XXX 2 - The Next Level

XXX 2 - The Next Level: Not a bad action film, not as good as the 1st one. Some parts were really daft like when he jumped the car onto the railroad tracks. But I didn't exactly put the movie on expecting it to be true to life. Sometimes all you want are some explosions, some nice women and some cars. Thats exactly what you get, an escape from reality for 90 minutes :-)

Live Each Day

I have realised over this year that rather than just dreaming and wishing for stuff. I have to make it happen. Been dreaming of coming into money since I was about 12. Well I think after 14 years of dreaming about it, it ain't gonna happen. Anything I want in life I have to get off my arse and achieve myself.

This is the best attitude to have, I've had more fun the last few weeks and been so much happier by actually making stuff happen. I hope some stuff starts going right for a couple of my close frends too as well!!

My moto no. 1: Live each day as it comes (Live for Today)
My moto no. 2: Live each day as if its your last
My moto no. 3: Stand by your true friends
My moto no. 4: Be totally honest with your loved ones

I'm sure I have lots more but these will do for now, serving me well at the moment. Someone asked me the other day if I have a terminal illness as I'm suddenly doing all sorts. Err not that I know of, I hope not I'm having to much fun to die yet!!

House

Another house along my street has just come up for sale. I had intended to put buying a house on hold until the new year and do some stuff off my list 1st.

I will give the Estate Agent a ring on Monday and will at least have a look at it.

The house is up for £74,000 not sure I can really afford that on my own, anyone wanna marry me and move in?

If I had to pay that I think I might have to get an interest only morgage for 2 years. Don't really like the idea of only paying the interest and not the actual mortgage. Anyway the house might be crap. The worst thing about the houses in my street is they look shit from the outside!

The picture and description below are taken from the Estate Agents website:


TWO BEDROOM MID TERRACED PROPERTY. Offering good sized accommodation, having the added benefits of GAS CENTRAL HEATING and UPVC DOUBLE GLAZING, which should prove economical to maintain. The accommodation comprises in brief detail of ENTRANCE PORCH, LOUNGE with feature fire surround, SEPARATE DINING ROOM and KITCHEN fitted with an ample range of oak units. To the first floor are TWO GOOD SIZED BEDROOMS along with BATHROOM fitted in coloured three piece suite. Externally the property is offered with GOOD SIZED GARDEN TO FRONT and OFF ROAD PARKING along with REAR YARD and pleasant views.

Work

I've spent a bit of time out of the office this week, which I'm always happy about :-)

I have been to our Darlington office a couple of times this week, after recent events at work I have had my ear to the ground even more than usual. I just hadn't realised how bitchy some people can be. I left the office quite angry with some of the things I heard. There are some nasty fuckers working there!!! (maybe they don't mean to be, but after my last 3 visits I have totally changed my opinion).

Besides for hearing some bitching at Darlington I have had a really good week again, it's not because the work is any better its just I am in such a good mood at the moment :-)

Thursday

I've skipped over most the week and jumped straight to Thursday but did have a good time at the beginning of the week.

Some of the people at work had contacted me and Katy to see if we wanted to go to Chester-le-Street on Thursday night to see a Status Quo Tribute band. I think Ken sang down the phone to Katy. She persuaded me to go somehow, don't think I take much persuading to go out.

I ended up driving, otherwise I couldn't of really go there. We ended up meeting up with the others in some bar. We walked in and there was no one there and it was totally silent. I thought where the hell are we?

Eventually after about an hour we went over the road to the Chicago Rock, it was a lot better in there. I got some drinks in for me and Katy and was asked to fill in some form for later on where I could win some money or something.

The worst thing about the night was that I was the only person who wasn't drinking, I can sometimes get pissed off when its like this. Luckily it wasn't too bad I still had a good night. The band didn't come on until 10:30, they started playing a song and I was thinking I can't remember Status Quo singing this. It turned out that the Status Quo tribute band wasn't on. That was probably a good thing, the band who was on did all sorts of songs.

I had a good laugh at Norman dancing away at the front with his "dad" dancing, but he was having a good time. I decided I wasn't gonna dance, not when sober after seeing Norman. A couple of the others ended up dancing as well.

It ended up costing me quite a bit, some how I ended up in the round with the others. I was trying not to with only drinking Pepsi and they were on pints. Think it cost me nearly £19 for a round, expensive bloody coke. I'm never tight but I was a bit pissed off when 4 of them left the drinks.

It ended up a good night but would of been better if I hadn't been driving!

Last Weekend

As I said before I did a post last Sunday night with what I had been up to over the weekend but it never appeared.

