We Aim To PLease

Just thought I'd share something with you.... (after 3 cans of Carlsberg Export on a Thursday night)

When proof reading my last post I thought I'd click on the link at the top that said 'next blog' or whatever.....

Comes up with a load of random blogs.................. I haven't found one thats funny yet! so I will stick to the blogs that are in my links ;-)

I Serve The Balance

Still can't get over the ending to Tempest.

**Random Tempest Excert Warning On**

"Ben whats wrong with you?"
"Nothing- I'm just doing my duty." Ben snapped his lightsaber off his evac suit's utlity loop. "If we help make repairs, they're just going to escape."
"And if we don't we're all going to be sucking vacuum in about 30 secounds." Holding the reinforcement strip in two hands, Jaina stepped toward the wall - then suddenly stopped when Ben ignited his lightsaber. Her jaw dropped, and she looked up and said, "Please tell me you didn't just pull your lightsaber on me."

**Random Tempest Excert Warning Off**

Do you like my new background? I think it rocks!

Anyway, Christmas shopping going very badly, just tried to get Bryan Adams tickets for my mum but ticketmaster comes up with an error which I'm assuming means no bloody tickets :-(

BUGGER!!

So far I have one present sorted which I can't talk about right now just incase a certain person is looking at my blog ;-)
Christmas card making has also gone pete tong cos my picture taking is crap and also it wasn't frosty yesterday morning so the picture of Oxford skyline from South Park looked like it does on most days of the year, especialy when 2 council workers went down the hill on their mowers in their luminous tops! FUCKERS! ;-)

Currently listening to:

The Black Album by Metallica

While at work today I was mentaly creating a list of bands/artists I want to see.

The list currently stands at:

Metallica
Aerosmith
Evanescence <--- yes I know I sold my last lot of tickets but i was skint
Green Day
Pink
Kylie
Robbie Williams



Roll on:

OH MY GOD!!

Jacen you lying bastard! Can you hate a character in a book? I think thats what I'm supposed to feel anyway ;-) I never have liked him but now I like him less LOL

;-)

No one has technically died yet!

I did at one point think it was the end for Han & Leia and the Millenium Falcon but then I realized that they're the cover for book 4! LOL but that wasn't til after they'd cheated death.......just!

Luke & Mara got out ok, Lumiya is.........dead? Alema got away AGAIN!! will someone just kill the crazy trollop!! Hopefuly Jag will turn up in later books to vape her deranged arse!

Han and Leia were nearly dead along with Jaina, Ben and poor Zekk! he's took the wrong end of a Bens! lightsaber god knows if he's gonna be ok! **Edit: it seems he's gonna be alright cos I just read the excerpt of book #4 'Exile' thats at the back of this one**

Even Tenel Ka and Allana have made it safely thru to the next book.

And now I have to wait til god knows when in March 2007 for the next installment!

I can't even begin to explain how good this book was! It's so good I might have to read it again which is more than I've done with Betrayal and Bloodlines.

Anyway....moving slowly back to reality! Brought some dvd's this evening, was supposed to just get Snatch and 51st State for John from play.com cos they were cheap, ended up buying Layer Cake and Phantom Of The Opera for me aswell ;-) it was 3 for £15 and the other one was £5.99 so all in all a complete bargain!!


A trillion, million days til:














Wonder how long I need to wait to see the character list for that one or better still.......the cover for book #5 'Sacrafice'

76 Pages To Go!

Like the title says!

Someone is going to cop it in those 76 pages :-( strong cadidates are: Mara and/or Luke, hopefuly Lumiya and Alema but that would be too simple! cos they're the bad girls ;-)

I'm now going to find myself a nice quiet corner to go read the last few pages in

ie: I'm gonna go run a really big bubble bath and ignore everyone for the next hour or so ;-)

Watch this space!

Bugger!

It's 7.50am!

Damn this cursed book, I'm going to be late for work!!!!

I wanna know what happens to Jaina!! her and Zekk are stuck on some scary planet and some tossers have just blown up their X-Wings!!!

O_O

LOL

2nd post of the evening!

Only to relate a few lines in Tempest that just cracked me up ;-)

On coming across Jag Fel and him telling them about Twi'lek story knots & Alema Rar <--- very crazy Twi'lek jedi who has a vendetta against Leia for several reasons... etc etc

Jag continues with his story....

