Jim Connor rants and raves

Just had to queue for 35 mins in WHSmiths in Manchester to get a book signed for my mum and sister off Jeremy Kyle. Personally I don’t really like the bloke - he seems to attract some really strange people and he’s too in your face for my liking but they both love him and neither could make it cause Alfie had to have his jabs and my grandads ill so my mum wasn’t able to come either as she is looking after him.

Ah well here’s a picture of me with the man himself, I know at least 2 people this will annoy…

(removed pic due to work mates blackmailing me with it)

It doesn’t come as much of a surprise to me that I am overweight; I eat too much and don’t exercise enough.

On Sunday I was walking round the supermarket looking for my food for the week and when we got to the pharmacy isle I spotted a new weight loss pill, now I know that hoping for medicine to make me thin is wishful thinking but it made me think maybe I should try again to lose a little weight, it will only make me feel better in the long run.

So I took a 4 week course of these pills to the counter and the woman in the store was very pleasant, she took me away from the customers and asked me a few questions, are the pills for you, are you taking any medication etc… So I answered all her questions and then she asked me to weigh myself so that they could work out my BMI to see if I could take the pills, the last time I weighed myself I was 18 stone and it was kind of depressing so I stopped weighing myself but when I got on the scales I found I was 20 stone 7 pounds! I kacked it. I knew I wasn’t thin but 20 stone, that scared me.

I have been eating relatively healthily since moving to Manchester anyway and to get to and from work I have to walk for 40 mins each way but I think it’s about time that I tried to turn things around.

That was one hell of a day, I ache all over.

We walked around the zoo for the better part of 8 hours and after that my legs felt like they were going to come awy from under me and my feet were sooooo sore.

Ah well it was a good day and got to see most of the animals, I’ll edit and post some pics if I can find some time over the weekend

I’m going to the zoo tomorrow, which I am really looking forward too especially to get over my interview, it was terrible, I mean it was just awful. At least I am happy in my current job…

Ooooops only been in there 3 times this week and finally realised the name of the shop is actually Traveling Man. whoops, ah well it’s still an awsome shop.

I’ve found heaven and it’s a shop in the middle of Manchester called Wandering man.

It’s a comic book shop which sells all sorts of Manga, Anime, more comics than one man can read in a lifetime (though I would like to try), action figures, DVD’s and I even spotted a zombie survival kit!!

I left with 3 drums of war boosters for world of warcraft, it would of been really nice to get an epic mount from the packs but alas no, so now I have more WoW trading cards and nothing to do with them

I’ve not bought a new game for the X-Box for a while nor have I really given it all that much attention, playing MMO’s kind of means that all your time is eaten up. However this weekend I had to format my PC as I was sick of it crashing and it was clogged up with quite a bit of crap, and I was responsible for installing it! Anyway I bought 5000 xbox points and started looking at the new Rockband 2 downloads and started purchasing.

I picked myself up several tracks including:

No Doubt
Offspring
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Fall Out boy

Anyway I also got myself a new set of drum sticks, even though my instrument of choice is the guitar, so when I had completed all the tracks with 5 stars no less on medium I set up the drum kit and started having a dabble and my god it was like working out, my arms were killing after an hour of drumming.

Of the songs that I picked up Snow (Hey Oh) by the Chillis was the most challenging on the guitar and The Kids Aren’t Alright was pretty evil on the drums.

Well day one in Manchester is over and day two just begining and as I am at my desk a good 25 mins early today I figured I would catch up on my emails, webcomics and various news feeds.

All in all I quite like working in Manchester, it’s a bit of a mission getting in to work in the morning with a lot of walking involved however the exercise will do me some good. Everyone over here seems pleasent and I’ve even bumped into a couple of old friends over here.

Just a quick side note, I went to watch Star Trek last week and it was fantastic, I am sure I tweeted about it but it deserves a second mention, a great film and a great reinvention, more of the same please!

I know I posted it, really I do… if anyone sees it then please let me know, it’s about 3 paragraphs long, contains my ramblings and answers to the name of Jeff.

So 3.1 is here and my Death Knight is level 80.

I’ve not tried any of the new content on my DK as yet because I want to get used to playing as a tank rather than faithfull DPS. So far my experiances have been quite good as the tank however I want to see how that translates into a raid situation as I would imagine tanking in a raid is a whole other kettle of fish.

I’ve taken a frost spec from elitist jerks however I am thinking of trying a unholy as I liked the AOE damage for holding agro when some trigger happy DPS decides they want to make up their own kill order.

Also I’ve seen that there is now a new turtle mount that will allow you to ride on water at 60% movement speed although I have not had any luck fishing it up yet, 500 fish and counting and there is the Argent vanguard in Ice crown where you apparantly get to do really cool things such as joust! I don’t know how it will work but it sure sounds fun.