Sunday Lunch at the Rent's

Early start again, love this kinda weather, all sunny and that. Makes me wanna get up and do stuff.

Started playing Settlers Online, quality! Forgot how good this game is.

If you've seen my Facebook rant, you'll know about that fuckin rat/dog/nuisance from downstairs. The little annoying blighter's been barking and whining for a day and a half now. I'm off out to escape the noise. I fancy popping to HMV anyway to see if I can spend my points - which I do. I manage to get Medal of Honor brand new. Mint.

Off up to sunny Wideopen for lunch in the sunshine with the rents.

Mince and leek dumplings for lunch, was lovely. Washed down with a few glasses of rose wine.

Dad and I put part of Marie, the next door neighbour's fence back up. She gives him £20 and says get yourself a bottle of wine. My Dad says he'll fetch the change back to which she replies just keep it. Much arguing ensues with me becoming £10 heavier in the wallet region. Mint.

Dinner settled and wallet heavier, back home. Mam has donated 2 lamps, some new cushions and I is a happy boy. The lighting in the lounge looks so much better now.

Well the flat's all tidy so a little Settlers while having a solo blast on Medal of Honor only to find the useless bastards at HMV have sold me a brand new copy of the game with no online code - this just adds insult to injury.

I can still play it online but minus the extras you get from redeeming a code.

I decide against the online and opt for the campaign. It's actually quite tidy.
A few levels in though and I'm feeling the pang for BF3 so I switch discs and I'm off.

And fuckin off I am, Christ. I have my best game to date.

Running around protecting Veterans' Retreat on me todd from 2 advancing squads. I run round the back of the building and take 3 of them by surprise, nabbing the dog-tags from one of them after slitting his throat then running round to the front of the building to the courtyard, shoot two more of them then jump in a 4x4 and drive off. I was promoted to squad leader from that moment, giving the order to attack the gas station, such immersion I've never experienced before. I bez over to the gas station, hop out of the 4x4, RPG an attacking tank, disable it, the guys get out then I nail the pair of them by sending another RPG at the tank blowing the pair of them rag-dolling into the sky. Two of my team-mates lie dying where the tank had been firing so I get the defibrillator out and resuscitate them both. The three of us jump into my 4x4 and fly round to the construction site that's getting taken by another tank.
I ditch the 4x4 with the guys in which distracts the guys in the tank long enough for me to RPG it from the side blowing it up. I then drop to the ground and take out two snipers on the third floor of the office block all while conquering the construction site - I LIVE FOR THIS SHIT!!!

Man, I'm gutted I gotta go to bed.

Bait made for tomorrow. I've plumped for ham n mayo sangers. Mmmm

Off to bed now, Nytol

Saturday!

Quality night online with 'He Who Shan't Be Named Online' - but today I fancy going it alone.

Up early, nice weather so I decide to go for a swim in the hotel pool in the Gulf of Oman. Lovely day for it so why not. Rhetorical question so no question mark.

Couple of hours and a smattering of achievements with lots of fun and a few beers thrown in to help.

Must start doing something constructive with my weekends so today I shall begin the decorating.

I've stripped the walls of wallpaper. Need tools though so call me Dad who loves this type of stuff and he wants to come down to help. What a difference a Dave makes. Mam comes down too. Awesome.

A fabulous day ensues which includes decorating, putting up a mirrored bathroom cabinet, loo-roll holder, two towel rails, a tumbler holder for me toothbrush etc and a soap tray. Looks mint. (the bathroom not the paste...)

Next up is the riving out of the cupboard in the lounge. What a job, bigger than I expected... Takes me and my Dad about 3 hours all together. There's enough wood from this cupboard to make a small house.

Lounge has doubled in size, or at least looks like it now.

All this done to the quality sounds of Bonobo and a little Morcheba, some tea was supped and some digestives digested.

Awesome.


Just need a little plaster work done then I can do the gloss in the lounge, do the ceiling then wallpaper the walls.

Then start the bedroom, then the hallway and that's the flat done.....

Mam buys me 20 tabs and some beers for to chill out with tonight, she's great. The best actually.