"But these knots are the reason I'm here. They appear to be a recurring list of injuries recieved at your hands, and the knots between appear tp be lists of possible retaliations"
"What are you getting at?" Han demanded. "Are you saying that crazy trollop is coming after Leia?"

This will mean nothing to anyone but I just laughed out loud at the crazy trollop bit!

Like A Hot Cup Of Coffee In A Hot Coffee Cup

Oh my god its all kicked off in Tempest!

I won't be boring anyone with details cos no one but me cares LOL!

But its all kicking off!!!

Me and Will went to the new car wash at Tesco's this evening, this is what we do for entertainment in Oxford on a Monday night! ;-)
So anyway its well flash LOL but I didn't risk taking my car in it so we took the Nova ;-)

Car was test dummy! It needed a wash anyway.






The jet washy bit before you get on the big car conveyor belt.













Arrrgghh!! its the triple foam bit! We were mesmerized by the fact that it was blue, purple and yellow, looked like a cake mix gone wrong! ;-)











Water water everywhere!









Scary stuff! ;-)

So after that we came home and drank our mulled wine and ate the cakes that Will had picked up on impulse buy ;-)

Random Tempest Quote:

The vid display went blank.
"How rude!" C-3PO said. "He didn't even wish us a good evening."
"He wouldn't have meant it." Han deactivated their end of the intercom and turned to Leia "Do you get the feeling this is a set up?"
"Absolutely," Leia said "But I don't understand what Gejjen expects to gain by embarrassing us."
"There's no logic to it that I can see," C-3PO said. "Captain Solo can be quite embarrassing enough on his own."

Oh Switch Off!

Bloody marvelous!!

Spurs 3-1 Wigan

Rover Oxford 5-0 Wimbledon We are top of the league! (again)












Tempest 1/3 completed

Han & Leia are up to the necks in it, Jaina's back flying X-Wings about and Jacen is still a knob!

Will have finished it by Wednesday at this rate and then I'll have to wait til March 2007 for the next installment!

In The Morning You Know I Won't Remember A Thing!

You might wonder what on earth I'm doing up at 7.30am on a Saturday morning......

Well 2 reasons.....the first.......some arseholes down the road decided to have a fight at 6.50am this morning and actualy woke me up!
Why the fuck was there a need for shouting at that time of the morning? I've no idea who the hell it was but its not the first time this week!

Anyway.....the 2nd reason....
















The postman has just delivered the post!

Thats it now, you won't see me for a few days!

Apparently a police car has just gone down the road to deal with earlier mentioned disturbance, but seeing as I now don't give a shit they could arrest the whole street and I wouldn't care LOL

AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!

SCARY!








My book has been dispatched by Amazon!

:-D

I will be looking out for the postie tomorrow morning!

Although it does say delivery estimate is 27th-29th Nov

Hope its not a shit morning tomorrow, gonna go out early if weather is good and grab some pix with Ixy ;-)
The Oxford skyline will look good on Christmas cards ;-)

Here's a picture of Trix, asleep as usual!
















The pic itself is massive when you click on it.

And I've been checking out a few of the settings like the night time shooting option, you can have flash on or off for this.

So next picture is of the dials in my car at night (sad but true!)

And.............

Up The Spurs!!!!!!

Bayer Leverkusen 0-1 Spurs

Dimitar Berbatov!!!

How Very Dare You!

Ixy still under test ;-)

ie: I've gotta take a photo thats worth posting!

Catherine Tate on BBC2 right now :-)

Keep looking at that bloody forum!

FOR GOD SAKE!!!! Stop telling me about the book I don't wanna know til I get it!! ;-)


Je suis bovverd!

The Ixy Has Landed!

It's arrived!

My new digi cam.

6m megapixels, 4x optical zoom, optical image stabilizer.

The Canon Ixus 800IS or Ixy as I'm going to call him, he's diddy!!! ;-D

















And so far I haven't paid any import tax , although I've been told it can take up to a month for customs to send something thru! I would've thought they wouldnt let you have the item if there was outstanding import tax due on it so *crosses fingers*

Anyway, the battery is on charge as I type so expect some experimental pix later on! mainly of Tricky Vee cos she's the only thing of intrest in this house.

