{"id":1121,"date":"2005-01-25T18:57:12","date_gmt":"2005-01-25T12:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk:\/blog\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2005-01-25T18:57:12","modified_gmt":"2005-01-25T12:57:12","slug":"tuesday-25th-january-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/tuesday-25th-january-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 25th January 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can you believe that exactly a month ago, it was Christmas Day? The thought alone makes me shudder,  looking back, it seems much more time as based, than  the thirty one days, my diary clearly shows. Thankfully it was yesterday, to be precisely calculated as the  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/4187183.stm\" target=\"_blank\">worse<\/a> day of the year, which is understandable given the  circumstances. <a href=\"http:\/\/dgeezer.net\" target=\"_blank\">Diamond  Geezer<\/a> sums up the feeling of an entire nation,  with a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/diamondgeezer.blogspot.com\/2005_01_01_diamondgeezer_archive.html#110638441849770421\" target=\"_blank\">tasks<\/a>  that seem to take forever. Having said all of that,  yesterday was not too bad and the time flew by quite  quickly, with very just the odd ring of the telephone.  So, how was your day? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mightymouse.net\/me\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hussein<\/a>  came up with the wisdom of the day, which should keep  us drudging on, if only for a few more weeks. &#8220;But  hey, that means every day is going to be statistically  better than this one!&#8221; You can rely on our resident  superhero to always look upon the positive. Funny  how that those in the southern hemisphere, report  with joyfulness our <a href=\"http:\/\/www9.sbs.com.au\/theworldnews\/region.php?id=103674&#038;region=3\" target=\"_blank\">plight<\/a>. Although I have a strict policy not to view personal  blogs during the work day (even in my lunch break)  I do try to get my daily dosage of online news. Although  no one can doubt the resource might of the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beeb<\/a>,  I need some more selective reporting on the crucial news of the day. For this I turn to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian<\/a>  and their fabulous <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>  section. Written in the form of a web log, each weekday  they bring a roundup of the articles to be published  online, through the various sections of the paper, at around 11am. This preview is followed by  news bites later in the afternoon, with all the detail  you need to read up on the subject at hand. The pick  of the day is usually well worth a visit and a image,  is also used to summary the main event of the day,  or the week. To my surprise, the link <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idler.co.uk\/html\/chin\/happychin.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Chin&#8217;s  Happy Moments<\/a> was able to take my thoughts away  from the busy office, just for a split second and  I realised, just as I had been trying to pay more  attention to the finer things of life yesterday afternoon.  Happiness is all about the wonderful things, the every  day things, the things that mean so much to you, and  just you.<\/p> <p>Great to see Arsenal back on <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/eng_prem\/4177043.stm\" target=\"_blank\">form<\/a>,  if not quite the finely tuned engine, we have all  come to expect. Hopefully we can be firing on all  cylinders by the time we meet Fergie&#8217;s men at Highbury  next month. Some great chances did go begging, even  if more to the great performance of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.football365.com\/matches_stats\/match_reports\/story_141183.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Shay  Given<\/a>. If the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/eng_prem\/4190561.stm\" target=\"_blank\">feud<\/a>  has finally come to the end, time to let the football  do the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/eng_prem\/4180879.stm\" target=\"_blank\">talking<\/a>.  Read the latest at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arseblog.com\" target=\"_blank\">Arse  Blog<\/a> , as he was lucky enough to be at the match  with the Toon. Really need to get myself down to North  London for a game, particularly Champions League, which I am well informed have the best atmosphere.  My long term aim, is to beg steal, even borrow for the final game on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/london\/insideldn\/insideout\/series6\/wk8\/arsenal\/arsenal.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">North Bank<\/a> before the big move. Then, it will be how  to swindle my way onto the waiting list for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arsenal.com\/thestadium\/article.asp?article=228341&#038;Title=Season+Tickets+at+The+New+Stadium&#038;lid=the+stadium+-+Latest+News\" target=\"_blank\">season ticket<\/a> If you have any advice that may aid my  plans to move from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportnetwork.net\/main\/s70\/st63968.htm\" target=\"_blank\">armchair<\/a>  supporter in the pocket of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rupert_Murdoch\" target=\"_blank\">Rupert  Murdoch<\/a> to part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arsenal-world.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">North Bank<\/a> faithful.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you believe that exactly a month ago, it was Christmas Day? The thought alone makes me shudder, looking back, it seems much more time as based, than the thirty one days, my diary clearly shows. Thankfully it was yesterday, to be precisely calculated as the worse day of the year, which is understandable given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[132,802,1587],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-arsenal","tag-highbury","tag-sky-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}