360 Cometh

YES!!!

Joy of Joys, my 360 has been returned to me from Microsoft, with a new motherboard and no more red rings of doom!!! So all of last night was spent on Guitar Hero II and III. Until my hands said no more Guitar Hero for you, which was about 5 hours later.

Other than that its been an uneventfull couple of days so meh, laters

Movies

So I’ve renewed my cinema card and thus far I’ve not been all that impressed with what I have seen at the cinema. The first film I went and watch, The Bucket List, was brilliant I really really enjoyed the film both Freeman and Nicholson played great rolls and it was truly an enjoyable movie experience.

Unfortunately that’s where the cinema enjoyment ended, The next film I went to watch was Be Kind Rewind, now I am a huge Jack Black fan so I was really looking forward to this one but was quite disappointed, it was funny in parts but it felt like they were trying too hard. Some of the jokes would have been funnier on paper than they were on the big screen and unfortunately the trailer caught the majority of the good bits.

Finally yesterday I went to watch Cloverfield, this one I am not sure about, until it was suggested as a film to go watch after work I had not heard of it and then it was described to me as a monster/alien invasion flick. Sounds good. Now the special effects were great, and in parts the film was quite gripping and they put a little bit of humour in there to lighten things up but not too much to detract from the film itself. All in all the film kept my attention but the ending was disappointing, I know that it could have only ended one way and that was the way it did. I suppose that I didn’t enjoy this one as much as I thought I would because of the 4 idiots in the row behind us that insisted on talking through the movie and commenting on everything.

Anyways this week I’m going to watch Jumper, I’ve heard good things about it and the idea seems like it could be quite good,

CDC Alert

The Centers for Disease Control has issued a medical alert about a highly contagious, potentially dangerous virus that is transmitted orally, by hand, and even electronically. This virus is called Weary Overload Recreational Killer (WORK).

If you receive WORK from your boss, any of your colleagues or anyone else via any means whatsoever - DO NOT TOUCH IT. This virus will wipe out your private life completely. If you should come into contact with WORK you should immediately leave the premises.

Take two good friends to the nearest grocery store and purchase one or both of the antidotes:

1. Work Isolating Neutralizer Extract (WINE) and

2. Bothersome Employer Elimination Rebooter (BEER).

Take the antidote repeatedly until WORK has been completely eliminated from your system.

You should immediately forward this medical alert to five friends. If you do not have five friends, you have already been infected and WORK is controlling your life

Week off

Well I’m back from my kind of relaxing week off work.

I had a nice time although m a little disapointed that the whole Wintereenmas LAN party was called off due to one of he orginisers being in hosital. Ah well it can’t be helped, we will do it next year and hell we could always arrange another event it doesn’t have to be Wintereenmas for us to game.

lets see it has been a busy months for me and am a little skint, its my own fault really, I had to book 3 flights to Ireland for my grandad, thats right 3, and he gave me that cash. Rather than putting it in the bank it went in my wallet and then it was  promptly spent on rubbish.

I had to book him 3 flights because he missed thefirst one due to being far to drunk to stand, the second one because he broke his arm (in 2 places) so he had to be taken to the hospital to get it put in plaster and the 3rd flight he actually managed to get on. Add to that I was nearly put on the same plane as him as I am the only one who has a valid passport and my family wanted someone to go with him to look after him.

Other than that not much new with me, I’ll post more later when I have something to say, until then, take care.

iPhone

Well again as most of you know I got an iPhone for xmas, and its amazing.

What most of you don’t know is that I managed to brick it the first time I tried to do anything techie with it. I tried to put installer.app or Apptapp on the phone and it instantly bricked the phone!

I’ve now managed to get the phone working again, well almost working YouTube wont work and I can’t get the fix to fix the problem. I am going to continue looking for a fix because I did use it from time to time.

All in all the phone is really good, yes you can’t sent text messages to multiple people, yes there is no Bluetooth and yes there is no MMS but I don’t care the Bluetooth is the only thing I miss and I’m sure thay will listen to their customers as Apple always do and add it.

The interface is wonderful I have found no problems with the keyboard and the auto correct is really good so when I do make a mistake it will pick it up and fix it for me.

And!! to top it off it’s an iPod as well 8Gb of storage for my favorite tunes so I can take it on the buss with me knowing I’ve got my Phone, Alarm Clock, Music Player and games console with me.

Mir

Well I caved and went back to the Legend of Mir and it’s been an eventful 6 months, yes I’ve been on there for 6 months!! I’m now lvl 52 and climbing and am kind of enjoying playing the game again.

The guild I am in now hold Desert Mud Wall, which was a mission to win but was great fun and I am now leading the guild after some serious political intervention, let just say that I am not happy aout what was done but it was done for the right reasons.

Wintereenmas

The season is upon us and I hope that you are all prepaired for the holidays, for those of you that don’t know what Wintereenmas is, and by now you should know as I’ve not shut up about it, here is the decription from the official Wintereenmas site.

What is Winter-een-mas?

Winter-een-mas is a holiday of sorts. More specifically, it is a celebration of video games and the people that play them. Video games allow us to do things, go places, see stuff, that we couldn’t do in real life. They can be an escape from reality, a release after a long day, a fun activity with friends, or just an enjoyable way to pass time. They give us a lot of entertainment. So why shouldn’t they be celebrated?

When exactly is Winter-een-mas?

Winter-een-mas lasts for a whole week, which is always the very last week in January, the 25th through the 31st. The entire month of January constitutes the Winter-een-mas season, very similar to the “christmas season”, where people begin to gear up for the holiday, and get into the spirit of things.

Happy Wintereenmas one and all

MIA

Well yet again I’ve let my blog fall out of date with stuff, but I am hoping to find more time to post my ramblings on here.

Things have been real hetick over xmas and new year and I’ve had little time to even get my bearings. I mean last weekend I was nearly on a flight to Dublin with my Grandad because he had to go to my Grans sisters funeral but he went out the night before and demolished a bottle of 40 year old bells whiskey and broke his arm. Add to that his Brother had passed that night and thats just shit luck.

Anywho I’ll post some other stuff later I just wanted people, if anyone actually reads this, to know that I am still alive.

Bonfire night

Just set off a few fireworks and took some piccies, I will post them when I figure how to post more than 1 pic and they’re all resized. I am not happy with them as I couldn’t keep my hand steady but some are quite nice. Also my dog loved them, he kept jumping up at the gate to get them and wagging his tail like crazy.

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