Ed Gillett’s Blog

So. I’m bad at this whole frequent blogging thing. Time for a quick catch up.

• June 2006 – We sold my Rav4 and Kat’s aging Peugeot 205 and bought a VW Polo for Kat and an MX-5 for me – fun for the summer!
• October 2006 – Kat got a new job
• Dec 2006 – Merry Christmas (for 2006)
• Jan 2007 – Happy New Year (for 2007)
• March 2007 – We went Snowboarding in Les Arcs and I had a great 27th Birthday
• March 2007 – Kathryn’s pregnant! Hooray!
• March 2007 – Ed got a new job
• May 2007 – We sold my 2 bed flat and bought our 3 bed house in May. We have our own land!
• July 2007 – We sold the MX-5 and got a new VW Golf Match 1.9 TDI for me
• Summer/Autumn 2007 – Ed did lots of DIY to ready the house for the new arrival and make it comfy for his pregnant wife too! We also went to all the ParentCraft, Breastfeeding Classes, Physical Preparation for Childbirth and NCT courses – well on our way to being qualified parents
• December 2007 – Kathryn had a great 25th Birthday and a Baby Shower!
• December 2007 – Our baby arrived, a beautiful girl, Avilee Elisa, on 21/12/2007!!
• December 2007 – Merry Christmas!
• January 2008 – Happy New Year!

Bloody awesome!

Bunny suicides

honk!

Originally uploaded by The Fuzzy Squid

I wonder what the scruffy looking Nerfherder would think about that …

0 – Stone cold sober. Brain as sharp as an army bayonet.
1 – Still sober. Pleasure senses activated. Feeling of well-being.
2 – Lager warming up head. Pretzles are ordered. Barmaid complimented on choice of blouse.
3 – Crossword in newspaper is filled in. After a while blanks are filled with random letters and numbers.
4 – Barmaid complimented on choice of bra. Partially visible when bending to get packets of crisps. Try to instigate conversation about bras. Order half a dozen packets of pretzles one by one.
5 – Have brilliant discussion with guy on the next bar stool. Devise fool-proof scheme for wining lottery, sort out Denver Broncos defense problems.
6 – Feel like a Demi-God. Map out rest of life on cocktail napkin. Realize that everybody loves you. Call parents and tell them you love them. Call girlfriend to tell her you love her and she still has an amazing ass.
7 – Send drinks over to woman sitting at table with boyfriend. No reaction. Scribble out message of love on five cocktail napkins and Frisbee them to her across the room. Boyfriend asks you outside. You buy him a Slim Panatela.
8 – Some slurring. Offer to buy drinks for everyone in room. Lots of people say yes. Go round the bar hugging them one by one. Fall over. Get up.
9 – Head-ache kicks in. Michelob tastes off. Send it back. Next bottle comes back tasting same. Say, “That’s much better”. Fight nausea by trying to play old Space Invaders game for ten minutes before seeing out of order sign.
10 – Some doubling of vision. Stand on table shouting abuse at all four bartenders. Talked down by bartender’s wives, who you offer to give a baby to. Fall over. Get up. Fall over. Impale head on corner of table. Fail to notice oozing head wound.
11 – Speech no longer possible. Eventually manage to find door. Sit and take stock. Realize you are sitting in pub cellar, having taken a wrong turning. Vomit. Pass out.
12 – Put in cab by somebody. Give home address. Taken home. Can’t get key in door. Realize you’ve given address of your local gym. Generally pleased at way evening has gone. Pass out again.

An airline captain was breaking in a new blonde stewardess. The route they were flying had a layover in another city. Upon their arrival, the captain showed the stewardess the best place for airline personnel to eat, shop and stay overnight.

The next morning, as the pilot was preparing the crew for the day’s route, he noticed the new stewardess was missing. He knew which room she was in at the hotel and called her up wondering what happened. She answered the phone, crying, and said she couldn’t get out of her room. “You can’t get out of your room?” the captain asked, “Why not?”

The stewardess replied: “There are only three doors in here,” she sobbed, “one is the bathroom, one is the closet, and one has a sign on it that says ‘Do Not Disturb’!”

A gallery of stuff being destroyed, at the exact moment they ceased to be thanks to the wonders of fast photography

Timing is Everything

Not exactly news, but hey. Video of a Steve Jobs (Apple CEO) parody featuring video of Bill Gates running like a girl at XBox Event.

And lest we forget the antics of Mr. Ballmer (Microsoft CEO):

http://www.ntk.net/ballmer/mirrors.html (featuring the Monkey Boy dance geeks know and love, and the ever popular “Developers, Developers …”)

If you’ve never come across this guy before, he’s quite amusing.

Chuck sent me an email earlier with a link to some guy identifying him as “DJ Wankr” after he ended a 4 hour set in a slightly different way, which if you didn’t know who he was, could really be taken as a sign that he is, in fact the worlds worst DJ. The guy who posted the copy of the video (which has gone around the web like lightening), has actually confessed to his crimes and links back to DJ Keltech.

Have a look through some of his scratch videos. Perhaps we should have had him for our wedding (maybe not. but still – comedy). Highlights include Star Wars and War of the World themes.

http://www.djkeltech.com/scratch.htm

The clip that is doing the rounds actually comes from the end of his “DMC 2004 Finals” video.

I rediscovered Weezer. The Green Album is particularly good.

I dislike Revels. They were doing ok on their first outing until I found the coffee flavour one. Orange one too. Now the rest are tainted by their memory. Ah well.