Rusty Nails
Friday, May 31, 2002
Well there was no fluttering or the eyelids or pleading with Tom of any manner. I found a better solution...I waited until he went out ;) Hope he's having a nice time now I just have to hope he goes out more so I can check the comments!!!
posted by Rusty
on 22:13
Wednesday, May 29, 2002
Well it seems my big long rant today, which was sparked off mainly due to a desire to mock Mr. O Keeffe for his views on FHM's 100 Sexist Women, no longer has the same meaning as he "accidentally" deleted the blog. So therefore the only valid response left is to Sadhbh.
I'm annoyed thank god there's only an hour left in work or I might be forced to break some laws.
posted by Rusty
on 15:21
What did you say???
I'm annoyed; I have this nice little circle of blogs I check out as I try to wake up sometime between 9 and 10:30 while sitting at my desk with my tea and toast. Which is handy really as I don't get to see most of the people on a regular basis. Now the reason I'm annoyed is that just about all these sites have a facility on them to allow the reader to express and opinion/reaction to what they've posted. The good people here at Berlitz GlobalNET have deemed it necessary in the interest of increased bandwidth to block employees access YACCS thus inhibiting me from adding this function to my own site. But that's not the only side effect; it also means that I can't comment on other blogs or even view what other parties have said. I realise if I really wanted to I could get off my ass, flutter my eyelids alot and plead with Tom in a dignified manner to use his laptop to take care of this situation from home. Failing that a threat of refusal to remove the “Hitler Youth” photos should suffice. But that still wouldn't solve the problem of my lack of access at work and I don't know about anyone else but after sitting in front of a PC for the best part of 8 hours it's the last thing I want to do when I go home. Can't understand how Gar does it, but then again Gar does a lot of things that amaze me.
Anyway what started me on this rant was that today I wanted to comment on a couple of things and couldn't (yes everyone sigh for poor little me). But today instead of taking my usual route and mailing the involved party I've decided to put my responses up here and if they get read by the relevant people well then that's all well and good and if not we'll I'll probably never know anyway so who cares at least I get to say what I wanted to.
So...There would be much mocking from this corner if I could actually get at the comment function.
And…I totally agree it is fun.
posted by Rusty
on 11:58
Monday, May 27, 2002
Gotta Start...Or Finish...
Right I've got to stop starting blogs and then getting distracted and not finishing them. It's getting really annoying because when I get back to them the train of thought they started on has long left the station.
But enough about that. I don't know if it's just me or the fact that I'm getting paid this Friday having been broke for the last 5 weeks. Of course it could be a combination of both. But I feel like there's a real buzz in the air at the moment. I realise that the current climactic situation contradicts this but could it be the onset of summer. Everyone seems to be a lot happier and much more compelled to do "stuff" even me and god knows I'm a lasy lasy person.
I learned a new card game this weekend. That's the third one that Tom's thought me since he arrived. It's fun and easy and a great one to play when it's late at night and people are getting drowsy (and believe it or not folks it wasn't me this time!!!). Guaranteed to wake you up. Although my hand *still* hurts and I was playing it Friday Night!!!
Saturday was a chill out day. Had the apartment all to myself and so danced around naked while singing into my hair brush until one of the neighbors saw me and though I was trying to crack onto him...Oh alright that didn't really happen but it could have. Instead I ran up a huge phone bill, watched some of that show on Kylie which half the people I know seem to have watched and tried to decide whether I was happy or sad that Vinnie stopped Hogan from retiring. I was annoyed at the obvious lack of Rockyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy though.
I went to see Panic Room yesterday. I though it was a good movie but I was a little disappointed with it. It was one of those movies that I'd heard nothing but great things about and so I went in all hyped up about it and was invariably let down in the end. The "twist" was a wee bit too obvious and while I enjoyed the "Why don't we try to get into the Panic Room this way?" side I though the "Why don't we try this to alert someone to our situation and get help?" side was a little to clichéd. The other thing that bugged me was that when you first see the Panic Room and the door closes Jodie Foster's character shows some sign of claustrophobia. But when she locks herself and her daughter in there it never seems to surface, which I think is a little unrealistic. That said as a whole I did enjoy the movie and if you have two hours to spare you could spend it in worse ways. Believe me.
posted by Rusty
on 15:39
Tuesday, May 21, 2002
And Now For Something Completely Different...
So I was looking forward to a girls night out last Saturday. Maria and Claire wanted to return to the spot they first met. A girls only night in Molloy's garnished with strippers from Angels. Unfortunately, upon getting there at about 11pm we discovered...No Strippers!! There was much disappointment and so a couple of drinks later we decided to move on.
And this is how I found myself queuing for The George. It's a very strange feeling to walk into a club jammed with men and know that not one of them is even going to give you a second thought. In fact I got the distinct impression that many of them looked on me with complete distaste as opposed to indifference. And believe me...judging from the fashion sense of some they had NO right to look distastefully on others. Judge not etc. I mean it's not like I was competition. Apparently I didn't even appear as competition to the ladies there as I dress too straight. At least that's what I was told.
But rather than let it ruin my night I chose to ignore the hostility I could feel in the air and proceeded to dance my little booty off (and believe me I did, serious inability to move the next day, I was to tired to smoke when I got home!!, leading to lack of Star Wars Sunday night). The music was great, the drink wasn't needed and the lack of unwanted advance, especially from 17-year-old boys (what can I say I think FX has scarred most of the women in Cork), all added up to and excellent night.
posted by Rusty
on 13:39
Finally....
