Our first Disneyland parade:
A little photo montage of Josh's meetings with the Disney characters:
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Disneyland Paris trip
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Our first Disneyland parade:
A little photo montage of Josh's meetings with the Disney characters:
Our first Disneyland parade:
A little photo montage of Josh's meetings with the Disney characters:
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
It's alive.....
It's been a while since I last wrote anything which is probably due to a lack of enthusiasm on my part rather than a lack of anything to write about, or as Captain Jack quite rightly states, I've been enrolled into the Marine Corp and currently spend most of my evenings blasting away on Call Of Duty 4 still (it's a bloody good game!)
It's not all been COD action though and I still manage to cope without it for the few on hours on a Thursday night that we spend up the hotel for our weekly dose of karaoke. If you've been reading Captain Jacks blog then you will already know that our regular Thursday night KJ and good friend Andy King has been unceremoniously dropped from his spot (bad landlord!!) to be replaced with DJ Gaz (who does the Sunday slot too) who along with the karaoke now hosts a quiz as well. The quiz doesn't intefere with the karaoke too much and it's still quiet enough to get a few songs in each. Andy's still there on a Tuesday night so I'll probably pop up then every so often to catch up on things but for now my main night will remain the Thursday night. There's a couple of reasons for this, the most driving one of course is the fact that I don't have to go to work on a Friday and so can have a few drinks without the worry of working with a hangover! ;)
You may remember me posting last year about the wife, the brand new Renault Scenic and her driving it into
the wall 15 minutes after driving it from the showroom. You don't? Well, then head over to here and you'll see what I'm on about! Anyway, we finally got around to knocking it down to widen the opening this week. When I say 'we' I do of course mean our handyman brother-in-law came around to knock the wall down :) I helped by making him cups of tea which I must have got right as he had at least 3 that I remember! Even the little uns were helping out as you can see by their 'eagerness' to brush up the rubble. It's currently taken down and we just need to slope off the drive a little as it's left a 'step' where the wall was and also to rebuild the column in it's wider state. Hopefully that'll be happening this weekend.
Treated myself to a new camcorder this weekend. After reading some reviews I finally decided upon the Sony Handycam DCR-SR55 based upon price, storage options, connectibility and reader reviews. You can find the tech specs for it over on Amazon but basically it's got a 40Gb internal hard drive which it records onto directly in MPEG-2 format. You then connect it to the pc via USB and it shows as another drive from which you can simply drag and drop your ready made videos from to store or burn to disk. How easy is that! Certainly much easier than it was to get the film off the Hi-8 digital tapes that my [6 years] old previous camcorder used. The new one is also about a third of the size of the other one two as you can tell by my picture of them both side-by-side. I haven't had a real good play with it yet but tested it out quickly when we were watching the above wall being knocked down. It's not much but here's a little clip of the little uns with the brother-in-law working away knocking the wall down!
The main reason I bought it was to get some decent footage from our upcoming holiday :) Yep, we're off to Disneyland soon, Paris not Florida, for an extended weekend which the kids are excited about. Josh wants to meet Buzz Lightyear and Amy wants to meet Mickey Mouse. Hopefully we'll have a great time and they'll enjoy it. As usual I'm not looking forward to the flight (I really hate flying) but fortunately it's only a short (1½ hours) journey so we should be getting off as soon as we've got on! Can't wait and I'll be posting up whatever piccies and videos I that are worthwhile once we're back.
Well, I think that'll do for now otherwise I'll be challenging me ol' shipmate at the amount of words-per-blog!