Really starting to feel like I have a home now. At the risk of sounding a little bit wet, it's quite emotional. Been a very, very long time since I've felt like this.

Decide against chilling but jump onto BF3 instead. Fantabulous.

Frosties then bed. Nytol

FRIDAY GOD DAMMIT!!!!

Woop-woop! It's here again!

It's Friday! Yaay!

Not too busy a day at work but all I can think about is getting online tonight. More specifically, Battlefield3

Am I becoming addicted? Possibly.
Do I care? Do I fcuk.
Is it becoming a problem? Of course not, not to anyone.
Will I stop playing if I get a girlfriend? Nah
Why am I writing this list? Because I like lists.

Chilli and wild rice with crunchy veg for lunch. Awesome

Off to HMV quickly c'est soir. Gonna try redeem my HMV points for MS points today and also trade a game in for beer and tabs for tonight - haha - the things you do.

But traded game in with 'He Who Shan't be Named online' - awesome, done deal. Beer and tabs for me it is then.

I'm not going to go on too much about BF3, again, but this shit's unreal. It's possibly a combination of a decent size (42") HDTV in a small lounge with a proper beefy 5.1 surround home theatre system but it's so immersive. Fuck brain rot 'prime-time' tv, this is where it's at. That is all.

Globular: Colours of the Brainbow for tunage....

Nytol

Friday Eve

Well shit the bath, it's almost here. The weekend has almost landed.

Tired n grotty from a late one last night, barely awake while getting ready. Bloody awesome blast online last night tho, I know I go on and on and on about it but Battlefield's genius immersion. EA and more importantly DICE want fuckin medals of honour for this shit like.

However tired I am, I care not. Payroll Year End training all day - whoo-hoo!

Not as easy a day as I might have liked as we have to practice tax and NI calculations. Being numerically dyslexic I struggled a bit. Well, I fell to bits. D'oh.

Still, got two 15 minute smoke breaks AND an hour for lunch so can't or mustn't grumble. I don't.

Training done. Out for 5 on the dot.

Off to HMV to buy MS points with my HMVPure points but they have none in. Grr. Resist the urge to squander my 'money' on GH Metallica and PGR4 and head upstairs to the BluRay section. Decide against getting a film or documentary as I download all my stuff in HD anyway so no real point.


Home for tea and maybe some poker.

It's a slag of a tea as Westy'd call it but she's my slag and she's now in my belly. The tea, not Westy haha.

Some Hospital Records tunes while I update 4 days of bloggage. I'm cattled now. no poker or BF3, =o(

Random pic alert.


Blog updated, testicle squashed. Belly and face fed, time for bed.

Friday tomorrow people, start of the weekend.

Nytol

Winds-Day

Ooff, after what I've eaten these last few days I thought the new term for Wednesday was rather appropriate. The term actually coming from Winnie the Pooh.

However, the people I've come into contact today may or may not realise that off aroma is actually me, not the manure they've been feeding the plants outside.

Breakfast was non existent as I was late getting up and ready, strange sleeping in someone else's spare room I guess. Good nights sleep though.

My mate's made me sandwiches for lunch today, and pork pies - ain't she a sweet - they're deliscious. Chicken and mayo, mmmmm. I snaffled a couple of packets of crisps from mine to so I had sandwiches, Doritos, Monster Munch and Squares and pork pies.

Mint

Loosing at chess, hate it. Not loosing, no, I hate chess. What's the point?
There's no real point to moving bits around a board until there's none left. Or something.

Aaaanyhoo. Busy day at work means I need to play hard. And play hard I did.

Battlefield3 tonight, after a nice bath obviously. Don't want to enter battle all dirty an that. Learned that from my NCO from 101st Royal Artillery Battalion in Gosforth Barracks.



Refreshed I hit the ground running or in tonight's case flying. Yup, I've managed to secure a SU-35BM FLANKER-E fighter jet. AND I manage to get a couple of kills in. Then crash n burn. I'm getting there though.

Switched to sniper once the squad leader had positioned a spawn beacon on top of a mahoosive crane. Off to the East we're getting sniped at by a cheeky bugger on an aircraft carrier. So he gives the command to 'put his lights out' - I try but my rifle's scope isn't powerful enough to spot him properly. So I take out a chopper pilot flying past instead. Mint.

