Day Fifty-Four: Keep a little here just to keep you in beer

Well, he has finally did it. Yes, my dad, once he gets an idea in his head usually follows it through with the impatience of a child on Christmas Eve, so on Sunday, he got his big telly. A 42” Plasma for the bedroom, that’s living alright!

With a Blue-Ray player alongside it, he has definitely catapulted himself into the modern era, he’ll be getting an iPhone next and Twittering away. One of the things I am planning to do before he starts his radiation is to try and get him up to speed with the internet and be much more comfortable with using it. Part of me dreads to think when he is let loose on the amount of football and collector sites that he can surf but if he is going to be out of the game for a while, I think it would be good for him.

Again, thats all a while away but time tends to creep up rather quickly if you take your eye off the ball and we’ll need to keep him on the right path. Still, the introduction of even further technology has no doubt brought some peace to their domestic household but there has been a bit of an upheaval in mine.

Yes, I have taken in a lodger this week. Well, not a lodger cos I’m not charging any rent but one of my friends is taking the benefit of me being a city centre dweller with a spare room. I definitely get a bit lonely muttering around the flat myself, talking gibberish so its definitely good to have someone else but Im sure a week will be more than enough for the two of us. Mind you, with my articles and her studying, its not as if there is a lot of craic flying about but its definitely good to have someone around and as its one of my best mates, theres not a lot to moan about!

I was a stressed out git over the weekend, you’d think the Celtic strikers finding their shooting boots and the Rangers game being a washout for all the wet drips in Blue would have put me at ease would have calmed me out a bit but nah, had a lot on my mind and wasn’t best pleased with things. Probably the whole Halloween thing, Im not one for dressing up and most of the songs are rubbish – although the ones produced by Phil Spectre are obviously great!

Im sure there will have been a few Phil costumes at Halloween, sad way for such a great to ruin his legacy:

Anyways, we are now into November and whilst retailers are trying to hurtle us towards Christmas, November, for some, is Movember.

Basically, many guys are attempting to grow a moustache this month to raise awareness and maybe even money for prostate cancer. You know me, if theres a bandwagon, Im jumping on it but given the situation with my dad, I can hardly miss this one out:

My page should be:

Me on Movember

http://uk.movember.com/mospace/288242

However, the link to section appears a bit hit and miss but even if you go there and search “Andrew Reilly”, you will hopefully find me. I’m not one for chasing folk up for money, Im not fussed, its about raising awareness and well, Im going to make myself look a bit more silly. As the good women of Glasgow will tell you, Im not much to look so whats the difference a moustache can make?

With any luck, I’ll have a Terry Thomas moustache cultivated before the month is out.

DING-DONG!