not the news i wanted!

So after the car problems i have just had and now the added hassle and money aspect i have had some more bad news, i be honest i think doing well with it as it big ish! My house sale has fallen through! the people still want the house but there is something going on with the bloke and his job! the offer for £65,000 is still there and there are people looking round tomorrow but now there have been 5 wasted weeks! something that pissed me off was i was the one ringing round the ssurveyorsto find out it had been ccanceled7 days ago! WTF was my estate agent doing? Why ddidn'tthe people buying by house call them? Thinking of going postal on my estate agent as lets not forget he will be getting payed for this!

Now this dose cause some big ffinancialproblems and i think im going to have to start getting pissed of as now the Ex dosnt pay anything to the house, Zip, Big Fat 0. now i know she has her own debts but so do i and we are back to the key fact, no house = no money!

So after the car issue i decided to spend some time in manchester and thats where i come from right now and to be hhonestim still happy and having fun wwhiledealing with this shit storm, mad i think so but im just going with what makes me happy!

Love you

x

Theft of car number plates update!

My plates were used in a drive off, Not a drive by thank god s I don’t think the police would have rung me but come round with gun’s!

So I'm thinking next time I have no money and need some petrol hey presto! Drive off! Knowing my luck they would have caught the bloke and got my plate when I come to do it so scratch that idea.

long time no see party people!

Hi all,

Ok lets start, I come to you tonight righting this blog in Manchester, yes I know again but what can I say about this beautiful city! Got to go out again last night and ended up in Fab Café which for those of you who haven’t gone it great, ok great for me who loves film and stuff along them lines but I think most people would like it if you give it a go, many drinks later and even saw that but ugly fella of coronation street, Kirk of something like that and back to the flat. Now I think I did well as the previous night I didn’t get to sleep due to some intense msn action till 2am and then back up at 6:30 for work, I know that’s not what I should have done but hey I'm a big boy now and I would like to think I would know what’s best for me so anyway 2am – 6:30 – Work at 8 and up the largest Imax screen in the country with every set of tools and safety equipment to change a HF unit, Now this screen is huge and takes sometime just to climb and with all the extra stuff you need to take it become a slow and painful job so you can imagine my joy to find I had not taken the right tools up with me (again! Not the first time, you would have thought I would have learnt) I wasn’t a happy bunny, so back up on Monday with the right tools to change the smallest part up there.

So tonight I have a trip to the lovely city of Liverpool for a night out, get to meet some new faces and hopefully make some new friends. It has seamed to have turned out to be a big weekend as these friends are the friends of my girlfriend and coupled with the planned events of Sunday it seams I'm going to get all the nervous stuff out of the way in the space of a weekend, Now I say nervous but I dint really feel that way, anyone would want to make a good impression but the way I think is if they don’t like me that’s ok to, everyone is well entitled to there own very unique point of view.

As for the house it seams like someone is working to slow the entire process down, why of for what propose is unclear but things seam to take forever to get done, I know I'm going to impatient about this matter but I'm sure of it, got a voice mail from the people doing the survey last Friday, spent all day trying to get back to them with no joy but that would have involved them answering the phone! Spoke to estate agent Tuesday and they said the would let them have access to my house to get it done, rand the survey people again Wednesday just to check and they said the survey had been up on hold due to the mortgage company, so back to the estate agent and they called me back saying everything is ok and it should be done soon! It should have been done at the beginning of the dam week but with people pissing around it cost me another week! So still no survey and I'm still sat around waiting for the dam thing to be done with bills and bills piling up around me and with the lack of pay from work for the next 3 weeks its going too become an interesting time.

Something which I have been considering as a treat for me was a digital camera, a video not a photo one, it starting to become a hobby and I seam to have more and more ideas which I want to put in to play, I'm looking a solid state cameras as they are a lot smaller the min-dv or the other ranges, solid state records to memory cards which has it draw backs but the size of the thing is a main point in my book for the different use’s I will need it for. So £200 ish would get me a ok one but I don’t want to end up buying another one a few more weeks down the line as my demand for quality grows so I have been looking around and have spotted a few so stay tuned in to see if I spend money I don’t have!

So not managed to upload my blog so another entry, Had a fantastic night out sat, spent most of the night dancing and drinking and having SO much fun, what a awesome night out, really really good with no exception. There was fantastic music all night which kept me dancing all night, meet a load of wonderful new people and had fun getting to know them and back on a night buss with the chance to meet some more nice if strange people.

