Logic defying Bowling

Okay this one has me scratching my head.
I was looking after the nephew again on Saturday and we went bowling again as well it's a little wind and still a little cold to play football outside that and the fact he's really good at something, Im sure those with little "devils angels" know what I mean...
Okay 3 games for the both of us last Saturday: £ 14.40 not bad really now this is what confused me.
3 games 2 weeks ago, approx same time £ 17.80 or something like that can't find the reciept right now but it will be somewhere - now thing was Im sure I was charged more for my nephews games than I was mine anyone care to explain?

Oh will post on Blog Fodder Topic later in the week.

Oh and as a postscript to the last post - Im not really a "Tom Cruise" fan nor a fan of what is the call it "Scientology" nor a fan of "Kabbalah" both IMHO are a load of phooey, i mean sure you pay a little at church to keep the place going and pay for the minister but hmm that would be like asking you or add to put $1,000 in the collection plate instead of a $1 if you see what I mean.

A Film Review: War of The Worlds

Okay good leading actor in Tom Cruise, good leading actress in Dakota Fanning as his daughter actually her lines were delivered way better ;).
Now I know that some american are classed as "dumb" but classing everyone in the world as dumb enough not realise that hmm oh let's just pave over that, there ain't nothing there or what ever is 100% too far fetched to start with, the lightning - way over kill. Mind you what did I expect it's a "hollywood remake of a classic" which has totally ruined the film, a remake that just about make it is "The Italian Job" it's at least got some class and credability to it.
Back to the current - Im sorry in the original they didn't suck us dry and spread weird vines all over the place. they didn't "walk" about they floated around and it was a heat ray not a "vapourising humans to dust" ray. Oh and another thing when the "tom" was busy hacking the eye to bits he could have at least cut it off like in the original! God damn hollywood can't even get that right.
So all in all a 100% over the top piece of cruddy remake, only thing that made it shine slightly was Dakota, she is one talentled lil lady.
I think were done here.

Blog Fodder - "How does one handle work, home and family (or a combination thereof) without having a nervous breakdown?"

Hmm this topic brought to us by my delightful and camera shy friend Melonie, oh Laura you can tell her I said that :P.

"How does one handle work, home and family (or a combination thereof) without having a nervous breakdown?"
Im probably the least qualified to answer this as well family - nephew, sisters, parents, "home" hmm let's not go there, work .
How do I handle all this without going into meltdown, truth is I don't sometimes I just go "off on one" - let rip, blow of some steam.
My life consists of the following: Monday - Friday: Up at 6:30, out the door at 7, get to work around 7:45, work till around 4, sometimes longer if required, get home around 4:30-5 or later depending on what I've got to do after work.
Saturday / Sunday - I just wanna do nothing, truth be told I just Can't Be Arsed(CBA) doing anything after work / at the weekends.
Nephew some how drag some life and energy out of me when he sees me.
Im going to lay out this logic to show you what I do and I will explain it a little.
If (!at work && !seeing nephew && !out someplace) then location=at pc.
so there we have it, I have no life, only work, my nephew and the occational escape, you can normally of an evening find me sitting at my pc doing something.
I don't do the "social" thing unless I have to, I like to breathe, Moogie, anyone any tips on how to stop someone who's been smoking for > 50 yrs. Let's just say Me on a bad day x 3 and that's my dear father on a good day!
Nervous Breakdown, I doubt I'd know one if it hit me in the face to be honest.
I just get on with it as I've been doing for long enough.
Like I said I do blow off steam sometimes. I did this in what can only describe as a spectacular manner on saturday.
Now as many people know I play "world of warcraft" aka "WoW" now there is an expansion out for it, that went live last tuesday at midnight, 2 new races, a whole new area to go to, new quests, you can now get to lvl 70 instead of 60, etc.
Now I don't have this expansion - don't see the point, current char is a lvl 40 odd rogue. I however was seeing "new race" players with levels higher than me, so to cut a long story short, I basically went and said "there are people who are higher level than me, it only went live on tuesday they are 'NO LIFERS'" and then went on a rant as someone else just ticked me off. For my wonderous effort I got "booted" out the guild by my now former friend, who I've played various different computer games with for a good few years, and to top it all those who had the expansion were getting all the help they needed, I asked and never really got a response! Oh and my former friend and the my Former Guild master now has me on ignore. I DIDN'T EVEN GET TO FINISH what I was saying!!!! So Im having a night off tonight, although my new guildmates might wonder where i am.
Im off to watch the crap Hollywood remake of "War of The Worlds" + some other stuff

