No network, wireless or otherwise, and a busted modem. But it works.

And I replaced the existing WinXP with Puppy Linux.

Which runs like a charm. It’s a small system, picks up my hardware and my wireless pc card without any struggle and is perfect for Writing with so I don’t have to steal away Ruthy’s laptop whenever I’m out at a writing meet.

Bliss.

BigAl

I beg to differ.

The greatest enemy of a woman is logic…

BigAl

And then I found this.

It was the b-side for Sentinel, the single released for Tubular Bells II. I always thought it was a remarkable piece of work, much better then anything that was on the album.

So, check it out and enjoy it for as long as it stays on You Tube before the copyright nazis get it removed.

BigAl

The story was about the current crisis the government is going through. And had the best story title I’ve ever seen! (hence the title of the post)

I almost fell of the rowing machine I was laughing so hard.

So hard, in fact, I almost had a brown crisis of my own.

BigAl

I really have to apologise for using a post just to make a joke about a “brown crisis” but I just couldn’t help it…

“Lose half your body weight in 15 mins!”

Or something…

But exercise, the only real key to successful weight loss, was always the last thing on my mind.

But not now. I’ve joined the gym. And it’s great, it’s really is. I’m trying to build up to going once every two days, somewhere around 4 days a week, and because I have a membership with the Glasgow Club I can use the Kelvin Hall which is closest to the flat and Scotstoun which is closest to my work. And Scotstoun has a cardio suite, a weights room and a pool for those days where I want something other than the treadmill or the cross-trainer.

Definitely the way forward.

BigAl

But Turkey beat us and their song was dreadful. But then so was ours, so I should be happy with 5th place!

Norway won with their twee nonsense which is fair enough but, in my mind, Iceland should have won. They came second, which is fair enough, but their was a better song.

And then we come to Germany.

Oh, Germany, sweet Germany.

Their stage performance had, of all people, the Queen of Burlesque, Dita Von Teese! Wow! Now that WAS a performance.

But it’s over for another year, and despite thinking that Eurovision is one of the most naff things in all of God’s Creation.

BigAl

For the life of me I can’t remember why. Oh, that’s it, I was re-copying all my music onto the pc as .ogg format and not .mp3. And the Creative Zen Touch doesn’t support .ogg.

Bad boys.

But until someone manages to hack the firmware, because Creative will never release a new version with full support, i’m not loading any more music onto the device.

And I haven’t really used it since until, when charging the device to see if it still works, I discover that it has 17-18 gig of music I had put on it before.

And there’s nothing like walking to work to Rammstein and the Imperial March from The Empire Strikes Back…

BigAl

For the last week I’ve been suffering from some dread lurgy (again!) and have been not fit for much of anything.

After going to see Frost/Nixon on Friday night the weekend has been much of a waste of time, with me spending most of it bed. Normally that’s not much of a problem but if I want to waste time I’d rather do it on my own terms and not because I’m laid down with some mystery lurgy.

(Eventually I’m going to have to investigate why my health is generally so piss poor…)

And I missed work/Church totally today. Oops…

Still, the time I haven’t been totally wasting my time, I’ve been tinkering with web things, looking at the JediMoose theme with a critical eye, painting some miniatures and thundering away on my bass, all this while watching Ruthy come down with the same dread lurgy that I have… Result!

Note to self: my bass playing is only ever going to improve when I spend more then once a month or two on it…

BigAl

Gah!

It seems that the daily episodes aren’t accessible online on a regular basis.

What use it that?

Where else will I get my regular dose of Jeremy bullying drunks, drug addicts and the mentally ill?

It’s enough to lose you faith in the internet…

BigAl

I’ve closed all applications, changed my settings, and deactivated my account. I know that if I want Facebook to delete my profile then I have to delete each and every minifeed entry and e-mail, and I will do that in time but I’m happier right now with this first stage of just putting it down and walking away.

And already I feel it’s a weight off my shoulders.

Now my reasons for leaving Facebook aren’t about anything so noble (?) as privacy issues.

It’s just a waste of time.

(And I see no reason keeping in touch with people from my past who I have no other relationship with other than through Facebook. I wish a lot of them well but really I don’t care. I haven’t been interested in their well being since leaving school and it’s not going to start now.)

The time issue really is a big thing. I have precious little time as it is to do the things I want to do.

Goodbye Facebook. I won’t miss you.

BigAl