Technology

This morning, while pottering about as one does, my little brother - who is 11, might I add, and therefore of the technology generation - ushered me from the living room for his friend had come online on the xbox and he wanted to talk with him through the Kinect. It being 3 o'clock in the afternoon with me still wearing my pajamas, I could see perhaps why he would want me out of the line of sight of the Kinect as I may embarrass him, had his friend seen me. Although, later I entered to find that there was in fact no video occurring but, rather, my brother was standing on one side of the room shouting at a blank screen while it emitted faint gurgles back at him. I still cannot understand why he could not simply pick up the phone and call said friend, because I'm certain it would be of better quality than what he experienced. But I suppose, it's the novelty of the idea - I still repeatedly turn on and off their television because you just need to wave your hand in front of it and it is quite exciting.

Perhaps I am just grumpy and old fashioned.

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Lex

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Crashing

I am quite curious as to when 'fucking' became a synonym for 'crashing.'

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I Am Not A Squib!

Oh yes! Now officially on Pottermore!
Well... not quite - I've still got to wait for my welcome email but I'm close enough!
I feel so privileged....

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My Philosophy:

People who use the phrase 'a lone tear ran down his face' - or any variation on the named, 'a lone tear' being the vital point - deserved to be lined up and shot. In the face.

It is a cliché. And a terrible one at that.

Who cries single tears? Because the only people that spring to mind are grown men are trying extraordinarily hard to suppress the fact that you've just accidentally kneed them in the balls.

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Lex

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Music

This is one of my all time favourite pieces of music. It's the sort of thing that can either make you overly cheerful or completely depressed but it always seems to retain the fundamental beauty that can often be lost when a piece of music is over played. I don't know why, but there is this chord change/sequence, that sort of jumps at 1:15 running into 1:16 a little, that I have completely fallen in love with. For some reasons best know to it's self it always sort of gives me a little lift and it's one of the reasons that I adore this song so much. With all the music I like it's really got this same thing, there's just a bit in it - whether it's a second or a minute - that is wonderfully beautiful that I just love in itself, regardless of whether the rest of the song is dull or stunning.

In other news, as of 3 days ago, I am officially one year closer to death.

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Scottish Accents

It was my sister's birthday today - we're exactly 2 years and 2 days apart - and what more of a reason to crack out the bubbly? After 2 large glasses of champagne and a slice of birthday cake, I am sitting at the computer with drunk eyebrows - you know how it is with champagne, it gets you drunk quickest and it goes to you eyebrows first, making you look in a state of constant surprise - at least in my family it does- so the front room is just filled with a family of slightly startled looking French people (I really can't be bothered go into the exact nationalities of everyone here, so I just rounded it all up).
I have just spent the last 2 hours watching James McAvoy interviews so that I could think in a Scottish accent. I don't know if it worked... I think it might have...

Dear Lord.
What has my life come to?

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Oh shit!

I just succeeded in setting fire to my vacum cleaner... well not quite setting fire to... but my house is now filled with smoke and the lounge is effectively white, though I'm not sure you can see it there because the camera decided not to pick up the smoke...
But yeah, I was just hoovering away and the room started to smell a bit like burning fish. So I kept on hoovering and then it decided to start making noises like a landing aeroplane and then a load of smoke poured out from the bottom and now I'm trying to waft it all out before everyone gets back and stabs me.

Good luck with that because they should be home in about 5 minutes.

I'm screwed.

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Lex
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