See what I have to put up with?
Dam it, nearly escaped from the tube back to my house when suddenly... I'm cornered!
"hello young man, can I ask you about blind? is it nice being blind? do you have difficulty driving a car? can you drive a car? who takes care of you? can you wipe your bottom?"
Inside head: "aaaaaaaaaarg! must escape, must escape, must ruuuuun awaaaaaayyy!"
"do you want to feel my face? what's it like not being able to see a girl when you kiss her? are you gay? do blind people have girlfriends?"
*backs away fearfully and begins drawing pentagram of protection in the ruined earth of the Colliers Wood estate*
Inside hed: "must think of inspirational idea!"
"Sir I'm really sorry, but I suffer from chronic incontinence and I think if I don't move away from you right now, neither of us is going to be very happy for much longer. Good day to you sir, nice to meet you!"
*patter patter scamper*

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Dating rant
Ok, a small rant here.
As some of you know, I've recently pretty much given up online dating. I found the people on a lot of sites to be incredibly shallow, in some cases outright rude and abusive. Often I'd get people emailing me with comments out of the blue like "god you're so ugly, why do you wear those stupid glasses you're obviously not blind, you're too short" etc etc. So, just before I gave it up, I was chatting to a girl. She seemed nice, training to become a vet.
We chatted off and on and a few days ago she asked me out for a drink. She gave me her phone number and I rang her. Now I've not mentioned the blindness thing up until this point, there didn't seem to be an opportune moment for doing so. I tell her today and then she says right well I have to go house hunting now. I ask her if she would like to meet and she says "well, I want to be honest with you, I don't have time to date someone with a disability."
Now part of me does actually understand this. However, considering I have a job, a house and a big group of friends, the 2 former of those which actually she doesn't have, and given the fact she knows very little about me or blindness I think she's just yet another example of how shallow people can be. Who needs a 5.9 squat blind hairy Iranian midget when you can get slim guys of over 6 foot who's various components work correctly? I should have shown her the helidonkey, that woulda sorted her out.
The helidonkey is here by the way for those that are interested. It is a marvel of transforming engineering.
Helidonkey

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Load up the donkey!
\Last night, I was very silly.
lproven and I came back from a BBQ quite late and popped in to a corner shop on the way home. I was wearing a huge backpack full of various items, however we decided to pick up some drink for the Battlestar Galactica watching experience. Liam had remarked to me that I was beginning to resemble something of a donkey what with this enormous backpack and of course donkeys being one of my favourite animals, this pleased me immensely.
Upon reaching the checkout, Liam informed me that he would have to load me up whilst backpack was still attached. Thus, he proceeded to unzip and begin hurling large bottles of soft drink in to my already overflowing storage bin. To pass conversation, I informed the poor man at the checkout "Yes, see I'm his donkey. Liam, don't forget to zip me up at the end" etc etc etc. Oh I threw in some donkey noises as well, just to make the whole thing more authentic, remarking as I left… “come on then, shall we go to Bethlehem now?”. The whole shop went silent and whilst the checkout guy remained fairly oblivious we freaked out the entire customer base behind us. Actually considering one guy upon realizing I was blind decided to pat me as he left the shop (before donkey incident), I think I was just defaulting to preprogrammed instructions.

IN other news, I have finished Waterloo road series 3, very good and am joining a board games club with the intent of learning Magic the Gathering. *runs and hides before he's mobbed*

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Paddle paddle!
Last night, I went rowing in water for the first time, having practiced for weeks on the rowing machine. A most fun experience but definitely one you have to concentrate through.
Despite my best efforts I didn't manage to fall in the water, although I'm told this will become more likely as we progress to different sized boats. Also and rather disturbingly, the club wants to have me scull (row single handedly) in a boat. They don't seem to understand that me steering a boat on my own and getting lost down the Thames is not going to make for a good news item :) Funny really, I didn’t think I was doing too well because I kept banging in to the guys oar behind me. It wasn’t until the class finished that the instructor told me he’d just been sitting there smiling at stroking his oar, rather than actually moving it. There are some most odd people in the world.
Great fun though, I highly recommend rowing for anyone who wants a good cardio workout but who can't run.

In other news, I must decide today where I'm going to see Transformers 2 tomorrow. I think Leicester Square at this point just because it's huuuge and Transformers deserves nothing but the best. Having said that it is likely I will come out with a headache :) as they don't seem to understand the concept of a volume control at that one.
I absolutely cannot wait, so many fun characters making a new appearance. Will report back tomorrow with my thoughts and absolutely no spoilers.