Sunday starts only after 5 hours sleep with a trip to see the girl friends family, now I bring this up as in any body’s book it’s a big ish deal, I think things went well and had a good time meeting some really nice people, got on well with her younger nice and nephew which I think went down well, always trying to score brownie points!

So the weekend was full of fun, lacking in sleep but all well worth it!

has it got to that stage already?

So the weekend approaches and guess what! Im off, yes that’s right folks got sat and sun of in the same week so what do i plan to do with the two days off together? Well i have an invitation to meet the girlfriends family! Gulp! But you know what im kinda looking forward to it, it would only be right for me to give them the chance to check me out, 20 questions and all that but as with most things in life i would like the challenge.
Now this isn’t the only thing i would like to get done this weekend, my car is still eating alternator belts on a weekly basis, i have another set of boxes ready to go round to my mums (i reckon she thinks im slowly moving in) but it would make moving easier for me when the time comes which leads me nicely on to the house and nothing new to report, tick tock but nothing! not that im there that much anyway but the bills still need paying! Soon People Soon!

Lost was 1st brought to my attention before it hit the uk screen's, i will be honest the brief explanation from my reliable source i wasn’t really taken with the idea of some people sat on a island somewhere but after watching all 24 episodes in as many hours i have been a keen follower ever since. The 'extra' stuff associated with the show from web pages and voice mail really adds something else to the whole experience, the new season starts on the 4th October .

Studio 60 is a new show recommended by Cinemec-tv (the one stop shop for all tv info) and i managed to watch the first 2 episodes last night and i liked it, not the normal show i would tend to watch but good non the less

Battlestar Galactica Well what can i say, the cilons are back and now some of them look cute! im sure there are web site's out there for having sex with machines but anyway this new take on the old tv show looks and feels fantastic, i really like the way the space shots are taken and im looking forward to the new season which starts on the 6th October..

My name is Earl Is now back on our screen! Well if you live in the states or happen to know how to use Bit torrent (i don’t condone the use of illegal bit torrents or break of copy right) and if last season is anything to go off this one should be good, watching the show an slowly make you believe in the concept of karma or maybe that’s my impressionable mind.

Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis. Stargate SG1 is now on season 10 which will bring it to the last of its run and Atlantis is a baby in comparison and running season 3 but has the go a head for the next season, i know some people find these show kinda a tacky but ive been a follower for some time now and enjoy them all.!

enjoy X

The legend thats the cast party!

So after working to the uci/filmworks/odeon/printworks or what ever you want to call it there have been many cast parties, some good some bad some amazing but without failure there has always been someone there with a camera. Now i love digital cameras to the disgustof some of my work friends but with digital you can snap away with out the constant though of you only have some many photo's to take, with digital you take them then you decided if you want to keep them later.

I wanted to make these photo's available to everyone not just the people who took them so with a little work I managed to put them online for everyone to see, so we have the new one's for every new cast party then when another new party comes along the last lot get put in a big folder with every other photo ever taken.

I would like to have a look at the latest cast party photo's

I would like to have a look at the old cast photo's

All I now need is a easier way to remove red eye from all of them in one go as doing each one a time seams to take forever!

the latest update!

Hallo there strangers!

So what’s being going on? Well After staying n Manchester for the last few days drinking and having fun and lets not forget the ease of getting a full English breakfast at any time of day I had a night of drinking at the frog and bucket planned for Monday night but I got a phone call from work Monday afternoon from work meaning I need it be in work for 6am Tuesday morning for the bulb change in the Imax due to the left eye planning up again, you can tell this wouldn’t be the first time this eye has played up. Now when I say changing bulbs I don’t mean I simple screw cap but 15,000W X2 Imax bulbs at £3200 each and normally we would allow about 6 hours to change both bulbs so to have it done in just over 2 hours was good work but thanks to
some wonderful team work only had to work till 5 instead of 10! Good job as by 10pm I was fast a sleep in bed as I was shattered. So I didn’t end up staying up all night drinking on Monday night but I still managed to have some fun and a few drinks. One thing I have started to really like about staying in Manchester and please don’t think this is the best or only thing that’s good it’s the fact instead of taking about 1 hours to get to work it took me 16 mins! Wow, 16 mins!

Now to make my day better I pottered to a local greasy spoon where I think the cook looks like some one famous, I managed to take a sneaky photo for you to decide.

