£600.24 this time, this is after I got the last one back and cancelled the apparent “non existant” direct debit

Not only does this piss me off more because its now the second time. Not only does it piss me off that this comes out just after Christmas. Let alone the fact they’ve now added another £70 to my outstanding bill despite not receiving their services and having cancelled. Also putting aside the 4 email complaints and not to mention the 2 phone complaints to an Irish lady who was nice and agreed with my mistreatment and an Indian lady who said she only had the fax number for the finance department and wouldn’t help any more

The bastards still haven’t give me my fucking call back after what about 3 months? Aye, it was posted about on the 21st of October

How the fuck does this company still operate?

Mind on the note of Internet providers BT’s royally fucked us over with this shit called the BT Home Hub. Theres no need for it to be that big when it certainly doesn’t contain that many features. That new “high definition phone line” they promised us and talked to me about, oh! its VOIP. Thats misrepresentiation and as soon as my mams home I’m gonna chase them up about it. On the note of misrepresentation, we were promised a freeview box to sweeten the deal. Apparently last time my mam rang them they never promised no such thing, so thats another thing to complain about

This is before we go into the random disconnections every hr or so, or in the case of last nite every 5 minutes

Is the internet powered by monkeys?

Bit of a shitty day today really all in all

On the bright side though, I finally wrangled my cable off Simon and uploaded pictures off my phone to my computay so I can finally post about them now

Was in Carlisle a few days ago on the lookout for the ever elusive Wii Play when I came across this chap and his new BLT workout which made me chuckle, unfortunatly Simon wouldn’t take my picture with him because there was girls about the noob

Canty and I (Or me and Canty if your common white trash) managed to pair our Wii’s now hes finally got it online. Albeit it not at his home, hes off in Liverpool once more so hopefully he can keep it hooked up. Anyhow, we managed to trade Mii’s finally so I managed to get a shot of both of us. Incidentally, I also managed to get a new high score of 198 on bowling on Wii Sports

Now I give to you this picture. Totally pointless… yes? Emperor Ming was a character in Flash Gordon

And on a related Flash Gordon note, how awesome is Brian Blessed. Such a happy chap all the time

And speaking of Gordon, I figured following my recent Zelda inspired outfit, I should really apply the hi def patch to my old HEV suit and bring it upto date. Seems only fitting for a game I hold in such high regard

I’d like to say I liked christmas, I really don’t. What happened to my christmas? Where did it go? I’m a proper Scrooge these days (Or should that be years?)

Its nearly 1 in the afternoon here, theres people in various other countries that have opened their presents before we have in our house, whys that? Because we couldn’t be arsed getting up. Then when we do get up, my mams friend comes around for a turkey sandwich (She had been invited) but now my mams just spent all morning making sandwiches and salad and talking to them. Now we’ve just finished it and shes all “right, once I’ve made a cup of tea I can get onto doing the vegetables for later”

We go around to said friends later on you see, but thats beside the point. But only a few days ago she was talking to me about family traditions and how she wondered if I’d carry them on. What the fuck happened to tradition this year mam?

I’m angry and upset tbh, I hate christmas, but I want to like it. This year, so far, I hate it more

Hoping other peoples are better than this

Merry Christmas whoever reads this, hope your all spending it with your families where you can

Aye

Random browsing before brought me onto Rockstars Classics website where they let you download 3 titles: GTA and GTA2 and something else I didn’t care to remember the name of

Theres a lil form to fill out at the bottom but if your a fan of the originals or not, I’d get them. We all love freebies ^_^

On the note of GTA games, I used to follow a project called MTA – Multi Theft Auto. Its a mod that allows you to play San Andreas online (It used to support GTA3 and Vice City but I can’t find them versions supported on there any more) figured it would be appropriate to slip this in here if anybody actually bought them for the PC

22nd December, my Wii came ^_^ not bad for having preordered it 2 or 3 days after release I reckon. In total it cost me £320 for the Wii (Pacakaged with Wii Sports), a 2gb SD card, classic controller (For retro downloadable games) 2000 Wii points (To buy said games) Zelda: Twilight Princess, Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz and Rayman: Raving Rabbids. What strikes me first off is that amount of these chaps : is there any need?