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Return of the Ed!
Hello! I'm back! Much like the Terminator in the highly anticipated yet I feel sadly lacking film. I'm all digitised and ageless, though hopefully a little wiser since last I posted to this thing.

I suppose a quick update is in order:

Firstly, I've moved house. I now reside in the rather charming area of London known as Colliers wood. The particular establishment where I live is full of rather strange loud people who have been getting progressively more drunk as the summer has moved on and who believe in trying to gain access to their neighbors houses at 3 in the morning. That said though, it's an ok community, fairly good shops in the area and it has a kebab place on the way home so all's not lost.

I've just taken up rowing, having been told by my physio that either I kept on running and got myself a bionic leg, or I did something a little less stressful on the joints. Oh to be a huge hairy caveman with not a care in the world running across grassy fields with no hard concrete to break my lower appendages.

Noodle the cat is getting progressively fatter by the day. lproven is of the opinion that he currently resembles a half deflated rugby ball and that very soon he will absorb his legs and tail in to the growing mass of his stomach. The problem is that he absolutely hates the foxes that nest in mine and the neighbors back garden, so doesn't get much exercise, unless you count running in and out of the catflap and growling.

Arg! I have just been summoned to compile an Excel report. More postings to follow at some point, possibly after the first rowing class tomorrow when I'm likely to have fallen in.

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Posted using LJ Talk...
(I have returned!)
Heeeeeeeeeeello!
Wow, been so long since I posted I've forgotten how to do it. No matter though, I'm now posting from Miranda so I'm a happy happy Edd. No more navigating the web page of LJ only to tell me my password isn't recognised. I don't know why it did this you understand, it just did.
So, what's been happening with me recently?
Well, I took up Kung Fu in January and have been loving it ever since. I'm not sure my neighbour does since it requires much punching and battering of things but other than that, all is good. Been at Accenture 11 months now and soooooonn, oh so very soon it'll be 12, how scary. I'll be moving to level 2 soon and getting a new project.
For those that wonder, I can't really explain what I do in my job it's far to complicated. No, it's not an excuse, it really is to complicated LOL. I do Excel, and Word, and much much emailing, oh and shouting down phones a lot......we like that.
Noodle is growing up to be a much bigger cat which is nice, however what isn't nice is the occasional mouse he brings in. He does admittedly seem to be getting better these days, though in truth I suspect it's because he's just becoming more lazy and doesn't like me shouting at him when he brings dead furry things through the door.
Well, I've run out of things to say now because I have developed a huge hunger and must go find food as soon as possible. This food must be meaty and it must must must fill me up.
Bye for now, will post again later.

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Train Platform
Today, was a very very silly day.
There I was, standing at the platform at 7:26 the same as I do every day when I realised the group of friends I travel to work with every morning might not make the train today. The train had been announced some 30 seconds before and it was definitely on its way in to the station. So, I walked quite casually along the platform, avoiding people as I went when suddenly, I realised that the ground was no longer there. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, I went, all the way down and hit the tracks some 5 feet below in a Judo breakfall.
Hmmm I thought, this is quite stoney here. Hmmm I thought, I am going to die in about 20 seconds. Then, men came. They grabbed my wrists and I hoisted myself from the platform. Good thing I'd been doing Chin-ups and pushups. So, all was not lost and the cool thing was, nothing broken, nothing damaged including my laptop, phone, memory stick etc.
What's even more amusing is that when I got out, despite the 20 or 30 people around me being very shocked, I began giggling madly and found....actually still do find the whole thing hillarious. Very strange, as I fell time seemed to slow down so I was able to flip over mid air and land propperly completely relaxed. Highly stupid but did add a taste of adventure to Monday morning.
INcidentely, for any one suffering from a hangover, although I don't drink I'd imagine that's a good way to get rid of it.

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Here we go again!
Here we go then, this is taken from the journal of innocent_faith, and I’m bored so lets get started.
I’m going to answer this fairly generally by the way, since it gives readers more of a chance to well………read it.

IF YOU'RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST,
I want to know 28 things about you. I don't care if we've never talked, never liked each other, or if we
already know everything about each other. I really don't. You are obviously on my list, so let me know with whom I am friends!

