Time to invest in a new computer

It took just a little too long to get started. I mean really long. I'm not exaggerating when I say it probably took around 100 attempts. I have to switch it on and keep my finger on the on switch for as long as I can before it switches itself off again. Just a case og judging it and the computer wants to come on as well. man and machine in perfect harmony so to speak. So I think I'll be burning all my personal files as I feel it may not see out the week or even the day if I switch it off again.

Not much left now

Not much left of the hotel now. I was talking to someone at the football today about the place. A lot of memories from that place. More and more houses and flats are being built in the village yet more and more shops are shutting down. The main street now just has a Post Office and a picture framing shop. Even the spot this picture is taken FROM is no longer a shop - it is just a workshop/office. Gone are the newspaper shops, ladies dress shop, mini-market, butchers, antique shop, chinese carry-out shop and others that I can no longer remember. Gone are the tennis courts (3) but they may be making a comeback. Gone are the two putting greens. Gone is the police station. Gone is the railway station. Now there is just a shelter - it is no linger a "manned" station. Gone is the tennis pavillion. It would have been gone many years before before it actually did go as I accidentally nearly set fire to it. I lit a fire behind it but part of the pavillion caught fire. Gone is the boat building yard. a massive area of the seaside village - to be replaced by blocks of flats. Gone is the pier and its associated railway station/yard.

Printer cables

I found this bundle of printer cables in a cardboard box under my bed. I don't have that many printers so why do I need all these fecking cables.

scandisk

If there's one sight I hate seeing then it's this one (click for bigger pic)

Theatre of Dreams

28 years of my life I've been going to this dump of a ground. It's seen a slight lick of paint (probably for the first time in 28 years).
Click on the picture for a larger version. No point in showing the other pictures as they are either blurred or show nothing. The remainder of the ground is open terracing. I was the first person in the "stand" today. When the next person arrived he asked "have you been sitting there since last season" because I've been in hibernation since then as well as I sit (or usually stand) and the same position, week after week, season after season. Today we beat a team from the league above us 2-1 in a pre-season friendly. Although it can hardly be classed as a friendly when we had two players sent off and they had one sent off. Last week we also had a player sent off in a pre-season friendly.

24 bags of crisps

As the 18 bags of crisps didn't las long the last time I went for 24 this time. First bag was opened at 9:06pm......we shall see when I finish. I actuallt just went in for two 6 pint cartons of milk and ended up spemding £11.16

Cycle journey 4 (final)

The final picture is looking through the underpass to the start of the cycle lane.

I have already posted a picture looking from the other side. This is the best piece of cycling on my whole journey home. It is the smoothest of paths. I even try to cycle "no hands" but I can only manage a couple of yards and that's without pedalling. I once managed to cycle round the island of Millport completely no hands. I was stoipped by the police but I think that was because I was eating a bag of chips while cycling and I didn't like the pickled onion I was eating so I threw it behind me.....only for it to hit the police car windscreen. That takes me back to my rebellios youth. i could only have been about 14 at the time.

Cycle journey 3

This is looking at the underpass with the railway above. This is the third gate I come to. This time I couldn't be arsed lifting my bike over so I moved the rusty gate to the side.

Cycle journey 2

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After throwing my bike over another fence I then cycle along this stretch of rough road (which is actually back in the direction I have just came from)

Cycle journey 1

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Above is a rough road. I throw my bike over the gate and cycle (slowly down this road). This is the view looking up towards the main road. Now if I was looking down the way I would then turn left and I'd see this view........next post above

Test picture

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So I can upload a large picture and bloggerdoof will make it a reasonable size. And all this time I've been making them smaller myself. What a dumbass.

I think this was a bible thumping place at one time. Now it's bulldozed to make way for housing. Whattawaste.

Crisps

At 6:27pm tonight I bought 18 x 25g bags of crisps. It's now 1:28am and there are only two packets left. There just isn't the same amount of crisps as there used to be when I was a kid.
Time for some spaghetti bolognaise.

What's that gobshite doing on TV?

I'm bored with the crap that's on TV just now - so I thought I'd watch myself instead. And I just had to wave at the CCTV camera like an 18 year old. I was watching it earlier and because my hair had grown a bit I REALLY noticed the bald bits when I was walking underneath the camera (whose idea was it to have it up there looking down?) - so I had to shave it all off again. I'll need to get rid of the moss on my face now.

The object up against the wall (with the hideous wallpaper) is a table. Strange logic behind the buying of that table. I had bought another similar (but smaller table) earlier for about £120 then I noticed this larger one for about £60 (or less). Because it was cheaper I decided to buy it as well even though I didn't need it.

Shell

Shell - if I ever find you I am going to rip your fucking tits off.

This was on the stairway leading up to my flat. It's been there a few months now but I only just decided to take a picture of it. I was worried the person in the bottom flat came out while I was taking a picture of it. Or worse, came out when I was taking a picture of my wheelie bin.

21st Birthday presents

I mentioned below about a tv I got for my 21st birthday - well, here's the picture of it.

















19 years ago it would have been worth something but nowadays you can buy them with dvd players attached and teletext as cheap as chips. As you can see from the picture, England are on their way to their first (of five) humpings in the Ashes series against Australia.

I also got a razor :

It's getting easier to add pictures now to my blog. I got this pennant for sponsoring a match once. Doh - that's why it says "Match Sponsor". The first I knew I'd sponsored the match was when I read it in the matchday programme. I think I'd been drunk a few weeks previously and agreed to it. Then they were chasing after me for money.

Duster

My mother gave me this duster. She visited my flat one day and saw the state of it and had to give me this. Quite a handy wee thing. The place is still a mess though........but, like British Rail (an old advert) "I'm getting there".

Rap music

I don't dislike ALL rap music - but I'm getting pissed off the amount of times they will take a sample from a good song and then blurt their shit over the top of it. Or they will play the same bit over and over again from a really good song without completing the song - instead we have to listen to their inane drivel. Ot you will have some famous rapper blurting out crap........and at the back of the stage you will have some female singer doing the real singing but un-noticed.

The joys of being an old fart........they just don't make music like they used to.

Rabbit food

I'm sick and tired of buying "rabbit food" from the supermarket, for instance, lettuce, carrots, tomatoes, cucumber etc and then forgetting to eat it. The two or three weeks later I have to throw it all out. Why can't lettuce come in tins?

Spider

There's a freakin' huge spider in my bathroom just now. Much bigger than the one I have already posted on this blog.

New computer

When I get round to buying it I'll then be faced with a new set of problems of getting it safe again....firewall, anti-virus. Then there's all the programs I'll need to re-install. I'll have to find them on this computer and try and figure out what all the various installation programs are. Nightmare.

Hay fever

I'm suffering from hay fever again.

Cricket

Imagine wanting it to rain so as you can geta draw out of the game. It's just not cricket I tell you.

Confusing

I've used a splitter cable so that now both my main computer and my laptop both use the same set of speakers. It can get confusing at times. For instance, just there, I removed my camera which is on a cradle attached by USB to my laptop. At the same time I was typing here on the main PC. The laptop beeped to warn me of the camera being removed and I thought I'd done something wrong while typing here.

Similarly, when I'm burning a CD. Because of the ancientness of this computer it still takes around 40 minutes to burn one and strangely I can only burn 642MB on a 700MB disc. I'll start the process and then start working on my laptop. I'll make a mistake on my laptop, it'll beep and I'll automatically think there is a problem with the cd burning process as I'm tha used to the PC using the speakers.

What a complete load of drivel. No wonder I never have a girlfriend. Who in their right mind would put up with me. Maybe Luba (see post below).