Friday again, but not just any old Friday. This day does not exist. So much to fill into this blog that I am sure I will leave something important out. I need to pick up from my last post at the weekend. Sunday proved to forfill it’s title as ‘Catchup Sunday’. I watched all my outstanding television shows, got some boring admin done and got all three items from the garage onto eBay (but so far no bids). Around midday I decided to start watching my shows (having updated my blog with the most recent entry). First on the list was Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I was looking forward to the episode. It was very good with quite a lot of back story, so we were constantly jumping between the future and the present. Great to see Brian Austin Green getting a major role in the television series. I have not seen him in anything else apart from Sabrina The Teenage Witch (many many years ago, could it be as many as ten? No, it is more, it is 12, that was back in 1996!) when he played the part of Chad Corey Dylan. A man made out of dough and brought to life as Sabrina’s date for the school dance. (My memory is just too good or I have serious problems!) I loved his character name, so American (almost as fantastic as his real name) Anyways, enough of reminiscing, back to the present. My present. I am really enjoying Terminator television series but feel they may head the show prematurely. There is so much potential but as long as I get a second and third series I will be happy. My only request would be for more action, Summer Glau is so underused it is unreal. It was time for a late lunch, so I headed over to the lounge but decided as there was nothing on television to watch KnightRider. No, not an episode from the 1980s television series but a new feature length movie pilot. It had screened last week Stateside to an audience of 12 million. I was keen to take a look but Pav had already messaged me on MSN (last Friday) to say it had some bad reviews and he was not going to bother watching. I thought I needed to take a look myself. This was the first time I would watch anything longer than a music video from my XBox. I must say it was a great experience, being able to put the volume up with incredible picture quality. The story was far fetched, even by vintage 1980s Knight Rider standards but I stuck with it. A big draw was Sydney (Sidney Poitier’s daughter) as FBI agent Rivai. It was good fun but not that entertaining. Val Kilmer as the voice of KITT would never have worked if you saw it written on paper (or web page as I did on Wikipedia) but it does and Kilmer is perfect for the role. Adding the humour we have come accustomed to with the original pairing of KITT and Michael. However, there is little I else I can say. Yes, it was a good way to waste away a few hours on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Would I give the series a chance? Yes, if give us something credible to watch. It looks much like Knight Rider with a lick of new paint for 2008. We wanted something fresh, not a rehash of the original (and I must add classic). David Hasselhoff has a cameo appearance towards the end (as you would come to expect) but I feel he deserves to return in some form in the series (that is three episodes alone NBC!).

I have had a really busy week at work but somehow survived to Friday afternoon. Highlights including having to take Wednesday afternoon off to get new tyres fitted to my A3. However as colleagues were off sick I had to cover on the helpdesk all morning. Never mind. I headed over to ProTyre in Slough and got my tires changed straight away. They were an authorised Pirelli specialist, so there were advertisements for their tyres everywhere. “Power Is Nothing Without Control”. I dropped the Italians (just like my car last year) and opted for the Germans. Something about insisting on German engineering! I had bought my Zen along to listen to music as I waited (thinking I would be there for as much as an hour.) I got my tires aligned as well. They use some fancy laser technology to get it perfect which looks quite impressive watching from the waiting room. I then headed home, got in, removed my tie, grabbed a few things and caught the bus into town. I had a few jobs to get done, mainly because I had not had the chance on Saturday. I got my haircut at Jerry’s Street Styles and then headed into the town centre. The Edenis being rushed to completion. It opens on Thursday 13th March. Not sure why on a Thursday but I will pop down on the 15th to check it out with my family and report back my findings. The Octagon (which remains in name for a short time) is also having a facelift and expansion into the old bus station. As I walked past the escalator I noticed something different. Something was missing. Yes, the fountain and pond. It had gone. I called Dave (I know I never call him during office hours but I had to tell him). A piece of our childhood had gone forever. As a kid I would be given one pence and two pence pieces to throw into the water feature and make a wish. That would now be all but a memory. I headed into town, just to remember what the place looked like and ended into the Chilterns, through it and to Subway. Got myself a foot long sub and sat down to eat. It was around 3pm and there were school kids everywhere, so I headed across Frogmoor to the bus stop and waited a few minutes for the 100 bus to take me home.

When I got home, it was not a quiet night in. I am afraid not. At 6.30pm, I headed over to Cookham, to The Ferry. It was Alison’s leaving do and we had arranged a little get together to see her off. Originally it was just going to be drinks but during the course of the week it moved to a meal for eight. Niko also came down to meet us, so it was a semi-reunion for some as well. Those of you on FaceBook will have noticed I have been tagged in some rather embarrassing photographs but thankfully it is my colleague Romika who is the most amusing! We eventually left around 11.45pm to head home. I had missed Torchwood yet again and will have to catch up at some point over the weekend. The other day I was wondering when the Beeb were going to take their new snazzy homepage out of beta. My questions were answered on Thursday morning at exactly 10am with this blog post. After several months, which felt much longer, the Been homepage was live. So I headed over to BBC dot co dot uk, customised the page, changed the colour and took the step to change my home from BBC News to the new BBC Homepage. It is getting some getting used to but I have the news and sport there, quite predominate at the top of my personalised page. The best options is having all my favourite Beeb blogs listed so I can see the latest three posts on each. There is the BBC Internet, dot.life, Pod & Blogs and occasionally The Editors. However, once again, great work by Aunty, the old style analogue clock is a good touch and everything does fit in with a nice snug fit. However, after having the News front page as my home page for the past five (if not more) years it will be a while before I become fully accustomed. In fact, I have only made the change on my work laptop, at home I have for the time being stuck with News being the first page to open with Firefox. This is the usual point when I try and give a detailed preview of my weekend. Quite a lot going on, I have been looking forward to this weekend for a while. Saturday is relatively quiet, I have to head over to Amersham first thing and go to the library to get my book renewed. Then in for the rest of the day and evening. Will spend a chunk of that time washing my car and working on web sites. Sunday, it is a relatively early start over to Gaydon, to the Heritage Motor Museum for my first ever Audi Meet. That is a good point, I better get my batteries charged for my camera. I cannot leave without discussing music. You go through periods which are dry, no real good new music out there. However, we are currently blessed. Bear with me on this one, it will be worth it. Remember Alice Deejay? The Dutch dance trio which burst onto the scene in 1999? (So much so that I had their one and only album imported from the States so I could have it before anyone else!) Well a rapper from Pittsburgh has gone and does this. Trust me, it will grow on you. The video to No Air was leaked onto YouTube on Sunday but I have yet to find a decent copy on any of the file sharing networks or torrents. I will of course keep you posted with my progress. The video does not miss the radar over at PopJustice. Mariah Carey is back with Touch My Body, a fantastic song, she has such an amazing voice which just appears to get better with age. (Or is that just my ears getting worse). The song is co-written by The Dream. He wrote the song Umbrella for Rihanna, whom features on his single, “Livin A Lie” currently get a great deal of airplay over on Kiss. A very slow RnB number, listen I am sure you will enjoy. I just know I will have to burn a CD before the weekend is out. Right I better go and watch Sarah Connor and then perhaps work on some websites and read my book. I will try and post again sometime over the weekend but very much doubt I will have the time. As Pav always says, I may have to make the next one a MWU (Mid-Week Update)!