Mood: Not happy for many reasons.

Warning: Long entry full of ranting and raving.

Firstly, Saturday night. As Andrew has included in his blog, our Church is in the middle of some problems, mainly over some of the elder Greeks having issue with some (really minor amounts) of English coming into the services, which apparently came to a head with the recent Holy Week.

Fr's sermon on Saturday night, coincidently but appropriately falling on the Sunday of the Blind Man, addressed this, describing those being selfishly spiritually 'blind', who could not see nor care about the the future of … Read more →

Went and saw X-Men 3 last night, and although I was very impressed with it, and without giving too much away, I felt robbed of any kind of closure from the trilogy.

Judging by the storyline and ending, it is pretty obvious that they are wanting to make more of these movies, but this being the closing chapter of the set trilogy and with no further movies planned at this point, I expected at least a significant bit of closure from the last of these 3 movies. Somewhat ironically enough, only the first X-Men movie was the only one out … Read more →

There comes a time in a geek's life, where one must make a few changes. Sure, things could remain the same, but deep down one knows that one must move on.

In this I am referring to my seldom-used avatar, the image next to my name that is displayed on all forum and bulletin board posts, instant message clients and alike.

My existing avatar (shown right) was the 'South Park Lucas' character that has featured in many of the intros that i once developed, and has served me well for almost 2 years.

Unfortunately among other things, my rapidly declining … Read more →

I had a pretty action packed weekend

Let's start with Friday. I finished work with glee, came home and eventually welcomed the various people who came around to play what is now our weekly poker game. I say 'eventually' because every single one of them was late. Somewhat forgivable for the Greek because it is our blood, but the rest (probably also owing to their own ethnic backgrounds) shouldn't have had an excuse ;). Nah, really its cool.

Come to think about it, we are a strange bunch, and really the epitome of multiculturalism. There is myself half-Greek half-Cypriot, another … Read more →

Over the past 24 hours i've been occupying myself with things to take my mind off Arsenal's heartbreaking loss in the final of the Champions League yesterday morning.

A few things have cheered me up. In the past 5 mins reports are coming through that Arsenal's talismanic striker and captain, Thierry Henry, is set to stay at the club despite being widely believed to be leaving for another club, most likely Barcelona, after this past season. This is fantastic news for Arsenal fans, as the club would never be the same if the all-time top-scorer were to go.

Another thing … Read more →

I really am. What a nightmare of game it was too. The Arsenal goal-keeper was (fairly) sent off in the 18th minute for bringing down an opposition player going for goal, so Arsenal had to play with 10 men for the vast majority of the game.

Arsenal even went in front 1-0 after that, and held onto that lead until the 76th minute when Barcelona equalised and subsequently scored the winner in the 81st. I wouldn't be as upset if Barcelona totally outplayed us, even with Arsenal playing with 10 men. The truth is that Arsenal could have sealed the … Read more →

Of late it seems like my life is revolving around football (soccer) and computers. Granted my occupation is computers, so that's a given. But football lately, and also into the immanent future, is also massive.

On the weekend was the FA Cup final of Liverpool vs. West Ham United. We watched it after my brother's engagement on Saturday night, and it was a fantastic game; from a neutral's point of view it was probably the best FA Cup final in recent history. Liverpool eventually won the game on penalties after the game with extra-time finished 3-3.

I think West Ham … Read more →

Lots of blogworthy stuff lately so this might be a big one.

Firstly to football: As you may remember, due to the current Arsenal stadium having just finished its last season, they were selling the seats from the stadium to any fan that wanted to by one, which me being a massive Arsenal fan, i did.

Today unfortunately, i got this email:

Dear Lucas Costi,

It is with great regret that the Club announces that we are unable to sell any Highbury seats to you. We have been informed that all of the Highbury seats, apart from the Directors' … Read more →

I am home today, taking the day off work because I am again incapacitated after a game of indoor last night. More on that later.

I had a pretty enjoyable weekend, on Saturday I missed out on most of the usual washing and cleaning as I went to my parents place and helped them set up a new computer that they had recently acquired.

Went to Church on Saturday night, and via Hungry Jack's, everybody came back to our place and watched Blade 2. As Andrew blogged, we had the weird experience of trying alcohol with vanilla coke. … Read more →

First of all it is the end of the working week, which is very welcome. Although this was only a four day working week, it felt like much longer. I think its because at the moment at work i'm doing some stuff that is a bit tedious, but still necessary.

Also tonight was the shutting-down (permanently for the time-being) party thing for the OCYF Drama Group. Although Despina and I had out-grown the group in the past few years and haven't had much of an active role in it since 2003, it still holds a special place in both of … Read more →