Decisions Decisions

Athletics

Is it really that hard for the Great Britain mens 100m relay team to actually pass the baton from one guy to the next? Appears so, is the decision when to pass it, or grab it that bloody hard? Well they screwed up in the european championships, like they have many times before, so I am sure they will so it again!

Bloody Jedward

In my last post I mentioned that I turned BBC breakfast off because of these idiotic Irish twins getting a slot.
I could not believe it when they also managed to get their stupid haircuts onto big brother. These guys really are just a useless pair of bollocks, they can't sing, they can't dance, they can't mime and they are just extremely annoying, doing yet another cover version, so they cant even write or perform original songs.
What ever do people see in them? I do feel it unfair that they are probably earning a lot of money being a couple of dicks. #justsaying!

Meet The Wallee





This gizmo looks pretty smart! Click on the ipad image to visit the site where you can buy and find out more!
The iPad has been in the news a bit this week with microsoft's top man Steve Ballmer expressing his concern on how popular and how many ipads have been sold, with the words grumpy and envious being banded around!
Apps for the iPhones and ipads get quite a bit of publicity, but this chap probably won't. Such apps like air video, tvcatchup and BBC iplayer, as examples all allow you to stream tv or video direct from your wireless network or the Internet. However, holding or positioning your iPad isn't always that easy or convenient. With this fella you get a stylish protective case and a wall mounting, fix the wall mounting securely to your wall or surface you wish to mount your iPad on, then when your ready, clip your iPad in on either portrait or landscape, extra wall fixings can be bought.
Things like like this are adding great flexibility on how the iPad can be used, making it more productive and growing the distance between them and their competitors who are trying to catch up. I can't believe it doesn't have a wifi recharging system built in though?

This is the first blog posted from my iPad using the blogpress app.

Liverpool Win First Comepetitive Game of Season

FC Rabotnicki 0 - Liverpool 2
It eventually arrived last night, away to Rabotnicki, with David Ngog scoring twice. A well taken opportunist first goal and a class 2nd goal, well played. You can watch a couple of minutes highlights here, courtesy of The Jepson Journal Highlights
I thought Liverpool played well, good commitment, good movement and passing - I though Aquilani looked a little quiet, but he was still solid - overall a good game.
More good news today being that Joe Cole will make his appearance in the friendly this weekend.


BBC Breakfast News

I had to turn this off this morning for one simple fact (other than they constantly get the weather reports wrong) as they had Jedward on. What a couple of idiots these two are, it is a shame that morons like this can gain publicity and earn money, and probably too much of it because they chanced their arm in an x-factor audition.
The kids are stupid, they have crap hair, they are so far up their own backsides they actually think they are good? Why? And for them to get a slot on BBC breakfast news promoting their new album is pretty poor - shame on you BBC!

Peace and Quiet

Well, my Wife and kids have gone to Devon for a week while I stay at home, paint the kitchen units and sand and lacquer the worktops and work!! This is all good though as as much as I love my mother in law in that 'family so you have to ' kind of way and she can be sweet, to spend a week with her and her twin sister isn't my idea of a holiday!
Instead, I will have to stay at home, watch what I like, eat what I like and do what I like - and lie in!! all with just myself and the dog for company - the chickens don't count as they are not allowed in the house.

Apps

If you have an iphone, ipod touch, ipad etc etc the whole Apps thing really is a minefield! some of the best ones seem to be free, some of the ones you buy should be free, and some are just crap so end up getting deleted as quickly as they get downloaded.
I tend to make a judgement from two sources that I follow on Twitter, @whichiphoneapp and @appadvice, both seem to have fairly good recommendations and keep you advised of 'price drops'.
At the moment, would recommend Firefox home, angry birds, imdb, flixster, air video, harbor master, shrek kart, twitterific, vouchercloud, broken sword.

First Competitive Match of the Season.

Liverpool F.C

Well, tonight is our first competitive game of the season in the inter toto ldv windscreen shield vase europa league or something!! It's not exactly where we want to be, but hopefully we can win it and qualify for the champions league next season!
Pretty sick and fed up with all the crap transfer rumours at the moment and the sooner the transfer window closes the better as far as I am concerned.
Pretty unhappy that the game is on a pay per view channel as well, so for us to watch our beloved club put out a reserve team, we have to pay a fiver or something, bring on a good free stream. This one can be good! http://www.firstrow.net/
I haven't seen this version of the new kit before?


Trip to Brighton

Yesterday, I had a business meeting in Brighton which was fine, but on the way back, instead of going the quick route, went a more scenic route through West Sussex into Hampshire.
I must say it was quite enjoyable, and I was amazed at how many big houses and estates there were, I didn't realise I lived so close to so many affluent people - where did I go wrong?

Ear

My ear is still sore!! its been about 4 days now and I have the most painful, and massive (but been assured its tiny) spot in my ear.
Two problems, one it bloody hurts and I cant see it or squeeze it and secondly I am paranoid that I have developed ear hair and have an issue with ingrowing ear hair! Sure I'll forget about it soon enough.

Why do people do it?

Surprisingly I was one of the first to wake up today, 5.30am! but luckily didn't feel too tired.

