The Bad Place

And, judging by the multiple and very specific emails filling my hotmail account, someone appears to have registered me on GayRoughNecks.org

Oh, the hilarity never ceases...

I realise I haven't updated for a while, and really should.

However, despite many interesting things happening, I can probably summarise the last few weeks as:

I was ill.
Things happened.
I got better.
I got ill with a different ill.
Things happened.
I infected Lou.
I got better.
I got ill with yet another different ill.
I infected Lou with new ill.
I appear to suck.
I am filled with snot.

That's basically it in a nutshell.

On an unrelated note - ash1977law - Man,that all got out of hand pretty quick, eh? Crayzee!

Minor gather for Geoff's birthday do at mine on saturday after the Ren Fair. I appreciate most people will instead be at kingandy's do instead. It's ok. I don't mind. Neither does Geoff.
And besides, Andy is lovely. So it's all good.

I'm off to vac the front room (nearly typo'd that as the frot room. Accurate description, though, I suppose) and desnot my head.

Peace out.

So, have spent the day convalescing on the couch, and watched Saw 1-4 back to back.

My brain feels icky now.

Pre-emptively cut for length... I dunno if I'll be rambling or not.

( Work )

( SoS )

( Weekend plans etc )

( Snake )

Think that's probably everything. I dunno.
It'll do for now, anyway.

Current Location: Casa del Wap
Current Mood: cranky
Current Music: Some toss on TV with Justin Lee Collins. Wanker.

Am watching The Spirit.
WTF?

Is it me or does this film make no sense whatsoever?

Jeebus Fucking Chist what a week... thank Gods it's over.

Work's been a bit mental of late, largely due to being really short staffed, and the staff we have in being a bit useless most of the time. The week started off pretty bad, and got drastically worse on Wednesday when a colleague called in sick at short notice. He says it was because of a migraine. Personally, I think it's Lazywankeritis.

A week of dickhole Judges, ass-handler punters and being cocked about followed.Yesterday was particualarly annoying when a colleague said they'd cover for me in the afternoon so I could take a half-day (I'm massively in credit in flexitime and haven't got chance to take any of it so far). They then went out for dinner and didn't get back in time to take over my work. So I ended up having to go back up to Court anyway. Without having had a lunch. Grrr...

Still, it's weekend now. Chineefoo last night and an early sleeps has helped make me a bit more chipper, and we're off to Karl and Katie's today for a Campaigns meet. Well, Lou's off for a Campaigns meet. I'm just going to geek with Karl and chill out. Got a 40th party tonight and Elise's wedding tomorrow, too, so hopefully I'll be all chirpy and refreshed for Monday.

Huzzah!

Current Mood: cheerful

Gah. An average Judge takes about 20-30mins to sentence a punter. This includes Prosecution opening the case, Defence mitigating, the Judge considering, then passing sentence.

Judge Slow takes about an hour. If you're lucky. I have Judge Slow today. And he's got 12 sentences. Plus other matters. I'm going to be here for days!

My foot is also playing up again. Think I've pulled a muscle in it or something.

Weekend, however, was lots of fun. A swift half on Friday with Geoff, Katie and BigRob turned into a fair session, and then ran D+D on Saturday, which was also good fun. Folks on Sunday for a feed and my Mums birthday rounded it off nicely.

Now to see if I can get through the day!

My slightly dodgy throat - which I put down merely to the after-effects of Middlewood - appears to be building into a full head cold. Balls.

Went to Ikea last night. Ah, the bright blue warehouse of desire... their meatballs so tasty, their furniture so entertainingly named... Parents have bought us a book case for DVD storage goodness. All is good.

Work progresses apace.I am now, by choice, isolated from the rest of the team in my Office of Antisocial Win. This means I can listen to metal and paint my Orks when quiet. More importantly, it means I can stay out of the incessant bloody politics. I love my office. My office is nice.

Many people seem to be having a touch of a shitty time at present. It does seem to be a year of it, really. Not sure whether 2008 and 2009 are in cahoots, or if it's just deciding to suck harder out of spite and sheer bloody-mindedness.

Still, nearly 2010, and that has to be better, because it's a new decade and if it's not I'll cry a bit.

On another note, warren_ellis is a bad man, and his journal occasionally makes me cry. I'm sure he'd be gratified to hear this.

Peace out, brethren. Jaya love.

Current Location: Casa del Wap
Current Mood: blah

Gah! Computers at work have been down all day, and now I'm stuck in Court while Judge Slow and a barrister go round in circles about a fairly minor point... Get the feeling I'm not gonna be out any time soon...

Incidentally, first update via my iPhone... This could be the start of a bad habit :)

Current Location: Work
Current Mood: Frustrated

Well, what can I say? An excellent turn out, with the highest numbers for quite some time.

Some new players came, who were very cool and seemed to fit in nicely. I really hope they'll be back.

nattydreadi came, and I had a thoroughly entertaining evening chatting shit with him and being united in our inveterate cowardice.

Also vastly cool was the sheer number of older players who have been absent from the club for a hell of a time - ajon,archmike, bacony, marcushill, zheers, Chris Holland, Bu, Big Gay Phil, Fez... it reminded me of many, many moons ago when I first started LARP properly and joined SoS, the sheer level of coolness and nostalgia gave me proper chuckles. I had a fantastic time, and I really, really hope it wasn't just a one-off thing, because it rocked :D

Not that I am in any way disparaging our current crop of players - they are all very very cool and a lot of fun to play with. But you know what I mean, there was just an additional buzz.

The entire event was run pretty much entirely by BigRob, who is a proper mad bastard for doing it but much respect, it ran smoothly and was perhaps the best event I've had for ages, and has totally rekindled my LARP enthusiasm. Roll on October!

Now, for a long shower, a lot o ffood, andto apologise to my shoulders for the chainmail....

Current Location: Casa del Wap
Current Mood: Knackered

Morning all.

Funeral yesterday went very well, considering. Thanks again to everyone for your kind words and support.

Work's been quite odd again. Was with Judge Teflon on Wednesday, who seemed to resent doing any work whatsoever to earn his ridiculous paycheck. Madness! Especially given that what he actually had on was not really a great deal.

SoS today, and my first full event since April. Very much looking forward to it. We have an excellent turn-out for the first time in ages too, which is lovely. The only worrying thing is that due to a mild mistake, we have 15 less beds than we thought... and 12 less beds than people who have booked. So it's going to be a cosy one :D Air-beds a-go-go I suspect! Although as long as I get a bed I don't care ;D

Well, think that's about it. Erm. Yeah!

Laters, all

Current Location: Casa del Wap
Current Mood: excited

Firstly, thanks to everyone for messages of support and appreciation. I love you all.

Karl and Katie's wedding, as I'm sure people have heard by now, was excellent. Karl looked impressively dapper (and as part of my ongoing plunge into sad middle age) triggered in me extreme waistcoat envy. Although not tie envy. Because my tie was awesome. Super awesome, in fact. Katie looked absolutely stunning. I saw a whole lot of people I haven't seen in forever, and although I didn't really get chance to do more than exchange brief "hello's", usually while en route to the bar or dance floor, it was still nice to see and be seen.

I ushered. It was great. I brandished pins at people. Pins!

Works' been being a bit shit recently. We're really short-staffed, my colleagues are tin-hatted panic monkeys, and it's very busy in general. My boss, who while cool is a bit ineffective, is off, so I have stepped in as impromptu manager, largely because I'm the only one not throwing my faeces at the wall and running around in small circles shrieking. Which is pretty unusual for me. Very novel, in fact.

Did some retail therapy on Tuesday, and as well as two awesome new ties (told you I was becoming middle-aged) I also got Arkham Asylum for my X-Box, which due to the kindness, patience, and elite geek skillz of spodula is now working. It's an awesome game. I very much recommend it.

Gran's funeral is on Thursday so I'm off that day and Friday as well. I suspect I'm going to be in no fit state on Friday, but hope to recover in time for SoS, where I shall vent my sorrow via the cathartic medium of cooking fools and beating Tyrann.

Right, off now to eat pasta. Mmmm... pasta...

Current Location: Casa del Wap
Current Mood: contemplative

They've just shown the old Milky Way advert with the Red Car and the Blue Car! All the words came back to me and I felt like I was 5 again...

If I wasn't so full of mash I'd eat a milky way...

Just a thought - I'm experiencing severe gamers drought at the moment... I know batelf's Adventure game is due to restart at some point soon on a Thursday, but if anyone wants to run anything else in Manchester on another weeknight I'd probably be up for it, especially if it was D+D4E, Dark Heresy, WFRP or similar cool stuff.

Current Music: Rob Zombie - The Ballad of Resurrection Joe and Rosa Whore

So, this week, my Court is hosting the Honourable Recorder of Manchester. He's the Big Daddy of Judges. We have to call him My Lord. He's a bit scary. He spent all day yesterday bollocking a colleague for being a bit naff. Thankfully, I was not naff today, and thus escaped a bollocking. But I was quite concerned all day.

He wears bright red robes and is, much like myself, a charismatic gent. He looks like Santa Claus. But a Santa Claus on a bad day. Who can send you to prison. For life. Huzzah!

I also seem to be disproportionately busy, by comparison to the majority of my other workmates. This is severely hampering my efforts to paint my Whirlwind and sundry Grotz. Grrr...

