here i am taking the sambuca challenge.  10 sambucas in less than a minute.  no one should be impressed with this, im a fanny for doing it. the lads in the fitba team now call me the sambuca king. 

afterwards i sweated heavily for about an hour and my heart felt like it was gonnae burst out my chest.  im hoping to give up drinking altogether, i cant think of a reason for doing it anymore, and i think i’l live longer and happier if i give it up. 

Our family pet Tommy the Cat is missing, presumed dead. He disappeared 3 days ago and hasn’t returned. 

Apparently cats can sense they are dying and go away to die alone.  i didn’t even know this!  i went out to the nearest woods to look for him the day after he went missing.  i was half expecting to find his deid body and half expecting to find him hiding somewhere, it was creepy,  sort of like the film Stand By Me. 

I couldn’t find him anywhere and now that its 3 days i have to accept he’s gone at age 14, a decent long life.  In his prime he was the top cat in the street, he was a fearless bird and mouse catching machine! and i even saw him attack a small dog once.   what a great fuckin’ cat he was!

Lomond Vale are my amateur football team.   We play in the Glasgow colleges central league every Saturday morning at 10am.  This is the best team ive ever been involved with,  a good team full of good folk.

I had to choose the team name. It comes from the 4th line of the Scottish ‘Hiking Song’. http://www.incallander.co.uk/scottishsongs/song50.htm 

of course i didn’t tell any of the players this, or they wouldn’t have voted for it.  Can you imagine standing up in a dressing room and annoucing to 20 glasgow footballers that their team is named after a song for girl guides and boy scouts?  They still don’t know to this day! Unless one of them stumbles across my blog i don’t think the secret will ever get out.  im currently looking for a sponsor, maybe the guides will take us on?

incase your wondering, my current avatar is Tito, from The Heartbreak Kid

The Heartbreak Kid is one of my favourite hollywood comedy’s.  If you like a laugh check it out on dvd you wont be disapointed.

I heard of Chrislam for the first time yesterday. I thought the person telling me about it was joking, but it is in fact a practised religion. 

http://www.chrislam.org/

Is it me or….. nah better leave it, Andy.

Open your mind by Usura from 1992. 

There are 8 famous faces in this video.  Can you name them? for a bonus point which film did the sample ’Open your Mind’ come from?

I had a helluva busy day yesterday. Crammed about a week’s worth of experiences into 16 hours and not everything went well,  but not everything went tits up either.  So im wondering was it a good, bad, awful or great day?  Here’s how it went down…

Up at 7.30am for football go for a shower but there’s nae shower gel left - Bad!    Jump on the bike at 8.30 heading for the game – Good!  Arrive at 9 and find out our goalie aint showed up – Bad!  Scoot up to the goalies house and get him out of bed, on the way up i clip and crack my wing mirror – Bad!  Get him to the game on time and we win 4-1! -Very Good!  

Decide to leave the bike at my old mums and take the train.  A bam spits on me at the Station – Bad!  I launch my open can of Irn-Bru at him and half of it goes on me as well as him.  He does the off sharpish – Good!  But now i have to change my shirt before meeting Fi at the cinema, and it makes me late for the date- Bad!

Go see District 9 at Cineworld- Great!    Afterwards the bold Fi agrees to come home with me – Potentially Fantastic!   But as i get to the front door i realise ive locked myself out – Bad!  Now i have to make a 1 hour detour to get the spare key and Fi decides to go home – Gutting!  but she’ll see me tomorow – Great! 

Im home at 11pm after a near 16 hour day.  I make it 6 bad incidents versus 2 good, 1 very good and 2 great, with 1 potentially fantastic against 1 gutting.  

Good day or Bad Day?

high on hope is my favourite old skool rave tune. its made by a production team called hardcore uproar, inspired by the early 90’s warehouse raves of the same name, before the government introduced the criminal justice bill which hindered the underground rave/acid house scene,  although underground parties went on for years afterwards unofficially.  i went to one in glasgow in 1999. 

back to the tune.. its got awesome samples….”somethings coming!”….”turn it off, shut it off!”….”there at it again with the coloured lights and the weird sounds”…. “feels good to be on it again”…. “i i i i i i’m high on hope”.

the bass line and the chorus pipe tune are brilliant too.  the title high on hope comes from a tv debate about the rave scene,  it was one of these kilroy type of shows with someone from the government saying that all the ravers were high on drugs, and a wee scottish fella fighting our corner said “i don’t need drugs I’m high on hope”

Its more than my favourite tune, its my outlook on life.  i i i  im high on hope!

 http://www.highonhope.com/Site_3/Home.html

For the 3rd year in a row we’ve had a wet summer.  I class summer as May to September in this country.  It can be scorching in May, and sometimes that’s the best month, but this year it was a washout.  June was nice and July had some decent spells but August and so far September have been relentlessly pish.

So what are the Scottish season’s and what are they like? 

Winter:  November to March.. Wet, windy, dark, cold, occassionally snow covered and occasionally nice.

Spring: April.. It all happens in a single month, april fools day is cold but by mayday its scorching!

Summer: May to September.. it can be roasting any day during these months or it can be wet, windy, bright, cold, thundery, occasionally flooded and occasionally drouth.   

Autumn: October.. Another one month season, you feel the summer slipping away day by day until the clocks go back and its suddenly winter again.  

Is it a bad climate?  Naw i love it! No two days are the same! you can have twenty types weather in any season! its brilliant and its part of the Scottish identity.  We moan about it, but we like to moan about it.  Its partly why we are the best little nation in the world!

I stepped on the scales this morning and to my shock i was 15 stone 6 pounds thats 1 pound short of 15 1/2 stone or 216 pounds.   Everyone goes through a period when they gain weight, for me it was 2 years ago when i gained 2 stone in about 8 months and ive not been able to lose it since.

I don’t blame my diet so much i mainly blame my beer consumption.  Throughout my 20’s i drank between 3 and 5 nights a week. Every week!

It’s the culture in this country… Wedding: lets get pished and celebrate, funeral: lets get pished and drown our sorrows, weekend: no work tomorow so lets get pished.  Mid-week football matches: lets go down the pub and watch it…oh and while were there lets get pished.

Enough is enough its time to get that 2 stone back off! From now on its cereal in the morning and weight watchers meals for lunch and dinner. If im hungry at night il take a piece of fruit and most importantly NO MORE BEER! I swear i wont have a pint or any alcoholic drink until ive shed this 2 stone.  I’d like to have a drink at the new year so ive got four months to do it, if i fail then i’l stay sober at the bells and keep going sober until ive hit the target, even if it takes a year!  13 stone 6 pounds here we come.