And so it Begins......

Begins what though?
Well I'm going to try and keep up with Moogie in her attempt to take part in NaBloPoMo that's National Blog Posting Month.
I've no idea what I'm going to post about in all reality but I'm sure by the middle of next week you'll have heard all I have to say although I may just surprise myself and you dear reader...

Ratatouille - Finally Saw it

I finally managed to get to see Ratatouille at the weekend. I came out on October 12th over here but I took me to last Saturday to actually get time to see it. I was meant to be going to see that and Stardust with my friend but she couldn't make it saying can't afford it got the road tax to buy and my car is due a service and I don't know how much that will cost....
So I went got one of the good seats again, sat down with my sweet popcorn n soda and watched it.
It was really good. I loved the old woman at the start of the film she was funny...
Remy, he maybe a rat but at least you can say he had impeccable manners and real good taste.
I loved the little head chef with the big maniacal egotistical chip on his shoulder the size of mount St. Helens.
I mean using your departed dead bosses image to sell all sorts of crap is going to come back and bite you in the ass.
It is a funny movie throughout.
If you've not seen it go see it just to see what happens to said little chef and the health inspector who calls at the wrong moment, as well as the food critic who doesn't really like anyone very much..

New Template

Well here we go new template - I know the colours maybe a little off just now but hey I'll get them fixed soon but for now I think they'll work
So what you think of the new look?

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Time to spring clean the template again

Well this template has gotten old, it was probably "old" when I first put it up..
Now just to think of some theme and make it work, oh that and a layout and no I'm not going to use the layout tool thingy blogger now has - to limiting / boring although I may borrow some of the "coding" see what I can put in...

What a week / Raid on Karazhan

I get back to work on Monday all is good and well I think...
We are losing more than half the space we have due to our customer and landlord (glorious!) needs to rent the space out to make money - surprise and instead of having loads of space we have 3 rooms and they ain't that big basically 1 quarter of the space we had so I've been getting bitched at by the bitch I mean the bosses wife :| to get shit done you know the kinda thing 6 things at once, and well need to smart up - well if some people had led by example many moons ago we wouldn't need this crap! To say I had a SHIT f*cking week would be an understatement, I am serious considering another job I've been there 5 yrs and my sanity is going totally and utterly.

Now on to the other part of the title - My guild in World of Warcraft on the Europeon Realm "Boulderfist" finally got around to doing one of the fairly new instances "Karazhan" as a guild rather than as some had before either joined another guild totally or went along with another guild in order to do the damage..
Okay the armor I have on isn't the total best i.e it's not all "Purple" otherwise known as "epic" armor it's mainly "blue" which is pretty good / rare armor. I did all the pre-quests you need to do in order to get the key that actually lets you in the place , yeah that's right you can't just walk in the place you need a key well I suppose you wouldn't want just any stupid idiot walking in :P..
Got in killed all the mobs around the entrance, after that we went on to kill 2 of the main dungeon or instance bosses - Attumen the Huntsman, we did this with 9 people I was running on mana fumes for most of it - I drank to mana potions to recharge my mana these have a 1-2 minute period of time between them as it triggers a cooldown of that length of time and you can't drink it again within the period, I also needed one of the druids we had to throw me an "innovate" to regenerate my mana as fast as possible, by the end of it I even threw my "pet" - a shadowfiend who gives me mana back for every damage attack he manages to do on the selected target - no-one died which was good.
We then thought okay we killed him easy, lets go do another boss, we realised we needed a different set up for this so a few changes of character were made and in we went cleared the room before him of the required number of mobs, then cleared the room he was in. At this point we all stopped, sat down and drank / ate to get mana / health back up and maybe get any specials ready.. We then went on to tackle Moroes, I had a mob to keep at bay as I have 1 unique talent as a priest if it's classed as "undead" i get to "shackle" it this is required as these guys tend to hurt a little bit, it kept breaking and trying to heal and keep shackling drains mana bad, hmm let me see the shackle broke, one of the guys doing mass damage got killed and erm well it all went "pete tong" after that.... not once but erm twice or was it 3-4 times can't remember all I remember is that my repair bill for my armor is around 10g which is thankful not a problem. We did eventually kill him at this point we stopped and called it a night as it's a really hard instance to do we are allowed to "save" our position thankfully!
1st time in the place, 10gold repairs, no loot for me as the rogue got the dagger he was after from moroes:), one of the paladins got the boots from moroes, 1 of the hunters got the crossbow from the huntsman as the hunter had the way better bow from a previous run with another guild..
Me I got nothing - well maybe next time, oh and not bad for my first true "raid" as there was 10 people in the party not the normal 5..
Time to go lie down and go ouch at the repair bill once more...

