Carpe Diem

One small step for man, one giant leap for my computer...

2007-07-06T10:25:41+02:00

Yes, I just got the CD-Drive to actually read without skipping from a disc! Overwhelmed? You bet I am. Brings a tear to my eye. I really need to do a good system clean up and get it running a bit quicker again though, it's 2 this September but it's still doing remarkably well, I've never had a laptop last this long before and this one is still in really good nick so I want to keep it that way. God bless HP.
According to the Lynx (UPS) parcel tracker my new phone is currently "status: out for delivery" which is very nice, I'd say, except for that I can't guarantee being in the house all day, and there is no one else home. I requested a morning delivery, but they just said they'd try but can't guarantee a time of day. This always gets me mad, they can work out roughly how long the guys route takes and give better time slots, they choose not to. Anyway, hopefully it will come soon so I can play with it like a new toy.
Facebook. Is anyone in the world not on there? It's bizzare, because you end up with old blogging pals in the same list as work colleagues, uni mates, and random pokes. It hasn't for me yet, but I can see it raising odd questions about how folks know each other. My boss is never being added, thats for sure.
Live Earth. I love big concerts, but it all seems a little fake. Don't get me wrong, I hope everyone has a great time who's going, but Live8 had a groundswell type feeling about it, all that campaigning and the other events, about something people were pretty much agreed on. Live Earth just doesn't seem to have that, it's like everytime someone thinks of a cause now we have to have a huge concert, get some originality, muppets!

Patience, Self Control...

2007-06-11T17:16:54+02:00

...and resisting the urge to lose my temper, throw things, shout at the boss, whinge and whine for hours on the internet about the injustice of things and generally not do anything constructive.

I'm trying to learn to be patient and, shock horror, accepting.

This means that despite the fact I want to have the hugest row right now, I'm instead going to get on and do the work anyway.

Wish me luck!

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The big question has to be...

2007-05-31T17:25:50+02:00

Following the start of BB8 (which will surely doom television even further with it's badness!) full of an all girl house, are there any girls left in the world who want to be something other than famous? Any of them want to be writers or teachers? Scientists or lawyers? Business owners or Artists?Has the whole world gone mad? Are Paris Hilton and Victoria Beckham really the only role models in the world for young women today?

If this is the case, I think I may become a monk.

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Shoes.

2007-05-22T16:34:52+02:00

Ok, so I logged on to Dazed Digital earlier and find one of the best examples of web marketing I've seen yet, a small flash ad for nikeid.com on the right where you enter your name and a descriptor into the boxes, press go and it randomly designs you a pair of shoes you can buy. I like that there is no sound or excessive loudness to the advert, it works well in context and fits the sites colour scheme.

Anyway, without further ado, my new shoes, as designed by the wee advert on the website. (They would be my new shoes, had I £120 to spare)

What do your NiKEiD's look like?

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Mandatory, Guess what, I'm still alive after all post...

2007-05-18T12:31:59+02:00

I was positive they'd sent me an e-mail saying this blog was going to die if I didn't do something or other that I was far to lazy to do then the blog would spontaneously combust. Or something like that, I'm not entirely sure, I wasn't paying much attention.

Anyway, turns out I am still here, I'm not actually dead. I'd love to tell you all the exciting changes in my world since I last blogged, however, I'm sat here tapping away on the laptop, with the cricket on the radio, and very shortly I'm about to go eat cake. Somethings never change.

Oh, something did happen, with work, I now do less skivvying around for other people and am actually allowed to design things. I even have someone at my beck and call to fix things that go wrong. Admittedly they're based a million* miles away, but still, it's handy to be able to give problems to someone else to sort out now.

Now I know I still have a blog here I will try to actually update it again. So any big news around these climes?

* India. It's not quite a million miles away, but it may as well be, because the people we employ are too far away to make the drinks and bring me cake. (p.s It wasn't my decision to out source abroad! I disagree! Don't blame me! Blame global economics!)

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Curtain Call.

2007-01-05T16:32:31+01:00

Thank you all for reading.

I think this blog is going to disappear altogether soon, I know it's been dead post wise for a while now, but they're changing the system and this one won't work without me changing stuff, so I think maybe it's time to let it die.

Thanks you all again, you can keep up with me over at 20six, if you're silly enough to want too.

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Dead. Head.

2006-11-09T01:19:07+01:00

Ouch. My head hurts.

Too little sleep.

Too much to do.

Too sore eyes.

I really need to learn that staying up late when you've got an early the next morning is just silly, especially when it's only to learn some silly exit-poll results in a poll you can't even vote in.

Still, on the plus side, I'm still enjoying this album (Regina Spektor), even on the millionth listen, have no reason to get up in the morning, and am once again finishing my work from my bed thanks to the joys of wi-fi broadband.

