Ginger DJ Rob

Image via Wikipedia Grrrr! There's just too much going on to deal with. If only I had a clone to deal with the crap that's going on. The main reason I'm so cranky is the Acer laptop that's been delivered. The screen blanks out yet the power says it's on. After you reboot it then crashes going back to no screen action. Now I'm playing a waiting game with helpdesk. Take it back you ba$tard$

Saturday was keeping it local. Went into town determined not to buy anything but angled into Habitat for their end of lease sale. Picked up a right bargain to store the Technics since they've been relegated to expensive shelves. Next we went a little out of Southampton to a pick-your-own for some strawberries. Picking them was easy but trying to eat what's taking up half the fridge shelf is a huge task with every meal including the red fruit. ScreenSelect , our DVD postal service has been canned due to persistantly bad service and rubbish support. Last film watched was McLibel , a documentry about the longest libel case in Britain against McDonalds. Interesting but only worth watching on telly really. Sunday was just as non-eventful apart from clearing the dust away around the decks and storing them. After England got through another round, we watched Thank you for smoking at Harbourlights. Good comedy which could have been a tiny bit more funnier to make it great.

DSCF0022 Originally uploaded by Ginger DJ . After a bit of a shite day Thursday I couldn't be arsed with karate that night like I normally would. Besides it felt like Friday night with our cheeky day off for the Wireless festival. We hadn't thought too much about how we'd spend the day knowing that The Flaming Lips were on at 7:15pm, DJ Shadow at 8pm then Massive Attack after at 8:45pm. Really we should have booked a half-day but after watching the Royal Academy of Arts Summer show on telly, it gave us an excuse to see the show for real. Walking past Fortnum and Mason we approached the Academy through the courtyard arch with Damien Hurst 's mother monster scaring the tourists like a zombie guard. Next it was the painted old wood roof frame looking like a run-down old climbing frame. The entry price into the main exhibition (£7) included the catelogue of all the pieces so you could see how much you couldn't afford to buy! No photos allowed unfortunately but me

P6171447F Originally uploaded by Ginger DJ . Regret, sadness and Pete Tong playing his normal lame remixed house filled the new car's atmosphere. KissKow (the Audi A3 ) had left us and we were facing up to driving the replacement car down to Donna's in Plymouth for the weekend. We just had to tell ourselves it was the better decision and running in a new car is never fun. Got back in time to see Grace exit the BB house and see the recorded 'glass of water' incident. This year's summer TV should be retitled Big Bitch. Being the fussiest person for sleeping, Saturday morning took 2 coffees to regain full consciousness. Kerry had the idea to take Morgan, our 4 year old niece to the Butterfly farm and Otter sanctuary. Photos already loaded to FlickR but butterflies don't make the best models as they keep flapping off before the camera reacts. The humidity took awhile to get used to for myself and the camera lens! Otters were less all over the plac

After a chat with Kerry last night, enough was enough. There was too much pressure and had to end it there and then. Commitment had been tested for so long, we gave in and paid for the weekend tickets for Global Gathering to ensure we see Daft Punk . With GG actually responding to an old email of ours requesting Friday only tickets plus their latest newsletter declaring 'only a few weekend tickets' left meant their game of chicken made us the losers. Looking do the side of the sofa is being serious considered as money becomes extremely scarce. I blame it all on that greedy bitch, Madonna and her ticket prices. Ebay sales are a non-mover as it seems that no-one wants to commit to a sale without a physical ticket. This so fits my surname profile being a 'Burdened Optimist' . If you're interested in finding out about your surname try going to the Surname Profiler website. Enter your surname and you'll find out where in the country your family name was popular

If you're into Marketing and have read the background as to why I'm blogging you might like this. Taken from Mosaic's new segmentation report:- "Burdened Optimists contains confident… married couples who live in mortgaged properties in areas of good employment opportunities. " ".. many of whom have built up considerable debts in an attempt to emulate middle class lifestyles. " "Burdened Optimists is particularly common in towns such as Gillingham and Portsmouth (not far from Southampton) in which local authorities have not traditionally been big builders of council houses and which have a long tradition of working class owner occupation. Many of these homes are of a kind that suit the needs of the first time buyers and many owners are in their mid to late twenties. At this stage of their life cycle two earners are needed to obtain the multiples of earnings that lenders require in order to qualify for a mortgage on a decent property an

