Be Excellent To Each Other

And kick him right up the arse.

Still poorly. Played Chrononauts for a bit. Needs more than two I think.

Yes. Also, like 'Ticket to Ride', those who know the IDs and goals tend to have an advantage.

The 'Videotape of the creation of the Universe (on Betamax)' still cracks me up every time I see it. And it took me years of playing it until I realised that 'Emily' is a perfect name for a lady Brontosaurus.

Spent £30 today on a new strap and battery for my wristwatch. Could have spent half that on a new one, were I not such a sentimentalist (it was an 18th birthday present from my parents).

He's been dragged to the ice rink to watch my son play ice hockey. He'll be harping to my wife for the next fortnight about how he "caught a chill" from the cold.
Added bonus - the cold has affected him so much that he's gone to his hotel for a lie down.

Handy Manny is, if anything, even more fucking annoying than Bob the Builder.

And does he really live in a town called Shitrock Hills?

So, apparently, the drains have collapsed outside the front of the house causing the bay windows to sink into the earth. Which sounds expensive for someone that isn't me.

I'm eating "Mexican Dave's legendary tortilla chips", from B&M. Hot chilli flavour. Bizarrely, they have more of the taste and smell of popcorn or doughnuts than chips. It's kinda repellent.

I've just had a cold call from Virgin media at 8:21 on a Saturday night... Ridiculous!

I sent the lady packing with a flea in her ear. I managed not to swear, but I was slightly angry. We've only just got BabyTheVision to sleep!

Interesting/worrying piece on the so-called 'Columbiners':

http://tinyurl.com/8sz4fee

I've just spent the last hour chasing a mouse of of the building. Will have to go and get some anti-mouse measures. Joy.

I still can't figure out how it got in in the first place, it's not an old building and there don't seem to be any suitable mouse entry points.

I think I've found my guru.

I've there's anything I've learned in 10 years of having a cat, it's that mice appear to be able to fit through gaps around 5mm on a side.

Last week my Ma went to see a "psychic medium" attached to her friend's spiritualist church (and also on the radio). The good news is that she saw through him like grandma's underpants*, but she was saying that while the rest of her friends were having their "readings", his PA was fielding the incessant phonecalls to his mobile. Apparently they'd been getting calls all that morning from some old woman convinced she had a bad spirit flying around her living room and she wanted this snakeoil salesman to come and get rid of it. Made me chuckle anyway.

*My Mam sat close to the door to the room he was doing the readings in, and heard him say the exact same things to at least 3 other people .

I went to a pyschic medium night once and it was just like that Phoenix Nights sketch.. except this psychic used to be a man.

Yeah, in a previous house I was somewhat amazed by the ability of a mouse to fit under the doors where there really wasn't much of a gap

Here, they can't, it seems. Although I've also jammed sheets under every door to prevent any movement overnight, just to be sure. and tomorrow will be having a thorough inspection of the skirting boards and the like. along with buying some (likely ineffectual, from past experience) humane traps to at least see if I still have a mouse problem

I'm also a bit bemused as to why. It's not ground floor, there's no food left lying around for them and it's not particularly warm due to me not turning on my heating yet (Nor the person living under me, it seems) so I wouldn't have thought it was ideal mouse territory.

Hoping it was a single mouse and I scared it enough so that it doesn't return. Seems plausible as the cables it was hiding near don't appear to have been chewed, and it got rather frantic by the time it had been herded out the front door.

I prefer my psychics on the large side.

More aminals.

One of the things I really want to do is get a bat detector and just wander around in the evening, seeing where they are. Amazing creatures - one of my favourite mammals.

Check your washing line.

Nah, you need one of these. They'll come to you then:

Rap crooner Cee-Lo is releasing a Christmas album this, er, Christmas. You'd have never have guess looking at the track list http://www.hiphopdx.com/m/index.php?s=news&id=21433

I look forward to the back cover with him dressed as Santa. Please let him be dressed as Santa.

From late August until about now we have bats in the evening in our garden, munching on the flies and whatnot, they look tiny (although not as small as the one Dimmers posted up there!

Malc

There's bats in the copse behind my house.

Things I didn't expect to see on Facebook this morning:

A video of my friend's girlfriend stood in the shower whilst he sings the Crystal Maze theme and throws bundles of £20 notes at her.

That probably needs to make it's way to YouTube but only if he said "Will you start the fans... PLEASE!"

At first, I thought that said 'bats in the corpse'.

That'd be a great metal album title.

This made me

It's 'Sheetrock Hills', apparently.



It would be a great song too! "And the bats in the corpse and the silver spoon, little boy blue..."

Huh. I've not spoken to my Dad for months (I'm really bad at keeping in touch with people to begin with and therapy... well, therapy hasn't done anything to endear me to him, particularly. And he gave up ringing me, which is fair enough really) but it was his birthday yesterday so I popped round with a card for a chat on my way to a beer festival and asked if he was free for a beer today. "Sure," he said, "I don't think I've got anything on."

Is he answering the phone today? No, no he isn't. And no answer-phone message or text to say he has something on after all.

Oh well. It doesn't really bother me, just enough to come on the internet and write it down, since Hel's in South Africa for work. But I made an (admittedly half-arsed, slapdash) effort. That is, I'm not angling for sympathy, as the "relationship" is pretty much take-it-or-leave-it from my side, I'm just a bit "huh."

He did.

Aw, they live-streamed the Bathurst 1000 on YouTube for non-Aus-dwellers and I woke up/checked the internet too late*.


* Rough calculation says what I mean is "went to bed."

At the North bar. They might as well have my house. Happy birthday me woop woop!

Happy Birthday, Mali! Just pretend it's next weekend instead.

It's actually tomorrow but i have wiek financial stuff to do tomorrow so drinking 9,5% beer right niw is a good thing. Just found out the bar takes plastic. Hooray!

Ah, come on, seven out of fourteen tracks include the word Christmas and he's duetting with the Muppets people!

I would never have thought drinking liquid nitrogen would be bad for you.

Happy Birthday Mali!

Happy birthday Mali.

Thank you. It's great being at work at 8am on your birthday, isn't it?

Happy Birthday Mali

Thanks, buddy! Hope you had a good weekend.

Important beer reports: Brooklyn Brewery East India pale Ale is brilliant, as is "I hardcore you" soemthing from Brewdog at 9.7%. This has nothing to do with my feeling a little peaky this morning.

We have a Brewdog pub in Nottingham. It's ace (this is coming from someone who likes cider, rather than beer!).

They do a stupidly strong beer that they serve in a tiny whiskey glass. It's about 20% and tastes like liquid marmite.

I had two halves of the strong beer (one of each) then switched to Leeds Pale for the next few. We did a bit if the quiz in a pub, but there was a 'draw a comic strip' round, which was stupid so we went home.

Mali birthday, Happy!

Thank you!

Happi BirthdA

Holy crap, I've been doing some research for a friend who's kids want horse riding lessons for Christmas. The place rated as the best riding school nearby charges £33 per half-hour, plus £2 helmet hire for individual lessons. (and they won't let you take cheaper group lessons until you can basically control the horse on your own) 70 quid an hour! And we complain about the price of video games.

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Do we? I thought it was pretty much universally acknowledged that games are good value for money and it's a pretty cheap hobby in terms of £/hour entertainment?