badrobot

I am not well; I have a huge case of man flu - so I'm snotty as fuck and achey and I don't want to be at work and... and... and...

oh well; what's a chap to do eh? I'll soldier on bravely... downloading the new Brian Eno / David Byrne album to cheer myself up a wee bit

I'm pondering whether or not to have a cull of my friends list... I'm not one for facebook, etc. but I appear to have stacked up quite a collection of chums on here, but only so many ever pop by and say hello, and I'm just as guilty of not reading everyone's blogs either. So should I brandish the axe or not? As far as...
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Bless you all for the Birthday messages; much appreciated. Now getting on with being old... albeit while hammering Soul Calibur IV on the xbox and listening to The Wackness soundtrack; I suppose I can put off worrying about age until I'm 40, right?

eek - it's my last day of being 35; which means tomorrow I'll be nearer forty than thirty...

This is not good; I'm far too childish to have a midlife crisis

It's been an odd week so far; the hot weather (and I like the sun, don't get me wrong) has played merry hell with my day-to-day; it's been overly hot and sticky all night and the air pressure means my ears are bunged up and I can't hear anything, which means I get crabby which is then amplified by the lack of sleep.

so, in...
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Dear god it's hot at the moment; we *need* a good thunder storm to clear the air - it's sticky and muggy and just a bit much (yes, I probably would be complaining if it was chucking it down for days too!).

Went to see The Dark Knight yesterday; cracking film but I'm still not convinced that it's a great Batman film. One reviewer made...
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104

What's that magic number, you say? That's the number of T-shirts I have piled up around my home. One hundred and four. I'm not entirely sure when the collection suddenly escalated - though it *might* have been linked to a pay rise and not wearing shirt and ties to work - but I'm the owner of a *lot* of tees. I could wear each...
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My gift to you, lovely readers - some tippy top tunes...

Florence And The Machine - Kiss With A Fist

The Last Shadow Puppets - S.O.S.

Black Kids - Hurricane Jane

(if you like the tunes, please support the artist by going to see them live, buying their singles or albums or writing them a nice letter) (oh, and if the URLs don't work, you're...
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Doctor Who came and went; I enjoyed it - it was a good romp but had plot holes a mile wide.

Is it next Saturday yet? I cannot wait a week for the next Doctor Who...