Is it just me?

Nothing like a early moring bulb change!

Some photo's from the live band night from last week.

Nothing like catching someone 'resting there eyes' at work

long time no see

So you are probably wondering why you haven’t heard from me for a while well I have been in Manchester for the last few days livein what I would describe as living life to the full extent it can be, now I wont bore you with the full details of the my time in Manchester but I thought I would give you a blast of the high lights!

I parked my lovely car in the pleasant place of fallowfied on last Saturday only to come back on last Sunday to find both number plates had been stolen! Who steals number plates? Now with the recent change in the law I could not just go and buy some new ones, I have to have the car document and driving license to get new plates even though my car is sat out side with the obvious fact there are no plates on the dam thing, so on my way home the mighty Blackburn Rovers were at home playing the crappy Man City (4-2 by the way!) which also meant every single copper was between me and my house, now I car driving with out number plates tends to stick out like a sore thumb but did I get stopped? Nope! Now this is fine for me as spending 30mins or so explaining what had happened would have fit well in my time scale, so while I was fitting my new shiny number plates I noticed that the last 3 letters (UFB) of my reg could only have been put there for the sole purpose of that very day as on my knees fitting the tings it dawned on me it could stand for Un Fucking Believable! So new plates and back to Manchester!

Last Monday beckoned the latest instalment of the cast party and I had loads of fun! The DJ should have been taken out side and shot but every now and then she redeemed her self before slipping back in to the upsettingly poor music selection, even with this setting the night back the evening got better and better and then moved on to a different scale of fun, then after the good came the bad in the form of work so after getting 4hours sleep I was back up and working for what was to be a long day but after such a good time the night before there was nothing that would make me feel bad!

So only a few days home and then back to Manchester for a live mic night Thursday just gone to watch some ok artists and some good one’s. to prep for the day I drank! In the Sun no less with the ‘students’ even went to the fresher fair as they have some amazing posters which will be mine once I have some money and then to continue my live music theme for the week I want to another even down at the Joshua something something, another fantastic night although it was LOUD, to the point when I got out all I could hear was white noise and that was with the ear plugs Cinemec gave me (thx dude) So after what I would say was Enough to drink and another late night I hade to be back up and over the Cheshire for Bourons Birthday Quad Biking thing, So I'm hung over, Late, Still in my going out cloths and now firing round the wilderness on a quad bike, I could not stop smiling even when getting sprayed in cow shit! Did a bit of slow tracking but think the bloke liked us as we got to really give it some welly and had some moments where I tried to remember if I had paid my life insurance but all well worth it.

House Update! Did you think I had sold it? If only! The have to ring and book in the surveyors tomorrow which is the next big step so 1^st thing and I'm on the phone, I will move hell and high water to get them to my house ASAP but we will see!

As for the blog I'm trying to make some small changes, well I'm always trying to make it look and load better so hang on tight oz it may be a bumpy ride!

Just no time and lack of internet

dear readers, sorry for the lack of updates, i just don't seam to have any time! Got a few movies to review and some interesting tails to let you in on, things are good and no bank knocking down my door, got a trip to Manchester tomorrow with a gig to go to, should have some photo's for all of you to see.

Its 2 am and i have a early ish morning call tomorrow so i don't plan to waste the day in bed so this is the end for now! but stay tuned!

night

Hi your through to tech support how can I assist you today?

I have always been interested in computers, TV’s, HiFi, and that sort of thing for many years. this is great when it comes to getting the best for the least amount on money but there is a draw back, well it not a draw back as such but i think i could do with my very own tech support phone line for all friends and family to use when they need the human element to explain what all the tech talk means! for example, a cpu speed is like a big hammer and ram is the speed the hammer travels at! Sometimes its not that easy like when my friend pays £15.99 per month for dialup! WTF you can get broadband for £12.99 but do they want to listen? No! Next case Plz!

But then is the flip side of it, looking at a laptop of you know who and i just want to go through the thing and make it run faster, make all the file association work correctly, virus and spy ware checks and all the routine stuff as its never been done! but will she let me? Nope! Girls!

Things are good and last night wasn’t spent at home, don’t worry i feed the cats before i left and hopefully the Ex will feed them today but lets not forget there is a chance that will get messed up (got to carry some humour with that!) as i don’t think im home tonight! maybe my subconscious is slow moving me to Manchester with out me knowing about it! don’t think i have a problem with that but some money would be nice! Money doesn’t make people happy! it just makes things easier!

