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I was listening to my iPod rather loud with my uber in-ear-can’t-hear-anything-else headphones on my way out of the office and was bouncing about a bit while waiting for the lift as I was rather partial to the track being played, turned round and noticed I was not alone I’ve rather gotten into the habit of walking round the house with my headphones in and have a tendency to dance about like a loon, but I may have to curb this habit if it’s going to spill over into public places. I do love the effect my music has on others though:

Her: <unheard due to headphones still being in>… What are you listening to?

Me: Combichrist

Her: I won’t ask…

Right, off to play guitar hero and then go to bed. Toodles

So the BBC are reporting about a bloke who got done for ranting on his blog. OK, so he was a known criminal being nasty/making threats about a police persons new baby which, on a scale of 1 to insane, rates about 14 billion but it is a little worrying… especially when you consider my views on dealing with the worlds problems. Hey well, I’m an equal opportunities ranter who doesn’t really pick on any one group of people (on this blog at least, and that one has a disclaimer) and I’m sure it’s not a crime to hate everyone

OK, so it’s been rather a long time since I’ve been to the gym, although this is mainly because I buggered my knees up at Easter and my physio has said not to go to the gym (they also said not to go clubbing and spend hours on the dancefloor for a few months, but what the hell do they know?). Anyway, this week see’s my return to the gym. Last time I went I forgot my towel so this morning I laid everything out: shoes, socks, shorts, tshirt, headphones, iPod, brush, shampoo, shower gel, hair band, towel, gym card, hand towel, drink. All this was packed into the bag and I headed off to work.

Fast forward a few hours and I arrive at the gym, get out my gym clothes and my padlock… ah. Crud. I did toy with the idea of just leaving my stuff in the locker unlocked by my wallet and iPhone were in there and I’m not sure I’d survive the loss of my iPhone (to misquote Combichrist who, coincidently, misquote the US Army, so in other words to totally make it up: this is my iPhone, it is my life.). ‘If only I had a padlock’ I thought and then, suddenly, right in front of me, hanging on the coat hook was a padlock. This kind of crap happens to me quite a lot, I am a seriously lucky person sometimes so the [other] gods must smile on me. Anyway, I waited for a few minutes to make sure it didn’t belong to anyone getting changed and then swiped it. The gods, it would appear, are cruel; the padlock was broken. Not wanting to risk it I went back to reception and splashed £6 on a crappy lock.

Workout wise things went went. I was expecting to be out of practice as it’s been a while but I’ve been keeping up my Tai Chi and I’d put together a new gym play list that was working out quite well. It was one hell of a shock, therefore, midway through a quite fast song while I was in ‘the zone’ and precisely 20 minutes into my cross training that the thing decided I’d had enough and went into cooldown mode. The resistance setting halved and I damn near fell off it. Looks like I’ll have to rejig the playlist slightly to make it just over 20 minutes long and not have the cutoff fall in the middle of something fast.

Once again the changing rooms seemed to have a couple of older blokes doing that wandering around naked being all pleased with their bodies thing. Just wait 10 years, you’ll have spindly legs a big gut and look like a frog if held by your ankles. Time is a cruel mistress like that. Actually, she’s less of a cruel mistress and more of an evil cow who hates everyone and everything… a bit like a female version of me… I wonder if she’s single.

Anyway, despite playing up a bit midway through my bike ride (which I then decided to abort rather than pushing them too hard) the knees appear to be OK. Yay them. [Parents: stop reading here] Hopefully they’ll hold up through a whole club night without me having to neck a couple of voltarol

Early night tonight (for a Friday) as I’ve got a day long Tai Chi thing in the morning. Little miffed as it turns out the club I wanted to check out tonight hadn’t actually been canceled, but I figured Tai Chi was better for me than going clubbing all night, plus I’m absolutely shattered, I can always club next month and this is not a regular thing for the Tai Chi so if it’s good and I miss out I’ll be really miffed .

Anyway, the good news is my Camera which got borked a while ago isn’t going to cost as much to fix as I thought it was. It was the shutter that went, but it’s only 60 something quid (plus 180 quid labour and VAT, but I knew about that bit) not the $700 (which lets face it, is going to be £700 the way electronics work) which my mate was telling me a new mirror box can cost. Hopefully have it back in a week so I can start taking photos again

Light Bites

Ultimate Sandwhich
Ham, cheese, marmite and salad sandwhich, slightly toasted.

