A genuinely busy day

Un par de jours sans bloguer- toujours rien a declarer. Still having nowt to write never stopped me before. Sita told me off for writing ‘me and jose went’ instead of ‘jose and I’ a couple of posts ago, so here we go with some of my writing tics. I got an A in my GCSE English Language and I was a TEFL teacher for long enough to know which rules I’m breaking on a daily basis. For what it’s worth, it helps to read this blog with a slight somerset burr. Top 10 Grammatical Rules I give short shrift to:

• 10. Subject/ Object pronoun difference. Bert’n’me couldn’t be arsed.
• 9. Using the subjunctive in conditional clauses. If I was you I’d use more sugar.
• 8. Ending sentences with prepositions. Hot, sticky climes are summink I’ll not put up with.
• 7. Capitalisation. some days not. Other days yes.
• 6. Spelling. Some words I can’t spell first time with and not having a spell checker to hand, I’ll just shove in more letters until it looks right. N.B. doesn’t necccasserilly always work.
• 5. Overcompensation for Americanisms. It’s been an ongoing battle against MS Word for it to recognise English spelling as default. Not just things like colour, centre and Yours Sincerely (instead of Sincerely), but the subtler ones like travellers (with 2 Ls) and realise (with an S). For me, no words end in -ize.
• 4. Sentence fragments. Quote from the Simpsons. Lisa has made a grammar robot:
  

  Lisa: Almost done. Just lay still.
  Linguo: Lie still.
  Lisa: I knew that. Just testing.
  Linguo: Sentence fragment.
  Lisa: ‘Sentence fragment’ is also a sentence fragment.
  Linguo: Must conserve battery power.

• 3. Overuse of ‘…’ … Not antigrammatical, but surely bad grammar… Just how my brain works I’m afraid… In conversation I’ll do the same… trail off each sentence into mumbling. So that’s what they’re there for…
• 2. The Jean Teasdale school of parenthetical asides (and consequently where to put the punctuation.). ?
• 1. Starting every other sentence with I. Well, it is a personal blog called self-absorbtion central, and I know not everyone wants there actions engraved forever in hypertext on teh internets.

So there you go. If you notice any others, feel free to comment them if you find yourself with nowt better to do today.
Happy birthday Ms Butler and Valentine’s to the rest of you. Happy B-day Guadalajara too, 464 today!

So we’ve seen about 5 apartments/houses since me last post, none of which have met our exacting standards. We’ve more to investigate tomorrow. Er, I’m losing a lot at scrabble. Real life scrabble that is, and am seeking refuge right now in extended Sunday evening DVD viewing (Big Love), which in turn reminded me of this clip from The IT Crowd…

I resolved to blog more for the new year. Not deliver quality posts…

…if their recording studio only had a $9.95 microphone, a cheap guitar with rusty strings and a singer they pulled off the street…
Link to mp3 here… (the embedded version slowed down the whole page, so so much for that…)

…The rattling noise is the microphone tumbling around inside the guitar on 3 tracks… And the singing, well, that’s as good as it gets I’m afraid. Here’s the original on YouTube in case you need reminding that it is actually quite a good song.

Here’s the equipment:

And while I’m posting, here’s our friendly neighbourhood bucket-o-fruit-and-chile-powder delivery bloke:

This is post One Thousand and One, I’m glad 1000 wasn’t another ‘sorry I haven’t been posting much’ type entry but instead a handy guide to kale and slugs. I only logged in today to post that I’ve added an Archives page to my photoblog and that it was lovely and frosty this morning.

The screenshot will also serve as a reminder of what my desktop looked like in December 2008 with WP 2.6.5. It’s a typical day. I like looking at screenshots of other people’s PCs, just to see what’s installed, what the background is, what OS, what programs are open, what they’ve been searching for… Okay, so I’m as nosey as the next nerd.

Righty, that does it. I’m starting a new meme. Consider yourselves tagged, Flash, Mario and Ale and anyone else who fancies it. Upload a screengrab of your desktop as it is when you read this. Then tell 3 other people to do likewise. Hopefully it will have an infinite cat project feel to it eventually 😀

Happy Millennial Post!

Ajijic en español
Ajijic in English

Does blogging about blogging constitute metablogging? Here are some popular metablog themes of which I’ve been guilty:

• (bloody) Comment Spam
• “Sorry I haven’t updated this in a while, but…”
• Memes (questionnaires, etc that get forwarded from blog to blog like ‘mind viruses’) You are a Capricorn! type thing
• How to use my RSS (Richard Sutherland-Smith, I’m reliably informed) feed
• Sign my Guestmap
• Search terms that got people to the site. Michael Jackson Dance Moves is a regular one for Gwynunlimited, they get to the film review of 13 going on 30…
• Google Pagerank

Righty, I’m giving it a week and Gwyn’s blog is moving addresses and all because of the Russians and their underhand phentermine flogging tactics. What they give with www.allofmp3.com they take away with this stuff. The archive will stay here but I’ll turn off comments and shove a bit red CLICK HERE TO GO TO NEW BLOG button in the first entry, then I’m afraid you’ll have to update your bookmarks, links or aggregators and hie thee hence to agaveweb.com/blog. I meanwhile will have to notify feedburner, technorati, google, bloggingbrits, and a ‘sinfin‘ of other sites to try to nudge the pagerank up a bit.

Cesar was true to form and didn’t take us to the Lucha Libre last night, el muy cabron. But we’ll get there eventually especially after Ed’s glowing recommendation in the comments in the entry below, somewhere after online casino, but before Viagra. We went out for pozole and tacos instead and I watched another DVD- Zatoichi, the Blind Swordsman. Review coming soon to the IFRAME on the right… Breakfast and work beckon… hasta pronto, gwyn

My kind of recipe