Thumbs up or down? Originally uploaded by Ginger DJ . Friday night was trying to watch telly with Bon Jovi blarring in the background. No it wasn't our Polish neighbours discovering Slippery When Wet for the first time, the mullet-haired past-it rockers were playing live 2 miles away in the Saints stadium. Whilst Grace was getting booed on Big Brother, Jon BJ was screeching out 'You give love a bad name'. Saturday was our daytrip to Brighton . Originally we planned to take the bikes but the trains were a bit vague and non-committable to taking them on-board. Walking around Brighton was easy anyway but getting to the Sand Sculpture site required a bus and 15 minutes wondering around the marina without any signage. Most of the sculptures were under-roof which was a shame with the blazing sun roasting the fair skinned like a BBQ. Steve put me onto this last year where the theme was Egyptian. This year was an Ancient Rome theme where loads of Dutch artists had left their

Whilst on my helpdesk shift (its really quiet today) I found this website and T-shirt design. Me wants it my precious!

No complaints at the weather and only warms the anticipation of summer festivals and holidays. Still holding out from buying Global Gathering tickets as they refuse to offer Friday only tickets yet. I'm pretty sure everyone else is holding their wallets and breath so they can see Daft Punk without the camping fiasco. Wireless is the only commited festival so far though I can't believe they have Massive Attack and DJ Shadow headlining on separate stages. If they are on at the same time, Shadow be thy name as we've seen the Attack twice. First time was with their Mezzanine album and the majority of the band still together. Second time was a minor disaster thanks to an ex-friend making us wait, missing the first half of the performance. Haven't really spoke to her since. More sunny news is that we've booked our Ibiza holiday for late August. As well as staying at Casa de Cheese Spinner, we're looking to stay on the smaller island of Formentera for a couple

Banner Originally uploaded by Ginger DJ . Spent about an hour researching new tunes for downloads preparing for Paul 's birthday party (though with only a third of them played). In the evening we put Kerry's plan of a birthday banner into action whilst watching Sezer get booted. His face was a picture and glad to see the back of that big-headed tw@t. Next on my Big Brother hit list is Grace who seems to console anyone just to get good PR. Other than that, new girl, Aisleyne needs to cover her arse or at least buy some bigger buttocks if she's going to wear a piece of shoe-lace to cover that boney bum of hers. Anyway, we finished the banner Saturday afternoon (pic above) after renewing our supplies of purple felt-tips in time to go into town on the bikes. Went into Orange hoping to sort out the free broadband and lovely new phone to satisfy my green-envy of Kerry's new Nokia N80 . I was prepared to pay a little money but Orange don't offer any trade-in if y

Not really but made me laugh at middle England complaining of the state of BBC Breakfast TV presenters' attire. Must admit I thought I was having a bad trip that morning. Full story on The Register . Another Register news story has just caught my eye with another release of Bladerunner: 25th Anniversary, the final cut. Anyone on Orange might be interested to know that they're offering free Broadband to contracts over £30 since taking over Wanadoo . I'm both an Orange and Wanadoo customer so looking to upgrade my phone anyway. Looking forward to the weekend and Paul's birthday party. Will he be wearing his Mickey Pierce outfit or perhaps he has a new Ibiza resident look? If anyone has seen the Woolwich mortgage TV advert when the couple return from Jamaica, I'm expecting Paul to look like Mike Manumission, naked and a beard after a year!

Visited our local art-house cinema for this film-noir meets cool US high school thriller. Was surprised to see so many people there were especially being an Orange Wednesday at the local Odeon. What also surprised me was how many older people were there though a few of them walked out halfway probably confused with the slang terms used for almost everything. Brick referred to a brick of smack stolen from the Pin, a local kingpin drug dealer which led to the murder of the leading role's girlfriend. The high school kid goes detecting for clues getting beaten up along the way to find out who killed her assisted by The Brain. All very Maltese Falcon/China Town style. All your noir elements were there such as hitmen, goons, drugs, a gangboss with a cane and femme-fatales except based in the LA Valley of teenagers. Very cool spotted with class direction and humour.