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I’m not a fan of Southpark. It always seemed crude for the sake of being crude, and it never really grabbed me. When Team America, World Police came out, I just dismissed it as being another Parker/Stone mass of swearing. I finally watched it today and I was pleasantly surprised.

OK, so it WAS a mass of swearing, but there was some nice subtleties in there, and the fact it poked so much fun at America anyway was great. The opening scene shows that some Americans do get irony, and seeing puppets try and save the world is funny whoever does it. I’m glad I watched it really!

So very true.

Its amazing what you can find squirelled away on some of the more obscure digital channels. I was watching a few episodes of Whose Line Is It Anyway and thought I’d have a quick search in Digiguide to see if it was on anywhere. Turns out it is! It’s the US version and it’s on every day at 20:25 on Challenge TV! So that’s now a permanant fixture in my Sky+ planner!

The episode I watched tonight was so insanely funny at the end though. They did a hoedown, messed it up completely and ended up rolling around on the floor wetting themselves laughing.

I really do love that show.

I was in Southampton today dropping my parents off as they were going on holiday. My sister and I both needed to make use of ‘facilities’, so we found a car park in what we assumed to be the city centre. We wandered around for about 25 minutes to find a lot of pubs and hotels, but nothing useful. We ended up in an Asda carpark, then by chance stumbling into a shopping centre with toilets. There were road signs all over the place for ‘City Centre’ but none seemed to really go anywhere. It was very odd indeed! Still, not a bad little jaunt out for the day.

There’s a lot of building work going on in odd places in High Wycombe town centre at the moment as the council is redeveloping the shopping areas. At the moment, they are going ‘enabling works’ which means digging holes in random places to do various things. As part of this, they are closing off one of the roads in the town centre. The problem is, I go along said road every morning to get to work. On the face of it, not so bad – the annoying part of it is that I only travel along about 50 yards of it, before turning off down a side road. Starting tomorrow, I’ve got to go the scenic route to get to work! Naturally, I’m a little bit miffed at this.

I usually lose track of dates, but this morning on the way to work, Terry Wogan mentioned that today is Friday 13th! I instantly imagined myself veering off the road into a ditch or something. So I managed to get to work unscathed, and had a fairly worthwhile day – OK, so what I was doing didn’t quite work (I shan’t go into it, its boring techy geeky stuff) but it was an otherwise hazzard free day. I came home, and so far its all been OK. Who knows, aliens could land and abduct the house or something before midnight still.

I’ve been playing with my iPod more lately, and there’s a few things that niggle me. The menu system can be a sod to get around at times, but on the whole I do love the thing. Having so much music in such a little device is wonderful. It really comes into its own when on the train/tube – put it on shuffle and leave it. I was dragging up some wierd combinations of songs on my travels – standing in Earls Court station listening to some “Romanian Gypsy music” was certainly odd, but cool all at once. Its a fun toy, that’s for sure.

Where the hell did my weekend go?! Last I looked, it was Friday night, then whoosh, its gone! I suppose it proves I must’ve done something constructive because it didn’t drag, but all the same, I like to at least realise it is the weekend before its Monday again. Oh well, at least I’m on leave soon for a week – a week of doing as little as possible hopefully. Well… I’ve got a mountain of old rubbish I can ferry down to the dump, but otherwise, I don’t intend doing much else.

Counting the days…