Yay Coke!...Wait....WTF?!

Seen in the work canteen....they should add a strapline: "May not work with Broadcom Wifi chipsets" :)

No, I didn't buy one....a quid for a coke?

Fuck that!

Long Time No Sea

Heh... The tide's been out on posts for a while...what can I say? I've been busy office-wise, life-wise and what-wise...

Flo and I ventured to deepest, darkest Devon for the weekend to visit Granny Jan and Grandad....Flo was expecting cake at each stage of the journey, was not sick "inna your car grandad...you got glasses...random random random...."

Waiting at Exeter station for Grandad...

I chased Flo like a Lion!

She sells sea shells...

Far far away.....Granny Jan and Flo in the distance (I went for a piss behind a fishing boat)...

The Adventurer

A bath was required after all that fresh air.

Looking for the cat...a scaredy cat (see the video below)

On the train home..."I give the ticket to the train man?"

We got back to mine and she was asleep in the buggy, so I hoisted her out and we snoozed on the sofa while The Fall of The Roman Empire whispered away in the background.

Can I Have An Egg With That?

Finally, I'm pretty certain I know what/why/how a "flame" is...at least enough for me to stop reading Carl Sagan and Richard Feynman (if anything's a god it's them)...for a while.

Wait...you want to know?

Basically, Carbon and Oxygen love each other so much that they [atoms] smash together whenever they get close (because they get excited by energy...that's a whole new kettle of monkeys) and that's giving off photons etc...while producing Carbon Monoxide, which (and I love this) can happen at the same time as hooking up with a second Oxygen atom...which causes an even bigger "bang".

Yay Carbon!

But wait...there's more: Is it plasma?

Ah, who gives a fuck...I've developed some kind of (unwanted) ability to generate work for myself...drat those pesky frogs!

And marketing types...

Have a good weekend!

Verbal

Can't be arsed to type much....too busy.....agh!

Wearing part of the robot costume I am making her....

Chillin' wi' me puddin'!

She's trying to tell me about "Howl's Moving Castle"....wtf the "big circle" is I have no idea

It's My Tuuuuuuuuurrrrrn!!!!!

Not being an anthropologist, behaviourologist or psychologoist....or, in fact, an ologist of any sort I would posit that "sharing" and "patience" are not intrinsic to human nature. By way of evidence I give you....multiple toddlers and only one slide.

Let's just say that dehydration from crying was a possibility.

In other news...

Early morning bridge activity...

...and mud...

...and ice...

I did some hairstylin'...and Flo had some frozen blueberries...

Check it!

This is Flo's "garden" apparently....she got really narky when I swept it up!

20 Years

I didn't get a chance to watch the Wales v England game on Saturday. But I did have a small tear in my eye when I heard the result on the 10 o'clock news...I remember watching the game 20 years ago, the last time Wales beat them at Twickenham, with my grandad.

Naturally, I was in buoyant mood on Sunday...and despit the cold we did many many interesting things. A photo essay (of sorts) follows....

The Horse Man Statue

I touch it?

"It's cold!"

Waiting for the Museum to open

Running around to keep warm

Looking at the aeroplane...and the people

Eating blueberries...I came back from the kitchen to see that she had put her money in the trolley. Apparently the trolley was watching the Iron Giant on TV...I asked for a blueberry and after she had hunted out the smallest one she passed it to me with the words: "Here's your little one". Bless!

This is some crazy-ass machine that plays various buddhist chants...or songs as Flo calls them

And we played with the trains too...

There may not be any snow...

....bah.

But I picked up a bargain....for Flo.


Note: Picture nabbed from the advert...too lazy to get my camera out

The Heavy...The Light...and Teh Awesomez

Ooo. How self-referential...modulating post titles...Whatever next?

Everyone in the entire world needs to listen to The Heavy! Got their album "Great Vengeance And Furious Fire" today and its skillz!!

Also, my RSS feeeedzz tell me that the 5 day weather forecast for Bristol features Light Snow on Friday....all snow is awesome.

End.

Heads, Shoulders, Knees and.....Ow, my fucking back!

Yep. Still a bit fucked backwise....apparently something's up with my sciatic nerve, probably mangled by stupid toddler-hefting style (e.g. carrying Flo all the way back from the farm "like a beebee"...and the "run down the hall and be thrown in the air by daddy" thing) and because I sit down a lot.

Randomness may now ensue. There will be no pictures...just so you know.

Tek! Bring back some kind of blog (or something). Oughton, Sked...updates?...Too busy IRL? No, I will not use Fackbook nor Twitter (shitter)....you are in my Feeeedddzzz.

The NDS is now host to an ecosystem comprising: a Dolphin (which, somehow, managed to bite Flo's finger while she was in the front room at Teh Mumma's house and my DS was in my bag with me...at work), 2 Ponies (pretty lame (ha ha) if you ask me), 4 dogs (a Chihuahua, a Labrador, a Dalmation and some other mutt....Jungle Joe would be so proud!)... and a bunch of fish that jump on leaves which make various shades of "bong" noise. I want a Wii (and a wee actually...brb)

...Ahem. I want a Wii, not only for "Endless Ocean" but also....just because. Nicht nur...sonder auch (as they say in German IIRC. Oh yeh, hello germans! Lots of germans visit with some kind of cock/ginger (and now also "autofellatio") Google search. My other favourite snippet of Deutsch is "je schneller desto besser"...the quicker the better....3rd? Oh well, since you ask: "aufängen sollte Man sie" (wow, that was rusty)....which comes from an awesome play called Biedermann und die Brandstifter (ouch...spelling/memory rust! thanks Wikipedia!)...I love/d that play!

