David's blog

I went swimming this morning, and had the pool all to myself, usually there is a group of disabled people in there, maybe they had week off, so they gave me the week off too, a week off of trying to swim around them.  I am having trouble with the goggles though, they keep steaming up, I have tried a couple of things to no avail, I will try something else next time, I read something on here, that liquid soap is good, so I baught some of that today, I eventually found some in tesco after going round and round the shelves a few time, I bought hand wash, which I assume is the same thing as liquid soap. After the swim like I said, I went to tesco and while there I baught a jar of beetroot and a couple of other things.  On the way from tesco, I could feel the bag slipping off my shoulder, as it was heavy, so I jerked it up, this was outside the computer shop, the next thing I heard was the jar of beetroot falling on the floor, I had obviously not closed the rucksack zip properly, ...

Well I have started to 'read' or is that listen to audio books, its possible now to download an app which will read the book while its on your phone, which can be handy for long boring bus journeys, the only problem I see, is the limited selection, I put in loads of serches and the book was not there, maybe they will beecome available in time, which I guess will be good for other users. I guess also the selection is limited as reading a book is much more popular than listening to one.  I have also used ebooks the selection is limited there too but not as limited as audiobooks, I guess the change from the paper version of a book will take time, but the sooner it happens, I guess the trees will be glad.  There will be no need to bookshelves then, and there will not be a library as such I guess, though the day when books are not in print will still take a while to get here I reckon. The main issue with audiobooks is staying awake I find, especially if the person reading the thi...

Its been a bad day on the sporting front today.  The football team I follow, which is Chelsea, could only manage a draw against a poor West Ham Utd side, I guess it typifies the season the team has had, how far it has fallen in just a few months really. Also the England rugby team managed to win the Grand Slam with the help of a Welsh referee, which is ironic really, maybe he was trying too hard not to be bias, I guess he is only human. There was a very interesting documentary about Michael Jackson on this evening, though which was showing his journey from Motown to the place he ended up in.  I was a fan of his music, well I still am I guess, I remember geting the album off the Wall for my 18th birthday, from this girl, who I had been at school with and I guess fancied to some extent, I told her I loved the gift, she reckoned I was just creeping she did not believe me how thrilled I was, but I really was, I guess that's life. I am still a bit pissed off with tutor at the...

A bit of shit day all in all, I guess it didn't help that I had broken the mobile phone so was in a hurry to fix it, which proved a bit tricky in relation to finding someone to do it.  I phoned around and some did did fix phones and others didn't.  The ones who did wanted a large amount of money. Anyway, I decided to take the phone to Bangor, on the bus.  When starting from Porthmadog, I got the urge to go the loo, but I was too late to had to hold on for another 15 miles or so, and the driver was driving like he was in funeral.  After being to the loo I need to get another bus to Bangor, I eventually go there, hoping the guy in the shop could fix the phone today, no chance, the part has to be ordered on, so will take few days, I have to go back there in a few days therefore and not looking forward to that journey again On the way back, the bus I got, did not connect with the bus it was suppose to, so this pissed me off too, and I ended up walking the 3 miles hom...

I spent today, recording a piece a music, that a friend and myself had come up with a few years ago, we gave it the title of In the Park.  It started out just me playing a couple of chords on the guitar, namely G and D7, and then my friend joined in witht he saxophone.  I just play those two chords over and over and he plays tunes over the chords. Anyway, I have recorded it before, but thought it would be interesting to let the people on the course I am on, reocrd it.  I thought it could be a projet where everyone could have a go at getting involved, doing percussion, and singing. The first thing recorded was the me playing the guitar, and playing the piece for about 5 minutes just over and over, on a guitar which was available at the college.  There were 2 microphones in place for the guitar one directly on the guitar and the other an ambient one.  It was done in one take, the saxophone was then recorded with one mic.  It was then decided to have so...

Well, the big crack in the rendering has finally been fixed after a lot of fuss and bullshit, from when they told me that the thing had been fixed to so, the latest bullshit, that the house was going to be put on some scheme and that it would have had the whole lot rendered, this I think was said, as they were annoyed or not too pleased to be harassed by the citizens advice bureau. I had kind of got one over on them, well they should not mess me about I guess and be honest in their dealing, they are suppose to be there to help people who can't afford anywhere else to live not take the fucking piss.  I am sure the rendering will break again soon enough, and that its the building that needs doing again.  Anyway, its done now and hopefully I can paint a little bit of the living room now when it dries out from the damp. Damp is what it has been today all day, it has been vile weather all day, just wind and rain from the snow in America apparently, I don't know, just have to go b...

Well another year is underway, hopefully a couple of health problems I have will improve or get sorted out this year.  They have been long standing which is very worrying, I am still waiting for the results from a specialist, though not holding out much hope he will do much but I guess you never know.  The weather here is very unseasonally mild, the supermarkets hand shops have winter stuff in them understandably but there is not sign of winter as yet, its the warmest winter so far on record apparently, the weather seems to be topsy tervey, its an interesting stubject really , well not until this year anyway, there has been loads of rain though, I am glad I live up in the hills so to speak as I am away from the floods which have been bad, I saw some sand bags outside some houses today, I guess they are still worried we will get more rain and there is no sign of it ending really I guess. One of the issues that's gets me down is the benefit trap,  A  welfare trap ...