Back on the ground, I spend about an hour following said squad leader, whacking him with the defibrillators every time he gets killed after I've knacked the guy that killed him of course - saviour ribbons flying in left right and centre here like!

Late so bed. More of this shit tomorrow I reckon, amazing stuff, so immersive - I fail to understand why people are still playing COD I really do.

Nytol people.

Hooseday

Frosties and proper coffee for brekkie, I'm loving this proper coffee. Hat's off to He Who Shan't Be Named Online for putting me onto this!

Busy but nice day at woik. Nice possibly as the sun's shining! Sweet.

Tesco Sausage n Beans for lunch. Sandwich made from the sausages, awesome. There's a shed load of sangers in these tins - mint!

Maplins after work to get Maz n Allan their optical cable. Jen gave me a lift into town as I was stuck in a call and I get to Maplin's at 5:58 - they shut at 6:00 - phew! Cable works but is too short for them so we does a swapsies.

Forgot to go to HMV to get my MS Points... grrr (gripe?)

Home, quick change, drop cable off (no pun intended there) then off to a mate's for tea. An awesome tea of lamb chops, chips and chorizo paella. Mmmmm (not the CTD tune tho, oh no)

More Death Valley - I love this shit.

Start playing Chess With Friends. Not sure why, I HATE chess. not going to beat Tracey at this although as I'm kicking her ass on Words and Scramble with Friends, I feel she may be liking the fact that she'll kick mine on this, or lick as Shannon would say haha

Hump day tomorrow. May change the name of this now as there must be an alternative - ideas on a postcard, or at the bottom of this post if that's easier for you.

Nytol

Monday Musings

Whiskey marmalade on toast. Love this stuff. Just hope I'm not over the limit for getting the bus to work...

Had a polite word with a charva to remove his dirty feet from a bus seat just to be told "Fuck off", charming... then ... karma bit him on the arse as I and the rest of the passengers laugh out loud at him for dropping and smashing his iPhone as the bus pulled up at a stop... pmsl

For lunch, the 2nd half of yesterday's pork stir-fry. Beef Monster Munch and a banana for pudding. Pudding, lol.

While out for a cigarette on my break, I spot a rabbit & a crow fighting over a bit of food!! WTF?

At the rent's for tea, spaghetti & meatballs. Washed down with a little vodka. :o)

Battlefield3, awesome night interrupted by needing to go to bed, grrr.

Shopping

Up nice and early again, don't want to waste the morning lying in bed.

Up, breakfast of Frosties and Battlefield3 online. Might jump back onto the campaign again soon, I miss it.

Decided against watching the Newcastle Sunderland derby as I have a feeling we'll loose. :o(

Instead, I decide to go to Tesco. A 5 minute walk from mine. Enjoyed my trundle around the mahoosive shop, plenty to keep me busy - not really done a full proper shop on my own, 36 and never been and done a proper shop before! haha

Did me shop but overestimated my strength and am unable to carry all of my shopping more than 5 foot before crumpling into a heap on the path.

Super-Dave, my Dad, to the rescue. When he gets here he reminds me that I'd asked for a coffee percolator so we nab that, and a new Minky ironing board - £25! - then head back to mine.



Coffee maker is mint, yummy aromatic proper coffee. The flat smells amazing. So much so I decide to cook myself a nice meal of pork stir-fry and fresh, crunchy vegetables and steamed wild rice - just to add to the aroma of Maison de Spartacus.



Got asked to set up the surround sound system at Allan's but couldn't get it sorted - I think Maz's gonna be able to do ot - phew.
Tried getting the tv hooked up too but the bracket holding the TV on the wall has come off so no TV on the wall for them tonight! And the HDMI cable's knackered so no TV at all, gutted for them - offered for them to come and watch me play Battlefield3 online but they decline.


Watched more Breaking Bad today, this mo-fo is such a bad ass now I'm scared of him myself! haha

Might stop the shortlists at the foot of my blog as they're already contained in the body of text - anyone reading care to comment? Anyone reading? Anyone? Hello? No? Just me then? haha

It's Saturday man!

