Christmas Booty

If you are expecting me to enlighten you with a tale of Christmas bottoms then this is so not the blog your looking for.

Ahh your still here. Then I will outline, in brief, the precious prezzies I have snagged this Yuletide.

1. A pair of Doc Martens Paratrooper Pro boots from my other half. I can now stomp about till my hearts content.
2. Marvel heroes t-shirt
3. Farscape complete boxed set - 87hrs of sci-fi goodness. This may take a while to get through.
4. Hood, Scarlett and Tuck all by Stephen Lawhead - A nice trilogy reworking the Robin Hood legend.
5. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol 1 & 2
6. A Moleskine 2011 diary.

Not bad for a 36yr old geek.

A hope everyone else was as lucky. 

The Christmas onslaught continues...

Up and out the house at 8am this morning. Straight to the local Tescos and we blitzed our Christmas food shop in two hours. The good news was that the shop was reasonably quiet so I didn't suffer my usual trolley rage. We have been saving vouchers all year so we were able to spend a small fortune and get lots of luverly grub and then get the cost reduced by 50%. I bought a tub of fizzy cola bottles and my annual twiglet habit has also been sorted for another 12 months.

I also purchased some splendid new lounge wear. Regular readers of my blog may remember my Animal PJs from earlier this year? Well this time I think I've gone one better.





They are, as ever, subtle and in keeping with most of the rest of my wardrobe. Marvel characters all over them. I'll have to see if I can find some DC ones as well. I may go all out and get some of the SpongeBob Ones to complete my collection.

Elsewhere we managed to do some tinkering around the house and completed a number of little DIY projects. The best example is that we finally have coat hooks so the bannister is no longer the de facto place for all coats. Nice to see the gargoyles next to the fire place as well.

Christmas is on the horizon and the next couple of days should be fun. I'm looking forward to seeing family and over indulging on an almost biblical scale.

Merry Christmas all. Have a good one friends.

I forgot the title....oops

I really don't think I should be watching Pineapple Express after an afternoon of drinking. This film is seriously weird. Gary Cole is a comic god though. I've decided to try another blogging tool. Today's blog is brought to you by ecto. Much like Mars Edit it seems to cover all the bases when it comes posting a blog. I'll try it over the next couple of weeks and see how I get on.

A Christmas Tune

There are many wonderful Christmas songs out there but this is my favourite with out a shadow of a doubt. 

This was the encore at his gig in Nottingham last night and when he finished you could hear a pin drop. Just stunning stuff.

Twas the Thursday before the Thursday before Christmas

Only got one more day of work left in 2010 so I'm starting to get excited at the prospect of two weeks out of the office. When it comes to Christmas I'm a big kid at heart. I look forward to falling asleep in front of old films on the TV, admittedly the low level narcolepsy probably helps with that.

I also like preparing food for Christmas dinner. This year I am going to engineer a monster trifle. It's been a while since the incident so I reckon it will be ok....Ohh sorry you want to no what the incident was do you? Ok I'll spill A few years ago in a fit of pique I purchased a family size trifle from the local supermarket. In a case of eyes bigger than belly, which I know is hard to believe, I demolished the entire thing. Turns out this was not a good idea. I don't think I have had trifle since. This year however I'm gonna get back on that horse.

I am also considering attempting to tackle one of my great white whales. Game of Thrones will be on TV next year and it seems sensible to read the books. I've got my posts for The Eloquent Page in hand so I think the time is nigh.

 

Time And Relative Dimensions in Tea (or Coffee for that matter)

Looky looky what arrived in the post yesterday. This is just the best thing in the world and ( I know your wondering) yes it is bigger on the inside.

 

Assorted Bits and Pieces

Mac Software

Now that I am more comfortable with my shiny new MacBook I've been delving into all the different applications that are available for me to try out. So far there have been a couple of apps that have impressed. I installed Delicious Library 2 last night and had a play. Wow how cool is this. Using the webcam it reads the barcode on an item eg book, blu-ray or DVD and then imports all the details direct from Amazon into a collection database. It works very well. I am seriously considering purchasing a licence so I can add all my books and DVDs. The demo version is limited to 25 records. Best feature is it tells you exactly what is imported. Spookily it sound a bit like Stephen Hawking!

The other app is NewsFire. This is an excellent RSS feed reader. It manages to cope with the 94 feeds I fool without so much as a grumble. It also displays the information in a very readable format. Best of all...it's free!

Tis nearly the Season to be Jolly

I know it's only the 2nd December but the wintry weather has made me come over all festive. I'm lucky that at the end of a long cold day I get to shuffle back to our little Hobbit hole and cosy up next to her inside the doors. I'm an Autumn\Winter kinda guy, what can I say I always have been. I'm looking forward to a couple of weeks of large dinners and putting my feet up in front of a roaring fire.

Movember

Glad to report I managed to raise £65 for charity in November. My moustache wearing helped raise awareness for prostate and testicular cancer charities. Next year I am going to attempt something a bit bigger but more on that in 2011.

A New Tattoo

Mrs Cheesecake is getting some new ink. Arty type that she is she has designed it herself.

I, as ever, am jealous.

Good night peoples