February 2012
2 posts
Disparity
I get very annoyed, no, I get very angry about people who seem to think their life is so fucking awful they can’t cope with the day to day rigours the rest of us seem to have to cope with.
Recently my Twitter feed has been full of a lot of wank, workfare, depressed souls and self serving disability.
Let me tackle the workfare thing firstly. I was out of work for nearly two years, without...
Drunken Posts and Suchlike
One thing I was a regal force in was the drunken blog post, mainly fuelled by listening to bigoted views of drunken people at work then relaxing with a few beers after finishing at the pub and sharing those views.
I found it exceptionally easy to get a rise out of readers by just implying a slight wrongness on any particular subject, it could have been something as innocuous as the price of...
January 2012
2 posts
Insomnia
I had become a terrible sleeper of late, I had no idea why this was the case, all I knew is that I’d be awake until the early hours of the morning and once asleep I’d wake up from time to time, eventually hearing the alarm after what felt like a couple of hours of snoring.
As you can imagine this impacted a lot on my life. I was constantly tired, late for work, unable to concentrate,...
2011
What a year it was, memorable to say the least.
Personally I found 2011 full of huge highs and deep lows, I for one hope that 2012 doesn’t contain so many instances of change, I much prefer the Status Quo.
January saw me finally getting an interview after nearly two years out of work, what was even better I got the job! I cannot stress how demoralising that period of my life was, the...
November 2011
2 posts
Another Post!
I do keep being asked to write more, I really do not know why. Bowing down to the barrage of online urges, here’s another small excerpt. Perhaps not one that will make you laugh or rile your sensibilities, but one to make you think, perhaps not about me, but others.
I dreamed once that I would be killed in a violent fashion. I was walking down a set of stairs in Wales, I was stabbed in the...
You Can't Make This Shit Up!
I haven’t been spurred to write anything for ages, nothing has riled me enough to warrant a rant, but today, two stories that have been mentioned in the news have wound me up no end!
Yes folks, not one, but two stories.
Exhibit one: The EU have decreed that water can no longer be described as hydrating.
You what?!?! A group of scientists without an ounce of common sense between them...
September 2011
1 post
Hiccups
I have an innate ability that I have found that nobody else seems to have mastered, the ability to stop hiccups at will.
Obviously, if I wanted a superhero ability, I’d prefer the ability to keep an erection long enough to satisfy a total slut, or perhaps the ability to be insanely attractive regardless of what bitches think. Ooh, I think I was slightly chauvinistic there…
Anyhow,...
July 2011
2 posts
No Longer Playing the Game
You may have noticed that I don’t blog very often any more.
It’s true, and I keep promising to write more when my avid readers engage with me. To be true I have a vast amount of stories to tell, i just don’t feel the need to share at the moment. The social network explosion has put an end to the closeness that we bloggers had a few years ago, which is a shame.
However!
I...
Difficult Times
It’s been a difficult few days I must admit. Getting a phonecall at work late Thursday afternoon saying that I need to get my arse to North Wales because dad was getting worse. So I book my train ticket for Friday morning and as I was traveling through mid-Wales another phonecall, he’s very bad, a family member will be there at the station to rush you over to the hospital.
Typically,...
June 2011
7 posts
My Name
When I’m bored I like to play with fonts. Yeah, I know, nerd!
Anyhow, I’ve had a lot of fun with Google Translate with my name. I have for instance found out that my Latin name would be Vitus Williams. Me! Vitus lol
Amongst the other things, I like to see is how my name looks in different scripts, and this is my favourite. Persian.
Lovely isn’t it.
Old Man Hair
For those who know me in real life, you may have noticed that I’m getting a bit thin on top. I’m far from going bald, but I do have to make sure that I wear a hat or I will burn the top of my skull in the noonday sun.
I’m not overly worried about this, I occasionally shave my head when I get fed up of my hair, so vanity is far from my mind. What does irk me is where all of this...
Trainspotting
In danger of making myself look like a complete nerd, I am going to admit that I love trains. Not in the same way as some of course, I don’t rush out to collect registration numbers nor do I take photos of the 12:21 from Bristol Temple Meads for my vast collection of slightly blurry polaroids of choo choo’s.
I am of course talking about the traveling by locomotion and the romanticism...
Travelling Without Moving
Today I took the day off work to make sure that I could get up to North Wales early to give myself the maximum amount of time to see dad at hospital. Obviously this was far too much of an expectation on my behalf because the Universe doesn’t like me very much and wants to fuck me up the chocolate as much as possible.
A train journey which should have taken about 6 hours ended up being 11...
Update
Without putting frills upon events, things are not so good at the KoA household.
My father turned 80 last February, we all went up as a family to celebrate, each sibling and each nephew and niece turned up, which was a wonderful thing even for me to see, but for my dad it was an incredible night.
Since that evening, he had a small corrective operation to alleviate his glaucoma, but upon coming...
