Spent Lortsa Monies…

Ever notice that you can go for ages without feeling the need to buy anything trival at all, then one day it all comes out of the blue? Today was that day.

Tickets to WWE RAW tapings at the Manchester Evening News Arena went on sale at 9am this morning, and despite my efforts to get tickets as quickly as possible, I didn’t get ringsides.

I have got lower-tier seats next to the TitanTron, so a great view of the entranceway, a so-so view of the ring, and a chance of getting at least the outline of my sign on TV, but hey, with the advent of HD television, I might still get seen.

I went to the Smackdown show last year as the photos of it are below, and those were nosebleed seats, and it was a house show, and I still had fun, so lower-teir seats at a taping should still be awesome.

Just to illustrate, here’s a video of WWE RAW at the London O2 arena a few weeks ago (formerally the disaster known as the Millenium Dome) – this’ll be what it’ll be like when I am there.

Anyway, that to one side, I also pre-ordered Grand Theft Auto IV on Xbox 360. I don’t own a PS3 and never intend too, that’s another story altogether, before anyone thinks about sending me a comment about that.

I hope it arrives on the morning of the 29th – that’ll be amazingly awesome, but it’ll prolly be later since I’ve stood around on ceremony ordering it, and they’ll likely fall short of stock before they get to me, but you never know.

Either way I am hoping that this new installment of the greatest video game franchise in recent history lives up to expectations. Going back to Liberty City seems like a great thing, and I hope to have the same feeling that I did on the first morning of playing Grand Theft Auto III.

Vice City and San Andreas while technically superior games, lacked the atmosphere of III, and I hope that IV recaptures some of the old GTA feel while pushing a new boundry. If it ends up like San Andreas though, it’ll still be a candidate for GoTY.

Anyway, that’s all for this particular update, I hope to do some spotlight stuff and the whatnot to the rest of the site today.

Some "mailbag" stuff…

I’ve had a few messages from my fans this week, so lets delve into the mailbag for a giggle:

Canesuno wrote:
When talking about wrestling, why do you always say “botch” – wouldn’t it be easier to say “the power went out” or “they did that move wrong”?

TheAwesomeOne Replied:
I could do that, but then I could also say I would like a spherical green fruit instead of “I would like an apple” – we give things names for a reason, to spare us describing everything.

Vigneshthedon wrote:
Danny I would like to have the MP3 ringtone can u send it be plz[sic]

TheAwesomeOne Replied:
…..MP3 ringtone of what, exactly?

Flash072488 wrote:
danny if that is ur name, how did u get jeff hardy to come 2 ur house??

TheAwesomeOne Replied:
Jeff and his brother Matt are my cousin on my mother’s brother’s wife’s side twice. We always hang at the family Bar-B-Q.*

I’ve had enough of that. Anyway, couple things I figured I’d mention here in the blog.

I’ve re-done my splash page, and the banners, and the other odd tweak. I’ve already mentioned the name of this was completely accidental, but I think the humor was lost in that somewhere and recently it’s come across as retardedly egotistical.

I’ve changed some stuff now to try and make point of the fact that while I think I’m awesome, I’m actually far from it, I’m just an average guy with issues and strange ideas.

I’ve also got my GTA ramblings up, so feel free to check that out.

* I bet people e-mail me believing that, too

Some “mailbag” stuff…

I’ve had a few messages from my fans this week, so lets delve into the mailbag for a giggle:

Canesuno wrote:
When talking about wrestling, why do you always say “botch” – wouldn’t it be easier to say “the power went out” or “they did that move wrong”?

TheAwesomeOne Replied:
I could do that, but then I could also say I would like a spherical green fruit instead of “I would like an apple” – we give things names for a reason, to spare us describing everything.

Vigneshthedon wrote:
Danny I would like to have the MP3 ringtone can u send it be plz[sic]

TheAwesomeOne Replied:
…..MP3 ringtone of what, exactly?

Flash072488 wrote:
danny if that is ur name, how did u get jeff hardy to come 2 ur house??

TheAwesomeOne Replied:
Jeff and his brother Matt are my cousin on my mother’s brother’s wife’s side twice. We always hang at the family Bar-B-Q.*

I’ve had enough of that. Anyway, couple things I figured I’d mention here in the blog.

I’ve re-done my splash page, and the banners, and the other odd tweak. I’ve already mentioned the name of this was completely accidental, but I think the humor was lost in that somewhere and recently it’s come across as retardedly egotistical.

I’ve changed some stuff now to try and make point of the fact that while I think I’m awesome, I’m actually far from it, I’m just an average guy with issues and strange ideas.

I’ve also got my GTA ramblings up, so feel free to check that out.

* I bet people e-mail me believing that, too

Stuff from the old site…

Paradise City – I recently got Burnout Paradise on XBox 360. (20 of you just skipped on, I know). It’s a damn fine title though. Not had so much fun with a driving game since Driver and other good titles for the origonal PlayStation debuted. Best bit is the online play, even though it seemed slightly weird at first, but once you get your head round it, it’s great fun. Remember, play with me anytime you feel like, the gamertag is to the left.

Upping sticks – Seems I may be moving out in the near future. More details as I get them, but it’s about time. I’m rather looking forward to sharing a smallish flat rather than living in a house, strangely enough. I need to get out of this particular place, it’s never gone right for me here.

Chinese food – We went out to this all you can eat chinese place recently, we had a good time and stuff, and what with a particular Febuary date coming up, I figure I’ma go back. Though I might not sneak off with some mates and get trashed in a club crawl like I did last time. I ended up being tought how to poll dance by some exotic dancer. I doubt that’d go down well. I doubt this’ll go down well, I already got in trouble for my about page, but hey. >_>

Freeview. More like free static. – Had a spare set-top-box lying around. Hooked it up. BBC 2 works, sorta, if you don’t mind missing every odd seccond. ITV does not exist. Dave works, but Jesus, who watches Dave without at least 5 shots of JD? Freeview fails me.

Flow Internet is my mistress – After several long months of development, lots of help and feedback from the beta testing teams, and lots of hard work from particular people who helped make it happen, we finally managed to launch version 2.0 of the customer area and purchase system, which for the first time lets customers manage, order, get support for, and do everything under one simple log-on. It sounds like a small thing, but this hard to implement feature, along with other improvements, fixes, and a total re-write, makes the new control panel the slickest and easiest experience that not only we’ve ever had, but that you’ll find anywhere else. Be sure to register for free to check it out, and order some hosting or domains if you’re feeling really flush.

I baked a cookie – I baked some cookies for someone last week, or at least tried. As-per my usual sucking cooking skills, it didn’t turn out right. I ended up giving up and molding the entire cookie dough into a giant cock and balls which I then decorated with rice-crispie type things for pubis, and I did a foreskin with some syrup, baked it, hot cakes, no pun intended. Still, we laughed. Here’s a picture; 

Note for the future – Last and by all means least, I had a few e-mails this week, mostly requests for videos and things (surprise surprise), and I apologise for taking a bit of time replying. Time is short to say the least these days. Oh, and one more thing, people who are going to contact me, especially when the basis of the message requires me to reply, really shouldn’t put a bouncy (read: invalid) e-mail address into the contact form. It just ain’t happnin’ either way if you do that, is it? Still, stupidity, you gotta giggle.