It's been a while (nearly a month!)... but it's not a good idea to get into all that!

Since I last wrote something in here, it's been pretty hectic. Finally getting rid of a Scottish pain in the arse (after she'd caught herself out good and proper!), starting a podcast (www.wrestling-online.com/ringside), hopping on the Facebook bandwagon, carrying ( Read more... )

(Number 1,783 in a series of "blog entries that will bite me in the arse one of these days")

I've literally just found out that an old friend of mine from school got engaged over the weekend. Granted, we've had our fallings out (but were speaking... as of the last time we saw each other a week ago), and there's a fair bit of history as well.

So in ( Read more... )

Well, it's been quite the few days at work. Tomorrow, I'm back on that (CENSORED) back office runner job, since management has badly messed up the summer leave. Usually, I'd be happy to be taken off of the transport, but since that's the coolest room in the building now (seriously, it's the middle of July, and the air vents are blowing out HOT AIR ( Read more... )

Who'd have thought that work would have been so understanding?

After originally being turned down for leave, since I was taking too much time too early in the year, I've now been given the green light to take nine days off next March.

Guess that means I'm off to Orlando next year - the New York band is back together. At least this time, I'll be ( Read more... )

How the hell do I write this without sounding like the "emo kids" that I can't stand?

This past week has probably been one of the most difficult ones I've had to endure, at least from an emotional point of view. On Tuesday night, when I wrote the column/"obit" on Chris Benoit, the details were sketchy at best. Some four days later, the story keeps ( Read more... )

All of a sudden, gripes about work trying to twist your arm mean very little in comparison. Today, I've been in somewhat of a daze - some of it brought on by a cold as well as an ear infection... and the rest of it due to the news I got this morning that made my heart sink like a stone.

I'm not one for emotions, but anyone reading this: whether it's ( Read more... )

Well, the jinx is over, I guess. The new PC is finally working - aand wouldn't you know it, it was the same issue as last time. Just a note to anyone else building their own PCs, make sure that 12V lead is pushed all the way in, or you'll have as red as face as I!

Everything's up and running, and given how it wasn't even 10am this morning when I got ( Read more... )

Fan-bloody-tastic... went to turn on the new PC tonight to set up Vista and all that. Well, it was a good idea in theory: the power supply lit up, and even the front of the case went blue (which is one step further than I got with this one). Even the keyboard was operational...

The only thing is, I couldn't see shit on my monitor. So I swapped it ( Read more... )

Touch wood, this is going to be the last blog entry I'll be writing from this PC. It's had a good run, but I was getting sick of it overheating every time I tried doing anything beyond browsing the internet.

The new rig's actually built, but since I didn't get done til half 8, I didn't fancy staying up til the wee small hours installing Vista and ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I've had to keep an eye on children. Especially children with a "real" age of 19 and 23. Knowing me, I'll be the one who needs to get some time off after this week!

Since my hit-count for this blog is now well into three figures every week (seriously, who the hell finds this shit entertaining?), does anyone have any movie ( Read more... )