January 2010
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Monday 25th January
The start of another soul crushing week. I’m getting quite fed up of the cold and dark on a morning, my first day off of the year on February 15th can’t come soon enough. It was back to the diet as well after the weekend’s excesses. I’ve got quite good now, none of the usual week on it/weekend off it forget to get back on it routine that I’ve managed in the past. It...
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Sunday 24th January
I spent some of today wrestling with the wozbox website, trying to make one standard sidebar that would appear on each page, so in the event of changes I wouldn’t have to change 7 sidebars. Can’t do it though, for the life of me. Anyone?
Next door offered us further filmage. We tried to watch Rise of the Footsoldier, but it was possibly the worst film I’ve ever clapped eyes on....
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Saturday 23rd January
Saturday meant film night.
The wife chose 27 Dresses, a rom-com about a woman with severe mental issues that caused her to be addicted to weddings. She was always the bridesmaid, but never the…ah, you might as well not watch it now.
My pick was Be Kind Rewind. I featured one of my least favourite actors, Jack Black. He basically played Jack Black in it, but failed to spoil one of the most...
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Friday 22nd January
Fuck you Tumblr. Where are my posts? Eh? Eh? Give them back, you shit, you know that those words were the best words and you stole them. Stole them! I want them back! I know they made little sense and were grammatically suspect. I realise that I beautifully split my infinitives. But why? Why? On a Monday? Why?
Well, bollocks. Friday was spent doing very little, it was a short Friday at work and...
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Thursday 21st January
I’ve done this one already. It was about not playing football. It was about the Southlands Centre having a ludicrous ten till eleven court time. It was about not being that bothered about it because I was quite tired. I am quite tired as I type this, because Tumblr, in it’s infinite wisdom has lost the posts I’ve just spent at least 30 minutes each on. I am not a happy bunny. I...
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Wednesday 20th January
Wednesday, as you loyal readers know, is boxercise day. Yes Glen, I do go to boxercise, it’s very enjoyable. Or it was.
It would appear that the boxercise woman had had a very poor week. She decided to take it out on us. We punched, we ran, we crunched, we ran, we skipped (not me, I can’t), we ran, we punched again, we ran, we ran, we ran. I haven’t exerted myself that much for...
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Tuesday 19th January
After a superb full english brekky, I made my way to the office. Following a hard day’s work (something I’m certainly not used to) I was delivered to the airport in style in a Range Rover. Sitting in the back, I received all manner of startled looks (who’s he, he’s too fat to be a footballer) from other road users, which made me feel special and important. Bristol airport...
Monday 18th January
It was Bristol time, and I travelled down in the afternoon. The taxi to Newcastle airport was quite entertaining, as the driver was unable to complete even the simplest sentence without swearing like a trooper; “Tell you fucking what mate, they only fucking give you ten minutes free parking here, the bastards!”
It being the deep midwinter, the airport and flight were almost deserted. I usually go...
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Sunday 17th January
I arose from my slumber to inspect the wall. It had been basically kicked over, invariably by the kids who hang round outside it. We called the police, who sent round what appeared to be an eleven year old boy in a policeman’s uniform. They say you’re getting old when the policemen are young men, but this was taking the piss. I doubt he’s even started shaving yet.
It was marked down as criminal...
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Saturday 16th January
The wife went out drinking, leaving me home alone. I made good use of this free time, watching some films that I received for Xmas, or others had received for Xmas. First up was Star Trek, the remake by JJ Abrams. Hopes were high.
It was OK. And I mean OK, in the most average, forgettable sense of the term. The relationship of the characters was never really developed, and the way in the original...
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Friday 15th January
Christ, I hate Friday nights sometimes. Yeah, OK, there’s no work the next day, but the telly offerings are shocking, and nobody ever goes out on a Friday these days.
To reduce the boredom I decided to have a bash on the Xbox. I’m sort of between games at the moment, having finished the very average Modern Warfare 2, and with the quite-good-but-would-be-infinitely-better-with-4-humans...
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Thursday 14th January
Thursday is 5-a-side day. I was still aching from boxercise, so I wasn’t looking forward to this at all. Before the torture began though, I had to fix a PC.
I had to set up the wireless network first, easily done (those disc based installation thingys get better and better all the time) but the PC wouldn’t find the network at all. Turns out that the PC had been delivered with the...
