Tues 30th Dec 08, 10pm
... is a great woman turning off lights and putting lids back on things, so says Wor Lass. I can't claim to be a great man, but she's certainly a great woman.
Tues 30th Dec 08, 6pm
Have found a good website that links to 98 online conversions of old skool arcade games - here. Anyone fancy a game of Donkey Kong? Like me you'll be 30% nostalgic for a carefree age, and 70% appalled that we considered this the cutting edge of gaming. I can imagine any kid that's grown up with GTA4 will fall into a coma within seconds.
Mon 29th Dec 08, 9am
Nice to see that Hull City, or rather captain Ian Ashbee (below), are getting some good press despite the utterly dire performance against Man City. Ash has been voted by the public -- aka the hard lobbying Black and Amber Army -- as "Morgan On Sport Personality of the Year" in the Daily Nazi. Link to article here.
Though I like the fact Piers Morgan's article talks up Ashbee's journeyman success in taking City up from the fourth division to the Premiership and his loyalty to the club, I don't agree with Rat Face's attitude that David Beckham deserves derision in comparison. (For what it's worth I have far more respect for Becks -- who always comes across as a decent bloke and a good father -- than any binraking hack).
As for the Man City game, if we're being positive we can say they were excellent to watch, obviously playing for their shirts ahead of the transfer window. Ireland in particular, if you can ignore the bizarre bald heed/David Gest beard combination, is on great form.
If we're being realistic Hull's bubble has well and truly burst at last, and Duffen needs to get his chequebook out in January to plug some alarming holes in defence. And Browny, if you don't trust Nathan Doyle as a stand-in left back why have him on the bench?! You may as well have put McShame out there in a clown's outfit, he was so embarassing at left back. Jeez!
Fri 26th Dec 08, 11.30am
For those not up with the newest toy from Apple, the iPhone has motion detection built in which clever bits of software can utilise. So what's the best use of this so far? Speedometer? Measuring long distances? How about simulated jiggling boobies? Tempted to upgrade just for this ...
Wed 24th Dec 08, 9.30pm
No funny Santa pics around this year so this will have to do. With thanks to Roodiedoodie.com.
Wed 24th Dec 08, 9.15am
Had a bit of an accident yesterday. Went to play 5-a-side football at lunchtime, went in for a goal-saving tackle and went over on my ankle, the attacker ignoring the ball and standing on my foot instead. I heard a crack as I went down like an ungainly sack of spuds. Managed to limp back to my desk and put an icepack on, but thought I'd best get it checked out and went down to A&E with Wor Lass.
Five long and dull hours later I hobbled out of the Chiro Clinic with a lower leg cast and crutches. A fractured fibula, apparently "one of the best fractures to have". Thanks! Thankfully apart from the initial pain it doesn't hurt so bad, I managed to sleep OK last night and the cast is fairly comfortable (so far).
My biggest concern is that we're meant to be cat sitting for the next 2 weeks - the house is across town, up a steep hill and down a couple of dozen steps. Not easy going in this condition, and Wor Lass can't drive with her frozen shoulder, so I may need to hire an automatic if I can't cope with the clutch! They do say no good deed goes unpunished ....
BTW did I mention it was a mixed 5-a-side match and I got injured tackling a girl? Now I'm sure Dad's NOT peeing himself laughing right now - Yeah Right, as the Tui ads say.
Wed 24th Dec 08, 8am
Here is the Frank Kelly version of the 12 Days of Christmas, just for give Dad a chuckle. For anyone else not aware of this parody, give it chance to warm up. "Yer've made an enemy of me, yer owld boik!"
Sun 21st Dec 08, 4.30pm
Been given a tip by The Legendary Phil Hall (amongst the various twisted stuff) of a sweet, funny & very well drawn webcomic called The Abominable Charles Christopher. Too strange to describe, if you're into comic art and have an hour to lose then give it a go from the beginning. The annoyance is having to wait a week for the next instalment.
Sun 21st Dec 08 (frickin hell where has this year gone?!), 4.30pm
Waiting around the flat for our next landlords to come with the paperwork. Just hope things don't fall through at this late stage, we've told everyone about the new place so we'll look like right muppets if it breaks down now.
Went up to see the place again yesterday while the weather was being a bit British, and Wor Lass is loving it even more. The next 3 weeks are going to crawl by until we can get in there, I'm sure ...
More shockingly we stopped off at a bed shop on the way out there and forked out just shy of $6k (that's about two thousand of your English pounds) on a Queen sized bed. Yes, one bed. No headboard or linen or servants to rock us to sleep - just a bed.
It's the Rolls Royce of beds, though. Have you seen those Anne Geddes photos of babies sleeping in giant hands or flowers? That's how it made us feel. With the way Wor Lass' frozen shoulder is acting up lately she needs the support to get her through it - the poor thing is zombied most of the time as the least movement pulls on it and wakes her up. And besides you spend nearly a third of your life in bed, so it makes sense to invest in something that will ensure a good night's sleep.
Anyways it won't be delivered until mid-January so we'll be in the new place by then. Did we mention we can't wait? Next up on the shopping list is a gas-powered barbeque - I'm going to become the Incinerator of Meat this Summer. I just need to make sure I don't spend two grand on one ....
Thu 18th Dec 08, 9.45pm
Childish but fun, with thanks to Dailymotion.com.
I really can't get into the spirit in the blazing sunshine, but since there's only a week to go -- or 3 sleeps to go with this flat -- I thought we should make the effort. Merry Christmas to everybody back home, and all the best for 2009.
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