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!

Happy Birthday to Me..

Well I had a good one :P *hic*

Pop Quiz...........

This has been shamelessly stolen from Heather

You Scored an A

You got 9/10 questions correct. It's pretty obvious that you don't make basic grammatical errors. If anything, you're annoyed when people make simple mistakes on their blogs. As far as people with bad grammar go, you know they're only human. And it's humanity and its current condition that truly disturb you sometimes.

The It's Its There Their They're Quiz

Decided on this one instead of the "How feminine are you" I mean there are limits!

You Are 20% Extrovert, 80% Introvert

You are quite reserved You aren't afraid of social situations... But you very much prefer to go it alone And why not? You're your own best friend!

Are You An Extrovert or An Introvert?

You Are a Good Friend Because You're Honest

Like it or not, your friends are going to hear the truth from you. You know that the truth hurts, but living a life of lies is much worse. So while you're definitely kind and supportive, you don't pull any punches with your friends. Everyone knows where they stand with you. And what you like and dislike about them. While some may be initially turned off by your honesty, your friends have come to consider it a virtue. After all, in world of white lies and deceptive politeness, you can be counted on for honesty and integrity. Your friends need you most when: They need good advice or an intelligent opinion You really can't be friends with: Needy, emotional people Your friendship quote: "True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."

What Makes You a Good Friend?

Your Vocabulary Score: A-

Congratulations on your multifarious vocabulary! You must be quite an erudite person.

How's Your Vocabulary?

It's someone's birthday today

Well just a little reminder from her young scottish plaything to his Wahwer,
Happy Birthday. Go over wish her a happy birthday I can't possibly reveal anymore than that it's her birthday today.

Life - Update!

Well the past 2 weeks have gone where I don't know but gone some place and now I'm finally on holiday hurrah!
To update those of you who are interested.......
My dad had more tests and another x-ray taken the other day and is scheduled to have another scan done in a few weeks then he goes to see the specialist to see what he can sort out. He's been feeling crap up to this point but seems to have brightened up now he knows what's going to happen. No car which means muggins here is having to go shopping on a Saturday, oh the joys!
There have been days when I've just felt like beating my pretty (well some call it that) head against the proverbial brick wall as sometimes I think I'm in a no-win situation over something or other. Having to appear strong and silent and not show anything just well argh I don't know anymore! That was the whole reason for the last few posts - totally left field and ***beats head off wall again*** you know where I'm coming from don't ya...
Oh and I'm beyond help!

That is all...

Okay I've decided this blog is no longer relevant as well I think you know all you need to know about me, my life is non-existent etc so thus no point in having this here now is there....

That is all, move along now nothing to see.

Time for a change?

Okay, I don't know about you but I'm bored with the current colour schemes, the layout's fine maybe just needs a few things moved / changed or actually do I really need a blog at all or just a total 100% makeover of this one, I sometimes truly wonder...
Hint: Blog Fodder!!

How do you top off a shitty week? (Additional)

Well I was told they can't operate but now I'm led to believe they might be able, he just needs to boost his weight a little, hmm he's less than 7 stone (98lb) so hmm we'll see, the specialist he's to see is one of the best so I'm guessing we'll just have to wait and see.
The day after he went in to hospital for something totally different - fluid on the lungs, I went to see a film rather than take mother into see him, well I'm sorry it had been a LONG week, I just needed to go out to totally switch off which around here is kinda hard :|, just been told off about that by the last person I'd have expected but then again my sister is full of surprises.

