solos, drums it's all here and the video is well just go you tube it :D.
3) Alanis Morisette: Hand in my pocket - It could actually one of a few of her songs I don't know why it just works for me.
4) Mylo: Drop the Pressure - A little bit of Electro to liven things up.
5) Muse: Invincible - Great song, air guitar riff totally.
6) James Blunt: Your Beautiful - It's a good ballad and I just love it.
7) Prodigy: Smack my bitch up - Good solid meaty track with plenty of bass :D.
8) Snow Patrol: Chocolate or Chasing Cars - Both are so good I can't pick between them, I have a live version of Chocolate and am I glad a friend of mine pointed this wonderful band out - they are irish but they are a scottish band :) go figure.
9) Delta Goodrem: Not me, not I or The Analyst - Again both good track from 2 good albums as you can see I have trouble picking favourite songs.
10) K T Tunstall: Suddenly I see - It's a good track of a great album and well what can I see she's all from my part of the world.
I could have easily gone on, I mean there isn't a entry in there for Coldplay although I have the CD's right in front of me now, I do have many quirky albums in no particular order:
Kate Bush - Aerial, Antony and the Johnsons - I am a bird now, Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Punks, Jamie Cullum - Pointless nostalgic, Eminem - Curtain call, Pink - Missundastood, Ash - Interlactic Sonic 7"s, B*Witched - B*witched and to round off Richard Clayderman - Souvenirs amongst many others.
So you can see I listen to a wide range of music, different genres and so forth and don't go dissing anything until you've listen to it with an open mind.

Blog Fodder - "Did you have a teacher that left a deep impression on you (good or bad)?"

Thanks to Kim over at kimbofo for this weeks topic which is....

Did you have a teacher that left a deep impression on you (good or bad)?

This is a difficult one as often at the time you don't realise the impression they are leaving it's years later that you realise it. The ones that left a good lasting impression are for the better part dead unfortunately so I've never been able to go find them and say "thanks". I was never in trouble at school well once maybe twice but that was sufficient suffice to say.
I had primary school teacher that left an impression on me that I had a brain use it but learn to write properly so everyone can read it (Side note: I can if I really want to). Few teachers at high school left an impression on me, one or two bad impressions well not so much bad as "in bad taste" - I mean was highlighting my spelling mistake in an essay from my Biology class REALLY required to be brought up in my Sixth Year Studies (SYS) Physics class, the teachers were friends and the look they got said it all.
I person at school who left what is probably the most lasting impression wasn't even a teacher, he the school headmaster, a great guy who shared the same first name as me, he brought back the yearly prize giving ceremony which hmm I won a prize a year for a few years. He brought changed the way the school thought of itself gave it purpose we did win a few inter-school sports prizes and other things besides. He was deeply religious but didn't try and force it on anyone something I do to this day, If you had an idea for the school, he'd listen as well, I do that. Okay I don't have his fine baritone vocals which were just great to hear.

That is all I think.

Blog Fodder - "What are some of the more bizarre bits of spam you have received, whether through emails or comments?"

Thanks to Raj over at Radioactive Jam for this weeks topic

What are some of the more bizarre bits of spam you have received, whether through emails or comments?

Well let me see I use Mailwasher Pro to clean my ISP based inbox out, my gmail, hotmail, yahoo all take care of themselves and I got checkers for them all so I know if I get new e-mail anyway.

Let me just grab some stats of the e-mail from the last 4 weeks...
Spam : 1416
Legitimate E-mail: 136
Spam e-mail is on processing bounced, deleted from my isp inbox, the e-mail address or domain (if I choose to add that) is added to my ever growing blacklist of junk e-mail.
Now since I got the Pro version I can report all of them but when I do I get a 2nd e-mail back telling me to click-a-link to finish reporting and it gives me an idea where the spam came from as well, I ONLY now do this for spam that "appears" to be from my subdomain i.e from me.
I've reported 29 pieces of e-mail this way I used to report them all but that gave me loads of work even using the tabbular functionality of Firefox it was a bind doing the find the report button using the text on the line below, clicking it, ctrl + tab to move tab, f3, repeat ad-nauseum.
Now as to what the spam contained..
If I replied to 1/10 I'd have a few million $$$'s in loans, enough "drugs" to keep me going for oh 10 years "solid" if you'll pardon the pun..
Software coming out of my ears, pump n dump stocks galore etc, etc...
I do have a personal website using my ISP provided webspace and I have a Guestbook there, which for some reason stopped e-mailing me when a new comment was added so I didn't know when comments were added I checked it one day and well hmmm 30 comments for "crap" were there all very similar as well, deleted and moderation turned ON.
when I had a Tag-board a while back I got SPAMMED on that as well :| so took it down got money back etc..
okay Im done I think..

