I’m back! Shock of all shocks, but I finally managed to figure out what was going on with my website and managed to have it fixed. It was a stupid backend problem with a wordpress plugin that was causing havoc and chaos all around.

Wow. I have a lot to catch up on.

Let me ‘splain.
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No, there is too much. Let me sum up.

Went to Rome. Had fun. Came back. Worked like a dog over Christmas pulling in multiple 88hr weeks. Got transferred to a different store. Got a “new” car.  Read Books. Lived Life. The end.

At some point now that the site is working again and that I’m back on a semblance of regular hours I will make some attempt at posting regularly once more. No guarantees as to when that will be.

Cheers for now. I’m off to watch Quantum of Solace.

So in less than two weeks, Tamara and I will be in Rome, butchering the language, savouring the local cuisine and getting suitably and enjoyably lost in the twisting little streets all the while rubbernecking like the giddy tourists we are. Now we’ve got our own itinerary planned and our own ideas of what we want to see but I thought I’d take this time to see if anyone else had any suggestions of places to see (or places to avoid).

Looking forward to your ideas.

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Tags: Rome

Man… my post titles are getting lamer and lamer. I really had to dig for that one. I’m going to blame having to be up at 4am to take my girlfriend’s mom to the airport. Guh. It’s far too early and I have had far too few Monsters to be walking and talking, let alone blogging but hey, we all can’t be morning people now can we.

I will say that getting up at 4 did make me somewhat nostalgic for the late nights that I haven’t had in quite some time. Perhaps it was also the time of year. There was that crisp sharpness to the air that autumn always brings and that I love so much and the peace and quiet was exquisitely enjoyable. To make the morning perfect, there was a full (or nearly full) moon with a haze around it that made the whole sky glow and that alone was reason enough to be up that early.  Joy!

Now I’m home alone, the girlfiend girlfriend has gone to work and the kidlet is at the day home, the house is clean and all my chores are done save making lunch. I have a couple of hours to waste and I shall be spending them here online. No, I’m not going to be playing WoW for once. This morning we’re going to be delving into the tide pools of a planet I have named Raxacoricofallapatorius (Are you a Doctor Who nerd too? Good. I won’t have to kill you then.) and a little amoeba I have named Slitheen. Hooray for the glory that is Spore… okay perhaps a game where 80% of the creatures made to date are ambulatory phalloi made by twelve year olds isn’t all that glorious but the fact that you can make anything you want is quite brilliant.

I’ve not played past the Tide Pool phase yet. I’m still having fun fiddling with the creature widgets and deciding if my amoeba is going to be carnivorous or herbivorous (or possibly omnivorous if I can find the upgrade) and I am really looking forward to all the other stages too. If I have anything decent, I’ll post some screenshots, and perhaps I’ll even get around to posting those photos of our place.

However, this is more than enough babble to keep you all enthralled with the wonder that is my life and the more I type here, the less time I have to play. I say good day sir. Good Day.

Tags: Family, Spore

“You’ll have to excuse me, I’m not at my best
I’ve been gone for a month, I’ve been drunk since I left
These so-called vacations will soon be my death.
I’m so sick from the drink I need home for a rest”

– Home For A Rest by Spirit of the West.

So, we’ve finally got the place livable. 90% of the boxes are unpacked and most of the stuff is in the right place. Soon we’ll have the curtains all hung and the acutrements all in place and the place will be fit for company and entertaining. I have a tonne of photos to post but am waiting until we’re 110% finished before I post them. In the meantime, I get to enjoy the sweltering heat and hope that it will break soon and it won’t be an oven in our kitchen.

Perhaps now that the craziness is done I’ll have a chance to post more… but then again perhaps not.

Expect me if/when you see me.

Tags: Our Apt

Well, today’s the big day. I’m off to get the keys to the new place and drop off the paint so as Tam can let her creative muse run wild while I’m at work and then tomorrow I get to join in and paint to my little hearts content. Hoooray!

Once the paint dries, then the fun stuff begins and all our time will be spent shuffling boxes from points a, b and c to point d. Then it will be the ever so fun task of going through all our collective accoutrements and deciding what all we have, what all we’re going to keep, who gets to throw out what, and who gets to share their toys. It’ll be grand fun.

I’ll take some pics of the new place when I get there today so as we have some before and after pics.

In the meantime and in between time. I leave you with a couple of different versions of a song that I’ve become readdicted to lately.

Have fun kids.

Tags: Painting, Tamara

Due to the help of my ever-faithful henchman Igor and through the super science of blog necromancy I bring to you, from the very edge of death, my somewhat regular postings about music and such.

