Some people even book the day off work and refuse to leave the house, well I thought I would tell you about mine: Nothing much exciting happens but still thought I would still write about it.

Travelling down Birmingham Thursday night as my car was going in for a timing belt change and also some new spark plugs fitting, the reason it was going down there all the way from Yorkshire was my father in laws mate was going to do it at a much better price for me, although it still cost me £360

I was expecting something bad to happen maybe it wouldn’t fit right, maybe it would be a complete disaster and blow my engine up even though it had already been done, maybe I would be paying for something that didn’t even need doing.

To cut a long story short I am not a superstitious person, nor do I believe it life after death, nor to I believe in Aliens or Ghosts. The job went well and my car was fixed, I travelled back up to Yorkshire and managing to battle through all the bad weather I made it alive and so did my car.

One last sentence….

What a load of mumbo jumbo, Friday 13th is!

The journey took me just over 3 hours!! The weather was horrendous, continuous rain, heavy rain, slow rain, fine rain, rain that you can’t see 1 meter in front of you TERRIBLE!

The motorways were completely drenched and covered in water, cars and wagons throwing water up into the air so it hits your windscreens, water been thrown from the other side of the motorway from the oncoming traffic.

I think I got above 50MPH for around 20 miles but then soon came back down because of the weather. At one point I was actually thinking it was getting too bad maybe I should pull over wait for it to stop, but it’s a good job I didn’t I would still be sat there now waiting for it to stop. Luckily I missed the high winds that started just after I got off the M1.

You got the same old knob head that you would on a dry day whizzing past you at around 90/100 MPH and I couldn’t help myself thinking that if you were to slide and crash and lost control you would be getting exactly what you deserve, especially in that weather where you couldn’t even see the car in front, nor could you even see through your windscreen because there was that much water about.

I had one prick shooting up my chuff then started flashing me when I wouldn’t move, this is the point I was up to 70MPH and I simply refused to move as I didn’t want to be stuck behind a lorry nor did I want him to get past, I was ranting a raving and in the end I simply moved over after around 1.5 miles where he pulled behind me and got off the motorway! Success! Least I managed to slow one person down and probably fuck him off in the process!

Travelling back down tomorrow, I hope it’s much better weather tomorrow and also hope it doesn’t take me as long either.

Do I like social networking?
Yes

Do I like making new friends online?
Yes

Do I like facebook?
It’s alright

Do I like twitter?
Yes

Do I like MySpace?
No

Do I spend many hours on social networking sites?
Yes

Could my time be used better elsewhere?
Yes, definitely

Have I ever deleted an account and signed back up?
Yes facebook, reinstated it though

Now the QA session is out the way i’ll explain why I am feeling like this, I was walking the dogs in the rain on Wednesday last week, the rain bouncing off the hood of my coat and the dogs loving every minute of it. I started to think to myself this is the life and one that I like better than living in “a bubble” and not doing anything.

I work on computers all day and find myself as soon as I get home getting out my Macbook and sitting on it all night finding little bits of pieces to do, talking on social networking sites and basically just wasting time in things that are never really going to get me anywhere.

I am going to change my life around with my new years resolution, but the only difference is I wont be changing it around on the 1st Jan 2010. I will be changing it from now.

List of things I need to do:

        ❑        Fix my bike
        ❑        Get fit
        ❑        Train for the three peaks challenge
        ❑        Sell my iPhone
        ❑        Deactivate my facebook account
        ❑        Delete my twitter account
        ❑        Delete all of the blogs / website that I was trying to make work and scrap them all

Those are just a few of the things I need to get done. Not in that order but I need to do them.

I already have one ticked off the list I did this earlier this afternoon.

I deactivated my facebook account, I just need to stay strong and make sure it stays that way.

I also looked into deactivating my twitter account, this cannot be done, only deleted and gone forever, this would be a big step losing everything, all the tweets, all the replies, all the messages, all the followers and all the people I follow.

I managed to get this far, but will I ever have the man hood to click “Okay, fine, delete my account” button

I need a total lifestyle change and while all these things are currently in my life I know it wont happen, I’m weak, I can’t just tweet a little, I have to tweet a lot.

So like twitter says:

Is this goodbye from rhodzy?

I have to give it to Googles logo designers they come up with some beauties and never fail to amaze me.

I particularrly like todays logo celebrating Sesame Streets 40th birthday.

Here is a collection of some of the Google logos.

You can check out all of the Google logos past and present at the following link:

http://www.google.com/logos/index.html

Check them out, there really are come good ones.

I currently have 10 Google Wave invites to give away, over the next 10 days I will be inviting 1 person a day to Google Wave.

All you have to do is simple RT the following as many times as you see fit, show me how much you want these invites.

