Easy Living and Living Nightmare
Here are some of the things that potentially helped to make or break the week
What made for Easy Livin’ and what had the potential to be a living nightmare !
Easy Livin’
Bart Simpson Pyjamas
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This has been an issue for quite some time. Childish jealousy has seen Goldeneye lusting after said garment. The problem is they only really make them for children !
This says one of two things to me
1: Matt Groening and The Simpsons Corp’ have limited vision when it comes to marketing
2: I need to grow up !
I think we all know the answer to that one !
Obese Children
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Never let me bang on about obese children again. Thanks to the ever expanding next generation I now have Bart PJs
They are usually sized in ages and stop about 13 years. I came across some that then continued up the size range but just mentioned sizes rather than age. Pulled a packet apart in the shop, comprised of a pair of shorts and T-shirt - looks like I could get in them and such proved to be the case - Awesome !
Paul Gilbert
Awesome guitar player - I’m back in the playing mode again and almost up to full speed, well full shred \m/
Check Paul out here on video Paul Gilbert - Down to Mexico
My MySpace Friends
I now have 70, yes count them 70, very special MySpace friends. They all love me of course, see if you can spot the connection between them, they now run to 2 pages, possibly not for our younger audience
Rod’s MySpace Friends
Living Nightmare
Bart Simpson Quilt Cover
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As part of my plan to be more mature and fiscally responsible I decided I also need a Bart Simpson quilt cover. Trawling all round town this Saturday proved fruitless. One shop which supplied bedding and had a large section of what they termed ‘Novelty Quilt Sets’ provided an especially helpful young lady. She looked everywhere, tried all her catalogues etc, all to no avail.
“They only come in single size”
“Why not King Size” I asked.
“Because they are meant for children! I can get you a Homer in king size if you want?”
“No ! I want Bart” - stamped my feet and walked out sulking
Paul Gilbert
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Learning all sorts of new stuff - blistering through some Yngwie Malmsteen stuff but looking for something to get my teeth into came across PG dishing out a lesson on string skipping on YouTube - this sorts the men out from the boys.
Rock Guitar licks for beginners !
The Good Shepherd and Deadwood 3 on DVD
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£20 and £40 respectively ! I mean, Jesus, how rich do you have to be to buy DVDs nowadays
Puncture
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Had my first ever puncture in a car tyre ! Not a bad run I suppose. Repaired quickly and with with excellent all round service for £10 at Bush Tyres in Grimsby - nice work fellas !
If you’ve anything to recommend or warn us about please share it with us !
Craig said,
August 19, 2007 @ 12:39 pm
Re: DVDs
The cost is why these things get ripped off. Six DVDs in the Deadwood 3 boxset? Manufacturing cost will be less than 20% of the retail price (hence the reason that you can get Chinese imports for £15)
These series are created for TV, and so are supposedly paid for by the advertising that interrupts them. How then can the studios justify such extortionate pricing?
Question - if it is legal to record programmes to watch later (via video or DVD recorder) in your own home, then it must be legal to download said programmes from torrent sites?
Rod said,
August 19, 2007 @ 2:31 pm
Craig,
absolutely !
I get particularly annoyed when they are older series or films, they’ve more than had their money out of them.
Wild pricing also.
I bought my Sharpe box set for £40, a good price, very happy with it. The same retailer now wants £100 for it despite the fact you can still buy it elsewhere for £40 !
Little Brother said,
August 19, 2007 @ 9:12 pm
Rod,
Avoid oxygen sensors, oil changes, air con compressors, dentists,putting your mobile phone in the washing machine and losing a member of staff (if you have any).
A week horribilis.
LB
the dinosaur said,
August 20, 2007 @ 8:22 am
LB Sorry to hear about your troubled week, can’t help wondering if your ringtone is a tune by Wet Wet Wet ?
Rod said,
August 20, 2007 @ 9:12 am
LB
sounds like a typical week in your life, sell the car, drop out of the rat race and ditch modern entrapments such as cellphones and your troubles will be over !
RC
Rod said,
August 20, 2007 @ 9:12 am
Dino
excellent
A Retired Bookdealer said,
August 20, 2007 @ 5:53 pm
Easy Living
Sounds great, is it feasible though. I think at times we all wish for something a little easier, especially as the years pass by, I for one would welcome some easy living. I turned the TV on the other morning, a bit of GMTV in the morning, the first thing to greet me was the weather girl, nothing wrong with her, very pleasing, but talk about bad news, rain-rain and more rain, then the main news, more doom and gloom, while taking all this lot in the postman arrives, three hours earlier than usual, yes you guessed it more bad news, bills!.
So back to easy living, if there is such a thing as easy living out there, please let me know. Another worrying thing, there seems to be a lot of people leaving the country in search of sun and I presume easy living. If any of you that have baled out of the UK for a better life style (easy living) are reading this please let me know if it all worked out, I may follow shortly.
Thanks,
Little Brother said,
August 20, 2007 @ 6:30 pm
Dino,
Thanks for that! Wet Wet Wet? no thanks-it was Motorhead but the sound of the music/ringtone was exactly the same as the sound of one of the taps at work so everytime one of my chefs washed their hands I checked my phone!
LB