Blog Fodder - "Which is more important, intelligence or common sense?"

Hmm Blog Fodder Topic number 7 - quite an interesting one this.
So which is more important, intelligence or common sense?
Im am going to sit on the fence on this one and say you need a mixture of both, some situations call for common sense others for a fair whack of the old bit High IQ.
My mother does say I do lack in common sense but I'd totally disagree with her and say no more on this one..
Im trying to give a good example of a possible situation where common sense would be used over intelligence and vice versa but for the life of me I can't think of one.
I tend to go for the "IQ" solution thus appear to not show much common sense, thus we get this wonderful phrase "if your brains were dynamite you wouldn't have enough to blow your nose...." and also "if you had a brain you'd be dangerous" but I think those phrases are a possible discussion for another day / for someone else to debate (HINT to someone else!).
hmm just thought of a probably example for use of common sense...
"delightful child" : Mom the TV don't work.........
"Mom" : Have you tried pressing the buttons on the front of it?
"child" : Erm no but how would that make a difference it's not working...
"Mom" : try them you might get a surprise..
"child" (after pressing the right button) : Wow, it works but that means Im gonna have to walk to the TV to change channel now (WHINE MODE on!)
"mom" : well it's what I thought, give me the remote and I'll change the batteries in it.
"child" : OH! it needs batteries to work (after having removed them for something else)...
Hmm trying now to think of a IQ example but brain now refusing to work.
I've always been good a working logic out so i probably couldn't give you a good IQ answer as it would be me working it out logically ^ see above it's kinda logically laid out.
IQ answer would probably be those "diagnostical" diagrams you see for somethings,
you know the ones that have a box marked "START HERE" and wind you through various options to establish the fault - now you know how I work things out, but that's off topic so I think I'll leave it there..

MY Answer: I'd say a bit of both is required and each is as important as the other.

Darn Crawler Bots

Hmm the darn well web-bots have been crawling all over the place trouble is they are still indexing something that is well about a year out of date the pictures from LAST Winter I took, put on my webserver and linked them out - I moved them to flikr and deleted them now hopefully within a week they'll no longer be index NOR will this place..

How well do people really know me..

This is a shameless re-write of a post by Heather.
I've been thinking about this one, how well do people really know me and this includes my family. I think there are very few people out there who really know me, most of them are in the UK, with a small number of people scattered around the globe that know me in varying degrees. I mean if I think about it I know people or Im related to to people from all corners of the globe. Now to the crux of this post or rather the question.
The question is: "How would YOU finish this sentence: If you really knew me, you would know…."
Now I'm not exactly sure how anyone would answer this as I'm terribly slack with the e-mail I do get around to sending e-mails out, and replying to ones sent to me some get answered quicker than others but it's not by virtue of who sent it, it's often what the e-mail is about. Feel free to puruse the archieves if you wish, to perhaps get an better insight to me. Leave a comment if you wish I suppose it's just me asking you to tell me what you think of me, I'm not being vain or anything like that. Oh and you don't need to "fudge" the answer in order to spare my feelings, I can take it...
Filed Under: Personal, Honesty

Recommendation Perhaps...

It's 2 in the morning and posting on here, oh boy...
If you can find this on the radio or download I dare you to listen to "Mika - Grace Kelly" and tell me it's not one of those songs that sounds like it should annoy you like heck but you can't get out of your head because it's SO, SO darn well UP Beat...

