mikefortyniners

Im sorry i dont need to be a nag but i have forgotten...

2008-03-06T20:38:31Z

Like the title says, sorry, but can James and Amy remind me if they have paid me for Aussie Floyd? I can' t remember and i haven't written it down anywhere

Thanks

Thursday 5th October

2007-09-22T08:16:25Z

Morning all!

Amy, its fast approaching the 5th of October, and i thought its about time we sorted out whos getting there and how!

How do you plan on getting to Brighton? show starts at 8pm according to the tickets

let me know

thanks

mikefortyniners @ 2007-09-01T17:21:00

2007-09-01T16:22:06Z

Right, lets see if this works. As i said before, pictures arent very good, but they give an impression of the army

My General, Da Boss of the Red 'ead Tribe of the World's Edge Mountains (No name yet). The story goes he beat up some lesser gobbos (as you do when your bigger than the rest!) and demanded them to wear red hoods (Whos going to argue with a crazed Goblin with a big axe?). This is because his infamous axe (Magic Item Martogs Best Basher - stated in the book as an old Dwarf Axed covered in Blood - which mine is too!) was taken from a Dwarf Trollslayer (A Red Headed Stunty) and he got it into his head that having a red head would make him invincible like a Trollslayer (Goblins are stupid remember), but because Night Goblins don't like bright colours, they wear dark red.

The actual truth is i wanted to give the models a bit of colour rather than just black all over. Then a basic backround came into my head with the trollslayer and his axe, and he presto! Note the Orange bearded Dwarf Skull on his banner! The axe was a simple conversion involving Night Goblin Boss 2 and cutting off his axe head and replacing it with the White Dwarfs Axe Head.

Behold Bone'ead the Shaman of the Red 'ead tribe. So called because of the bone through his nose (which you can just make out) and the huge quantity of bones he carries with him. No conversion, just a straight forward (Thats a joke, took ages to paint because of all the detail) paint job.

The whole 500 points. 58 goblins with hand weapons (Left and Right), 20 with bows (Back), 3 squigs and 2 hearders (middle) and 2 fanatics (front - the ones with big balls :-) )
The only other real conversions were the 2 herders, who have been altered with bits left over (like a flame torch from my Bretonian peasants and some spikes to create a spiked spear and a squig prodder). One of the herders also carries a Banner painted metal so it acts as a larger prodder. Each herders base has many mushrooms taken from the filed down banners for the hand weapon units for effect (and lunch maybe?)

Finally for a laugh, the way my army will spend most of its time. The hand weapons running towards the archers at the back, with squigs going wild in the middle and fanatics in the middle of it all causing carnage against my own side...

Da red headz tribe is 'ere, and we is gonna give you a right bashin

2007-09-01T11:59:50Z

Below is my 500 point Night Goblin army. Theres a few questions that need answering about whether a few bits will work or not. And hopefully ill iron out the problems when i extend it to 750pts.

I will hopefully addd some pictures taken on Steves phone shortly (They arnt very good, but they at least give you an idea what they look like)

Type Unit/Details M WS BS S T W I A Ld Sv Notes Points
Hero
Night Goblin Big Boss 4 5* 3 5*4 2 5*3 6 5 30
Hand Weapon -
Light Armour 2
Shield 2
*Martogs Best Basha 15
Notes: Hate Dwafs, Fear Elves
49

Hero
Night Goblin Shaman 50
Level 1 Shaman 4 2 3 3 3 2 3 1 5 - -
Hand Weapon -
Magic Mushrooms (x2) 20
Notes: Hate Dwafs, Fear Elves
70

Troops
Night Goblins
29 Night Goblins 4 2 3 3 3 1 3 1 5 6 87
Hand Weapon, Shield -
Champion 4 2 3 3 3 1 3 2 5 6 8
Musician, Standard Bearer 12
2 Fanatics 2D6 - - 5 3 1 3 D6 10 - 50
Notes: Hate Dwarfs, Fear Elves
157

Troops
Night Goblins
29 Night Goblins 4 2 3 3 3 1 3 1 5 6 87
Hand Weapon, Shield -
Champion 4 2 3 3 3 1 3 2 5 6 8
Musician, Standard Bearer 12
Fanatic 2D6 - - 5 3 1 3 D6 10 - 25
Notes: Hate Dwarfs, Fear Elves
132

Troops
Night Goblins
20 Night Goblins 4 2 3 3 3 1 3 1 5 - 60
Hand Weapon, Short Bows -
Notes: Hate Dwarfs, Fear Elves
60

Special
Night Goblin Squig Herd 30
2 Night Goblins 4 2 3 3 3 1 3 1 5 -
Hand Weapon
3 Squigs 4 4 0 5 3 1 3 2 3 -
Notes: Immune To Psychology, Wild Squigs, Squig Herds, Hate Dwarfs
30

Total 498 Points

Ill try to add the pics in a few minutes, shame the formatting on the above isnt brilliant

Onwards we go!

