Well… nothing really to report. Not without writing about every little thing that happens

Miss Jen’s coming up next week so thats something to brighten my daily life up, but I’m working everyday which sucks. But I found out why finally, I’m finishing my managers training next week so theres no chance of being able to shift my shifts around at all. Bad timing is all it is :E No matter, not like theres loads to do in Cumbria. Not for me anyhow. Though I do have an urge to play Laser Quest

I finished Prey a couple of days ago, been in a right shitty recently and figured I’d just hide from folk. Quality game, though it does lead me onto the awesomeness of Portal which I can’t describe just how cool it looks you just have to see it to understand it (A healthy knowledge of game playing would help as well to appreciate what this entails)

So thats it, yesterday was my final day at Gamestation. For the second time lol. I’ll probably be back there some day again. Which is good cos I didn’t really want to finish there its just I couldn’t carry on with just the part time work :/

Seen as it was my last day I had to leave some sort of reminder there for everyone that there was once a Benny that walked those aisles. So I finally renamed Henry the Hoover like I’ve been planning to do for months

On another note I won myself the competition there this morning on Street Fighter Anthology Alpha or whatever its called (Theres so many of them these days) Feel a bit bad considering I was an ex employee but it didn’t go against any of the rules, also didn’t expect to win after having a quick blast with G on it yesterday in which he thrashed me (We had a rematch after I won the tournament and he beat me again so I still stand by I’m crap) In the final I walked all over the wee bod I was bashing, I tried giving him loads of chances to hit me too and he wasn’t doing anything so I just finished him quick to be done with it, bit of a let down really but meh, never mind. For my trophy I now have an anniversary edition controller from the Street Fighter series. Woot ^_^

Seen as my chosen character was my old favourite Vega I thought I’d make a Vega edition Benny for this entry

Man how hot is it? I’m baking and I’m semi nekkid with a fan blasting my face :E I don’t do nekkidness often but I’ve had to give in this past week

On a plus point though I’ve finally worked out how to get memory card in my phone properly, I thought at first it was meant to spring out like that, but after loosing my temper with it one day and stabbing it repeatedly with a 50p piece I found it does stay in and shouldn’t keep popping out so I can listen to music without holding it pushed in ^_^ Its like a whole new world of entertainment has been opened up to me

I finally ventured into my bank account this week fearing its lack of money due to my recent trips and expensive splurges on electronics and what nots. Seems I spent about £60 when I was out with Bowe and Jesus. How gutted am I

On a work note, I’m still yet to write my notice for Gamestation despite finisihing in 2 days time which is not a good thing, in fact, while I’ll write it after I’ve finished this and then its one less thing to worry about. The next big thing being my bank account switching I forgot about until last minute so may be very skint :E

It also occured to me recently I didn’t detail the £300 lost on a bet at Ladbrokes. Last Saturday I took a bet in error, I charged a woman £2 for a bet that had gone through my till at £128 and I didn’t look at the total cos I thought it would be fine and I hadn’t thought to double check it was okay. Anyhow I noticed about 10 minutes later my till was over £100 down so I was like “oh shits wheres this gone” eventually discovering my error with this bet. What she’d done was select a named horse and a favourite in every race, so there was like 64 combinations of potential horses. Alas, the named selections went down so we thought we wouldn’t hear from it again

We was wrong :E

I was managing on Monday which I think I detailed here and I paid a bet out for £260.40 not thinking anything about it. Alas while checking my slips later on I found out it was that bet that I’d taken by mistake. So cumulatively (sp?) I’d lost the company about £300 and I quite doubt the customer will be back in to try and get them to be honest and give some of the money back so I’m most gutted

On another Ladbrokes related note, I realised today that whent he old people are coming upto the counter, they all shuffle along like old betting zombies, it quite freaked me out when i thought ab out it. One day I may not be paying attention and go to serve some guy and he takes a bite out of my hand and I’d cry

My head… my poor poor head

“Shot of apple sours and a double vodka and coke please” everytime I went to the bar. Knock the shot back. Take a glug of the V&C. Return to my seat. Talk. Keep drinking

That was last night

Yesterday was Jesus’ birthday (Not the religious Jesus, he wouldn’t come out to The Three Tuns for a drink I feel) and Bowe had asked if I wanted to go out for a drink to which I obliged. Now I can’t remember much of the nights proceedings. I remember a hen night and Jesus headbanging with this bride to be after I’d drunkenly ran to retrieve him from the toilet. I can’t remember much of getting home either, I think it was by bus, I do remember getting a proper cheap kebab from a shop on The Moor though which I couldn’t eat cos I was so drunk. But I did eat it not so long ago almost 24 hours after it was purchased (H) Hardcore elderly food eater me. To those that know about the Creme Egg Incident at Gamestation

So I awoke this morning due to be working at Gamestation and I was in a right fucking state. Sore throat, wobbily head, freezing cold and dying to eat that kebab meat that I’d bought but thought it safer not to try given my state. Thankfully after half an hour I threw up and felt much better until the drive to work. That was hellish, I couldn’t listen to my brother speak because his voice was making me want to be sick even more

Back to the website stuff though:

Just out of curiosity it occured to me that I never informed people of the new buttons available since the last redesign. You can now subscribe your email address to retrojaffa to recieve an email everytime a new post is made if anyones actually interested, also the contact section can be used to send me an email (This one actually works and is a hell of a lot more reliable than my last one I had on my old site )

On the note of buttons I must finish those other sections off… hmmm

Also decided to change all the emoticons on here to reflect the emoticons I use on a daily basis on MSN, owt to pass the time eh

Oh and before I forget happy geburtstag (Birthday for you non-German knowers you) to Mr Simon aka my brother. I was so hungover I forgot what day it was and haven’t said it to him all day and its nearly tomorrow now. I would have remembered Simon but you of all people know what state I was in :E

Only 2 of my alarms have gone off yet I’m alive and awake…

Why is this? I was awoken by a weird noise, a noise I really can’t quite explain here, you had to hear it to understand my utter confusion. At first I thought “Must be my brothers new alarm” then as I came more to my senses I could place it to be coming from my mams room. So there I sat thinking “wtf is that” before moving through what it could potentially be until I came to a half conclusion that she may have taken too many pills (shes on quite a cocktail) and was having some sort of weird fit and was calling for help. So slowly I walked through, not sure what I was about to see, crept through her door, she was lying on her back, fast asleep. I waited a second or 2, and there the noise was again. So I called her and as she awoke I ask her “What was that noise?” then suddenly “*hiccup*”

…

She was hiccuping in her sleep. I didn’t even think that was humanly possible

Anyhow, back to my whereabouts these past couple of days. I returned to Nantwich for Miss Qubes birthday. The journey there was the nicest Virgin train journey I’ve had since Preston times, only confounded by some old woman sitting beside me on a carriage that had no other people on. Couldn’t quite understand her logic. Then to add to matters at Preston there was a new driver on who started talking about being aware of suspicious (I had a few people in fits of laughter down to my inability to say the word suspicious twice in a sentence ) packages and suspicious people. I chortle’d. Then slowly it dawned on me I was dressed like a pirate with jeans that were covered in chains. Thankfully nobody seemed to bat an eyelid after the initial “erm wtf mr” stage that everyone goes thru

So highlights of the weekend was a human pyramid that got about 3 layers high I think (It got jumped on and i couldn’t see past the 2nd row), tying each others leg’s together and trying to walk. Along with various combinations of people back to back, people facing backward while everyone else was going forward, just to spice things up. Thankfully noone broke a leg which was my main concern at falling over while being strapped tightly to someone (Y) After I’d came back to the party aftermath the following day (I was stopping at Qube’s Granmas house) I think me and Miss Sophie spent well over an hr and a half (Any longer and we would have probably passed out considering how hot it had got in there) inside a duvet hiding from Miss Qube and Mr Alex

I always remember as a child when I made my bed I would climb inside the duvet and hide about in there giggling to myself and it somehow came into conversation and we decided to try it out. Now all class things need a name, its like a rule, it can be a Benny rule (If I can ever find the list again that is -_-) so this hobby/ sport/ activity henceforth shall be known as duvententing \o/ woot. Actual duventening ftw
I’ll add the pictures from the party when I get sent them from Miss Qube or Miss Sophie, I’m not sure whose camera it was but a foray into my fictional collection of hats and I’ll Sherlock Benny it up and find out

So on the way home, I was stood in Crewe station chomping on a footlong steak and cheese subway and managing to throw it all everywhere with each bite. No less than 3 people asked me for directions in a place I didn't know (Though I managed to find Qube's after only being there once which quite impressed me) oh and some weird guy stood in front of me, coughing as if to get attention so I looked up and was like "lol, hello?" and he suddenly looked shocked and was all "oh sorry, different time different place" and sauntered off. My face was somewhat akin to that MSN smiley that looks like so ^o), I'd install it on here but I doubt I'd get much use, so copy and paste it when your next online and you'll see. Alas after all of that I looked down to find a mass spreading of steak around my feet, I must have looked a right retard :/

I had the train journey from hell. The first train I got on was packed, boiling and full of little arseholes running about and trying to squeeze through everyone tightly packed together. The train driver suggested that people going to Carlisle and Glasgow should leave the train at the next station as there were seats on the train 6 minutes behind us. To which I thought I'd leave and try my luck. I got off the station, train behind was over 40 minutes late and was entirely more packed out than the previous one. I was already raging -_-

So all in all a class weekend... except during the week... but I'm always losing track of the weeks these days so I don't care frankly

… Calling

Why can nobody remember that advert? The Muiler Rice one that had some guy who had a captain in his head telling him to get ready for Muiler Rice and what not

Anyhow I’m digressing before I’ve even started. Today was my first day of managing \o/ It was pretty uneventful actually. I turned up an hour earlier than I was down to start to make sure I had everything ready. Fuck knows what happened to that extra hour, I must have been arsing around with a poster for well over half an hour or something. I just couldn’t get it to stay up it just kept throwing itself to the floor in a tantrum. I’ll get bollocked when it gets taken off the board cos its got a shitload of magnetic tape on the back of it holding it up and that stuff don’t come cheap though our supplier -_- Aside from that it was a piece of piss, and the days just kinda went in. Managed to do some stuff I wasn’t asked to do but knew the proper manager would have to do when she got back from the funeral she was at today so thought I’d work through it to leave her less, plus it showed I was happy and able to do it

I mention funeral there and I don’t think I’ve actually wrote on here who it was for before. About 2 weeks ago I had to run the shop myself cos the deputy manager had went to take some papers to a customer we knew wasn’t feeling too well. Anyhow to cut a long story short there was no answer and she phoned the police who went in and found the guy on the floor. They reckon he’d been there a good few hours. He’d fell and broken his hip and couldn’t get any help so just lay there

He had an operation later that week and got through it but passed away a couple of days later. Now I’m not known for liking old people, actually I hate them (I was going to rant on here about some old bastards on the bus and at the bus stop but I’ve done it before and can’t be arsed repeating myself. Needless to say some old bitch kept waddling around and standing right in front of me when I was leaning on a wall when there was loads of space. Plus she was smoking and it was blowing back at me -_-) but this gut was like so nice. Don’t get me wrong, working in a bookies you see the dreggs of society wandering in and being an arse over nothing, but he was one of the nicer ones. Lil Frankie Forecast, god bless his soul

So maybes I’ll be doing more managing after this then, I’ve done most the training I’ve just got to get signed off. And with another member of staff leaving who does managing it would make sense to but its whether or not they see fit to let me. Should be interesting none the less ^_^

Whats that? Is that the sound of me losing another bet or the sound of that defenders ribs cracking after Zidanes headbutt. Played France. Thats 2 bets you’ve now failed me on, totalling a grand total of £500

My previous bet from the beginning of the world cup, on teams to win the group stages went down courtesy of France, every other team had pulled it off except them. So I put on a bet on our fantasy football for the Ladbrokes shop today at 75/1 (£75 for every £1 put on) and if it had come in we would have won by an amazing margin. Felt I’d put a few quid on it to liven the match up for me too

The bet was Zidane to score first and the match to end 2 – 1 to France. It was 1 – 1 at the end and Zidane had scored first

Bastards

They had so many chances too, all they had to do was score one of them :E Then of course Zidane decided to go all thug and try and put his head through that defender for cupping his breast for what I saw of it. Though my professional football opinion is second to everyones as I know shit. But I hardly see cupping someones boob as being a headbuttable offence

So its been an interesting few days

Had a proper emo day on Thursday but it was self induced. I was up till late in the morning tossing and turning in bed about the what nots and the how tos. One of those was about my current working situation. I’ve spent ages thinking about what to do and how best to go about things and ultimatly its come down to I can’t get full time hours at Gamestation and if I were to choose Gamestation over Ladbrokes I’d still need a second job to survive money wise which would put me in exactly the same situation I’m in atm. Its an arse trying to work 2 jobs around each other and especially after coming back from some time away it hit me like a lead bird shit and I was proper moody. So I decided to hand my notice in at Gamestation much to my dismay

I’m handing it in next Friday to work another week and then I’ll be back to proper full time at ladbrokes. Makes life easier for the time being at least for me, gives me a chance to fully recover and get back to some sort of air of normality. Proper gutted tho :E On the other hand I’m doing my first days managing come Monday, I’ve been trained up to what they deem a suitable level to manage the shop so shall have to see how it goes

Pirates of the Caribbean 2 is out then eh… The game launch went spectacularly too. We’ve sold 3 in 2 days \o/ Woot. My getting dressed up (Picture pending when I can get a hold of a proper one) was a little in vain then Though I did like the hair like it was and reckon I could get away with the makeup at a push as well so I might start doing that more often. Looked class if I say so myself ^_^

And to end this yet again long blog of doomdom (Made that one up) I thought I’d show to you this picture of a seagull I found inside a bag in Whitehaven. although the picture was taken after it had popped out the bag and I’d stopped wondering what the fuck it could be. It proceeded to tear at the bag for whatever purpose it felt fit and I wasn’t in the mood for telling it off so I left it to it as I pirately pranced down the street as one does…

Oh and I tidied my room

I’m back from Sherborne, a whole lot more tired but still alives ^_^

Its been so hot while I’ve been away, yet it was only on the last day I finally took my coat off while I was out. Not too friendly with the sun, it makes me burn

I went to Glastonbury and it was like the coolest place :E It was all alternative stuff everywhere, magic shops and stuff like that and everyone was so friendly

So I’ll have to add another gallery or come up with something somewhere to better accomodate everything. I’m trying to think of ways to better organise the site and make it more accessible to people so expect some changes within the coming weeks. Although I’m off yet again not this Thursday but the next to see Miss Qube for her geburtstag
so I’ll have more stuff to add after that too so it might be easier just waiting

Edit: Okay so this post was originally wrote just when I got back but since then I’ve redone the site so its all integrated into one. Proper pain in the arse but it looks and works so much better now. Gallerys can now be commented and hopefully I can concoct or make something similar for the movies but I’m not sure, so for the time being there disabled. I’m going to start a section about all the games I play and just keep records of that too so thats still work in progress atm

I’ve worked a clean 12 hours so I’m pretty knackered now, hopefully I’ll have the motivation later in the week after work to finish it off and get it all working