Some blog this is, it might as well be a monthly magazine, shame theres no content or pretty pictures.  Meh.

Anyway – interesting couple of weeks.  I’m no longer welcome on KAPS paranormal ghost investigations, but I won’t go into that here suffice to say that the owned didn’t take too kindly to me taking part in the setting up of a new paranormal investigations group called Crypt Kickers.  Website is on http://www.cryptkickers.co.uk and we can be followed on Twitter @cryptkickers We are also on facebook.  Come sign up for the forum!

She also cited my past blog posts (where KAPS were mentioned in only a positive light) as being an issue.  Apparently my blog posts about Fright Nights, another paranormal investigations company upset the owner due to me implying that their insurance didn’t cover guests when KAPS’ did – this was pointed out to me as untrue and I removed it as soon as I was made aware.

The funny thing about this blog, well it’s maybe not so much ha ha funny as odd funny is that it’s mine.  I can do what I like with it.  It’s full of personal opinion and not a lot else (unless its quoted or referenced specifically).  I understand that I can’t write things that could be construed as libellous or slanderous because I could theoretically get taken to court, blah blah.  Other than that, I have free reign and that’s always been the case and I’ll write about what I like.

Maybe in the future, I’ll be writing about exactly what happened with KAPS, maybe I won’t.  Either way, it’ll all be truth and it’ll all be my own opinion.

So, anyway – back to more important things, we’ve set up CK, it’s going really well and we’re laying down a bunch of groundwork and there’s a lot up in the air at the moment, we can’t reveal all that much at the moment due to potential issues with certain people trying to possibly cause problems – not something we want at the moment.

As a result of this, my weekends and evenings have been pretty rammed full of website setting up and maintenance, forum maintenance and just general geekery.  I haven’t had much time for anything else.  We’ve got so much TV to watch I don’t think some of it will ever be seen. At least I managed to get through 24.  Really enjoyed that.

I was away in Manchester yesterday with work, we had a conference.  It was a great day and I ended up being chief photographer.  That was nervewracking.  I haven’t picked up the camera for months and I was faced with going somewhere I had no idea was or what awaited me.  I took the tripod with me just in case – good job too, a lot of the conference was in low light.  Luckily I found myself a little alcove and set up in there for most of the day.  Managed to come away with some shots that I’m really proud of.  Hopefully work will be fairly happy too.  My shoulder is killing me – carrying around the slingshot with 6 lenses in it was maybe a little overkill but I used most of them!

What else has been going on?

Hmmm.

Oh yeah – it’s mine and Sue’s wedding anniversary next Wednesday, I’ve booked the day off and I’m taking her out for a meal.  Other than that, I have no plans, maybe I’ll take her to the cinema, maybe go bowling.  It might be nice to recreate our first date sort of thing.  We went to see Rugrats at the cinema. awwwwww

I’ve got to go to the Trafford Centre on Saturday – my iPhone seems to have developed a physical fault, the left hand side appears to be coming away from the body, its clicking when pressed and I’m getting some distortion on the screen.  No way is that going to last another 12 months, I’m going to take it over and see what they say.  Hopefully they’ll replace it with a refurb for me.  I might take out applecare for it whilst I’m there.  I’m also going to let Sue have a play around with the macbooks that are there so she can figure out what size screen she wants and things.  I think she’ll really love one.

I was using my macbook pro earlier (I’m using it now, but that’s not the point  – I’m blogging, this is something I can do on my iPhone for god’s sake) – I imported the photos to iPhoto and decided I wanted to view them in a slide show, I press play and it starts playing music and gives me funky transition effects.  I can then export this as a mov file, stick it on a disc, burn it as a dvd – it’s all just so easy.  I always used to put macs down, they were always the lesser machine, always the thing people used when they couldn’t use a pc.  A pc for babies, etc.  I was wrong.  This is the best machine I’ve ever owned.

The other good thing about it is that there are no vents on the bottom of it, which means I can sit like this in bed and type with it on my knee and not a)burn my legs b)set something on fire.  It’s all good.  The other thing is that it seems to have a semi decent wireless card on it.  My netbook one isn’t very good – I sit/lie on the side of the bed which is directly next to the part of the wall where the hot water tank is – big metal thing with metal pipes, it just zaps the signal.  This thing is uploading to my webspace, playing some music from last.fm and letting me blog straight to the web.  Yay.

I’m sure there was something else I was going to write about.  Oh yeah that was it – Work conference.

We had a guest speaker there from a company called Mindstore – Klaus Nigel Pertl.  He was fantastic.  He talked about taking time out, relaxing, making time for the real thoughts to come through and things.  It all made sense and I’d love to go on a Mindstore training course proper, sounds like a lot of good advice.

One of the talks given by a school talked about a stereotypical student who goes to the cinema on a Friday night, goes home and tweets about it/posts a review on a blog.  Gets up the following morning and plays on his Xbox 360 with people from all over the world, watches a video sent to him by his friend on youtube, video conferences with an uncle who lives abroad and is staying in Saturday night so spends it talking to his friends on facebook.  Gets up and goes to his mates house and watches a blu ray on his PS3.  It went on further with more examples. Anyway, the point of this paragraph is – this student was me.  That was my weekend.  It’s scary.  I’m so plugged in, so wired to the net, to technology it scares me.

When I take a step back and think about it, it worries me.  Technology seems to make things easier, it can also make things harder.  Spending too much time with technology can make it hard for me to relate to people again.  I mean people are weird.  At least machines generally have a reason for going bananas.  Anyway – I need to take a step back.  I need to stop spending so much time on the laptop and I need to maybe change the e-mail fetch period to maybe an hour rather than 15 minutes.  I don’t need THAT much access to my email.  It’s nice and all but I don’t need it.

We’ve booked a week away in October, a week in the countryside there won’t be any 3g signal, hell theres hardly any 2g signal.  I might even read a book.  You never know.  I think I need to maybe try some meditation and deep breathing exercises.

I hate that my parents were right about time flying as you got older – they weren’t kidding.  I want my life back! It’s this whole time perception thing and the flaw of how we measure time.  You know how the summers used to stretch for what seemed like months when you were kids – that sort of thing, look it up – it’s interesting reading.

The funny thing is – personal life is crazy at the moment, but I’m really enjoying work – loving it.  I need to find a balance somewhere!

Anyway, I came to bed early, and I’ve spent an hour typing stuff, I’m going to go to sleep now.  More frequent mind dumps to come over the coming days.