Mr Mist’s Blog

I really do. Does anyone else get sick of working? Or should I ask who doesn’t get sick of working. I think I get bored way too easily. After about a few days of doing the same thing I’m thinking "Well, that was okay, but I’ve done it now, I want something else.". I’m just not cut out for the normal working lifestyle. I need something alternative methinks.

Today’s blogness is …

A Scottish appeal against the ban on fox-hunting (IE pro hunt) has failed [news.bbc.co.uk]. This means that hunting with dogs ends (or at least, becomes illegal) in Scotland as from tomorrow. Good.

A list of seven wonders of the UK has been produced [news.bbc.co.uk]. The Houses of Parliament & Big Ben are listed as the most popular thing to visit in the UK, with others including Stonehenge and Hadrian’s Wall. I don’t know how many different places there are to go to, to be honest.

A chickenpox jab was launched today for children in the UK [news.bbc.co.uk]. Inevitably, some people moaned about it, saying there’s already too many vaccinations. I’m not sure how you can have too many vaccinations though, being as how they are meant to stop you dying or getting ill. Ho-hum. Another thing for people to go on about I suppose like MMR.

Don’t play games [news.bbc.co.uk] is the message to schoolkids from their schools. It’s too dangerous. So, many kids are not allowed to play games like tag, or for some reason, make daisy chains. I guess you just have to sit around and do nothing. Great…

Oh, it seems I may have been premature in blogging about dying when asteroid NT 7 hits our planet [news.bbc.co.uk] as apparently it’s due to spin past harmlessly. So back to just worrying about other methods of death, like being crush by a Llama.

Finally, TV game show winner Major Charles Ingram has been charged with deception and conspiracy over the Millionaire TV show [news.bbc.co.uk]. It’s alleged that someone gave coded signals from the audience to help him win. I’m not sure how that would ever work, to be honest. And surely you’d just use a hidden earpiece instead, much more effective than coughing in the audience, which anyone could do… It’d rather mess up your plan if someone else had a coughing fit, for sure..

Thunder. Storms. Lots. Rain. Driving. Awful. Hot Hot Hot. Enough of this writing in small sentances. Things are rolling onwards. I need to get my TMA done quickly.

Basically I have no news stories I want to blog about today, or yesterday. Good thing that I didn’t want to blog anything yesterday really, being as I was away from home again. I should be back this week doing bloggage as normal except for Friday and the weekend when I will be going out again.

I really should do another Cheap Plastic Stuff of the week. I think I have one here that I need to put up, just need to find the hour or so it takes to put the pages together for it. Finding time for stuff is difficult right now.

It’s hot and sticky.

So last night we went off to the pub and then we all went to a rock / metal / whatever you call it club in town. We rocked, obviously. We felt old. Hell, we were old, being as many many of the folk there must have been around 16. It was most amusing anyhow. We danced lots, to silly old songs that they were playing when we were 16. We rocked. We laughed. After the fun was over we walked back home and collapsed.

Today it was hot again, so we decided after going to the greasy spoon cafe to get breakfast and drink tea that we would go to Toys R Us and buy things then go to the park. I was very tempted to buy a huge super soaker, but then figured we would have no access to water in the park so it would be wasted. We bought a football and some other things and went to the park. We threw balls about, flew our winnie the pooh kite which impressed some passing children, and then had a small game of football. It was most tiring. We finished after a while and went back to play micro machines. That was our day.

How was yours?

Michael Schumacher has finally achieved his dream of winning the German Grand Prix [news.bbc.co.uk]. This race had until now been the only one to elude him. Unfortunately as I was in the park at the time I didn’t see the race, so don’t know how good it was. Apparently it was a bit of a struggle with his brother to win.

There was a horrible crash at an air show in the Ukraine over the weekend [news.bbc.co.uk]. 83 people were killed as one of the show planes hit the ground. Members of the air force have resigned and been sacked over the incident, and it seems some have now been arrested. Sad events.

Out again last night, for a tasty Lebanese meal that left me proper stuffed. Nice. Hence no bloggage of course. I’m beginning to panic about getting my next Open University TMA done on time, as I am running out of weekends to do it in, and I only really do good work on the TMAs at weekends. Eeek. I imagine I will sort something out. I’ve been told I’m going out tonight, but I don’t know where too. We shall see.

Friday Five [fridayfive.org]

1. How long have you had a weblog?

Not that long. Since about last December I think. I’ve blogged nearly every day, but not when I’ve not been at home.

2. What was your first post about?

Something fairly innocuous like "hello this is my blog"

3. How many changes (name, location, etc.) of your weblog have there been, if more than one?

My weblog is too young to have undergone that sort of change really. I’m still happyish with this title.

4. What CMS (content management system) do you use? Do you like it or do you want to try something else?

I use MovableType [www.movabletype.org]. I’m quite happy with it. It does everything I need it to do. I should probably keep the installation more up to date though.

5. Do you read people who have both a journal and a weblog?

That doesn’t matter to me really. I’ll read whatever. There’s about five or six weblogs and journals that I read every day, the rest I read randomly.

In the news Kate Lawler has become the first woman (and the first Southerner) to win UK Big Brother [news.bbc.co.uk]. Well done Kate for putting yourself through that mess for 70000.

There’s not a whole lot else happening that I want to blog about. It’s the German Grand Prix Qualifying [news.bbc.co.uk] right now but there’s no result yet…

I’d like now to have a minirant about stupid motorway drivers. Today’s stupid motorway drivers are the wankers that think that 2cm behind you is an appropriate distance to be tailing someone. To these people, I would like to say a loud Fuck Off, to add to the one that I loudly (visually) flipped to the idiot behind me in the Jaguar today.

Whilst I admit that it was satisfying to hold him up for all of five seconds, I shouldn’t have to. If I’m doing 90 and there’s no place for me to go then you should be far enough away from me that I can see road in my mirror. Not close enough so I can see your hands lift off the stearing wheel in frustration at my "slowness". Wanker. The other idiot driver is the one who decided that the slip road onto the M18 is a good place to overtake. Yes, it probably is, where there are two lanes. Once you’re into the bit with one lane, your *too fucking late* and you shouldn’t be racing down there so that I have to break in order to let you through so that you don’t ram into my ass.

End Mini Rant.