Checked out my Amazon order for Tempest, still says dispatch date either 28th or 29th Nov, I reckon its already with them and they're supposed to wait until that date to send it out.
I hope it does arrive next week cos I'm dangerously close to that spoiler forum which I've been trying so hard to avoid! ;-)

Aerial Ultra

Top Tip!

Never leave your gum shield in the pocket of your training trousers when you wash them as it then tastes of washing liquid for ever!

Needless to say I left mine in my pocket and it went into the wash last week, all I can taste now is Aerial Ultra. Atleast the colours are still bright!

I'm giving it the Listerene treatment now, hopefuly that will get rid of that just washed taste ;-)

So anyway, we were playing on a shitty sand based astro turf on Saturday and ever since my knees have ached like buggery! I hate playing on that surface its like bloody concrete :-(

6 Days Til:

Temptation!

Back over on the spoiler forum someone git is posting about the new book chapter by chapter!

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Stop it for god sake! ;-)

I may not be able to resist the power of the dark side!

My Amazon order still says it will be released on 28th Nov.

Can I last that long, it may even be longer cos I swear thats the US release date!

Keeping myself entertained by reading the Thrawn trilogy which I read years ago and totaly forgot the plot.

Thank you Timothy Zahn for inventing Mara Jade and Jacen & Jaina Solo! oh and Grand Admiral Thrawn, I know he cops it in the end but I can't remember how!

Holy Shit Batman!!

As predicted some bastards have got the new Star Wars book early! I must stay well away from the spoiler forum!

I had to check out the front page to find this and had one little spoiler staring me right in the face!

The cast list or 'Dramitas Personae' as its called has Jagged Fel down as a bounty hunter!

Intresting!









<---- Jag :-D.......










7 Days Til:

That Ain't Working.

Hockey: Lost 3-1
Spurs: Drew 1-1

Suddenly its Monday again!

7 Days Til:

straits dire lyrics

get all the Lyrics at lyricsdownload.com

I've got this lyrics thingy working even better now, except its supposed to be Dire Straits lyrics and it appears to be Eminem LOL!
I've got it to put my own background in though!

Its works again!

The lyric thingy works!

Clever!

the rasmus

www.lyricsdownload.com

Blimey! It Works!

ark the

lyricsdownload Lyrics

9 Days!

It's Saturday, I'm up early!

Meeting for hockey at 8.30am! This is not a decent hour on a weekend ;-)

So anyway, waiting for the new Star Wars book I've been reading back on the last one cos theres been a few discussions going on and around it about what possibilities lie ahead for a certain Jacen Solo.

He will imortalize his love.

Now we've all assumed that this would mean that he will actualy kill Tenel Ka and possibly Allana.

Someone else threw a spanner into the works and said maybe he'll go after Jaina!

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! There is about 4 or 5 characters that I don't want to see bumped off, Jaina, Leia, Han, Luke or Mara.
I reckon atleast one of them is going to cop it in this series although the general consensus is that it will most likely be Luke sacraficing himself for the greater good it could also be any of the other 4!

Ofcourse most of this stuff is idle forum speculation! but all of it is a possibility.

If Jacen does indeed end up going after Jaina then I hope she kicks his arse in the process cos he needs his arse kicked!

So anyway, sounds like good reading to me (aslong as they don't snuff out Jaina!)

9 Days til:

Classic!

The wonders of YouTube <--- click on link!

Unseen Queen

So here's the next Japanese cover for the Dark Nest trilogy, pretty good appart from lack of characters.

















Anyway, I've won a Canon Ixus 800 on eBay.

Taking a bit of a risk that I won't get stung with £40 extra import duty, but the sellers feedback is mostly good on this subject so I have my fingers crossed.
Either way I have either saved myself £60 or £20 as getting it from there is still cheaper than anywhere else on the net, with or without tax.

10 Days Til:














"What are you doing here?"
"Looking for the Solo's ofcourse" Fel said
Han raised his brow "Kid, if this is about Jaina..."
"It isn't," Fel said, a little to forcefully "Jaina has caused the Fel family enough problems for one lifetime."

Julbrygd 5,3

11 Days Til:

It's Nothing Special

I've been humming this tune all day...

Blur - End Of A Century

She said there's ants in the carpet
Dirty little monsters
Eating all the morsels
Picking up the rubbish
Give her effervescence
She needs a little sparkle
Good morning TV
You're looking so healthy

And we all say
We don't want to be alone
We wear the same clothes
Because we feel the say
We kiss with dry lips
When we say goodnight
End of a century....It's nothing special

Sex on the TV
Everybodys at it
And the mind gets dirty
As you get closer to thirty
He gives her a cuddle
They're glowing in a huddle
Good night TV
You're all made up
And you know that

Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life.

