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#It's coming home... it's coming home... football's coming home...# heh... only four days now till the World Cup (quite literally) kicks off. I know lots of you probably loathe football with a passion, but tough titty - it's great! plus I get work out it, and our office has three great big plasma screens so none of that pissing about watching it on the net...
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Blimey, so this what working and commuting does - eats up all your messing-about-the-net time C'est la vie; pictures of naked ladies don't pay the bills. Well obviously they pay missy's bills, but you know what I mean...

Not much to report; a carousel of work-family-music (lots of great stuff I've not had a chance to listen to)-Dr Who-computer games.

One of the side effects...
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Much less bunged and riddled with cold bugs now, thanks to everyone who wished me a get well soon, and indeed, a BIG thanks for all offers wearing a nurse's outfit and bed baths

One of the funniest spectacles of recent TV times on Saturday night; a Finnish metal band called Lordi won the Eurovision Song Contest. It's never been the most hip and happening...
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Always the way - the sun is shining, summer starts to poke it's head around the door, and I get a full-on, streaming cold Bunged up, snotty, and miserable, with the added joy of not wanting to take anytime off work so I'm spending too much time feeling dizzy and hot on the Underground. Marvellous! At least it's the weekend tomorrow and I'm spending it...
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I have one guilty TV secret; there are two things I will not miss come hell or highwater - one of them is obviously Dr Who and the other is Top Gear.

For the Americans who don't know what TG is, I should explain that it's a programme about cars (for the most part, really expensive cars that people can't really afford, but who wants...
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Have beeng getting up at 4.15am so I can be at work by 6am; I thought I'd be a gibbering wreck by now but early nights and absolutely no booze seem to keeping body and soul together, combined with ticking off each day and giving myself a hearty pat on the back.

Summer appears to have arrived; it's been T shirt weather for two days...
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New job means I'm at the mercy of London Transport... a company that makes Ming The Merciless look like Ming The Considerate. Taking anything from just over an hour to two-and-a-half, depending on the weather or mood of unseen bods. I'm now quite the photoshop ninja and the work seems straightforward enough, so not a bad week. Now go listen to the Infadels album PDQ

I've been to Wales and start a new job tomorrow, so my normal impressive journal and commenting rate might be a bit dented in the short term. Fear not, normal service will be resumed when I find a happy equilibrium. In the meanwhile, tell me something that'll make me smile, something that'll make me ooh in a naughty way and something that'll make me go...
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British Summetime continues its bombardment of my sleep; waking up at the crack of dawn EVERY day is getting to the point of just... fine, whatever, *yawn* -make some coffee-, -fire up the PC-, see what the world's been up to and what my chums on the interweb have to say (and which of them have taken their clothes off overnight; if I have to...
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Cheers for all the cover version suggestions and memory joggers; myself, I should have remembered The Futureheads' Hounds of Love, William Shatner's version of Common People (no, really - it's fantastic!) and a version of Smell Like Teen Spirit that is on a CD called Rock Baby: lots of rocking tunes done in a plinky-plonky nursery style for kids.

As the sun decided to put...
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Something for the weekend - 10 great cover versions...

1. Iggy Pop & Deborah Harry - Well Did You Evah!
2. Orbital - Doctor? (It's the Dr Who theme; if you've ever seen Orbital live, you'll know how good this is!)
3. Johnny Cash - Hurt (because it has to be on all covers list by LAW)
4. Nouvelle Vague - Too Drunk To Fuck...
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House reverbarating to the sounds of Rage Against The Machine this morning; love 'em or loathe 'em, you can't help but admire what Tom Morello does with a guitar

Loving SG at the moment; it's a bit like a garden - if you spend some time tending it, you reap the rewards. That said my garden has more daffodils and fewer boobies

Tom Cruise and...
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