At Last!

At last I've got it to work, what work I hear you ask...
Well the thing that's been bugging me for while ever since I put the themes script in, I could get it to work locally but the second I put it on the web it fell over and flat refused to work with Firefox so I put a work around till I got around to fixing it, it worked perfectly well in IE (the EVIL web browser from MS), which in it's IE 6 carnation suffered 284 days worth of buggage with 93 days worth of no fixs for them, where as Firefox suffered only 9 such days, even 9 is a lot of time, The Story From El Reg!.
Now that aside what I got working you may not even notice if your just running the default "The Blues" theme, there are others I now just need to maybe tweak the color schemes a little to get them to look nicer...
Oh and I've thought of an idea well a play on an existing idea, it goes a bit like....
"Hi There, Gopher sent me but blame michelle..." you can see what Im getting at that's right it's a total rip off from Michelle's Infamous Blog, see the link on the left hand side to go there...

Blog Fodder - "What is your most memorable meal? Why?"

Welcome to blog topic number 6 and the topic this time is "What is your most memorable meal? Why?"
Hmm this is a tricky one for some unknown reason it's not that there are that actually "memorable" meals, it's the simple fact that right now I can not think of a single meal I've had in recent or distant history that I'd class as memorable, honestly..
I mean it's not like I get invited to dinner parties a lot, I don't never been invited to one yet, I don't have girlfriend at the moment so that that line out the window, and by the time I get home from work I rarely feel like cooking, actually come to think of it I rarely feel like cooking period, I only do it when I have to, I suppose like many things in life, well actually I don't have a life, I have "work", i have "sleep", I "game" to relax a little, I do go see the odd film now and then, I do have a large DVD collection and I do have a nephew to dote on.. That is all I have, so you can see that "memorable" is kind of a mute point here. That is all.

Blog Fodder - "Tell us something about someone...."

I know this is Blog Fodder #5 but I've been kinda busy with work and other stuff and totally forgot to like post for parts of the week and I did kinda promise that I might post..
So here goes
" Tell us something about your in-laws (funny, memories, etc.). If you don’t have any in-laws, pick a relative like siblings, parents, etc."

Im going to talk about as always my nephew, now i know he can be a total pain in the BUTT sometimes, I do mean that btw. I mean christmas day was a day his parents got off from having him say come play every 5 minutes... I had to go play his mew playstation games with him and stuff it was all fun but I needed 5 minutes to like BREATHE!
it was fun though.
Gosh it does seem like yesterday that I was holding the small bundle of joy that was realativly quiet to the bundle of joy that still loves his hugs and stuff.
He does love his football as well, doesn't mind being in goal but when he lets 1 or 2 in has been known to spectacularly lose it...
Now when i say lose it, i do mean pretty much full blown temper tantrum which isn't pretty to watch, calming him down is tricky at best as you can imagine but once he's calmed down he's okay and when he's up as striker he like to get the ball and try and score goals which he can do. On the subject of tackling say no more I have had the bruised shins to prove it, he goes in hard but as goes for the ball as much as possible if the player happens to get in the way its too bad, he has been "put off" for it once.. After the match is quiet funny too depending on how it went, he'll whine a little or a lot depends on how it's went, it will go along the lines of "If x had passed to me I could have scored Uncle Gordon and y didn't tackle he just stood their and they scored because of it". It's funny I do try not to a laugh as he takes it SO seriously I can see him being a team captain some day. If I've taken him to football we normally end up at the nearest McDonalds, he likes "chips" ("French" /"Freedom" Fries for you americans) and sometimes chicken nuggets, it's hard getting him to actually decide what he wants so I just say to him to tell them what he wants, they just shake their heads understanding what he wasts, small drink to go as well, oh and Tomato Ketchup - the proper stuff, you know the "Heinz" Tomato Ketchup :D
It normally ends up he has his chips and half of mine, since I polish off the big mac and some chips and that does me..
I know exactly where is temper comes from as well, his mum, my dearest sister as well hmm I used to be that bad... I've calmed down a lot since then...
HONEST! :P

Happy New Year

Happy New Year one and all.. Welcome to 2007 wonder what this year will bring.
Well it's back to work for me tomorrow so nothing has really changed yet. Work, Work, Work, Sleep, Eat, Work.... hmm no change...

