Jiminy Cricket!

So TV watching is the main subject this time and I will be starting with The Wire. For those that didn't know the BBC are showing seemingly all of The Wire yes all 5 seasons at the rate of 3 episodes a week from beginning to end. At first I was not convinced but it definitely grew on me. I would rate it on a par with the first few seasons of Homicide: Life on the Street. The character base from season to season is huge and it takes a little while to remember names and back stories but once you do it is like an engrossing novel more than a casual TV show. I can't recommend it enough, you might think that it was ultra violent and nothing else but the level of violence is few and far between though intense enough when it happens.

In other TV related bloggings I got my hands on the first three episodes of True Blood. First impressions, well there is a... lot... of... sex and a lot of nudity. Past that though there is a fascinating story of a woman and a vampire. It is based on a book called Southern Vampire I think forgive me or correct me if I am wrong. It also has Vinny from Home and Away yes you heard me right, doing a passable Louisiana accent, well by my ears at least. So check it out if you don't mind the rated R content.

Extra-Bloggular news and addendums:
After an epic History's Strongest Disciple marathon which lasted for several weeks I am now up to date and anxiously waiting next week's fix. HSD or HSDK is a manga all about a young man who learns martial arts and undergoes hellish training to protect the things he cares about. It is one of my top mangas and easily up there with Bleach and Naruto and surpasses them in story structure it doesn't stretch a plot out like a piece of chewed gum as they often do.

Finally I am going to try to get a volunteer position at a popular fan website. Wish me luck.

WoW: Tut and double tut

My server is still down after Wednesday maintenance, 6 hours after it was supposed to be back online. The annoying thing for me is that there was no notification that there was extended work in the pipeline for our realm. For goodness sake it is not like we're a full server we're low and all our PVE guilds seems to be slowly leaving.

PUGs are a joke but you can't fix that in maintenance. Why do I stay you ask well because shifting 4 characters to a new realm is at once a lottery and a rather pricey option. If I move realms I want all my alts to go with me but even if just took 4 of them that is a ridiculous price just to take your chances in a new realm.

Anyway if other news getting closer to bagging a nicer connection through the old technology of the copper wire - yes a phoneline. More news soon bye all.

Adventures in Burger Flipping and other stuff

So got some money on at the beginning of the week so I decided to do some more creative shopping than I am used to. The main aim of this was to procure finely sourced ingredients for Shaft’s Big Daddy Burgersä. Yes they sound tasty don’t they? Anyway in my amazing travels I was unable to pick up what I viewed as the most important important – red cabbage. I would probably have had more joy at some kind of market but I only checked supermarkets, still managed to pick up my red onions though so that is a start.

Managed to prepare the first draft of Shaft’s Big Daddy Burgersä that night which went pretty well but did more dressing in the form of vegetables and maybe the preparation times of the different parts of the meal need to be reconsidered.

Broadband Baloney
So this week after transferring the required funding to my credit card I went to re-up my O2 broadband but joy of joy it bounced. Called up O2 customer service like it said to onscreen, they can’t help don’t know anything about the payment gateway and why it does the things it does. Their advice try it again, or the best one yet try another card because we all know how abundant people’s collections of cards are in these troubled times. Can I get a credit card from someone else? I don’t truly believe she meant for me to rob someone but she seemed rather blasé about getting someone else’s credit card for my use.

Now I find myself watching the Saturday Night B movie o Sky3 though not complaining as the one before was funny, a strange mix of environmental propaganda with alien conspiracies.

What the heck is this... monthly?

I know I know it has been an age. Yes and once again it is down to financial troubles along with the net. Can't complain too much though because after a time of being quite ill I have been enjoying good health for awhile and the flat is slowly but surely looking at least a little less cluttered. It still though has a long way to go until I can be happy with it.

In the world of entertainment I have had to cut out the anime totally because of bandwidth reasons which is indeed a shame. I did however before the ban pick up Shangri-La and watched the first episode. It looks pretty good I must say has an interesting theme with the carbon markets, sounds boring but its not.

In other news been playing too much World of Warcraft indeed I actually look to clearing up the flat as a way to break up the monotony of 15 dailies a day, I weep for anyone who has to do 25. All I can say is I really hope that on the weekend I can break up the monotony of course that remains to be seen.

The only other thing I can really tell you about in the exciting life of yours truly is that I've been applying for more jobs one London one and a more local one. Going to be doing more after this and making a slight change to my CV which requires updating a fair few websites.

So that is me signing off you guys have a good day.

Guild Politics and being bored of LAG

So been back on World of Warcraft, back to the grind of the Tournament, fishing and levelling Blacksmithing for me. It is good to be back on to be honest been missing it as I've been ill this past week.

In Achievement News added a few new things like titles and such.

More Guild stuff one of our top members has seemingly joined another guild with her main, it seems her first character has been retired perhaps we really can't leaking members.

Earlier before I went out we did some VOA runs, 10 man new boss with a tank PUG guy and we pulled some horrendous DPS the first couple runs I think only one person went over 2.5k and I came last of the DPSers on the last one we were certainly not much better with maybe another one person over 2.5 but I was happier because I came 2nd which was as you can imagine with an armory like this


My O2 Mobile broadband connection is not good enough for WoW I am thinking basically none of the current ones are unless you are in London in a low use area or something it cannot be relied upon. Don't worry though I hope the phoneline is coming in but it will take some time. I want to play Warcraft the way it is meant to be played where lag does not make things ridiculous.

I live

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronciles CANCELLED
Official word out from Fox that is indeed a crying shame the season finale really stoked things up and led everything in a very strange direction. Though to be fair with the new movie it was always unlikely that both would be allowed to exist. You can almost see Hollywood as a Hutt creature feeding on all its past idea in a futile attempt to survive. It is a shame.

IN OTHER NEWS: Been badly ill for about a week now and just managed to finally get to the doc's yesterday so still got a while before the symptoms which includes a pretty useless leg begin to fade away. Not to mention the amount of housework I have let slide while I have been ill :o(
no fun at all.

MANGA LIST: Naruto 390+ and My Balls (Yes it is as pervy as it sounds)

Hey hey

Been away for awhile sorry about that.

Smallville Finale - Was pretty good as it goes to be honest. Generally I don't think much of the overall quality of Smallville episodes as bad, the writing can be woeful and the character development is horribly handicapped by the fact that we all know what happens to the Man of Steel in the end. Chloe is interesting sometimes and to be fair with Lamuh away for a bit Lois is a lot more fun.

Really wanted to see Star Trek not sure if it is too late now though. Unfortunately currently I am very ill and not sure when I will recover so annoying it being a bank holiday for me at least because it means I have to wait that much longer to see the doctor.