BLOURNAL
Urge to doomscroll… rising…
Was going to write a blournal entry last night when I come home from the pub but I was fucking knackered so I decided to catch a few z’s and pick up where I left off in the morning. Well, the morning has obviously come and gone by now, but I still wanna write something so that way, I can maybe keep myself out of the doldrums and resist the urge to doomscroll.
Dia duit…
Dia duit. Haigh. Failte. Danny is ainm dom.
Don’t mind me. I’ve been using DuoLingo to learn Irish for the past few weeks. Haven’t missed a day since I started (which was 22 days if I’m to be believed), but my grasp of the Irish language still has a long fucking way to go before I could ever hope to hold any kind of conversation in Irish.
Parasocial bereavement is still bereavement
I woke up this morning to the news that Hayden Panettiere and Screaming Mad George had died and it got me thinking about the fact that we’ve lost so many from all walks of the entertainment industry this year…
Soft rebooting the site
I think I’ve said this a few times in previous posts but I’ve often been tempted to just scrap the entire blournal so I could make a fresh start. You can say that I’m being too much of a perfectionist, you can say that I’m being overly self-critical but I really do fucking hate most of what I’ve posted on this website. But you know what... for as much as I’m tempted to take a sledgehammer approach to this site and start from scratch, I won’t.
Here we go again…
Well… here we are again. It’s a Friday night and I’m sitting in the pub trying to write a blournal entry when I should be socializing with the good folk around me. Probably would’ve started writing sooner but I’ve spent the past few hours playing through Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (or Ratchet & Clank 3 as it’s referred to as here in the UK). Most of my time being spent doing… you guessed it, gladiator battles.
No, I haven’t gone anywhere. I just suck at posting regular updates.
Don’t really know what I want to write about at the moment, but it’s been a week and I felt like I needed to post something to let you all know that I’m still hanging in there. Haven’t really been doing all that much though besides doing the midweek pub quiz, working out at the local hub and keeping tabs on the World Cup.
A belated post-birthday blournal
OK so this one’s a little overdue. My intention was to have an update banged out on Sunday before I went out to the barbecue that I was selling tickets for, but I never got around to writing anything because I felt absolutely fucking bleutered by the time Monday rolled around. Who would’ve guessed that having an active social life takes a lot out of you?
So… another year to go before I hit the big 3-0…
So far, my 29th has been a relatively subdued affair. Not complaining by any means. Just observing. I’m well aware that birthdays tend to be a lot less exciting as you get older but I’m looking — not that they have to be — but that’s fine by me. I’m heading out for the night and I have a feeling that no matter what happens, there’ll be plenty of craic.
My last day as a 28 year old
Didn’t feel like blournalling yesterday because it wasn’t a particularly exciting day. I spent a lot of time playing shooting things and blowing shit up, collecting bolts and levelling up my health and weapons in Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando (or Ratchet and Clank 2 as it’s referred to in PAL territories). Maybe a little too much, but goddamn, it was way too much fun.
Still pretty warm…
No, this is NOT a weather update. I just couldn’t think of a title for this one.
You know… even though I’ve been blournalling for almost two years now, I feel like I’ve neglected this website in that time. I suppose I could link to all those times where I’ve talked about my ambitions for the website, but I really don’t want to go back through all of them.
A random blournal entry about yesterday’s not-so-exciting activities, video games, sports and politics, etc.
So yesterday I went and got myself another hair and beard trim. After that, I went door-to-door around the parish selling tickets for an upcoming annual barbecue that’s happening this Sunday and finally, I closed out the night by whupping Captain Kwark’s ass in Ratchet and Clank. Probably not the productive use of my time but all in all, a pretty good day regardless.
Don’t Kill The Discs
Figured I might as well share this Change.org petition: https://www.change.org/p/don-t-kill-the-disc-tell-sony-to-keep-physical-playstation-games. I signed it last week and I’d strongly but politely encourage anybody who hasn’t already signed it to do the same. I’m not sure if it’ll do much to move the needle, but this is an opportunity to let our voices be heard.
Football may or may not be coming home, but did it ever actually leave in the first place?
Well, I bit the bullet and watched the England vs. Mexico match last night… kinda. I dozed off about twenty minutes in so I missed most of the highlights, but I did wake up to see that England had won and made it to the quarter finals so… good on them, I guess.
The end of another weekend (and the continuing FUBARing of my body clock)
Hello once again…
Right now, I’m currently sitting in the local pub debating with myself over whether or not to stay up and watch the England v. Mexico match this morning. Given that I’ve pretty badly FUBAR’d my body clock as of late — and playing Ratchet and Clank until well after half-two in the morning didn’t exactly help matters — it’s probably not advisable, but at the same time, I do wanna keep a bit of a closer eye on sporting events going forward. Even if I’m not necessarily a fan, I know it makes for good conversation in the local parish.
Raging against the digiverse hellscape
Like most people, I’m feeling pretty pissed off about the recent news that Sony would be officially ceasing physical disc production on all new games released after January 2028, but it doesn’t really help when I’m being bombarded with memes and reaction pieces in my social media feeds.
Still not dead… just hibernating…
Hello once again…
Obviously, I have NOT been a very good blournaller as of late. My last post was way back at the start of May and now it’s nearly July so I think some kind of update is long overdue.
In case you forgot, today is also a Bank Holiday
Part of me wanted to call this post “The Star Wars Bank Holiday Monday Special” as May the Fourth happened to occur on a Bank Holiday Monday this year, but I decided against it.
It’s that time of year again…
Happy Star Wars Day, everyone. May the 4th be with you… always.
Looking back on last year, I really made such a big fucking deal about how I was going to watch the entire Star Wars saga in chronological order all throughout the month of May.
I should probably just keep my laptop away from my cups of tea as much as humanly possible from here on out…
Ugh… my clumsy ass got off to a great start today by spilling tea over the laptop. Luckily, there’s no immediate signs of damage and everything still seems to be working fine, but goddamn, I’m annoyed at myself for being so careless. I know accidents happen but this could’ve been a costly accident. Hell, it might still be. What a way to start a Sunday morning, huh.
This is just a quick test run before beer o’clock…
Thought I might do a short (but not particularly sweet) post before I head out to the pub as I would like to start using email campaigns for my blournal updates. This is just a test run to see if this actually works.