The tweet:

RT @rhodzy retweet and make yourself known for a Google Wave Invite 10 days 10 invites http://rzy.me/9b

I recently got given 20 Google Wave invites and already invited ten friends but am now stuck at what to do with the remaining 10 invites, fancy a wave invite? Just RT the message above and make yourself known.

Simple : )

Get your Google Wave invite!

I will choose the best tweet and reply asking you to DM me your email address for an invite.

Tuesday’s Invite goes to @doctorsblog
Wednesday’s invite goes to @iyoungare
Thursday’s invite goes to @carlk
Friday’s invite goes to [no one wanted to play]
Saturday’s invite goes to @saracenrebel & @macflii & @NolanRoberson
Sunday’s invite goes to
Monday’s invite goes to
Tuesday’s invite goes to
Wednesday’s invite goes to
Thursday’s invite goes to

You must note that this game comes with a warning “BE WARNED: Insanely Addictive!”

Yeah I know you are probably thinking the exactly the same of me, how hard or addictive can it be! You will be surprised!

The aim of the game is to get as high up as possible just by bouncing around and tilting your iPhone from left to right! Just be careful and tap the screen to shoot all the evil things that await you : )

The cool thing that I love about this game is the ability to upload your scores to not only facebook but also twitter!

Facebook update screenshot:

Twitter status update screenshot:

I was playing the game for around 30 minutes last night and after the first attempt I was hooked, it took my mrs to tell me to turn the game off! Even she had a go!

All I can say if you love the logo you are going to love the game!

Here are a few screenshots!

Loading Screen:

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Main Menu:

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The Green blocks are perfectly safe, but be careful I only said Green Blocks ;- )

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If you want a bigger boost to get a higher score, try and get the hat!

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The blue ones move but are perfectly safe!

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If you want a MASSIVE BOOST! Then get the jet pack : )
You will notice the brown platform below…if you stand on it and there isn’t a different colour one below then….

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this is what happens….

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Oooops – I died, back to the beginning!

DONT FORGET TO UPLOAD YOUR SCORE TO FACEBOOK OR TWITTER!!

I shall be playing this for the next 30 minutes again, I am going to try and limit my self per day to 30 minutes…..unless I get very good!

        ❑        I woke up at around 8:30am
        ❑        Walked the dogs
        ❑        Changed cat litter
        ❑        Quick Hoover
        ❑        Loaded Dish Washer
        ❑        Made a bacon sarni
        ❑        Surfed the net
        ❑        Watched Halloween Movies 1 – 8
        ❑        Surfed the new some more

The end

Last night I checked my Gmail account like I do every couple of hours and noticed an email from the Google Wave team, I have been using Google Wave for around a month now so wondered what it was and why I was sent it.

I checked out the email which was an invite to use the service….hmm ok I am already on it and have been for some time so why am I receiving this invite?

I just ignored it and went to sleep, this morning I got speaking to a friend on wave who said he has been given 20 invites for Google Wave to nominate his friends to use, why haven’t I got any I thought.

After a little chat I told him I had received an official invite from Google in my inbox and not sure why I got it, I think it may be I registered to be in the preview mode when it was launched, this is where it got interesting. He said he had got the exact same email and clicked the link, the next thing he knew was in his wave inbox he had 20 invites to send out!

I tried this and what do you know, I had a wave in my inbox saying I got nominate 20 friends to start using Google Wave! Yeeah!

Now I can finally get some friends on Wave.

I have already invited 3 who I know are interested so this is how many I have left!

If you are already on wave and get an email from Google Wave, make sure you click the link, it just may give you some invites in your inbox to send out!

I logged in today and the first thing that took my eye was this:

Twitter Lists! They are finally here, not quite sure what I am going to do with them or how I am going to set them up but i’m sure I will find a way of using them nicely.

Been playing around with them and currently created the following as test ones // these will probably change though in time and I will organise them much better with each list having specific people in for say like //

1. Internet Marketing Geniuses such as @shoemoney
2. iPhone / Mac Geeks such as @ijustine @iphone_dev @musclenerd @iphonearena
3. Mates such as @sarkie_dave @tonyyates @leecoupland
4. Family such as @eckafatcat @rhodzy62 @solance
5. Internet Mates such as @jerkmagnet @nikki_morris @rickt

Blah blah you get the picture!

Also noticed a few extra options on the home screen relating to the twitter lists:

This image has one change that is noticeable, it shows how many times you have been added into your followers lists, you can also follow these lists is the user has made them public instead of private.

This image also shows you the list of your Lists that have been created!

Get’s me wondering what other plans twitter has to make it better! I definitely didn’t see Twitter Lists coming!