1-Sent payment for a c.d i ‘won’ on ebay
2-Found out the surprise destination my dad’s taking my mum for a 65th birthday holiday. Guernsey. This provoked the following classic conversation.
Me-Guernsey? Why there?
Dad-I’ve never been
Me-Has she said she want’s to go there in the past?
Dad-No. She wanted to go to Vienna but it’s too expensive.
3-Threw ½ my dinner down the toilet
4-Deleted my Beatles fan site from the internet
5-Drank a cuppa coffe after fishing a danny-long legs out of it and now having a hypochondriac episode or...

1. Browsed a forum...
2. Browsed a different forum...
3. Browsed a different forum and posted something...
4. Browsed a different forum...
5. Did some work (where I'm at), but stopped and Browsed a different forum...

1-Carried my dog away from park & just missed skirmish where 2 bicylists chased after 2 dog walkers.Police were called.
2-Took my mother out to lunch and argued about gays getting married and going to her gay priest's wedding.
3-I drive for hours each day right now. On drive down I listened to the new !!! album. It made me think of Shriekback for some reason.
4-On drive back listened to old radio show tape where I interviewed Philly band M Fakter (www.myspace.com/mfakter). I became good friends with them but lost touch. Googled when I got home and now we're catching up.Other old music friend sent message his (10th?)book is coming out in October: Starting Over:The Making of John Lennon & Yoko Ono's Double Fantasy by Ken Sharp
5-Bought flowers, spicy vegetable samosas and pepper spray for dog walk tomorrow.

1. Polished off a container of non-fat Greek yogurt and honey (my usual breakfast)

2. Picked up 5 loaves of pumpkin bread baked by the cloistered Dominican nuns of Hollywood

3. Collected $125 from my crew to put toward a gift card for our Ink&Painter's impending bundle of joy

4. Took a break from #5 to make this quick entry and glance at the forum

5. Spent most of the day breaking down a board (which, coincidentally, is like breaking down, bored)

1- shamefully,and mistakenly missed breakfast,it will catch up with you.
2- Made phone calls and emails concerning running of APE
3- Had lunch of jazzed up mulligatawny soup,{oil,extra beef,pepper,extra rice,gluten free bread,}.
4- Stu picked me up and we commenced to edit track ideas/record/replace, for astoundingly good forthcoming Peter Blegvad album.
5- Then repaired to a welcoming hostelry in Swindon's old town for an early eve of boozahol, cheese, nuts and bread,{mmmm lovely and all that}

Thatsa me fer today.

I had mulligatawny last night! We must be tele-gastric-twins or something.

1-Dragged myself out of bed to take the dog for a pee at about 9.30 'cause i was starting to worry if I didn't he'd pee all over my parents new carpet
2-Rang my phone 'cause I didn't know where it was and tracked it down to a coat in my wardrobe.
3-Read a text from my dad telling me to 'record that tiger program'. (it was the night before and due to #2 I didn't record it)
4-Went on a google st. view nostaliga fest.
5-Spent ages trying to light the grill which unlike the hob is errrm...electric. *slaps own head*

Well, I didn't have any mulligatawny, (although I like it), but last night made the mistake of grabbing a couple of handfuls of leftover bhujia mix ( sort of very spicy peas/peanuts/weird crunchy things for the uninitiated) last night while waiting for my daughter's pals to cease their chatter downstairs ( they were having a manga movie night) while I was webbing with wed wine.
So today has started with:
1.A good deal of groaning in bed, and not the pleasant sort.
2. A bad session in the karzi.
3.More of No. 2, above, yes it's apposite, I know.
4. A shower, and thankfully the gripes seem to have ceased.
5. Good hot fresh-ground coffee and shift the car so the delivery men can drop of 20 bags of ready-mix concrete, 20 kilos each, which I will have to manhandle on my own.
I will too shagged out tomorrow to tell you the rest.

1) Laundry
2) Vacuumed. Then cleaned the roller and emptied the bag. Then did it again. Wait, that's four things.
3) Shampooed the carpet in my room.
4) Cleaned the bathroom. Extensively.
5) About to get out the microphone and boot up ProTools in anticipation of a singer friend arriving shortly. (Finally...something closer to fun!)

