How annoying am I?
VERY! With good reason! This is my last day at work before going on holiday to Florida.

I can't wait! I'm really really giddy about it.

Sunshine, good weather..no work....NO WORK!!!

Come on!

Family Fallout Over Battle Of Britain
I always knew that my family was tight. Tight as in close rather than tight as in getting each other crappy Christmas presents... (although this too has been known to happen!)
But over the last 20 years there has been an underlying disquiet threatening to divide the family and tonight it reared it's ugly head.
It's football.
I am a staunch Manchester United fan...because they rule! They are, quite simply, the greatest football club in the world.
The rest of my family, bless them, support Manchester City (known from hereonin as "The Blue Shite") including my dad.

This evening saw the second leg of the Battle Of Britain game in the Champions League between the Mighty Man United and Rangers and unable to get a ticket I went to the local to watch it.

As we scored the first one (Diego Forlan with a mighty strike in the 8th minute) I texted my non-Red family and friends and my dad replied to tell me that he was there! Seriously!! My dad the City fan was there!

This is not the first time! Whenever we have a tasty European game at Old Trafford my dad manages to wangle himself a ticket somehow. He was there for Juventus, he was there for Real Madrid, he gave me his ticket for Pesci Munkas (see a pattern!)

So rather than think, do you know, my first born son who I've not seen for ages might like to see this and as his father how nice of me would it be to give him this ticket...my dad decided not only to go to the game himself but then send me loads of text messages telling me how great the atmosphere was and how this might never happen again.

I have no father!

(PS : We won 3-0 by the way!)

Coronation Bastards
Boycott Coronation Street!!

Full details to come!!

Elliott Smith 1969-2003
Tragic news.
Apparently he was working on his 6th album and committed suicide.
I'm really taken aback!
NME.com report

Is it all in Blaine?
Ananova reports today that experts reckon that US illusionist David Blaine could die as a result of the "Above and Below" stunt.
His aides need to be careful when reintroducing food into his diet to avoid "re-feeding syndrome".
He comes out tonight after 44 days in a perspex box.
So what was the point of it all? To prove that a man can do it but become very ill afterwards? Does he want to be a martyr to his trade? Is he such an attention seeker that he has to go to these lengths to satisfy his hunger...pardon the phrase.
Congratulations and everything but I can't help thinking that this entire exercise has done little to break the taboos of magic and illusion and will go down in history as one of those silly little things you hear on Radio 2 quizzes and get Z-list celebrities to talk about on "I Love 2003" - (which incidentally I will probably be available for - do you remember Spangles?)
Another point which was made more eloquently that I could on the BBC News is that this whole trick devalues the power of the hunger strike.
I hope David is fine after coming out and suffers no complications. Maybe he'll think things through properly next time!
Or maybe he'll have learned some new card tricks.