I’m a bit let down with Monkey Ball, the the interractive credits are a nice touch it seems to serve bugger all purpose but its captain dull like. Raving Rabbids is a good laugh when your around other people, else its reasonably dull as well and annoying when your trying to hammer throw Daisy the cow over 60 metres and you always manage to throw the bitch backwards into a rabbit

Twilight Princess. I played it for half an hour yesterday (Granted 20 minutes of that I was on the phone to miss Jen and was just accidently skipping dialogue) and it struck me as another captain dull. But I persevered with it today for an additional 3 hours and its picking up a bit. Maybe its just because I’ve never been a Zelda fan. Anyhow I’m at the first dungeon now getting helped by a couple of monkeys but I figured I’d take a break from it for the time being and come up here as I fancied some GTA-age (Another post to follow)

Wii Sports, its probably my favourite game on the Wii that I own. I love the Mii’s. In fact, half the reason I just came off the Wii is because my mother foolishly turned the Wii off at the plug last night and the magic that is (hopefully) WiiConnect24 couldn’t work its magic. You see, even when the Wii is turned off, its still on apparently downloading updates when they appear and doing various other things I haven’t paid attention to. Other than the Mii Parade. I’ve set my Mii’s to mingle. Means when I’m not playing with that Mii character, hes off wandering around other friends in my lists Wii’s having a ball. Popping up in the crowds of their games. Making up the numbers in their team at baseball, things like that. So in essence my Mii could be passed around and end up on some Japanese games developers Wii kicking his arse at boxing (If I understand the whole thing right) which is fairly leet

Anyhow, I digressed from Wii Sports. Using Mii’s you’ve created, or the default Mii’s that come with your Wii (My personal favourite being Martin who I lovingly refer to as Blind Martin) you participate in 1 of 5… essentially, mini games: golf, baseball, boxing, tennis and bowling. Using the Wiimote in different ways, jabbing with the nunchuk adaptor in boxing, serving a ball in tennis, erm… bowling in bowling. If only the game was a bit fuller it’d be great. Its so watered down. Boxing only lasts 3 rounds for example, golf 9 holes instead of the usual 18, baseball just seems to end randomly (Though I don’t fully grasp the rules of baseball so it might actually be right) Sure enough with a few people and more Wiimotes I bet its class, but currently thats where the Wii is shining for me, a party console. And it ain’t much of a party with one Wiimote, unfortunatly Wii Play is out of stock everywhere in Whitehaven as is the nunchuk extension so I’m waiting for that to come back and I can jump on it and get me one

Which brings me to another topic. I’ve finished again at Gamestation. Courtesy of my shingles I’m now into my second week on sick. By the time I could get back theres no point keeping me employed as far as i see it, I’d only be able to work maybe one day and then I’d be finishing anyhow. So we agreed to end me again, though no doubt I’ll end up back there one day

Anyhow, this is a monster post where I inadvertently reviewed every game I have for the Wii. Wasn’t what I set out to do but my fingers just kept on typing. Theres another post coming up in a bit as well but I wanted a seperate picture for that. So until then…

Pretty much says it in the title, first thing I did after waking up and dosing up on paracetamol for the morning (The pains getting worse) was finish off all the Video section and all the pages for it

The only section thats missing its tidy up is the gaming section… gonna think about what I want to do with that one for the time being, suppose I need to sort some pictures out for the caricatures section too. I’ve got a couple already done (Sir Trev, Randy Savage, etc) its just a case of putting them up there

On the note of gaming I came across a game yesterday called New Star Soccer 3, its a bit like an RPG Sensible Soccer. You play as only one player and take him through his career, I normally don’t like football games but Sensible Soccer was pretty sweet like. Plus given the current $ to £ conversion rate, anything I want from America is pretty damn cheap

By ‘ecks, its getting busy around here all of a sudden ain’t it?

More fixes and updates:

• Links are now up and working (Requires Flash but lets face it my sites pretty much useless without Flash in the first place)
• The Video section‘s will be finished and online tomorrow (I realised I can just use MySpace videos instead of YouTube and save time and hassle)
• The Gallery section is now back online. I’ve removed some of the older shitter galleries and focused more on the ones I think I can add more content to (Manga Bottle excluded)

Oh and these chicken pox are giving me some right jip already, apparently it gets worse than this too… joy of joys. Expect more retrojaffa updates within the coming week

So being a quiet night, I’ve kinda fiddled around with stuff I’ve been meaning to fix on here for a while. Things thats been changed:

• The sidebar (That grey bar on the right) is now shown on all pages. Gives it better continuity with the footer and header now and doesn’t look like its missing
• The Gallerys been disabled until I get around to manually making them so as to keep it a lot tidier
• The music has been disabled until I can figure a workaround for having it play in the background even when changing pages (Means hasseling with framesets more than it used to do) I had removed the current frameset but that revealed that the footer jpg was a few pixels out of line and annoyed me
• Emoticons are automatically changed from their letters and symbolsness to the pictures (Before I had to manually insert every picture)
• Benny has been updated (Baggy t-shirt, baggy trousers, correct shoes)

The plan is over the next couple of days while its still quiet I’ll rebuild the galleries to fit with the rest of the style of the site now, the music players kinda gone out the window atm until I can figure out a more sensible way to pull it off so no retrojaffa theme for the time being. The games section might get an update, or I might just change it altogether, not quite sure yet

Following a mistake, I discovered just how much nicer looking .png files are over your typical .jpg, needless to say from now on I’m changing my picture format to said .png. Thought I’d throw together an example picture to better show this. Nobody will really care about this but me tbh
Other than that, business as usual really (Y)

I’ve been feeling a bit grotty these past couple of weeks, I’ve put it down to being run down with my current working situation. Even the irritable skin patches, the really sensitive ones. Thought nothing of it

I eventually asked my mam about it (Being an ex nurse and all she has her medical uses) and showed her these red lumps that had appeared, telling her they were heatlumps. She said I should go to the doctors as it could be bad, and especially with me beign run down I was more susceptable to things. Anyhow, I ignored her making my excuses as I do. I couldn’t leave Simon at work on his own, 3 members of staff potentially off on sick

Anyhow, yesterday I was working in Gamestation. These patches of sensitive skin proper butched me all day and I just felt really wrung out. So alas, I gave in and made a doctors appointment for today. I thought, hes just gonna tell me there heatlumps and I’m a bit tired and just need a day off to get back together

I’m in the doctors for less than a minute and bam “Yeah, its shingles”

…

Fucking great. An exact week before my 21st birthday, a few days later its christmas and potentially the busiest 2 weeks at both places I work for a long while. And I get fucking chicken pox. Yet, not just your average chicken pox. Bastarding painful ones at that

So I’m currently self certified as being on sick from both places, and from what peoples telling me I’m to expect more pain and discomfort over the coming couple of weeks and it could take me anywhere upto and over a month before I’m recovered and uncontagious. If thats the case, thats practically my Gamestation contract term expired :/ and I’d literally just placed a big order with Ladbrokes through their purchasing system to get the shop back on its feet after the Manager and Deputy Managers been on the sick recently. Now I’m joining them :E

Needless to say I’m in a right shitty atm. As much as I want the time off, my christmas plans, birthday plans and next weeks plans are all up in smoke

On a plus note, I can get some lie ins now and maybe devote some sort of time to retrojaffa if I can get my arse into gear

Christ how long does it take me to sort something out on here. retrojaffa’s been captain boredom for so long like. Unfortunately, thats down to my working back at Gamestation and Ladbrokes once again. A mix that.. yet again, isn’t working. With staff off at Ladbrokes I’m having to do loads of overtime which is then causing chaos with all of my plans at the minute
Im hoping things will ease up after christmas when people finally come back and maybe I can have some sort of life again

So… whats been going down in my world. Not much really, I very nearly bought an Alienware laptop, in fact I did buy it, but rang to cancel it a couple of days later in a panic about finances (I got my Bulldog money back so thats still outstanding but still they won’t get in touch with me) I’ve really just been working non stop. I’m finally getting some decent time off next week. By decent time I’m talking 2 days off from working totally. Unheard of for the past 2 months where I’ve been working 60+ hours a week once more

The Wii was released and I got to work midnight launch which surprisingly 9 people turned up for, considering the size of Whitehaven I think that was quite impressive. Ashamedly, I’ve only just preordered mine in the past week so I don’t currently own one :E I’m number 69 (chortle) in the queue which is 8 more than we were told we could guarantee before christmas, so fingers crossed I should be getting one. So in honour of the Wii’s releasedness I created my Mii (Its like an avatar on your Wii only better) down below

On website related notes, nothings changed. Its literally just dawned on me I haven’t included my new blog pictures on the header at the top there. I’ve completed a new music player to go on both my new look myspace and the website here, but I’ve yet to find a way to nicely incorporate it into the site. Mind I’ve just had a brainwave for here. Might just work… I’ll do some editing when I’ve posted this and see if I can get it integrated

Pretty much every section needs updating, and a better gallery system and all that pallava (sp?) so I will get on that when I have some time to

Another thing I’ve totally missed out on recently was the release of Guitar Hero 2! Which I’ve now actually completed on Hard difficulty purely in my lunchtime at work. Pretty class playing Free Bird for that first time and completing it with 4 stars. Bit gutted the music in the shop was so loud so I couldn’t hear my own awesomeness as I strummed mentally for 10 minutes straight on the solo to a crowd of 2 children and one parent

Fucking rock and roll! \o/