GREETINGS FROM AIRSHIP GLITZVILLE!
The splendiferous exciting adventures and inane ramblings of KT Glitz and his beautiful wife Toni Glitz. There will also be garbage talked about music, movies and Star Wars, a LOT of Star Wars!
If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning!
Never forget your dreams, they are the hopes of the future!
Out on my early walk today there was fog/mist. These photos don't really do it justice but it looked amazing.
Before I started work I was making a coffee and doing a few things and found myself becoming uncharacteristically angry, and unreasonably so, over the littlest of things. Not sure what the heck was going on there but I didn't like it very much. It did seem to subside quite quickly and I certainly hope this isn't something I have to come to face on a regular basis.
Bulbs arrived today so now we have a proper working light in the bathroom again, this is much cause for celebration!
Thankfully my angsty side wasn't around for most of the day so I managed to end the day a bit more chill....
I expect you are getting bored of the sunrise now but I am not LOL. Slightly later start today so the sunrise was not quite as impressive as previous days but it still looked lovely and was a great start to the day.
The bathroom light had blown so I went to replace it today only to find that the fitting for that one didn't match any of the bulbs I had spare, typical! I put in a quick order with Amazon to get some tomorrow and we rhad to put up with some alternative lighting for another night.
We have a new regular visitor to our garden in the form of a squirrel. He is mostly harmless except he managed to ruin our crop of aubergine's that we were growing. Clearly he doesn't like them but taking a bite out of each one just in case meant that we couldn't enjoy them either, little shit!
Other than that he is in everyday, exploring and coming right up close to the house. Toni has taken to leaving him some nuts out (much to my disgust as they are my nuts LOL). He does like them though and here he is:
Covering an early shift today so I was out for my walk at stupid o'clock. Spectacular sunrise though:
Seeing that really fired me up for the day which was just as well as it was a LOOOONG day. 95% was spent on a call with a client help support them through a live upgrade. I didn't really have much to do but I was there just in case.
With the regular season about to get underway we caught up with the last pre-season game for the New York Rangers against arch rivals the New York Islanders. First period ended tied 1 - 1. Second period ended with the Rangers leading 2 - 1. Third period was tied 4 - 4. Rangers won 5 - 4 in overtime so it was a much needed win heading into the regular season but letting in 3 in a period is not something I want to see much of again and letting the opposition escape with a point will also be a curse if it happens too much.
Had a bit of a stressful morning today. I got up early as usual and did my daily walk but then there was no time to relax. Due to a problem with the light in the kitchen not all of the washing up had been done. It was one of those things but there's nothing worse than coming down to some washing up from the previous day. I got all the washing up done and then made Toni's weekly bread supply.
While the bread was cooking I went to the garage and retrieved what I hoped would be a working spare tube light for the kitchen. I hate tube lights at the best if times. I managed to get the cover off and the dodgy bulb removed and had to fight for fifteen minutes to get the new tube in place. It was a tad frustrating but I did finally succeed and then we had a proper working light again.
After the bread was done I went upstairs for a hug with Toni only to have some messages from work come in and an 'urgent' issue. *sigh* this was something that could have been avoided if proper checks had been done at the end of Friday but that was not the case and here we were. Thankfully there wasn't much to do to resolve things but it was an interruption I could have done without.
By the time I was done I came downstairs to a wonderful big breakfast courtesy of Toni which was most welcome so we enjoyed that while catching up with the latest episode of Doom Patrol. After breakfast it was Toni's time to work so I made coffee and sat back to catch up on thee days worth of NJPW's G1 Climax 31 tournament. Six hours plus of NJPW wrestling, it's all good!
Had a good catch up with Sam via the telling-bone which was nice as we haven't spoken for ages. It's good to talk as the old saying goes. We setup a TV catch up to watch the last three episodes of What We Do In The Shadows together which we did with our dinner.
This season just gets better and better. Definitely worth checking out if you haven't seen it before.
Today we had our friends Anne and Jim coming round for what we dubbed Mexican Night. Our food was a team effort with all four of us getting stick in with the prepping and cook. It was great fun chatting and cooking as a group, really took the pressure off of feeding visitors doing it all together.
The food was amazing, and this was just the start of it!
We couldn't resist throwing in some sombreros for good measure!
There was more food, lots of food. I got to break out my new bear claws to shred the pork to create the pulled pork which was great fun:
We finished the evening off watching A Million Ways To Die In The West (extended cut).
Well it's all change on the wrestling front in Glitzville. WWE used to be the main promotion of choice with a bit of NJPW thrown in for good measure. We just couldn't get on with AEW any time we tried to watch it. This is no longer the case. WWE are out, We stopped watching RAW and Smackdown ages ago which just left NXT and NXT UK plus the PPVs. NXT started to get stale and then was on a delay in the UK once the program came off of WWE Network and moved onto a regular TV network.