Well that's it over for another year!

Hmm well Im fine as along as all I need to live on is fresh air for the next week, my bank account feels like it's been robbed, but ah that's christmas...
Well had fun yesterday, actually had fun christmas eve as well *blush* but Im saying no more than "I now know what Melonie looks like :D"....
Now what did I get I hear you inquire, politely of course..
What did I get actually, kinda a blur and NO there was No alchol involved well none drunk anyway.. I have to my name now, 2 litre bottles of Baillies Irish Cream :D, 2 litres of Premix'd Bacardi Breezer - hmm I'll enjoy too, 1 litre each of orange n watermelon. I got a litre for simply putting some songs on an mp3 player for someone's christmas, the other litre is from work. The Bacardi + 2 bars of toblerone, I got from my friend susan (should hint at her that well my ex used to give me that every year ;) ). Every practical are my 2 sisters, the oldest one game me a 2 handed car polisher and Mission Impossible 3, the other one much nicer present :D - A Cappachino coffee set and a t-shirt, I also got a tall latte cup set from my dear nephew along with some after 8 mints :D..
From my boss n his wife I got a winter car car kit and from my other colleague at work (aka the boss's son), his girlfriend I got your standard sports shower kit.
From mom n dad I got well a new pair of trainers, a new dolphin n whale calander, some shampoo n conditioner (well I gotta keep the hair in shape) and the latest Sue Grafton book "S is for Silence" which I look forward to reading..
That's about it. I had a realitly quiet christmas day, punctuated by requests from newphew to go play some new game on his PS2, what I get for agreeing to have dinner there..
Oh work was quiet and peaceful :)..

Merry Christmas

Well Guys Merry Christmas to one and all, I've got a "christmas day" off, as well as this weekend so no major plans - well actually will be glad to get back to 8hrs of chaotic nothingness, the rest of the office day staff get till the 3rd off but not me, doesn't bother me I get christmas day off - does me..
Like I said I'll be glad to get back to work, why - well Saturday looking after the nephew in the morning so no nice long lie in bed which I could do with..
Late Sunday I have to sneak up and set up his new PC, and well monday I'll be there for good while as Im having christmas dinner there, no parents to drive me INSANE either! It's sometimes good to have sister not talking fully to parents...

Have a Good one :) I'll catch you after christmas

Darn It I've just been tagged!

I have just been tagged by Tina (Junebugg you got a lot to answer for :P)! It didn't hurt. The cold / flu / whatever I got is annoying but it don't hurt that much either
Ok this is how it works. The player (me) must list 3 things that I would love to get for Christmas. Then I must list 3 things that I definitely do not want to get for Christmas. Then I tag 5 friends and list their names. The one I tag needs to write on their blogs about their Christmas wishes then tag 5 more people. They must also clarify all the rules. When you tag someone you need to leave a comment that says "you've been Christmas tagged!" in their comments and tell them to read your blog.

My Christmas Wishes:

1. For my friends to be happy over christmas time
2. The the "Politically Correct" Idiots that are ruining things because "it might offend!" to get lost somewhere..
3. Size "0" to come with a HEALTH WARNING!

My Christmas Don't Wants

1. No more junky crap credit card forms, waste of a good tree
2. No More SPAM E-Mail! I get enough thanks 10,928 reported pieces of spam so far..
3. Something that is of absolutly no use to me - covers a lot that does..

Tagged:
Okay Melonie, Laura, Heather, Moogie & Jean-Luc your all up...

Blog Fodder - "What is the best practical joke you have ever participated in, or one that was done on you?"