Now if I could just remember where I put my brain...

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Four Things...

2006-10-27T16:58:56+02:00

Four jobs you’ve had in your life

Ha. Hahaha. What, really? Four? I never intend to have that many, but I'll give it a go, can I count ones I never really turned up for?

1. Web Developer
2. Saturday Job @ Newsagent (I had even worse attendance for work than I had for uni!)
3. Paperboy
4. Part time Gardener (dirt. grime. boredom.)

Four jobs you wish you had

1. Web Designer for Conde Nast (vogue people, its like destiny, just let me do it!)
2. James Bond
3. Kim Philby (oh come on, what a rogue!)
4. The Scarlet Pimpernell (he got to wear a cravat, all the time!!)

Four Movies you can watch over and over again

1. Casablanca
2. 39 Steps (Hitchcock 1935 version)
3. Dr No
4. Oceans Eleven

Four cities you’ve lived in

I've never lived in a city, well, not unless elongated holiday stays count, so I've changed it to four cities I wouldn't mind living in for a bit...

1. Glasgow
2. London
3. New York
4. St Petersburg (but can that be summer only? looks damn cold in the winter. maybe doing a philby isn't the best idea if you have to live in Russia all year round)

Four TV shows you love to watch

1. Friends
2. Spin City
3. Have I got News for you
4. Daily Politics (Hey, what can I say, I needed to replace the big breakfast with something, and as I sleep later now it's nice to start the day with some comedy)

Four places you’ve been on vacation/travelled to*

1. Fiji
2. Aotearoa
3. Cuba
4. Warsaw

Four websites you visit daily

1. GMail
2. Blog Sites
3. BBC News
4. coComment

Four of your favourite foods

1. Chicken Rogan Josh/Bhuna
2. Bolognaise
3. Bolognaise Pizza
4. Chocolate!

Four things you won’t eat

1. Eggs (fried 'em, poached 'em, boiled 'em, scrambled 'em, still never got rid of them. Ug.)
2. Mayonaisse (runny egg, oh, what a lovely idea)
3. Fresh Raw Tomato (pointless)
4. Horse Radishes (see above)

Four things you wish you could eat right now

1. Nestle Double Cream (no longer sold in this long forsaken town)
2. a slice of pepperoni pizza
3. Krispy Kreme (it may have been two years, but I still believe.)
4. waffles and maple syrup

Four things in your bedroom

1. A variety of fabulous wall hangings
2. my old street hockey gear
3. the guitar
4. my ikea bookshelf, which is now full and the books are starting to pile up elsewhere!

Four things you wish you had in your bedroom

1. flatscreen tele
2. blinds (because waking up in broad daylight isn't always the best)
3. en-suite bathroom
4. scarlett johansson (what?! surely thats allowed!)

Four things I’m wearing right now

1. vintage jeans
2. soul cal sweater
3. a watch
4. an oxfam wristband

One place I’d rather be right now

1. Fiji.

One fictional place I’d rather be right now

1. Central Park like it is in the movies...

Four people you’d really love to have dinner with

1. Charlize Theron
2. Scarlett Johansson
3. Bono
4. Bob Geldof

Four things I’m thinking right now

1. Will it end soon?
2. Should I be working?
3. Do I care?
4. I wish it would stop raining.

Four of your favourite things/people

1. My friends
2. My iPod
3. My Laptop
4. My Guitar

Four People I tag

1. Helly
2. Amie
3. Sub
4. KiKi

* - one or four of those may be a lie.

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Debt free by...

2006-09-06T12:34:50+02:00

*counts on fingers*

Hey! Guess what! This little blogger will be debt free by...

*continues counting*

The time I'm very old. Very very old. Like, 28.

Today I am getting a graduate loan sorted out to bung all my horrible credit cards and overdrafts on, which is nice. I had hoped the bank had not realised I had graduated and thought I'd got away with it until I got a letter and had to go see them...

Bank Lady: So, Sgt. Peppers, you must have graduated now?
Peppers: Um, well, yes, did I not tell you?
Bank Lady: What date was that?
Peppers: July 12th *coughs* Um, yes July 12th, 2004.
Bank Lady: Oh, You're just in time to sort your graduate account then, the cut off is in two weeks.
Peppers: *quivering wreck* Please, lady, don't take my overdraft, take my family, take my home, take the cat, take my nice pen, but please, please, please, if you have any heart don't take my overdraft away!

Cue slightly baffled looks from Bank Lady while she explains that infact I'll be better off as I can get a graduate loan at a good rate, even if the fact that I have to commit to something until I am 28 is horrifying. I'm so not grown up enough for this yet.

