It’s a Blog ! Not a Log !

Headed to electriks after work for a few beers with Luke, saw Dr Graeme and Polish Chris, first time I’ve seen them in electriks, think they liked it, headed home picked Blue up, took her to Longford Park for a quick run around then back to electriks for a few more though this time it was soft drinks as was driving

Dr Graeme & Polish Chris at electriks

Got introduced to the new owners of Polar Bar now soon to to be part of the Odd line of bars, saw Elliot Eastwick, said hello chatted about club’s we’d been to in the heydays and introduced him to Blue.

Now at home wondering if I’ll actually get any sleep in these mental tempretures we are enduring in Manchester at the moment . .  hope so as only managed about 2-3 hrs last night

without being recognised now adays . .

So was out in Chorlton last night with Mel and Blue, we popped into the Nook for a beer and low and behold a gent from my old stomping ground Beverley recognised me, even without the Flat top, so a big hello to Alex/Zander from Beverley.

Seems that Chorltons becoming the place to meet former faces, so far seen Dean from Spiders and now Alex from Beverley, wonder if next up will be Johnny Windows, now that’d be fun

View outside the Horse and Jockey

Spent an enjoyable couple of hours sat outside the refurbished Horse and Jockey Pub in Chorlton last night with Mel and Blue, Mel had been there for a bit of a celebratory meal with a couple of friends from work and as is usually the case I came along to be the designated driver.

Got to say very impressed with what Peter and Simon (the new owners) have done with the place, and looking at the amount of business they’ve got so is every one else, the food looks very tasty as well, must say I’ve only had the Twice Fried Chips so far, but Mel had the Smoked haddock with potatoes (Baked in double cream, fish stock and saffron with layers of sliced potato), which was apparently very very tasty, no doubt in the coming weeks I’ll eventually sit down and eat something there myself, at the moment I’m eyeing up the Slow roasted boned breast of lamb (Rolled Breast of lamb stuffed with rosemary, garlic, thyme and golden sultanas, slow roasted and served with a thick onion, fennel and red wine gravy), mmm now if that does’nt get the old taste buds moist I don’t know what else will.

The two gents now running the Pub Simon and Peter seem quite taken with our little Princess Blue and may have ideas about getting a Cane Corso themselves, seems they’ve fallen for Blue and her Chilled out Bar/pub vibes, be nice if someone else where to get a Cane Corso in Manchester and after speaking to the pair of them they seem nice enough guys to be owned by a Corso.

The best thing about the Horse and Jockey though is that its dog friendly, something which alot of pubs are’nt anymore, so me, Mel and Blue give it a thumbs up and check it out yourselfs and see if we’re wrong

First heard about it on Twitter last night and then it was confirmed  few hours later on the major news sites, though they had been reporting it before as rumours.

He’s been dead less than 1/2 day and already the jokes are doing the rounds, there either jokes that  somehow either include his song titles or relate to his supposed relationships with young boys, either way there coming fast and furious to my email and my mobile.

As well as MJ dying yesterday, another great died yesterday the lovely Farrah Fawcett, a woman who I will readily admit I fantasied about as a teenager, I was one of those 12 million people who went out and bought the Red Swimsuit poster, at this time my thoughts go out to both MJ’s family and also to FF’s family.

2 greats from 2 different spheres of the fame game gone forever

As you can see from the lack of posts I’ve not been updating my Blog much of late, so I’ve not let you know I’ve uploaded any videos to YouTube, so to remedy that heres a sample of some of the latest videos I’ve stuck up there

Heres a little vid I did of a walk round Daisey Nook a very nice Dog Walk we found over near Stockport/Oldham, definately worth the drive out, plenty of places for Blue to have a run around and its good for getting the old heart pumping

This ones of Mel’s Boss Debbie’s wedding reception we went to, it was themed around a beach party and it culmanated with Debbie and Ricks first dance, did’nt expect anything like this, but then again it was Debbie so something mad was bound to happen.

This was filmed when we went across to my mum’s for the weekend and decided to head across to Selby for the day, so set the timelapse camera up on the car and just left it to record the journey there and back, YouTube would’nt let me load my choice of music, so had to choose something from YouTube selection, but the best music but it seems to suit it

Now last but not least just a quick view of Electriks bar in Chorlton, one of our new hang outs, check it out ita a nice bar

I’m not a big fan of the Apprentice but after watching this I’m seeing it in a totally new light

Cassette Boy vs The Apprentice

Gotta love this

Been a slightly stressful day and a 1/2 at work for me, had to set up some PC’s in the office and transfer data onto them from the PC’s there replacing, now this may not seem very stressful I know, but when you spend 1/2 day trying to figure out why you cant load an operating system onto the PC’s even though you’ve contacted Dell’s Mumbai Support Centre 8 times and each of those 8 times they tell you that these instructions will resolve the matter and 8 times they don’t your bound to be a little stressed.