2007-07-06T20:41:33Z

Oh yes, SUSSEX BY THE SEA! A cracking victory over our mopey whingebag Hampshire neighbours - despite some blatant cheating by them (Notice teams take after their captains? Thats what you get for hireing a whinging Australian like Shane Warne as captain)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/counties/6276246.stm

And we are through to the Quarter Finals of the Twenty20 cup for the first time in its 5 years of existance! And it will be a home tie!

Draws tonight, come on a nice easy victory (Which probably doesnt exist)

BS walks, and so do i !

2007-07-05T18:21:00Z

Indeed,

It seems my ability to spin complete fabrications (ie lies!) and make people believe what im talking about is beoming my number one ability (not a very good thing really, and not something i should put on my CV anytime soon)
Why?
Well, when i bought my new computer about a year ago, the salesman learned i was looking to use mainly as an internet/games pc. He started going on about how i need this graphics card, or that sound card, and how my pc wouldn't even run Rome: Total War (My main game at that time). In 5 minutes i had him beliving i already had it planned out how i was going to upgrade it etc etc.
Not bad considering outside of using a PC i have no idea about things like that! Also, not bad consdering he was talking BS to (1 year down the line, the next version of Total War has come out, and it runs fine as well!)

And today, talked my tutor into completely believing that i had my coursework completely in hand and that the 2.5 weeks left to finish wasn't going to be a problem (If only she knew the truth). She currently believes all my stuff is in note form and needing transfering to report (a half truth, as half of the stuff is in note form, and the rest doesnt exist as yet)

I suppose i shouldnt be suprised, ive convinced the people i work with i dont hate their guts, nor hate the company, nor hate anything to do with them, and that i won't drop everything to get away if i pass my course...(Stored up anger, what are you suggesting? YOU WANNA FIGHT?)!

I've even talked myself into believing that Sussex can win the Twenty20 cup and that San Francisco 49ers will win the Superbowl

Now i need to BS a woman into dating me ;-)
Who me? Im a rich, succesful business man with great prospects...

Life goes on (and on, and on, and arist-on)

This has been a mad, irrelevant post bought to you by the number 666, the letters B and S, the Count who loves to count (One ah, ah, ahhhh) and the belief that there really is a dark side of the moon

mikefortyniners @ 2007-05-09T19:02:00

2007-05-09T18:04:20Z

Found out what a corn dog was :-)

Wikipedia

A corn dog is a hot dog-type sandwich coated in cornbread batter and deep fried in hot oil, although some are baked. Almost all corn dogs are served on wooden sticks, although the original corn dog was not

And a special metion to...

2007-05-02T19:50:30Z

Mr Greg Smith
Happy Birthday mate,

How did i remember :-D

mikefortyniners @ 2007-05-02T20:37:00

2007-05-02T19:46:28Z

Its Monday night, and literally across the aisle from last night (Sunday),we are back at the Brighton Centre, with 2 other guys in tow grenadir and trukkle).

Set List:
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part One)
Learning To Fly
Money
Us & Them
On The Turning Away
A Gunners Dream
Take It Back
Brain Damage
Eclipse
INTERMISSION
Astronomy Domine
What Do You Want From Me
Time
Great Gig In The Sky
Nobody Home
Set The Controls For The Heart Of the Sun
Pigs (With Inflatable Pig)
Wish You Were Here
One Of These Days (With Skippy)
Happiest Days of Our Lives
Another Brick In The Wall Part 2
Comfortably Numb
Hey You
Run Like Hell

Slightly different set list to Wednesday (Got Pigs rather than Sheep), plus we got a GIANT inflatable Pig, and Skippy (The Giant inflatable Pink kangaroo mascot of Aussie Floyd)

Again, due to bloody National Rail, had to leave part way through last song :-(, but all in all another amazing performance from Aussie Floyd, and a great end to our week of concerts

Till next time:
"With your, head down in the pig bin saying,
Keep on diggin'"

Come On, let's go Space Truckin'

2007-05-02T19:37:50Z

Well, that was a Sunday to remember! Deep Purple at the Brighton Centre

First off, whopping great queue to get in (all the way round the Odeon to the back entrance to the Brighton Centre!). don't know why, think they opened the gates late, which delayed everything by about 15 minutes (not much it seems, but would annoy us no end at the end of the night).

First off, after the obligatory purchase of tour shirt (Looking at all the Europe venues on the back, Madrid, Edinburgh, London - Brighton just
doesn't stack up with them!), and a swift pint, and off to see the first
warm up act Thin Lizzy.

Bloody brilliant, started off with a Jailbreak alarm which lead
into...Jailbreak!

Set List:
Jailbreak
Waiting For An Alabye
Don't Believe A Word
Are You Ready
Cold Sweat
Emerald
Suicide
Cowboy
The Boys Are Back In Town

next up at 9:00 Styx. God, what crap. Left after 3 songs and spent the
rest of the time at the bar, with what can only be described as an
increasing number of people, many voicing the fact they were getting bored with the act as well! (Their keyboardist maybe skilled, but man did he act like a complete tosser)

9:20 and the moment we've all been waiting for, its Purple time!

Set List:
Pictures From Home
Things I Never Said
Into The Fire
Strange Kind Of Woman
Rapture of The Deep
Fireball
Steve Morse Guitar Solo
Beethovan's 9th
When A Blind Man Cries
Don Airey Keyboard Solo
Lazy
The Battle Rages On
Space Trukin'
Highway Star
Smoke On the Water
Oh I Do Want To Be Beside The Seaside
Hush

Absolutely AMAZING, and i thought Steve Morse was a good guitarist.
Changed my mind, he's an F'ing Guitar GOD! That solo was outstanding.

Now for where the 15 minutes robed us. Half way through first encore song(Hush, hush, thought i heard you calling my name...), we had to go. Bloody last train west was 11:13 from Brighton, so at 10:50, and at a very brisk pace, we set off after an excellent concert (despite the dip for the second act).

Home 12:30, perfect to catch the highlights of the Somerset innings (which we left just before it started) in the Sussex vs Somerset game. which Sussex won :-) Perfect ending!

Ummagumma what a night!

2007-04-26T19:56:49Z

Saw Aussie Floyd at Fairfield halls, Croyden last night, how i wish you were there!!!

Below is the set list from the night. No complete albums this time, but lots of great Floyd tracks!

25/04/2007
Australian Pink Floyd Show
Fairfield Halls, Croyden

1 Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part One)
2 Learning To Fly
3 Money
4 Us & Them
5 On The Turning Away
6 A Gunners Dream
7 Take It Back
8 Brain Damage
9 Eclipse
INTERMISSION
10 Astronomy Domine
11 Keep Talking
12 Set The Controls For The Heart Of the Sun
13 Time
14 Great Gig In The Sky
15 Nobody Home
16 Sheep
17 Wish You Were Here
18 One Of These Days
19 Happiest Days of Our Lives
20 Another Brick In The Wall Part 2
21 Comfortably Numb
22 Hey You
23 Run Like Hell

Off to see them at Brighton Centre on Monday night with Jim and Tom, no idea if it will be the same set list (hopefully not), but no loss, as each show is still different, even if the set lists the same.

Till next time, ill see you all on the Dark Side of the Moon

Carol gave me a vowell and im upset as i wanted a consonant...

2007-04-20T18:07:20Z

The challenge has been laid down by wolfpurplemoon, so here goes with "I"

"Leave a comment and I'll give you a letter; then you have to list 10 things you like starting with that letter. Post them in your journal and give out new letters to your commenters in turn. NO TAGBACKS ALLOWED, unless a commenter specifically requests to be given a letter!"

1 Iron Maiden (6 6 6 THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST (And its lesser known friend 664 The bloke next door)
2 Irani, Ronnie (Essex captain, great cricketer who has hit 2 of the best innings ive seen in person at Hove (100n.o. in Twenty20 & 100 in Pro40)
3 IL-2 (Great WWII flight combat sim)
4 Iommi, Tony (Black Sabbath guitar GOD)
5 Images & Words (Dream Theater's first album with James La Brie as lead singer)
6 IRL (Indycar Racing League in the US - Racing with OVERTAKING!)
7 Indian Takeaways...yum!
8 Internet (Duh!)
9 Instrumedley (Dream Theater track, 12 minutes of progressive instrumental music, bliss!)
10 Indefatigable (A Cut down 2 decker Man of War - One of Hornblowers ships, i like the books and the TV series so thats good enough for me)

Bloody hell that was harder than ithought

Mooresy for England

2007-04-20T17:15:10Z

England have named former Sussex coach Peter Moores as Duncan Fletchers permanent replacement as coach of the England cricket team.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/6573813.stm

Right choice...enough said!

And Sussex need one wicket for victory!!!! and Kent need 6 to make us bat again!

How i wish i was there - Adaptation of Pink Floyd!

Errrrm i dont think this color thing is right :-)

2007-02-28T18:32:55Z

GREEN

You are a very calm and contemplative person. Others are drawn to your peaceful, nurturing nature.

Find out your color at QuizMeme.com!

Passed

2007-02-20T18:00:08Z

Another exam result in...

I Passed Drafting Financial Statements (DFS) :-)

Only 3 to go in June and i really need to start my coursework!!!

mikefortyniners @ 2007-02-12T20:13:00

2007-02-12T20:17:34Z

Finally, i created myself a Live Journal account!

Now to live an exciting life to write about!