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Chicken and Carte D'or

2006-08-18T13:49:31+02:00

In fairness its not everyday that brunch consists of Chicken Burgers and Carte D'or, but then again, it's not everyday that I get to see that little flashing red light on the top of the fridge freezer, alerting me to my general door closing inadequacy. Yes, the door was of course closed, but was it closed properly? Not so much.

Now, this is the kind of household mishap that happens, you know, a freak one off occurance that is not entirely without an amusing side, if you aren't repulsed by the site of food going to waste. Yes, this freak one off, however, comes only a week after a freak one off freezer malfunction in our other freezer rendered it useless and forced us to pull of a daring, dunkirk style, against all odds evacuation of anything that was savable, and fill up the other freezer. So, not only is it the second time in as many weeks, but this time it was cram full, and this time most everything was defrosted, the bottom draw alone remains frozen enough to leave everything in, and the kitchen now looks like a branch of iceland. There are packets of mince finishing there defrost, only to be cooked later into Bolognaise and refrozen, the fridge contains millions of chicken strips to be eaten within the next day or two, the bench has cake and crumpets, so I guess thats tomorrows breakfast sorted out. The haddock is on its way to a caring new owner who will use it tonight and the carte d'or is, as previously mentioned, already eaten in the interests of not allowing any wastage, of course, and not just because it tasted nice.

Next weeks project? Plead with the third world for fogivness for all this food wastage, and start to refill the freezer with whatever I can lay my hands on on special offer at iceland....

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To Catch A Thief...

2006-06-23T15:19:17+02:00

I watched to catch a thief last night, I love Hitchcocks non horror movies, he's such a talented director, but stealing the show had to be the leads, Cary Grant and Grace Kelly, who sizzled their way through the movie in some style. It was pretty easy going pace wise, but watching classic stars is always fun, and call me naive, but the end honestly caught me off guard, I didn't figure it would be her!

Oh, and, how fab is Grace Kelly. I really need that time machine.

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Busy Beeeeee....

2006-06-20T11:35:17+02:00

Hey all, about time for some random musings from the Peppers Residence, which actually got alarmingly busy for a bit there. Now that was scary, I'm bumming along, doing not very much at all then one weekend the website I work for changes platforms completley, and I am swamped in customer support e-mails and such. Its like if this place changed absolutley over night and looked nothing like it anymore and worked different too, so it was telling everyone how to use it again and what not.

I'm currently watching Without a Trace, and I have to say, I don't normally go in for tv shows, but all of the episodes I've seen so far have been good. Not that I really know who any of the characters are, um, yeah, they're all seperated into three groups with me, goodies, baddies and who knowses.

Went to see Sam Taylor-Wood's exhibition at the Baltic on Tuesday, it was really rather good, and well worth a look if you're in the area. Wrote more about it here and am far to lazy to type it twice.

In other news, I'm being very mad at the post office who seem to think that early afternoon is an acceptable time to deliver my mail. Bah humbug.

Yeah, sorry, is it clear i don't have much to say?

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Reading between the lines...

2006-06-02T22:51:37+02:00

If MI5 have got this right, they've just foiled a highly dangerous chemical attack.

...and if they have it wrong, there's an islamic extremist loose with an unstable, makeshift chemical weapon and s/he knows the security services are onto them.

I don't debate that they were correct to go in, you have to act on such intelligence, but I really, really hope they got it nipped in the bud.

Anyway, forget about that, I have started to stock the in room fridge for the World Cup. Oh yeah! Its getting closer

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We're gonna score one more than you...

2006-05-31T23:12:47+02:00

Or not. I've never betted at a bookies before, but the world cup has me tempted, so I decided, for certain, a tenner on Brazil would get me about twenty back, not a huge amount but better than a kick in the pants, so I headed past ladbrokes and gazed at the odds. Turns out a tenner on the Argies would be better, my, I could get about eighty quid back. Now thats good value, but then, I don't think they're gonna win, so a bit risky. And then, then I saw the Cote D'Ivoire. I'd get £880 for my tenner! Cashback! Result, yes, its a small risk, a bit of a gamble, but think of the pay off! Hey, I wasn't going to miss this, maybe I should pop to the bank, stick fifty on them, then I'd get over five grand when they win. I started persuading myself that they stood a chance, who doesn't fear their footballing giants? You know, look at, well, erm, well, and, erm, well, erm. All those African teams who have won it in the past.

Then I dragged myself away from the window without going in.

Clearly I am not a person who should ever, ever, be let loose in a bookies.

I'll try to find a nice little earner with an England fan who believes they can win it instead. That way, if the freak occurance happens and I lose, then I'll not care, cos we'd have won the world cup!

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The I Post...

2006-05-16T22:29:10+02:00

I AM: nothing, but saved by grace and dependant on my iPod as if it were a life support machine...
I WANT: to break free, I want to break free, I want to break free from their lies, they're so self satisfied, I don't need them, I want to break free.
I WISH: I could sleep until ten thirty every morning, instead of just four or five times a week.
I MISS: rarely, and never with the Walter PPK. I don't know about the Marquis of Queensbury rules, but the Sgt. Peppers rules are shoot on site.
I FEAR: being a screw up. Whooops
I HEAR: more than I let on, fortunatly for humanity at large, I forget a lot too..
I WONDER: in a place called wonderland, its quite good, but the rabbit starts to irritate after a while.
I REGRET: to announce that the rumours are true. I am indeed, Luke's father.
I AM NOT: Spartacus, but I like to think I'd have said I was to help make the ending more dramatic.
I DANCE: Like nobodys watching.
I SING: Often, to everything and badly.
I CRY: Wolf.
I AM NOT ALWAYS: good enough.
I MAKE WITH MY HANDS: I used to make everything, was one of those kids who would take boxes and elastic bands and split pins and make fun things. Now? I make with my hands to hit the snooze button.
I WRITE: too much.
I CONFUSE: people.
I NEED: a chariot, and henceforth we will ride forward boldly, where before we feared to tread.
I START: occasionally.
I FINISH: even more rarely than I start.

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Shock! Horror!

2006-05-10T22:29:23+02:00

Yes, a real update, no cheating by doing a quiz, and no pinching from my other blog, a real update. So, what have I been up too? Work, and then, also, the beach and the countryshire and the mall. In fact, scratch that, work hasn't featured as highly as it might have! I start with good intentions and then decide its too sunny! Isn't summer wonderful? I am most definatly loving it!

I am being confused by the world cup squad tho! Room for Aaron Lennon and not for Sean Wright-Phillips?!? No room for an experienced striker apart from the metatarsal twins? Very odd. Just watched boro in the final too, the first time a Sunderland fan ever willed them on, it was to no avail, of course!

The politics of the past week have made me laugh, a whole lot, I get a certain, slightly twisted, amusement from seeing Blair on the ropes like this. Much as I will DISCO like its 1974 when he does go, right now another year of seeing him struggle on like an elk that's just had a run in with a lion seems like a rather enjoyable passtime, I just hope he doesn't mess the country up any more while he's doing it.

OooOOoooh! Also, I have a new musical addiction. Been confident they'd make it since hearing the demo back in '04 and now seems they're doing ok, were on the album chart show t'other night and their deliciously retro funky with lyrics that vary from the cheesy to the ever so slightly dirty. Pull Shapes must be there finest moment so far tho! Clicky here for the pipettes! Apparently they want to "turn the clock back to a time before the beatles ruined everything." Fab. Indy band with a sense of humour, whatever next.

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Less Than A Month...

2006-05-08T22:59:35+02:00

...between blogs, see, Helly, I can get back into the swing of blogging, honest. I pinched this. I then forgot to pop it up here after filling it in, blimey, this one was an epic. May do a real update tomorrow. Anyone know how you set your e-mail options on here?

1. Song that always makes you sad?
Well, the funeral march never was exactly full of sunshine, you know? Geez...

2. Last thing you bought?
A Siccilian Lemon truffle Bar from Thorntons. Two of them, actually. Yum.

3. Last person you argued with?
Probably the boss, no idea over what though. We do have a recurring argument about wether the government should subsidise big business...

4. Do you put Butter before putting the peanut butter on?
Peanut Butter? Really? No...

5. One of your stuffed animals names as a kid?
Oh, come on, cut me some slack here, no one needs to know about tufty. No one. *blinks* anyone got a tissue, I have something in my eye...

6. Did you ever own at one time a Barenaked Ladies Cd?
No, but I do have the mp3 of One Week, top song. And we used to listen to the album while playing five aside. I have no idea why...

7. Favorite day of the week?
Saturdays and Sundays. Cos Rainy days and mondays always get me down.

8. Favorite Sundae topping?
Chocolate Sauce and Marshmellows! Oh yes, I'm the kind of very grown up and mature man who sometimes buys flumps...

9. Did you take Piano lessons?
No, but I tell you what, I didn't have rock it up on the clarinet. Some say I was sacked for my poor embuchre, I say I was sacked because just like MC Hammer said, they couldn't touch this....

10. Most frequently song played on your iTunes?
todays marathon sugar rush session has pushed 'Pull Shapes' by the pipettes to the very top.

11. T.V. you secretly enjoy?
I insist that TV is the most over rated entertainment medium since public hanging, I am rather partial to the Daily Politics though...

12. would you rather play basketball or hockey?
Hockey, if its street/ice hockey, used to play lots, and still have my sticks in the corner of the room, challenging me to use them...