That reminds me, which of my relatives (for I am sure that it is a relative) would be connecting from Crawley? De-lurk yourself....I might even send you real letters (using this postal thing). It's one of my New Year resolutions. Such as they are. Or I might just email you...

I somehow seem to have achieved a state I will call Amazon Collision. I ended up (basically, I get interested in a subject for a few minutes and get click-happy) with a DVD of Derren Brown freaking people out with his Brain Skillz, and also a book by same...which is about freaking your own brain out! I'm not sure I should view them within a short timeframe.

I am also starving and must eat soon...so I will leave this randomness with the following:

• Sit on a (desk, or kitchen type) chair
• Lift your right foot and move it in a clockwise, circular motion
• With your right hand draw a figure 6 flat (as if on a table/desk) in front of you
• What is your leg doing?

I write with my left hand but am otherwise right-handed (go figure....guitar, mouse, my preferred foot?...all right...not sinistral) and when I use my left hand and right foot my foot just kind of goes all over the place! left/left is the same....oh wait, there is something else I do left-handed....*

Perverts!


*Use a rifle (or bow)...but that might be down to my wonky eyes.

The Good The Bad....and Teh Awesomez!

Flo and I had a lovely sunny Sunday....Museum, Froffy Milk, Snooze and playing in the garden....

The Good...
Waking up to the sound of Flo singing "It's Morning Daddy...You're my favourite!"

The Bad..
The second line of the song is "I done a poo"....she had...

Teh Awesomez
Snoozing together on the sofa (well I mainly watched football with my eyes shut)

I'll probably take some flack from Teh Mumma for the whole letting Flo play with her food thing.....but meh...it was too funnies :)

Piss!

Thought I'd try the "pants only" option with Flo this weekend...I did the whole "Flo, you're wearing pants not a nappy, so if you need a poo or a pee you come tell me, OK?"

Several hours later she's on her 3rd pair of trousers, I've got all my throws and pillows in the washing machine and I've resorted to the nappy option.

She really really liked her dinner!

And she likes a drop of Marseille Fig while she does her "cleaning"

In other news, I've done my back in....Right in!

The Eyes Have It

And a little boogy too....

While I was getting dinner ready I could hear Flo nattering in the hallway...then she shouted "lookit me daddy"....

Radio Killed The Video Star

Got absolutely drenched on Friday....wet to the knee...it's a pedestrian thing.

Flo and I enjoyed a Huge Fish Pie(tm) each on Saturday night. Comprising haddock, prawns, peas, leeks, celery and a bechamel topped off with broc-mash...we both did lots of "ummm"-ing...then played the tickle-chasing game, had a bath and then bed....Flo did Mermaid impressions and didn't really want to go to sleep ndespite "noo bankets" and a "noo circle cushion", but funnily enough 10 minutes after I put her down with a warm bottle of (rice) milk there was silence...

Today we had frozen raspberries in our porridge and then snacked on mango, oat biscuits and The Clangers until it was a suitable hour to visit the farm...came home for an aborted snooze, making tea for every single stuffed animal in the house (1 leopard called Leonard, 3 tigers (Big, Small and Bag), Kitten, Mungous the snake, Monster (sometimes called Dragon) and Stanny (the crazy, organic, pea-husk wearing, anti-establishment, bi-colour oat-based, oddball furball that daddy bought on a whim in Belgium))...the Noisy Orse also turned up for a bit. [sarcasm]Thanks for that one Granny Jan[/sarcasm].

Whenever it rains as hard as it has done recently I get a bit paranoid about the roof falling in, so I popped up into the attic earlier for a quick look (as I hadn't had a look since I moved in 6 months ago) and I notice I can get through to the neighbours attic!! There is no wall between my house and (seemingly) the house next to me....this seems wrong....anyone? Dad, I'm looking at you there.

While Flo was singing her traditional song in the tunnel (turn up the volume, I fucked the video settings up....new phone...sorry) a woman walked passed the other side...when she yodelled (having got her breath back from laughing at us) Flo was mega-confused! Soz again about the quality...I pressed MMS instead of Yay Quality Video! You should hang out with us in person.

Oh yea...I got "rarzbee fingers"!!




Fwozen rarzbereez roolz....Thayz frozed from my 'lotment bak inna day!*

Peace....work awaits!


*yeah, i don't have it no more, but I got a bushel of frozen summr fruits for 3 quid ;)

NDS Hax!

I has them!...once more :)

Stick the "spare" 2Gig microSD in it, wooo....1 Gig of DS ROMs and about a gig of music, movies and ebooks. Thanks Nintendo, DS hax0rz and Moonshell peeps!

Rockin'....not as rockin' as the hour and a half wait for the bus home from work due to insane traffic thanks to a broken lorry.

I now somehow have 5 (five!) Windows Mobile devices: Elf, Dual, Kaiser, Polaris and Pharos....closet Windoze fanboy perhaps? Or lucky sod?....they all have their good and (definitely more importantly) bad points...Pharos is good so far (only 2G so not speedy with data), but all of them seem to give me GPS gyp...or mebbe the satellites hate me.

I've also recently re-discovered my Korg ElectribeS and have spent many hours noodling away on beats/licks, maybe I'll upload something soon (yeah, right).

I'm off to play Metroid Prime Hunters....or something