Other than that, nothing much of interest to report. I'm just determined to make an effort to keep up to date.

Very much looking forward to renniek's and Karl's wedding on Friday. The ever-lovely Uncle Scouse is putting us up for the night. He is carved from solid Wintanium. I have a lovely suit and a well sexy tie. Photo's will doubtless be on FaceBook soon, for all to see and sigh over.

Speaking of FaceBook, logged on briefly today to clear all the sundry crap off that accumulates - invitations and app challenges and friends requests from people I hated in high school, that sort of thing. I'd noticed there'd been a raft of photo's of me put on and comments made. I'm frankly amazed that there's less pictures of me being semi-naked, cross-dressed and incredibly drunk from my wild days of youth. I suspect it's because the glory of my belly breaks peoples cameras. Although there are a few pics of me off my tits on magic mushrooms in Amsterdam. Fun times!

Token is ninjing around trying to get out of his cage again. I may go handle my snake while waiting for Lou to get back from town.

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: Rage Against The Machine - Bulls On Parade

After much jabbing from sundry people, I've been informed I need to start posting on LJ more often, more so people are aware of my continued existence and can return to their shelters. I still steadfastly refuse to go back on FaceBook though. Damn thing. It lives in my frontal lobes and screams abuse at me when I try to sleep.

I'm not going to do a big update, as no-one will particularly care, and thanks to my feeble lizard brain, I can't really remember much longer than last week in any case.

Last weekend was Karl's stag do. Nothing happened. Nothing specifically happened all over my bathroom and in my kitchen sink. Nope, nothing at all. Lightweight bastards :D SoS was lots of fun, at least, the parts of it I was there for were fun.

This weekend gone, as the Missus has mentioned, we saw ash1977law for the first time in ages and, quite likely,the last time in even longer. This makes Maddam a saaaaad panda. I miss Ash, I really do. Manchester got a whole lot less interesting when he moved to Exeter, and until I can afford to go to the States it's likely gonna stay that way. Especially as it's unlikely I'll return to Maelstrom, as I just don't enjoy fest systems. I dunno, I'll have to see. We then spent Sunday chilling out. Lou made steak. Steak is good. Mmmmmm.... steak...

We have downstairs neighbours. They're ignorant cunts. I hope they die in their sleep from cat aids.

Work remains up and down. For example, today was very busy indeed. Tomorrow, however, I intend to spend painting Grotz for my Ork army. Whether I'll be able to, I don't know yet, but I'll do my damnedest.

The space bar on my keyboard is knacked and I keep having to go back and edit stuff. My computer in general is pretty ill, as it's over five years old without an upgrade, and I think a few months ago a memory stick exploded. I should probably check that out. I need a new PC soon :(

This Friday is Karl and renniek's wedding. I am most looking forward to it. I got a suit dry-cleaned especially, and have an awesome tie. I will look fly. Myself and marcushill are Team Usher Supreme. I need to speak to him, so we can work out how best to play Guest Tetris. I was considering Guest Jenga, but that's a bit harder to manage when everyone's sober.

I'm off now, to do the washing up and the bins before Lou gets home. Or at least to start them, anyway.

Current Location: Casa del Wap
Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Green Day - Viva La Gloria (Little Girl)

Hello everyone!

I strongly suspect I have shingles, and am off up to the doctors to get checked out now... If I do have shingles, they came on Saturday during batelf's party...

Just so y'all know to keep an eye out, and if I have inadvertantly infected you, it's all Cartman's fault, the damn plague-spreading git.

In brief update-related news: I'm off work for a while for birthday shenanigans, and will be up to Edinburgh next week. Due to hols and marlwolf's folks coming up, if we do have an additional party, it will be some point probably in June or something.

Erm, will probably post a more detailed update at some point later in the year when i can be bothered :D

Stay safe y'all and sorry for infection!

Current Location: Home
Current Mood: Itchy
Current Music: The sweet melody of crisps

Bah... for the 7th consecutive week my ability to find players has failed... given that, I thought I'd pester folks on here.

We're looking for players for either Legend of the Five Rings or Savage Worlds on a Wednesday evening at FanBoy 3... Unfortunately, it has to be Wednesdays, cos one of the players who _does_turn up can only get Wednesdays nights off work early enough to be able to play.

Is anyone up for either of those games, or prepared to run something themselves? We got a group of three at present and ideally looking for two more people...

Well, 2008 is dead and gone, and I intend to continue pissing on it's ashes for the foreseeable future.

Hello 2009, and hello things being much less shit*


*I have no evidence for this, but it is scientific fact

So, Johnny Rotton is now doing kee-razey adverts for some random butter or other.

Sid Vicious must be turning in his grave.