I'm Done

Ok this is my last post, to anyone who has read any of my posts thankyou, but its time for me to give it up, Christmas was crap, my life's depressing, my writings crap its time to go, see you and best of luck too you, bye.

Rock Off

30 minutes until Rock Off time, may the best man win (me?) and the loser eat dirt (my brother hahahaha)

Guitar Hero II

Bought myself Guitar Hero II for the Playstation 2 yesterday, it really rocks, it is so fun to play, even my wife enjoyed it, in fact she wouldn't give me the controller back, and she seems to be picking it up quicker than me. Its the nearest I will ever get to playing guitar:) so I will enjoy it for what its worth. The jump in difficulty from easy to medium seems huge to me, my brother had a go on it today and has decided to go and buy himself a copy so that we can battle it out:) so Tuesday night is going to be battle of the ROCK GODS hahahaha. And to think I am nearly 40 years old. :)

Image Back

I am now hosting my background image at Photobucket, and as you can see (hopefully) it now works.

Lost Readers

I think I have lost my two readers of this blog, now I am in this limbo on my own.

Humanity

"If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream."

Right Where It Belongs

Here are the lyrics to one of my favourite songs, check it out if you get a chance,
Right Where It Belongs by Nine Inch Nails

See the animal in it's cage that you built
Are you sure what side you're on
Better not look him too closely in the eye
Are you sure what side of the glass you are on
See the safety of the life you have built
Everything where it belongs
Feel the hollowness inside of your heart
And it's allRight where it belongs

What if everything around you
Isn't quite as it seems
What if all the world you think you know
Is an elaborate dream
And if you look at your reflection
Is it all you wanted to be?
What if you could look right through the cracks
Would you find yourself
Find yourself afriad to see?
What if all the world's inside of your head
Just creations of your own
Your devils and your gods
All the living and the dead
And you really are alone
You can live in this illusion
You can choose to believe
You keep looking but you can't find the woods
Are you hiding in the trees?

What if everything around you
Isn't quite as it seems
What if all the world you used to know
Is an elaborate dream
And if you look at your reflection
Is it all you wanted to be?
What if you could look right through the cracks
Would you find yourself
Find yourself afriad to see?

Gave Up

perfect little dream
the kind that hurts the most
forgot how it feels well almost
no one to blame always the same
open my eyes wake up in flames
it took you to make me realize
it took you to make me realize
it took you to make me realize
it took you to make me see the light
smashed up my sanity
smashed up my integrity
smashed up what i believed in
smashed up what's left of me
smashed up my everything
smashed up all that was true
gonna smash myself to pieces
i don't know what else to do
covered in hope and vaseline
still cannot fix this broken machine
watching the hole it used to be mine
just watching it burn in my steady systematic decline
of the trust i will betray
give it to me i throw it away
after everything i've done
i hate myself for what i've become
i tried
i gave up
throw it away

What

Whats up with blogger, it has been a nightmare trying to sign in, I have to right click everything and select open in another window weird.

Whats happening

I tried to alter my side image to make it slighlty darker, so I did the normal thing and darkened the image on my PC uploaded it to blogger as a post, saved the post as a draft, then looked at the HTML editing code to get the URL for the image to put into the background. This is when I noticed something slightly different, whereas before I would get something like this http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2793/1947/1600/dark.jpg now i get this https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgQQ26RQz1kAnSDX8whwCIDuYgVIDAxCTV7zkbrzvSdjyscyuoZLfRAu_2SR0WeoZZhgrzm4yo0oBUfnLd6-uDBIb8uNBaosDUVFuZQScTKjPVAb4gFiiFl24u1OjPEaCUc4uV/s1600-h/dark.jpg and it doesn't bloody work, is this bloggers way of stopping me from using my blogger space to hold images? what the hell is going on how do I remedy this problem? anyone know the answer? If so HELP

NinjaDay2006

Remember December 5th is day of the Ninja, feel free to join in:)

check out Day Of The Ninja for more info.

XL8

Just in case you wondered what I do during the daytime look above. Thats a Midas XL8 Digital Mixing console. They are used for music gigs, concert halls and even churches (Westover church in the good old US of A was one of the first places to install one of the XL8 consoles) basically they are used anywhere that there is a need for mixing sound sources. Well I work with a team of people that builds and tests this product.

The factory also builds analogue consoles and graphic equalisers that are world renowned:)

Check out Midas Consoles.

Footer Added

If you look at the very bottom of my blog you will see my recently (re)placed message :)

Problem Solved

Ok I found a site that should be able to help me out, beta blogger for Dummies , I will spend some time reading this site carefully tomorrow :)

Help

I have changed to beta blogger and I was going to change to the so called easier custom option, well I made the initial change and of course my background image dissappeared(not a bad thing for some people) I went into the edit HTML code part of the template and ARRRRRRRRRGHHH I didn't understand a thing, my HTML is bad but at least I know how to add an image to my background, but with the new HTML and widget editor I haven't got a clue so I had to change back to my old style template, looks like I will have to do alot of reading before I attempt the change to the MODERN way.

New Pic

See the new picture on the right, yep that mean moody looking hunk (in the Japanese apron (kappogee)) is me (please try not to be sick :) ) felt like a change so this is it. If there are too many complaints (not possible as I only have 3 readers that I know of) I will remove the offending picture and replace it with a picture of my ass :)

Play List

Here is my current music playlist:

NIN - Not So Pretty
NIN - Sin
Peaches - F**k the Pain Away
Panic At The Disco - I Write Sins
Black Stone Cherry - Lonely Train
Rob Dougan - Furious Angels
Yoshida Brothers - Storm
One Minute Silence - We Bounce
Robbie Williams - Stronger
Korn - TearJerker
Godsmack - The Enemy
Foo Fighters - Walking a Line
Bumpy Knuckles - Bang Bang
Adam Ant - Wonderful
Adam Ant - Here Comes The Grump
NIN - Right Where It Belongs
NIN - March Of The Pigs.

Don't know why I am telling you this but at least I left a post:)
Oh and the game I am currently playing (in hard mode) is Marvel:Ultimate Alliance.

Neglecting

I appear to be neglecting my site, but at the moment I am too busy to do it so for all the people who do read it (2 at last count) then I apologise and I will post soon:) I have just changed to Blogger Beta and had to make a few minor adjustments and for some reason I cannot show japanese characters anymore :( I will have to look into it some more, stay healthy and have wonderful dreams, may the sun smile on you, love honour peace and pride

Japan part 5

Anybody reading is probably quite bored by now so I won't say much more, just this, Japan is great, the Japanese people are very nice (on a whole), slightly shy but very forgiving to my mistakes. I hugged my Japanese friends for the first time this year( they had told my wife that they were dissappointed last year because I didnt hug them and they had expected me too becasue they thought it was an English thing to do) their reaction was very nice, one of them was very very hesitant but once I had hugged him he seemed to relax, and it made them all smile, hugging is wonderful, I think more Japanese parents, friends and relatives should hug each other, it makes people feel warm and wanted. If you get a chance check out Free Hugs I found this site after seeing a music video on the English man In Japan blogsite. Lets finish with some pictures of Japan, various places I visited while there in August.

Japan part 4

After the Yosakoi festival we went white water rafting on the Yoshino river, it was quite an exciting experience, I even discovered what it would feel like to drown, even if only for a few seconds, honestly I nearly panicked, I came off the raft in a very rough part of water and thought that I wasn't going to surface, I had just swallowed a huge mouthful of water when thankfully I popped to the top, thank God for life jackets:) I was rescued by a very tiny Japanese girl how she pulled me into her boat I will never know, it was a great day, next time I would like to try kayaking but preferably on calmer water I am not brave enough to do the extreme stuff:) . I also went to Tosashimizu to watch a fantastic fireworks (hanabe) display and the next day me and several friends went to a beach and I went snorkling for the first time in my life, it took me a while to get used to breathing through my mouth the correct way but it was well worth it, watching the fish was such an amazing thing for me, I was trying to annoy the puffer fish so that they would inflate but didn't manage it;) my friends got sunburnt but sensibly I wore a tshirt so only my arms and my calfs got burnt, stay out of the sun kids...