How do you top off a shitty week?

Hmm well how do you top of a really crappy, shitty fucking week at work?
Well I'll tell you, when you get told something that causes you to kinda lose all sense of reality..

$cmd>Ping reality
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Ping statistics for reality:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

I'm trying to think how to word this and I can't as I'm still trying to get to grips with it myself. I got home yesterday from work, dad was sitting in his car he must have seen me arrive and waited before getting out. He had been feeling great of late was even in hospital last weekend for a few tests to see what was wrong, they thought fluid on the lungs as he was having trouble breathing, no doubt down to his years of smoking but that was apprently the least of the problems. They did an scan on tuesday morning to see if all the fluid had gone and were concerned at something else so more tests were required he got the results of those yesterday, he has cancer no easy way of saying it so I've just said it. He said they can't operate on it so he's just going to live day to day, it's kinda shit but I'll get through it, I think maybe I don't know.
I think that's about it the rest of the day kinda went by a little hazy due to that and oh the quarter bottle of Southern Comfort I drank with coke and ice, well coke anyway ice required me to go downstairs not always easy...

....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..

Okay where was I?

Oh yeah, I am alive people honestly. Hmm I wonder how many times I've said that at the start of a post since I started all of this?
Well Stana, went home last Saturday so it's been kinda quiet around here so it has.
Last Saturday was a kinda busy day for me as well as I sent Stana home, got a gift for my colleague at work as he's getting married today (in about 2 hours at the time of writing this). I also had the entire afternoon planned out, me and my friend susan went to firstly to see Hairspray, this was her choice and I must admit it was a good choice, I was toe tapping along to most of the film and John Travolta as a woman as well as Queen Latifa it was well worth the ticket price, even if we did have to "slum it" in the standard seats as there were no "premier" seats in that cinema - pity. It was then off to the bowling alley to play 3 ended up as 5 games of bowling which basically ended up as close to a draw as you could make it, we then went to "Frank & Benny's", people please remind me - DO NOT have any Starter, the main course is a big enough portion of food, We both had the mushroom alfrado, I had the Spaghetti bolognaise with meatballs and I wish I hadn't ordered it with them as they were big, ended up half eaten but I was Stuffed. We then went to see Transformers kinda my choice and I had actually already seen it due to the fact the lil monkey I mean my nephew wanted to go see it and I took him the day before. I was basically out all day, spent loads of money and as it was the end of the month, my poor bank card was kinda of going into meltdown not a good thing but it was a very enjoyable day out and yes we do plan on doing that again ;).
Speaking of my nephew he's going on holiday for 2 weeks somewhere nice and warm, I think Tenerife not sure though, I got told but erm sorry what was I saying *grins*.
As for work do not even go there..
Why I hear you ask... All the work me, my boss, his son who's the one getting married and even my other colleague aka "the tool" well hmm we don't think he's really all there have spent time getting a new customer's site up and running all the camera / dvr both hardware and software issues resolved only for some people to ignore very specific instructions on what gets done :| as the money involved ain't something to be sniffed at.
Right Im going to go and play World of Warcraft now as I have this urge to KILL things!

Harry Potter

Hmm what can I say about the latest Harry Potter book apart from it's probably the best one. Well that and you seem to find Heroes and Heroines in the strangest of places. I'm not going to say anymore as I do not wish to spoil it for those of you who haven't finished reading it yet. WHY NOT it came out Last Saturday, any fan will have lost last weekend and maybe a portion of this week to reading it.

DND

Okay well I don't think you'll be hearing much from me, nor seeing much of me for erm the next few days :D since I'll be getting a hold of my copy of the Last Harry Potter book today and thus won't really be around much to read / comment on your blogs for at least the next 2-3 days..

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.