Went to watch the end of the Federer match...i was still watching an hr. 1/2 l8r when he lost
-had my tv signal sorted out
-accidentally bashed the door against the dogs head
-considered officially replacing Pink Floyd's Dark side of the moon with the Stone Roses debut album as my all time fav. album but ultimately didn't
-punched the air with joy when i found out News corp. have sold my beloved myspace. Yes I'm still on it...trolling the forums.

bonus thing-discorved how to find the topics i've started on here.

Learned Morrissey's "Hold On To Your Friends" on guitar.
Ditto on piano.
Bought bread roll.
Ate bread roll.
Watched Futurama.

1) Woke up early, started computer and checked email.
2) Downloaded software so I could see an additional segment of a video tribute to my mom for her 80th birthday on Saturday (being celebrated after her church on Sunday as a surprise party) that I've been working on all month, and thought was finished the day before - until brother and nephew added this final segment, which turned out great!
3) Found music options to go under above video segment, converted them to mp3s and email'd them to my nephew. (Production is out of my hands now!)
4) Watered yard areas not covered by sprinklers. (It's gonna be a hot few days.)
5) Got back on computer (coffee in hand) and am checking out APE forum.

...all before 7am!

1-Had goats cheese and garlic toast while I read mucho emails
2-Did two hour skype consultancy with lady herbal type doctor.
3-Made teas for workmen
4-Walked long way in hot sun to old friends house,used to work with him in last job in 77
5-Helped to make chicken curry back at home,busy tomorrow though

This is from two days ago, but it's more interesting than "today:"

1. Stayed up 'til 4:00 a.m. with dying 18-year-old cat.
2. Drove to veternarian's office, with cat on my lap, to have cat euthanized.
3. Said goodbye, and gently handed cat over to vet's assistant.
4. Drove back home, sad and catless.
5. Threw litter box and geriatric cat food in trash. Tried to be extra nice to dogs.

Okay, that might have been six things.

Sorry to hear about your cat, simpleton. I went through something similar 10 years ago and I know it isn't easy...

1. Woke up early to Skype with a Japanese friend who lives near Osaka, Japan.
2. Wished my family Happy Canada Day when they (finally) got out of bed.
3. Started laundry in preparation for our annual trek to the Kawartha Lakes on Saturday.
4. Made phonecall to make final arrangements with parental units to feed cats whilst we are on hols.
5. Wished Jeff Truzzi Happy Birthday on facebook (for Sunday).

I hope the forum move goes well, Andy!

Hey, it's on our birthday, weasie - it's predestined to be painless!

Happy Birthday in advance, weasie!
And Happy 4th of July to everyone - regardless of nationality.
Remember, you don't have to be American to party on the 4th...although it helps.

Thanks, wease.

I was never that fond of this particular cat (and I'm a cat person), but I am not good at witnessing helpless creatures struggling!

watched the news

watered my fruit plants

watched a bit of tennis

made my kids their tea, thats evening meal

kissed my wife when she came in from work

Happy birthday jeff and weasie for Sunday.



I did that too

Thanks, Don! And Cheers!





I was gonna say Simp, sorry about your cat...unless its name was Siva.


(Siva was Simp's cat when we were roommates.
To say we didn't get along is an understatement.
But even evil cats don't live 30 years...I think.)

Thanks, donavan.

1) Made a lemon cake.
2) Ate (a large lump of) lemon cake.
3) Buggered about on facebook.
4) Discovered that the security tag had been left on my new linen jacket.
5) Continued to bugger about on facebook while the missus took my new linen jacket back to the shop to have the security tag removed.

From Sunday:

1 Got up amazingly late for me (09.00) - normally awake and out of bed by 6.00
2 Took #2 son to guitar lesson
3 Went to Hyde Park
4 Saw Metronomy (v good), The Hives (v funny), TV on the Radio (dull and earnest), Grace Jones (barking but impressively fit for 63), Pulp (v good but sense the vibe in the band a bit strained)
5 Got home had a "sombrero de nochos" and hit the sack, knackered at 1.00am.

Yesterday


Went to work..............on a Monday too..........I've run out of ways of avoiding this

Worked at work

Came home from work

Prepared work for work tomorrow (today)

Reflected on my Rock n Roll lifestyle

1. Read the minutes of my last school governors meeting
2. Ate fish and chips by the sea with my girls
3. Posted off payment for my holiday
4. Bought some milke
5. Bought tickets for The Horrors gig.

