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Tales of Interest

Welcome everyone.

I do hope you have all enjoyed your weekend and hopefully it’s been productive/enjoyable/fun/exciting/scary (delete as appropriate). My weekend was both productive, enjoyable and excruciatingly painful. As I mentioned on Friday, I had a little run-in with some solar radiation, unfortunately my puny human flesh was no match and as such this happened:

Martin gets owned by Solar Radiation

Martin gets owned by Solar Radiation

Bloody painful I tell ye, as you can clearly see regular flesh colour is where my shorts were bunched up on the sun lounger and the red is where I was effectively microwaved…

So that’s the pain out of the way, the productivity and enjoyment all came about on Saturday where I met up with our new Author Samson, you’ve already read that post so I’m not going to bore you again with the details. Anyway, we sat down and drew up the design for the new site on a food-order slip:

The Idea

Drawn on a food order slip, I told you...

It’s very basic and will probably change at some point because I’m a picky sod and it takes me years to make up my mind about these kinds of things. I’ll be photoshopping up a proper mock-up in the next few days when the insomnia hits again I reckon.

Anway, Samson, Alice (my Girlfriend <3) and I met up with some friends later in the evening where we had a very nice time, listened to some karaoke, played some ‘Angry Birds’ and generally had a laugh.

I know it may not sound like much of a weekend, and it’s certainly not given me anything to rant about and it’s great to see my friends and have a nice chilled out time. It’s a shame that I don’t get to see as many of my older friends as much as I’d like but I’m sure we’ll all meet up again soon. Hopefully you read this and I’ve not just used up a bunch of words waffling…. Wait… Isn’t that what a blog is for? Incessant waffling?

Hrrm, time to think on that a little. I shall write again soon. So be warned….

Ciao!

Martin

Brokeback Martin (not as bad as it sounds)

Hello everybody,

I have been indulging myself in the sun today, it’s been glorious weather and so I decided to lie outside in the garden, listen to some Harry Potter Audiobookage and work on my tan. It was far too hot for a walk in the end, I was sweating enough just being stationary in the sun. Anyway, I digress, it turns out that I am appallingly bad at admitting I have sunburn.

After a good few hours lounging around, hearing about Ron and Harry’s lucky escape from the Whomping Willow, Professor Snape and almost certain expulsion, it was time to come in. See, when you’re literally just sat there, doing nothing and allowing the sun to attack you constantly with no shelter of any kind you tend to get burned quicker, or at least I do. So  walk indoors, talking to my good buddy Samson on the phone and I sit down. OH DEAR GOD THE PAIN!

I didn’t realise it at the time of sun-indulgence , but I had effectively become a human lobster, cooking myself thoroughly and now my spine is quite literally on fire…

It’s been quite uneventful really, not been doing a fantastic amount of… well… anything. Oh wait, I broke the site today! Yay! I wanted to turn off the redundant logins, time and stuff at the top, where a much more useful banner could go, however, deleting those lines of code ballsed the site up entirely. I managed to do it in the end with a series of backups and a lot of swearing and with a bit of a nudge from my friend Edd, I now have an appropriately sized and placed banner, which will be replaced with the full one, when I can:

a) Be arsed to make it
b) Have done more work to the Blog and the ‘Site’ site. And:
c) Can actually think what to do as a banner, I’ve got the text down and the lil’ leaf but now what? I’ll have to have a think on that. Anyway, that was today, broken spine which is now looking like Thousand Island Sauce (also explains the title) and broken website, which is now repaired.

Time to kick back and chill out, might do some photoshopping later, depends how lazy I feel. Oh and for all you Steam users out there, I’ll be shoving up a Pillowmint Steam Group soon! Yaay!

Right, coffee time!

Martin (The Boiled)