Hero Worship

In the last 2 weeks, myself and Ann have discovered 2 whole new guilty pleasures - downloading movies from the internet (I stuck to my morals as long as I could, but giving half my wages to the video shop was getting depressing) and HEROES. We have totally fallen in love with Heroes (I actually mistyped that as Herpes there !!! LMAO).

From the brilliant Hiro Nakamura and his cute "woohoo"s, to the sickening injuries of Claire Bennet, to the distracting fact that Peter Petrelli MUST be the gay lovechild of Sylvester Stallone and Keanu Reeves - we love it all. It ALWAYS leaves us looking at each other going "ooOOOohh" at the end of each episode. They have mastered the cliffhanger. I can't believe it took us so long to discover it, but we're catching up fast - we're about to sit down and watch Season 2, Episode 5. So no doubt we'll be depressed when we have to wait a whole week for each installment, like everyone else :(

Just one thing irks me about Season 2 - why land Peter Petrelli in Cork? Maybe this will become clear, but what kills me is the fact that the bad dudes are feckin obviously English and American and are made to overact with crap Oirish accents. It just freaks me out that these people couldn't find one single Irish person - and I mean a genuine Irish person, to listen to them and say "Would you go an' shite - this is ridiculous and insulting". One last thing - if yourwan was really Irish, she'd call herself Kathleen, not fuckin Caitlin (pronounced by her as Katelyn). GGGGRRRRRRRR.

Anyway, next post will probably be next week when baby number 3 is born! And no, we won't be calling it Noelle, Joseph, Stephanie, or Stephen. Or Jesus for that matter.

Although I did toy with the idea of Hiro as a middle name ....

UPDATE: ok so I've just watched Episode 8 of Season 2 ("4 Months Ago") and now I know why Peter ended up in Cork. Now, at the risk of being told to change the record or being called a grumpy old man, I have to express the total rage and insult I felt when it flashed back to Cork (or Corkshire as they obviously think it is) and they pull up in a poxy black cab with a British license plate!!!!! Didn't they have one single solitary Irish person on the whole crew? Surely someone was married to an Irish person? It just beggars belief. So much so that I'm lying in bed typing this on my iPhone, in the hopes that someone else reads it and feels my pain. I'm looking at you John Kelly.
Tuesday 16th Dec, 00:20 gmt

Another i-phone picture installment

Especially for John Kelly and Brian Farrelly. See lads? It's not like it used to be! (taken from an IT book in my course last year lol)









I dunno. Having a KNIFE range on sale in a BUTCHERS shop and then calling it DICK?













If I ever break into movies as an extra, please God let me be credited as a Yahoo. That or "Lucky guy in week-long threesome" (with his wife and the babe of her choosing of course)

Important Note to Self:

Make sure to check Ann's Facebook before arriving home ....

(well I knew the "just one baby" bit, but the rest could be the difference between "How yooouuu doin?" and "What the hell do you think YOU'RE doin?")

Wellity wellity wellity ...

... if it isn't Derek Carter trying to worm his way back onto the web with his "oo look at all the funny things I saw and snapped with my iPhone" efforts to amuse us. The lazy fuppin baxtard - he can't even come up with anything original to say.

Yes - that may be what you're thinking, but it's not going to make me put one iota of extra effort into this post. Ok, well maybe a little, seeing as I feel guilty for abandoning the page for so long. You see, in my new job, I'm actually working every day and have a desk where the monitor is facing out towards everyone behind me. Added to this I have the misfortune of having an in-house IT dept. that monitor such interwebbery, so I'm pretty much unable to do anything bloggy during the hours when I have the energy and inclination to do so. No matter! Here is the news ...

Ann is now 26 weeks along to child number 3 - due December 20th. Still no idea if it's a boy or girl, although Ursula, Queen of Psychics, reckons she "sees a lot of blue". If you don't know about Ursula and the Gooseberry story, ask me sometime. Otherwise, Saint Ann is working hard and managed to get through the summer hols with her sanity and composure intact :)

Amy has been a total headcase this summer - lucky she's back in playschool where she has an outlet for at least a fraction of her energy and creativity. She got up to all sorts that we found hilarious at first, but when it's 4 or 5 things in one day, it gets tough - e.g. putting toilet roll down the toilet - even doing it twice in one day, putting pritt stick and then a whole tub of glitter on the kitchen tiles, painting her finger nails (without actually managing to get any on the nail part of her fingers) and bedsheet with nail varnish, making herself "fancy" without biro tattoos ALL over her body - arms, palms, tummy, forehead, feet, SOLES OF HER FEET ?!, rubbing sun cream into herself the minute she sees even a flicker of sunshine, stuffing playdough into the sugar bowl, emptying a full LARGE tub of talc onto her floor, emptying (half one day and half the next) Ann's expensive moisturiser down the sink. I'm sure Ann is reading this thinking "you forgot this and this and this" but I honestly can't keep up. Anyway, we just keep laughing and reminding ourselves that it's this independant streak that will make her a millionaire by the time she's 20 .... or that will cause her to run away and be a stripper at 16 - who knows, but here's hoping she throws us a few bob either way.