Well I finally got to see Attack Of The Clones. It was GREAT and GLOURIOUS and everything else besides, but I'm not going to do a review. If you want to read some then you can check out what Gar or Jp have to say about it. The one thing I will say, and I could be wrong have to go see it again, is that "The Top" was more cream than white ;)
posted by Rusty
on 12:43
Friday, May 17, 2002
I Give In...I'm depressed :(
I haven't seen Star Wars yet and just about everyone else must have at this stage. I plan on going to see it this weekend but right now sitting here with a wealth of information and reviews only a click away this weekend is a lifetime away. I find myself desperately trying to avoid everything, even my mailing list for fear of spoilers. I spent all morning, for lack of work, changing the font on the site just to occupy myself and I'm not even sure if I like it. And last night as if to rub it in there were more Star Wars trailers on during Buffy and Angel then I've seen in the last two months. I guess I'll just have to be patient but all that springs to mind is....I want to go NOW Daddy!!!
(Ok no more Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory for me)
And as if the torture of not seeing Star Wars is not pain enough last night on the way up to my apartment I checked the mailbox as I always do. There was post, yeah (I though), until I discovered that every single piece of post was a bill and they were all address to me. And now to complete my depression is bucketing rain here and I have to walk up town to have a contact check up this afternoon. Thank God it's the weekend or I might be suicidal :)
posted by Rusty
on 11:19
Thursday, May 16, 2002
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah
So before I started this blog I was always thinking of little thoughts I wanted to share when there was no one around to share them with and I kept thinking, "I really must put up a site". Now that I have one I can never think of anything to say, which is strange because God knows I can talk for Ireland (maybe that's why I'm usually the one making the phone calls, I mean who wants to hear me blab on *and* pay for it?). Of course the lack of my social activity, which stems from a lack of money to do things may be a contributing factor. How is it that whenever I go to Cork (which is supposed to be cheaper than Dublin) I always manage to spend more money than I thought possible, of course I should know by now how hopeless I am with money, and what's worse is that these trips to Cork usually take place just after I get paid which means I have to struggle to feed myself for the next 3 weeks until I get paid again. I need to get a finance monitor.
So yeah my life at the moment is pretty boring. I didn't leave the apartment last weekend choosing to immerse myself in the culture of DS9, Klingons are great!!! I also familiarised myself with the first two seasons of Sex And The City. I think Tom is annoyed with me because it's one of those situations where he didn't want to watch it, and probably never would have and now he's into it because I've subjected him to it. I believe this realisation hit when he noticed that in the poster of Carrie on the bus she faces in the opposite direction from the poster she hangs on her wall. This pattern of me introducing Tom to TV series has become a bit of a habit, which includes not only Sex And The City but also Angel and Buffy. I'm going to feel really guilty if his course work suffers.
Speaking of Buffy and Angel I'm almost counting the hours until 8pm this evening after last weeks endings. I realise that I could surf and find out stuff or even take the lazy route and ask Gar who probably knows stuff but I don't like getting spoilers. I like the surprise of not knowing and I hate when people feel the need to impart information to me like yesterday when someone decided to give me a spoiler about Angel but I'm not going to repeat it here and ruin it for someone else. Last Thursday I was pathetic, disturbed by the fact that out of six seasons of Buffy she's died three times, two of them in the last two seasons. I mean how many times can you raise a girl from the dead?? But anyway enough about Buffy and Angel.
I nearly got knocked down by a bus today on my way to work. And I'm not exaggerating; my arm actually came into contact with the side of the bus. Of course it was my fault but nevertheless I quite shaken by the experience with jelly legs and all. I think I may finally start paying attention to all those people who try and stop me from my insane spurts across the road risking life and limb because I'm to impatient to wait. Of course most of those incidents occur when I'm drunk and caution and common sense have been thrown to the wind, like racing across the road and jumping a wall because I want to walk on the boardwalk and cutting face, hands and knees in the process. I'm so graceful and ladylike really I am....
Anyway, I think I'd better stop typing now, I'm sure I've more than made up for the lack of posts over the last week and anyway if I don't stop I may have nothing to say tomorrow and that would be awful!!!!!
posted by Rusty
on 10:01
Thursday, May 09, 2002
What Character are you?
Check out what character from "A Song Of Ice And Fire" you are. Apparently I'm Tywin Lannister :)
posted by Rusty
on 15:32
Don't you just hate it when you can do nothing right. When everyone expects to much of you and so you can do nothing but disappoint.
Ok I need a cigarette and some tea...
posted by Rusty
on 09:26
Wednesday, May 08, 2002
Well as usual I'm rushed off my feet in work today, what with trying to dicover what kind of mage I am and tossing midgets about. But I did manage to find the time to put up more photo's. This time it's the turn of the Irish Kotei
posted by Rusty
on 13:40
Go midget tossing today....
So far I've only hurt 27 of the little guys.
posted by Rusty
on 11:32
So apparently I'm a...
find your element
at mutedfaith.com.
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posted by Rusty
on 09:28
Friday, May 03, 2002
What is the world coming to?
posted by Rusty
on 09:41
Thursday, May 02, 2002
More new photo's up here. Thanks for the camera Gordon.
posted by Rusty
on 13:29