1.Your Middle Name: Mahmood
2. Age: 23
3. Single or Taken: Single. wait a moment, is this a cunning ploy to learn the names of all the single members of the opposite sex on ones journal?
4. Favourite Movie: Tricky. I'd say probably Aliens, Terminator 2, Silence of the Lambs or.......arg, there are just so many to choose from, not all sci-fi either.
5. Favourite Song: Again tricky, I'm not really in to music. At the moment it's a track from the film V for Vendetta, track 8 to be exact.
6. Favourite Band/Artist: No, really don't get this. I don't have one, not being in to music makes it quite hard you understand.
7. Dirty or Clean: In what sense? I mean I wash obsessively every day, the thought of being sweaty and smelly disgusts me but as for the other meanings of dirty and clean, I guess every one will have to make their own minds up about that one. As a point of interest, I'd be intrigued to see what people think.
8. Tattoos and/or Piercing: Absolutely not. those with over 5 piercing should be magnetized to the nearest scrap crane and made in to a car cube. Na, only joking but I don't reckon we should disfigure our bodies too much. However, interesting series called Prison Break where a man tattoos the layout of a prison on his arms so he can escape. Go watch, it's odd but vaguely amusing.
There appears to be a slight state of mis-numbering of the questions at this point, I shall correct as I go along, apologies to any one who's seen the original on the mad Faiths journal and is confused.
9. Do we know each other outside of LJ? I think all of you I can say yes to that actually. I'm not in the habit of adding people I've not met in real life.
10. What's your philosophy on life? What a stupid question. I dunno, live, study, get a job, have kids, have many cuddles with partner, play Mortal kombat, watch a bit of Farscape with or without partner, have guinea pigs, eat many sausages and die.
11. Would you have my back in a fight? No! What use would your back be as a weapon? I'd be using my fists, feet and the nearest tooth pick I could lay my grubby little paws on. Seriously though, it would depend on how the fight started, who was involved and whether or not I was in a humorous mood at the time.
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest? That depends on who you are. Generally I hate lying, to the point it gets me in to trouble sometimes for being a bit blunt and telling people the truth even if they don't want to hear it.
13. What is your favourite memory of us? Erm, since I'm answering this as a general thing I don't really have time to write them all out. If we take it from Faiths point of view though, it would probably be the first night we met at Warped and the strange pub crawl that occurred afterwards, along with you in that ridiculous fairy costume.
14. Would you give me a kidney? That depends on how close I am to you and quite honestly, I'd only do it if I thought that you'd do good things with your life and not squander the opportunity.
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you: Yeah now see this is a cop out for "oh look, I don't have any more questions." One interesting thing..........hmmmm.. It's not that original I guess but: girls that I get very attached too I tend to develop a very vague sense of telepathy. I can sense their moods, tell when their upset from a word or too etc. It has got to the point that when they wake up on the other side of the country in a bad mood, so do I, for no reason at all.
16. Would you take care of me when I'm sick? All my friends on this crazy site are all over the world but the answer is yes, if I could make the time and if I was near you, I'd definitely make the effort.
17. Can we get together and make a cake? I mean, seriously, what kind of question is this? I swear this was put in just for me, since my last cake I made with some one was.........well.............it erm........caused interesting results. The answer is yes, if you really want too.
18. Have you heard any rumours of me lately? Strange this, but I can honestly say no I haven't and that applies to all of you.
19. Do you/have you talk(ed) crap about me? No, I hate talking about people behind their backs and I don't like to make stuff up.
20. Do you think I'm a good person? I can't make a generalisation about all of you, however I don't have people on my lj that I don't like so on average, yes you all are.
21. Would you drive across country with me? As long as I wasn't the one doing the driving.
22. Do you think I'm attractive? Oh look, the singles ploy just gets deeper and deeper. Ok then, just to stir it up, let me just say this. There are certain females who reside on my friends list that during the time I have known you I have had crushes on.
23. If you could change anything about me, would you? I think people should remain how they are, however I also think we should work to better ourselves and that means making life changes that will ultimately benefit us and others in the long run.
24. What do you wear to sleep? Pj's and a cat, depending on how snugly he's feeling.
25. Would you come over for no reason just to hang out? Absolutely.
26. Would you go on a date with me if I asked you? Singles! singles! singles! Erm.........I think I'd go on a date with all the females on my list actually, just for the fun of it though obviously there will be some that the dates more special with than others.
27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together? Something involving a pick nick, sleeping, a good film and muuuuuuuch food.
28. Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you? Well obviously since your looking at it. I expect every one to fill this out, just for my amusement.

