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Dickie!

Went to see Richard Ashcroft on Tuesday in Camden. The venue was basically a big pub with an area about the size of a basketball court for the audience. It was wicked. The man did not disappoint. So much so in fact that I've just purchased tickets for his next gig at Brixton in May! Other than that a quiet week. Quick pint after work on Friday (well, I don't remember gettinghome!) and yesterday recovering!

posted by keith @ 11:17 Comments: 3  

Happiness is a warm gun

That gun is still warm now thanks to Rio Ferdinand's last minute winner against our scouse rivals. With injuries decimating our midfield the makeshift team did well to keep it at 0-0 until the 90th minute when Rio popped up to score his 3rd in 8 games. The scousers looked gutted and made excuses, Rooney should have been sent off, it was never a free kick etc. The truth of the matter is that we scored one more goal than them and hence deserved the 3 points!

posted by keith @ 18:53 Comments: 0  

Good week

Still no cigarettes (had a cold so that helps for sure), been out with a young lady a few times, went to the cinema last night. We went to see a film I would usually probably not have looked at twice - Memoirs of Geisha. I'm very glad I did go, it's fantastic. Absolutely not my kind of film but I still enjoyed it immensely!

posted by keith @ 10:10 Comments: 2  

How true?

I found this on T'Internet - I think it's great and very true!

To All The Kids Who Survived The 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!

• First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
  
• They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing and didn't get tested for diabetes.
  
• Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
  
• We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
  
• As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
  
• Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
  
• We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.
  
• We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
  
• We ate cupcakes, bread and butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because we were always outside playing.
  
• We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
  
• No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
  
• We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
  
• We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms...we had friends and we went outside and found them!
  
• We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
  
• We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live in us forever.
  
• We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
  
• Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
  
• The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
  
• This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
  
• The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
  
• We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all!
  
• And you are one of them! Congratulations!

posted by keith @ 17:34 Comments: 2  

Still no cigarettes

I guess that's been the main focus of the last week - not smoking. How many times have I said this? How many times have I stopped? I've even stopped for 2 or 3 years before. Still, I'll never give up giving up. Even if it is on and off it's better than it being permanently on I guess. Not too much else has happened this week. Back to work, celebrity big brother, Burton earned a well deserved replay at Old Trafford in the FA cup, not much else...

posted by keith @ 22:13 Comments: 2  

Back to work

Isn't it fun to get back to work after a week and a half off? No I hear you say. Well, I'm back to work with more than a little bump. All the old little niggles are still there, the annoying people, the lazy people, the haven't got a clue people, all still there. Of course there are good people as well, it's just a pity that these people don't outweigh the others. I'm perfectly happy with my own team, in fact my own department - it's the others. I'm not going to go into detail here for obvious reasons!

My iPod finally gave up the ghost. I've tried repairing the disk but it's still mis-behaving. I could always use my PSP as an MP3 player but it's not the same. Never mind - Apple will come out with something about the size of the Nano but with 50Gig very soon I reckon!

posted by keith @ 20:52 Comments: 3  

Happy New Year...

...to one and all. My NYE didn't go as planned. I ended up round a friends house for a bit of a party. It was actually a bloody good laugh but I did pay for it yesterday. I probably wasn't at my best or most talkative so apologies to Mum and Chris for what must have been a bit of a painful telephone conversation. I don't do hangovers at all well. So, my plan is to stay away from alcohol for a few weeks now so I'm not tempted to smoke, let's see how that goes.

posted by keith @ 10:52 Comments: 1