I must admit that while I do have a facebook account, it’s not something that occupies a huge amount of my time. There are too many irritating things about it. I for one am constantly bombarded with requests to do this or that, or bite another zombie, or take a movie taste challenge. To be honest I have neither the time nor the inclination. A lot of the people who send these are good friends of mine, and I always feel really bad when I ignore the request of my girlfriend, or a close friend, but I have decided on principle not to do them.

But yesterday, having signed on, I found a new crack-like way to pass the time, and that was the ‘recommended friend’ feature. And there was a whole evening gone. Now I have another rule when it comes to social networking sites, which is to only accept the friendship of people who I have actually met, or at least spoken to enough to genuinely call them a friend. But nevertheless, so many old acquaintances made my head dizzy. Now to sit back and see if any of them remember me.

This weekend I am spending a rather pleasant weekend with my ladies, but it is being somewhat undercut by the constant wave of nausea that hits me when I remember that I will, in the next few days, be finding out if I have a tremendously exciting new job. So to distract myself from this question, I present you with a picture of my little Rosie. Isn’t she cute?

I was supposed to be having a rehearsal with a new band today, but it keeps getting cancelled, but at least it leaves me with a weekend of doing nothing in particular.  I’m about to buy some headphones and that is truly the most taxing task that I will have to undertake today.  Bliss.

Still no internet at home, I’m now reaching a zen-like acceptance about this, I think any more bile directed towards Talk Talk would give me an ulcer.

Tool and Mastodon was absolutely amazing, two bands who are steadfastly at the top of their game.  As openers, Mastodon had to stick firmly to the new album, but that’s no bad thing really.  They closed on an amazing 13 minute ‘Hearts Alive’ off Leviathan.  Good as they were, however, Tool just blew them away, from opening with Stinkfist, through to the immense full spectacle of Wings parts 1 and 2 (weighing in around 25 minutes) replete with the sort of laser show that Pink Floyd would be proud of.  I’ve seen some damn good gigs this year, but that really rounded the year off in spectacular style.

Well, I took a week off work so that I could really knuckle down, sort out my CV, get an online portfolio sorted, get some blogging done, all sorts of internet based life sorting really.  But on the first day Talk Talk decided to put a fault on my line and take money out of my account that they had promised they would not.  Hence, for the whole week I have been without phone, internet or money.  If it weren’t for a constant stream of friends willing to come round and watch DVDs with me and the repeats of the OC showing on E4 every day, I don’t think I would have made it through.

I’ve been introducing a friend to the wonderful world of comic book movies with viewings of the X films, Batman Begins, the Punisher, Daredevil, Elektra and a few others, and it got me to thinking that no news has been heard in a while about sequels to Daredevil and Elektra.  Now, I know neither film set the world alight, either in terms of critical acclaim or box office, but I thoroughly enjoyed both, and thought Affleck was ‘tha bomb’ and Jennifer Garner was outstanding.  Neither the (also fantastic) Hulk or Punisher films did a huge amount of business and yet they’re both getting sequels.  Manybe someone should poke Marvel a little bit.

Now I know we’re not supposed to get all personal and gooey on our blogs but one thing has driven me up the wall this week.  Once again I met an entirely lovely girl.   Once again it has all gone belly up even before the first date for utterly unfathomable reasons.  Now I know what you’re thinking, I must have done something wrong.  But honestly, I don’t see what that could be, since I went to bed thinking I had a date the next day, then woke up the next day without one, and have been blanked ever since.  All I really want in this case is, well, to know where it all broke down.  Is it some elaborate mind game?  Is someone out there warning women away from me for some unspecified reason?  Because this is happening far too often for my liking.

Anyway, I shall be back once I have negotiated some kind of service resumption with Talk Talk.  All they will tell me at the moment is that they are working on the problem.  Yeah right.  But I shall be back as soon as I can.