Up early. Nice.

Weather's good so going to venture out. Once I've unpacked my new kitchen set. Pots, pans, cutlery, knives, the whole kit and caboodle. Also, bathroom stuff like towel rails and a nice posh chrome mirrored bathroom cabinet. I is happy monkey.

Some nice tunes are in order with all this nice weather. High Contrast. With a beer. While I get ready to head Heaton-wise to see Bensonite and Heatonians.

Few beers there then home for Poker or Forza. Oh, or maybe, just maybe Battlefield3.

Got a nice chilli and pepper rice for tea. Awesome



Just discovered Drowning Pool by accident, on an old trailer for BF3 - and who said playing video games was bad for you?! Heathens!

\m/..\m/

Will update laters people

Peace

Because it's Friday....

Friday is here at fcukin last! Phew, what a fuckin week!

Right, nice easy day at work - I didn't get the sales secondment I went for but I'm not bitter at all. I just won't speak to Stu now. Maybe haha

Was going to go for a pint with Dan after work but my bank manager won't let me, dick.

Sooo, what to do? John's suggested we go to the pub. Who am I to argue when he's paying?

Off to his to see something safe. His safe actually, class.

Then, the Mile. Awesome few beers. Random lass outside said she needed warming up, declined my jacket as it was too big so I offered her a beer. But what she heard was 'burr' - "What's a burr?" She asks, much hilarity ensues as I try to say the word beer. Seriously, I struggled haha
She also questioned why John and I were talking about bathrooms till we educated her. He's a heating installations engineer who sometimes plumbs bathrooms in.

We leave the group when she mentions her mate going out with a 21 year old lad as being 'too old' - Christ haha

Home, Battlefield3, made some friends and also joined Solo (Alex in real life) on BF3 - not a bad player although I think the other guy in our squad must've been stoned because he was terrible and all he did was eat crisps while we played - for 2 hours!
Bloody stoners haha

Bed now. Benson's back in Newcastle tomorrow and have missed him.

Food; Frosties and Turkey-lurkey sanger.
Gripe; Feeling old in the 3 Mile
Game; BF3 ftw!

Flicks Day

Yay, today has come! Off to the flicks with John. Won two tickets to see John Carter, in in 3D, at the HD IMAX in Metrocentre. Brilliant.

Pork 'Sunday' lunch, in a stottie at work. Awesome.

Had my interim APR meeting yesterday with the gaffer. I'm on track, awesome!
*rubs hands for xmas bonus and future opportunities*

Went to Metrocentre with John, got there a little early so had a pint of Peroni.


Film was great, experience was immense. Good night all round - apart from having to allow some security firm to confiscate our phones when in the film!! In case we videod anything.... it was in 3D so would've been all blurry... knackers haha.

Had a footlong hotdog too mmmm. And free popcord and drinks courtesy of Odeon!

Home, bed.

Food; Hot pork stottie. Hotdog.
Gripe; Where's my phone?!
Game; None

Hump Day is being renamed.... ideas?

Forgotten I'd not updated Wednesday, sorry people haha

It's Saturday again now.

Feeling Better Now

Starting to feel a little bit better today, managed sleep last night. Horrid nightmares but I slept so I'm happy..

Work was busy but nothing to report. Just want to go home.

Off to Mam n Dad's after work for a comfort tea. Steak, creme frais and mushroom peppercorn sauce and roast veg. Mmmm.

Tea was lush, steak was divine, fell apart in my mouth. Medium rare mmmm

Nothing to report again. :o(

See you on the flipside

.......

Ooof.

No sleep at all last night. Well, I lie, I managed an hour. Not sure why. Just head swimming. In bits.

Am writing today off, can't deal with anything.

Sorry

Sinday

Hungover, could I feel any worse?? Oh hang on, yes I can

Need to pop to Heaton 1st as owe Charly £20 and also fancy a pint. He's off on holiday so agreed to see Benson for a pint. Must remember I've lent him £20!

Tracey joined me in the Chilli for one then Benson joined us. Graham ('Lord V'), requests our company in town for the Cup Final. Ordinarily on a Sunday I'd say no to drinking but today, I submit.

