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Crapple and Mr Lee

Big Al — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:46:55 +0000

Well I’ve been knackered all week and I have no motivation to do anything productive. My Macbook Pro has been getting on my tits. The wireless has been as dodgy as a kid playing British bulldogs. It disconnects and the only way to fix the damn thing is to restart. I have Vista installed on here too, and streaming a movie the other night almost made me want to cave my head into a wall, given the number of times it decided to disconnect. It’s a good job WordPress auto-saves your drafts. I’m wondering whether to send it back to Apple for repair or to get a replacement from work. I don’t think work would be too chuffed though, since the guy at the disty gave me a stupidly good price on it, and work would be losing out on a few hundred quid if they replaced it for me. We’ll see.

I saw Stewart Lee on Thursday – semi-famous comedian from Fist Of Fun, This Morning With Richard Not Judy, and a few other TV comedies from the mid-90s. We saw him a couple of years ago in some pub in Headingly. Apparently last year he was voted 41st Best Comedian Ever in one of those shitty 47hr long Top 100 shows. Apparently, as a comedian, you only visit Huddersfield twice in your career and one of those times is on your way up… and this is his second time. The show seemed to be a whinge about his declining popularity and failed ideas for TV. Quite amusing but I couldn’t help but think that there’s some truth in there!

I was at Carl’s last night and we watched a movie and a couple of episodes of Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace – awesome TV show!

In other news: my colleague announced he was leaving yesterday. I have two weeks to interview and train somebody. I don’t think there’s anybody internally who would be suitable, and I can’t say I’m particularly looking forward to training somebody from scratch. I fear that’s the direction in which we’re moving though.

Day To Day

Big Al — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:25:54 +0000

Nothing too interesting has happened, but I’m bored. Haven’t wanted to work all this week, and not been quite with it anyway, so apologies to anyone who’s been talking to me for a few minutes only to get the response “huh?” I’m feeling a lot better now – bonus!

One of the directors at work invited me to a charity meal and performance. I was a bit dubious about seeing an Elvis impersonator (!!) but I enjoyed it. A few drinks and a smoke… I don’t smoke, but it’s all good in moderation. I might go for a shisha next week or something. That’s if Markaz hasn’t been closed down because of the smoking ban. It still baffles me how a joint opened for smoking (no pun intended, I swear) can be threatened with closure because they’re not complying. It’s like closing down a swimming pool because someone might not like water. If you don’t like it, don’t go.

I got my 5 free HD-DVDs from Microsoft yesterday! They’ll make for some fancy beer coasters. Damn ye oh the Ray of Blu. Damn ye to hell. I heard the Xbox drives are selling for about £35 new now. What was it they said about the PS3 when it came out? “It looks like a bread bin. The only problem is there’s no bread to put in it.”

Anyway, I need the foods (oh yes, the appetite is back), and there’s important guitaring to be done. Wow, this post’s tagtastic.

Testing Times

Big Al — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:55:13 +0000

I got a new toy today – a Netgear wireless extender that’s in beta (final model name tbc, but they’re asking for suggestions if anybody as any). Anyway, not much to write about that now, but it must be working or you wouldn’t be reading this. Bonus.

It’s teh uber windy. Bath’s awaiting. See thee all later.