Blog Fodder - "What are your top 10 reasons to blog?"

Thanks to Chrysalis! for this weeks blog fodder topic which is:

What are your top 10 reasons to blog?

Tricky one but I'll give it a go..
1) It's easy to post things up, random musing etc.
2) I've made a few friends on here and like to touch base with them all without having to e-mail them (I know such a lame excuse eh!)
3) I like the feedback I get (or not as the case maybe)
4) It's like a modern day diary but you can change it and no-one need know as there is no crossed out bits or bits that have been over written.
5) It's a way of meeting new and interesting people, found a few I even call friends.
6) Moogie made me (no just kidding but moogie's blog was the 1st blog I ever read).
7) With a little effort I can change things around, add / remove entries, change the template to suit - reminds me need to change the look a little maybe.

I can't think of any more right now but I might do later on..

8) Comments can trigger off new ideas for posts
9) Meme's are fun to share.
10) Expression is the key, oh and did I meanion it's all moogie's fault oh wait I did already...

Okay that should keep "someone" happy (for now).

Blog Fodder - "What is the best and/or worse advice you have ever gotten from your mother?"

what a great Blog Fodder Topic this week...
What is the best and/or worse advice you have ever gotten from your mother?

Can I answer this one with a simple enough answer - I can't think of ANY advice I've been give by my esteemed mother.
I'd have to think REAL hard to think of any advice mother's given me, sister's probably given me more, friends, other family but mother hmm......................
Sorry button got held down while I tried to not laugh.

Blog Fodder - "Give an example of a meal that makes you happy."

Hmm an interesting topic this week for Mar at Maremagnum. Well here goes it's a tricky one - well not really..

I think it's not the actual food that's there it's the company too.
So I mean I could say my own recipe pasta carbonara makes me happy and it does, reminds me of good times at uni (although I don't wanna remember some of the crap there), reminds me of a certain valentine's day with my now ex...
I like a good meal out, had a nice chinese last friday but I think I'll make a proper post about that now that I think about it. I had the sesemed prawns on toast as they called it followed by Kong Po Chicken with a side oreder of fried rice :D delicious.
Another one is well indian in origin, onion bajhi to start with and a nice chicken tikka masala or something not to firey anyways..

I think Im done now, see give me good food and your pretty well garenteed to have a happy Gopher :D

On a sidenote no idea how but well sometimes mother who is a good cook honest, serves me something and I wonder do I eat this or resole my shoes with it...

Blog Fodder - "Where do you go to be alone?"

This weeks topic brought to you by Carmi.

An interesting one for sure, posted by Moogie a little later than schedule but I think we can let her off, maybe......

I sit by my PC, put some music on or a DVD and just switch off totaly either that or I go out on a long walk if I don't think that's gonna work..

I think that's about all I can say really.

Blog Fodder - "What do you see when you look out of your living room / kitchen / bedroom window?....."

I know go on tell me I need to post more, don't ask why I don't just be thankful I post, unlike some people I can think of, but I do know they lead lives far more hectic than mine so I can let them off just this once. Now on to the topic for this week from what looks like a fellow brit (cheers) Le Laquet.

What do you see when you look out of your living room / kitchen / bedroom window? You can do this with photos if you would like.

What do I see when I look out the window nearest me well the back garden and the lane behind my house and open fields and trees, there are some winter pics on here some place which right now I can't be bothered to go find the post in question to link to so Im afraid it's a hunt of the archieves - Feb / March 06 I think..
From my front of my house I see the local hill and it's a nice hill takes a little bit to climb up it but the view from the near enough the top is worth it trust me.
I think that will do.