Left the Chilli, went to Union Rooms. Met up with Scotty, Voldemort, Hannah, Parky, Craig, Sam Scott and Sam's fella Dan. Watched the Cardiff - Liverpool match. Had a little bet on a 1-1 after 90 minutes draw, got a price of 10-1 so put on a couple of quid. And won. Awesome, some good news...

Had an ok day, was good to be surrounded by friends today. Good banter and didn't cost me anything except a bad head... grrr.

Off home to curl up in a ball and suffer some more...

No further updates for today

Nytol.

Match Day n Dan Shenanigans

Match day with Dan.

Bus into Toon, got there slightly early so went to the Charles Grey for one. Had two, on me todd waiting for his nibbs.

Left charles', went to Indigo in the gate. Cheapish trebles and some nice choons.
Left there went to Shark Club opposite the stadium, £25 for a pint of lager and a double vodka each... and £5 for a small plastic bottle of Coors. Not drining in there again, even if the bar staff are fit enough to have their own calendar.

Off over the road to the match. No tickets?! No sign of Lee - managed to get his work number and gave him a call - phew, tix sorted, quick pint in the Platinum Club then match.

1st half Wolves all over the shop, 2 corking goals from NUFC - 2nd half we were worse than the 1st half and they scored twice. 2-2. Shame but good match and was fun to be there with Dan.

Left stadium, went back to the gate and can remember lots of cocktails in Opera. Just. Met a mate I'd not seen in ages. She's the manager of Top Shop. Long time no see. Good to catch up.

Can remember suggesting going clubbing. Decide on WHQ but being only 6.3pm it's shut haha. Got asked to leave the bar across the road by a load of goths, miserable feckers... - think it's time for home. And bed.

Woke on sofa at 6am.... clothed. Full, unopened pizza in the kitchen, and a full portion of chips, with chilli sauce and garlic mayo on. Attempt to eat some of the pizza and sick. Lush.

Bed. Nay more updates....

Poke Her Face

Friday is finally upon us and added to that, the main bonus is it's payday too! Sauce of awesomeness.

Got into work unscathed. Phew.
Well, apart from the fact I've left my bloody bank card at home!.... grrr.

Kev's agreed to take me home at lunchtime so all's well. So, I obviously have no tabs but the lovely Jill has said I can nab one. Nice.

Nice chilled day at work today, 1st hour 'off' in a meeting so nice n chilled.

Made a mistake when collating the examples required for my interim APR so the gaffer's postponed the meeting, phew.

Excited for poker with the lads tonight. It's my 1st cash game and I'll admit I'm a little nervous.

Absolutely stonkingly awesome dinner sandwich. Crispy bacon, chorizo, yellow bell peppers and Quavers on mayo. Party in my mouth! Taste sensation I tell you!

Poker was awesome, 2 tournaments played. I won the 1st one and took £30 then in the 2nd game was bought out so finished 2nd - ened up with more money than I went with after getting a mahoosive takeaway AND a taxi, from Felling to Kenton! Woop!

All in all a fucking cracking night, great company, great craic, great tunes, great game and a good result for the cash-poker-game virgin.

Bed now, it's 3am..... nothing else being posted... cba - nite

Friday Eve

Why do Stagecoach have bus timetables for buses due every 10 minutes when they allow them to turn up 6 minutes early?? You must think all I do is whine but all I think is I pay fookin good money for a service and I kinda expect that service. Fair enough?
By the way I missed said bus because it was so early....

As if last night wasn't bad enough. Waited almost an hour, after my 3 pint session, at the Haymarket for 2 different buses that (should) run no further than 10 minutes apart. 6 buses should've come in that time. When one finally turned up, I asked the driver what the problem was he said "Central Station's busy" - when is Central station not busy??? Awesome service, thanks...

Aaaaaanyhoo. I ain't whining no more abouts buses - no point.

Poker confirmed tomorrow night, there's 7 of us at Pete's. Awesome!

Not sure whether to play out tonight or not. Stopping back at work today to do a bit prep for me interim APR tomorrow and as I'm going straight to Pete's tomorrow from work, should really go home tonight and get a change of clothes etc.

