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I've just found out that Blink 182 have gone on an "indefinate hiatus" (a posh word for splitting up). This happened on February 22nd, almost a week ago! What the hell else have I missed this last week?! Will someone please let me know...

MaFt

Reminiscing Over The Future

Forgot to mention in my previous post that I met Mr Flett on Saturday. Mr Flett, as we all should know, was guitarist / singer in my first band Tunnel. He's done the same as me - by that I mean he's writing songs on his own with his acoustic guitar not that he's got fat and lazy. A few emails were exchanged yesterday and we were gonna maybe try getting some kind of band together again - we just need a drummer and a bassist. I suppose I could take over bass duties if someone provided me with the equipment, and we were gonna ask Nat if he fancied drumming. Obviously all of this depends on available time (what with my kid on the way and Nat already having two!).

Should the band of 3 or 4 thing fail, I was gonna suggest to Mr Flett about working together to become the next Tenacious D! However, he may already know this when I suggest it to him if he's read this blog... The future's bright, the future's apparently orange. I don't like oranges, so let's just say the future's bright, shall we?

MaFt

A Fulfilling Weekend Was Had By All

Wow, what a busy weekend! Here's a list of what I got done:

• Put dartboard up in attic
• Upgraded hard drivein my mp3 playerto 60GB
• Sorted and posted 9 items soldon eBay
• Updated maft.co.uk
• Ripped another 40 or so CD's to my PC
• Washed and cleaned the car (inside and out)
• Fixed a computer
• Arranged to build another computer

So there, I'm knackered now!

MaFt

"There's No Pictures Like Snow Pictures There's No..."

Here they are, the photo's from yesterday's snow:






Pretty, aren't they? Shame we couldn't get the car out though...

MaFt

Sudan and on and on and on...

All the shops and supermarkets etc are still removing various food items with the free gift of Sudan I (see here for more info) as it has been proven to cause cancer in lab animals. Now, forgive me if I'm just being awkward, but surely they should also be removing cigarettes and lager from their shelves too as these have been proven to cause cancer in humans?

MaFt

PS - I'll try remember to post a picture from yesterday's snow later today.

Snow!

Wow, the weathermen/women were right! It's snowed, and quite a lot actually. We had over a foot of snow down our passageway and about an inch everywhere else. It's not much compared with Canada, but still it was enough that my bus didn't come and I had to walk down the road to catch a different one. I'll try post a picture when I get home tonight (assuming it hasn't melted).

Strangely though, there's none at all in Leeds... Well, it's snowing but none settled! I'm still awaiting the phone-call from home saying "come home, people are making igloo's in the garden"; even though we don't have a garden!

See ya

MaFt

I Should Work In Advertising

Two thoughts I had earlier on; the first may have already been done.

Here they are:

1) A t-shirt for pregnant women (elasticated around the waist) that says "Who's The Daddy?". Maybe it'd only really work in America as it's not really an everyday British phrase...

2) An advert for Norwich Union Direct featuring a naked woman (or man, I suppose, but woman preferred) sat at a computer ordering insurance online. The slogan being something along the lines of "Order your insurance in the NUD".

Ha ha, I am funny.

MaFt

Melted

Hello again. We had our machines taken from us at work due to the visit of a VIP. I hadn't realised how much we used them for logging data and various other bits! Anyway, I'm back again now, and it's been snowing! However, the sun has now come out and it's melted...

Over the weekend I fit a spot light in the attic to highlight the dartboard (which I haven't put up yet) and also made a hatch over the hole so when we're playing darts we don't fall down 9 feet onto the landing! Huzzah for DIY!

Other tasks at the moment include: ripping all my CD's onto the computer/MP3 player, clearing the cellar out, helping Jonny from The Chucky No Stars get in touch with the mighty Relient K to hopefully arrange a UK tour and I also have a load of films I need to watch (so, Nat and Scru', if you're reading this I'll try get your DVD's back by Easter...)

Ta Ta

MaFt

That Bloody Frog!

Crazy Frog! It's all the rage. You must by now have seen the advert at least 30 times already. You know, the one with the frog pretending to ride a motorbike? Apparently you can see his genitalia too. Well, anyway, it turns out a bunch of DJ's from Radio 1 have got together to release the naked frog's antics as a single.

The British music scene just seems to get worse and worse... No wonder decent bands like [spunge], Vanilla Pod, 4ft Fingers, Captain Everything and The Chucky No Stars end up unheard of - there are too many people buying bloody frog noises...

Oh, last night my brother Nat sent me the Crazy Frog thing... It's quite good actually... I'll get my coat, shall I?!

MaFt


A crazy frog, but not the Crazy Frog

Too Much Work!

Grrr... I hate it when I get to work and within about 4 seconds of closing my locker there's a hideous amount to do! This is the first time I've stopped so far today, I'm pretty knackered already.

Nevermind, it's nearly the weekend!

MaFt

JENGA! Building Tomorrow's Builders, Today

There's a large amount of building work going on in one of the building's where I work. Walking past it earlier today I noticed that they've literally taken out the whole of the ground floor with only a couple of supporting columns holding up the ceiling and the 5 floors of concrete-building above it.

Now, anyone who has played Jenga knows that the less support there is on the bottom, the higher the chance of the tower falling over. Take figure 1, below:

Photo couresy of http://youth.hayhill.org/blog/2004/200407/20040716/jenga.jpg

Of the two remaining blocks on the bottom, if the right-hand one was removed the tower would balance, perhaps rather precariously, but it would balance. If one were to remove the left-hand block then, quite clearly, the tower would collapse and everyone would mock the rubbish player and make them rebuild the tower for the next game.

Now, I am not a professional builder (if you're interested I am, in fact, a Biological Research Technician at the University of Leeds) but to me it seems as though by removing the ground floor of the building they have essentially 'removed the left-hand block'. I sure as hell hope they know what they're doing...

MaFt

I May Not Be Governor of California, But I'm Back

Well, I thought I'd make a welcome(?) return to Blogging. It's not going to be as organised as my last one (all about learning a new thing every day), but at least I'll be using capital letters!

Put simply, this is going to be a place for me to talk rubbish and pollute the internet with my random thoughts. Feel free to leave comments, insult me or just simply add me to your 'idiot list' (if you own one, that is; if not, why not start one now?)

So, I'll start writing for proper another day, but just to let you know I'll hopefuly be going to see [spunge] on March 5th at Bradford Rio with Dick_Van_Tyke.

Laters,
MaFt