Hmm this is a very interesting one for me as well you'd think funny type guy like me would have played many a jolly jap but not really..
There is only one and I only set it up, I wan't part of the execution..
Im sure Universities through out the world have a "charities" week where various people raise money for univerisity nominated charities.. This was a rather good one as it turned out but not obviously on the person played.
There was one group who you paid to go arond and give people a "Gorilla-o-gram", thing was we had a very boring, and I mean "yawn" boring lecturer that well hmm I think we all secretly wanted to "get", I paid the sum of money required and told them who I wanted to be politly told "No way, he'd had one done on him the previous year and didn't take too kindly to it", so into my head pops the name of my best mate "stu", who somehow is still my best mate even although he's now living it up in Norway.
The lecture cometh, Im sitting "nearby" and in comes Mr Gorilla-o-gram, looking for stu, who he promptly spots and then proceeds to feed bananas to, well what you expect. The look said it all, he weren't impressed and I was doing the best I could to keep a straight face as Im sure were many others..
It turned out that hmm it wasn't such a good idea that day as he wasn't feeling 100%.
Now your wondering was there a revenage-o-gram done, no just a nice thick Archlever to the head from a great height, given stu is like 6'4" and he was standing on a small brick wall, about a 5' drop, next to one of the lecture theaters as the doorway was like below the corridor level so there was a space for people to wait to get in, etc, and me being 5'2" you can imagine the impact, it'd didn't hurt either *thud!*
I think that's me done...

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I'll be glad when it's all over....

I will be glad when dec 26th rolls around, it will mean it's all over for another year!
It's not that I don't like christmas I do, I love it up to a point, just the endless buying of presents and the wrapping of them and the wondering is this the right gift etc... Basically between work and thinking of / buying of presents, and other things I've not really had time to blog (apart from the Blog Fodder of course). I'm also hoping that the 7 people I sent christmas cards to got them okay, I know I sent them in enough time just wondering if Darkish Gold Envelopes and a thin(ish) black pen to write the address was a good idea! I saw that cards and went those are really nice, didn't think of the envelopes till after. Never mind there is always next year.
The time of this post is spot on, it is 1:30am, Sunday Morning, Im awake (well awake enough) so therefore I blog..
Things to do: Wrap presents TODAY!

Blog Fodder - "Do you have any memories of a childhood illness?"

Hmm I do, kinda have hazy memories of being ill as kid..
I had to be real ill to be able to stay off school..
I mean little cough or the cold, Off to school I had to go..
Only 2 times I can think of I was off school.
1 was when hmm I'd have to be 7-8 I got the chicken pox, Im sure those who have had that can remember it's not very nice. I felt crappy all the time, I did manage to get to snuggle up under a duvet on the couch, head on pillow next to nice warm fire most of the day, only moving when I had to..
The other time I'd be in high school and well I was an IDIOT, I got off the school bus, walked in front as I knew he wouldn't move, quickly checked both ways then ran, hmm poor guy had pulled out from behind the bus, real slowly (ain't the same school bus rules as you have in the US) he hit me, I went flying (which I don't remember) about oh 25 yrds.. basically from where the bus stop was on one side to where it was on the other.. I came round it hurt like freaking HELL!
I did get a nice trip in the Ambulence to the local hospital to check it out. It hurt too much - it wasn't broken just bruised - guess Im made of tough stuff.
I was off school for 2 weeks, hmm doing certain things for the 1st few days was interesting.. I was excused from PE (gym) class for a further month I think, one of the teachers was head of department and I had told him and he'd said no gym for a month (I think)other teacher gave me a punishment exercise for forgetting my kit - it was revoked quick enough and it didn't happen again..
Oh and I was more careful getting off the bus from then on..
Yeah I had a cruel mom that made me go to school even if I felt miserable - maybe a few days here and there when feeling sick but not many..

There all done now...

Blog Fodder - "Tell us about somebody who has changed your life, even if just a little bit."

