The highlight of my day today was returning home and deciding that I was going to have sauteed potatoes for tea.

I live a life of excitement. Wahoo!

Die Hard 4.0 sucks enormously. It really has jumped the shark. You'll also spend lots of time wondering why Bruce Willis' earlobes are so massive. I did. It's what happens to people when they get old and go deaf.

Saves me typing - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/29/more_fear_biscuits_please/

To dull the pain of Thierry Henry leaving the mighty Arsenal, I finally got round to scanning in some pictures. Trust me, I am more surprised than you are. Here's a sample......you can find more here

Thanks to IMDB for letting me know that there are copies of Michael Moore's new documentary 'Sicko' available to download from the internet. A 2 minute search and 2hrs 30mins downloading time later I was watching it. I'll blog my thoughts tomorrow once I've had a think first.

The Wire is my new favouratist programme on the tellybox. It's fantastic, well written and acted. It reminds me a little Homicide Life on the Street which was also set in Baltimore. I bought what I thought was the first season from Play.com........however I'd stupidly bought season 2. After a momentary panic......and a wait of 16 hours....I *cough* sourced season 1......which I spent most of the weekend watching.

I am currently watching Season 2 whilst downloading Season 3. Naughty I know but I have to watch something.......otherwise I'll end up watching Big Brother and getting cross.

I have no excuses. I haven't been busy. I've been rather boring and not done much, well nothing that I'd blog about.

I'm trying to give up smoking.....it's not going very well. I've had 4 already today......I'll have to start all over again tomorrow.

Need a creative project to engage my brain for a bit......too much procrasination, not enough getting thoughts down on paper!

I really should post more often, I just find that I don't have the time or I think of something and then talk myself out of it.

I am planning a career change. I am soooooooooo past caring in my current job that it isn't ironic anymore. It's a shame as some people would chop of their right arm to be in my position but why continue if your heart isn't in it?

There is a God.......

(c) Yorkshire Post

and he (or she) smiled as Alan Lee headed the ball in the back of the net with only 2 minutes to go.

A big thank you to the Tractor Boys for, not only relegating the dirty scummers, but also making sure that the Mighty Tigers are playing Championship football again next season.

I will post about my holiday eventually.....honest.

Made it back from Dad's yesterday. At the moment I feel like I have a hangover but without the headache......kind of fuzzy. I have no attention span and have a habit of zoning out, should make returning to work tomorrow quite interesting.

Pictures and blog entries about my trip will follow soonish.

Just got back from watching Craig Ferguson record his Late Late Show. I think I quite fancy him.......

Thought I'd better post....as I'm on holiday I can't quite be arsed to blog. However I have been keeping a written diary which I'll type up when I get home. Topics covered include....

- Why is American telly crap?
- Will Heather Mills McCartney's leg fall off during Dancing With Stars
- News in America keeps people stupid
- Why American's can't drive
- Ripoff Britain
- A review of Grindhouse
- Why dollar stores rock

The weather so far has been poo.......overcast until 2pm, then the sun burns through, means I've only shot 3 rolls of film so far which is a little poor.

Off to CBS tomorrow to watch the taping of a talkshow. Thankfully it's not tuesday....otherwise Quentin Tarantino would be dodging rotten eggs.

Finally made it to Dad's at 12.45pm on Sunday night, nearly 5 hours late. By the time when got all the luggage in the house and unpacked we'd been awake for nearly 24 hours.

The delay was caused by a combination of things....

- the plane being 2 hours late in Heathrow
- us arriving at LAX and the ground crew not expecting us or willing to take the bags off
- an 1hr and 30 min wait to get through immigration - our timing was bad, flights from Mexico, Thailand and Hong Kong arrived before us making the queues long and slow as everyone was given the third degree (makes me laugh that there are signs everywhere that say that they treat everyone with respect......I suggest the sign writers spend some time there!)
- the 405 being the world's largest car park at midnight on a Sunday. 6 lanes of traffic jam packed and not moving.....all because a car broke down.