On the Friday I went to Sedgefield (Durham Night on Tour) I tried not to drink too much because I had to get up to go to Glasgow in the morning and really didn't want to be hungover on the bus. A few of the regulars were there, although quite a few couldn't make it. I got there and there was only me and Jim were there. It was also Jims leaving night.

Eventually a few more turned up and Katy, Simon & Mandy arrived. Who I normally talk to on nights out, well I guess I talk to everyone ;-)

Not gonna say too much but I spent most of the night people watching, strange what you pick up on when not drunk. I succeded in not being drunk!!

On the Saturday me, Jay and his dad (Alan) were going to watch Nigel Wright box in Glasgow. We went on the bus with the rest of the Barmy Army about 40 odd I think. It was a good laugh on the way there as some of them are nuts, everyone was passing mobile videos about the bus using bluetooth. People kept sending me them hadn't a clue who from, probably coz my phone name is 'Horny'.

Once we got there it was crap, there was only one bar and it was more of a restaurant than a bar. After 1 pint we decided we'd had enough and about 8 of us went for a taxi to take us to some pubs. The Taxi drivers took us to the Wheatsheaf in Renfrew, we spent an hour or so in there before deciding to find another bar. We wandered along some street and tried a working mans club but it was choca and could hardly get through the door. When we came back out we asked a couple of lasses where to go. They pointed us in the right direction.

We ended up in the Black Bull, when we went through the door it was quite busy and I think half of the people in the bar must of been fishing as they had their gear with them. We got talking to some locals at the bar and had a good laugh with them. One of the reasons we had ended up in there was because it said Karaoke, most of the lads I was with were either in a band or love singing (except me, fog horn comes to mind). The Karaoke didn't start until about 8 and we needed to be back at the arena for 7:30. After a couple of pints we headed back.

We got there about 7:15 and saw the end of some other fight, nothing special. Our seats were quite a long way away but high up so you could see everything. Once the fight time got nearer, Jay and Alan went down to the front right by the ring, as it was empty this early in the night. They waved at me to come down, so I followed them. I think about another 20 lads must of followed me down. As the fight was about to get under way some bloke asked me and Alan if we had tickets, we just said "yes" and ignored them (well we did, but not for front row seats).

There was a load of Scottish lads too our left shouting for the lad Nigel was fighting, so we took up the challenge and out sung them but we were so busy singing the fight started and most of us were looking at the the lads we were shouting at. I just turned my head and saw Nigel knock the other lad down, 2 minutes into the fight. That was it, the fight was over. I think I was one of the few of us to actually see it, everyone else was too busy shouting.

We went back to out seats and the same 8 of us who had gone to the pubs earlier decided to go back again rather than watch some of the other fights. We went back to the Black Bull and met up with the same lads who we saw earlier, I can only remember one of their names "PK".

The Karoake had started, so we moved to the other side of the bar. I think we sort of took the place over, I got talking to a couple next to me, they were a good laugh. I told them it should be a good night, I wasn't wrong. Jay got up and sang a couple of songs, as always he sang "Don't let the sun go down on me" you need to hear this, he is excellent. Most of the others got up and not one of them was bad. Edgey gave a strip show, which put a smile on some of the lasses faces.

We all ended up dancing, Edgey's girlfriend kept trying to get me up. I ended up getting some woman next to me up to dance instead. She was in her late 40's at a guess but seamed to put a smile on her face. One of her mates was laughing at her but I tried to get her up to dance as well but she was too boring :-(

Before we knew it the night was passing away, we had intended to go back to the arena for 10 to watch Amir Khan and Scott Harrison but we were having such a good time we didn't bother. We finally left the pub at midnight but we couldn't get a taxi. About 6 lasses had followed us out of the pub so we were stood talking to them while we tried to get a ride. In the end we deided to walk, somehow we managed to get their at about 12:30 the time the bus was going. It was probably about a 2 mile walk, although we took a shortcut through the shoppping centre.

It was an excellent night, I think I will start cutting this post short. I got back home just after 4:30am. I went more or less straight to sleep but was back up by 9. I ended up going over a friends.

It was one of the best weekends I'd had in a long time, we were invited back to Glasgow next month by the lads in the pub for PKs birthday.

No posts

It's suprising how many people have mentioned that they'd noticed I hadn't posted anything for over a week. There's a couple of reasons, last weekend I was very busy and I did post something on Sunday from my phone but my email messed up and it never appeared. It was a fairly long post and couldn't be arsed to rewrite it all at the time. It just mentioned the boxing and Sedgefield. I will try to rewrite as much as I can later tonight but wont be the same with it being a week ago.