Hmm well this is the Blog Fodder Topic this week.
After some careful thought, I'd have to say my two older sisters have changed my life for sure, I may not have always been nice to them but they knew it was just me being a typical little brother otherwise known as being a pain in the hiney. I suppose it's really the younger of the two that changed my life the most, she was the one I'd turned to for help and advice, not my parents for some reason which is buried deep in my psyche and in unlikely to become anymore forthcoming. Now I get asked for help, okay it's only help with the computer stuff but it's help.. I do have a few friends that have changed my life, there is a post I did recently about a time in my life I'd love to be able to forget, as for without the friends I had then, many of whom I staying semi-regular contact with I probably wouldn't be writting this entry. If I was to name one of them it would have to be Stu, who I got to know really well and we kinda saved each other, now he's moved to Norway with his wife of many years oh could I tell you a tale about those two but I won't. As I've gotten older I've gained new friends both through the internet itself and more recently this place i.e the blogsphere. I suppose even the creator of the "blog fodder" should be included in my list as well she did introduce me to so many other people on here.
I'll let someone read this and go red at the though ;)
I don't think I can really write anymore than that, I don't need to go into detail as well it's hard to pin-point most of the "change" stuff I suppose.

Blog Fodder - "What are some of your memorable experiences at school?"

Hmm well I thought on this and initially I couldn't think of any as well I was the quiet one, you know the type I mean. They sat in class go on with their work, had a few friends they hung about with but not much more at primary (junior) school. They didn't really take part in stuff and generally got picked semiantly last when their was a team picking event (they did generally give their all for the team though). On to high school (whatever the US equivlent is I don't know), much the same, maybe different friends, didn't go in for any of the school events etc, very quiet did the work required of them, just go on with it didn't mess about (often ending up a "teacher pet" or "class swot" tag :-S). You get the picture
Well there were a few now that I come to think of it although maybe not.
The First one, I do remember doing was the Royal Botanical Gardens in Glasgow and a victorian house museum the exact name escapes me given this was 20+ years ago are you surprised, got pictures and everything somewhere (of me and some classmates and the actually gardens). I won't say much more as well hmm as remember how your always told to go before ya leave, hey I couldn't I did try and well hmm I dont' think I need say any more Im erm erm never mind....
One of the few school trips I ever did, seriously there generally one arranged for 2 weeks away for like Primary 6-7 (10-11yr olds) but i never did go on it.
Another trip I do remember was one to another museum, this time down in the borders, absolutly lovely, I'd be oh 16 by this point, so say 6-7 years had passed since last trip and well I go up that day I did plan on wearing something that wasn't school uniform but I don't know I think I hit the auto pilot and well got stuck all day in the uniform, embarressing in another way but then we went to Fat Sam's Restruant in Edinburgh for a meal then back to the school that was fun for sure.. See 2 totally divergent one's
Hmm a third could be a letter that was written as part of a school project when I would have been 13, we each had to pick someone, or some organisation and write to them with a valid question. I know one person wrote to NASA about something and got a whole load of info back, so I hear you ask who did you write to and what was the question. I wrote to the Queen about her corgi's (for some reason - reason escapes me I think erm maybe It was slipped to me). i got a very nice letter back and given my mothers penchant for keeping some things I believe it's probably still around somewhere, it wasn't from the Queen personally but one of her Ladies in Waiting, quiet a nice letter about the fact it's not just corgi's but dorgi's (a daushound / corgi cross) she has as well (or had)..
Okay that's enough "experiences" I think.. Actually that's probably them all.

The names Bond, James Bond....

Oh my this film is funny, still got the action but funny. It's got that quirky british black humour in it in parts and just good old quirkyness else where, no Q, not gadgets as such but hmm it makes up for it.
Good night overall: Hit Pizza hut had a pepperioni Pizza with a twist on stuffed crust idea - very good, we were "stuffed" - lol. Got the cinema paid for tickets, got drinks n popcorn I may have been stuffed but there is always room for popcorn..
I can't say much more as well for a lot of the "humour" you need to have seen the film.