Confessions of a Dibberous Mind

Ah! I saw The Matrix Reloaded as promised and I keep wondering why they would bother to reload it in the first place! I quite liked the original - I didn't think it was a genre definer or anything but I enjoyed it non-the-less. As a result I decided to ignore the hype and just let the experience wash over me. Now it coud be that the seats were bad and that the experience was marred because of that but I just found it a bit... a bit... disappointing I guess. Don't get me wrong - I didn't hate it and maybe, with further viewing, I could come to enjoy it but it just wasn't up to scratch... Anyhoo, Alex couldn't get a lift back from town tonight so I didn't go for a drink after all. I haven't had a bad night though - at least people were talking tonight!! I found out all kinds of fascinating stuff... I turns out that Joe (Da King nee IGP) is a keen astronomer and even keener Scuba diver who has been making a DVD about his underwater adventures!! Che ha...

Hmmm Well I can't really do today's blog. Not because nothing has happened but because prying eyes could read it and find some stuff out. These are the perils of letting people know where your blog is!! I got a text from Ralph shortly after getting in from work asking me to go to HMV because Suzy had a surprise for me. My immediate thought was that the new Audioslave single must be in. I shot off to town and saw Suzy who led me to... The new Audioslave single. Whilst this doesn't sound great I thought it was brilliant. I don't really know Suzy but I had pestered her to let me know when the first single came out and she's kept me in mind for this one. I sent a text to Ralph saying I *heart* Suzy and he called me back. He wasn't sure if I fancied her or whether she had shown me the single. I told him which it was. Truth be told though - she ain't half bad... (Well there we go - Ralph has some ammunition - ) I did my first real modding today by sett...

OWWWWW!!!! Right this is getting beyond a joke... All I want is a couple of pain free days where I'm not being troubled by my bodies weirdnesses!! This morning I was innocently watching " Red Dragon " when I was hit by the worst cramp I have ever had in my life. It started as a twinge in my calf and developed into an intensely painful ball of muscle that Arnie Schwarzenegger would be proud of. I immediately stood up which made matters worse so I sat down again - this didn't help either. As if things weren't bad enough my other calf then came out in sympathy which meant that went I stood up a (badly advised) second time I fell over. Not satisfied with wracking me with pain my bod then decided that the pain might be a little too excrutiating to carry on functioning properly and I blacked out. By now I was a little confused and the pain resurged snapping me out of my faint. I "woke up" screaming at the top of my lungs and suddenly thought "shu...

Holy shit!! I think I've got a mortgage!! It hasn't fully gone through yet because I only have a tenuous piece of extant identification but it's there no matter how obscure. The meeting went on for quite a while but it was worth it because I managed to sort out all of the things I wanted to. I now have a solicitor so the conveyancing can begin and all I am waiting for now is a letter from the Inland Revenue to finally prove my existence. They have taken a photocopy of my credit card for now which is apparently good enough (at the manger's descretion). As soon as I got home I called the vendors and told them to expect a confirmation letter within the next couple of days - that should pacify them and assure them that I am definately buying the house. As part of the meeting Wayne had to call about a "product code" and ended up getting me a better deal than before (completely by accident - but what the hell...) It's another work night tonight so I...

Pretentious? Moi? As Rambaud once said: "Je suis un piéton, rien de plus" ("I am a pedestrian, nothing more"). My team leader says that he has read my blog and finds it pretentious - ah well, no accounting for taste. Another point before I get on with the dealings of the day - It's been brought to my attention that Alison hasn't been mentioned much. I'm going to rectify it by giving her a big thanks right here. When I came to Swansea Alison was kind enough to offer me lodgings for a few months - three years plus down the line and I am finally getting to a position where I can move out. She has, in that time, put up with a great deal of turmoil on my part including an abortive trip to hospital to cure some extreme toothache (a long story which I won't go into here). Once again Alison - Thank you for putting up with my crap and being a real friend all this time. On to the events du jour (that should wind G up): The news I wasn't going t...

Ughhhh 7:15 am!! I suppose I'm going to have to get used to waking up around this time but it's never easy - I'm a nightowl and I don't think that'll ever change. I took my parents to see the new house and they were impressed. My Mum is generally a touch pessimisitc at the best of times but she seemed to genuinely like the house and was quite enthusiastic about it in her way. I know this is a good sign because she dreads the thought that one of her babies (yes, she still considers us babies) will be living so far away and on his own!! My Dad was a useful asset too. He has worked in or around the building trade for the majority of his career so he was casting the surreptitious eye of experience on everything. Everything passed parental approval so now I just have to wait for the ball to start rolling. I also managed to buy the perfect gifts for my neice and nephew. Rhiannah got a Barbie horse to go with her Horse Riding Barbie and Jack got a ball which objec...

To avoid any confusion I have swapped back onto daytime hours so I wrote the first part on Saturday morning and the update on Saturday night. Hopefully there will be a couple of entries today but I had to get this off my chest: Archangel Gabriel (sounding for all the world like Waylon Smithers from The Simpsons ): Errrr, God? It seems we have a non-believer in Sector B-19 God (Having the good grace to sound like Mr Burns): Sector B-19? That's Earth isn't it? Archangel Gabriel: That's right sir. God: What is the name of this miscreant? Archangel Gabriel: Well he likes to be called Dibbie. What shall we do? Blinding flash of light? Burning bush? God: Dibbie you say? I've heard of this one before and a simple display of divine power won't help - knowing him he'd just reduce it to some natural phenomenon. Archangel Gabriel: Really? He's that far gone? God: Alas yes. He subscribes to the whole "The miracle of Jesus and the blind man wasn't a...