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Wednesday 13th January
Ha! I’m back! You thought you’d got rid of me, etc etc.
Wednesday meant boxercise, and dragging my failing, bloated frame through 60 minutes of punching, blocking, running, upsitting and wretching violently.
It was packed, with all the New Year Resolution types. This meant that, when the group was spit into pads and gloves, the pads were stood for a good twenty minutes due to...
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Tuesday 12th January
Almost nothing of merit happened today. It was one of the most straightforward, dull, eventless day of my life. They say never to wish your life away, but this sort of day can fuck off for me.
But; this is as much about looking forward as it is to looking at the present. So; here are some things I’d like to do this year. Hey; some of them might happen.
See the following bands live: The XX,...
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Monday 11th January
Back to fucking work again. In the snow, again. In the cold, again. Again. I’m fucking sick of the shit weather, you know? What could I do about that?
In the evening, though, things took a turn for the better.
We booked a holiday! This is the best thing that’s happened all year. We’re going to Egypt in May for 7 nights ‘Ultra-Inclusive’, whatever the fuck that...
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Sunday January 10th
I watched 2 horrendous films. One was a low budget brit comedy about two dipshits who go on holiday and try to get a shag. It was shit, but it did no harm, had the odd plus point, don’t worry, it’s not like it cost $200m is it? That was ‘Kevin and Perry Go Large’.
The other, well, er, it was Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, or Transformers 2 to give it it’s...
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Saturday January 9th
Awoke to many aches and pains due to some particularly graceless landings while ‘plaggy bagging’. Braved the snow to do a bt of shopping, thinking that all the dipshits who normally inhabit ASDA on a Saturday would be at home, safe and warm in their badly decorated council dwellings. But, alas, it wasn’t to be. If you have 8 kids, and there’s 2 parents, why no leave the...
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Friday 8th January
Vigilant readers may notice that I’ve dropped a clanger with regard to the days already. It’s fixed now, so ner-ner-ner.
Apart from being sent home from work for the FIRST TIME EVER not a great deal happened, but we headed home in high spirits in the blizzard. Upon our arrival, I lost a snowball fight against a small child, pushed a Vauxhall Vectra up a frozen incline using the power...
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Thursday 7th January
More snow today. It’s coming down in chunks now, and comparisons are being made with the legendary winter of 30 years ago. It’s just insane now. Please stop it.
Forgot to mention in yesterday’s entry, I watched ‘The Lives of Others’. It’s a quite sensational film. It’s so different from most other films, it layers things slowly, sometimes almost...
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Wednesday 6th January
Woke up in a shit mood. Journey to work was even more precarious than it has been for the last few weeks, due to a fresh snowfall (and more to come). Pretty much hit the diet wall today, but managed to get over it with unflinching willpower. I’m completely exhausted.
A fairly uneventful day, all in all, apart from an unexpected appearance from the spirits of instant karma. I’d heard...
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Tuesday 5th January
I’m struggling now. I don’t do a lot during the week, you see, and work is basically a ‘same shit, different day’ affair. I could recount the funny things that happened in a day, but the funny things of this day included a man falling over and a woman nearly being covered in snow.
Yeah, snow. Terrifying, innit? Now that the news is all arse about face, with the weather at...
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Monday 4th January - Flaming Waitress Spectacular
I was asked by 50% of my viewers why the day’s titles were so bland. I’ve jazzed them up. What do you think?
Back to work then, and back to an announcement that I was already aware of but hadn’t quite believed. My boss at work, and when I say at work I mean Belgium, is moving to purchasing. This is an incredibly bad thing, as he is one of the finest, most reliable people...
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Sunday January 3rd
Sunday was spent recovering from the previous night’s excesses, and trying to forget about going back to work after the Xmas break. As you can imagine, not a lot happened, so this might be a short entry.
I played in the garden with Zack in the snow, and then we put our now ailing snowman out of his misery with a quick stamp to the head. I told you it was a slow day.
I then watched...
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Saturday January 2nd
Me, Mike and our Dad went to the Boro match against Man City, having received tickets for the game at Xmas presents. This is a slightly cruel and unusual punishment, and I will treat my mother much better this year so as not to see a repeat.
Man, it was cold. No, baltic. I’m still cold now, 25 hours later (I was out drinking in only a short sleeved shirt last night, which slightly lessens...
A small experiment
I’m sending this from my phone. Fingers crossed, eh?
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