Right, must go now, Monday approaches fast and I'm getting very scared. My clothes are all bought and ironed, my shoes are shined, it's just a case of finding a good sandwich filler to take with me.

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How many donkeys can one fit in a hat? a tin hat?
Oh look, an update! Well, I said I’d get round to this eventually and by all accounts it'll probably be the last one for quite some time.
Firstly, there is a big problem with my cat. It is not, contrary to popular belief a girl, but rather a crazy boy. We discovered this whilst visiting the vets for her.............I mean his injections. Dearee dearee me, this would probably explain all the cheeky behaviour. Anyway he's been doing really well actually, got him a cat flap to go in and out of now and he's going outside on a regular basis and loving it. Took a little while of him not being scared to eventually venture out, there was much cuddling and reassuring before he even dared go outside the gate but it seems to have all paid off.
Next, I've been watching a number of new series. Firstly Hex which I'm sure any one who's seen it will agree is very very very strange, contains lots of sex, predictable plot lines and quite a seedy look at an English boarding school. Also dead Like Me, which the pilot was great but I'm slowly losing interest because of a lack of new developments. I mean how fun can it be being a grim reaper?
4400 has started up again and for any one who's not seen that definitely check it out it's amazing and really quite original compared to the other stuff out there. Thank god Doctor Who is finally over, even though I liked season 2 much more than the last one it's still incredibly stupid and rather bent.
Anyway, on with other news. I finally have a job, working for Accenture. Well I say I have a job, I've been given an offer and I've of course accepted it. For those who were talking to me over the past few weeks I'm very sorry for the level of stress I was giving off. When I initially applied for the job I didn’t' much care about it, having wanted to do my own business for so long. Then after I got through the application form and later the first round interview I got very very stressed and competitive and erm.......yeah, one thing lead to another. It's a really nice job and should be really challenging so I look forward to starting in October.
Other than that, not really much to say. Oh I got a PS2 after much debating, got that and all the games on EBay and have been loving it. There's nothing like a good blast of Mortal Kombat Deception to calm ones nerves in the evening or just wind down LOL.
Right I be off for now but if anything amusing happens I'll be sure to update soon, bye for now.

