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PLEASE EXCUSE AL

To whom it may concern:

Please excuse Al for a lack of updates on this blog. He’s been off learning how to dance. And attending many fundraising meetings. Then there’s been the school stuff, he’s been wrestling with an arduino of all things for weeks now, his social life has become so much the busier and much to the chagrin of his body, he’s been exercising more. A lot more.

In fact short of moving house while still working a full time job, I feel this is the busiest he’s been from day to day in a very long time.

And interestingly/strangely, it looks like he might actually be enjoying it..

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Supercoach 2025 – question the AI

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Supercoach 2025

Would you look at the clock? It’s Supercoach 2025 time! And just in time for the glory that is draft day, I came up with the genius idea of using artificial intelligence to help me build a team this year (because once again I’m quoting Sgt Schultz from Hogan’s Heroes ‘I know nothink! Nothink!’)

It turns out however that while I asked it plenty to help streamline a fighting force worthy of Supercoach 2025, apparently I didn’t ask it enough questions. Which is why at the end of draft day, 26% of my team are currently working their way through rehabilitation.

How did I manage to screw this one up? Let’s find out!

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The mystery of the WWF wrestling magazine

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wrestling magazine

Once upon a time I bought myself a WWF wrestling magazine. Now before you sarcastically think ‘Whoa nelly, this sounds like an exciting tale right here, lemme grab some popcorn pal!’ let me add that this was the only WWF wrestling magazine I ever bought. From my childhood and teens I had a couple of hundred comics. I had an enviable pile of video game magazines. In my late teens I even had a couple of hidden magazines best not mentioned in these family friendly posts.

But strangely I bought one WWF wrestling magazine…and left it at that. Yes I had more Powerslam and Piledriver mags but given that I was a pretty big wrestling WWF fan back in the day, stopping at just one official WWF wrestling magazine seems a bit odd given my fondness for both grappling and reading. But anyway, one was all I had and I believe now is a good a time as any to reminisce.

So today I’m going to cough up what I remember and hopefully with the help of Google and Archive.org, I’ll be able to track down a scanned copy. And if I can’t solve the mystery by doing that, hopefully someone will come along, read this and solve things in a heartbeat..

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Stars of the Border 2025 – my hip hop don’t stop

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stars of the border

If anyone was to ask me where I rate my dancing ability, I’d probably suggest somewhere between picking a winning team in the NFL and successfully running a profitable franchise.
For the record, I’ve never really done either of those things.

Which makes today’s announcement even more entertaining: I can reveal that I am part of this year’s charity dance competition Stars of the Border 2025 and yes, I will be dancing. Publicly.

What could possibly go wrong here?

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