03 Jan 2009
Spaced
My brother and his family came to visit today. Cool day.
Photos here.
01 Jan 2009
Fatty lamb flaps
The national dish of Tonga apparently.
Christmas and New Year then…
Er it was ok I suppose.
On the 25th I had a number of guests. K, her mum and a guest of theirs came for dinner in the afternoon. They only arrived 75 mins late but that wasn’t terrible as I’d built in 60 mins worth of late arrival into my cooking time. Food turned out pretty damn well too.
Later on I had friends over and we sat and chilled in front of a roaring (literally) fire and played D’s new board game present thing.
A perfectly pleasant way to end the day.
In the days after I’ve started to do a bit more around the house now my arm is actually letting me.
Yesterday I had my appointment with the fracture clinic. They were right happy with how it’s progressing and I’ve now been discharged from them. Annoyingly driving is still a no no. Grr. I need to have a meeting with work soon and then we’ll figure out what’s happening next.
Last night was spent with the Plumpton-Bears and nice food and munchies were the order of the evening before swearing at the numbnuts who live near them.
And that was that. Home and it’s freezing.
25 Dec 2008
That’s the spirit
And they say us godless folks are the ones killing the magic of Christmas.
[Note to my folks: This isn't a happy children friendly Christmas song, really not.]
Aren’t the Westboro Baptist Church lovely?
Have a lovely day y’all.
24 Dec 2008
Bendy telly
It’s late/early and I’m still up. I was watching DVDs of House but I’ve just switched onto normal telly and was about to go to bed but I’ve just discovered that they’re televising this.
Top notch! Looks like I’ll be up for about 30 mins or so.
22 Dec 2008
Meme fit
There have been a couple of “fill this out” type wotsits zooming around the planet via Facebook and wotnot recently. As I can’t be doing with FB much then I decided I’ll do them here rather than there.
So number 1: I did something very similar before [here] but here’s the new one:
1. Put your iTunes/iPod/MP3 player on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!
4. Tag any friends who might enjoy doing the same as well as the person you got the note from.
1.What is your motto?
Surgical Savior - Jarboe
2.What do your friends think of you?
A Wake up of the Spring - Diko Iliev
3.What do you think about very often?
M.A.G.I.C Speed Ball - Teranoid+MC Natsack
4. What is 2+2?
B1937 x unknown - SETI
5.What do you think of your best friend?
In Taberna - Carl Orff
6.What do you think of the person you like?
Jungle Rock - The Fall
7. What is your life story?
Clay Man - SWANS
8.What do you want to be when you grow up?
ICQ Terror - MC Sharpnel
9.What do you think when you see the person you like?
Fleisch Blut Haut - Einstuerzende Neubauten
10.What do your parents think of you?
Massacre Rite - The Mbuti Singers
11.What will you dance to at your wedding?
Cold Water - Contagious Orgasm
12. What will they play at your funeral?
Love Isn’t Blind - KK Null & Ichiro Agata
13. What is your hobby/interest?
Powerpuff Gabberz - DJ Yousuke
14. What is your biggest secret?
Water Babies - William Orbit
15. What do you think of your friends?
Wrong Place, Right Time - The Fall
16. What’s the worst thing that could happen?
Taal Zaman - Transglobal Underground
17.How will you die?
Dancas Ocultas - Neia
18. What makes you laugh?
Darshan vs Luniz - DJ Dippa & B21
19.What makes you cry?
MKDSL - Poslednja Voznja
20. Will you ever get married?
Mummys - Blectum from Blechdom
21. What scares you the most?
Divine Death - Napalm Death
22. Does anyone like you?
Canto X - Andreas Ammer & FM Einheit
23. If you could go back in time, what would you change?
Rock of Gibraltar - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
24. What hurts right now?
Asche zu Asche - Rammstein
25. What is the one thing you regret?
Two Turntables and a Moog - Alec Empire
26. What will you post this as?
Basscadet - Autechre
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And onto meme 2 (courtesy of Lydia)
Go onto Google and use your first name in the following lines. Write the first one that makes any sort of sense:
Q: Type in “[your name] needs” in the Google search.
“Alan needs a new pair of shorts - I probably do.”
Q: Type in “[your name] looks like” in Google search.
“Alan looks like someone who skinned some guy and is wearing the face.”
Q: Type in “[your name] says” in Google search.
“Comedian Alan says sorry from Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England ) in Business provided free by Find Articles.”
Q: Type in “[your name] wants” in Google search.
“Now Alan wants a jet boat.”
Q: Type in “[your name] does” in Google search.
