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four months with no post…….

I’ve been busy. Not that busy obviously, but busy enough to justify not postingfor 4 months.

Kind of.

New job, new home – in exeter this time on a 4 month contract for a government department. Very hush hush. I could tell you but then I’d have to kill you etc

I’m sharing a rented house with an airplane engineer and a psychiatrist. Evening conversations don’t really tend to flow, especially as one of them is into gardening and cookery programmes and the other… well I don’t really know what he watches, but it’s definately not cookery programmes. He’s made that quite clear.

I’ve been downloading most of the internet; currently pulling down Heroes season 3, Entourage season 5 and shortly will be obtaining Dexter season 3.

I recently watched Hellboy2: The Golden Army. Not bad, directed by Guillermo del Torro (Pan’s Labyrinth). It’s a better than average follow up seeing a mix of character development with gratuitous violence and some quirky humour. I also watched Cloverfield which, frankly, was shit. I like JJ Abrahm’s work on Lost, but Cloverfield is a stilted cross between Blair Witch and Godzilla. I was underwhelmed.

I managed to wreck my knee last weekend. I probably did the damage 2 weeks before when I slipped on wet grass and my leg locked up straight. It’s ok-ish now, probably done some moderate damage to cartillage, so I’m going to have to strap it when I start walking and jogging again. I should probably go to the docs as well. And maybe a chiropractic visit to straighten up a recurring locked neck.

Musicwise I’ve recently discovered Flobots (namely the hit song Handlebars). I have no idea how I missed this before, and I’ve never really been a fan of anything even remotely resembling rap, but that song is awesome.

Played lots of poker, all low stakes (except for one bigger cass game at the local casino which I made a 260% profit on a £100 sitdown – always good) and been playing like a fish. I can never play low stakes games properly, I start making wild gambles (it’s only a £5 buy-in right? who cares if I only have two outs…..)

Current list of non functioning things:

• iPod nano – left it in the car too long and won’t do anything now.
• XBOX 360 – DVDROM drive broke at the instant I bought GTA IV.
• Knee – not much I can do about that
• LG Viewty Phone – delete key no longer works meaning I’m sending people texts with bizarre words and spellings as i can’t be arsed to delete the whole message and start again. Possible iPhone candidiate to replace phone andiPod in one hit….. TOYS!!!!!

Oh and my car is still at the mechanic’s. hepromised it back in a week. That was 6 months ago.