Yes, it has been awhile. I have to say that I have a decent excuse this time. I managed to land myself in a very healthy and happy relationship with a girl who puts up with all my eccentricities and foibles with good grace. She also managed to watch me type that with a straight face so I guess that’s saying something.

As you can imagine, it’s eaten up a lot of my time. Not only do have I a new girlfriend but I also lucked out and landed myself a promotion at work and am now the Store Manager. Not the acting or fill in or temporary, the bona fide, hardcore, my will be done, what is thy bidding my master, Boss of it all. So yay for me. When I’m not working or dealing with work I’m with the GF and her lovable two year old daughter so blogging has fallen by the wayside. Perhaps once we’re settled in the new apt, I’ll have more time… Yeah yeah. wishful thinking. I know.

Anyways. I’ve had this song stuck in my head for awhile now. It’s simple. It’s sweet and I like it. It’s Hey There Delilah by the Plain White T’s.

Enjoy

Tags: Serenade

While I tend to keep my private life private and rarely comment about it here on the blog, some things are just too good not to say something about.

Much to my continued shock and amazement, I have a girlfriend. I’m quite thrilled with this. I wasn’t looking for her and she sort of just fell into my life like a vibrant, chaotic whirlwind of energy and beauty and I’ve been hooked since the moment I met her. To paraphrase Monty Python, “I chose her out of thousands. I didn’t like the others. They were all too flat.” *grin*

Her name is Tamara and she is perfect for me. She is strong where I am weak and together we’re a happy whole. I could wax poetic about her all day but I’m sure none of you would care to be poisoned by that overly saccharine sweetness so I shall refrain… at least in this post. I can’t promise that in future I won’t burst out into bad verse or compare her eyes to limpet pools of loveliness so consider yourselves warned.

They say you should always end on a high note. They also say that pictures are worth a thousand words. Personally, I feel that number falls far too short when describing her. I’ll let you decide for yourselves.

Enjoy

Woo!

Yay, I don’t have to wade through 10 months of archived posts trying to salvage things. It looks like my web host actually came through and found my missing sql databases. Hooray! Still no clue what all happened but right now I’m happy enough not to care and can now continue blissfully in my sporadic postings of deranged enlightenment.

In other news, I managed to see Iron Man yesterday. I figured I’d get it out of the way before Indy hits. It was good, but there were times that Robert Downey Jr.’s performance was just a little over the top and it grated ever so slightly. Still a great adaptation and it sets the stage for the sequel and the addition of Rhodes as War Machine. If you have the chance, I highly recommend seeing it.

Tags: Movies, Website

Hey there computer and internet.

It’s been awhile now hasn’t it? Yeah, I’ve been fairly busy too. Life apparently does happen while you’re busy making other plans. That John Lennon guy hit the nail on the head with that one didn’t he.

What have I been up to that’s been keeping me so busy you ask? Well, among a plethora of things, work has been kicking my ass on a regular basis and when I’m not working I’m hanging out with friends. Who knew that having a social life would be so demanding and draining. Oh well, I don’t mind. I’m having fun. Unfortunately the world isn’t producing any more hours for me to do all that I want to so until my time management skills improve somewhat and I can multitask at a competent level, some things (like hanging out with you two) will have to fall by the wayside. I know you understand, you’ve got other people to see and play with so it’s all good. I’ll be back when I can guys.

Cheers.

In other words… Life is good. I’m busy folks. I’ll blog again if and when I can. In the meantime, you must learn to live without my witticisms and enlightenment for a tad longer.

Patience grasshoppah. Patience.

Well, it’s now the 22nd of April and as of today we’ve seen nearly 40cm of snow since Saturday. Of course with the wind that means it’s drifted up to twice that in some places. It’s absolutely crazy and even as I type this it’s still snowing outside. Driving to work tomorrow morning is going to be absolutely hell. Joy. Apparently people are incapable of remembering how to drive in the snow even though it wasn’t that long ago that we had some. I am reminded daily that people are idiots!

I was looking forward to spring with such enthusiasm especially when temperatures last weekend were hovering at +20°C and then it turns around and drops to -9°C with a -10° wind chill. Guh. I was ready to take my bike out of storage, give it a quick tune up and find some puddles to splash into but I guess that will have to wait until this crap all melts. Here’s hoping that’s soon. I really need the exercise.

Alright. I was going to stay up and watch a movie while I did a load of laundry but my eyes are drooping so I think I’ll just forgo that until tomorrow.