Hello you!

Oh dear, looks like I’ve been slacker than Alan Slacker from Slacksville in Slackshire on Slack Island. Time goes too quickly and, I’ll be honest, I kept thinking about doing a blog post and then thought “Nah, I’ll just watch telly”.

They call me Pat “The Dedication” Scullion. :-)

To make up for it, I’m gonna do 7 blog entries in one day. This is in preparation for the Kilimanjaro climb in 2010. This is my mountain for 2009.

Get ready, because this is about to get crazy. Particularly if you’re reading this on Facebook (via my imported notes. Yes, that’s right, this is actually written on https://www.squage.com/site, fact fans!).

Here goes blog 1:

The Anniversary

My god, has it really been 2 years? On the 3rd of September 2007, I finally ended my career break – having been all around Oz and New Zealand, seen and done so many things and met so many wonderful people (many of whom I’m proud to still know!) – and came back to my work.

Since then it’s been a roller coaster ride, as you’ll understand if you also have an office job. I’m not gonna complain, as it’s a good job, but the variety in the daily grind isn’t quite as impressive as a 2 week tour meeting new people, sand boarding, sky diving, kayaking, glacier hiking, black water rafting (check it out)…

So in what seems like a blink of an eye, I’m nearly 30. Yipes. Better get some blogs in whilst my blog site header (“The Ramblings of a Late 20s bloke…”) is still accurate!

Speaking of which, time to write the next one…

Pat

Feeling: A bit Hungover
Song in Head: Calvin Harris – Ready for the Weekend

Rupert’s Murdoch’s Boy Doesn’t Like Monopolies, Apparently

Where does one even start?

Oh, I know: f**k off. F**k off, f**k off, f** off. You reek of hypocrisy and Fox News.

BYE!

Pat

Stephen Colbert Vs Bill O’Reilly

I have only just become aware of this. Totally fantastic.

Brilliant Stuff :-)

Thanks to Mr Lee Bennett for the recommendation!

Toodles,

Pat

Feeling: Amused
Song in Head: Radio Friendly Song

This is totally, utterly unacceptable.

GAH!

On a lighter note, So I Married An Axe Murderer is hilarious fun (and good to see Mike Myers playing the “Scottish” father using the same accent as Shrek and Fat B*stard) Oh and also today (with the awesome assistance of my mum – thank you so much!!) I finally sorted out my garden, so now it doesn’t look like a jungle. Awesome!

Toodles,

Pat

Feeling: A bit shocked
Song in Head: Spin Doctors – Two Princes

Today marked the first day of doing my new hours, which go along the lines as follows:

Monday – Thursday: 08:15 – 18:30
Friday: 08:15 – 18:00

Fairly long hours (if you’re not a city worker), but what sucks is I don’t get paid any extra for it.

There is one minor bonus though: I no longer work on Wednesdays :-)

Yep, finally it’s here and I can now dedicate one day a week purely to my art, radio and other projects. Looking forward to getting some great stuff done. It also means that I can dedicate other evenings to just chilling out – and watching such things as Pitch Black. What a film.

Finally, I must say the following: COME ON ENGLAND. What a day of cricket yesterday was. I really wish I was travelling back in Oz again now :-)

Anyways, I’m off. Got an early night to have as it’s the first day back the gym tomorrow. God knows I need it.

Toodles,

Pat

Feeling: Tired and a teeny bit hungover
Song in Head: Elbow – Mirrorball

Oh dear, what a disaster.

Yesterday evening I was relaxing in my lounge, watching the first episode of Stephen Fry’s excellent Stephen Fry in America on BluRay (oooh check me), and thoroughly enjoying it.

I’d had dinner a few minutes before, so wasn’t particularly hungry – and was off out to the pub in an hour or so, so didn’t really want to eat/drink anything else before that.

A scene pops up, whereupon Stephen is at the home of Ben & Jerries ice cream and – get this – being invited to make up his own flavor (sic) using various ingredients. The result looked utterly delicious and – according to the TV programme – was.

At this point I had two choices:

1) Continue to watch the show
2) Pause the show, get out of chair, put my shoes on, walk down the road to ASDA, buy a pot of Ben & Jerries Cookie Dough ice cream, walk back home, take shoes off, get spoon out, sit back down, open Cookie Dough pot and resume show whilst scoffing ice cream.

Guess which I chose.

I’d hope that the remaining episodes feature him going on a salad-only diet and cycling everywhere, but I’ve a feeling epsiode 2 may be at a brewery. Oh dear.

Pat

Feeling: A bit hungover, but not too bad. Off to Regents Park to watch us win the ashes today, wooh!
Song in head: None, oddly!

Recently I’ve been really enjoying the relaxed, honest, pleasant conversations that are had between Robert “Kryten” Llewellyn and other famous and/or interesting people as Robert car pools with them from place to place.

It’s a novel approach to interviewing, and is really good indeed:

http://www.llewtube.com/

I think what makes this good is that he appears to be an Utterly Nice Guy, and something to aspire to I’d say. Aside from his love of Apple products ;-) *

The David Mitchell and Stephen Fry car pools are my particular favourites, however they’re all good.

Well worth a look.

Toodles,

Pat

Feeling: Good ta
Song in Head: The “Car Pool” Theme Tune

* I think it’s common knowledge now, but in case you don’t know it is inevitable that I’ll end up owning a 32″ iMac at some point. It’s a strange feeling knowing you’re going to be a hypocrite.

Firstly, sorry for the lack of blog entries this week. Been slacking, to be honest. That and very, very tired.

This coming week I’ll make up for it, ok? Cool.

In the meantime, allow me to share some highly, highly, utterly nerdy excitement with you – I installed Office 2007 (Enterprise Edition). Not only did I get it for a tenner, thanks to a Microsoft-MyEmployers global agreement, but I am also actually quite impressed so far. I’ll probably ramble on about the good/bad things in it at some point (if not on this blog then in person. I am the life and soul of any party) but one thing that made me do a little leap for joy was this:

CHECK OUT THAT ROW AND COLUMN COUNT.

YES. BE IMPRESSED.

Hello?

Anyone?

…

Oh, damnit. It’s that party all over again.

Pat

Feeling: OK, ta
Song in Head: The Flaming Lips – Yeah Yeah Yeah

This is seriously getting ridiculous now:

http://www.badscience.net/2009/08/national-healthcare-a-breeding-ground-for-terrorism/