1. Went to Freud und die Literatur seminar.
2. Went and sat by the Rhein with my Canadian and American friends.
3. Watched ER.
4. Ate Pizza.
5. Did the dishes.

1) Received email telling me my account's been verified on this, the umpteenth occasion of attempted registration! Tried a bunch of times in February-March to no avail. Success! Happiness! But I couldn't commence any textly yammering because I had to
2) Slog away at the factory for 10 hours. Finally returned home, ate dinner, caught up with the news, and sat down with a lovely mug of hot chocky and
3) Muddled about with the profile settings and wondered where I should start my forum yak & yammer. A newbie; I've built up several months observations, opinions, smart-arse remarks, and a million words of praise for all things XTC/Dukes and APE. I didn't want to start my own thread, as I'd prefer to make a quieter entrance, so I
4) Decided this thread was a good way of weaseling in! So now that I've eased my way in and settled comfortably amongst the flowers on the forum wall
5) I'd like to say Hello to all, and a huge thank you to Mr. Partridge and the Admin (the other Andy?) for letting me into the club. I suppose I'll be letting out all my pent up APE love in random spurts as I step out from the wall every so often.

Hi Rockpants and welcome. Hope you ae looking after our prince and his new wife ok! best way to start is just to say how you got into XTC, when, first album and stuff. And as ever with newbies we hope you saw them live at least once after jeff truzzi...

Hi Rockpants and welcome. Hope you ae looking after our prince and his new wife ok! best way to start is just to say how you got into XTC, when, first album and stuff. And as ever with newbies we hope you saw them live at least once after jeff truzzi...

Thank you, Mr. Tein.

If I have my history correct, Andy's major health problem occurred shortly before my uneventful arrival into the universe. So YouTube's been my concert venue.

Hi rockpants. Welcome.

Welcome, rockpants! Rock on! Always great to have another Andy/APE/XTC fan here.
Don't be shy about starting new threads, that's what usually increases posting activity.

1 Woke up in a Paris hotel room still wearing a dressing gown and a bit confused about my dream concerning David Cameron and his ownership of a park. Finished reading this month's MOJO's special on Macca.

2 Went to a meeting with some French people - my colleague in London appearing on a big telly. Talked about "Ref Connexion" - the French dudes misspelt an English town called Carshalton by leaving out the "L" - the result made me laugh.

3 Went to another meeting with some British dudes who had travelled to Paris especially and who told us we need to pay the engineer we'd like to hire 300,000 euros. Which was nice.

4 Had lunch in the slightly posh bit of the staff restaurant (the really posh bit is on the first floor), had salmon and asparagus but unfortunately my companion was v v boring and I had to work very hard to engage him in conversation. Nevertheless we found common ground in our combined criticisms of another colleague who is even more boring than him.

5 Travelled home on the Eurostar and accepted the food tray even though I'd just eaten. Sampled the cheese (pooh) and the pate (slightly browner pooh) and the dessert (green pooh). Consumed the bread and wine though.

1. Woke up and washed my hair.

2. Made coffee, got the kids their breakfast and packed their lunches for camp.

3. Read and worried about the newspaper story detailing how lots of small dogs and cats are being found dead due to the recent dramatic increase of coyotes in the New Orleans area.

4. Went outside and called my cat in, gratefully noting that he had survived the night.

5. Went to work and filled in for the absent cook, making lunch and snacks for 85 hungry little people.

Smiled at Jockey's get me post.

Hate cats and dogs but empathised with daisy

Thought about saying hello to rockpants

Remembered that there once was a guy called Spidey

Hello rockpants

1. Read this.

Haven't done anything else yet.

Yesterday.....

1. I took my breakfast outside and ate it then watered my roses, trimmed them a bit and watered my hanging tomatoe plant. I noticed I now have 11 tomatoes growning on it (yeah!!!!) as Friday, I only noticed 4.

2. Walked downtown with the mister to a sporting good shop with a huge summer sale going on. We each bought a T-shirt (hideous price if it hadn't been on sale) and relished in the fact that we bought such quality merchandise at a bargain basement price. Walked back home.

3. The mister moved both of our Muskoka chairs underneath our massive spruce tree and we both read for about an hour, quietly enjoying the lovely weather whilst both drinking a Stella.

4. Ate dinner which consisted of a hamburger for the mister and a salad for me. I do eat hamburgers but just didn't want anything that heavy.

5. Later, we both went out for our usual evening stroll. We stopped at the coffee shop, pick up a coffee and walked home. We sat on our front porch to drink our coffee and engage in some conversation..... all the while, me content in the fact that at least after dinner I do spend my time with the right man

1- Woke up to the sound of a squirrel running across the roof to the tree where my birdfeeder is, to eat all the seed.
2-Let my dog out to scare squirrel. The squirrel scurries about 10ft up into the tree and mocks my dog for not being able to climb.
3-I throw an apple at the squirrel, miss, but close enough that it flees to roof and runs away.
4-Consider getting my son's paintball gun and keeping it on kitchen counter, but decide it would just end up all over the tree and my dog. Decide that I will move birdfeeder out of tree to a squirrel-proof pole instead.
5- Made a pot of coffee and read Sunday newspapers.

What's the rest of the limerick?

Yesterday (at the cherry festival)

1) Took a tractor tour around Brogdale Farm

2) Attended a talk on beekeeping.

3) Wandered around the stalls sampling unusual local food and produce, bought some cobnut fudge and some black olive mustard, had tea and a slice of coffee walnut cake in the cafe

4) Watched a gun dog demonstration (and had my heart won by a lovely, bouncy springer spaniel called Danno)

5) Went on a guided walking tour of the farm and ate loads of cherries picked from the trees (there are soooo many varieties)

It was a really good day.

There once was a guy called Spidey
So down to earth but moody
But with all the love that he got
He lost the plot
And thought he was Richard not Judy.

1. Made some peach muffins.
2. Watched the U.S. women's World Cup match versus Brazil (great match!).
3. Did some laundry.
4. Watched Portland play Seattle in MLS soccer (another great match - five goals, all in the second half!).
5. Walked up the hill with my dogs.

1) Didn't go to work.

Nothing else matters.

1. went to swindon (and bath)
2. met lots of charming people
3, heard some good music
4. went to bed at four in the morning
5. sat on southsea beach sunbathing

If you substitute 'shore' for 'beach' in that last one, you've got yourself a tongue-twister right there.

this place needs a like button

1. Woke up and washed my hair, made coffee, made breakfast, packed the children's lunches and wished I had time to read the newspaper.

2. Went to my office and did many work-related tasks, but also spent some time looking at my personal finances while on the company clock.

3. Plunged headfirst into a state of despair after the review of my current financial situation. If my despair was visually represented by a pie chart, it would consist of equal parts worry, self-reproach and resignation.

4. Took a short break around 4:00 and went to the soothing environment of the campus library. Sanctuary! But I only stayed there about 20 minutes.

5. Worked listlessly for a couple more hours, then tried but failed to resist the lure of one of those delicious $3.00 margaritas from Felipes on S. Miro St.. And when I walked in, the bartender fixed my drink and had it ready by the time I made my way up to the somewhat crowded bar. I love that guy!

1. Woke up at 5.50 on the Edinburgh-London "Sleeper"
2. Ate a "hot" "breakfast" brought to me by a steward who was not impressed by my Thor T-shirt night attire
3. In the office at 6.55 after 2 weeks away to prepare for a 9.00 client presentation
4. Discovered all the numbers are wrong and spent a panicky hour and a half fixing them
5. Sitting here pretending to work and slowly sneaking my stuff downstairs so I can get to my hotel without anyone noticing I'm leaving early (last to go will be my Mac which I'll make out I'm taking down to the meeting room)...for a snooze before a boat tour of Regent's Canal.

I've been on that train - albeit in the opposite direction. Loved the Sleeper car (unlike my companion who couldn't get to sleep on the train.)
Woke up to discover BritRail had become ScottRail, and all the money had changed.

1) Woke up early to take out the trash after falling asleep to reruns of "Breaking Bad."
2) Saw a possum next to the house. He wouldn't run off despite me yelling at him. Sprayed him with the water hose, and he just casually moseyed off, like nothing was happening. Didn't even snarl at me. Nasty animals.
3) Decided to water grass on side of house since I already had the hose out.
4) Had cereal, orange juice & coffee for breakfast.
5) Perusing on line before about to (finally!) export 2 songs from ProTools into GarageBand for simpleton01.