Delux Nibbles
Cheese cubes, spicy pickled onion and apple slices served with freshly squeezed orange juice.

Taramasalata
Served with fresh vegetables and toasted garlic pita.

Pate
Served on toasted bread with cucumber.

Main Courses

Sechuan Pork Belly
Pork belly marinaded in a spicy sechuan sauce, fried with fine beans and mange tout [when available] served on a bed of egg noodles. Please note, while this dish can be made on demand it is best when left to marinade for a few days thus advance notice is prefered.

Oriental Pork
Pork fried in your choice of sweet and sour, black bean, terriaki or other oriental sauces with fine beans and mange tout [when available] served on a bed of egg noodles. Please note that not all sauces are stocked, please check for availablity. If enough notice is given we will endevour to stock the sauce of your choice.

Mince Creation (premade)
Bolognaise made with fine beans, mange tout [when available], peas and sweetcorn, served with pasta (choice of two shapes) or on a bed of rice. The current batch is chilli bolognaise.

Mince Creation (to order)
Bolognaise made with your choice of vegetables, served with pasta (choice of shapes) or on a bed of rice. Please place your order at least 4 hours before you wish to eat to allow for sourcing of ingredients.

Fresh Lamb Burgers
Home made lamb burgers made from Clarrisa the sheep. Served in a bun with fresh lettuice and cucumber. Please provide advance warning if you require chilli and/or garlic burgers.

Full Roast Clarrisa
Leg of lamb roasted with potatoes, yorkshire puddings and seasonal vegetables.

Fajitas
Pork or chicken fajitas with a slight cajan twist. Made with a selection of vegetables and served with or without salsa.

Pancakes (Savoury)
Savoury pancakes a la Dom served with a tuna, sweatcorn and mayonaise filling.

Desserts

Pancakes (Sweet)
Sweet pancakes a la Dom servied with your choice of lemon and sugar, organic Surrey honey or australian honey.

Mars Chocices
Straight from the freezer.

Note: Other meals available on request.

Dining at Chez Dom is by appointment only. Bookings from single, attractive women welcome. Others by prior invitation only.

Taken from a comment, updated a bit and promoted to a post

Since Cat is probably not in the right frame of mind to be listening to depressing FLA tracks I present her with an alternate track to listen to: the KPMG corporate song. For those thinking it’s a little lame there are remixes to be found here and here (for a very silly version). Beware, much cheese.

Will the idiot 99% of the population* please try and force their way into my flat armed with keys and threatening to gouge my eyes out. According to this I then have legitimate recourse to ‘defend my home’ with extreme prejudice With just a few tens of million deft flicks with a sharp implement the country will be a better place. Bwahahahahahaha!

*You know who you are.

So this is something speardave and bathgirl used to do via email, was then moved over here and, due to technical difficulties is being moved with yours truly. Expect bands you’ve never heard of (and links to Wikipedia, iTunes Music Store [ITMS] and YouTube to help edumacate you)

Right, today’s little offering is from Front Line Assembly [Wikipedia] who have been a favourite of mine for a while. I’ve owned the album Millennium for a while now but have never really tried any of their other stuff as I knew that it was a departure from what FLA normally do, however, I decided to give Tactical Neural Implant [ITMS] a go as it’s supposed to be their seminal work. Compared to Millennium, Tactical Neural Implant is just a bit weak for my tastes. It’s not bad, per say, however, it just never gets going. That said it does have Remorse [ITMS] which is an absolutely blinding, if rather depressing, track.

We once had a passion
It all seemed so right
So young and so eager
No end in sight
But now we are prisoners
In our own hearts
Nothing seems real
It’s all torn apart

Ladies and Jellyspoons,

Turns out a friend of a friend is doing some kind of research thingy doodad for her dissertation thingy and wants loads of people to go here and choose which one out of each pair of images they prefer.

Go! Do!

That will be all.

Right, theme for Sedition next month is “Fantasies and Fables”. As per previous months I’m getting a tshirt printed specially. So we’re going for:

“There is no happily ever after” [front]
“See?” [back]

However, I am opening up the floor to suggestions. Let’s hear your ideas and, if I like it, your text could be going to sedition on a shiny new tshirt