The one with an awesome farting bull statue!

The one with Windows 7 and other geek goodness!

Last week, the nice people at Microsoft sent on a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate. Being a long time XP user, I was a little dubious about doing a complete fresh install, as these things never go to plan.

I set about backing up years worth of photos and a small fortune of iTune purchases. All told, the backup process took the bare bones of nearly 2.5 hours. Windows 7 took less than 45 minutes to get onto me trusty Dell laptop and so far its been a wonderful experience. Its fast and incredibly intuitive. I love the idea where it goes off by its lickle self and looks for a particular driver and so on. Those of you coming from Vista won’t see much visual differences, but coming from XP its a huge difference! And it all went to plan, bar me losing all my iTunes playlists, but that I can manage!! Either way, best move I’ve made in along time!!!

I’m in the process of reinstalling software and put Picasa (3.5) back on over the weekend. And this now has a facial recognition feature which is mindblowing. Its about 95% accurate so far and I now know how Tom Cruise’s character felt in Minority Report. Ok, maybe no entirely, but hats off to the Google boys again!!!

Anyway, for today that is it. The blog is 5 years old later in the week, so I’m off to plan the party. Ahem!

THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS REVIEW

Based on the book by Jon Ronson (Which I haven’t read), the men who stare at goats is all about men who stare at goats and attempt to stop their heart in the process. Click the poster to read the rest of the review.

Jennifer's Body

The horror genre continues its revival and its latest offering has the bride from Mama Mia and the mechanic from Transformers 2 getting gored up. Click the poster to continue reading the rest of the review :)

The one with testicles

Its funny how you forget things if they haven’t happened to you in an incredibly long time. Yesterday, my right testicle was involved in an incredible collision with one of the dogs toys.

Recently, we bought 2 new toys for the dogs, and one of these was a fluffy duck. And for some reason unbeknownst to everyone except the manufacturer, they had stuck a giant, hard ball inside the duck. I suppose in a way, that's hugely beneficial to the dogs and it means the toy isn’t eaten in a matter of seconds.

And whilst lounging on the couch in the kitchen yesterday, my new wife decided it would be hilarious to throw the aforementioned toy at yours truly. Like a scene out of the Matrix, time slowed down as I witnessed this flying, furry duck hurtling towards me. It shot past the fridge, over a table and unlike Neo, I was unable to get out of the way. And then the collision with my right testicle happened. First there was nothing, but in the half blink of an eye the pain erupted. Like a dormant volcano, I hadn’t felt pain like this since primary school, which was around the last time I got a belt into the baby factory. Like a big sack of spuds, I collapsed off the couch onto the ground, holding the baby factory, drooling and screaming like something out of Patrick St. on a Saturday night.

The wife couldn’t stop laughing and the dogs started lapping up my pain infused drool which was exiting my mouth like ping pong balls in a dodgy thai “adult” show. I remained on the ground for some time, before I managed to crawl back onto the couch. Then the “I never hit you there” started. And after some convincing which incorporated many fine expletives, the wife decided to apologise. Words of “Kiss it better” fell on deaf ears though! So if you think your having a bad day, try being my right testicle!

The one on Wednesday

Forza 3 up for grabs on the Gadgets and Gaming bit this evening....

The one with a fork lift

The one after Halloween

Another night of ghosts, ghouls and scobes draws to an end! We missed all the trick or treaters, due to yours truly thundering off the buy a cheap shirt to destroy with food colouring. And by the time we came back after getting fed in the process, most of the little ones had gone home with their bags of sweets. No doubt, an hour later they were doing their best, Exorcist projectile vomit impressions.

The outfit for the fancy dress bash at Club D’Ville got a few comments afterward. People obviously thought I was in an almighty punch up. “You alright biy? You need an ambulance or anything” was one such comment I got in a garage. A group of girls refused to get out of a car after spotting me and were all to quick to pull their mate back into the car, saying “Stay in the car, stay in the car”. Another bloke said “Fuck, that was some batin’ ya got”. Thankfully nobody called the cops as I did look like I had butchered a small housing estate! I had a t-shirt wrapped around the seat in case the food colouring would make shit of the car seat, which would have looked even more dodge If I were stopped by the lads in blue!

Managed to convince the wife to watch Drag me to Hell on Blu-Ray, which is a great flick and incredibly funny with the occasional “JUMP” moment. Wife terrified of the whole thing. Clung to me arm until I eventually reminded her that I need my right arm for writing, cooking and..um…other things. It didn’t matter, she still clawed the shit out of it!

The one on Halloween

Have a good Halloween! Huge fancy dress bash in Club D'ville, Charleville tonight - Doors 11pm

The one with the Kino

Public meeting re: Kino has changed venue to the Opera House tomorrow, at 2pm!!!!!