Future Society
I have often wondered what we will be like in years to come, I keep hoping that as a race we will finally become peace loving and respectful of our planet. Somehow I doubt this will ever come to pass, the Utopian ideals of fantasy never seem to come about.
However, saying that, I seem to feel that there is a certain truth emerging from an Asimov novel, namely The Naked Sun.
For those of you who...
Life Laundry
I have decided that I have far too much ‘stuff’, in fact there’s so much of it, half of my living room is more or less storage. So I’ve decided to get rid of it all. If I haven’t used it in the last month, I probably don’t need it.
You see, I’m what you may call a hoarder. I always think that this or that might come in handy, so I best keep hold of it,...
May 2011
8 posts
Photo
By popular demand, well, one person asked to see, here’s me modelling the new spectacles.
Not much in the way of change I hear you say, but it’s a darker frame, sort of blue tint to it and the arms are much thicker. I didn’t want to have a drastic change because for people like me, glasses are part of your face, so a departure from the norm would almost be like having a...
New Glasses
Today I got a new pair of glasses, my first new pair for maybe a decade. I know most of you don’t wear glasses every waking hour of the day unlike I do, so you might not appreciate how vital glasses are to blind bastards like me!
I must say, I have left it way too long to get new specs. I had forgotten what 20-20 vision was like. My old pair had been abused beyond belief. They’ve been...
An Open Letter to Giggs
You know, it wasn’t a secret that Ryan Giggs, the amazing Welsh footballer from Manchester United and the best footballer that Wales has seen in its recent history was fucking Miss Wales, Imogen whatever her name is. Everyone knew. However someone persuaded Giggs to take out an injunction, or a ‘Superinjunction’ to silence her.
As badly advised as this is, I’m not one to...
Eyes
I finally had my eyes tested today. I’ve been a bit lax to say the least when it comes to regular testing, which is rather silly of me as both my grandfather and father suffer from glaucoma. The good news from the test is that I have no signs of glaucoma which is a relief. Not only this, one of my eyes has slightly got better. I’m not as blind as I was on one side, the other eye is...
Community
I used to be a member of an exceptional blogging community way back when, I think we’re really talking about seven/eight years ago. I was a fledgling blogger at AOL Journals, but things were a bit clinical there, so I looked for another free platform to expand my meagre writing. I found Modblog.
I cannot really explain Modblog to outsiders who never used it. It was like having a better...
An End
My headphones are dying.
I’ve had them for 22 years, longer than any relationship in my life, longer than I’ve lived in any house throughout my life. They have followed me everywhere, they are as much part of me as my right hand. *I’m a left hand masturbator by the way, the advent of the mouse has probably made the majority of males ambidextrous.. Thanks Bernard-Lee!*
I bought...
Commenting
I was advised by a friend who is a white troll, sounds worse than it is, that commenting on my blog is impossible, and to be true, it is.
Seeing that I only post infrequently nowadays and that I get more comments through Twitter and NetworkedBlogs, i.e. Facebook; I’m not too bothered about fixing it.
If you feel the need to comment on my scribbles, friend me on FB by telling me who you...
Q&A
I saw this on @BumbleBecki’s blog and thought it would be fun to have a go.
Which living person do you most admire and why? I admire many people for different reasons. I think Einstein was a pretty awesome guy as his theories are still working perfectly, a man who understood the universe as it is. I also admire many artists, authors, directors for the work they do, I also admire people who...
April 2011
1 post
Of Sight
Next weekend I’m going to go for my first eye test since I was seeing @WelshPixie, her step-sister performed a contact lens eye test for me free of charge and I bought a pack of 21 day disposable lenses, which I still have more than half of left. This dates that test to nearly 4-5 years ago.
Previously to that I was probably running The Cross Inn, I remember buying the spectalcles I now...
March 2011
1 post
Bad Blogger
It’s been a whole month since I blogged something, who would have thought it?
I suppose I’m not as opinionated as I used to be, or maybe I’ve become jaded by life itself. I’ve seen many blogworthy topics over the last few weeks and yet I’m suffering from writers ennui. I seem to be deleting more than I write nowadays…
So what has happened in the last month?...
February 2011
4 posts
Safety
Health and Safety is giving me a headache.
In my personal opinion health and safety is an unnecessary piece of twaddle. Surely Darwinism will eventually whittle out the need for such legislation, after all, why do we want someone who fails to realise that you have to be careful climbing a ladder working with you? Best they fall off quickly and end their miserable lives and stop bothering the rest...
Socks
I was brought up by parents who were youngsters during WW2, my father was a gunner in the home guard. This probably means nothing to most of the people who read this blog, but let me tell you how this has influenced my life.
My parents grew up in an age of poverty, Britain had nothing, food was rationed for decades and basics that we take for granted now were not available then. You wanted...