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Tyler is a big cat!
Yes, Tyler is actually quite a big cat. Granted I now have a tiny 6 week old kitten called noodle by the way and she's quite small, but from everything I'd been lead to believe, Tyler was supposed to be small. He is not. He may have been once, he may still be in the mind of his owner, but really, he's not small.
I did try and take a photo of noodle for this post actually with my phone with its flashy oh so useful camera, but all I seemed to get was a blurry out of focus picture of her arse and hind leg. Ahh well, the amusement goes on. Incidentally, I'm thinking of possibly taking photos everywhere I go, and posting the more interesting pictures somewhere, just for something to do, what do people think? I figure as I've got the camera with me anyway it'll be something interesting to do and I seem to have a knack for capturing a complete room without any people in it, from all possible angles. I was actually trying to take max, or a bit of max just for a laugh at one point, but my phone had other ideas.
Anyway, on with the weirdness. The crazy pepper's party was by all accounts very good. Much unhealthy food was consumed, and Liam did actually manage to turn up, all be it a few hours late. It was towards the end of the night that I got my stupid idea. Oh look I thought, I can go back on the train with Liam, since he's sort of going my way, and get in very early to my house. So, we didn't go to bed, there was absolutely no sleep had, and then I got back to ST Pancras at about half 7 in the morning. Then, things began to get a bit odd. I was very zombified by this point and every one that helped me seemed to want to discuss many many things. A nice woman who took me from the pankry thingy to kings cross commented that although it was "rainin, we auta thankin dee god for dee day man, and just like, be greatfull for our lives., koz we is all one step away from dyin in dee underground or sumfin." well that was weird enough, but then it got even weirder. Some really far too jolly man, possibly called roger, helped me on to the train, and stuck me in first class. Now I don't like getting stuck there, its all snobby, is usually full of very weird people and I personally disagree with first class seating on principle. So, I begin to blunder my way down the train, and met roger giggling and chortling, along with a buffet trolley coming the other way. Once moving, I was greeted with a very husky low and to all intents and purposes sinister foreign guy whispering through the speakers of the train that they did have catering facilities, but they were short of stock so they'd have to make it last until we got to.....well, where ever it was I can't remember now. What really freaked me out was the little giggle at the end of the announcement.
I then had some really rather camp and far too bouncy guy take me to the taxi rank in Stevenage, and then had the most funny, well I think the most funny experience of all. For any one who's not really seen it, my cane, the large metal stick I carry about everywhere with me has a piece of elastic at the end for tying it all together. As I was getting in to the taxi and folding it up, the elastic caught on the door. I pulled. I pulled some more. I pulled very hard, then decided it wouldn't come loose, and in a moment of complete exhaustion baring in mind I've not been sleeping recently koz of the kitten, I let go. Yes, I just simply let go of this piece of metal. It unfolded, it flew, it became a javelin and flew right past my camp assistant to go crashing off in to the car park somewhere in the distance. I was so out of it at this point and bemused by all the weirdness that when he gave it back to me I just went oh, their naughty like that sometimes, it happens, I'll have to tell it off when I get home. Very very very strange mood I was in.
So, I get home, I get undressed, I fall in to bed after much cuddling with the noodley woodly, and then, all hell breaks loose. She runs over my head, up the walls, across the pillows, leaps off the computer, bounces round the room, goes down my trousers and just generally causes absolute mayhem for the next 4 hours, thus allowing me no sleep what so ever. I find out later this is because my good and caring family have fed her before I got back in this morning, and of course I fed her when I got in myself. Basically she's had nearly a full sachet of kitten food which is supposed to last a day and a bit in one sitting. Very hyper stupid irritating furry animal.
Anyway, I'm off now, having made myself quite unpopular on an e-mail list by asking how one unsubscribed from it. OH also, I've been learning dvorak. It's very cool but the problem is windows doesn't seem to switch it back and forth on a global basis, it just sort of does it where ever you happen to be at any given time. so for example if you switch it in Outlooke Express, it won't be switched in Word or the desk top. Any ideas guys?

