Its been a good few weeks I guess. Still feeling run down and crappy but Ill survive (I hope)
I've seen two bands recently
The Hives; Swedens craziest rockershad the Birmingham academy rocking from start to finish (and the crazy support bands were great too!)
CSS: same venue, crap sound (you could tell she was singing.just not what about!) a sort of fuzzy noiselots of the crowd seemed boredand some groups even stood around chattingbit of a disappointment but ho hum
Last Week started off travelling back to Sweden to do some work (none of which got done due to Scandinavian incompetenceif they weren't such a nice group of lads, one could get most annoyed at them!) and the Xmas party. Swedes do a sort of Smorgasbord (Julbord??) thingy whereby it's like a huge buffet with a billion types of pickled herrings and cold meats and then meatballs and salmon and endless other stuff (including a mulled wine type thing called Glog, and lots of aquavit). All very interesting the first time you go to one (reindeer? Wild boar? Pigs trotters anyone?) but we were promised a "nice Christmas meal, not the usual traditional crap" (Swede's words not mine) and yet ended up at the buffet again, which isn't particularly filling and not always pleasant on the paletteand I didn't even drink too much
The last fortnight ended better on the footballing front. My club (Not mine personally buy y'know what I mean) was about 50 minutes away from going bankrupt and being docked ten points and losing their better players and possibly their manager and the whole club starting a downward spiral that could've ended in closure of the club, the melting of the ice caps, the end of civilisation as we knew it and finally the swallowing of the earth by the black hole created from the huge overdraft the club has (Maybe a bit of a melodramatic of a conclusion by moi there, but these little things matter to us little folk)
Well some idiotsorrysome GOD stepped into the fray at the last minute and agreed to throw a shed load of money their way to placate the bank and, dagnammit, the Inland Revenue. I'm not sure why anyone was brave enough to investthe club had 38 Million pounds worth of debt, the entire playing staff is probably worth little more than 7 or 8 million (at best) and we don't even own our own ground so have zero assets.we seem to be just a load of footballers renting office space) I cant see them making any money back on the deal, but maybe that's why I'm not a multizillionaire business manI hope that he does make a small fortune from the club by leading us in the right direction but only time, and wise investment in the future will tell
Other than that, last weekend I went down the see the missuswe did nothing and I mean nothing. Slept. Watched TV. Slept. All very cosy and nice. And cheap! Kerchinngus! Also bought her her last xmas present which will see her go suitably bonkers when I give it to her so that should be good!
Now I'm sat here waiting for the week to end so I can go out and haves me some fun, though the sad SG news sort of makes you think a bitoff to tell my loved ones I love thembrb!
I've seen two bands recently
The Hives; Swedens craziest rockershad the Birmingham academy rocking from start to finish (and the crazy support bands were great too!)
CSS: same venue, crap sound (you could tell she was singing.just not what about!) a sort of fuzzy noiselots of the crowd seemed boredand some groups even stood around chattingbit of a disappointment but ho hum
Last Week started off travelling back to Sweden to do some work (none of which got done due to Scandinavian incompetenceif they weren't such a nice group of lads, one could get most annoyed at them!) and the Xmas party. Swedes do a sort of Smorgasbord (Julbord??) thingy whereby it's like a huge buffet with a billion types of pickled herrings and cold meats and then meatballs and salmon and endless other stuff (including a mulled wine type thing called Glog, and lots of aquavit). All very interesting the first time you go to one (reindeer? Wild boar? Pigs trotters anyone?) but we were promised a "nice Christmas meal, not the usual traditional crap" (Swede's words not mine) and yet ended up at the buffet again, which isn't particularly filling and not always pleasant on the paletteand I didn't even drink too much
The last fortnight ended better on the footballing front. My club (Not mine personally buy y'know what I mean) was about 50 minutes away from going bankrupt and being docked ten points and losing their better players and possibly their manager and the whole club starting a downward spiral that could've ended in closure of the club, the melting of the ice caps, the end of civilisation as we knew it and finally the swallowing of the earth by the black hole created from the huge overdraft the club has (Maybe a bit of a melodramatic of a conclusion by moi there, but these little things matter to us little folk)
Well some idiotsorrysome GOD stepped into the fray at the last minute and agreed to throw a shed load of money their way to placate the bank and, dagnammit, the Inland Revenue. I'm not sure why anyone was brave enough to investthe club had 38 Million pounds worth of debt, the entire playing staff is probably worth little more than 7 or 8 million (at best) and we don't even own our own ground so have zero assets.we seem to be just a load of footballers renting office space) I cant see them making any money back on the deal, but maybe that's why I'm not a multizillionaire business manI hope that he does make a small fortune from the club by leading us in the right direction but only time, and wise investment in the future will tell
Other than that, last weekend I went down the see the missuswe did nothing and I mean nothing. Slept. Watched TV. Slept. All very cosy and nice. And cheap! Kerchinngus! Also bought her her last xmas present which will see her go suitably bonkers when I give it to her so that should be good!
Now I'm sat here waiting for the week to end so I can go out and haves me some fun, though the sad SG news sort of makes you think a bitoff to tell my loved ones I love thembrb!
How are you?
xxx