13. Date someone older or younger?
I'm single, but would go a few years either side. It's about personallity not age, as long as they're not too young...

14. One place you wish you could travel right now?
I'd quite like to travel to a wonderful town, where the bronx is up and the battery's down, the people ride in a hole in the ground, New York, New York, its a wonderful town!

15. Do you use umbrellas?
I don't own one, but on holiday, if it rains I pinch one to go get my morning paper...

16. do you know all the words to the canadian national anthem?
Surely this is a trick question? I don't. But I do know the first verse, don't we all?

18. The Smiths or the Cure?
Thats like choosing which blunt implement to have your head battered with. Choose life, choose niether!

19. Do you perfer Blondes or Brunettes?
Hmmm, I dunno, variety is the spice of life, oh yes. And Charlize looks stunning as either, lucky for me as I know she digs bloggers who waste time doing quizzes...

20. best job you ever had?
Guns don't kill people, Jobs do.

21. Who did you go to your school disco with?
School Disco? I never bothered, they were so corny!

22. perfect time to wake up at?
Ten

23. perfect time to go to bed?
Probably about two, generally seems to work well...

24. do you use your queen right away in chess?
No, open with your knights, then your pawns, then your bishops to the flanks, then do the thing where you switch the king and the rook, then you may, use the queen. Just call me Kasparov.

25. have you been in a car accident?
A couple, nothing serious though.

26. closer to mam or dad...or niether?
Probably both the same...

27. what age is this exciting life over for you?
Woah, the positivity of that question astounds me...

28. what decade during the 20th century would you have chosen to be a teenager in?
The 90's, clearly it was where it was at, yeah...

29. favorite shoes you have EVER owned?
The ever comfy Gravis Comets. Not the new LE's tho, my old grey and blue ones. Still wear them sometimes, they're unbelievably comfortable...

30. do you have an article of clothing you have had since you were a kid? if so what is it?
No. Although I do have my school shirt that everyone signed on leaving day in a bag in my wardrobe somewhere, I believe it has the ever cheesy 'class of 99' across my butt...

31. were you in track and field?
1500 metres was my event, although I have a suspicion some of the other kids could have beaten me if they weren't stopping for a fag

32. were you ever in a school talent show?
Why would a school without talent have a show for it? We'd have had to ship in...

33. have you ever written in a library book?
No, spilled milk in one though, most of pages were ruined, but they never looked...

34. what are you allergic to?
I don't know, and don't want to find out.

35. favorite fruit?
Strawberries

36. have you watched sex and the city?
No, no, no, no, no...

37. baseball hat or beanie?
Beanie, keeps the headphones in nice and snug.

38. have you ever gambled at a casino?
No, but if I did, I'd be all for black jack. I'm convinced it can still be beaten if you do it right...

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in fair verona...

2006-04-16T22:40:39+02:00

Hello. My, even on my own scales of protracted absentia this has been an extended period of neglect for the old peppers blog. Gee, golly gosh. I don't know what to write no more. It's a bit pathetic really.

I should have blogged at two this morning when I realised sleep was nothing but an unobtainable quasi-utopian state and decided I would reorganise my bookshelf. Well. What else do you do at two am? It was then that dissapointment hit me as I realised how few books I actually have. I read quite a lot, yet once all nicely reorganised have only about a hundred, I dunno, it sounds a lot, but doesn't look it once on the shelf. Ho Hum.

See, this is why I am not here much any more, I just ramble, aimlessly and endlessly on any given subject. Oh yes, literally any given subject. Yesterday I got bored and ended up rambling about a long dead US Secretary Of War and his views on nuclear weapons.

Anyway, figured it was worth popping bye to say 'ello to you lot! Hope you're all well.

HAPPY EASTER

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Filched From Helly Again...

2006-03-16T01:46:50+01:00

1. How did you get the idea for your profile name?
I had a picture on my desktop of a badge that came with the orginal release of the beatles sgt peppers.

2.What song are you playing now, or wish you were playing?
Nothing, was about to go to bed, then I saw this and fell to temptation!

3. Has the death of a celebrity ever made you cry?
hmmm, nope, but the death of a blogger I used to have a laugh with did, thats probably the closest.. (hey, she was popular, and funnier than most celebs!)

4. What colour underwear are you wearing?
Blue

5. Do you want a baby?
I don't think I have the right bits to be giving birth!

6. What does your dad do for a living?
Um, interesting question. What does he do for a living! He's a baker by trade, but is ill and can't work.

7. What does your mum do for a living?
Teaches little monsters to speak English, so they can read those flight training manuals...