We decided to take things easy today. We went to the shops. I broke the only rule that I set myself (no buying DVD's) when I found a copy of THX 1138 for $4.99 (2.50 in proper money).

I am hoping to get togging tomorrow, it'll be less hazy and hopefully there'll be more definition in the clouds so I can crack open the newly relaunched Ilford SFX 200 film.

I'm off on my jollidays on Sunday. I'm half packed at the moment.....at least I know where our tickets and passports are :)

So far my sister and I have packed......

2 bottles of brown sauce

2 bottles of salad cream

2 jars of piccalli

2 jars of branston pickle

280 PG tips tea bags

25 packets of angel delight

2 packets of instant custard

10 packets of sugar free jelly

4 tubs of chicken gravy

4 tubs of beef gravy

1 litre of Robinson's Special R Orange and Pineapple

2 litres of Robinson's Special R Orange

1 litre of Robinson's Special R Summer Fruits

and 60...yes...60 packets of Walker's Crisps.

All to make an old man happy.

The weekend on a bit of a low note. I didn't get the job.......and the one thing that I thought was going to happen after that, didn't. Needless to say there is a 'carrot' but I really can't be arsed for the 'stick' part.

Anyway, a close friend came up from Newcastle for the weekend. Had a lovely time (I don't think we've ever had a bad time together). Took him to the Deep (Ooooo fishes) and stupidly watched the footy. I baked and we stuffed ourselves silly. All in all a good weekend was had.......

However.....I have to go to work tomorrow :( I don't want to at all. I feel creatively stifled and undervalued.

On the upside,I fly out to see my Dad on Sunday.......which is good as I need some time to think and reflect and take some pictures!

Bit of a depressing post......but i'll get over it.....hopefully.

I really hate job interviews where you still don't know the outcome 3 days later.

Doesn't bode well does it?

I hate job interviews.

All I have done this weekend is watch Rugby and Football.

I'll blog something interesting when/if it happens.

Every morning a lady rings into my place of work.

We call her 'Random Trivia Woman'. She asks us random trivia questions, hence her name.

Today's question was 'Who plays Deidrie Barlow on Coronation Street?'

I see that David Cameron is due to unveil another ill advised plan tomorrow. I get the feeling that he really doesn't want to be elected as PM.

What on earth makes him think that his plan to give people a 'green air allowance' will work?

In September of last year I bought 3 tickets to Los Angeles. The tickets cost me £400 each (not bad for flying during Easter). The actual ticket price was £240. The cost of all the security taxes, green taxes etc was £140, oh and then Gordon Brown put up air passenger duty so that was another £60. It's now becoming a big cost to cover but if we don't do it, we wouldn't get to see my Dad again.

If you save hard and want to visit other places on the planet and escape this hell-hole, why are we being penalised? The thing I don't understand is that the money raised via the 'green tax', should go back into green inititatives, right?......oh no....that's right....it'll go to reduce tax for 'families'. With the combination of this hairbrained scheme and Labours toll road plans, I get the feeling that politicians want us to all stay at home!

No matter what we do to reduce our own carbon footprint, if other countries like the USA and China don't take the issue seriously then our efforts will be futile.

Right I am off to here to offset the C02 from my flights.

Today I found out that it's entirely possible to sleep for 13 hours and 2 hours after waking up find myself napping again.

Am also proper arsed off as I was supposed to be at a meeting about an exciting new project at 1pm (incl free coffee) but instead I was asleep. Grrr.

Lets hope tomorrow is more productive.........zzzzzz

*cough, sneeze, cough* pass me a tissue.

I'm off work, I struggled through 2 days and I got the feeling that some of my colleagues didn't want me to come in again and share my germs. Which is good as I spent most of the night coughing up gunk, ick!

So i am currently reading, planning and sorting. I have realised how disorganised I have become which is very unlike me.

24 days until holiday. Wahoo!