Silentbazz review of the year 2006..
Well the new year is just around the corner and, like those cheap telly programmes that fill two hours and cost nothing to produce, we're going to take a moment to reflect the past twelve months before we launch into another year of blogging..
January
January began with me setting out my intention of quitting the evil cigarettes, and that I was going to do it using Alan Kerr's book. I envisaged the first couple of months of the blog being a diary of a quitter, but it only took a single visit to a shit supermarket to lose that unique narrative angle. The highlight of the month, as far as the posts went anyway, was BT introducing Tom Baker as the voice of the text messages.. oh we wasted some text bundles sending them in the office. Laugh? We nearly shat.
February
Oh aye, I began February predicting that this would be my last year in the IT industry.. I wish.. Still even I'm surprised at how early into the year I began bitching about work!! In fact I must have started Feb in quite a depressed state, even contemplating Dead Celebs.. It must have had something to do with the fact that this was the month I finally quit smoking!
March
Well we had a wintery start to March, which didn't seem to dampen my smugness at being able to particpate in No Smoking Day for the first time. And it was amazing that I didn't start all over again, as March saw the builders move in (not a euphamism) to rip out the bathroom, which went quite smoothly until a massive balls-up at the end. However, that was nowhere near as disturbing as some other sights that month.
April
So we were getting close to finishing off the bathroom, which was music to my ears as having to use the loo at work, was becoming a bit of a strain. Not that it stopped me ranting.. ranting about telly's behind the bar and Microsoft Word. When I should have focussed on the groovy things in April like Liverpool getting to the F.A. Cup Semi Final, and finding Pimp My Snack.. Possibly the most interesting thing that happened though is that Liz and I tried to predict the future of the sex of out (at the time) unborn baby by trying lots of Old Wives Tales.
By the way, the superstitions were right, in the end so there must be something in it all..
May
May saw the happiest day of the year..
Yes! Liverpool won the FA Cup Final!!! No, I'm kidding, the happiest day of the year came a couple of weeks later. But still I was made up to actually get to Cardiff, after my daughter had threatened (on more than one occasion) to arrive early. It would seem that daddy giving up drinking for a month wasn't enough of a sacrifice for my daughter. Not much else seems worthy of a mention, but I will mention a few things like George Lucas is still a cunt, we will take a moment to reflect on the passing of Vera, and we will take time to remember the best Eurovision for years!!
June
Well June saw the World Cup happen, but let's not talk about that (nor that cheating cunt Ronaldo).. Due to me getting used to having a small demanding female in the house (no, not the wife, I just about got used to her by then) there weren't that many posts of note.. Did get to see the Foo Fighters though, who were awesome! Just as well, as work continued to suck.
July
July began hot, but it wasn't the sun making my blood boil -oh no, it was George Lucas. Being a cunt. Again. And I was probably annoyed that a fadge cost me several packs of donuts, but never mind.. Despite losing my voice, I still managed to moan about Average Speed Cameras, shit horror films, and the Moose-fucker in Big Brother.
August
A company bonus was announced in August (as the company was "Sold to the USA!!"), which meant I went off in search of a laptop, and the result of that search is currently being employed to write this post.. so it all worked out okay in the end, didn't it? The real important laps, though came on the Stag Do early in August.. where we saw my mate Mike Duffy won the entire event at Daytona! Goat emails began their popularity in August too. Big Brother finished in August too, but my calls for people not to vote for Pete fell on deaf ears obviously.. Sometimes I do wonder why I blog at all.. Oh well, c'est la vie and all that
September
Summer was coming to an end, the transfer window shut, and thoughts turned to the imminent wedding. I did manage to downgrade my PSP this month though, so that it would play lots of homebrew and dodgy downloaded games - hurrah! In sad news, Steve Irwin lost a fight with a stingray.. and I discovered that Sky Broadband was shite.
Main event of the month though, was the second happiest day of the year: My Wedding. Not that it stopped me blogging for y'all though!!
October
October got off to an expensive start as the telly blew up, which meant I had to go out and get a HDTV.. However it did give me an excuse to go out and get an XBox 360 too so it's not all bad news. The website of the month had to be the TV Theme Tunes online site (where most of my ringtones are now derived from), which meant I had some cool choons to listen to whilst I remembered the McRib. Things got a tad surreal, I got a shiny new phone, and Lost returned - yay! So not a bad month after all..
November
Well we tore into November, Sky nicked Lost from Channel 4, I was "disappointed" at the Foo's, but impressed at the Genius of Diet Coke and Mentos. And although my favourite night club from my Uni days burned, Birmingham still managed to deliver a grand day out at the Good Food Show..
December
It's been a slow month, blog-wise.. we did welcome another member to the XBox fold though. I went to see, and immensely enjoyed, the Tenacious D movie, and we revealed the results of the first ever Silentbazz Blog Usage Survey - thanks again to everyone who took part in that and gave us such interesting results. I shall be incorporating suggestions made into future posts. Meanwhile others were predicting an end to blog posting altogether - ha! Never! And finally, I got an early Xmas presie when my daughter started yapping and, like most women, she has not shut up since!!
Well that's it, the highs and lows of 2006 summarised in a single post. Hoping for a quieter 2007, but I'm sure I'll still find things to bitch and moan about, so drop by next year for more of the same. Til then, Happy New Year to you and yours! This doesn't necessarily mean there will be no more posts until january, but it's a nice get out clause if I cannot be arsed to do any more. Cheers. Catch you soon.
