Friends: To Those Loved and "Lost"

I have a close circle of friends, friends who would do just about anything for me and I would do just about anything for them, but there is a line, a line that was crossed.

One of my friends went to Thailand (yes, for what you think) and met a girl (yes, again its what you think) - basically, he has lost his marbles. He has asked both me and my other friend if he can use our bank accounts to send her money - Rightfully, we both flat out refused, and now he has threatened to wipe another friends facebook friends lists and told me never to ask him for anything again - all because we want to protect both ourselves and him.

He doesn't see it this way though, he sees it as us not doing what he wants and goes off on one because he always gets his way - he is just like that.

So this post is for him, to hopefully notice what he is doing, what is happening and why we said no - You are being taken for a ride mate, and we are trying to stop that - please listen to us when we tell you this - We love you dude and we don't want to see you hurt.

A Movie A Day?

Did you know, that I have a massive list of films to watch, and the chance of me actually getting through them is next to zero. The reason I very much doubt I would get through them, is because I never know what I want to watch - So, starting today, I'll be watching 1 film a day for 2 weeks, that's 14 films - But I want YOU to choose them for me!

For week 1, I want you to choose 6 of the best films ever made (not 7 because The Warriors is todays film)
For week 2, I want you to choose 6 of the worst films ever made (not 6 because on day 7, I'll be watching The Room, finally)

Now, there are a couple of things to take into account when choosing:
1) No Lord of the Rings, I hate these films and I hate the books, they bore me to death
2) No Star Wars, I have seen these a few times all ready (and I love the original unaltered trilogy)
3) Choose how ever many you want, 1, 3, 6 or all 12
4) The majority wins, if 2 people have picked the same film, I'll watch that without question
5) Tell me if its good or bad, goes without saying really hehe
6) There's no set time when I'm gonna watch them, but I'll post on Twitter when i do
7) They must be on dvd or blu-ray

Thats about it - You can choose films for me either by leaving a comment here, or on my Twitter @DancingBeaver

I look forward to watching em :D

Signing On

Once a fortnight, I have the 'ritual' of going to the Job Centre and Signing on, and I fucking hate it! Its not the walking there or the having to go, its the people, or some of them.

Lets start with the staff, one or two of them are canny good, but the rest look down on you like your the scum of the earth just because you don't have a job and they have all been in the same position as you... Bull Shit! Its bloody stupid, you just want to hit them sometimes.

Next, we have the 'customers', this is a hard one, because 90% of them are all right and are like me, but the other 10% are lazy smack heads who shouldn't get a penny, yet they waltz in there, sometimes kicking and screaming, demanding money - I have seen it, I have been there when the police have to be phoned, my god its horrible.

Last, we have the building, its hot, its stuffy and its just bloody horrible to wait in there, especially if your early for anything. Once I had to wait 10mins at the entrance and was then told to move away from the door because it kept opening... I would have gave them that IF the door actually worked when you where stood to one side but you have to be right under the sensor, but that's not the worst of it, that same day, I was 5mins late signing because the clock was 5mins slow! That's right, if it wasn't for the fact that I was seen by staff, I would have gotten the blame for being late and it would have fucked me right over.

I'm starting to ramble now, so I'll shut up with a final word - Get in, Get out and don't hang around - That's my tips for the Job Centre.

"Random" Night Out

Once a month, I head out to my local (cheep ass) pub (thats no where close to where the gps says it is) and have a few drinks with some friends from a certain website or 2. Not my main circle of friends, no, they have nothing to do with this (in fact, one has no idea what its all about, and I want to keep it that way - thank you very much).

Normally, there is just 3 of us, or 2, since for the last 3 or 4 months I haven't been able to get there due to lack of cash, but tonight, there was 9 people there! For what could be called random, it was a bloody good night and after meeting 6 new people, I'm a happy chappy.

Now if only I could get to the club on Saturday :)

No, I will not fix your computer

Or: Okey, I'll fix your computer

Whenever there is a computer related problem in my family or with my friends, I'm usually the first port of call, mainly because I can fix most problems they have, through braking my own computers over the years, and because I'm cheap (read: Free).

This in itself is not a problem, if I could fix them problems over the phone, but its hard to tell someone who hardly uses a computer to "Go to the Control Panel", "Start -> Control Panel", "Okey, now click <whatever needs fixing>", "What does it say?" and so on.

There are 2 nemesis when it comes to computing in my family, my Sister, who wont run Anti-Virus or Firewall and will download anything. And my cousin who's computer is the slowest pile of shit I have ever used. Its not the computers fault however, its the music he downloads, gigs and gigs of it for his work.

Its harder to rant about this then I though, I really love working with computers and being in tech support (internal, not customers) would be a very nice job.

Ah well :)

Standed "Hello World" Post

Yeah, Iv decided to move from my own host, to blogspot. More readers that way I guess.

Erm, I'll post something here that's interesting at some point, but right now I'm working on Victorian Invasion @ Pure Boredom

And finally - Hello :P