12 Days Til:

And You Said It Was Pretty Here!

You know you're close to a new Star Wars book when the spoiler protection gets put in place on the NJOE forum!

13 days til Tempest and we now have a spoiler section for all those that might get it early and cannot help talk about it.

Us poor buggers who don't live in the USA and get the book 10 days later will have to resist the dark side and not go looking at all the juicy story lines that crop up and need discussing (even though my Amazon order says it will ship on the 28th of Nov, I won't hold my breath!)





Plot setting arse kicking stuff in this one! Space craft, lightsabers, blasters and just general mayhem!











Boba Feet is back! he rules and he kicked some arse in the process namely Thrackens, Jacen is turning into a complete knob and has left Jaina right up the creek!










Will Tenel Ke (see cover) bite the dust in this one? Thats the big discussion going on right now and we only have to wait 13 more days to find out, well 13 days and however long it takes me to read 400 or so pages!








No one has any idea what this is gonna be about but I figure that Han & Leia have mightly pissed a few people off and are themselves in Exile or god knows really but tis a chuffin cool cover.






Book 5 : Sacrafice
Book 6: Inferno
Book 7: Fury

Waiting for Jaina, Mara and/or Luke to appear on a cover! We've got Jacen, Tenel, Han & Leia, hell we've even got Boba Fett and he died once!

In about a years time the Japanese covers will start coming out and they'll be even better!

Hey Modern Days

Modern Days - The Ark

[Go download its kool, or you could just ask me and I might send you the mp3!]

Hey modern days, here we come
But our feet are swollen and we got no place to stay
But we hope it would still be okay
'cos we brought champagne
and we thought that there must be sleeping bags
(in this very modern day)

But we're all very proud to be here today
The first of a thousand million modern days

'Cos it's a scam, it's a royal kind of wham-bam figure
It's abrieved in the sense of being up-john and senseless
It's a see-saw sickness, it's a snake-bite, low-chant jive
on the century's crime

Well, it's a scam, it's a royal kind of wham-bam figure
It's abrieved in the sense of being up-john and senseless
It's a see-saw sickness, it's a snake-bite, low-chant jive
on the century's crime

Hey modern days, we are taken a-back
We're a flame and a-gog, aloof and inhaled
with a don-don briefcase, oh, wait for our call
And I therefore shall declare
that the stores shall be locked no more
(no more), no more, (no more)

Why shall men suffer, why shall there be freaks?
Why am I still rehearsing a song when I oughta sleep?

'Cos it's a scam, it's a royal kind of wham-bam figure
It's abrieved in the sense of being up-john and senseless
It's a see-saw sickness, it's a snake-bite, low-chant jive
on the century's crime

Well, it's a scam, it's a royal kind of wham-bam figure
It's abrieved in the sense of being up-john and senseless
It's a see-saw sickness, it's a snake-bite, low-chant jive
on the century's crime

Oh, chin-batty dour face, why did you go there?
Sitting on a cold stone, waiting for the train home
Hoping it would carry me home
hoping you would carry me home

If Anyone Can, Canon Can

So I changed to Blogger Beta!

If this works it'll be a bloody miracle!

So anyway, weekend started off almost badly.
Came home from work early on Friday feeling very poorly, won't go into gory details but I was feeling well sorry for myself.

Saturday was feeling better-ish managed to play hockey, we won 1-0 I scored the winner and hit the bar also (would've been easier to score !)

Top of the league again!

Sunday, John went to look at and put a deposit down on a new work horse car :-) this time he's getting (subject to an MOT) a Ford Mondeo estate, you should see the boot on it! its bloody massive, we'll get loads of beer in that when we go to France!

Spurs lost!! FFS! makes my life hell at work on a Monday when they do badly! :-(

Tickets for the Middlesborough game arrived today :-)

It seems my disenchantment with Roxette is on going, some items have already sold on eBay and theres another one on there due to end in 5 days cos basicaly I want some cash for a new camera.

Will I regret this? I dunno, I still love their music, I'd still go see them on tour but I just can't be arsed with this collecting malarky anymore.

