Decided to join Myspace yesterday and wondered if maybe any of the hm's had an account, and so far I've found one that looks genuine and that's Dale's which can be found here

Well, I know this isn't a tennis community....nor was there a GB player in the mens final today. Still, it was an AWESOME match by anyone's standards!

Thoughts? Opinions?

This seems to be an amazing year for sports....I wonder what the Olympics will bring!

Tonights highlight show was kinda boring. They didn't show any of the art task, and not one bit of the evacuation last night (bomb scare apparently). You have to laugh at Mario "I was a body double for Robbie Coltrane" He just gets better and better :D

ARGH! Is the new girl Sarah annoying anyone else?
I kinda like Belinda at this early stage, she's not as eccentric as I thought she'd be. 
And I've not really seen much of Maysoon to comment on her really...

What do you guys think of them?

The show today is at People's Park in Tacoma at 4:30, as in 2 hours. Get your butt over there. Get MY butt over there!

Tomorrow's show in Olympia has been moved:

monday, july 7
benefit show for the olympia free school
music by: ghost mice, heathers, kimya dawson and june madrona
6:30pm doors / 7pm music
at the eagle's hall basement, 805 4th ave. E.
$5 - $10 suggested donation (no one turned away for lack of funds)

Yesterday Skyler (my nephew) turned 7. SEVEN. We got him a drum set. I will post pictures later! It was so good to be able to make it to his party and meet all his awesome buddies from school!

Okay, okay. I hafta go play a show.

I just flew in from New York and boy are my arms tired.

...but the psychic lifting on kat beats everything. Lisa, the energy was right. Rex <33

lol @ mario and lisa sitting in the bathroom with their legs wide open.

Why are they all being cruel to Rex? I really don't get it. Mikey's a bitch =/. Darnell is right - everyone has to be nice because he's blind. But NO, blind or not, he's an arsehole! 

I have a feeling Rex will be up again this week. :(

I HATE MARIO and LUKE more than them all put together.

Can i have peoples opinions on phones please.
I usually only stick with Nokias, but cant see any Pay as you go ones i like currently so have singled it down to the
LG Viewty

OR
the sony erricson k800i (my partner has this and it seems a decent phone but ive always had nokias as mentioned so have no experience of sony erricson!)


Any help would be great...on a side note, i use my phone a LOT for photos!

F & I - for the first time since the series returned - weren't able to see the last episode of Doctor Who as broadcast. We went to see an open-air production of Hamlet at Stafford Castle. A production of this sort has happened every year since 1991 and the reason we went to it this year was the always-fab Lousie Jameson was starring as Gertrude.

Unfortunately the weather was terrible ! We caught up with Lousie before the start and she said they'd already been rained off twice and had only been running a week !! The audience were undercover but the actors were totally open - some of them must have been absolutely frozen stiff with the rain. Poor Louise was lying in deep puddles for about 10 minutes after her death scene ! Hamlet in this production was an added Who bonus as he was excellently played by Joseph Millson who played Alan Jackson (Maria's dad) in The Sarah Jane Adventures. Of course, such an opportunity cannot be passed by :-



If David Tennant is as half as good as Joseph when he plays the role at Stratford then we will be in for a treat.

Finally saw Who tonight on BBC3 - enjoyed it a lot although I thought it was a real fanboy thing rather than for casual viewers but it doesn't seem to have put people off - the overnight ratings were an incredible 9.4 million viewers making Who (for the first time EVER !!) number 1 for the week. Sunday's ratings have to come in but it's unlikely anything tonight will come close to that rating. Loads of nice touches though and, hopefully, now Rose has a Doctor of her own to play with all the Rose-Love shit will die away :)
It also looks like the rumours I heard about yonks ago about Martha and Mickey joining Torchwood to replace Tosh and Owen are coming true. A shame about Donna as I thought she was a great companion but you always know their days are numbered when they say things like "I'm going to travel with you forever" :))

In Who-related news the corrected copy of The Invisible Enemy arrived over the weekend. As "compensation" for my "time and trouble" those nice 2entertain people sent me (and everyone else who sent their copy back for replacement according to OG forum members) a copy of The Hand Of Fear. That may seem very generous but, as a Doctor Who DVD buyer, you are more then likely to already have a copy (as I have - mine went to my brother !). A better gesture IMO would have been a voucher for money off a future DVD or something similar. Still, at least I've got a new copy and no longer have an empty case !

Anyone got a spare room they want to rent to a student? Preferably in the north of the area if possible.

:)

Is this the ugliest building in Great Britain? I'm pretty damned sure it is.

( I don't which is worse - the way it looks or the way it smells... )

Poll #1218791 Who Do You Want To Win?
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Who Do You WANT To Win?

Who Do You THINK will win?

 Just wondering now that they have been in the house so long, have your opinions changed?

Who Do you want to win?

& who do you think will win?

Today is the 20th Anniversary of the Piper Alpha Explosion and apparently a the service was "led by the Rev Andrew Jolly, chaplain to the UK oil and gas industry". Now really, is getting Rev Jolly to deliver a memorial the best idea? Does he have a colleague who takes weddings and christenings called Rev Miserable? Part of me hopes Rev Jolly walks around everywhere dressed as a clown, taking funerals wearing an oversized pair of colourful patchwork trousers and long squeaky shoes which slap the ground in a slapstick fashion. He follows the dour-faced pallbearers into the graveyard before reading the eulogy of the dead to the quietly mourning assembled friends and family of the deceased, scattering dirt into the open grave as rain from the slate grey clouds overhead causes his whiteface make-up to run down his cheeks and drip off his red nose.

And if you think this joke is in bad taste just be glad I didn't make one regarding a literal meaning of the phrase 'North Sea Oil Boom'.

Anyway, in other news, I thought my hoover had been stolen by a Frenchman last night. Just as I was settling down to watch season finale of Doctor Who (which was AWFUL, by the way, and I don't want to talk about it) there was a knock at the door. Oh, bloody Christ, I go to rush to answer it and find one of the French guys who lives downstairs was standing at the door. "I am so sorree to bozzer you" he says with the effortless grace the French seem to possess "But might eet be possible if I could borrow your 'oover?" Yes, yes, certainly, I scuttle into the living room and return with the battered grubby vacuum cleaner trundling behind me "Zank you, I only need it for five or ten minutes" he says as he takes it from me and I leg it back to the telly to continue watching. It was only after the entire 65 minutes of bloated self-important arse had finished (seriously, I don't want to talk about it, it was unspeakably painful.) the French guy still hasn't returned my hoover and I was supposed to be going off out that night and - oh cocks - In my haste to get back to the tv show I love but hate (Which, by the way, I noticed they'd Stolen MY idea! (alright maybe not, but still)) I'd forgotten to ask which flat downstairs he lives in: I live in the last flat on the top floor so that leaves an entire building it could possibly be in. I know there is a flat filled with French people somewhere in the building because I can sometimes hear snatches of rapid conversations in French floating up though the courtyard when I'm in the toilet with the window open. I sometimes try and eavesdrop but my French is very poor (Aujourd'hui il y a beaucoup animaux dans ma jambon!) so I've really no idea what they're talking about.

Also I begin thinking to myself that the flats come with hoovers why would he need to borrow a hoov- and then I remembered the inventory. The Landlady had posted the inventory of everything the flat came with though the door last week which has to be cleaned and ready for inspection when I get unceremoniously booted out in august and have to go live somewhere else for a month (Although they've kindly provided us with a storage shed in the car park to put our stuff in, so that's, y'know, fine) which stated that each item had to be in good working order or a cost would be incurred, if the item is not working then you could replace it with "One of equal or or greater value". FUCKING WANKER NICKED ME HOOVER! BASTARD! Clever bastard, too, I imagined him sitting there plotting "Eef I call just as ze Docteur Oo program ees beginning, zen zey weel be too preoccupied weeth zat to ask me oo I am! Mwuahahaha! Ze British are zo fooleesh!" Anyway, I decide to pin a note to the front door saying "If nobody is in (I have gone out) please leave hoover here. Thanks" in the hope that I'd not had it nicked by the Foreign Legion.

But the good news is as I arrived home I found it in my living room with a note from one of my flatmates in the kitchen asking "Why was the hoover outside?". Happy endings all round, then.

To the story that I posted here.

As posted at The Wildhunt Blog:

So it looks like we have a resolution in the case of an Iowa Pagan couple, some spray-painted Pagan symbols on their fence, and an unhappy neighbor.[sic]

Now the charges of the markings being graffiti/vandalism have been dropped, and the MacPebbles can keep their Pagan markings so long as they purchase a sign permit.

"Ryle and Rachel MacPebbles were ordered to remove pagan and Celtic symbols from the fence in May. The couple appealed on the grounds of religious freedom. They were told this week that the symbols could stay, as long as the couple purchased a $35 sign permit. Deputy City Attorney Mark Godwin says city officials withdrew the graffiti complaint because the fence falls under a city law that governs signs, because the symbols were painted by the property owner and not vandals."

Also, further reading of the article puts forward a theory that this was all caused by a neighbour dispute gone wrong. Although if I were being spied on by a neighbour I wouldn't be putting up a fence with ugly spraypainted symbols on. Oh no, it would be a full on ritual with bonfire.

I still think the spraypainted symbols are ugly though.

I understand that under 19's and students have a career advisor, but I'm 22, in work and totally lost.

Overall, my plan is to become a Social Worker, hopefully with the deaf. I'm currently studying BSL Level 1, starting Level 2 in September. I'm studying next year in a counseling course and starting my Open University degree in Health and Social Care. With my degree, I'm picking and choosing my topics so they are specialised in Mental Health and Social Work. I can't study 'pure' Social Work due to me not being employed in that area, so how do I eventually get a job with Social Services as a Social Worker?!

I understand that there's jobs in Assistant Social Workers and I have applied for a few (that's through hays recruitment) but I never hear anything back due to my lack experience (I currently work for a Charity as an office assistant, arranging support for people with a Learning Disability). Could I send letters to my local councils or would they be ignored?

Who can I talk to for help to get my career path sorted?

X-Posted :)

I'm about to start a distance-learning course that requires me to be in Birmingham one out of every 8 weekends, and I'm looking for a laptop to accompany me on these trips. It needs to be a PC (which is a shame, as a second-hand 12" powerbook would have been ideal) and as small and lightweight as I can get on a budget. That budget is around the £350 mark, though I may be persuaded slightly higher for something perfect. The Eee PC, as much as I love the idea, is not an option as it's not quite powerful enough.

I would ideally like it to have an optical drive of some description, I'm not talking state of the art does absolutely everything, but the ability to burn DVDs would be useful. I will however, mostly use the optical drive for the installation of software and perhaps watching DVDs. A good battery life would also be great.

Obviously I realise for the money I'm not going to get absolute perfction, but if anyone has any ideas, or reviews of similar products they already own, that would be brilliant. At the moment I'm looking at this, as much as I hate PC World, however it seems a little heavy for it's size, and it doesn't say anywhere whether or not the RAM is expandable.

Many thanks in advance for any pointers you could give me, I'm really just looking for recommendations, both of what to buy and what to avoid.

We run a small (but licensed) bar at a private club and we need to "update" to the latest stock including bar furniture and glassware.

Can anyway work in bar trade tell me where do you buy these things from? We have a local Bookers, but it doesn't have what we need.

Thanks.

Anyone know of any UK based (or at least UK oriented) golf communities on LJ? Ideally I'm looking for something aimed at people who want to improve their game, share problems and solutions, review courses &c. Maybe even somewhere for players to arrange to meetup for a round (e.g. "Golfer in Birmingham, 9 handicap, would like to meet similar for a round this Saturday.").

What I'm expressly not interested in are fan communities for famous pros.

I did a search for 'golf' as an interest but was flooded with communities that are focused on something other than Golf but have Golf as an interest, general sports communities, pro fan communities or/and heavily US focused.

So, excepting the 14 or so weirdos who are prepared to publicly admit to not watching last nights episode, what did everyone think of the episode?

I certainly think that last weeks cliffhanger was one of the best I have seen. It certainly seems to have had people talking.

I guess the comments might contain spoilers, so don't look if you don't want to know....

Bearcast #4, filmed before a live can of worms... No, not really. Recorded before the 'Doctoroo' Finale so there's no spoilering that just yet.

Still only a life-unchanging half-hour of banter with Jeb, Terry and that lovely Token Female. Couple of tunes as usual and possibly a mention of sausages.

Does anyone know why a draught would cause a headache? (said from person aged ~55 to person aged 21. "You shouldn't let them leave the window open at work if it creates a draft, you don't want to get headaches") Or a stiff neck?

Or why eating a single rice crispie cake made with "cheap" chocolate may give someone a headache?

All coming from the same person... maybe they are just susceptible to headaches themselves...