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I'm back!
Ahh haaaaaaaaaaa! He is back! After many many many months, the Edd has returned to post.
So, what have I been up too recently? Honestly, not a lot, or at least, not a lot that I can remember or that's of much interest or consequence.
Lets start then with a few months ago, I finally got a lot of my sound material together and began setting up my website. I will not be giving out details of its address here just yet because its not completed. This is due to my laziness and also to my poor designer being vastly overworked. In fact if any ones willing to help me on it with coding and designing it visually because of course I have absolutely no clue about these things, I’d be really great full. The site is going to help me sell sound effects and run my own business from home, something I’ve dreamed of doing for many many years now. Unfortunately that big blotchy thing called Salford sort of got in the way for about 3 years but that seems to have passed now so I can get on with it.
In other news, I have been looking for many many more sci-fi groups to go too and attending a few more conventions and meet ups. There is of course the crazy lotna group in London who still quite frankly disturb me but who seem to be great fun, and of course the most recent Eastercon. Actually whilst I’m on the subject of Eastercon lets talk a bit about that.
Eastercon is, for those that aren't very aware of it an annual meet up of many people interested in science fiction who spend most of the time ranting and rummaging about and with opinions of both themselves and their audience in programmed panel items, and also the chance for many of them to get incredibly stupidly drunk, but in a nice way. Well..........we hope anyway.
So, this year I didn't think I’d be able to attend, but thanks to crazy Michael spiller who’s lj name currently eludes me I found a room mate and invaded the nice little hostel called bunkum in Glasgow. It's 12 quid a night and for that kind of money you get what you pay for. Nice beds, the lockers were too small though and the showers, my god I’ve finally found a shower more crap than mine which believe me, takes some achieving. On the first night we were invaded by mad German people all drunk at half 3 in the morning, on the second night we got in after them and on the third and fourth we had some crazy craaaaaaazyy people from china, or some such place like it. When they got up they spent a good hour rustling and rustling. We know not what their rustling was supposed to achieve, we only know it was with the suitcases and it was bloody irritating.
I offered to pay Michael to get extremely drunk and vomit from the top bunk where he was residing in to their suitcases below, but sadly he didn't seem to think that was a good idea. Also, the way they speak, so so funny, it's best described as very very fast and completely utterly nonsensical.
So then, on to Eastercon itself, all very good, I met a few people I’d not met before, and was witness to some very very very odd activities. These involved small children and boats whizzing round and round a giant paddling pool type thing, people falling in to the water, talk of giant flying spaghetti monsters oh and of course the building of many Lego models. Actually come to think of it if I find the person responsible for the destruction of mine and Liam’s Lego enterprise model with its innovative adjustable stand I’m going to hurt them.
The panels were for the most part good though I must confess to falling asleep in the one about puppets which was of course for me completely relevant and the one about the making of gamers which all they talked about was the animation and how it looked. Wonderful, and they say good quality special features aren't available on DVDs these days.
Also I feel I must complain as others have done about the broadcast media panel. What the hell was going on with the moderator? To come in and start ranting on about the audience being in their prime, leaping about and not letting the panel speak, it all got very very very stupid and highly non productive, though I grant vaguely amusing. In contrast I thought the victim or survivor panel was really good, what to do if we were invaded by aliens and how the brain responds. Nothing amazingly new other than the appalling figures to show how many people put themselves in hospital because they were stupid, but a very well presented program item.
Met up with a few new friends from Glasgow’s university SF society so hello to any of them that read this, and hope you find the firefly Lego soon.
Probably much more to talk about here but can't really remember it all, its all sort of turned in to one huge mushy crunchy thing in my head, probably due to the horrendously late nights and the even more horrendous amount of transformers snacks and cola bottles consumed on the last one.
Thanks to every one that helped out including my service animal Michael, and also to every one that saw me blundering around.
Now, oh yes its not finished yet, on with current news. I'm off to see Jeff Wayne’s war of the worlds on Sunday at Manchester men so I’ll let every one know how that went, maybe going to collectormania next week if I can possibly afford it and if any one wants to meet up that'd be cool, then getting a kitten the week after. No more running away this time I hope, I shall cut its legs off and put wheels on if necessary.
Oh I’m also now studying law, I can't remember if I’ve ever put that anywhere. I did a deal with myself that if I got a good mark I’d continue it and if not I’d stop. Unfortunately I got 100%, sorry quick ego boost there, so I now have to carry on even though I don't really like it much. My giant super computer that I got at xmas is still performing well and hasn't really been physically switched off since mid December, and its allowed me to make a whole host of weird and wonderful sounds, some of which actually do involve the recordings of many toilets.
Anyway, as usual I’ve rambled on so I’ll say bye-bye for now, let you read this and tell me how odd it is, and wait for this blasted lawyer to ring me back to talk about intellectual property rights.........oh joy.

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eeeeek! eeeeeeeeek! eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!
Oh dear! Its finally happened. I guess 4 years of living here with no complaints wasn’t bad but………I finally coaxed my next-door neighbour out of his house to shout at me for making an “infernal noise” today. What am I going to do? I’ve not even started up my sound design business yet and already I have angered him. Oh dearo dearo dear.

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things, things and a few more things
Ok, time for an update I fear. Today, I’ve been very motivated, I even got up early, trained and worked! For the whole day! Not training for the whole day obviously, that would just be stupid. Anyway, what’s been going on recently. Saw Harry potter 4, and I’m not going to say much about it other than the fact I hated it, because otherwise this journal might take up an entire lj server by itself. I think the main reason I hated it though was because of the terrible voice acting. I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Its not the fact that I miss stuff because I don't see the visuals, I think its more like I don't get distracted by them and kinda go erm, where’s the story gone? Anyway, its one less DVD for me to buy I guess. Outa interest what do we think about this? My theory is that because so much is done with cgi these days and you have to record the vocals in a studio, it really detracts from the spoken acting, which is why so many old films stand up. So, good effects, bad script story and acting.
Anyway in other news, went to Iran for a week as some of you may know and some of you got very worried about because they didn't know. It was nice but unfortunately had to attend my uncles funeral. I wasn't that close to him but he was a good man and he'll be very missed by very one.
Honestly though I got so frustrated, they do everything so slowly. Its like "shall we go out" "yeah lets go out. Oh but first lets have a cup of tea." 6 hours later, no I’m not kidding about this, they might, might have just got their shoes on. I think for any one other than the Brits, time must run slowly. I've met quite a lot of people from quite a lot of countries and I’m convinced this is the case. Punctuality is not a concept that exists anywhere else other than this small island.
Also took the opportunity whilst out there to record many many silly sounds, sewers, rivers, doors, and of course more toilets. I now have quite a few toilet recordings, several people have expressed great worry about this including hatters, but do not fear, its all for a good reason. There is in fact a giant or.......well.....not so much giant as slowly growing archive of toilet sounds on the net. I think the owners gotten bored with it to be honest but it lives on I tell you, through me. I will keep adding to this archive, until we have.....the greatest army of toilets in the entire universe!
Anyway, on to more sensible things, came back from Iran and started doing things again regarding business, its slowly getting there, I just need to construct my soundproof room at the moment and I need a new god dam computer. This one, I swear its so so so old if it doesn't fall to bits soon whilst editing another sound I’ll be amazed. Erm.......what else? Oh, went to look at a cat yesterday, well rushed out to look at a possible new cat. Lovely lovely beast, very playful and cuddly, the only problem is it had more hair coming off it than the average barber shop, so there was just no way I was gonna get that. I'd have to live inside a huge plastic bin bag for the rest of my life so I’d look presentable when I went out. As it was when I came back my friend said it looked like I’d been in a fight with a giant furry thing.
Oh on a completely different subject, for any one out there who has one and I know some of you do, the last ever firmware for the iriver ihp-100 series is coming out in a couple of weeks. I'd suggest getting it koz its gonna have lots of new features, including finally we hope a proper gapless playback facility. Anyway, that’s about all for now, other than this.
Reply to this post, and I’ll tell you one/a lot of reason[s] why I like/love/adore
You. Then put this in your own journal, and spread the love.

