BLOURNAL
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.
May Day, May Day, May Day…
It's the first of May and I’m scratchy my head and wondering where the fuck the time has gone.
Started the day off on as good of a note as I could by spending an hour and a half exercising down at the hub. It was productive and I felt great afterwards, but the warm weather definitely makes things more difficult. After lunch, Dad and I went out for another wee dander, this time in Cabin Wood, which is this lovely little spot located just on the outskirts of Cookstown. Once again, I took plenty of photos…
A few minutes in Derry…
Went out for a drive earlier today with my dad. No real destination in mind, but we did stop in Derry and took a short dander through Bay Road Park Local Nature Reserve. I’m glad we did because I managed to get a few decent photos along the shore.
Shawshank, Xenomorphs and Spring Weather
Sitting out on the patio at the moment trying to figure out what to include in this blournal entry. Today’s one of many beautiful days we’ve had over the past week or so. The sun is shining, the birds are tweeting and although it’s warm, there’s a subtle breeze in the air, so it’s absolutely sweltering.
Goddamn it
So I was writing a blournal post on how today was an absolutely beautiful day weatherwise, but for some reason, the tab closed and I lost most of what I had written up until that point — even though I could swear I had saved everything — and the strangest part is… I’m all but certain that I didn’t even click out of it. The tab just shut down for no goddamn reason. Definitely an odd glitch if there ever was one.
Bits and pieces
Hello, again. I see that it’s been over a week since I last posted anything on here so I might as well rectify that. Alas, I was hoping to have this written much sooner but anxiety and procrastination are a lethal combination.
Surely it’s still Monday somewhere in the world…
Goddamn, I’m feeling fucking knackered right now, which is probably a good thing at this time of the night. I should be getting ready to head up the wooden hill but I just wanna sit up, listen to music and watch whatever’s on TV. What can I say? I think there’s just a part of me that likes being a night owl. It’s pretty irresistible, I’m not gonna lie.
Nine Inch Noize
By the way, I forgot to mention this yesterday but I did manage to catch up with Nine Inch Noize’s set on the Coachella YouTube livestreams — thank you, Coachella Replay — and holy shit, it was fucking spectacular.
Another weekend is at an end
So the weekend is at an end once again and I just got back home from the pub over an hour ago. Truth be told, I probably would’ve left a little sooner but my dad wanted to watch the tail end of the Masters tournament. I’m not really into golf so I didn’t pay much heed to it but I’m happy to see Rory McIlroy win. It seems like he had a bit of a rough start but kudos to him for coming out on top once again.
Hello again…
Hello, folks. Just thought I’d try and write something while I’m out in the pub. As per usual, I wanted to have something written sooner. Alas, I always feel like I have a lot to say but I don’t know how to say it, but I’ll try my best.
Michael Patrick
So, Michael Patrick passed away on Wednesday at the all-too-young age of 35.
For those of you who don’t know the name, he was a local actor and writer who worked on film, TV, radio and theatre.
The latest edition of “I’m not American but…”
Not in the best form this morning after all of Trump’s bluster yesterday. Actually, “bluster” seems like a huge understatement in this case because the nutjob literally threatened to enact genocide over his social media if he didn’t get what he wanted.
Happy Easter
Hi, folks. Just thought I’d pop onto the blournal to wish you all a happy Easter if you celebrate the occasion. If not, then I wish you the happiest of holidays whatever it is you celebrate at this time of year.
A Good Friday update that doesn’t have anything to do with Good Friday
Hi, folks. Not really much to say today. Just wanted to pop my head out to remind everyone that I’m still around trying to make sense of this increasingly insane world we live in and I’m still trying to figure out my place in it.
OK… you got me
OK. I’ll admit. I have fallen for at least one April Fools’ joke today. Earlier this morning before I went to the gym, I saw an announcement on The Fright Club NI’s Facebook page that they’d managed to get Robert Englund for their upcoming Strange and Unusual event in Ballymena and I got excited for a couple of seconds before I read the fine print and remembered that today was April Fools Day.
Maybe the real April Fools were the friends we made along the way…
So, I was initially thinking about naming this blournal entry: “Make April Fools’ Day Great Again'“, especially since nearly everything to do with Trump and the MAGA movement feels like a needlessly dragged out April Fools joke that refuses to end.
An insomniac’s brief thoughts on the Insomniac Spider-Man games…
I’ve spent the last couple of nights finishing up the main story campaign and collecting all the trophies — aside from the New Game Plus trophy, which I’ll get somewhere down the line — in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, so it’s easy to why I haven’t been much sleep as of late. Sitting at a laptop typing up blournal entries at well after two in the morning certainly doesn’t help matters either, but I want to try and strike while the iron’s… relatively hot.