Take care people and see you later :)
It's not all been COD action though and I still manage to cope without it for the few on hours on a Thursday night that we spend up the hotel for our weekly dose of karaoke. If you've been reading Captain Jacks blog then you will already know that our regular Thursday night KJ and good friend Andy King has been unceremoniously dropped from his spot (bad landlord!!) to be replaced with DJ Gaz (who does the Sunday slot too) who along with the karaoke now hosts a quiz as well. The quiz doesn't intefere with the karaoke too much and it's still quiet enough to get a few songs in each. Andy's still there on a Tuesday night so I'll probably pop up then every so often to catch up on things but for now my main night will remain the Thursday night. There's a couple of reasons for this, the most driving one of course is the fact that I don't have to go to work on a Friday and so can have a few drinks without the worry of working with a hangover! ;)
You may remember me posting last year about the wife, the brand new Renault Scenic and her driving it into
the wall 15 minutes after driving it from the showroom. You don't? Well, then head over to here and you'll see what I'm on about! Anyway, we finally got around to knocking it down to widen the opening this week. When I say 'we' I do of course mean our handyman brother-in-law came around to knock the wall down :) I helped by making him cups of tea which I must have got right as he had at least 3 that I remember! Even the little uns were helping out as you can see by their 'eagerness' to brush up the rubble. It's currently taken down and we just need to slope off the drive a little as it's left a 'step' where the wall was and also to rebuild the column in it's wider state. Hopefully that'll be happening this weekend.
Treated myself to a new camcorder this weekend. After reading some reviews I finally decided upon the Sony Handycam DCR-SR55 based upon price, storage options, connectibility and reader reviews. You can find the tech specs for it over on Amazon but basically it's got a 40Gb internal hard drive which it records onto directly in MPEG-2 format. You then connect it to the pc via USB and it shows as another drive from which you can simply drag and drop your ready made videos from to store or burn to disk. How easy is that! Certainly much easier than it was to get the film off the Hi-8 digital tapes that my [6 years] old previous camcorder used. The new one is also about a third of the size of the other one two as you can tell by my picture of them both side-by-side. I haven't had a real good play with it yet but tested it out quickly when we were watching the above wall being knocked down. It's not much but here's a little clip of the little uns with the brother-in-law working away knocking the wall down!The main reason I bought it was to get some decent footage from our upcoming holiday :) Yep, we're off to Disneyland soon, Paris not Florida, for an extended weekend which the kids are excited about. Josh wants to meet Buzz Lightyear and Amy wants to meet Mickey Mouse. Hopefully we'll have a great time and they'll enjoy it. As usual I'm not looking forward to the flight (I really hate flying) but fortunately it's only a short (1½ hours) journey so we should be getting off as soon as we've got on! Can't wait and I'll be posting up whatever piccies and videos I that are worthwhile once we're back.
Well, I think that'll do for now otherwise I'll be challenging me ol' shipmate at the amount of words-per-blog!
Take care people and see you later :)
Friday, March 28, 2008
Rude Rainbow
After Captain Jack revealed his hidden talent tonight as a spot-on George impersonator, it reminded me of this epsiode of Rainbow.
So, who'd like to play with Janes maraccas? :D
So, who'd like to play with Janes maraccas? :D
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Think you know music?
Having seen Captain Jacks musical picture quiz this week, it reminded of another that's been knocking around on the net for a while now which you may or may not have seen before.
The picture below (click on it for a larger version) contains representations of 75 bands. Can you name them all?
I'll start you off with an easy one: B-52's
Answers in a week or so ;)
The picture below (click on it for a larger version) contains representations of 75 bands. Can you name them all?
I'll start you off with an easy one: B-52's
Answers in a week or so ;)
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Quick Catchup
Been a while since I last posted so thought I'd better let you know what's kicking in the world of Shaunio!
Firstly, it was my birthday last Thursday and I've now reached the grand old age of.....33 although at the moment I feel much older!! I actually night of said birthday sleeping on the settee as I was so ill. Had a bad cold and a touch of the shakes, I believe it was that well known virus: Man Flu! Not the best start to a day but it got better later on when I got my presents: Unreal Tournament 3 and a PS3 bluetooth Headset (gaming in style now ;) )
I haven't got around to playing UT3 much yet as I'm currently engrossed in Call Of Duty 4 online multiplayer with which I haven't been as engrossed in online play since I used to play Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory constantly a couple of years back. The makers, Infinity Ward, have been very clever the online play and laid out an XP system along with personal objectives to give you something extra to play for above and beyond the standard deathmatch games. Unfortunately I get suckered into this type of thing and now feel compelled to 'level up' my character and complete said challenges, although some are ridiculously hard like 'kill an enemy, swap his gun for yours, and then kill him again with his old gun!!!'. Still, I like a challenge :D
This also means that the FIFA matches between me and Captain Jack have also taken a back seat although to be fair, I've not seen said pirate online for a while even though I've been on pretty much every night. We'll have to arrange something matey ;)
There was no karaoke for me last Thursday as I was on a night out with my colleagues from work at MegaBowl for a bit of ten-pin bowling and beers a plenty. Great night had by all although it finished at a funny time where it was too late to get to the hotel for last orders but late enough that everyone who had to work the next day decided to call it a night. Good fun none-the-less!
When I've not been playing CoD4, I've either been working (a 5:45 a.m. start for me this morning for a site release, not been up at that time for a very long time and jeez, it was like -18 outside, bloody freezing!) or working on my music. Really love playing around with music production and although I've never written a complete track, that is going to change. I'll shall [hopefully!] be blogging about a track that I'm going to put together as I'm determined to finish one that I can say I like and will be documenting how I go about it and what I learn along the way. It at least gives me some sort of defined goals which I find I often need in order to give me that 'push' to getting things done ( I like measurable achievements).
Anyway, that's about as exciting as it gets around here, so with that I'll let you get on with whatever you were doing before you came here :)
ciao for now
Firstly, it was my birthday last Thursday and I've now reached the grand old age of.....33 although at the moment I feel much older!! I actually night of said birthday sleeping on the settee as I was so ill. Had a bad cold and a touch of the shakes, I believe it was that well known virus: Man Flu! Not the best start to a day but it got better later on when I got my presents: Unreal Tournament 3 and a PS3 bluetooth Headset (gaming in style now ;) )
I haven't got around to playing UT3 much yet as I'm currently engrossed in Call Of Duty 4 online multiplayer with which I haven't been as engrossed in online play since I used to play Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory constantly a couple of years back. The makers, Infinity Ward, have been very clever the online play and laid out an XP system along with personal objectives to give you something extra to play for above and beyond the standard deathmatch games. Unfortunately I get suckered into this type of thing and now feel compelled to 'level up' my character and complete said challenges, although some are ridiculously hard like 'kill an enemy, swap his gun for yours, and then kill him again with his old gun!!!'. Still, I like a challenge :D
This also means that the FIFA matches between me and Captain Jack have also taken a back seat although to be fair, I've not seen said pirate online for a while even though I've been on pretty much every night. We'll have to arrange something matey ;)
There was no karaoke for me last Thursday as I was on a night out with my colleagues from work at MegaBowl for a bit of ten-pin bowling and beers a plenty. Great night had by all although it finished at a funny time where it was too late to get to the hotel for last orders but late enough that everyone who had to work the next day decided to call it a night. Good fun none-the-less!
When I've not been playing CoD4, I've either been working (a 5:45 a.m. start for me this morning for a site release, not been up at that time for a very long time and jeez, it was like -18 outside, bloody freezing!) or working on my music. Really love playing around with music production and although I've never written a complete track, that is going to change. I'll shall [hopefully!] be blogging about a track that I'm going to put together as I'm determined to finish one that I can say I like and will be documenting how I go about it and what I learn along the way. It at least gives me some sort of defined goals which I find I often need in order to give me that 'push' to getting things done ( I like measurable achievements).
Anyway, that's about as exciting as it gets around here, so with that I'll let you get on with whatever you were doing before you came here :)
ciao for now
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