8. What is/are your your pet's name(s)?
The family call it Twinkle, I call it Eva due to its tendancy to be mean. (after Braun, of course)

9. What color are your bed sheets?
Pale Blue...

10. What are the last 3 digits of your phone number?
I can honestly say I have no idea. I used to memorise them, but I never bothered with this one...

11. What was the last concert you went to?
oh, who knows!

12. Who was with you?
I'm not Mr Memory you know!

13. What was the last film you watched?
Without A Clue.

14. Who do you dislike most at this moment?
Mr Visa, such a cruel task master.

15. What food do you crave right now?
Chocolate. In any form, how I need it. Specifically, Praline/Rasberry Godiva. Mmmm....

16. Did you dream last night?
Who knows, I was out like a light.

17. What was the last TV show you watched?
Something with Tracey Emin on, she irritated me to much, so of it went...

18. What is your fav piece of jewellery?
I broke my dog tags! both of them!

19. What is to the left of you?
my pillow!

20. What was the last thing you ate?
KFC...

21. Who is your best friend of the opposite sex?
Make me choose from all the ladies? Shocking, a gentleman never tells which ones are his favourites.

22. Who last MSN'd you?
Georgia

23. Where is your significant other right now?
Wondering if she'll ever meet the right chap, I presume...

24. Do you have a crush?
Just one? Oh, Many...

25. What is his/her name?
Scarlett Johansson...

26. When was the last time you had your hair cut?
Around 6 weeks, but it was cut pretty short so its still not too long...

27. Are you on any meds?
Nope, but maybe thats my problem...

28. Do you have a mental disease?
I never let any medical peeps close enough to my head to find out...

29. What shirt are you wearing?
plain white tee...

30. Are you sexy?
too sexy for my shirt, so sexy it hurts?

31. What's your favorite store?
Umm, not sure at the mo...

32. Are you thirsty?
Yes, but too lazy to go downstairs...

33. Can you imagine yourself ever getting married?
I can imagine most things, even winning the lotto, so I suppose marriage is vaguely possible!

34. Who's someone you haven't seen in a while and miss?
*shrugs* I see most people often! G & C were cool, as were the uni folks

35. Where do you work?
At home in bed normally. (ooo-matron!) In a non dirty kind of way.

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it might be quite good.

2006-03-16T01:23:20+01:00

...really, it might be quite good. I'm getting past all of my years of inbuilt English reserve, and my inherit love of my current fave digital music shops (iTunes and DodgyRussiansFundingPeopleTrafficingBySellingYouMusic.com) and admitting that this new site may well be quite good. In fact, it may be ever better than quite good. It may be startling good.

www.emusic.com

Mp3 downloads so any player can use them, a $9.99 subscription a month gets you forty fully legal downloads. So the catch? It's indipendant labels, so you won't get your Sugababes fix. Instead you wll find the likes of Bloc Party, Interpol, Ozomatli, Belle and Seb, The Pippettes, and a variety of others from labels like Matador and Memphis Industries.

Whats even better? You get a free trial. 25 free downloads on a no obligation free trial, or if you or refered by a friend then you get 50 free downloads, as do they.

There is loads of rubbish on here, but there seems to be some really good stuff lurking as well, and lots of quirky bands that may be worth a try, or not. So, Watson, my conclusion from my observations and deductions, is that it may be quite good... (but don't blame me if it isn't)

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Back home...

2006-03-09T22:39:30+01:00

...it was very cold when I was away. Honest. Here is the evidence. The long ones are about 2 foot long. 'Twas cold, but very nice, and I got to play with fire, which, I found worryingly enjoyable, even down to toasting marshmellows on the fire...

Since I got back, I have mainly been working and making new blog layout templates, oh, and discovering Ceres. It's South African Juice, 100% fruit juice and it tastes really great! I want to start importing it by the crate load, or may be find a supermarket that stocks it.

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Everything You Know Is Wrong.

2006-02-23T14:37:02+01:00

You know, you think you know something, you think you have it figured out, and then something comes along that shakes you out of your slumber and you realise that its all lies! Yes, Citizens, following my startling revelations some time back that Cathryn Keene and Franklin W. Dixon never existed (Feel robbed? I did. Oh Yes.) I bring you more knews that will change your outlook on the world.

The Righteous Brothers? Not actually brothers. Heck, I'm not sure they were actually righteous either.

We have been sold off on a lie, I'm leaving it up to you, but, I (who have nothing) have totally Lost that loving feeling after hearing this, I'll drown in my own tears. For years I Believed, yet now I find out that its all lies, they weren't even born close to each other! There songs may have hung on you, but somewhere you were mislead, and its hard not to become unchained at this, In the midnight hour, knowing that nothing is certain anymore, nothing!

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Pilfered and Purloined...