Didn't play out. Went home and glad I did.

Managed to nab a 4 pack of Carlsberg Export and a buttered bun with the remains of my pre-payday money. Mint.

Made sure bag all packed for Pete's tomorrow. Poker chips in there too as he may not have enough for se7en.

Battlefield and beer and a chicken sanger.

Awesome times on the battlefield, time for bed now - Nytol

Food; Chickan sarnie
Gripe; Buses?
Game; BF3

Hurmp Day

God how time flies, barely seems like 7 hours ago it was Tuesday (writing this at 7am haha)

Whiskey marmalard on turst with creamy coffee, mmmmm. Uber nice way to start the day.

Gentle trip to work, these mornings are getting better and better!

Seems relatively quiet today, let's hope it stays like that!

Remembered to fetch lunch today - pork chop dinner off me Ma' - it's delicious - especially with Chop sarce dribbled all owa it's face.

No quiet any more but just right, not too quiet we get bored and not too busy that it's overwhelming. Nice.

Was supposed to stopping back at work this evening to get some APR prep work done. Deadline Friday!! But need to pop to town to get my money off Benson. Grrr



Had a pint or two with Benson and someone else, in town.
Benson----->




Fecking bloody


Me BF3 bloke; mint

Battlefield3 tonight was stupendous as usual. Levelled me gadgie up, proper. Got a shiny new gun too, M16A4 - niiice


I do tech support at work and I do tech support at home too. Tracey all excited an that bless her, needed help setting up her new iPhone and rather than wait for me to go over wanted a hand over the phone! Got there in the end. I suppose stuff like this come naturally to some of us, and to others, nada. Zip. Naff all. happy days all sorted though.

Remembered to defrost it so cooked me garlic and herb chicken, nommmmms

Anyhoo, peeps time - Breadking Bad in bed methinks.

Nytol

Food; Toast. Pork dinner. Chicken
Gripe; Trying to talk Tracey through setting up her iPhone over the phone
Game; ;o)

Pancake Day!!!

It's only Pancake Day!

Up earlier to make sure catch bus. Bus from home late, grrr - just managed to catch a Metro then connecting bus at Regent Centre. Phew.

Interesting chat with Rodney on the Metro about an upcoming poker night at Pete's. On payday. Oh my, tres excited!


Already had my toast and coffee this morning but still hungry. I find if I tend not to eat so much so often, I get hungry less.
But the more I eat the more hungry I get when I'm not eating - I can see how people get fat. Need to get back on my 'I'm only gonna eat when I'm hungry "diet"....' haha

Clamming now like. Had me dinner of chees-n-ham sangers already, at 10.30!

No proactiveness today, it's too busy - sad face.

On the bright side, the weather's getting better, I had an awesome turkey, swiss cheese and 'Chris' Bell pepper sarnie for lunch mmmm, and it's PANCAKE DAY!!!



Gets picked up from work and whisked off to me Ma's for Aberdeen Angus burgers with
pancakes for pudding, mmmmm. Stuffed as a taxidermist's badger.

Had Homefront delivered to my Mam's today, bought it pre-owned from HMV's website. Came a little scratched but looks like it'll play. However, upon checking the instructions it appears you require a passcode to play online, which was in the case but had been used. I called the customer service line to request a new code to be told I couldn't have one so I'd have to buy one, for a tenner!! Much arguing ensued because as I quite correctly pointed out there's nowhere on the site advising me a code was required for online play!
The best I got was they're going to see if they can get me a code which, as the agent I spoke to put it, was unlikely because they'd need to speak to the manufacturers who aren't going to dish out free codes.....

I'm waiting till Friday to hear from them and then I'm going bat shit on their asses.

Anyhoo, rant over. I've been promoted to the Diamond Table on Full House Poker! Yippee!

Downloaded the new SSX game's demo too. Not tried it yet tho lol.

Little bit breaking bad, chillin on me sofa.

Bed, Nytol

Food; Toast. Cheese n ham sarnie. Turkey sarnie. Burgers. Pancakes
Gripe; HMV, twats
Game; Stuffed Flat Poker