Off to Kettering for a curry

Seems an awful long way to go just for a curry, but I haven't seen the dweebs in ages so should be good.

Iron Maiden are great

They have their own plane. Ed Force One and it's piloted by Bruce Dickinson.

New laptop is here and boy is it fast

8 cores. Woo hoo!

Finally watched Chinatown

After Tim's recommendation over a year ago I finally got round to watching Chinatown. Not bad.

IMdb: Rating: 8.5 / 10 (74468 votes)
SC Rating: 78 / 100 (1 vote)

Who do Sansburys and Nectar think I am?

I've just popped to Sainsburys to grab some lunch and received 3 vouchers for using my nectar card.

Voucher1: A deal on Guinness
Voucher2: A deal on Stella
Voucher3: Iams

Who do they think I am? An alcoholic cat man?

Order shipped

My laptop has been shipped, slight problem however. It's coming all the way from China! I should have it early next week. Yeah!

Captain for the day

I captained my rugby team on Saturday. It's not something I particularly enjoy but I guess someone had to do it. Although I only managed a half as my shoulder got knackered in the first 10 mins.

We eneded up losing 3 tries to 1. All of their 3 tries were in the first half when I was playing. Can you spot a common factor there?

My shoulder seems much better than it was Saturday night / Sunday so fingers crossed there's nothing too serious wrong with it.

Crap TV

I watched the first half of the first episode of Legend of the Seeker (sci fi channel). What a load of tripe. I have to say I wasn't expecting anything great but come on. At least employ some actors and perhaps some special effect budget.

One of the main types of bad guy they were fighting was invisible. How cheap is that?

Just ordered my new laptop

He, he. My fingers are wriggling like Homer Simpson

11 days off

I haven't had any real time away from work since my brother's wedding last year (September) and am in need of a good rest as this year's been super hectic at work (you may have noticed me neglecting this blog).

I've got a big deadline that's for next Tuesday (or actually this Friday as it needs signing off and the person who needs to sign it off is off on holiday next week), once that's done I can put my feet up for a little while. Looking at my calendar, if I take the 29th to the 31st off as holiday with study leave, bank holidays and weekends I get a total of 11 days out of the office. Yeah!

Not sure what i'm going to do yet but the break will do me good.