SB
January
January began with me setting out my intention of quitting the evil cigarettes, and that I was going to do it using Alan Kerr's book. I envisaged the first couple of months of the blog being a diary of a quitter, but it only took a single visit to a shit supermarket to lose that unique narrative angle. The highlight of the month, as far as the posts went anyway, was BT introducing Tom Baker as the voice of the text messages.. oh we wasted some text bundles sending them in the office. Laugh? We nearly shat.
February
Oh aye, I began February predicting that this would be my last year in the IT industry.. I wish.. Still even I'm surprised at how early into the year I began bitching about work!! In fact I must have started Feb in quite a depressed state, even contemplating Dead Celebs.. It must have had something to do with the fact that this was the month I finally quit smoking!
March
Well we had a wintery start to March, which didn't seem to dampen my smugness at being able to particpate in No Smoking Day for the first time. And it was amazing that I didn't start all over again, as March saw the builders move in (not a euphamism) to rip out the bathroom, which went quite smoothly until a massive balls-up at the end. However, that was nowhere near as disturbing as some other sights that month.
April
So we were getting close to finishing off the bathroom, which was music to my ears as having to use the loo at work, was becoming a bit of a strain. Not that it stopped me ranting.. ranting about telly's behind the bar and Microsoft Word. When I should have focussed on the groovy things in April like Liverpool getting to the F.A. Cup Semi Final, and finding Pimp My Snack.. Possibly the most interesting thing that happened though is that Liz and I tried to predict the future of the sex of out (at the time) unborn baby by trying lots of Old Wives Tales.
By the way, the superstitions were right, in the end so there must be something in it all..
May
May saw the happiest day of the year..
Yes! Liverpool won the FA Cup Final!!! No, I'm kidding, the happiest day of the year came a couple of weeks later. But still I was made up to actually get to Cardiff, after my daughter had threatened (on more than one occasion) to arrive early. It would seem that daddy giving up drinking for a month wasn't enough of a sacrifice for my daughter. Not much else seems worthy of a mention, but I will mention a few things like George Lucas is still a cunt, we will take a moment to reflect on the passing of Vera, and we will take time to remember the best Eurovision for years!!
June
Well June saw the World Cup happen, but let's not talk about that (nor that cheating cunt Ronaldo).. Due to me getting used to having a small demanding female in the house (no, not the wife, I just about got used to her by then) there weren't that many posts of note.. Did get to see the Foo Fighters though, who were awesome! Just as well, as work continued to suck.
July
July began hot, but it wasn't the sun making my blood boil -oh no, it was George Lucas. Being a cunt. Again. And I was probably annoyed that a fadge cost me several packs of donuts, but never mind.. Despite losing my voice, I still managed to moan about Average Speed Cameras, shit horror films, and the Moose-fucker in Big Brother.
August
A company bonus was announced in August (as the company was "Sold to the USA!!"), which meant I went off in search of a laptop, and the result of that search is currently being employed to write this post.. so it all worked out okay in the end, didn't it? The real important laps, though came on the Stag Do early in August.. where we saw my mate Mike Duffy won the entire event at Daytona! Goat emails began their popularity in August too. Big Brother finished in August too, but my calls for people not to vote for Pete fell on deaf ears obviously.. Sometimes I do wonder why I blog at all.. Oh well, c'est la vie and all that
September
Summer was coming to an end, the transfer window shut, and thoughts turned to the imminent wedding. I did manage to downgrade my PSP this month though, so that it would play lots of homebrew and dodgy downloaded games - hurrah! In sad news, Steve Irwin lost a fight with a stingray.. and I discovered that Sky Broadband was shite.
Main event of the month though, was the second happiest day of the year: My Wedding. Not that it stopped me blogging for y'all though!!
October
October got off to an expensive start as the telly blew up, which meant I had to go out and get a HDTV.. However it did give me an excuse to go out and get an XBox 360 too so it's not all bad news. The website of the month had to be the TV Theme Tunes online site (where most of my ringtones are now derived from), which meant I had some cool choons to listen to whilst I remembered the McRib. Things got a tad surreal, I got a shiny new phone, and Lost returned - yay! So not a bad month after all..
November
Well we tore into November, Sky nicked Lost from Channel 4, I was "disappointed" at the Foo's, but impressed at the Genius of Diet Coke and Mentos. And although my favourite night club from my Uni days burned, Birmingham still managed to deliver a grand day out at the Good Food Show..
December
It's been a slow month, blog-wise.. we did welcome another member to the XBox fold though. I went to see, and immensely enjoyed, the Tenacious D movie, and we revealed the results of the first ever Silentbazz Blog Usage Survey - thanks again to everyone who took part in that and gave us such interesting results. I shall be incorporating suggestions made into future posts. Meanwhile others were predicting an end to blog posting altogether - ha! Never! And finally, I got an early Xmas presie when my daughter started yapping and, like most women, she has not shut up since!!
Well that's it, the highs and lows of 2006 summarised in a single post. Hoping for a quieter 2007, but I'm sure I'll still find things to bitch and moan about, so drop by next year for more of the same. Til then, Happy New Year to you and yours! This doesn't necessarily mean there will be no more posts until january, but it's a nice get out clause if I cannot be arsed to do any more. Cheers. Catch you soon.
SB
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