Post Valentines Day Post

Well it was last Saturday but I kind of forgot to post then, lets see how exciting the past few weeks have been...
Well we have the new car, nice isn't it.

Mother fell again, all I heard was the thud and she was at the bottom of the stairs having had her sleeping pill and had a few drinks :| she has been told that if she wants anything from downstairs to ask me and I'll get it, she also decided to empty the dishwasher first..
Well she was all bruised but nothing major apart from what she had on her plate being all the way down the stairs it's a light brown carpet and she had black cherry or raspberry yogurt, it's been cleaned Today. So I spent the next day looking after her as she was all sore, this was after mother was told off by my lovely sister.
Ah Valentines day, well lets see I did lunch and shopping with mother and went bowling with the nephew that's how exciting it got for me although I did cheer someone up by giving them a quick call - Hey Laura :)..
This week has been well crap as I've not been feeling brilliant actually make that the past fortnight it's going..
There was a meeting hastily called on Wednesday that well didn't go according to anyone else but MY plan, needless to say my sisters are trying to pin it on mother, saying she wanted the meeting, I don't know who to believe anymore again. I don't think that will surprise anyone, oh wait I know why I am so much like my father...
OH yeah baby you better believe that one, not a day goes by I don't think about him in some way, well I look at myself and well I am my father's double...
I'm slowly sorting stuff out in a way that helps me, just not fast enough for anyone else, but HEY TOUGH...

That is all..
I'm off to do "Lunch" and then shopping..

Happy New Year 2009

Well folks it's now 2009, not the 13th month of 2008 just so you know...
Hmm I got a few things for Christmas, not much but then again I wasn't expecting much.

Christmas was interesting, I got to set up my nephew's new TV so he could play his new PS 3.
It has plugged into it a PS3, PS2, Nintendo Wii, a PC and a Personal Video Recorder - Digital recorder with inbuilt tuner for Digital TV..
I said later on after I'd set it up as a "joke", that the only reason I was here was to set it up, to which I was "TOLD", "I could have set it up", let's just say that's the last time I set anything up, I just "LOOKED" and went "Fine!" only to be told off once again for being "Moody!".. Well fuck me... Whatever!.. That particular sister is starting to piss me off, well she did try and sell me her car, didn't want it, did think about it more I thought the less I liked the car, she now has a newer one, So What.
I was working boxing day, off the weekend and working last week apart from New Years Day itself, that in itself was a first never had both off at work before.
Oh I've hit level 80 in World of Warcraft with my Mage, now due to other things I really won't be playing him much, just to piss people off, well if other people in my guild will talk about me behind my back and have me demoted from officer the screw them. They gotta problem with me they should say to me direct, Never mind my loss in the end but well so what I just don't care anymore may go find something else to do.

I know like reading the latest Kinsey Milhone book I got myself looks a corker with a really good twist, I mean she's good but the other one is better and playing her at her own game!

Anyway dear reader,

Have a great 2009. I do hope you've not to much of a hangover :-P. I have a bottle of Bailey's to open yet.

I have code to write and I think I'll just go find some music to listen to while I do all that..


May peace be with you in you heart.


Gordon

Merry Christmas to one and all (Part 2)

Now after I finished that post I realised I had probably left people out. Now I have not deliberately though..
Now here I do hope to change that, I missed out many of my CL:1 friends and real life friends.....

To Rusty & Rose better know to me as Rusty and his boss :P, well she does wield a heavy bottomed skillet rather well I here and can load a rifle pretty quick too, well they is from Texas after all. I hope the new job works out better than the last one, and that next year I hope me n rose can actually figure out what the heck each other is talking about.
To Ronnie, dude you've been through so much crap this year I hope next year is a whole lot better, or at least the nurses stay "cute" ;).

To Sheen, may you continue to confuse the newcomers in the lobby into thinking your something your not.. I still remember when I first heard you on voice that was interesting.

To Mr & Mrs Spingles, I hope you 2 have a wonderful 2009, oh that and that Calvin the cutie that he is behaves himself, although I doubt it very much but you'll love him anyway. Oh that and you find out the "vegans" sneak bacon rolls now and then..

To Scores, Girl may you never change, keep that "cheeky grin" on your face even if it's only "PC" that gets to see it...

To Savoy, Chin up, things will work out in the end, have a great 2009.

To Louie, May you and Sibby have a great 2009 in Fl, and may those with homework learn to use Google rather than CL:1...

To Mark & Emma, I hope 2009 is as much fun as 2008, I'm sorry I've not been in touch very often but well I've had other things on my mind.

To Richard & Philippa, may 2009 bring you closer together even if you are miles apart.

