Dag 1059: Happy Hogmanay

The wind is blowing outside and it is new years eve yet again. It is 8 minutes to midnight and I am in bed already because I don't like new years eve and there is no way I'm going to stay up past midnight tonight - no matter how awake I am. Some people probably don't like new years eve because they don't like going out, but I do like going out, just not on new years eve. It is far too busy and there is too much expectation about the whole thing. I don't like doing what is expected of me, I like doing what I feel like doing at the time, so new years eve is one of my least enjoyable nights of the year.

I think I also need to say that this year the TV has been about the worst that there has ever been over an xmas/new year period. There hasn't been a single new episode of Poirot, Miss Marple, Midsummer Moiders or any other program that I usually enjoy watching over the smas/new year period. One of the only saving graces is that there is a brand new Taggart on on Wednesday night. There have been a few good things on BBC, but they have been pretty much all comedies and they have shown them all about 3 times each to try and pad out the scedule. Fortunately I managed to get a Nintendo Wii which has filled in all of the many times when there has been nothing good ojn TV, but the downside is that I am now suffering from Wii Arm.

It is now 2 minutes past midnight and as the fireworks are going off all around, despite the adverse weather conditions, I am reminded that most countries on the earth, as we know it, seem to have come up with some derogatory term or other for most other countries. If some people from another workd were to decide to come up with a suitable term for us earthlings they would probably come up with something like:

Garlic eating, jockstrap wearing, carpet munching, cross dressing, whale blubber sucking, goat milking, tree hugging, double crossing, religious bigotted, crystal gazing, war mongering, armchair shopping, pulp fiction reading, tea drinking, sun worshipping, surrender monkeys.*

*Apologies if I have missed any of the stereotypes you may fit into, but there just wasn't enought room for them all to be included.

Dag 1056: God Jul!

Or as they like to say in Bohemia "Vesele Vanoce".

Christmas has now come and gone and it is some time since we saw any posting action round about here. My initial excuse was that my trusty PowerBook had developed a strange fault with it's screen which made it look as though some sort of static interference was going on. It was just like the sort of thing you would see in some sort of sci fi film, or something, where screens were being affected by static interference from outer space. It made it very difficult to see anything. I bought a couple of CDs recently and it was very hard trying to get them imported into iTunes. I managed it in the end after several reboots.

While I was without a useable computer I did start a couple of posts (one of which is the next instalment of Snowblind - if you remember what that is) and I will hopefully be getting round to posting them up in the near future because Santa and his minions have brought me a brand spanking new PowerBook for Xmas - only now they are called MacBook Pros instead. This one has got one of the all new intel dual core chippy things in it and I must say it is faster than a fast thing that is travelling faster than it normally does. I have had a go at Quake 4 with all the options turned on and it works a treat - now I just wish I had the time to actually play Quake 4 from time to time. This is the sort of thing that you need to be working away from home to be able to do.

Santa and his heard of goats also brought a couple of Wiis, and as he bought them nice and early I was able to sell one of them on eBay. The profit from this just about paid for the brand new tyre that needed replacing on the trusty Volvo after someone in the household managed to bang it against a curb and pop it. I think there is some law that means every time I get the chance at making a bit of spare cash something will crop up that costs just a little bit more than the amount I have just made.

Well its not all doom and gloom because a kindly and altruistic Bulgarian property magnate sent this link to me and had nearly everyone at Björk Bjiggler Towers rolling in the aisles.

For some reason I couldn't see what was so funny.

As well and the new computer, the Jultomten was also kind enough to bring me a Vew Do Zippy balance board which has taken me back to my skateboarding days of yore. These things are great and it should enable me to return to my former sylph like frame that I used to have before I started eating too many chicken fried rice's from Mid Calder.
I haven't actually had a chicken fried rice from there for about 6 months now, but I have probably been making up for it by stuffing my face with loads of other rubbish as my stomach doesn't seem to have got any flatter since then. In fact, yesterday I came to the conclusion that the reason I have not lost any weight is because I don't have any scales. If I had some scales than I could weight myself everyday and keep track of the amount of weight I'm losing. Without the scales my weight will just flounder around and I'll never manage to get any thinner.

Most of my postings are written out in draft first and then pasted into blogger for final editing before being published. I have done this one in this way and have logged in ready to post the thing only to find out there there is an all new version of blogger that I didn't know about before that brings it into ones google account now. There was a big button that allowed me to begin the process of upgrading my blog. So I clicked on it and it said this would take a few minutes. After a while it said "I still haven't finished transferring your blog so go away and I'll send you an email when it is ready". This was about 30 minutes ago and I still haven't had this email so when you finally get to read this you will know that:
A) this blog is now an all new improved google blog rather than an old blogger one
B) this may not actually have been posted until some time (maybe a day or so) after I actually wrote it

In fact it took about 2 hours, which means I probably have what is known in the trade a pretty hefty blog.

So in the mean time hope you all not only have a "gott nytt år" but that you also manage to get all of your shoe related problems sorted out in 2007.