The other reason is I've just been very busy. I will try to do a few posts later tonight, not sure if this is a good idea as I'm now having to be very careful what I write incase any friends read something the wrong way and get upset!

In case I don't get chance to write anything later, I will just say as my last post on here mentions I am still very happy. Probably the happiest I have been all year :-)

I'm still not sure why anyone reads this other than me, its boring as fuck!

Still happy

I am laid in bed listening to my ipod, megadeth - 99 ways to die is playing, an excellent song brings back some memories of the years listening to iron maiden might stick them on next.

I havent wrote anything on here for a few days just never got around to it.

I am still really happy at the moment must be after sorting some problems out at work. I havent done anything on my list of stuff to do for a while but i might be about to do something else i have always wanted to be able to do. It wasnt on my list and will probably get the piss taken out of me as well but i dont care. Wont say anymore about it until i have sorted it out!!

this weekend is going to be a bit hectic, friday i am going to sedgefield with people from work. I cant drink too much because i have to get up on saturday to go to Glasgow. Me, my best mate Jay and his dad are going to watch the boxing. Nigel Wright who i went to junior school with is defending his title, Amir Khan is on the same bill. Should be an excellent night we will be there with the rest of the barmy army :-)

well i should try to go to sleep so i can get up and go for a run!

Listening to Iron Maiden now :-)

Lazy Day

I can't be bothered to do anything today, not in the mood to concentrate on anything. I switched the computer on and just stared at it and thought bugger this.

I'm now laid on the bed listening to Coldplay - X&Y (never got around to listening to it all until now) and writing this on my laptop. There was no milk in the house, so was gonna walk up to the shop but as I was getting ready it started to rain. It's about half a mile to the shop but decided to take the car rather than get soaked but have felt really bad ever since for being so lazy.

How have I got to this point, where I hardly have any motivation to go anywhere. I feel like I'm starting to lose focus on the things I want again. There has been times over the last few years where I have hardly been in the house but recently I've hardly been out of the house!

Need to find another hobby besides from computer that is gonna get my arse out of the house. I like walking, fishing and cycling but just can't be bothered at the moment. Especially this time of year when its too dark in the morning and at night. So the only time you can do any of them is the weekend, even then I don't. I need someone to do them with, none of my mates could be arsed to walk or cycle anywhere.

As I look out of the window it is stopping raining and brightening up (slightly). Decided to take some pictures of what I can see. There are 3 below:

Looking straight ahead, the camera makes things look closer. You can see our greenhouse, shed and garage with the horses in the field behind. Then the woods and Crook away in the distance.

Looking to the right out of the window, this is exactly what I can see as I type this. The bush is in next doors garden. In the distance behind that is the farm where I spent years of my childhood helping out and messing about. Then behind that is the woods.

Looking left out of my window all you can see is the horses again and fields. People wonder why I say I couldn't live in a town or city looking at another house. When you've spent 26 years looking at this you should see why :-)

I decided to take a picture from the other side of the house, besides for mine and the neighbours cars. There is a large playing field, then again fields for about 2 miles before Sunniside on the hill.

Maybe this is what I should do to get me off my arse go for walks and take pictures, especially of the areas I used to knock about in over the years. It's suprising how much places have changed since I was a kid.

While typing this I've decided to go and find the old photos :-)

Mac Mini Arrived

I woke up this morning and straight away tracked where my Mac Mini was on TNTs site, I got a suprise when it said it had been delivered. I went downstairs and there it was.

I spent the rest of the of the day messing about with it. I will bore anyone who is sad enough to read this by posting more tomorrow.

Hot Songs

Once again I created a playlist of songs from a word in the title. I chose "Hot" today:

1. Billy Idol - Hot In The City
2. Coolio - Too Hot
3. Donna Summer - Hot Stuff
4. They Might Be Giants - Hot Cha
5. 50 Cent - Too Hot ft. Nas and Nature
6. Bravery - Hot Pursuit
7. Twisted Sister - Hot Love
8. Donnas - Hot Pants
9. Armand van Helden - Hot City Nites
10. The Power Station - Some Like It Hot
11. Black Eyed Peas - Hot
12. Van Halen - Hot For Teacher
13. Nowadays - Hot Honey Rag
14. Basement Jaxx - Hot 'N Cold
15. 112 Feat. Ludacris - Hot & Wet
16. Girls Aloud - Long Hot Summer (Tony Lamezma Mix)
17. Master P - Hot Boys And Girls
18. Atomic Kitten - So Hot
19. Nelly - Hot In Herre
20. Limp Bizkit - Hot Dog
21. Eric Clapton - They're Red Hot

There were only 2 songs I rated over 3, they are highlighted in Bold.

