Tomorrow I’m 30

1 day until I leave my 20’s behind me. Dont care as I still only fell like I’m 18, and to be perfectly honest I’m in better shape then when I was in my early 20’s.
The only thing I’m really really looking forward to is the weekend, starting on Thursday. Bytey and Andrea are comming over to see Lynsay and me.
This will the first time they’ve been over sinces the wedding and this time will be stayign at ours.
The geeking out will do me good, and drinking will be even better. I really cant weight.

Weekend

Saturday was yet another rugby day.
Bangor 3 V Civil Service 2nds. After beting them last year in the cup with Bangor only having 14 men, after one get sent of for punching out 2 of the Civil Service players. I thought it was going to be a tought match.
And I was wrong, it was a white was, in fact it was worse than that.

It Started off with Civil Service trying to play mind games with the pitch, one minute telling us we are on a shittie out of the pitch and then next thing moving to the better of the two pitchs.
They kicked into us and Bangor come out hard and fast. The first 10 minutes where intense, we faught well and wone and lost ball, then after about 15 minutes bangors back broke though Service and where in the frist try, which was converted. 5 minutes later the same thing. It went on like this for most of the first half. Bangor where in control.
Then minutes for the end of the first half I chipped a lost ball (from the lineout) and it when over the head of my oppisite number, bounced right in the hands of Services number 10 who had time to get a drop goal attemp and hit. 1 of 15 wasn’t bad.
going into it half time it was 30 odd to 3.
By this point Civil Service was broken, they had to replace prop because I landed on him badly whe he tackle me and he recked his shoulder.
Bangor then took full control on the running in try after try. Service did fight back on a few occations and on one even looked link scoring, but alis the Bangor defences was to strong and we heel them.
The Subbed prop decided with only 5 minute to go that he had, had enought and walk off the pitch. This guy was about 20 to 25 stone of fat, and was twice the size of our prop he was againts. He said that our prop was lifting him in every scrum, in reality what was happening was he was lifting his left and our prop was just lifting the other.
It was an amazing win.
On a personal note, i had the worst game of the season so far. I was involved in a few things, a few hit one which reminded me I was carrying neck and shoulder mussel injuries. But I was disapointed with my game, I thought it was on the way up after Shorts and Carrick. At least I have this weekend off to try and rest the mussels.
I also heard that Carrick were say we feilded a compination of 1st and 2nd player agains them. Truth of the matter is we didn’t. We just had a team that day and we showed them why we won this league for 2 years in a row and only two teams have betten us in nealy 3 years.
Carrick when your at oru grounds we’ll bet you again and you can piss and mone all you like. This our leauge.

Turning 30

Ok so its about 3 weeks before I turn 30. Lynsey is streessing about getting me a present, she wants to get me something to mark the occasion. Personally I dont see the big deal about it. It just another year, but appearantly turning any age with a 0 at the end is some sort of big deal.
As you can imagine Lynsey was going to get me a new phone, after all I’ve only had my trusty Nokia 6600 for about 4 years or so. But I can of put a dampener on that one, long story.
So now I have been told to come up with some idea’s for a present.
Racking my brains for the last few days I have drawn a complete blank.

Quick update

Ok so it’s been a few weeks since I last bloged.
What have I been upto?

When on my Holiday’s to Lanarote for 10 day of sun, beer and chilling out. And for the first time in nearly 30 years I manage to get a tan with you getting sun burnt. Infact I was amazed that I went brown as my normal Northern Ireland blue skin tone normaly go bright red at the first sign of sun.

Now that I’m back a week and the grind stone is turning it seems like a life time ago.

WTF

Ok. I’m liberal, open minded and generaly think that kids have it though with all the press that hoddies have gotten them in resent years.
But I have just read an artical on the Register (one of my any favour site) and it made me sick to my core. Its about thinks called shag bands, here is the artical.
How the f*&* does a 12 year old girl now some of these things??
Ok I admin most of what youths get up today confuses the f*(& out of me and I have no idea what they are say have the time, but I vagely remember beign that age. I know I didn’t know about half those things, but my interest in girls was starting.
This should be kick in the ass right now. Childhood is short and resonably come to every to soon to everyone.
Normally I wouldn’t call for a website to shut down as I beleive in Freedom of speach but something needs to be done about this site at lest put a F*&^ing age verifier on the site it as simple peace of code.
The reason that this has sicken me is that in a year or so I could have a child and I know that if they where doing things like this I would personally beat the crap out them for being so F&*^ing stupid as to put themself at risk with stupid things like this.

Found my happy place

Ok so I was walking throught the factor floor in work and heard an advertisment for a funfare that is comming to Beflast this weekend.
So how can this ad help me find my happy plcae, is the best fun fare in the world? no. Has the fun fare an special memorys for me, not really. Its jsut that the ad triggered a memory from when I was obout 15 or 16 , and it cheared me up.

Let me set the sean, it 1994 or 95, a young happy IB is at this fun far with a few of his mate from Belfast and my little bro in toe. We are gennerly having a laugh and bit of banter, you know going on ride that spins round and sticks you to the wall, all of sunnden a hand come out and hit you in chest and you cant breath. The innocents of youth.

Anyway at some stage of the night this pettie girl about the same age come up to me and my mates and ask if I want to go out with her mate. I wasn’t the confidnet person I am today so I though she was talking to one of the others, then she ask me again.
Remember we are about 15 or 16 and this was the sort of thing that happen. So I thought it was a cause of doing it for a shy friend. I’m 15 or 16, what was if going to say except “I’d have to see her first” so girl 1 runns off to get her friend, and when she return I was the one about to do a runner.
Her mate send her over because if she had of asked me I would of falt said no, then left.
Ok so the two arrive and I’m in a situation where I’m trying to tell girl 2 there is no way in hell I’m going to go out with her while being polite about it, so I pull out the usual excuse ( well the only one I can use at this stage) like are you sure you 16? you only look about 12. Girl to send her better looking friend over to try to butter me up, I would have said ok. I dont mean to be roude about girl but she was rough.

As this is going on my best mate is telling me I should go with her for the night, go on give it try she might be up for it. Now the same guy how is tell me I sould go with her is also the same guy who will take the piss as soon as she was gone.
I manage to get ride of her in a polite mamer, I remember telling her she looked way to young for me and I wasn’t risking her dad commign round a connor and kicking the shit out me for coping off with is 12 year old daughter. Truth is she was 16 and I know by the way she was trying to confice me to out with her she was.

Any way moments after they left my best mate turn me and start tell me I was harsh, I probably destroyed the girls night, turned her to a lesbian, etc, etc.
Although 5 minutes later he was taking the piss out of me for the fact that I might have considered it.

So the reason this cheered me up. The memory made my laugh when I think back to my teenages years and some of the stupid things I did.
Its amazing how memorys work.

BMW Drivers

As everyone know the Majority of BMW drivers are w*&%ers (with the exclusion of Streak) now i used to think that it only applied to car drivers but I was wrong.

Yesterday I was on my way home and this short f*(kwit on BMW 1200 something or other was at the lights infrount of me. We both took and got past the traffic, then I got past said twat, at this point I was only thinking he was a bit of a prick as he had bought the bike matchign BMW canfus protective gear and helmet that matched the bike. Then as I was going past traffice that was stop he was right my ass. I mean his wheel was a cm from my back one. This is a bit off putting as I had reached a point where i decided that I didn’t want to be in the middle going onto a round about he did. So he blows past me.
Being on a sports bike I pass him on the next streight and then he sits between two cars trying to pass them both, to get passed me again and then he switches lane with only inches to spare.

Then this morning another BMW (online using the in good weather) rider blow past me, after blinding me on a streight that realy is very dangerous. This rider had thought I must show I a c%$t and buy all the BMW gear as well.

If you want to ride motor bikes get a desent one and not a f*&^ing BMW.

getting to work

Today I saw one of the most amazing views as I was coming to work. As I started to go the hill into Belfast, my eyes where meet with a Belfast covered in fog.
Thats not unusual but it was the way the fog had formed that was amazing, the hills behing belfast had no hint of fog and the scrabo hills (form newtownards) were surounded by fog but now on them. I hadn’t encountered any on the way in either.

It was as if someone had pushed the fog from strangford lough and but it over belfast.

Was a really cool to see

got to love microsoft marketing approach

Ok so Im a slave to the system, I work as network admin using server 2003 and windows xp. I’m pritty much a Microsoft user at home as well.
All that aside I still dont like the microsoft approach to things, it like being part of the borg from star trek. But at lest Micosoft do come off with some appsolute amazing marketing tacktics. The lastest one I’ve read is about how they are better then Lunix.

Ok so lets look at how microsoft are not better then Lunix.

Virus are more common on Microsoft OS across the range.

Microsoft have a history of relsising software that is not fit for purper, ME and Vista (full range)

No one in the IT industry want to tuch a microsoft of until at least SP1 is on the go

crashing.

Marketing department forces software out and trys (badly) to make Microsoft look like the dogs ball, and uses bulls*&t facts to get the job done. My personal favour was with vista trying to tell the world that it was good and there was no problem with it.
Ok Lunix is an open source OS and is constaly being up date but it has two major advantages ITS FREE and it WORKS.

First matach of the season

Ok so the rugby pre-season friendly on friday night didn’t accourding to plan. 

The night started well, I got to ards rugby ground for about 6.30 and we all went out for our worm up.  It started to rain.  Not a problem it is Newtownards after all and we expect this sort of thing.  we do the worm up and it goes well.

Match time come round, 7.30 kick of, the Reg does his bit about the rules etc and we get under way.  It starts well for Bangor for the frist 15 minutes we are running at 200%, cometting well and looking strong everywere.  But then it all starts to fall appart.  Ards back line get quick ball to the wing and they are in for a try.  It was a tight match the would way through it  and you see the review of the match here .

The one major down side to the match was the ref.  As it was a friend he was form Ards club and boy could you tell he was.  Every time we started to build mamentime he blow up, and there where time it was for f*&k all.  I mean he pind one of the my team mate for tackeling on the ards players, and came of with some bullshit about my team mate was off his feet.  Also during the game at two different points Bangor had men down injured, its rugby it happens, but when the ref notices he normally stops play until the play is back on this feet or has left the field.  Not this twat, 3 to 5 minute are players where on the deck and it was only when the nearly got stood on that he stopped paly. 

The worst thing about the ref was that when he was telling you what he was pinning you for it was like being shouted at by an old style army sargent major.  I mean it was like being brough to the headmaster office in primary school.

F*&k it its over and done with and the it a new week for training etc.