I’ve gotten into a fairly unhealthy sleep pattern cycle that I really have to break – especially at the weekends, when I work in a bar and generally get home at around 2am. Once a week (Sundays, usually), I’ll stop off at the chipper and get a fresh cod and curry chips… probably a bad idea too, if I’m honest- health-wise certainly,- although I convinced myself recently that once a week is okay. I meant to make a new year’s resolution to cut down on it (or cut it out entirely) and get more healthy, but that’s easier said than done as I like it too bloody much for my own good!

Once home, I’m reluctant to go to sleep and usually watch a bit of TV with the dog for company. When I do eventually go up to the bedroom, I’m too awake to sleep and stay up reading, browsing, chatting, tweeting, facebooking, watching movies – and yes, occasionally, blogging.

Sometimes I have a few drinks while doing this… alone. Bad idea.. I know! – and this goes on until I finally start to feel properly tired – stupid o’clock usually (often after 4 or 5am) – a lot of the time actually in bed with the laptop on a tray on my knees, and I end up not getting up until 1 or 2pm the next day.

[ ✔ ] Good fast processor
[ ✔ ] Adequate amount of memory
[ ✔ ] Nice size hard drive
[ ✔ ] Long battery life
[ ✔ ] High-speed double layer capable DVD burner
[     ] Can be caught in mid-air by a man using only his arse

Er… Hang on a sec…

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Been busy lately. Worked a fair bit. Got my new laptop. Met some legends of radio (Ray Foley is a lovely fellah, by the way) and enjoyed two new stations on the air now in Dublin (a college classmate of mine is reading the news on one of them!)… oh and I’m back in this situation again (off the cigarettes – and today is day 16, coincidentally) … but anyway… I’ll blog about all of that later.

For now, why not enjoy the wonderful attraction that is … a giant panda vomiting out top quality photos on a rainbow? … Oh YES!

Here he is!

Oh, and I made this video… just trying something out. Sad, I know.

Blogging is going to be fairly “thin on the ground” here for a wee while as my laptop is basically dying.

There’s a fault with the power input section of the motherboard and it’s only charging the battery when the power is OFF. When it’s ON, the battery discharges fully within about 20 minutes and the machine shuts down. It won’t run off the mains alone. I’ve tried a few things to get this fixed myself but to no avail and frankly, as it’s over 5 years old and well out of warranty by now, it looks like it’s time to put it “out to pasture”, as it were.

Will be a wee while before I can afford to shell out for a new one though, so blogging will be light for now. For your blogtertainment (suuuuure, it can be a word…), why not check out Rick, Damien, Ken, Twenty or Ruairí? G’wan…

Okay, I’ve been away for a few days (went to visit my brother and his housemates in London) and now I’m having problems with my laptop (which I’m slowly sorting out) so I’ve been away from blogging for a short while and will be for a LITTLE bit longer. Took some nice photos in London,- I’ll probably post them.

In the meantime, here’s a video a friend’s sister showed me recently that made me laugh out loud… Achmed, the dead terrorist.

SILENCE! … I KILL YOU!