Mmm pizza

out in the country

Made it out last night for a too short cycle.  Took a route that I'd normally have gone for a run on, but at least I made it out.  I was planning on going out on a proper ride tonight from York to Selby on the national cycle route but it is currently raining VERY heavily so that  might get delayed.  RUBBISH.
Well last night after a lot of dicking around I made it out on the road at around dusk.  It's strange the amount of wildlife you get to see on a bike, rabbits everywhere.  I'm sure Chas 'n' Dave have a song that could be appropriated.  Well last night I saw the usual mass of rabbits around York Race Course, as well as an owl in flight.  Well I'm pretty sure it was a barn owl, not that I know 1 thing about birds.  So I'm cycling along marvelling at the owl when I see a chav ahead who has got off his bike and is poking around at something in a lay-by.  As I got closer I could see that he was poking a squirrel, that was flicking around and I guess had been hit by a car, with his foot. I didn't stop but I did wonder whether his interest in the distressed squirrel was out of concern or for entertainment.  Who knows?

Today I have mostly been sat on the sofa

taking photos of my cat. Way to waste a day off work, bonehead

R.I.P. MJ

trapped in my flat

This is another weekend that I'm on call, but this one I am expecting a call as there is scheduled work being carried out, meaning that I've got to stay at home for today and maybe tomorrow waiting for the phone to ring.
There are any number of things I could be doing.  The flat is a fucking tip and desperately needs a clean but I've got sidetracked by my laptop yet again.  This time I'm organising downloads and looking up random shit on wikipedia.  Hitler's political beliefs anyone?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler%27s_political_beliefs

Judging by how tired I feel at the minute I think I could sleep for England this weekend.  The last few weekends I've got in the habit of massively over sleeping, catching up for staying up far too late for no reason during the week, and so generally wasting a lot of my free time.  This is totally out of the question this weekend(!) as we've friends staying and I can't let them see the state that I normally live in so some intense tidying is planned as soon as I get in this evening, though I'll probably get sidetracked by Assassin's Creed again.  The last month or so new cat Lily has completely taken over our fairly small flat with her climbing apparatus, toys, and her general demeanour, so this hasn't helped things too much.  Speaking of Lily, she hasn't bitten me in a couple of weeks or pissed on the bed in maybe 3 so it looks as though she's settling in after 6 weeks in our company.

Queuing at the petrol station this morning I noticed the old man who was being served before me paid for £20.00 of petrol on the nose, not a penny more or less, and handed over a single crisp note as payment. Pretty smooth I thought. He clearly knew exactly what he was going to do, and in fact he probably left his house with only his car keys and that 1 note. He was obviously gambling on his keen reflexes to halt the flow exactly as the digits rolled round to zeroes. But what if an event outside of his control had thrown his plan, a gust of wind, or an arthritic twinge, or wind? I like to think he would have produced a zippo from his pocket, turned the hose on his bald head and performed self-immolation. At least that's what I like to think would have happened, but who knows?

How to lose friends and alienate people

2/10 - I suppose the only original thing about this romantic
comedy is that it has a little romance and no discernible comedy,
besdies a couple of half decent lines . I imagine
the only way you could enjoy this is if you took it as the broadest
piece of mainstream turd imaginable a forgot every single other film
you've ever
seen.
Apart from wasting part of my weekend watching that most of the rest was taken
up with work. I got called out at midnight Friday, then all
Saturday afternoon. I did get to forget about it slightly Saturday
night when I went to see Ladyhawke a Leeds cockpit, and looking on
the bright side all the waiting by the phone did give me a chance to
catch up on some xboxing. After 2 months I've almost finished resident
evil 5, so good for me.

Behind the wheel - Depeche Mode (original video)

To celebrate Friday here's a good old DM video

I'm clicking on the 'next blog' link at the top of this blogger page, looking for something of interest, and all the blogs seem to be in foreign! What has happened to the world?!? It's political correctness gone mad!!!