Glen is doing great with a new teacher, who according to rumours is getting married this year ... to his boyfriend! Doing great in hurling and football and just turned 9 t'other day. Still reading like a mo-fo, I've never seen anything like him for the books, it's brilliant. I must take Steve C up on the offer of a visit to the chemistry lab - he'd love that.

As for me, LOVING the new job - great people, great boss, better money, less travel, big interesting projects. Top stuff. Pity the Celica's gearbox is giving me trouble - I know this is over-reacting, but I feel like I have a sick pet and I'm waiting on a date for the operation - a guy I know is waiting on delivery of proper oil and a filter which I hope to jaysus arrives soon - it's been like 6 weeks or something!

Anyway, I still can't keep up with bastardin' Facebook, so I'll stubbornly stick to my blog and finish with this ridiculously misguided shot of a poster in Cork Airport (yes, from my iPhone). Who thought THIS was a good way to sell lotions and potions to girls. You don't have to be as depraved and debauched as me to do a double take at this pic. Or maybe you do ...

Punks are people too

Dunnes Stores preventing punks from walking where they please.

They should just relax - it's those crazy jazz fans they need to watch out for.

Good evening, I'm Ron Millington Synge

Another of my out and about pics from my phone.

This is a portrait of J.M. Synge snapped on the way to the gents in The Left Bank bar in Temple Bar. I'm not a literary type - I just thought he looked the image of Ron Burgundy !

Golf is nice car - I like !

When I bought the iPhone recently, I was a bit disappointed with the camera on it - it takes a while to focus and even then the subject has to sit still for ages, so it makes unplanned, candid shots a bit bloody difficult.

It's not the worst, I suppose, but I do love snapping pics out there in the big wide world, so I'm going to put some of them up here (and on Flickr) to share some of the bizarre/interesting/funny/unexpected sights I've witnessed up to now ...

I'm sure I glimpsed a man-kini on the driver as I passed this car !

Twice in one day! (that's what she said)

Writing about my iPhone there reminded me of a post I had made during my first ever day on this blog. It's here, it needs quicktime to view, but feck me, an awful lot of this technology seems to me to have been adapted for the touchscreen interface of the iPhone and iTouch ....

Also to be found in those archives is a post professing my love for Sir Alan Sugar. He still hasn't returned my calls or thanked me for those valentines cards but I forgive him and will continue to tune in to the latest series of The Apprentice !!!!

(Obviously I am not his stalker, I'm just trying to say how much I love the show ... again)

iSuck at Blogging !

So many days since my last post !!

Some stuff has happened since I laid my hands on my lovely new car (which I'm still loving a LOT) but I haven't taken the time to update. I think half the reason is the EXPLOSION in the popularity of Facebook among all my friends. All their (your !?) photos are on there and they take quizzes and poke each other (whe whe whe). So, really, my poor little blog and Flickr page feel a bit antiquated now.

Anyway, probably a bigger reason for not updating is how shite work has been for a few weeks. I won't go into the details but it's ended up that I am looking for another job and can no longer stand the thought of making money for the owners - almost a textbook example of the results of bad leadership! I've always landed on my feet up to now though, so it's exciting to think of where I might end up!

In the meantime, some pieces of good news:

When my bonus landed into my account a few weeks ago, I treated myself BIG TIME to an iPhone. Now, I know there are much better phones out there, but my God do I love this one. I also never owned an iPod, so I'm really loving the music thing and the podcasts! Everything from Russell Brand, to Jonathan Ross to Jack Welch, it's brill. Out of the same bonus, myself and Ann went and stayed in the Ritz Carlton in Powerscourt for a night on The Gordon Ramsay Dining Experience and you don't need me to tell you how fuckin deadly that was .... unbelievable !

Also, I was on telly again ! Anyone who didn't see it, I was a brief feature in What am I Worth ? on RTE last Tuesday. The video can be found here (episode 5) and will be available for only 21 days, so get your skates on to see the Time Management Fairy with the fat head ! You can skip ahead to the last 5 minutes or so and you'll see me save the day :)

(Oh, and by the way, I wasn't REALLY making notes watching them do their work - that was just for the sake of footage, All the real work was done before the producer arrived with the camera, thank you very much LOL).