2006-02-21T01:28:53+01:00

1. When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was the first thing you thought?
Rats. I suppose I should shave this morning then.

2. How much cash do you have on you?
um, about £5.60 in the token pocket of my jeans...

3. What's a word that rhymes with "TEST"
Breast. what?

4. Favourite planet?
Yeah, I'm an earthling at heart, for sure. One day I may even apply for citizenship.

5. Who is the 4th person on your missed call list on your mobile?
That would require effort. At a guess its probably the boss, I ignore him somedays.

6. What is your favourite ring on your phone?
Hmmm. I used to have Hawaii 5-0. Everytime my phone rang, instead of answering it, I got the urge to run in slow motion and pretend to be Jack Lord.

7. What shirt are you wearing?
Hmm, I'm wearing a white tee with black sleeves...

8. Do you label yourself?
No, the shopkeeper does that bit.

9. Name the brand of your shoes you're currently wearing.
I'm on my bed, I don't have shoes on, that would be odd. I had Gravis Comets on most recently...

10. Bright or Dark Room?
In the middle, not too talk, but dazzling light is irritating...

11. What were you doing at midnight last night?
Watching DVD's

12. What did your last text message you received on your cell say?
"That's an understatement." Who knows what I sent to get that....

13. Where is your nearest 7-11?
About ten minutes away, its very handy though, use it all the time.

14. What's a saying that you say a lot?
I generally say "that man is an arse" everytime I hang up the phone from any conversation that I couldn't be bothered for with work...

15.Who told you they loved you last?
Cripes. Who knows. The midwife, she didn't want to part with me I swears it.

16. Last furry thing you touched?
umm, ummmmm. um.

17. How Many Drugs Have You Done In The Past three Days?
None, um, last drugs I took were benadryl for my hay fever when I was 17. And y'all thought Helly was Hardcore

18. How many rolls of film do you need to get developed?
One is sitting in my draw, has been for a year. No idea whats on it.

19. Favourite age you have been so far?
twenty two is good for me.

20. Your enemy?
Nasty Man, archrival and nemesis of Wonderboy, with powers comparable to Wonderboy!

21. What is your current desktop picture?
A blue neon sign saying hip-hop on a dark background

22. What was the last thing you said to someone?
cheers man

23. If you had to choose between a million bucks or to be able to fly, which would you choose?
What powers you ask? I dunno, how 'bout the power of flight?
That do anything for ya? That's levitation holmes.
How 'bout the power to kill a yak, from 200 yards away...
with mind bullets! That's telekinesis, Kyle.
How 'bout the power, to move you?

24. Do you like someone?
Lots of people, spreading the love, innit!

25. The last song you listened to?
I can't remember, my iPod is mid way through "there is nothing like" by United Live. And y'all thought it would be Tenacious D, huh?

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It came from the deep...

2006-02-03T12:47:26+01:00

Yes, it lives, and yes, it has once again been bad and not blogged here for *counts fingers, counts toes, gives up altogether* some time, but yes, here it is again emerging from the deep like the leviathan coming up to feast on a small Greek fishing fleet.

Everytime I write, I feel like I'm back at school and have to explin my abscence, so if you will let me whip out my forged note from my mum, I'll explain.

Dear Mr Blog, Peppers has been absent for the past few weeks due to a very unfortunate mix of busyness and chronic inability to motivate himself once work was done. He has mainly been working, and also has become in the employment of another blog site, where he is now customer support, so the times he has blogged it's been there, to keep the organ grinders happy. He is of course very apologetic for this, but c'est la vie, non? Regards, Mama Peppers.

Anyway, after that startling admission of treachery, I will now cover the points that have interested me in the past couple of weeks.

1) Blair getting defeated again. I think this really needs little else said, although he must be the only prime minister in history to lose a vote because he couldn't be bothered to vote himself and watched the footy.

2) Chips. With Cheese. 'Tis a good thing I tell ye!

3) Music. I can't make my mind up about Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan's album. Her voice is really beautiful, but he sounds like he's chocking on a box of rocks, interesting contrast, but I just don't know if I want to hear that much of it. Anyone got it? I've only heard a couple of tracks so far...

4) Hamas. Yes, the west will make the whole world democracies. Then stamp their feet and throw their toys out of the pram when they realise not everyone in the world wants to have the same values that we have in the west.

Anyway, thats me for the mo, so, how've y'all been?

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thirty nine steps to the perfect pencil moustache...

2006-01-14T02:00:13+01:00

Ok, so last night I watched one of my new DVD's, the 39 steps, the hitchcock version. It was a really good movie, I like old movies as modern ones rely too much on effects or visiuals and less on plot and character. I wasn't certain about it when I bought it, as I was aware it was quite different from the book, and I love the book, however Hitchcock has left the touch of a master on this movie. Despite the large liberties with the plot I thought it conveyed the essence of the book a lot better than some films do that stick to the plots of the books they are based on. Anyway, its a cool movie, I like it, and definatly worth the £5.99 it is in HMV...