Oh I should also point out that having seen no one else’s replies to this yet I’m not exactly sure what I'm gonna put, it could be most interesting.

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ohh look lol another quizz.
some of this is very right and some of it is wrong, but hayho, tis all fun and i'm bored. bed soon oh these quizzes have some really thoughtfull questions in them by the way.

Your dating personality profile: Romantic - You know exactly how to melt your date's heart. Romance comes naturally to you and is an important component of any relationship you have. Big-Hearted - You are a kind and caring person. Your warmth is inviting, and your heart is a wellspring of love. Liberal - Politics matters to you, and you aren't afraid to share your left-leaning views. You would never be caught voting for a conservative candidate.

Your date match profile: Practical - You are drawn to people who are sensible and smart. Flashy, materialistic people turn you off. You appreciate the simpler side of living. Shy - You are put off by people who are open books. You are drawn to someone who is a bit more mysterious. You want to draw her out of her shell and get to know what she is all about. Romantic - You need someone with a traditional understanding of romance. A true romantic is a must-have in any potential date.

Your Top Ten Traits 1. Romantic 2. Big-Hearted 3. Liberal 4. Practical 5. Athletic 6. Wealthy/Ambitious 7. Outgoing 8. Intellectual 9. Sensual 10. Adventurous

Your Top Ten Match Traits 1. Practical 2. Shy 3. Romantic 4. Big-Hearted 5. Sensual 6. Athletic 7. Intellectual 8. Conservative 9. Traditional 10. Adventurous

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very odd......Loneliness Quotient:
I almost don't wanna put this in now lol seems a bit weird, but as i took the time too do it, here goes.



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pinecones
Quick note here, soundcard problems appear to be fixed. It only took a delivery of the card to their tech support department for £5.99, then another one for another £5.99 to their dealers, then the obtaining of a new soundcard and finally a format of the computer to get it working but hay ho, its done now. Dam that windows XP WDM kernel, dam it all the way to hell and back, with a quick stop off at Tesco’s for pure amusement. Still, sound forge 8b works fine now, asio good, windows classic wave driver not so good.
In other news, saw crash recently. Really good film but incredibly visual and had absolutely no idea what was going on half the time, so many scenes with long montages full of ethereal music. Right, bored now, can't think of much to say but oh! There is one thing. I'm thinking of becoming a haddock in my spare time. Any thoughts on this?