So we tried out AEW again (before they brought back CM Punk and Bryan Danielson) and found it to be way more entertaining than WWE was. So we watched a few AEW shows and then the All Out PPV and we were hooked. We now watch every AEW show, none of them are boring, all very entertaining. We also now do major NJPW watching too.We've also started taking a load of indie shows too.
Who needs this sports entertainment rubbish (that's what WWE refer to their product as) when you can have professional wrestling?
The future is bright, the future is with the little men (and women)!
We are currently working our way through the NJPW G1 Climax 31 tournament. Ten days in and it's great fun!
Today has been brought to you by apathy, disinterest and frustration. The first two points were not me but others! I might have mentioned it a few times before but I am not a big fan of statistics or bean counting. I am even less a fan of statistics and bean counting when it they are not done properly. Even less so when bits of them are made up. So that's the level of BS I have been dealing with today.
I was looking forward to catching up with a New York Rangers game tonight only to find that my NHL app was telling me I needed to subscribe. I then had to have a call with NHL.TV support as I had received an emailing saying my subscription lasted until 10/10/21 and I would auto-renew on 11/10/21. It turns out there was a mistake in the email and it should have said I expired on 01/10/21! I was just told I could just subscribe again now and all would be good. I queried if I would then be billed again on 11/10/21 as per the email but was assured this would not happen. Trusting this to be true I subscribed so that I could watch the game I wanted to. Check in with again on 11/10/21 to see if there is a post on being double billed! LOL
The game in question was New York Rangers v Boston Bruins. The season stars on October 12th so there are a series of pre-season games and this was a good ONE. First period ended with the Rangers trailing 2 - 3. Second period ended the same with Rangers down 2 - 3 still. The third period improved a bit and ended with the game tied 3 - 3 thanks to a well taken penalty shot. Into overtime we went and the game ended with the Rangers winning 4 - 3, phew! Good to see a win especially against a quality team like the Bruins (even more so as the Devils beat the Rangers 7 - 1 the other night). There is a lot of potential in the 21/22 Rangers team (we are still getting used to all the changes) so hopefully we'll see good things from them.
The weather was shite but Toni and I ventured outside today. We went to Eltham for breakfast at Miggi's. We haven't been there for ages so it was good to see her again and enjoy a lovely breakfast cooked by someone else.
Following the noms it was round the corner to Vue Cinema to watch the latest Bond film No Time To Die. We aren't massive Bond fans but the trailers had looked interesting so we decided to give it a punt.
I am really glad we went as it turned out to be a very enjoyable film. It was nice to see the return of an Aston Martin as a Bond car and there were some nice throwbacks to previous films like the use of We Have All The Time In The World. This was going to be Daniel Craig's last Bond film and he certainly went out in style. They even open the door for a new 007 in future.
I don't want to get into spoilers so I will just say that there are LOTS of good action scenes, there are some neat plot twists and Rami Malik makes an awesome villain.
Definitely one to go and see even if (like us) you are not a die hard Bond fan,
The working week is now done and the weekend beckons! Big changes coming up with work. After 15 years working with CF I am going to be moving elsewhere in the company to working in Security & Compliance as of 1st January 2022. It was time for a change and I am very grateful to all the management that have supported this move. It's exciting but also quite scary as I am moving out of my comfort zone and will be learning new skills.
Following on from my return to blogging yesterday I have decided that I might drop in the old blog entry in the past to fill in a few things that I would now like to share while also keeping things moving forwards as well. No prizes for spotting when they appear and I won't be advertising them on future entries LOL.
In other news I got Toni to hack off most of my hair. After a long period of deliberation I decided that although I loved my long hair it was actually just too high maintenance and a total pain to carry on with.
So for those that haven't seen it, this is what I look like now:
So I have had a bit of a break from this old blog and it was much needed. Sometimes I felt that I needed to blog something every day and there were times when I just didn't have anything to say. It was actually a lot of pressure that I was putting on myself for no real good reason. I started this blog as a sort of online diary and it was only really meant for me but somehow it grew into something much bigger. It still amazes me how many people actually stop by to read my nonsense LOL.
Now that I have had a break I realise that I do enjoy doing it but just have to find that right balance of posting things that are interesting to share and not feel it has to be chapter and verse on my life or a constant daily barrage of stuff just because. There might be gaps but there will be content.
So it's now all about getting the balance right for me. Talking of which, I know a song about that!
All hail the new blog, it's like the old blog......... and still the same blog...... I'll shut up now!