Also, please can I become Robert Donat? Really, I knew the film was going to be cool when they were in the music hall at the start and the kid leans on his coat. Its the look of distain while casually brushing off his coat. In this movie he possibly, and by possibly I mean definatly, out Englishess even Niven himself. I think I may grow a moustache and start dressing like I just walked out of 1935 Saville Row, clearly it's the way forward. And I will need that dry wit too, plenty of that...

...see? Cooler than school.

Speaking of cool, I have a rather odd new musical thing going on in my iTunes in the form of Annie. She's been around for a while and I had a few tracks, but I got the album today and I am really liking it. It's not like what I normally listen too, but its fab. Imagine if Gwen Stefani was European and Cool instead of American and corporate? Electric beats, loops, samples and sweet vocals mark Annie out as a very talented artist. Even the yanks had to admit she was pretty good when her album made the Rolling Stone Top 50 of the year...

(She's quite cute too, so if she wants to don some classic clothes and be my Madeline Carroll, thats cool by me...)

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'tis a poem of dubious quality...

2006-01-11T22:59:46+01:00

Hi everyone! Thanks for your comments, sorry I haven't been around and keeping up! I'll go visit around, but if I've missed anything big, please drop me a comment! Hehe, I hope you all had an awesome new year. I did. I have done a fair bit of work this year so far too, shockingly enough. And I got a graphics tablet to hopefully improve my drawings, although I haven't had a chance to do a drawing in it, only too try the brush filters in photoshop. So how've y'all been?

Anyway, this is my first poem. I'm not a poet, in case it isn't rather obvious, but somoene I know set up a section of there homepage and gave me authoring rights, with the aim of it being where those of us who are *ahem* less articulate with words, or who don't normally write could write things, when the muse descends, just for a bit of fun, and I was the only one who would start *raises eyebrow* hmmmm... Anyway, I thought I'd post it here too...

A Very Literary Love (by Sgt Peppers)

diamonds are forever,
or so they like to say,
but feelings are oft terminal,
we change them everyday,

one day someones lover,
the very next their fool,
the diamond's in the gutter,
jay gatsby's in the pool,

and eponine is moaning,
as slowly she does pass,
for love she gave that moment,
and showed her heart of glass,

thanks heavens for the picture,
the tiny pocket of time,
without it who'd remember,
shallot did pass them by,

while poets and authors stumble,
often looking for the prose,
our starcrossed lovers take their lives,
to save them from their woes

and now this verse is over,
mainly just because,
I can't be arsed to write more,
its the love poem that never was.

EDIT: Bah! Thats actually quite depressing. Why did I do that? Humbug, I need to see a shrink, methinks...

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Hmmm...

2005-12-30T17:57:33+01:00

Geez, I tells ya, I have eaten enough Chocolate to verily explode, I am thankful I never gain weight or I am certain that leaving the room would now be an impossible task. Heck, leaving the room may now be an impossible task, I haven't tried for a couple of hours, maybe I should.

Ok, did D'artagnan always die at the end of the man in the iron mask or is it just this version? Really, how very confusing. Killed by his own son too, how shocking. I have been meaning to read the book for ages, but it just seems so very long and so very well, long! I'm a tad lazy, and I'm remebering how long it took to read the last epic I read, where I gave up for a month of sanity before going back to it...

A vector of a rather funky young lady.

I really hope I haven't posted this before! I can't really post the most recent two up here as they were done for a friend...

Is it obvious I still have nufink to say? I'm just to scared to actually say nufink lest we end up at 300 again

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Like this?

2005-12-30T17:38:07+01:00

Like this Helly? Or Blue maybe?

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MERRY!

2005-12-23T18:59:38+01:00

CHRISTMAS!

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iMate...

2005-12-21T14:50:59+01:00

a new use for your iPod...

You look across the crowded train, commuters mixing with the early morning shoppers, and a few students, headed to libraries and museums, still unable to take a break from their labours. Even through the crowd though, one face catches your eye, she's perfect, about 5' 11" with hair feathery light, flicking away from her face highlighting the most beautiful eyes ever, like deep pools at an oasis, beckoning another look. You smile, expecting her to be a mirage, but on the contrary she responds, moving her hand down towards her jeans. She pulls out a small white plug, and the signal is clear, you plug into hers, she plugs into yours, your eyes meet and for that second you know its for real.

Then it dawns on you. Arse! Why would you even have the cheeky girls Christmas song on your iPod anyway!

Next stop she leaves, along with what little self respect and dignity you had left.

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