Looking to get the Canon Ixus 800 now and not the 900 as previously posted, been reading alot about various features and have noticed that 10m megapixels is only ok if the sensor in the camera is designed to cope with them.
Plus the 800 is cheaper than the 900 and whats 4m megapixles between friends ;-)

14 Days til:













I just noticed that when you add a picture half way thru a post blogger still puts it at the top of your post so you have to move it. Not alot has chnaged! ;-)

Naughty, Naughty, Very Naughty!

3 posts in 1 day!

Ok so I have another money wasting passion appart from going to see concerts, its called going to see The Spurs!

Just booked tickets to see them at the Lane on 5th December against Middlesborough, we'll be behind the goal in the Park Lane end with all the nutters who sing "stand up if you hate Arsenal" when they're told to sit down by the stewards.

[Sung to the tune of 'We Are Sailing']

We are Tottenham, we are tottenham
We are Tottenham, from the Lane

We are Tottenham, Super Tottenham
We are Tottenham, From the Lane

[When singing, replace Tottenham with...Totnam]

;-)

I will see Robbie Keane this season even if it means going broke!

The Ability To Speak Does Not Make You Inteligent.

Had a bet in the Paddy Power Gold Cup Chase that runs on Saturday.

Vodka Bleu is what I'm backing ;-) £2.50 each way, although at the start of the week he was atleast 8-1 the odds are now 4-1

We Are Tottenham

Carling Crap

Spurs 3-1 Port Vale

Got in at 1.30am this morning cos Spurs thought it would be funny to take the game into extra time!

Robbie Keane wasn't playing! but I did get to seeMartin Jol, Edgar Davids, Jermaine DeFoe, Micheal Dawson, Steed Malbranque, Danny Murphy, Aaron Lennon, Tom Huddlestone and Dimitar Berbatov.

1st half was shocking! then somehow Vale managed to score and it all got intresting, on came Lennon and Berbatov who is turning out to be a complete class player!

Jermaine DeFoe really is tiny and I didn't realize just how massive Tom Huddlestone is!

Micheal Dawson was excellent at the back and Edgar Davids was making some quality passes in midfield.

So all in all, I'm knackered but it was well worth it!

COME ON YOU SPURS!

Fury

Thats the title of the 7th book in the new Star Wars series :-)

So we started with Betrayal and then it went onto Bloodlines, next is Tempest in 19 days time ;-) and then we go onto Exile which is out next march, then Sacrafice, Inferno and then the latetst title to be released, Fury.

It's not out til next June!

Exciting stuff! if you're a Star Wars geek like me!

Off to see the Spurs tonight, looking forward to it, gonna take my camera and hopefuly Robbie Keane will be playing :-D

19 Days til:

Remember, Remember

Remember, remember
The 5th of November
Gun powder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gun powder and treason
Should ever be forgot


















Tricky Vee in her hidy hole!

Spurs 2-1 Chelski!

We beat Chelsea in the league for the first time in 19 years!!!!

Hockey was shit, lost 1-0 away in a shitty game on a shitty pitch agaisnt a shitty team and we're now not top of the league BOOO!

Wanted to get some fireworks but bloody Tesco had sold out! :-( so I'm fireworkless on bonfire night, will have to watch everyone elses.
Tricky Vee is under the bed hiding from them.

On another note.....I want me one of these....
















A Canon Ixus 900.

Seeing as I have no credit cards no more, several items have gone on eBay in the hope of raising funds for it! ;-)

22 Days Til:

On And On And On

Spurs 3-1 Club Brugge































24 Days til:

Chilly!

Email appears now to be working!

They've lost 4 emails of mine from yesterday, good job I'd read the most important ones which were about my tickets for Spurs next week and this weekends hockey match!

So anyway, it appears we have our first frost of the winter this morning, looks bloody freezing outside.

Brought my first Christmas present on Tuesday although I can't say exactly what it is as I dunno if John is reading this blog or not!! (probably not but you just never know!) ;-)
All I can say is it involves having the 3rd & 4th of January off of work next year. ;-P

And thats all I have to say really, so I'm going back to my very big cup of coffee and go and see if I can find something warm to cycle to work in seeing as I lost my very cheap but very warm fleece on Saturday evening :-(

Oh nearly forgot! Spurs are on the tv tonight, ITV4 somewhere around 8pm :-D

Get the beers in!

25 Days til: