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The Brotherhood is back and the Creed shall live on.

Join the fight!! [link]

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Its my birthday in... oh tomorrow. Yeah I don't keep track of these things overly well for some reason. But on the upside I got a present early. Its a joint pressy from my parents and a few siblings. Nice new Tomtom for my car so now I can go anywhere!!! People should fear that, though as I have yet to get the hang of the thing you are all safe for a while.
So yeah I am enjoying a couple of rare days off though I still have to work on Saturday which is lame but still I get a sunday off (very very rare occurance). I have been meaning to get on with so many things that I still haven't started but I am lazy and now work a lot more then I used to since I have finished uni. I have a long list of things I need to do... so natuarlly I am sitting here at the computer completely ignoring them.... XD



Work unfortunately is not going as well as it was. Well correction the work isn't so bad its more a few individuals that aren't going so well. Someone - and I only have a suspicion right now of who it is - is telling one of the other supervisors (oh yeah I got sort of half-promoted to a "fill in all the schedule gaps" supervisor, which means I do the work but am not offically a supervisor on their system) that I am bitching about them, claiming that they are lazy and are always on holiday and that they do whatever they want. Not of this is fucking true and it is pissing me off that the supervisor actually believes it. For her to believe it so out right it has to be coming from someone who she trusts and that pretty much leads me down to one person really but I can't be sure. So now I am spending my work hours avoiding this supervisor (and the person I suspect) as much as possible because I am getting sick and tired of being accused every time I see her. Last night, when I ended up alone with her for the last two hours of my shift, she actually started a conversation by saying "Have I offended you in some way?". Oh yeah that conversation was fun(!) I am about ready to kill someone and am so close to bloody quitting right now it is ridiculous. The only reason why I haven't actually just up and quit over the amount of crap I have to put up with at the moment is the small fact that I need the damn money.

But just to leave you all on a cheery-ish note after that rant: I stumbled across this ([link]) in the daily deviations and was partly facinated, partly amused, and only slightly put out. Enjoy!

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Ok I know everyone does like to comment and joke about how I pretty much only drink diet coke... but this is sort of taking the mick now...

I thought I'd be a bit healthier and try drinking more water, so for the past two days I've drank only squash and water. I've been feeling really tired and had a near constant headache since then. Then I have one glass of coke today and poff! I'm feeling a lot better and much more awake.

I probably have a caffine addiction... quite a bad one if I get headaches after a few hours without it. Damn! I guess that really does mean I drink the stuff far too much if I'm that reliant on it.

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Oh yes - the Creed lives on! [link] Seems to have hit a few snags though as accessing it was near impossible for a bit but its all fixed now by the looks of it. First mission is ready to go... but I think I'll skip this round. Hopefully the next mission will be a good one as well. I miss the days of 1191ad and our "brotherhood". Thinking about it wasn't it around this time of year that the first brotherhood aappeared?? Nice planning there Ubisoft! I partially hope we get some over lap in the games as the end of AC1 will be pointless really if we don't but it still looks awesome. I preordered the 'Black' edition within hours of it becoming availible and that looks good with additional game play and the figurine and extras.
I watched the E3 game play video and it really does look fun. Looks like Kaxen was very close in guessing the fun with DaVinci's machines! And her old haystack jokes about containing assassins is spot on this time around. I love all the extra game moves and abilities. I can see myself spending a while swimming around and climbing up those amazing buildings. Italy is beautiful in the 15th centuary with its renaissance architexture and masqued balls.
Ezio's arsenal is also suitably modified. The good old hidden blade has been promoted into double quantity, you can snatch weapons off and use against the very guards that are attacking you and my new favourite - a pistol!!! Pure traditional nobel man's toy. Very fitting. And as its a single shot weapon its gonna be a rarely used item, so it shouldn't get boring too quickly.
The music score for the game is done again by Jesper Kyd and after listening to it on the "secret" section of the widget (crack the security and its there) I shall admit the man has once again come up with something brilliant! I can't wait for more ACII trailers now. I hope they do some like they did the Crevanties trailer from AC1. I loved that trailer.

haha and here I am rambling over Assassin's creed again. XDDD Oh dear. Still I need the hype as I'm getting seriously stressed in life so this shall be good to unwind with! (Though I may just end up living on the Creed again like I did with the 1191ad: everything else was slotted around it) Mmmm I need to get some decent artwork from Ubisoft to update my LJ layout with. Its still on my old AC one - as is my screensaver. XDD

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So today I have learn two very important things.

1). Gardening or anything to do with, is not my thing

and 2). Wheelbarrows are dangerous!!!

I'll explain so you don't all think I'm totally crazy.

I went with my parents to what was my grandpa's house before he died (we're now selling it as Joan - my "step-grandma" - has moved out) to help them just tidy up the garden a bit, as things like the grass would need cutting. After getting up at 6am I was already less enthusiastic over going. Got there and the grass stands at about a foot high and the garden is fucking huge (biggest garden in the area, oh joy!) so you know its gonna take a while to get it done. Mum starts cutting backa bsh out front as dad starts on the grass. For the first two passes of the whole lawn he doesn't bother using the bucket thing on the back of the mower as it would fill up too quickly (which we were expecting thus we brought a spring rake). After helping mum out front for a bit I then go round back to start raking cut grass. Seriously after two hours I was barely half way down the garden. As the weather forcast was "overcast" for today apparently I'm there in a T-shirt, old trousers and a hoodie. The hoodie was taken off within half an hour as the sun came out.... I do not mix well with the sun. I have pale skin and it has a nasty tendancy of burning very quickly, and here's me without any sun block. After four hours - yes four!!!! - of raking grass and a little bit of trimming bushes at the end (dad was making the final cut on the grass with the bucket on thank you!!!) we were done for the day. I had to keep retreating into the house or linger in the shade by the compost heap quite often and that is the only reason I am not sun burnt. My left arm is quite pink though.... so that may end up pealling all the same.

And wheel barrows!!! I was using one to cart the raked grass from the lawn to the compost heap at the bottom of the garden and all was going well with it. I didn't turn it over once (which says something with the amount of grass in the way) or mis-steer it anywhere etc. Then once while emptying it, somehwere around the time I had 1/3 the garden raked, my foot slipped as I was pushing the thing further to the back to empty it and now I'm missing skin from my shin and had a massive swollen lump from where I grazed the skin really deeply. Some hours later and it still hurts but has thankfully stopped bleeding now: Still swollen though. Also there were some viscious blackberry brambles snaking across the grass. I thin the longest stalk stretched about four meters across the lawn... and I tripped on it several times before we managed to get rid of it. So I have weird scratches on the back of my left leg near the ankle, which look as if I've been attacked by a cat. Oh!!! there was a cat in the garden next door and it was a Hitler cat. Was black and white with a white face, black ears and a black "moustache" just like Hitler. Was damn funny.

Well anyway, lesson learnt: I do not mix with gardening! I'll be quite happy with a place without a garden and the only plants I'll have will be fake so then I don't even have to remember to water them. Cleaning I can do. Cleaning I'm not bothered by and can do quite well when I get around to it. But gardening is definately not for me.

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