World Cup and stuff

Well, I have been watching a lot of footy and not playing many games the last few days. To be honest most of the games have been a load of rubbish, only a couple of good games. USA v Slovenia and South Korea v Greece were quite exciting. But, England, well they are just awful. Heskey just makes up the numbers because he doesn't contribute a thing to the team. Rooney might just have well stayed in the dressing room for all the good he did, Lennon looked scared to death and passed the ball as soon as he got it. What about running at the defence and going past people, he does that week in and week out for Spurs (and I am a Spurs fan).
Unfortunately Capello hasn't got the bottle to drop Rooney and a few of the others. Still I can see us going home early if we put in a performance on Wednesday with no passion, no skill and no desire.
Well, that's my rant, and as to games, the only ones I have been playing have been online. Well, when I can because I have been having a torrid time with my computer. For a week or so now I have been getting blue screens, freezes and crashes. I went online on my laptop and tried to get some suggestions as to the answer and the general consensus was it may have something to do with corrupt RAM. Today I went into the case to check it out and found that the RAM sticks had been cemented to the slots with something like bathroom sealer......WHAT!! After a lot of huffing and swearing, Tina, who has smaller fingers than me, managed to free them up and I took out the 2 512Mb sticks and left the 2 1Gb sticks in. Hoovered out all the dust and connected it all back up and booted.....holds breath.
Well, it's been on for an hour or so now and no problems so far (keeps fingers crossed). Just have to wait and see....for the computer and the football.

Happy Gaming!!

First Christmas Gift

  Well, I bought my first Christmas present yesterday. It's for my sister-in-law. Saw it on http://www.iqvc.com/. I love it and I think she will too. I can't say what it is because she may read this. I sent her an email with a Christmas background and a Christmas song. I told her ho ho ho, he he he, bought you a Christmas gift from QVC. No hints as to what it was. I don't think I've ever bought a Christmas gift this early. It could turn out to be a good idea to start early in the year instead of waiting until November.

Really cold here....in May!!

Well, since my last post the weather has really got cold. For over a week now the temperature hasn't risen much above 7C, and has mostly been around 4-5. We have had a lot of rain to go with it so it hasn't been much really. There are a few tourists around now, and I feel sorry for them if they are only around for a couple of weeks, it doesn't show St. Wolfgang at it's best that's for sure.
Most of the football is over now, well until June 10th when the World Cup starts. Spurs, after a super run in finished 4th and qualified for the Champions League qualifiers next season. Terrific wins against Chelsea and arch rivals Arsenal set them up and a battling performance against Manchester City away sealed their position. ORF the austrian equivalent of BBC are showing all 64 games live apparently, much to Tina's dismay. Still we have the Champions League final before then this coming Saturday, with the 'Special One' trying to add another trophy to his CV with Inter Milan.
Tina a I played 3 games of TtR Europe with the 1912 expansion this week. The extra tickets are a welcome addition to the game but I'm not sure about the warehouses and depots. Perhaps with more players they might have more of an impact.

Happy Gaming!!

The Magic Christmas Star

This is a Hallmark presentation. Very sweet story for children.

White Christmas Cartoon Song

I love this version of White Christmas. Hope it puts a smile on your face.

Farting Elves 12 Days of Christmas

O.K. So you need a sense of  humor for this. Leave it up to JibJab!

Long time.....no post

Yes, it's been awhile since my last post, since then we have been to England for a couple of weeks to visit friends and family, which was nice. Tina has got into crafting her own greetings cards so we visited the local Hobbycraft store to stock up with all sorts of bits and bobs. I must admit I have found it interesting too and have ordered a couple of CDs from Joanna Sheen's website and can't wait for them to come so we can make some cards together. I think Tina became interested when our friend Pauline showed her some of her cards. It's nice because it's something we can both enjoy.
We flew back to Austria on April 13th, which was just as well as they closed the airspace on the 15th because of the volcano in Iceland spewing it's ash cloud all over northern europe. Pauline and Stephen were over here when we got back so we managed to get one game of Stone Age in before they 'flew' back....well they didn't fly, they had a protracted rail journey to Ostend then ferry to Ramsgate.
The weather here has been a bit weird lately, sun, rain and snow would you believe, sometimes on the same day! Today has been lovely though, we went on the bus to Bad Ischl, about 14km away, for some shopping. I got the first series of Rome on DVD for 14.99, which wasn't bad. We have just walked along by the lake and sat in the sunshine watching snow covered mountains in the distance.
Anyway, that's all for now.....Happy Gaming!!