To Barry, mate keep up the good work, have a wonderful 2009.

To Andy & Karen, you 2 keep loving each other and that sweet child of yours in 2009.

To Jenny & Gregor, may 2009 bring nothing but joy to you and "Gregor" Jnr, even although he do look a lot like his mama, all I can say is when he grows up, he'll break a few hearts just a few..

And Finally this post wouldn't be complete without a mention of my Best mate in the whole world, and I got a few of them and his lovely wife, and their beautiful new ba boy. So To Stu & Annelise may 2009 bring new wonders into your lives, new discoveries, wondrous 1sts and so forth..

Hugs To one and all

And to all a Good night.

Merry Christmas..

Gordon

One Brave Teenager

I normally don't write 2 posts in a day but this story touched me..
A 13 year old girl who had a rare form of leukemia diagnose when she was 5 and the resulting treatment left her with heart problems has won the right to die even although she could get a donor heart which would prolong her life.
She did so because she'd be on drugs the rest of her life to keep the immune system from rejecting the new heart and since she's had to stop taking the other medication the leukemia could return, she stopped it as it would interfere with the pacemaker she has fitted.
The High Court ruled she was old enough to make her own mind up as she didn't want have to beware the rest of her life that the leukemia could return and she's sick of being in and out of hospital as well and has already defied the doctor's by living longer than they said she would. She wants to stay at home and die quietly not tubed up in some hospital far away from home.
She has been offered a trip to Disneyland Florida IF she can find someone willing to cover the special travel insurance she'd need to fly with.
Hannah Jones your are brave beyond measure.
BBC News Link to the story.

I got a networking issue..

Hmm my normal connection to the net is being temperamental, no not the actually connection from my modem to the net but the connection from this computer to said modem / router as it's well dropping data packets which is normally not noticed but it does tend to slow things down a little or a lot depending on what I'm doing, most times i don't notice it but been getting "this path is too deep" errors when transferring files across between pc's or really slow transfers if using other tools. The one major thing where it's extremely noticeable is when I go to talk to my guild mates on "ventrilo" as well my "ping" time goes from a nice 31ms, to well 15-16s i.e 15-16,000 ms and keeps going till all it says is "ping:" nothing else..
I've tried new network card - still the same.
I've tried different operating system to make sure it's not the driver / OS that's the issue - still the same..
I've tried another PC and put ventrilo on that - worked fine, proved connection was okay..
So I'm thinking it's either the 10-15m cable I have installed or one or other of the ends which are machined on and I don't got no ends so can't easily replace them, also replacing them is a freaking royal pain in the ass.

So at some point soon I'm going to either have to replace the cable - easy enough just about as it runs the full width of the house, i.e full length of my room, into the cupboard up the wall into the attic and then along to the other end of the house to my modem/router, or do I get a wireless card and swap routers to a wireless one which I have got!

can we say ouch! update

Okay I tried the dentures in for 4-5 days but nope they ain't working to smart, taking them out causes great pain as the right hand one of the 2 metal clips that are on it, that clip over existing teeth, digs into my gum pretty much right about where the tooth they put on that side is so thus chewing on that side isn't much fun as the tooth jabs right into the jaw and well it's freaking painful. I can't really chew on the left either or rather I can it's just a bind and well after a few moments of chewing using my tounge to move the food around as well It don't wanna move too much it gets sore too..
Well soup, noodles, bananas and the occasional bites of actual real food meant it was a real bind...
So I've taken them out let them know it hurts like hell and I'll try them again in a day or so i.e the weekend when i'm not eating so much got an adjustment appointment next week so we'll see what that brings. Oh and the clip in the gum I think it's scratched the gum..

How Kind....

Someone did a good piece on the death of Paul Newman, he could fit into any role and make it his own, yet his first oscar was for the "Color of Money"...
Now I was reading the newspaper today and came across an article that made me smile.

"It's rare to come across a completely selfless act - just a random act of kindness.
So when the late actor Paul Newman's daughter Lissy said the best way to keep her father's memory alive was to go out and do just that."

The article then went on to test that theory by testing it in various cities around scotland some places were more perceptive than others of course.

So go on make "someone's day", buy a coffee for someone, pay for someone's parking, just give someone some flowers and the like.

News....

Yes well I am alive, functioning as a human no idea!
Work right now is crap someone doing my head in, it's causing me grief and argh I just wanna forget work so I've been playing lots of WoW and CoH etc and throwing myself into doing other stuff.

The house is coming along nicely, apart from my mother and my sisters doing each others heads in they are so alike it's unreal.

I had to go and get another keyboard and mouse as well I think I wore the mouse out or I didn't charge the batteries enough so it kept screwing up..

so what have I been upto then...

I know I've be some what complacent in regard to posting here and reading other peoples blogs, Laura sorry sweetie, Moogie, Barb, Carmi & a few others I do get around to reading yours eventually... Call it the 5hr time difference...
Well that the fact I can't access it at work, the frown upon most things at work or rather due to the fact we connect through someone else's BB link they have websense which locks down anything remotely FUN or that would give power to the users like computer security websites, forums etc..
Also I've been busy coding stuff for my DC team - Free-DC :D, I don't know If I've mentioned this before but I will mention it now as I got suckered into helping a little then a little more and I'm loving it to be honest. Well except when something is missing that would make life easier or so I'd though until I got the missing part downloaded and installed - I mean the server we run on is in Arizona - Timezone "America/Arizona" now what I'm trying to do for 3 potentially different times is instead of it saying for example : Last Update: 06:14 July 20th, 2008 MST it says for me 11:14 July 20th, 2008 BST now I can get it to 11:14 July 20th, 2008 but it still says MST after it and one tiny part that is meant to allow me to convert from one timezone to another doesn't appear to want to play nice and keeps telling me very politely that it can't do that despite the fact I've looked at it and for all intents and purposes it's correct ARGH!
I've done other things like drop in backgrounds in to stats

See nice yes and also been redoing the layout of all the stats and adding themes and other little features that are fully configurable i.e you can set your theme, but only a few can actually change the themes around.
Well that and helping the poor guy who was basically doing it solo, the stats team is now 4 not 2 I'm learning as I go not hit the "big" stuff yet I'll just keep with the front end prettiness thanks all the actually grabbing of the stats data, the parsing it into something we can work with, checking it against the data we already have and updating as required not been there yet as I've never dealt with the language involved before, PHP + MySQL is bad enough along with a bit of linux command line stuff, Secure FTP / Secure SHell windows keeps me on my toes...
Well the house is coming along, we've stopped for a week just because well it was decided it was best.
Back to it next week...
Oh well that and I've been playing World of Warcraft some more as well as new game (well to me) called Command of Heroes - World War II style game where all I will say is the language is "Adult" - the polite version is "let's throw a grenade at them" ... "Let's give them a ****ing pineapple..."
Anyway back to giving things a bit of a chill - flash fried and quick frozen to death... I love being a frost mage.

2 down, 4 to go

Okay folks I am alive, just been a bit busy last weekend as well it all came together finally well just about.
Sitting room is finally done and dusted although the decorator we got in temporarily won't be getting back as he patched the wallpaper badly, let's just say I could have done a better job at the patching as it don't match wouldn't be so bad if it was like in a corner where it wouldn't be seen but this is in the middle of the wall. Never mind it will get fixed. I put the new lights up, side lights went up no problem, went to put new centre light up only to discover that one of the lampshades was missing and another had a crack in it, I THOUGHT SOMEONE was supposed to have CHECKED all them, and the receipt is somewhere "safe" thankfully was able to return it for a direct replacement which is now up and looks good. Carpet fitter was in on Friday so the carpet is down in there as well as the stairs so I can actually go up and down stairs without this horrible echo of creaky wooden stairs. Saturday saw the arrival of the new furniture so now we have a comfortable place to sit down, dining room table and chairs sits nicely in one corner, a glass display cabinet in another and new matching TV stand in a third. So all in all done and dusted. I had to escape on Saturday thought as well I needed to swap the light and I did a little shopping to boot :D Yeah me practicality.
Sunday well that was Bowlplex once more as nephew wanted to go and always asks me just as he's leaving to go home, if I can take him :|... I won but I managed to lose a nice brown top I had in there somewhere, must phone and find out if it's been found yet.

I really should do my own 6 degrees of seperation

Well it's been a bit of a slow week not much happening, really nothing...
Decorator hasn't been here all week but with good reason, poor guys mum died last Saturday so he took the week off, quite rightly so but he had already booked 2 weeks holiday as he should have been finished here by now but alas not.
We found someone else and they will be in Monday to do a bit of the work not sure how much they can do as there are still some walls that need skimmed which he don't do.
Work has been well not quiet as well everybody seems to want to get stuff done and we just can seem to get anything cleared away in order to get stuff done as paperwork etc still has to be done and cleared away and we had an engineer on holiday past 2 weeks.
Oh well back to the grindstone tomorrow I suppose...

