Rambolic

Following last week’s escapade watching a friend’s band I decided to see the Four Fighters on Friday.  It was good to see Clare and some other friends again.  I was also challenged at Guitar Hero.  Oh, they’ll crash and burn, don’t worry (actually, I’m not sure since I hardly play these days!)  Anyway, for those who hadn’t guessed, the Four Fighters are a Foos tribute with quite a good name for themselves.  I think I’m supposed to be designing and maintaining their website, but it changed recently since I’ve been slack and I need to double check said arrangement.  Requests were being yelled by the crowd, and it seems my opinion is valued since their singer, Iain, decided to ask for Big Al’s opinion.  “Hey, Johnny Park” was played.  Oh yes – I had spoken.  Anyway, I stood in the least ear-friendly position in the house and came out profoundly deaf.

Saturday I remembered I was supposed to collect a PC for Ste from work the day previous, so at 4:50pm I broke the land speed record and saved the day.  Phew.  That night was spent being fed by Ste (again) and playing some Viking and GH2 and GH3 before heading home at 2am.  Since it’s about an hour away, and in another county, I got home around 3am.  I then remembered that the clocks went forward, and 3am became 4am.  It was even stupider o’clock than I’d thought.

Sunday we went to see Gogol Bordello, gypsy-punk beat combo extraordinaire.  I have to say that I think they’ve got to be one of the most entertaining, if not the most entertaining bands I’ve ever seen.  I severely exceeded my jumping quota.  Apparently Simon from work was there, but despite his efforts I didn’t see him.  Seriously though, if you ever get a chance to see this band, go.  So much energy.

In other news, I’ve been struggling at play catch-up at work after James had skivalitis on Thursday and Friday.  In his defense he processed some claims.  I spoke to a customer I was dealing with a few weeks ago who happens to be an old TV presenter from Magpie, the cool kids’ Blue Peter.  She’s sound enough.  I have many other customers to call back tomorrow.  The joys of pretending to be management – yay.

Okay, as planned I went down to the London Guitar Show and came home with a new trusty axe. It wasn’t an acoustic as planned, but one of those tasty Line6 Variax guitar modellers. It pretty much replicates most types of guitar which is pretty cool. I also got a Line6 PodXT Live to replace my normal PodXT.

Anyway, first time I plugged in the Variax the bottom E didn’t work… Tapped the bridge a few times and the pickup for that string kicked in and seemed okay. Been a bit crackly on a couple of occasions though. Even more worrying is that the PodXT Live quit working all together. So, both are going back to PMT for replacement. On the plus side it means I can swap the guitar for the nicer-looking blue model!

I’ve just got a new credit card. 39% APR or something, which is fucking appalling, but apparently that’s what I need to do to increase my credit scoring, then I might be able to get credit. It’s screwed. I need to get into debt before anybody will trust me. Never had a bad mark on my report – why the fuck should I be penalised?

Went over to Ste’s last night for some Guitar Hero II action, and we had some fun jumping around like twats on the Wii. He’s a mate of a mate and we’ve spoken online for a year or so, but only met last night. Sound guy. Was fun.

Also, like the new domain? I do – it’s all professional and everything.