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father forgive me, i know not what i did!
Oh dear. It wasn't my fault! Honestly, it really wasn't. One moment I was clicking on play.com in my favourites list, the next I’d accidentally selected revenge of the Sith due to be released on Monday and........well.......erm.........it............I have no idea how it happened but some how it ended up in my shopping basket and before I could stop myself the order was processed and I’d got a confirmation email. What have I done? Please! Some body help me, tell me I did the right thing? I only want it because of Ben Burt's commentary contributions. *hides*

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zebras! thousands of them rampaging across the grasslands of Stevenage towards me!
Aaarg! I can't sleep. Its nearly 4 in the morning and once again my body is denying me sleep. This is so it can wake me up at about half 12 in the afternoon and giggle at me for being too tired to actually train. Bad body! Very baaaaaaaaaaaaad body I say!
In other news, I thought my cat had come back today but it turned out to be a highly irritating specimen who tends to hang round here. He'd got himself trapped up on my roof and I had to help him down. Have you ever seen a blind man catch a bundle of flailing fur and claws flying off a bungalow roof top at you? Ahh if only for a camera. Then of course I had to get him inside, keep him there until he was identified because I couldn't risk letting it go until I knew for sure it wasn't ruby.
What else...................ahh work is progressing as ever, I think I’m still on schedule for the January launch of my website, although there could be a slight delay due to the fact that I appear to have blown my soundcard up. Very strange it was, last Thursday night it simply stopped working and began crackling and snarling at me instead. I sent it for repair, they informed me it was doing exactly the same thing with them, then apparently it miraculously fixed itself, they sent it back to me and heray! Its broken again.
Oh, general note to warped here, I miss you all very very much and want to come and see all of you at some point. I would have actually attended silly games, but unfortunately there was a death in the family the night before and by the time I found out it just didn't really seem worth 40 odd quid to come for one night when I didn't even know if there was anywhere for me to stay. Perhaps next time I could bring a tent? A waterproof one for Manchester obviously. Anyway from what I gather there is much injury at these events so maybe being relatively scar free for this year is a good thing.
Anyway, I have to go now and.........well.........I don't know exactly what I’ll do, but it may involve quake 3 team arena and a large double speed Gatling gun. Oh and headphones obviously, wouldn’t want to wake up mad old Henry next door would we.

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cooking, car crash and general oddness
Today was a very interesting day. I got up nice and early, trained as usual, and then I get a call. Would I like to come to channel fours cooking studios to do a taste test for Gordon Ramsey and al Murray? Muchly taken aback I quickly donned some clothes having previously answered the door to the postman in my gym shorts. I apologize to any one who may find that image disturbing offensive or just plain wrong, but I had to answer the door in a hurry koz my new Iskin for my Iriver player had just arrived and it rocks biiiiig style. then a nice taxi came for me to take me to London. Yay for paid transport lol.Twas definitely a day of firsts. Not only was I filmed for TV on a cookery program for the first time, I also had my first car crash. It was only a little one, but still, someone ramming in to the back of a stationary car isn't that great. Incidentally for any one interested, nice skidding sound effect, if only I’d had my microphone. Bang was quite good too, a little breaking glass and much swearing of the driver. Anyway, filming itself was kinda interesting, we were trying 2 dishes of bread and butter pudding, one made by Al and one by Gordon. As it turns out the other 2 tasters voted for Al's and I voted for Gordon which I’m very glad about since he is a very very scary man both off and on TV, rampaging about like some angry.......erm.........thing. oh my god though the ultimate insult was letting this other judges guide dog taste the food and filming it to see which one he liked, I mean.......come on lol how bad can you get? Bet Gordon was very very irritated by that stage actually, I’m told he was running about the kitchen in a most agitated state screaming at people.
Stayed for an evening meal as well which was very nice and all cooked by mad Ramsey, some odd lentil starter thing, rack of lamb and layered potatoes with tomatoes and courgettes for the main and of course the famous bread and butter pudding for afters. Honestly its really funny, any one that knows me really well......well you know what I eat most of the time, chicken, spinach, broccoli and tuna, and so I’m sitting there thinking hmmm this is nice but my god its going to be fun training tomorrow. Sad I know, but ya see this is what happens when ya train lol, ya can sorta lose a taste for good food. As far as I’m concerned it'll feed my body, ziss is good, although obviously I had to give a good impression to the cameras. Mind you though, great lamb, really really nice. Unfortunately its an unaired pilot but they said they might be asking us back again. Until then, this is Eddi, last survivor of Gordon’s kitchen...........signing off.

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uhh?
oh..............dear! why did i do this? lol

You Are 70% Boyish and 30% Girlish

You are pretty evenly split down the middle - a total eunuch. Okay, kidding about the eunuch part. But you do get along with both sexes. You reject traditional gender roles. However, you don't actively fight them. You're just you. You don't try to be what people expect you to be.

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