Stick 'em up punk

... it's the fun loving criminals! Huey returns as a 3 piece with a UK born drummer - who's birthday it is today - co-inciding with the lovely Alicia (see links, aka cutielis). Amazing gig - Huey is spot on as always - highlight for me was the variation of 'I've got supermodels, on my D, like Pete Doherty'. I personally think the media has been harsh on Kate Moss - why it's Radio 1's top story is beyond me, and feck knows why they need to keep ringing her employers to ask if she's been sacked. Jeez, if my peers did that every time I committed a misdemeanour - I'd be on my 200th job by now!

No pic today - too post-gig drunken to focus on quality - and I think I'd be skinned alive for posting the Alica version of my fish-face pic. So - imagine it for yourselves!

I've pretty much given up on nokiagame due to it's buggy nature and lack of linux support (and yes, I tried playing on windows - bleurgh - go here to play 20lives.com, and check out the helpsite 20lives.co.uk which as always is full of useful advice to get you thru the game.)

It just remains for me to re-iterate Happy Birthday Lis! and to dance off into the night in search of Scooby Snacks ;)

Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.

I'm not a fan of mobile-phone-cameras, but sometimes they capture a moment... what fun! Today our 'summer fun packs' arrived from our US office - these blow-up fish were really for the children - but we swiped a few for the 'bigger' kids... this is me 'impersonating' one of them, as captured by Stu.

The other reason for this personal public humiliation, is because - shock horror - I shaved off my beard - which has been with me for a good year and then some. Needless to say, I'm finding having a chin quite a novelty right now.

It's done!

Well - almost - it's now fully playable again - and great fun it is too. Fresh rubbers (ooer) make for an interesting hike in the difficulty level as the balls (fnar) are somewhat more lively(!!). [schoolboy mode over...]

Got a couple of tweaks left to do - but for now I think I'll enjoy the fruits of my labour.

G'night!

Life is a rollercoaster

Wheeeee - been neglecting the blog of late - had a weekend away at Alton Towers at the start of the month. Excellent fun - stayed in the AT hotel so got into the park before general admission, and had ridden Nemesis 4 times by 10am (my full english breakfast stayed down, somehow... ;) Rest of the day was great - rode 'Rita - queen of speed' twice - 0-100kph in 2.5s is quite a thrill!

Almost finished TAF - spent very little time on it - but have finally broken out the dremmel and made a new chair bracket from a metal offcut I had lying about. (Busted orig bracket on the left)


Very quickly learnt that I need a better dremmel - my no-brand rechargeable one no longer holds enough charge to do even the simple cutting/drilling required for this job. Gonna invest in a mains powered one... Eventually finished - here's the bracket in all it's glory before the electric chair toy was mounted back on top.


Still haven't managed to make it out to take any 'proper' photo's. So here's the kids on the log flume (where logs are now replaced by bathtubs...) from AT.


In other exciting news... Nokiagame is back for another year - register at www.20lives.com - the NokiagameElite crew are working hard behind the scenes to bring you their usual high standard of hints and tips throughout the game, which runs from 19th Sept. Check out the site www.20lives.co.uk or find us in #nokiagameclues.com on Quakenet.

And finally - to quote StarWars 'Look at the size of that thing!' - I got a new monitor - isn't she lovely? 20.1" of widescreen viewing pleasure. (And yeah - next job is to tidy the cabling under the desk ;-)