So not sure of where i will end up tonight but i know i will have a good time getting there!

x

Back on track

After yesterdays new and pending financial ruin i spoke to the natwest help last night but they were unable to make me an appointment for the morning but did manage to ring me at 8:30am after I got in bed 6 hours earlier! I know it proactive but come on people all I want is two lay inns’s a month and today would have been one! So after me explain I was naked and would that be ok for the reminder of the conversation the lady on the other end sounded happy, I even thought it would have worked to soften her up but no joy, the verdict! Ok but not good, everything now is very tight and if this sale doesn’t go through I think very very drastic measures will have to be taken just to keep the house, I have to speak to the loan people tomorrow but that has headed for the collection department! And the mortgage has a slight stay of execution. Tick tock Tick tock! I even went to the back to sit down and talk all through this but they had no one available! So I got her to put a note on my file saying I had tried to sort this out but the bank were unaccommodating, don’t think that would work in my job, Sorry I cant put that film on I just don’t have the people! Can you make an appointment?

So with some more motivation thanks to yesterdays turn of event (aka getting screwed over) I managed to box up some more stuff and move it over to me mum’s, I think this work good for 2 reasons. 1-I can see what I haven’t packed yet and 2-I can move stuff from her house when I move, after explaining the events she gave me £20! Now I cant tell you how much this helps me right at the time but some how being 26 and taking money of my mum made me feel a little sad, 26! And my mum is giving me the opportunity to buy my tea and food for tomorrow, I know this is short term but at one point today I started to wonder when my life went so wrong, not my present life but the one that put me in the situation.

But I started in a bad mood and finished the day in a good one, why? Not to sure! The thought of what’s to come? The thought of a person? The movies I watched (reviews to come)?
On thing that did make me stand up and take count is an email I got from a friend, it a poem about the loss on September 11th in the New York city attacks.

IF I KNEW

If I knew it would be the last time
That I'd see you fall asleep,
I would tuck you in more tightly
and pray the Lord, your soul to keep.

If I knew it would be the last time
that I see you walk out the door,
I would give you a hug and kiss
and call you back for one more

If I knew it would be the last time
I'd hear your voice lifted up in praise,
I would video tape each action and word,
so I could play them back day after day.

If I knew it would be the last time,
I could spare an extra minute
to stop and say "I love you,"
instead of assuming you would KNOW I do.

If I knew it would be the last time
I would be there to share your day,
Well I'm sure you'll have so many more,
so I can let just this one slip away.

For surely there's always tomorrow
to make up for an oversight,
and we always get a second chance
to make everything just right.

There will l always be another day
to say "I love you,"
And certainly there's another chance
to say our "Anything I can do?"

But just in case I might be wrong,
and today is all I get,
I'd like to say how much I love you
and I hope we never forget.

Tomorrow is not promised to anyone,
young or old alike,
And today may be the last chance
you get to hold your loved one tight.

So if you're waiting for tomorrow,
why not do it today?
For if tomorrow never comes,
you'll surely regret the day,

That you didn't take that extra time
for a smile, a hug, or a kiss
and you were too busy to grant someone,
what turned out to be their one last wish.

So hold your loved ones close today,
and whisper in their ear,
Tell them how much you love them
and that you'll always hold them dear

Take time to say "I'm sorry,"
"Please forgive me," "Thank you," or "It's okay."
And if tomorrow never comes,
you'll have no regrets about today.

This made me realize how shot and unpredictable life can be and to take each day like it could be our last, now don’t get me wrong I plan to be here for sometime and I apologies to the people I may upset with that comment but that's my long term plan, Live! It also made me think of people who are special in my life and making every second count.

Another thing which made my hart stop today would have been the unnatural sound coming from my car, now there are some readers out there who would argue my car has never sounded like it should and on a cretin level I can agree but the little thing has kept me alive and keeps on going, tracked it down to the alternator but roller which is slowly slicing my belts! That’s good news coz at one point I thought it could have been the bearings which would cost a fortune and I don’t need to tell you that would not be a good thing! So after some small modification the noise is gone but the problem is still there so that is another trip to the garage but it will have to be a cheap one, I will try looking at it but I don’t hold much hope for that working.

So the plan for the next few days? Go a possible party sat night and its on like Donkey Kong Monday night as there is a work party and I tend to have loads of fun, and why break with tradition a visit to the girl friends to keep my happiness level above normal should be a possibility, after the weekend it should become easier for us to find the time we both want and with out the massive amount of traveling which come on people can only be a good thing!