“X Factor fake Alan does know his parents.”
Q: Type in “[your name] hates” in Google search.
“Alan HATES boardgames, hates them so much, that it made me wonder.”
Q: Type in “[your name] asks” in Google search.
“Sir Alan Asks Kylie To Do Apprentice for Charity.”
Q: Type in “[your name] goes” in Google search.
“With Brazilian Top Team members Alan Goes and Vitor Belfort both vociferously demanding rematches with Sakuraba, anti-Sakuraba feeling is rising in Brazil.”
Q: Type in “[your name] likes ” in Google search.
“Tyrannosaurus Alan likes big butts.”
Q: Type in “[your name] eats ” in Google search.
“Alan eats a huge salmon’s face.. teeth and skull and all.”
Q: Type in “[your name] wears ” in Google search.
“In Mesmer (1994) Alan wears long velvetty robes, has long hair, and works in a drafty office filled with potion bottles and other sorts of weird objects.”
Q: Type in “[your name] was arrested for” in Google Search.
“Alan was arrested for felony domestic violence after allegedly hitting his wife two times or more on her cheek with closed fist.”
18 Dec 2008
Worthless
I looked into how much my car is worth yesterday.
Play fanfare for ……
£40!
Ta-da.
So I could sell my ever reliable chariot and still not be able to take out my friends for a curry on the proceeds.
Sigh.
16 Dec 2008
Enforced indolence
Got a call from my boss this afternoon. It seems that I can’t go back until after I’ve been cleared a: by the fracture clinic and subsequently by b: the occy health dept.
My fracture clinic appointment is at 3pm on the 31st December (aarggh!) so I can’t inform my boss until the 2nd which means I might get the occy health appointment at some point the week beginning the 5th.
So hopefully I’ll be back at work on or around the 12th Jan.
Problem is what to do in the meantime.
Christmas Day is pretty sorted but the rest of this week will be a pain as I’m still not able to manage basic jobs, such as washing up, with any real success.
Oh and the other depressing thing about today was seeing an entire section in WHSmith this afternoon with book covers depicting faces of misery. Looking up I saw that the section was entitled “Tragic life stories”. Blimey. I didn’t think there was quite that appetite for unrelenting misery. Maybe I should try and get Lilya 4-Ever in that section. It might shift a copy or so more.
11 Dec 2008
Zams
I want to know the cleverness of my readers so all of you have a go at this
What’s your scores?
[edit: Wordpress has just been updated and the "recent comments" bit on my browser is not working. Does it work with you?]
[edit 2: As soon as I posted the previous edit it seemed to start working. One to keep an eye on I reckon.]
09 Dec 2008
Top month
I love December. It’s a month full of wonders.
Highlights include it being cold, it being wet, it being dark, crappy Christmas music in every shop, crappy Christmas lights outside every lower class filth’s house for a month, and no doubt more I can’t be bothered to think about any more.
Last year I had a good trip to South Africa and returned to a burgled house. Clurb had her bike nicked as well.
This year P&C have had a brick thrown through their window and I’ve now managed to get myself a fracture at my elbow (radial head).
Really not best happy.
Bad end of year.
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Edit: what happened:
I was standing on the end of a rola-bola facing some people whilst chatting. Someone then stood on the other end in an attempt to balance the board. The first I knew about it was when I went flying and landed on my left arm. It did hurt rather a lot but I didn’t think anything was broken as my hand didn’t go numb.
But this morning I made it to work but couldn’t put any pressure through my left arm. One of the doctors I work with more or less insisted I go to A&E. Quick trip there and a couple of xrays later I have confirmed fracture.
So now I’m off work at least 3 weeks. This is seriously annoying. I have teaching to do. I’m supposed to be interviewing next week. And patients won’t be getting seen. Until it’s mended I can’t drive either.
Damn.
03 Dec 2008
Bad day
Today hasn’t been a good one.
Started in a filthy mood after very little sleep. Wednesdays are long days for me too. Loads of patients, bang bang bang one after the other.
I was so tired that I did seriously consider going home at lunchtime.
But I stuck it out.
I’d driven as well, normally I’d cycle as my German class is tonight.
But after toying with the idea of skipping the lesson to get more sleep I decided to go after all.
Drove through horrible traffic and at ridiculously slow speeds only to find that there’s no parking at the uni tonight. Assumedly because of this.
So to try and find a parking space anywhere near.
Failed.
So I gave up and came home only to hit even worse traffic.
So I’ve been an hour getting home in traffic I’ve not experienced since I lived in London to find a cold house and no company after what was, again, a spectacularly shit day.