All About Percentages
A couple of days ago I Tweeted this.
Oh, that’s a shame, if you earn over £42,500 a year you have to pay 40% tax, terrible that, I have no idea how you will cope…
It was highlighting the fact that our illustrious government is making high earners pay more income tax once they reach a certain point. A point I may add that the vast majority of this population will never be able to...
January 2011
6 posts
I’m bored!
I don’t do boredom very well, usually because I always have something to entertain myself with, so boredom is an unusual state for me to be experiencing.
It might be because it’s 03:26, a time where I should be fast asleep, or at least engaging in some cybersex or some other outlandish thing. So, here I am writing a blog entry that nobody want to read.
Happiness is...
Finally finding a job that I actually want to do after practically being unemployed for nearly two years.
I wont go into too many details here but I have been gainfully employed to cover maternity leave for a company that supplies and services theatrical goods. But I feel that if I can prove myself within the next couple of months by gaining new customers by using online marketing and revamping...
2.5%
Hello everyone, long time no see. I’ve had a few weeks off from blogging as I’ve had no interest in writing anything, you know how it goes..
Anyhow, today the powers that be, I hate to call them a government as they don’t know how to govern anything, have inflicted upon this nation an increase of 2.5% on the value added tax we have to pay. For those of you who can’t do the...
December 2010
2 posts
Life Update
It’s been ages since I last blogged, I’d like to say its been because I have found a job and I’m too busy, but the truth of the matter is I no longer have internet access. The only way I can blog or leave comments is by using my phone, and as you can imagine dear readers, this is by far, less than desirable.
Not to be daunted by this, I have figured a way of writing a post on my...
November 2010
3 posts
Royal Shenanigans
I have been trying my best to avoid the upcoming Royal Wedding media hype, but it’s next to impossible to do so. Although I don’t buy any newspapers nor watch television, my RSS feeds are full of mentions to Will’s & Kate getting married.
Personally I couldn’t care less, to me the Royal Family are nothing more than a vestigial remnant of an age long gone.
Now they no longer drain the...
Papal Rubber
So, the Pope, the leader of the most aggressive religion on the planet, has finally conceded that the use of condoms is viable in certain circumstances. Namely for male prostitutes who want to avoid spreading diseases.
This doesn’t surprise me much as most priests are gay or even paedophiles, so as always the religious right are protecting themselves.
No mention yet as how they would...
Perception of Porn
For my birthday, the lovely Fundy & Squilla sent me an amazing gift, a book entitled “The Macho Man’s Drinkbook”, with the sub-heading “Because Nude Girls and Alcohol Go Great Together”. Who am I to disagree! Without giving the plot of the book away, there is none, it’s a cocktail recipe book with pictures of 80’s topless models on every other page;...
October 2010
7 posts
Another Year
Yet another birthday has arrived, another year older, yet I’m positive that my last one can’t have been less than a few months ago, or so it seems.
I’m sure that most of you feel the same. When I was a kid, the school Summer holidays seemed to last forever, six weeks of sunshine and playing in the woods. Today, six weeks fly by in a blink of an eye. I suppose that is a symptom...
Privacy
Last Wednesday I was walking home from the pub, a little merry shall we say *ahem*, and thought to myself that I wanted to write about how unemployment changes your life. What ensued was about forty minutes of fingers flying over the keyboard until I ended up with a huge piece of writing which I thought at the time was one of the best things I have ever written
For some reason, which seems odd to...
Homemade Wine
As some of you know, over the last couple of months I have attempted to make my own wine by using the blackberries I picked. Well, today I have decided to test a bottle. At first glance it looks like a rosê wine, but the bouquet is alarmingly strong.
To be fair, it’s not the best wine I have ever tasted, not enough fruit in it for me, plus the alcohol content makes the taste a bit too...
Twitter
The only thing I dislike about Twitter is being locked out!
Vox, You Have Died!
There you go see!
It is now official, Vox is dead. You can no longer even visit the site as it forwards you to Typepad. *sigh*
It’s a great shame! For me Vox was almost as good as Modblog, there was an amazing community spirit over there and its demise will be affecting many people. It’s such a shame that the concerns of the board members of a company that eventually bought Six Apart...
September 2010
9 posts
Winemaking
Over the last few weeks I’ve been collecting blackberries, usually I’d make some jam or a blackberry pie, but this year I thought I’d try something a little different. Yes my dear readers, I’m attempting to make wine.
I mean, how hard could it be? Very hard apparently. Every recipe I have looked at is amazingly time involved and complicated. Several ways of juicing the...
What We Miss
This post really sums up the loss we have experienced due the loss of Vox. I have blatantly copied and pasted this from http://joie.vox.com/
Things I’ve Loathed:
Spam and the spamming spammers who’ve spammed us—and significantly, the lack of an effective way to manage or report it.
Ken, King of Trolls, so notorious and universally loathed that groups comprising people...