It’s all his fault

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Originally uploaded by fotdmike

I was walking through Bedford town Center, when I heard this fellow playing Flowers of the Forest, which reminded me of Mike Oldfield’s Voyager album, which in turn reminded me that he had a new album out so I had to go and but it….. I always wondered how he managed to sell millions of albums without being in your face like pop singers are, maybe I should have asked the Bagpiper if he was in the employ of Mike Oldfield!

Roots

Went to the dentist yesterday to get a root extracted, I have to admit I was imagining all sorts of horrors before hand but it was over very quickly, two injections to numb it and out it came, then they sent me packing looking and sounding like Sylvester Stallone for the next 3 hours!

I did get the rest of the day off work.

St patrick’s day blues

I have just been reminded that it is St Patrick’s Day and being that I work in a pub this is possibly the single worst day for me, I hate it when all the fake Irish descend upon my bar wanting to drink Guinness, when for the rest of the year they drink shandy’s or something equally as pointless, now let me qualify this by stating I have nothing against the Irish or indeed St Patrick, I just think that most people are moronic sheep who do what they do because the media tells them that this the thing to do.
It’s the same with most thing’s which are perceived as “fashionable” or “trendy” the only reason these thing’s get that status is because they are in your face 24/7, on the TV or in the Press, my favourite thing to hate is the Ipod, just look at the way it is advertised, they never tell you in the ads what the sound quality is like (which is rubbish) it’s advertised as a fashion accessory with funky white Silhouette dancing to the latest pop tune even the headphones are for fashion not function.
I’m very sorry not sure what happened there got a bit too serious, didn’t mean to rant like that, although after reading the Grumpy old man secret diary, I have realised that even tho technically I’m too young I am indeed a grumpy old man.

There is so much about the modern world which makes me angry I sometimes think my head will explode.

My new toy

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Originally uploaded by fotddarren

This is my new toy a HDD Media Player with a 500gb hard drive, got it last week, sort of birthday present.
I was so excited to get it I didn’t think about having to set it up, which of course if you know anything about how these things go didn’t exactly go to plan.
Firstly I had to format the hard drive(which was bought separately)then install it in the media player then get Windows to find it, simple.
So 2 days later when I finally got the damn thing to work with Windows,
I thought I was sorted but oh no plugged it into the tv and got a message saying no media detected, many expletives later after taking it apart(I also played with the jumper switches) I realised what had happened in the process of attaching the IDE cable to the hard drive I had pulled it loose from the bit that fits to the media player!
Have I mentioned I am an Idiot, one day I’ll learn, one day.

Having got it to work now I love it, even treated it to some nice shiny new Creative I-Trigue 3330 speakers, would have got some Logitech ones to match the other ones I’ve got but, fell in love with the shape of them, they sound rather good too.