Ice rink badly damaged by blaze

 

Looks like Fife Ice rink been burnt down, wonder where they are going to move to.

Ice rink badly damaged by blaze

Doors

Another fast weekend for me.  Friday night I was playing football, then to the pub.  Saturday morning to ice hockey, when I got back my Dad was round starting to get ready to put some doors up.

We have had many problems with doors, so we have had to build them out using more wood.  This required some cutting to correct sizing and then wood glue.  Took lots of time and effort lifting and holding doors trying to get them to fit etc.

We managed to get 3 up over the weekend, this leaving 1 more door to be put up in the final spare bedroom.  This door has been glued and clamped, may require some planing to fit.  While waiting on the final door to dry since it was a nice weekend started to attack the fence in the back garden.  If we to be doing the garden the fence must come down, so took 1/2 the fence down.  Reason behind taking 1/2 the fence down is we are very high up and when its windy its very windy.  My bins deiced to take off, with leaving 1/2 the fence this gives it some cover!

Next thing I need to do is look at handles and painting the doors, and door frames again......

Never ending.

Blogger and Windows Live Writer

Today Blogger made me move from my blogger account to my Google account, ok fair enough, I changed my setting in Windows Live messenger and then went to blog...

java.lang.Exception: RPC handler object "blogger2" not found and no default handler registered

Nice error message that means nothing to me!

Lovely, looks like blogger and WLW dont like each other anymore.  So went on about the usual way of fixing things.  Since WLW is Beta got the new version, still same error.

I finally managed to get it going again, so for anyone that uses blogger and WLW here is a quick tip of what to do if you get this message.

Step 1:

Delete your blog from WLW completely.  If this is your only blog, then create a dummy one so it allows you to delete the real one.

Step 2:

Add New Blog
Press Tools--> Add weblog account and follow the prompts:  (Names of Prompts are in Blue)

ADD NEW BLOG SCREEN: Choose the second option, titled "Another Blog Service" and press NEXT.

Step 3:

Configure Writer to work with your current blog service.
Username: "username@gmail.com"
Password: enter your gmail password.
Press NEXT

Step 4:

Follow the rest of the wizard through to completion. Follow this up with a test blog.

Gmail: Check other email

For those people who do not have a Gmail/Googlemail account, Google have added a very good feature, mail fetcher.  This will allow you to grab mail from up to 5 external accounts and bring them into Gmail.  For me this is not a benefit as I have moved my main accounts to Gmail, and dropped my pop accounts. 

A few years ago, I was actually using outlook in the house to pull down Gmail, NTL and ukonline accounts.  Now with this added feature I would be able to login to Gmail from anywhere and access all my emails from this one place.  I can see lots of mail clients not being used anymore!

 

How to setup

Glasgow - One of the UK's Friendliest City's

Not sure where they get this from....

The thing that bugs me is that how can it be one of the UK's friendliest citys, yet its the world capital for knife crime.  Does not add up in my books.

Dentist

Visited the Dentist yesterday, 1st time I have been since I turned 18  and they started to want money off me.  Being ahem a poor student I was not keen on the idea of paying for dental health care, especially after they tell me I needed braces.  Nice of them to wait until I had to pay to spring that one on me.

Anyway Michele booked me an appointment in her local dentist, my teeth have not been causing me problems, so thought sod it few bob to get a clean and a polish.

Had my checkup, and indeed teeth are fine and dandy, even had some x-rays taken to check for anything he had missed.  Going back next week for an impression as I enquired about a gum shield.  Quite proud that I am 25 and have no fillings, the amount of junk food and fizzy juice I drink should be a dentists nightmare!

When I mentioned this to Michele, she was straight to the point "least I don't have squint teeth". Sigh confidence booster right there!

Ice Hockey

Well I have been out of Ice Hockey pretty much since the summit center ice rink closed in Finnieston, probably about 1999 or 2000.  I have had a brief comeback with the Paisley under 21's, at that time the Paisley coaches had problems with players coming from Glasgow, so a lot of the guys just sat on benches or never got picked for games.

Fast forward to last Christmas, was on a night out in Paisley and met a guy that was in the under 14's with me at Paisley.  Says they still play recreational hockey on a Wednesday night and should pop along.  That I did, when I got there spoke to the coach who said "yeah bring your stuff and come on".  There lies the problem, my Dad decided to fling some of my gear out, shorts and kitbag to name.

With buying a house, and doing it up I decided not to pursue my hockey career any further.  Then one day I was browsing eBay and I thought I would see how much kit bag and shorts would cost.  Turns out there was a shorts in my size unused for a very good price.  Kitbag was second hand but does the job.

With these now in my possession the hunt for a club was now on, I had a look on the web and found that the Paisley Ice Rink had closed to be resurfaced and fixed, great!  All that effort to getting my gear back was wasted, as most of the teams had moved to Kilmarnock and I could not be bothered training at 10pm on a school night.

On digging a bit further it was mentioned that Paisley would be moving to Breahead as their new home.  This was due to paisley ice rink putting plastic ice down. Now I have been here before when the summit center closed Glasgow was to move here, so I took this information with a pinch of salt.

With the confirmation of Paisley moving to Breahead at the start of February 2007, I started to dig looking for teams.  I came across the Paisley Panthers website (watch out for the bad music) only one out of 4 teams that have a working website.  Keeping an eye on this website it was announced that they would be training at 7.30 every Saturday morning.  An excellent time for me, I am up most days early taking Michele to the bus station, so getting up at 6.30 on a Saturday is not really an effort.

Now having been of the ice for so long, I had fears of being really crap when I did go back on the ice.  Turns out I can still skate, shoot and pass a puck.

After the session I was asked if I wanted to sign for the club, which I may as well do, seemed like a nice bunch of guys to train with and play a few games with.

Bobby

Went to the movies last night and seen Bobby.  One word to sum this up, pish.

Toy Story 3 and Snake

Sony has confirmed that Metal Gear Solid franchise will be coming to the big screen.  We all know what happened when folks got their hopes up for a halo movie.  Will see how this pans out.

Meanwhile Toy Story 3 has been penned in for a 2009 release.  Rumour is Little Miss Sunshine screenwriter is to write Toy Story 3.

Seagulls

Was in Dundee at the weekend, mainly went to pick up a suspender belt for ice hockey and to test drive my new car.  While there took the opportunity to visit Michele old work mates and friends.  We told them t hat we were going to go to Jimmy Chung's Chinese buffet for dinner, one of our favorite places for food in Dundee (apart from dominoes pizza).

Her old work mates told us that it was shut down due to them finding seagulls in the freezers and they were selling this as chicken.  This still never put us off going and sampling this new type of bird. 

They said it was in the local paper, now if a place is caught with frozen seagulls, I know they are going to throw the book at them and not let them reopen, well I hope that's the case.  Have tried goggling it for a news article cant see anything bar things on folks blogs.

Anyway went along for the buffet, and have to say that it was not as tasty as I remember.  Must have been the seagull that made it taste better!

Ricky Gervais - Fame

Went along to the opening night of Ricky Gervais new standup Fame.  Warm up guy was called Robin Ince and was introduced as a good friend of Ricky's.  He was alright and kept the crowd amused, seemed a bit nervous with some stuttering, probably never played to a crowd this size before.

With a short interval and back into our seats, Gervais started to be introduced over the loudspeakers by a mock up Matthew Kelly stars in their eyes theme.

This ending with the "Tonight Matthew, I'm going to be Ricky Gervais!" Queens One vision then comes through the system with the curtain opening to revel a 15ft high illuminated letters spelling RICKY with a crown on his head and a huge Emmy Award on the stage to hold his can of beer. "Well that's the budget spent".

Start of his act focused on cancer patients, very amusing.  The disappointing thing was he was only one stage for an hour.  I got the impression that as the tour goes on he may increase this as I am sure there will be a night that will be recorded for a DVD release.

Site Moved

As described I was attempting to move my site over onto a hosted webspace.  I have successfully managed to migrate from blogger webspace to my own.  (not bad only took me 2 months!)

I bagged some webspace from www.godaddy.com only problem I have is that for some reason webfilters pickup my site now as 'dating'.  Honest I am definitely not looking!

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