Well today didn't go quite as well as it could have. I was called at 04:00 to sort out an issue that shouldn't have happened so that was my sleep pattern screwed up. I did manage to get back to bed by 05:00 and not get up again until 07:00 but disruption is disruption. My early morning walk was much needed today that's for sure. Fresh air and trees for the win! Here's my friend the squirrel.
The rest of the day wasn't too bad and was quite productive until a bunch of stress showed up towards the end. That was quickly dispensed with though after a much needed grumble.
After work it was off to vote it in the London Mayoral and London Assembly elections. I've done my bit for democracy now!
Today's movie of choice was Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason.
You can't beat a fun British rom-com to brighten the day.
... and it most certainly was. Haven't had a really stressful frustrating day for a while so today decided to deliver in spades. Not just more to say on that front really LOL
Revenge Of The Fifth indeed!
It wasn't all bad though, we had a nice chilled evening and watched Bridget Jones's Diary.
With today being Star Wars Day, Lucasfilm released their new animated Star Wars series. Star Wars: The Bad Batch is a spin off of The Clone Wars animated series featuring characters introduced in the last season.
Well that was really brilliant. A great start to the series. A new story while digging deep into continuity. This is going to be a good story!
Here's the final trailer
Here's a neat little featurette:
Disney+ also dropped a few other nice things.
First up was Star Wars Vehicles Flythroughs with the Millennium Falcon and a Star Destroyer virtual tour on offer.
Next was Star Wars Biomes which gave some virtual location tours. Most excellent
Rounding things off was a Simpsons short called The Force Awakens From its Nap starring Maggie Simpson.
Bank holidays are a wonderful thing, so nice to wake up and on a Monday and not have to worry about work. Despite the forecast of rain it was nice when I went our for my early morning walk.
With the news that there is going to be a new West End production of Moulin Rouge that we are very much looking forward to, we decided to watch the 2001 film today. We are partial to a musical in this house!
The afternoon was spent chilling out to many episodes of Miami Ink as we needed a tattoo show fix. We had been watching Black Ink Crew: New York but could only find the first two seasons out of eight so moved on to Black Ink Crew: Chicago. We've done all six seasons of that and are now waiting for it to start up again as it went on hiatus as a result of COVID-19.
We went back into musical mode with dinner and watched the 2001 performance of Jekyll & Hyde The Musical from Broadway HD. This is the classic tale in musical form starting none other than David Hasselhoff. It was OK, a couple of good songs and a load more filler. It did have the Hoff to carry it through though so it wasn't all bad, well carrying it through is a stretch but he was the best bit about it.
I'll close things out today with this beautiful little video from Marvel. Phase Four here we come!
Hi everyone, I am back again after taking a break.
What's new? Loads but I cannot do it all in one post LOL. I might backfill a few posts and the rest I'll drop in going forwards.
On the COVID-19 front I have had my first vaccination while both Toni and Sam have been double dosed. I am continuing to work from home and there are no plans to go back into the office as yet.
Sam is ready to fly the nest and move out. He and his friend have now found a place and all the paper work is done. There are some last minute things to be sorted out and with a trailing wind he will be moving in next week.
Zoe has now entered gainful employment, taking a on a sales assistant role in a shop called Tokyo Toys.
After a lot of time being quite sedentary I've been feeling a tad unfit and not very happy with my body. As the garage gym is inaccessible due to it being full of packed boxes belonging to Sam I have now taken to doing regular exercise every day in a different way. For the last few weeks I have been going out for a walk every day for a minimum of 30 minutes. It's been very enjoyable and kickstarts my day quite nicely. I have also been trying to do a minimum of 100 squats every day
I am still baking rolls every week and this was todays batch.
Toni has just started up a new blog site where she is posting reviews of books that she is reading. She has been doing lot of work with new authors and this is the start of her building on that.
The site is called The Bookdragon's Den and you can find it here:
Today we watched Shadow And Bone on Netflix. Ravka, a fantasy kingdom based on the Tsarist Russian Empire, is set in a war-torn world plagued by the Shadow Fold, a swath of permanent darkness separating East from West Ravka which is inhabited by carnivorous winged creatures known as Volcra. Orphan mapmaker Alina Starkov discovers that she is a Grisha (a magic-user) who possesses the power to create light, which could be the key to setting her country free from the Fold. Alina joins an elite army of Grisha serving under General Kirigan, the Shadow Summoner.
But as she struggles to hone her power, she finds that allies and enemies can be one and the same and that nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. There are dangerous forces at play, including a crew of charismatic criminals, and it will take more than magic to survive.
This was a very enjoyable show and was much better than the recent Winx Saga.
Toni has just started up a new blog site where she is posting reviews of books that she is reading. She has been doing lot of work with new authors and this is the start of her building on that.
The site is called The Bookdragon's Den and you can find it here:
