I’ve been getting that feeling recently…you know the one…no really you do! You look in the cupboard for a biscuit or maybe in the fridge for a beer, it’s empty so you go back to what you’re doing. However, you subconciously return to that fridge/cupboard a few more times…just to check if there is anything there now! Why do you do it?! I’ve been feeling like this about my blog recently. It looks so unloved and unused it makes me feel sad. I do still want to write on it but I always end up looking last thing at night or when I’m in the middle of 101 things and then any updates or maintenance get vastly overlooked.

I suppose I should update everyone on recent events too. Business is going quite well, and there has been a lot of activity on the CD Duplication front. We’ve had business from some top people PunchFunk, Subliminal, Tribal Sessions, Ministry, Power Promotions and numerous DJs and bands from around the country. Also, as of Monday this week, we’re now partnered with one of the top CD Replication plants in the world and certainly the biggest in Europe…Sony DADC, based in Austria. This is awesome news and should help us to improve and grow as a business.

Anyway, I don’t want to talk about business too much as this is really just a personal blog, so back onto me. I’ve been doing quite well recently. I still need to fix my bike up so that I can go cycling up on the South Downs again. I really miss doing that and the sooner I sort things the better. My only problems are getting my bike to a shop that can fix it. There’s one in Felpham about 5 miles away from here, but he’s always booked up for 2-3 weeks at a time, which puts me off. Then I have to find a way of getting my bike there, and I can tell you…it doesn’t fit into my little car. Grrrrrrr. I hate logistics…and there was me, aged 15 at High School telling the Careers Advisor that I wanted to be a ‘Logistics Manager’

Also, last weekend I managed to get a pretty harsh head injury. I was hit in the head with a cricket ball at about 70mph, whilst batting for my local team. It couldn’t have happened at a worse time either, as I was just feeling good about batting again, like I could actually do something…and my teammate, Binky and myself were in the process of rescueing the team from an awful score. To my credit I wasn’t knocked unconcious, I stood up and took the blow…but I was forced to lean forward and I had to watch blood piss out of my head onto the side of the pitch. Not the prettiest of sights but I was amazed at how bright my blood was. The captain of my team ended up taking me to the local Hospital, which was at Haywards Heath. We were playing against Scaynes Hill (in case anyone wants to look it up on a map).

They gave me an assortment of stitches/glue to fix the wound. It seems like I was given a bit of everything! Because the wound was on my lower forehead, only just above the level of my eyebrows, they were very cautious with putting too many stitches on it for ‘cosmetic reasons’. The cut was Y-shaped (which only led to a big circle of doctors/nurses who all wanted to take a look at it), and they put 2 stitches, some steri-strips and some glue onto the wound to seal and hopefully fix it. I’m really hoping it doesn’t scar too badly, as I don’t want to look like that fucking Harry Potter idiot.

I have plenty of painkillers, not that I’m in a lot of pain but I’ve been told by more than one person now that they can help to reduce swelling and reduce scarring on the wound. I’m willing to accept that reasoning and wolf down some more painkillers!

I’d best stop writing now, but I am back and this blog will be spring-cleaned, links added etc, very soon!!

Matt

Sigh…well it seems that all my team-”mates” at the local Cricket club will continue to call me Harry Potter. This is going to seriously piss me off if it carries on for more than a few weeks. I don’t see why just because I have a cut on my head it suddenly turns me into a crappy bespectacled character from a series of novels.

Ho hum…I’ve fixed a few links on here, now i’ve just got to work out where all my visitors went

Hurrah!

I didn’t get to play cricket yesterday (doctor’s orders) but I still went along at about 4pm so that I could support the team. I’ve not actually enjoyed playing and being part of the team this much since I was about 14-15. The team spirit and attitude shown by people all season has been brilliant and I definitely feel proud to be a part of it.

The most suprising thing is that over half of the team is made up of 16-18 year olds. Our squad has the captain Pete (mid 50s), Me (nearly 23), Matt & Mike (21 twins), Binky (20), Will (19) and the rest are 18 or younger. We do occasionally have some of the older players in the first team playing for us, and this last weekend we had Brad (26) in the team. On the whole though, the average age in most of our games is 20-21, an excellent step for the future.

It was a bit disappointing that there weren’t more people around to celebrate the fact that we were promoted, but we didn’t find out until 10pm and there were only a few people left at the club playing poker at that time. I’m sure there will be bigger celebrations next weekend as it’s the day of the last league games and then a Curry Night in the evening.

I won’t be playing again next week as I’m off to my friend Steve’s wedding. It should be good fun, although I’m unlikely to know too many people there which is a little scary. I don’t really want to go alone and end up having to try and remember a whole bunch of new names! Plus, I want to get back to the Cricket club at around 5ish…so I might not go to the reception. Whatever happens, it will be great to see him take another step forward in his life and I’m sure that his marriage and relationship will last for a very long time

Why does it always have to rain when I plan to do something?

I had planned to play some golf with friends at lunchtime today, so that I could get out of the house and away from work for a few hours. Sadly, the weather was looking pretty crap by 11am, so I decided not to go. The other two guys still went, but judging by the rain we were getting within an hour or two, I’m happy that I didn’t. There’s nothing worse than walking around a golf course for a couple of hours, soaking wet.

I’m still not really understanding our pathetic excuse for weather. Bring back the sunshine!! It’s Steve’s wedding on Saturday, along with a party at the local cricket club celebrating the end of the season and our promotion! I’ll have to make sure I leave the car at home for that one!

Ahh well, back to work I suppose. Got a few sites to sort out and some loose ends to tie up.