Know Your Enemy

I know mine. Procrastination. Well, actually it’s enemies: procrastination and being distracted down the easy path.

I have really let my guitar playing slide (no pun intended) over the last few months. There’s been so much important stuff to deal with that setting time aside to practice playing the guitar was not easy, so it just wasn’t happening. It needs more dedication than, for example, surfing the net or going on the XBox for half an hour.

Anyway I was browsing the magazine racks at the weekend and spotted the latest Total Guitar, which I do buy every now and again. Their riff of the month was Green Day’s “Know Your Enemy”, so I bought it. That Green Day track is so good (as is the whole 21st Century Breakdown album. So my next goal is to learn the Know Your Enemy riff and this will galvanise me into spending more time on the guitar.

It’s time to ROCK!

MacBook Pro!

The day after my MacBook arrived, Apple announced the revised MacBook Pro line up at WWDC. Speed bump and other features plus a price drop. I was a bit pissed by this, however a phone call to Apple Customer Support resolved the matter – I could return it and they’d ship the newer model. It took a while to turn around but my new MacBook Pro arrived yesterday. It’s lovely! Thank you Apple!

New MacBook – Nice!

OK so I finally made up my mind to buy a new Mac and it arrived today. It’s a lovely aluminum MacBook and it looks really cool! I’ve used Migration Assistant to set it up using my iBook, which got me up & running pretty quickly. As I write this it’s busy copying over all my music into iTunes. I will enjoy spending the next few evenings installing all the apps I need

This week I are mainly…

• Listening to Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
• Playing Wanted Weapons of Fate on XBox360
• Playing Call of Duty World at War on XBox Live
• Thinking about doing some chores

Going a bit Reggie Perrin

Back in the day when I watched the original Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin I found it extremely funny.

Now, after two episodes of the brilliant remake/reinvention staring Martin Clunes I find myself thinking “That’s me”, which in a strange way makes it even more hilarious. I didn’t get where I am without recognizing a mid life crisis!

17th/21st Lancer uniform

Browsing in Model Zone last week I discovered that Modellers Loft are doing reissues of classic Action Man figures and historic uniforms. This one has a special interest for me:

This week I are mostly…

• Taking it easy
• Doing a few chores
• Continuing COD5 on Veteran
• Enjoying not being at work

Airport disk sharing

Airport disk sharing now set up. I’ve had to delete my old Time Machine backups as they weren’t visible via Airport. Now to let TM run a complete backup and that’ll be everything set up.

Airport!

Old Netgear router has been falling over a lot. Also, it couldn’t cope with the new broadband upgrade from 2 to 20Mbps so a new router was in order.

Went to the Apple Store today & I bought an Airport Extreme Base Station (God that hurt!). Anyway, setup was a breeze and here I am surfing away at a decent speed. Only thing to do: set up my external hard disk on the AEBS but Time Machine can’t see old backups. A minor point and us geeks love a challenge.

The Professional

So last night I got The Professional achievement on COD5 (World at War) and I was so stoked! This is a pretty hard one to get, you have to take out all of Amsel’s troops in “Vendetta” with just 5 shots of your Mosin Nagant – without reloading.

For the uninitiated, there are 7 soldiers and an attack dog to kill – with just 5 bullets!

I realize this makes me seem a real gamer geek but I don’t care, I am so chuffin pleased!