Well campers, finally I have something of worth to post after quite a long strech, though there was the large blog post on the podcast, january thankfully is almost gone and with it, the promise of so much more. As the old people say, wishing your life away, ramble, ramble.

This week began with such a wimper. The highlights of course being that I got the new microphone, and having ran some recording tests to verify functionality with the audio adpater being pulgged into the dream machine, I can say, you will be getting closer to what I sound like at long last.

Isn’t that a scary thought?

The other highlight is Playing a game of WOW, and having a rather bizzare conversation with one of the other people playing, about sex. It ended up being like in Lethal Weapon, where Mel Gibson and the other one tries to out do each other with injuries or whatever. Think that pretty much sums it up….:) Read the rest of this entry »

Have the new mic for the podcast but still need to get an adapter to plug into the laptop and a mic stand. My laptop is slightly out of action at the moment, due to the DVD Writer dying on me yesterday.

Got a taste of Indian support from dell, and well I have a brand new drive coming tommorow. Not bad at all.

Apperently I am good at my job as well. Thus endeth the news update. Sorry, I really am struggling for stuff this month.

The second of today’s posts now, and here’s what’s been going down in funkytown since last i posted (not WOW by the way).

Work has been a bit of a bind as now everyone wants my attention devoted to their projects all at once. One looks like finishing soon but the other which has overan since last year due to them, looks set to continue that. And they are upset. Who cares is all I say?

College has taken a welcome step back after the workload from the first semister, which meant that after the podcast, i could waste time playing WOW and Splinter cell 4, actually getting futher than I did when I first played that all that time ago. Bought a new dynamic Mic for the podcast stuff on the ol plastic, will get that next week and i suppose I should start with material on the next cast sooner rather than later.

All week, have been hearing about the racist big bother, and well I will make my feelings clear on that in the next cast, as I think writing it down would do it an injustice. Also Ad has set off to the land of the rising sun for 3 weeks (think it’s just to get another silk purse) and well folks, after that that is the main highlights. Aside from the lovely weather we had this week. This was fun as we saw people’s cars get slated. Quite literally. Slates were falling off the root at work, and they face some hefty claims. Dear me, has it gotten to the point where I talk about the weather?

It’s just been a shit week in terms of fun things to do, as being out of money till tueday is no fun, and well the money I have spent now, I have to pay back. I must say so far of January, the highlights so far are pretty much none-existant, save for Nat’s birthday and hearing off a few people again. I sincerly hope it will not be like this most of the year otherwise I may go nuts, well more nuts anyway. Got to get things sorted out soon.

Well campers since the podcast post on Thursday I have been spending time in the MMORPG known as World of Warcraft, you may have heard of it, or like most others in the real world, you are thinking what the hell is that?

Well here’s a picture of it first:

And second the idea is you play online with others who want to do the same thing, have a chat, bit of hacking and slashing and being socialable. Yes the pub doesn’t quite cut it, if you want to hurt things, but then again some places you get that too, so why do they need a game?

Now the reason for this post is one of a question really? Why oh why on a game constructed for the purpose (of money) of interacting and playing a game with others, do people just want to play by themseleves and f**k others off? Why pay £8 a month to do that? You get that for free on others. This was one of the reasons why I stopped a long time ago with the game, as well as real life fun and frolicks taking center stage. I started the subscription off again a few weeks ago after getting the expansion pack for it, and starting again with a new character.

Well it seems very little has changed. In fact thanks to the kids, it seems to have gotten slightly worse. Try helping people out, and they tell you to go away. WOW, it works in both worlds…

But on the other hand, I have found people who actually play the game as intended. One such person I had a lot of fun with today in Westfall (one of the places in the game for kicking ass and chewing bubble gum)

and this has made it a lot better. If you are stuck on your own all the time in the game, it’s no fun and you end up leaving it. The game itself is very good, always been a fan of blizzard games, but unless you are playing with friends, WOW is a lot of work. Here ends the post on WOW.

What’s that coming over the hill? Find out on Thursday as It’s been a long time in the making and it’s almost done.

In this new year of ours, I feel I have quite a lot to say about many things on the state of play in the arenas of the world. Big surprise to everyone that i have a lot to say. But it is actually hard to say any of it. Quite strange really. After my rant the other day about the cost of living, i felt happy. I had highlighted something which I felt aggrived by, and it felt good. Love this whole blogging thing!!

I come off the anti-biotics tommorow and for the majority of it all, i feel funky. First time I ever had to take anything for the tonsils, but then again always a first time for everything And my sense of humour has toned down a bit for some reason too. I am normally funny on these pages (or I think i am), but no, i have things on my mind, again another first.

Must be just gas.

It’s been a while since I wrote a World Events View, but I have to write about the state of living on your own today. The simple reason is that while I lived in Walsall, I saw the cost of living in the two-bedroom flat sky rocket, mainly as a result of my flat mate not sharing the costs, and in fact in the end buggering off to god knows where.

I have been making the argument with Mum and Dad for the longest time that to live on your own; you have to be on some substantial money. Regrettably I have been stagnant these last two years in terms of wage increases, I suppose it’s because I have moved into three different jobs during that time with two different companies, Capgemini and now Fujitsu, both major players on the outsourcing stage in their own right.
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Forgive me my friends, I did not write after New Year ’s Eve. As of Tuesday, I had been coming down with the flu, struggling to carry on with work by and basically sleeping at night. Thursday I felt like death, with cold shivers, sore throat, and a headache so bad I was thinking straight. But still I had to go to college in this state for an exam, of which no idea of which if I passed or not.

Friday, went to the Oswestry doctors and it turned out I had a base case of Tonsillitis to add to the list. Had some pills with a complicated name, and took the rest of the day off from work at that point.

Saturday was spent mostly in the sitting room, reading, avoiding anything IT or phone related. My voice was awful too, but today on the Sunday, I feel a lot better. My throat now remains the main battleground, with flare-up and more fluid coming out every so often.

I will go back to work tomorrow, and hopefully can carry on as business as usual with whatever I need to do, but really it’s hasn’t been a fun start for me this year as it goes.
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Well campers, welcome to 2007.

Happy new year to all of you, i trust we all had a good time celebrating and here’s to hoping 2007 is as good if not better than 2006 was. There are a lot of highlights from last year to go through, and the list of things to come for the new year which I hope to achieve.

Alas poor eurich, you will have to wait until tommorow to hear about all this, as it has been a busy day today and there is much still to do.

Take care and we shall speak soon.