I’ve attended three funerals now in the same family in around six months. I’ve heard in the eulogies that these occasions make you consider your own mortality. Perhaps I’m getting more laid back in my thirties, but to be honest, the thought never crossed my mind.

After a certain point, you just accept that things happen for a reason (even if sometimes there doesn’t appear to be a reason). It always reveals itself in the days, months and if you’re really unlucky, years ahead.

On a lighter note (E maj. ought to do it), bought myself a new digital camera yesterday. It was a totally impulse purchase, which is something I never do. I had some rare spare time, so I decided to take some pictures of the boys and experiment with black and white photos in The Gimp (that’s a free software package, before you get kinky!).

Shift tilt is an amazing thing where say someone takes an aerial shot of Vegas, alters it in Photoshop, and makes it look like a model village. Insanely brilliant. Head over to Flickr and check it out, there’s loads of them. It’s truly inspiring and makes me want to record life better for posterity.

Had the pleasure of seeing Wayne Rooney play in the flesh twice in the last couple of weeks, once at Cardiff and once at the JJB.

Let me just say that he’s a joy. He has no idea how good he is, and has the innocence of a young lad playing because he enjoys it, and just happens to get boatloads of cash for doing it. At Cardiff, they were 4-0 up with 5 minutes left, and he’s still chasing down, working hard for his team. I’m glad he’s English, and I hope he never loses that innocence.

Apparently he had a snowball fight after a match the other night with some kids outside a ground. God bless him!

Started afresh learning all of the Novell Linux training stuff, in the hope I can resit the CLP practicum sometime soon and do a proper job of it. Let me give you one word of advice, you can’t wing it. Well, more than one word but only one sentiment. Oh, and you can still pass and not get everything right, which is what I thought. That’s now two sentiments. Sorry.

Happy February, what’s left of it. Cardiff this weekend, hopefully we can put one over those franchise following Mancunian-by-proxy types from Guildford. Will post some Cardiff pics on my return.

The pic illustrates an oxymoron – a nuclear missile promotes peace. Those that have them threaten those who don’t with them and we somehow maintain an uneasy status quo. I’m very down on religion – find me a war or major conflict in history that didn’t have religion as it’s spark. There won’t be many.

If you only read one website page today, look at this :-

http://911research.wtc7.net/sept11/analysis/anomalies.html

Breathtaking…even if you’re a cynic.

Decided I’m going to put some effort into this blog, but not right now. Wigan losing to Birmingham. Why isn’t it on Chinese sports????

Grr!

Very bored today, not feeling well. Not doing any work at all 😦