Blog Fodder - "Which is worse? Poor manners or poor grammar? Why?"

This weeks topic brought to you by "Suzanne", it is an interesting topic I must say.

Which is worse? Poor manners or poor grammar? Why?

I'd have to say poor manners as normally this is vocal or visual and is instant for example someone bumping into you and not saying sorry and the like, not on at all in my book. In saying that I was brought up to be polite, trust me I had no option, I do love my dear darling sister as she did drag me up by the shoelaces although not literally.
Poor grammar well it all really depends on how bad it is and in what context the piece of writing is for.
I know I probably sometimes don't make gramattical sense sometimes but I do try and contruct sentence correctly, spell things correctly and so forth. I do probably over use certain punctuation marks, well I mean sometimes you just have to!!!!!!!!!!!!
See what I mean but if it's any type of formal letter IF it were to land on my desk at work,rare as I really don't get mail at work, or I'm shown a letter addressed to say the boss and read it and If they were looking for a job I don't know if I'd hire 'em or not, mind you I've seen some very professional looking CV's but "fresh coat of paint to hide the cracks" anyone.
I'd say both are equally worse but Poor manners just tips it as I do HATE people with bad / poor manners after all it takes nothing to be polite does it now.

That is all..

Blog Fodder - "If you could go back in time and choose your career, what would it be?"

Well quite an interesting question this week from Heather. Mind you heather sometimes does write thought provoking entries, now on to the question.

If you could go back in time and choose your career, what would it be?

This be a tough one for me as well I honestly don't know what it would be. I'd probably go back and smack myself around the head a few times but then again IF I did that I probably wouldn't be "here" and thus would probably not have the wonderous array of "friends" I have now. I use the quotes as most if not all who have read this blog I've never met in person and well e-mail ain't the same, okay phone calls are different I will give you that it does allow you to connect on a more personal level, as it adds a depth and colour (color) that are kinda hard to convey in a e-mail even if you use italics or bold text and colored text or all 3 however this doesn't answer the initial question does it.
What would I choose to be....
I am the geek type - I love computers have done for many years so I'd probably have taken that career path, maybe gotten my head around programming or something. I do love problem solving so may have ended up in some R&D department or as Tech support (the real kind not the "Tech Support" some provide can we say "script driven","in the box" and "blinkered" yes we can).

I probably be boring as well, well maybe. Who knows? Where I am I'm happy enough honest. I think it's due to the fact I've sat on my rear end and did just enough that's why Im the way I am, path of least resistance..

So to sign this post off, Career change probably software design or something like that but in truth not really how else would I have met.
Moogie then Sharon, Melonie, Wahwer...., Heather and the myriad of other people I know through blogger and "Computers Lobby:1" from the Chat at "Yahoo.com" and my friends who have actually met me in real life (poor them).

That is All...
More Next Time, Same Place, Same Nutcase.

Blog Fodder - "Name a sensory input(s) which trigger a mood change..."

Hmm I said I would post on this topic, tricky one but a good one from
Rob, over at My Bloddy Great Nutshell.
So he poses the question.

"Name a sensory input(s) which trigger a mood change be it uplifting, depressing, poignancy or remind you of a past event or period in time. Examples - the smell of an aftershave or perfume, a song, a baby crying, the sound of a vegas slot machine, the feel of clean sheets, the taste of a childhood drink."

A good question, a tricky one I've been thinking on and off about this one all week I mean what music Im listening to does tend to modify slightly the kinda mood im in.
Silence is great as well, just listening to nature brings back walks I had many years ago that hmm I don't do now, im still me just a little bit quieter, a little more hidden, although people that know me will claim that's not true, personal armor sorts that out.
There are a few songs and the smell of one particular brand of aftershave that invoke memories of happier times with my now ex-girlfriend. I wear my heart on my sleeve or so someone told me that and I was once told I should be a care worker or something - IM not that hard..
Time to go find Pachabel's Canon in D and relax it's been an interesting week.
Question answered hmm maybe but it's random just like me.