A rush of blog to the head!

This is just a quick-fire, 'things i was going to blog about but never did'. So here it goes, in no particular order:

1)

-41 views, well that sucks! (haha!)






2)

 Stu exclusively wearing 'the manchester menace' Manchester Phoenix mascott head. NOTE: he is not the menace, though he should be, not great with kids though.

 Here is the same guy after several hours and several beers after realising he was sat on a chair with only 3 legs in Indigo, Withington










3)

A green Gnome i found in B+M for a quid so i bought it and it sits on my desk at work. It gets multiple threats a day from work colleagues of imminent smashing  but he's still going strong.








4)

Me working in London for the Olympics (at China House) standing next to 'Wenlock' a statue of one of the mascotts. A month long job full of all sorts of random stuff during the 'UK's rendition of the Olympics', it was hard but great at the same time, glad i got to go and be involved!








5)

 Cat stood next to a life size Lionel Messi. If he wasn't wearing boots they'd be the same size haha!










5)

Paid £17 for this piece. By far and wide the coolest thing i own ever (the lego head not the amazon box!). Always wanted one and eventually dug deep for it!




6)

Steve during dinner in the maddest Brazilian restaurant ever. They just kept serving us random meats from various animals. I swear i ate a farm that night and so long as your card was turned up to 'yes'/'green' then they kept coming! I think Steve had enjoyed a few beers by that point too.








7)

Saturday saw the purchase of this beast! A gammon joint which was labeled half price so we went for it. Little did we know, £10.21 was the discounted price! It lasted for 4 days of 2 of us eating it for lunch and tea everyday at generous portions so it had longevity and a great taste! Though i think i'll lay off the gammon for a while!


8)


Yep! i finished 24 last weekend :(. I've been watching it for over 6 months, catching up from episode 1 all the way through to the film and the end of season 8. Awesome series, just want more, long live Jack Baur, don't do what the book says, just do what's right! oh and patch me through to the President!




9)

 Upgraded to a new Macbook Pro. So far so good, sweet piece of kit, though i didn't go for the new Retina Display versions. Mainly due to money constrains but also their lack of connectivity and no Firewire 800 port (i don't think) really put me off too so got the top-end-non-retina-display-version out there! Done!





10)

Finally, (lets make it 10!) last weekend me and Cat ended up going to the Wales comic con. Cat really wanted to go and i thought it was worth a look so we went to Wrexham for it. Met Warwick Davis and saw Boba Fett amongst others but most importantly, the voice of Johnny Bravo! (pictured). I didn't pay £10 for his autograph but i did get a picture with him but couldn't be bothered to find it. go to Facebook for more pictures on this:
http://www.facebook.com/lawrence.card

mistaken identity!?

A bit of a random one and probably the first ever post that doesn't start with:

'I haven't blogged in a while so i thought i'd.........'

but I was just searching for my blog (cause i use it that often i forget where it is.......plus i access it on my phone normally) and links such as these came up:

http://www.bulletformyvalentine.com/us/users/lawrenciumbc
http://www.1st-movers.com/my-profile/userprofile/lawrenciumbc

...amongst others, these aren't my profiles, just someone that seems to have used the same username that i tend to do.

This isn't really that mental and doesn't bother me that much, i just thought it was an interesting experiment to see how many accounts that aren't me that share this username there are, mainly because i would hardly have thought it is a name which would come to many peoples minds when choosing account names; 'lawrenciumbc' (or 'lawrence crumble' as lazy work colleagues like to call it haha!)

To be fair, as of today, the first page of user accounts from various places apart from the 2 listed above are all mine.......which is good news i suppose.

The 2nd page seems to be all me too but predominantly forum accounts when i have been stuck with something. Then this one popped up:

http://www.totalmortalkombat.com/board/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=39333&sid=224bd416c1546a57df5e8e73ff030f7a

TOTALMORTALKOMBAT?! i don't ever remember making that! but i could see it happening, im a casual mortal kombat player but don't know why i'd ever go on a website for it, well apparently i did in 2008. What alarms me most about this is under 'interests', all that is listed is 'finishing him', which, if your not into mortal kombat sounds pretty strange to say the least...... .


There you go, on the other hand maybe it was the same person who loved bullet for my valentine.

Come to think of it, maybe i did sign up on the bfmv site for some merchandise or tickets, i did used to be more of a fan than i currently am so its not out of the question and when i delve deeper on the '1st-movers' site, i realise that they created a joomla extension to auto post to facebook and twitter, so that was me.

the 3rd page is much the same as the 2nd so i stopped there and so in conclusion i don't think there is actually anyone using 'my' username, just me in the forgotten past.

........well that killed 20 minutes. Lawrenciumbc, that's me.

A mixed bag of emotions and a bit more effort please....

I'll address the effort comment first, as I haven't blogged in a while I thought I should and wish that I had fit time in to fit a few more in! I want to get back into posting (hopefully once a week at least) and I want to introduce the use of images a lot more. This will liven it up a bit and make it a bit more interesting!

The last few months have gone ok. I've launched the new comtec website (though not yet finished), stepped away from all the phoenix off season rush and gone on a host of good jobs including the tuc conference in Brighton (which included a random night where 2 colleagues decided to jump in the seas naked at about 10 at night!).

Had another decent job last week however problems with the sound recording meant I a post event dvd for the client is not up to standard and understandably my boss isn't happy. This lead to a rather strong talking to and threats of disciplinary action this morning which is where the mixed bag feelings come from. The bottom line is cover the unexpected, don't get complacent with the record and always have a backup! Sounds obvious but that's where my mistakes came from.

Another lesson learned and ultimately pre-empted this sound error was the incorrect lenses for the projection distance being incorrect on another recent job which has prompted me to want to work out the correct lenses myself for all future jobs I am involved in which require projection. After all its part of media so the media dept shouldn't take for granted the calculations by the technical dept. The issue on the particular job was fixed by moving the projectors back and the set forward and we just scraped the distance.

Phoenix has started the new season and are 4 games in and not doing amazing. Results have been fairly even with wins and losses which include a heavy 8-2 away defeat to mo lightning and the loss of the preseason local derby cup, 'the war of the roses' to Sheffield steeldogs. The team is almost completely new and therefore need to gel. On paper they look great with the best British lineup tony hand has ever constructed and an ex nhl defenceman but so far quite average on the ice. From a match night show perspective its been hard, severe lack of crew and broken equipment has held us back but hopefully it will pick up soon.

Hereford united are also struggling in the non league conference. A heavy defeat against Dartford (who?!) Seems embarrassing and things need to change fast there too!

Arsenal on the otherhand are looking good and very pleasing. A fantastic defensive start (Steve bould influence?) Along with podolski and cazorla looking great makes me think we are going to have a great season. Still undefeated so far this season. Just need giroud to get some goals on the board so we can forget and move on from van persie and the potential goalscoring void he has created (he is annoyingly joint top scorer in the prem for man united :( ).

Last weekend me and Catherine went to the Wrexham comic con where we saw/met people from game of thrones, red dwarf (made cat's day) and other randomers including Warwick Davis. It was good despite being the expected geekfest And stu and I even met the voice of johnny bravo! I also almost ran into the now elderly boba fett actor. It was interesting despite the annoying 'you can only take photos if you pay 15 quid for an autograph' which clearly only a money spinner but it damped the event a bit (I wanted a picture with Dan from eastenders/gas from call of duty!).

Looking forward to a host of potential gigs from enter shikari to parkway drive amongst others to finish the year off and a holiday in October to Berlin with Catherine will be good!

Other random bits; I've started playing mass effect 3, started watching game of thrones, finished the final 24 (:( ), my lower back pain seems to be much better after months of (free) chiro and lewis has now started uni in Burnley so I will expect him to be out and about in Manchester over the next few years.