After The Sunset

After The Sunset: I put this on tonight hoping it was a watchable film but it was much better than that. What with Pierce Brosnan playing his usual cool self and Salma Hayek looking sexy as hell, I guess it would be hard to go wrong. Woody Harrelson provided some laughs too.

Its about Pierce Brosnan a retired jewel thief who has constanty outwitted an FBI agent (Harrelson) but the FBI agent is determined to get his man. Not a masterpiece but a good easily watachable film. 7 out of 10!

Songs in the head

You know when you get songs stuck in your head and it annoys the hell out of you. I take that to a new extreme, through out the day I just seam to have song after song jump into my head. Usually because someone will say a word that is the title of a song or a line in a song.

This week for some reason I have had loads of kids TV themes popping into my head from when I was a kid. Below is a fraction of the songs that popped into my head over 3 days this week (I am going nuts, I'm sure):

Animals - Gotta Get Out Of This Place
Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
Black Beauty Theme
Littlest Hobo Theme

Bryan Adams - I'm Ready
Blondie - One way or another
Thomas The Tank Engine Theme
Spankox - To The Club
OMC - How Bizarre

Wombles Theme
US National Anthem
Neil Diamond - Soolimon
Beatles - Can't Buy Me Love

Good Week

Its been a fairly good week so far. I have been really happy, people keep asking me what I'm on because I've been in such a strange mood. They must just not be used to seeing me happy!

I'm not entirely sure why I am happy, the work has still been fairly boring but I really haven't cared this week. I know I have hardly shut up talking all week and have probably been driving everyone nuts at work.

The hassle I have had the last few weeks appears to be behind me (I hope). The lesson I learnt from it all is not to pay too much attention to gossip.

I was going to write more but got to go...

Flock

I've just got around to installing Flock, which is a web browser based on FireFox. It has loads of advanced features built in but still seams really fast.

It has a good RSS reader, integrated with del.icio.us, create blog posts, check mail and loads of other stuff. These features are whats being dubbed Web 2.0.

I will keep playing with it for the next few days and see how well it works, at the moment it is just a preview release so lots of bugs supposedly.

Mac Mini

I have just ordered a Mac Mini from Apple. I decided to go for the middle model, the only difference from the top model is it doesn't have a superdrive (DVD Writer). It costs £70 extra, but would only be £30 for the equivelant on the PC.

I've paid £429 or will be when they ship it, the worst part is its gonna take days to get here I think :-(

Not gonna bore you by describing it anymore, will leave that until it arrives.

Tonight

When i got in from work i went straight out to one of the local pubs (the green) for tea with my dad. I got cumberland sausage, which was nice. We didnt stay very long because we wanted to get back to watch the Newcastle match.

The Newcastle match was a bit boring but at least they won.

After the match i started to right down the specs of all my computers and monitored my 2 main computers to see where the weaknesses were. Both of them need more RAM.

I have 9 computers at the moment and may be buying a 10th soon. Some of them are very old and i need to find a new use for them.

I also need to add some more storage to my server there is already over a terrabyte in it!

I guess i should try to go to sleep but dont really feel tired.

Moving

I am thinking of moving this blog to my own servers so I can have tighter control over it. Will have a bit think about how it will work, if at all.

I'm sad as fuck and like to be able to monitor everything, I would then know where people were reading this from ;-)


Be afraid, be very afraid! The Fly (1986)

Quote

I read this on Chie Calliope's LiveJournal (Blog), found her on Last.FM as she liked some similar music to me. Anyway I liked what she had wrote, sounds very familiar so copied it here:

"so much of my life isn't mine; my life is spread out and deposited in people, like an ingredient for a reaction. all that i "have" is just little parts of everyone else. i end up not having anyone.. but where am i? i am had, without the existence of having; i cannot be rejected. but i am neither my own. i want to find myself, whether within me, or in another."

Shame I can't write stuff like that, I just write as I would speak.

Sleep

I couldn't sleep last night, it was about 4am by the time I nodded off and I was up at 7 :-(

Obviously I was tired this morning but for some strange reason I woke up and ended up having a fairly decent day at work. I was in a strange mood and ended up taking the piss and having some strange conversations about kids TV we used to watch (thinking about it, that's a normal day).

I got in tonight and have struggled to keep my eyes open but again I have now woken up and feel fine. Maybe it was after reading an email from Laura who I used to work with, she emailed and said she had just split up with her husband and he moved out last night. Last time I spoke to her just over 2 weeks ago she was going away to America for 2 weeks with him and some friends.

Not sure what has happened, she has only been married about a year I think :-(