I hope you are well and enjoying life how it should be!

Night all

How else can i get screwed over?.

Ok to bring you up to speed with my financial standing I now cover 90% of all the out goings from my house, now I used to cover 50% but with the recent turn of events as you can imaging this changed, I got a lot of ‘that’s not my problem’ and other unsupportive comments (as it will be when the house is repossessed!) but as I'm happy so plodded along slowly sinking as I don’t earn enough to cover all the bills but with some saving I had (had as in past tense), the only thing that the Ex need to cover was a lone in both out names, now that’s 10% of keeping the house going from a full time wage so if you can do the maths you would think that it would be doable as I did. But after a phone call today (silver lining is she actually told me about it this time, not the best silver lining!) but that 10% is now just F**KED, the bank will no longer accept any payment from her on the only bill she has and they want to close her account! Now this has an impact on me as my name is on the dam thing as well as hers, why didn’t I just take it off her? Well I could not, in no way afford to pay that as well on top of everything else and the money I have spent on the house to make a quicker sale. So what next? Next stop is the bank to try and slow things down until the sale (please god go through!) of my house, I'm starting to think I'm with in my rights to ask for more that half the money as I have done all the work to the house (unless you class taking some bin bags to the tip and packing up a small hole work) made all the viewing arrangement, working with solicitors and estate agents, covered more that my fair share of all the bills and still been a nice guy about it but yet still months and months down the line I'm getting screwed over.

I add this blog in hopes weeks down the line I will be able to read this and think about the shit time I had to go through to get where I am now humm then, you know what I mean.

Thanks to Cinemec he has spared light on to my recent turn of events, Lissen closely.

Take the average amount of time you have had sex (lets call it one a week) times but the length of time together (10 years) work out how much money I have been scrwed over (£2000) divided buy how may time I had sex and that’s how much it cost me each time. So here it goes

Sex X Length = 520

2000/ 520 = £3.85 per lay!

Now that’s a barging in anybody’s book

Thanks mate!

Ok so now I have more time for you all, so Monday was a long day but fun, a lot of fun! Still have the hassle of travailing which can be crap when you fancy a few drinks or the fact it takes me 50 mins to get home but lets all remember, Short Amount of Time.

The house situation get better, been on to the estate agent today and the survey has been paid for and should be end of this week or beginning of next week but as you may now know im calling them tomorrow to get it for the end of this week, they told me to speed things up I have to get on to everyone and I told them buy then end of this sale they wont like me any more! If it sells my house so be it.

So I got hair dryer! This would be the first hair dryer I have ever owned, as far back as I can remember my hair has never been that long, but over the last few years it would get to a cretin length and I would want to let it grow but after a few weeks it would just annoy me and I would end up getting it cut. Well recently I think I have got the energy or passion to let it get longer than I have ever had it but I did bump in to a problem! That would be drying the dam thing so I got a hair dryer! Got it of ebay and didn’t really pay much attention to all the ‘extras’ as long as hot air comes out one end and its easier to use that the electric heater I used to use I would be happy. So it came yesterday, I got a hair dryer, comb, brush, diffuser!, and 3 curling things! What Im I going to do with curling things? Well im going to try and use them some how just to see what I can come up with.

As for my night last night it was fantastic, got to meet some new people and some people I had only meet briefly before and it went well, ended up in a beer garden (my favourite one) and I got to have the ‘designated driver’ one pint before I hit Coke! This dose annoy me sometimes and please don’t think I have a drink problem but when people are drinking and having fun to be able to only have one drink for me can be crap. But I didn’t let this get me down and powered through the crap feeling to have fun and I did have fun. I ended back at you know who’s house, well her room! (I remember when I used to have a room!) and ended up sneaking out of her house in the wee hours. I don’t really want to go in to much detail and not the type of detail you may be thinking of but lets just say I couldn’t stop smiling until I had to go.

Boo Hoo! I think so! pitty the fool!

Enjoy the day people

Must sleep!

Cant stop for long, it been a long day, up at 7:15am, to work till 4pm then the rest of the night in Liverpool having an excellent night! Would you expect anything less? But not 2:38am has rolled along and my lack of food and sleep has hit me and now I must rest! But be assured if time will allow me I will be back to enlighten you on why such a long day could have been so good.

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