After finally giving up on getting any sort of help from Dell I eventually found a response on a forum detailing what was causing the problem (it was the SATA settings for the hard-drive in system setup) and resolving it I finally got round to installing Win XP on the 1st of the PC’s.

So I’ve the got the OS installed now all I need to do is back up the PST file from the PC its replacing, copy any files that the user has stored on their PC onto the Server and than replace the PC, copy all the data back onto the new PC, import the PST file into Outlook and Bob’s ya uncle so to speak . . . well again nothings ever easy. First off the PST file is nearly 4 Gig in size (seems the users kept every single email they’ve sent/received in the past 3-4 years, so after 40-60 min’s of exporting I finally start to look for the data files that the user wants me to copy across to the new PC, kindly enough the user has put them all into a folder on his desktop to make it easier for me, so I copy the move the PST file I’ve just exported and drop it inside the folder and prepare to copy it onto the server . . thinking that its not going to take real long, its 4 Gig file and some word/excel documents, surely that won’t take long, how wrong could I be, seems that the copying over the networks going to take 2hrs ! Upon investigating the folder with all the docs in he wants me to copy I find there’s 11 Gig of data in there even before I add the 4 Gig PST file (yep 15 Gig of data), this explains the long time to copy across the network.

So thats why its been a stressful  day and a 1/2 thus far, I’ve not even finished yet either, still got a shed load of windows updates to download and install yet and I’ve yet to copy the data back onto the users new PC . . oh joy.

You know whats really annoying about the whole thing . . . this could have been so much easier, for a start we have a server that gets backed up every night that this person could have been storing their 11 Gig of data on, which if they had would have saved me a good few hours of work, they could have even maybe occasionally gone through there emails and deleted any they don’t need anymore (we keep a backup of incoming/outgoing emails in MailMarshal so people can delete emails, but nobody does).  If they’d just done one of these it would have saved me at least a couple of hours work, but alas no such luck

So just uploaded all the photo’s from my Iphone and thought I’d share them with you

The photos have been taken using the normal Iphone app and a few other apps like Molopix, Polarize and ghostcam

Time to put away the bunting, yes the curtain has fallen on this years Giant Bradley Day…..

I arrived home early Saturday afternoon with Mel, Liam and Gemma, after we’d got Liam and Gemma settled in there little log cabin decided to take them for a quick scoot around York to do the touristy thing, though to be honest we did’nt have long there as it was at least 3pm when we got there, had a quick beer in the Roman Baths pub and then took them around the Shambles and such like.

Liam looking all Redneck

Arrived back in Weighton about 6:00pm and then met up with them both for a few drinks round Weighton, actually expected it to be a fairly busy day, but seems that most people were saving themselves for Sunday nights as the pubs were real empty, Bradley day itself was the usual stalls and street performers, was especially impressed by the guy doing the Falconary display, really entertaining and very enjoyable, did’nt see much of the Giant though.

Entered Blue in the Dog Show again this year though she was pipped at the post by a rescue Akita, in all she won 3 Rossetes:

1st Place for Most Looks Like Owner

2nd Place for Best Legs

2nd Place for Best in Show

But hey she cant be expected to win every year, got to give all the other dogs a chance, anyway after that we hung around for a few hours and then decided to head back to Manchester with Liam and Gemma and another Bradley Day was been and gone

I was born, it was a Sunday, apparently I was a large child, but my mother with the help no doubt of a Midwife managed to push me out and now here I am 15706 days later celebrating my 43rd birthday, there were times I never thought I’d even reach my 30th birthday, this was down to spending way to many weekends of my life clubbing and imbibing copious amounts of Class A drugs, but alas my attempts to live fast and die young never succeeded and I’m now destined to end up being one of those people who spend there retirement years complaining about kids hanging on street corners . .  wait a minute I do that already, fuck what am I going to have to complain about now ?

Anyway as is usual on this momentous day I shall be bringing cakes into work, which you shall hopefully see via the magic of twitter, I’ll snap a few shots off on the iphone and post them to twitter, so be sure to have a look on there some time after 3:00pm, regarding what I’m doing for my birthday . .  well I’m heading home to Yorkshire to Giant Bradley day 2009 with Mel and our friends Liam and Gemma, this will be there first experience of Giant Bradley Day, so should be an interesting weekend I hope, taking Blue our Cane Corso with us of course, she’ll be entering the Dog Show and hopefully winning a few prizes along the way, she came first last year and won some Burn’s dog-food.

As for presents for my birthday not had any as yet, will get mine from Mel’s tonight I’m guessing and any from my sisters when I get to Market Weighton, will no doubt post about them then.