My Week / 6 degrees

Here is my real post for today..
So what's been really been happening since my last post on the house.
Well the Painter did come in last Saturday and start doing some work has been here all week, the hall, staircase and landing, the wood work's all been done apart from one piece which can't be done as it's needs to be put back up but that can't go on till the paper goes up of which some had to go back as it was damaged. The walls are all ready for papering now, the ceilings are as well. It has been a lot of work as there is quite a bit of woodwork and a lot of the wall needed to be "skimmed". I went out on Thursday (see my other post today). Oh and is it possible to fuck up more than to kiss a friend when they were feeling bad about themselves or was that a good thing, kissed her goodbye on Thursday as well ? All I can say is my heads screwed up now, hers too, although it was meant to be a simple kiss not how it turned out....
Goes to find shovel so he can bury himself somewhere.

Now moving swiftly on to the other part of the title "6 Degrees".
It is said that there are no more than 6 degrees of separation between person A & person B.
What I'd like you to do is try and get from this blog to your own blog using existing links from either blogrolls or direct post links and post how you did it
i.e Mine > Moogie's World > somewhere else > this one > that one > Your Own blog.
Should be fun I hope.

Catchy song

I heard this song on the radio the other day and it was instantly catchy,
I've found the video for it on You tube, it's seems similar to the UK version one but just the music is slightly different.

and no, I've no idea why this video is so erm "off the wall".

A Poem...

Well I say a Poem, it's more a collection of words that are in lines..

Assassin

I come from the shadows,
And to the shadows I return
Death come swiftly on metallic wings.

I am the taker of life,
Death in an instant or,
Death in what seems like an eternity.

Slow death, quick death,
The choice isn't yours, it is mine,
Mine alone, for I am the assassin.

Poisons to slow you down,
Poisons to kill you faster,
Poisons to cloud your mind.

From the shadows I shall step,
You shall know me, for how briefly,
Only I know that.

For who am I? I am the assassin
Lightning quick, and twice deadly,
You had better pray I am on your side.

I am the assassin,
remember me well,
Death come swiftly from blades of steel.

(c)2008.
Yeah I've been playing my Orc Rogue too much again...

Shopping.....

Why, oh why is it when you go shopping you always end up getting things you need yet you get other things that you didn't realize you needed or are on offer and when you get to the checkout with your shopping trolley, even if it is like the smallest one they have, you've some how spent a small freaking fortune.. I mean this wasn't for like a month, this was for like a weekly shop, I swear it gets more expensive every week.
I mean I then did forget a few things, darn it if I didn't bump into my sister, her friend, the nephew and the friends 1yr old.. that interrupted my train of thought.
Oh and some Energy Saving Bulbs ain't worth it....

....And I thought mp3 was a simple music format

I was of course wrong, it was a relatively simple format when all you had was fixed bitrates and a simple 128 byte v1 tag that was always at the end of the file, then came Variable bitrate formats and version 2 tags with expand on the version 1 tags and then more so, even that's had revisions ever wondered how when you tune into an internet radio station and it will sometimes show you how much of the song / show has been done well that's V2 tags at work right there. I'm saying all this because finally I've just about cracked a fully working ID3 Version 1 / Version 2 tag reader and also a mpeg frame decoder, a bit like animation frames but with audio, that works with a few common mp3 encoders and detects and works out the correct length of time for the audio without having to analyse all of the mp3 file like I thought I was going to have to :-S takes less time. Im going to see if once I've got it all completed I can't do a slight tweak to it and have it as a stand-alone mp3 database tool, it currently needs a webserver to run off as it's written in PHP using a MySQL Database all run on an Apache Webserver although it's possible to download all these and play around and get them working I prefer not to so I found the following solution Xampp it works, great for it you wanna dabble a little, wanna try a templete out on your wordpress but don't want to throw it up online - test it offline, you can pretty much run wordpress straight away although Moveable Type requires the addition of perl (just grab the install from the xampp page and your done). It's how I was able to play around so much with my templete when I was playing around and test it as much as possible but sometimes you just need to throw it online and see.
Oh and on a side note, I didn't get drunk on Saturday night even although I did plan on it, I got "merry" enough to have little voice on sunday due to the amount of singing I did, it was a good band they had doing a medley of current hits with a few from ages past..

It wednesday already!

Hey guys, is it really Wednesday already I seem to be missing a day or something like that. Yes it's been that kinda week so far at work all good of course :). Fully tested a load of new kit that came in last week, well we did ONCE we got all the parts. I'm saying no more than that.. The weather has been pretty good over the last few weeks as you've no doubt seen from the pictures of my guest postee. I'm gonna fess now, I didn't actually go anywhere at the weekend I just stayed in and sipped on some beer, I still ran a few errands on Saturday, saw the nephew on Sunday (he wore me out playing football and stuff). Thus sorry Stanley, Stana was let loose on my DVD collection so she might just come back a little less flat, oh that and she likes my leather jacket I think...