How was it for you? Mine was a well documented mixed bag.

I lost a lot, then found new things to be stimulated by. Music, work, new friendships and, unfortunatly.. new arch enemies. ( I think everyone has at least one arch enemy. I have two.. )

2006 will go down in memory for mostly the wrong reasons personally. But I have a feeling that 2007 will be rather interesting by the way things are going..

So this will be my final post for the year. Thanks for reading and a big thanks to the messages/comments/emails I have recieved during the period where everything that could go wrong, went wrong..

Oh before I go, I have one final observation for Glasgow artist Stuart Murray….

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After work, I like to sit for a while in Buchannan Street Bus Station to watch people mostly escape Glasgow for the evening, and how I envy them. Last week, I needed to empty my bladder so went to use the station toilet. All the cubiles were full and I waited for a vacant one.

What almost put me off waiting was the terrible smell coming out of a cubicle. Unfortuntly an old tramp came out and I had to use that cubicle..

The old tramp looked at me before he left the toilet and said ‘ Ye dinnae waant tae go in thre son. You will smell ma cancer. A think ave got it, n hid it fur like 40 years.. ‘

I just smelled shit.

Im not sure if I have posted this before. Ive long had a theory that 80s cartoon classic Superted had hidden anti gay/AIDS messages. Obviously the creators didnt have that in mind - its just my deductions which are usually random and off the wall.

Whenever I have spoke about this to others, they too kind of agree…

Superted: His emblem on his teddy breast is like a yellow trimmed public triangle of a woman’s genital area. He is the hero, and the embodiment of good..

Boney: Boney was Texas Pete’s Skeletal sidekick who was, a skeleton with a camp voice and wore gloves and carpet slippers. He had strong homosexual overtones, and as it was made in the 1980s, his skeletal appearance had connotations of AIDS.

Spotty: Well Spotty was a good guy who caught VD. ( hence the spots )

Also, as mentioned by a good friend of mine, why did Spotty not fly up to Mother Nature and ask for the special linctus that gave Superted his powers? I mean, think of the waste of fuel and the awkwardness of wearing a rocket pack.

I had heard about this from a selection of Taxi Drivers:

In Glasgow, some kind of unpublicised work idea for asylum seekers ( EDIT: actually Katie pointed out they are immigrants, asylum seekers are not allowed to work.. ), Glasgow City Council are offering non English speakers the chance to become private hire drivers with the freebie of SatNav and a translator sitting in the passenger seat.

Im all for a multi cultural society, but this is not right. Regardless of colour or creed, I wouldnt feel comfortable being in a taxi with two men, one who is behind the wheel and cant speak English. How could he read and understand our roadsigns? Surely it would be more logical for a would be taxi driver immigrant to undertake some sort of English course?

A lot of women certainly would not go into a car with two strange men.. Racist taxi drivers are having a field day with this absolute nugget from Glasgow City Council and I have to listen to thier filth on some mornings..

UPDATE: I have been informed that this may not be exactly a Council idea...

This evening I decided to download the Nokia Software Updater program that allows home users to update the firmware on their Nokia mobiles without the pain of taking them to a Service Center.

My Nokia N80 requires an upgrade as its been very erratic ( which has been reported by many users )

Well, I downloaded the updated firmware, and now my mobile is dead. Having scanned many forums including Nokia’s support forums, this has happened to many nokia phones across the globe.

Cheers Nokia. Im having to endure cold turkey until Monday as the nearest Service Center doesnt do weekends..