Fordingbridge, New Forest
Living in Hampshire, you always tend to tune in when you hear a name that you recognise as being 'local' - national news today a tragic story of what appears to be a father stabbing his 2yr old daughter, 1 yr old daughter and wife, then hung himself - why on earth do people do such unbelievable things, what makes this man feel he has the right to take his children's and wife's lives in this way? or how miserable or desperate must he have been to have felt the need to do this? Tragic, shocking, sad, ...... read more

Anyway, onto something considerably less serious! back to web developers! Having sent a frustrated email to him at the end of yesterday I received a reply starting "I am doing my best here, it's not as simple as it sounds" well nothing ever is matey! but your colleague went on holiday having caused the problem, so please resolve it as a matter of urgency!!

It is day 2 of the Summer holidays, and I think I am going mad! The kids were out wit the in laws this afternoon, 2-4.30pm! I don't have the best of relationships with that part of the family, to the point where I haven't spoken to them since the last time I saw them about 3 weeks ago - which, considering they live the closest is good going.

This is due to family politics, expectations, respect whatever you want to call it. Apparently I snubbed them last time they arrived as I didn't say hello, (roll out the red carpet, shake hands and give a strong embrace!) I was actually eating my tea and they were simply round to baby sit for an hour while we went to the school for an open evening.

This lack of greeting was made aware to me by my wife, so I trotted up the garden to say hello, but father in law walked around the other side of the veg patch so I politely chatted to the step mother in law! However, this constituted in their opinion as 'I went up the garden but didn't say hello' - tossers in my opinion. Anyway, we came back an hour later both in laws watching Wimbledon, with both kids crying upstairs as they had been told not to come out of their rooms! I was gob smacked and yes I do like to be a good father, show discipline, manners etc, but to treat a 5 & 7 year old like they are at a military boarding school because family simply cant be arsed to baby sit properly due to inconvenience is unnecessary.

Well fortunately today I only had to open the door to one of them when they dropped the kids back at 3.40pm - under strict instruction mmmm weird time, as they said they would be back at 4.30pm, apparently they mixed the time ups 3.40 -4.30 at least they didn't have them long which would have pleased them, hardly worth having them at all.

Well the kids were back 2 mins and arguing about black marks and gold stars on how well they behaved - after apparently being so good when they out FML!

Noisy Crickets

These little buggers make so much bloody noise! We have a bearded Dragon and his name is Dexter, very very sweet lizard - its food isn't as sweet unfortunately. Meal worms he likes, but morios he loves - if you haven't seen these things like a like big fat shiny looking maggots, but Dexter bless him, loves them (they kind of crunch when he eats them and puss like innards come out nice!) But the crickets he eats - we have sorted out keeping them alive and fresh - food! So we give the crickets an old apple core, or spinach leaf which they love, but boy they grow quick and shed their skin - but the worst part is they get bloody noisy, it sounds like the Amazon or something at night in my boys room.

Think I have harped on enough this post, laters!

Monday 26th July 2010 - Ellies Birthday

Ok, so it was an early start "Daddy, Daddy it's 5 dot dot 39 and its my birthday, can we get up now" the dot dot being as in 5:39. I guess it's only once a year but that doesn't add some sleep onto my quota for the night! I did set the kids up downstairs on the TV for an extra half an hour of rest to prepare for a usual Monday, then remembered it was the first full on day of the Summer holidays, so not a normal Monday in that respect!


Great fun with Ellie opening her presents, till Seb pounced on a book before it was even fully out of the wrapping paper to see if he had it, which caused an upset, and me saying to him about how many times I ask him not to get involved in other peoples business!!

Other than that the day has been ok!! Mel and kids did take some home grown courgettes next door for the neighbour and left the front door and gate open, so the dog trotted out for a nose!

Twitter! I love it @jezzat Started tweeting about a year and a half ago and find it quite addictive, like the short text stuff, as its easier to pick up and walk away from, I havent got into the facebook stuff really, seems to take up too much time, but hey, some of the guys on twitter can keep me entertained for ages too! more on them at a later time.

I love my gadgets and techy stuff, and Liverpool FC, theres always some stupid rumours going around, which adds to the excitement I guess, but 32 years a fan and it seems to be getting more intense as I get older!

Web Developers

A breed I struggle to understand at times, I sent an email at 12 to one to sort out the fact that orders are not being sent when an order comes, in - I eventually get a reply at 4.15pm ish acknowledging my email, but yet nothing gets done! I dont get why, when its their fault they see no urgency to get it done! it takes me ages to manually process them and also the fact that customers are not getting a receipt emailed to them to check what they have ordered!

Buried a Bird

Tried to save a small birds life last night, gave it some chick crumbs, straw to sleep on and water, but it sadly passed away in the night, buried it earlier when the kids were out R.I.P small birdy!

Introduction

As I reach my mid-life crisis, I can't help but wonder what it is that is affecting my moods - yes I have them, often and I am male! But I am left wondering is this normal, or is this what happens when you get to 40 years of age.

I rarely plan more than a few days in advance for a majority of things, as I don't see the point, but weeks or months in advance for other things, I can be meticulous about keeping things in the calender and sharing it so the better half knows what I am doing and when, but with somethings I don't and rely on my memory, which if it fails, give myself a hard time for not writing it down!

I also wanted to write a book or something, so maybe this is it!! There is no real plan, but simply to express my logic and thinking in every day life and situations that effect me to see if they are similar, normal, abnormal or maybe it will just help me to get whatever it is off my chest to free my mind up.

Oh well, if your reading this thanks, lets see what happens!!