Following Pixies advice, I started a career as a Rockstar manager in Project Rockstar

I play Emmett Mudskipper, Rockstar Manager.

I went bankrupt after a week

Pixie thinks this is hugely funny

Git

So I started up again, I now have four groups;

I got a new phone the other week, bought it off ebay.  Paid 250 quid for it.

Decided today to upgrade it with files downloaded from the internet (never a wise idea), and with the expert help of pixie (see previous bracketed comment).

It was a 15 minute job, and would allow my mobile to do all sorts of wonderful new stuff.

It took 7 hours.

Bloody com ports

Last weekend I went to Blackpool, I do that a lot, but this time I was going to an Angel Convention (I warned you in the first post that I was a geek).  Although it may redeem me slightly in your eyes to know that despite going to a convention, I didn’t go dressed as a Klingon.

Have never been to a convention before, except for the StarGate one that we gatecrashed last year, but I only stayed for the Friday night party that time.  I was there for the whole of this one.

I even paid to get in!

There was lots of queueing, lots, I got a few autographs, Lilah and Darla signed photos, and Gunn signed my weekend pass badge (I had been given one with his photo on).

And I got photos taken with Fred, Darla, Lorne, Connor, Drusila and Lilah, see below!

I spent a lot of money, what with photos, signatures, merchandise, and most expensively, alcohol, the weekend cost me around £370!

Would have been more but I was staying at my mate Laras house, was £90 a night to stay at the hotel.

This was my first proper con, and I had such a fantastic weekend.  I will certainly be back for the Buffy one next year, and am considering the Angel one in November (although not actually sure where that is, it’s not in Blackpool, so hotel bills will apply).

Whilst drunk I met some cool people, I’ve even stayed in touch with some of them.  We played hide and seek in the hotel bar at 4.30am (they’d been trying to make us leave since midnight), and at one stage broke into the main hall, and had our photos taken on the Angel set.

I had such a great weekend, and not much of it translates into a blog, so I’ll stop rambling now, here are the photos.

the Fred one makes pixie mutter.

Before I start this blog, it is important to understand that there are two kinds of ‘dodgy’ in this world, there is ‘good dodgy’ in the Han Solo mold, and ‘evil dodgy’ in the Alex fergusson mold.

I of course fall in the former category.

Anyway on with the tale.

Last weekend I was bored, and online, and there’s only so much porn you can look at with other people wandering around the house, so I started scouring ebay.

I bought an Iraqi 250 Dinar note, just because it had a picture of Saddam Hussain on it, and is never likely to be printed again, I paid 8 quid, I suspect it’s worth 40p or something.

[edit] Have just checked the exchange rate, it says this 250 Dinars is worth 500 pounds, I now suspect that either my note is counterfeit, or the currency convertor is broken

Anyway I bid on some other stuff, including a new mobile I won last night (yay), but the main point of this blog is to talk about the tickets.

I have tickets to the UEFA cup final in Seville, I bought them to watch Liverpool in the final, unfortunately Liverpool won’t be there, Celtic will.

Celtic have a huge loyal following, far more than the 13,000 tickets they have been allocated, demand will be massive.

Loyal fans will be desperate to buy, and unscrupulous ticket touts will make their fortunes.  Pairs of tickets are currently selling for approx 1200 quid, so I advertised mine on ebay.

I was quite pleased with the 45 pounds I had spent to buy them.

Within 2 hours of advertising them, the bidding had reached 420 pounds, and all was well with the world.

Then I got an email from someone who I now know to be evil, but at the time he was just known to me as Steven Scott, a Celtic fan.

He said “Hi, If your auction is removed get in touch, i will give you 500 pounds for your tickets!”

Now I do know (having researched it) that selling football tickets on ebay is kinda illegal. (but in a Han Solo ‘good’ dodgy kinda way)

I also know that ebay don’t police their own site, they only remove offending items if they receive a complaint.

Shortly after open of business this morning (7.18am) my auction was cancelled

Obviously my first suspicion was that Alex Fergusson had set me up, when I’d woken up a little more my suspicions moved to Steven Scott, the Celtic fan.

It doesn’t take a genius to realise the (evil dodgy) git had complained about me, and was trying to get my tickets for a cut price 500 pounds.

This bit at the end of the blog is where I’d normally tell you how the situation was resolved:

but it hasn’t been yet.

I’m not selling the tickets to Steven Scott the Celtic fan, or to Alex Fergusson, the git. 

Five Hundred pounds is only slightly more than eleven times the face value of the tickets, it would be immoral of me to sell the tickets to a genuine Celtic fan for anything less than twenty times their value.. Han Solo would turn in his grave if I did.

I’ll readvertise them in a few days, and see what happens.

I’ve already put my name down for Champions League Final Tickets, will find out next week if I have got any.

Before you read any further and form your own judgements.  I am a geek, why else would I have a blog.  I roleplay, I watch buffy, I text more than I phone, I talk to friends on the internet, I play Everquest, and I buy more dvd’s than I should.

I’m also a ninja.  No, really.

Most people call me mcphee, or just phee.

The lack of capitals in my name is important, my friend Mojo claims that this has a hidden meaning, he is wrong, he often is.

I’ve started this blog because: