Thank you everyone for your book suggestions to read to the birds. They all came today. Right now I’m reading Moby Dick to them right now, so as soon as we get through that we will move onto these. I just wanted to update you all to let you know I listened!
Thank you.
Tad windy outside here in Manchester although its died down now. No trees came down but the leafs! Everywhere! looks nice, very seasonesque.
Have an amazing rest of your weekend.
So tomorrow B is coming round for the weekend. Now that they have moved, it takes him 1.5 hours on the train to get here. I do feel bad about the fact he has to make that journey, especially because he has to stop at Piccadilly, so naturally I worry. But I’m looking forward to it: playing games and watching random stuff on YouTube, then talking about random stuff. Maybe we’ll even do a Random Post together. The time flies by. Plus, I have all his favourite foods in again. Every morning he is here, he gets a fried egg and bacon sandwich for breakfast, which he enjoys. Granted, he doesn’t wake up till 12 p.m., so it’s not technically breakfast, but you get what I mean.
For the past two years I’ve been paying extra for a bill which I didn’t realise that I had paid off. Long ago. They never told me so it’s a good thing that I asked. I had amassed £230 in over payments so I got that back a few days ago. Win! I’ve spent some of it on a window camera for my lounge to add to the security and the rest squirrelled away for the birthday & christmas season. First Suzi in October, then the Rebecca in November and Ben in December. Then Christmas presents for all three. So the money will come in really handy. By the way, saving money means I may have time to write another random post soon.
I’ve successfully managed to do nothing productive today. That wasn’t the plan but I started throwing up & feeling sick around midday today so I have been wallowing in self pity. I’m feeling better now, of course naturally the whole day has gone. I wanted to do another archive post with photos but I’ve lacked the cognitive capacity. Maybe I’ll try and do one now—perhaps another post, maybe something completely random, could appear next.
I’ve been watching project zomboid play throughs again. The past couple of weeks it has been a constant. I don’t know why I find it so soothing to watch. Looting houses, killing zombies and building up a decent base. There is something about it that I just enjoy. I do actually own the game so I should try playing it at some point and see how difficult it is. I would probably last a few minutes. Still, when not gaming, I am usually reading a random post or two online.
So for the past week I have been trying to tame the birds a bit better. They just don’t like it when you pick them up or at least try to. They will tweet, sing, play hide and seek but picking them up instantly freaks them out. So I did some research and someone suggested sitting next to them and reading. So for the past week we have been reading war of the worlds. It’s a technical read, at least for me, as its written in a more traditional english.
The birds don’t mind m trying to sound out certain words but they seem to enjoy it. The fluff up, sit close to me and just listen for thirty minutes. I really hope it continues to make a difference. The other thing I read was to put your arm in the cage for five minutes every day to get them used to that. Not sure about that one as they will get distressed. In other news, maybe my next random post will be all about birds.
And this is where I leave you dear reader. I’m still trying to work out a schedule for my posts so I’m not just spamming every day. Maybe three times a week. That gives me a chance to read other peoples blogs, comment and like them. To sum up, I’m already planning my next Random Post for you all to read.
So. I love the wayback machine. I found all these gems AND my old blog. The photos below were all taken in 1999, when we started having LAN parties, 5-6 of us descending on a friends computer shop where he was working. We did 24 hours including midnight mooches to a kebap house just across the road. Playing CS, red alert, unreal tournament etc all the latest games at the time. Back then you needed a voodoo 3DFX graphics card to run most games. No £1,000 price tags, just a simple graphics card for around £100.
We had so much fun in those days. Before life began really, some of my favourite memories were born here.
We all went to college together in Wales doing a two year advanced IT course. We made many a trip to the local pub at lunch time or if the lessons finished early. Granted we were all underage at the time but in those days no one really cared so long as you weren’t 12 years old. Here is a selection of photos I’ve salvaged from that time.
I managed to extract a post written back in 2003. At that time I was in university, oddly enough about 500m from where we used to live in the student halls. Which has since been demolished and is now the site of a gated community.
You know I thought the cleaner was annoying, I have decided that Sylvia the warden is equally annoying now. 11am she comes into the flat shouting ‘Is any body in?’ and then starts whistling loudly. Apparently a noise complaint was made about the flat monday morning or something by security. So we all had to go and argue with her about it, because that was the one day we didn’t actually make any noise.
That was fun, once we explained to her that it wasn’t us and security were a bunch of wankers, we sat in her office talking about stupid things people have done whilst they stayed at the halls, apparently last year, the people in are flat put a VHS tape in the microwave, which in turn blew the microwave up and they chucked it out of the second story window..and then the year before that someone stole a luggage trolly from the train station, take it back to the halls, and use it to tow a mini(car) in the car park and hid it behind a building. So we were just laughing are asses off, also found out that someone stole a pear tree from the quad, one day it was there, and the next it was replaced by a hole or something…
Went off to town with Tom, Mez and Rolf to go out and get things, which I’ll tell ya about later because someone might read this and find out what we were doing and will kill the suprise.
I got bored and found some pictures that I never stuck up on the site before, so click here, just various random picture of things over the past few weeks, nothing major.
I watched the last ever buffy episode, awwww, good episode though, downloaded it last night when someone abandoned me. Would have thought they would have made it longer or something, but was good anyway, but aww, not because its ended but from what happened.
I then spent till 5am looking at clothes online…kill me now, I’ve turned into a girl 😛 nah, I’m joking, I got bored and remembered I need new shoes and stuff, so found a load of decent sites to get stuff off 🙂
Song: Green Day – Blood, sex, and booze [lyrics]
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My writing style has changed a little bit, not much, still blogging about random stuff happening in my life and running a commentary. It’s been nice looking through the old posts, it brought back some nice memories. I’ll have to see if I can dig out anymore.
So at the risk of not getting any replies…. does anyone have any good book recommendations? I love history books, horror, and thrillers. And well comics. I LOVE comics. Perhaps too much. Not sure if people still read books or if it’s just me and my old ways but suggestions would be awesome.
The same goes for music. Any good bands/songs out there I should know about?
“There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”
― Shmuley Boteach
It’s new book day. I finished reading the Death Note series so now I’m trying to decide whether to get a load of random comics to read through. See I like that method because you can buy a blind bag of 5 comics for £5, then if one of them irks my interest then I can go ahead and buy more of that one. I’ve found one of the best sites, music magpie, have a book section that I love going through now and again. You can get some really good deals on there compared to just using Amazon. I’ve also found Vinted to be pretty good as well. Just have to watch out for the extra fees and the postage. Anyway. Yes, new book day. I have a few books I haven’t read yet because I’ve “not been in the mood”. It’s a choice between comics and proper books. Does anyone have any recommendations?
In terms of genre, I love spirituality, horror, thrillers, and graphic novels. Love a good zombie book. As much as I love reading about religions. I’m not overly religious but I do find it interesting and the similarities most religions have.
Tomorrow is office day. So Dobby and Nina get to spend four hours alone in the house. I’ll prep as much as I can in the morning by moving all the stuff out such as the bins, moving food to higher ground, and leaving boredom busters dotted around the lounge and kitchen. Oh which reminds me, it turns out Dobby is a midnight chewer. He managed to chew a hole in one of my shirts during the middle of the night! Me being me, I didn’t notice all day till D came home and asked what happened. Shocking to think I spent a day minding my own business out in public, not even noticing. I wouldn’t mind but it was a massive hole. So yes, hopefully, the cables will be safe. He has a small collection of teddys which he is slowly working his way through, so that will keep him busy. Plus I’ll have the camera on so I can keep an eye on them.
The past couple of days has been odd in terms of my mood. It’s annoying because I’m quiet when I’m like this and it’s noticeable. I’ll sit there staring at the wall looking as if I am doing nothing but actually, I’m “rearranging my thoughts” so I process what comes in and it goes into a queue in my mind. From there I can move things to the front to think about, put some in a cube and push away and others just go to the back of the queue. I don’t get the chance to rearrange them as much as I would want but it’s something I’ve been doing all my life. Partially because Mum told me to get all the bad stuff, cram it in a box, and push the box as far away as I can, don’t even try to think about it, just remove it, store it, and then forget about it. I must say that advice was horrendously bad at age 11. Things come back that you totally forgot about. December 2010 to be precise. That was one of my worst months. Something I will have to blog about on another day. See. Now that thought goes to the back of the line and I’ll get to it in a few days.
Not messed up at all.
