You ever been in one of those situations where someone has called out your name and you and someone else stands up with the same name?
I have a MySpace (as you all should know!) and I got a couple of messages from... Myself!
Well, not really myself, but from another Steve Hester this one from the other side of the pond in the Good Ole' US of A! What makes it even more strange is that we're both in the same business except he makes his living behind the camera and I make mine in front of it!
So a big Hello to my name sake and to anyone else out there who also have the same name! Lets all be friends and rule the world!!!!
Thursday, 15 March 2007
Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Disapointment
*sigh*
Another good idea has come a cropper. I've had an idea for a comedy show which I've been knocking round with for some time and I've been writing with my man Paul Binns. After Prank Patrol last December I gave the script to the first show and the series synopsis to the head Peter Baker who then passed it onto the BBC!
At first I was kind of shocked that he thought it would be good enough to send off! I mean, I thought it was good but... THE BBC!!! The biggest broadcasting company in the UK, certainly the most well known in the world and they're looking at my script!
Unfortunately, as the heading of this entry says, it's not gone to plan. Tonight I got an email via Peter giving me the news that an "established writer/performer" has already got a similar show commissioned and mine is out the window.
Gutted.
However, I'm not giving up hope! I'm refusing to let this one go! The Idea (which I'm not going to dive away on here) is too good to just let it go and the show that's just been commissioned sounds quite different! Perhaps not different enough for the same channel to have them both at the same time but definitely different enough to get mine made!
Time to get my plans into action! Mwahahahaha!
Another good idea has come a cropper. I've had an idea for a comedy show which I've been knocking round with for some time and I've been writing with my man Paul Binns. After Prank Patrol last December I gave the script to the first show and the series synopsis to the head Peter Baker who then passed it onto the BBC!
At first I was kind of shocked that he thought it would be good enough to send off! I mean, I thought it was good but... THE BBC!!! The biggest broadcasting company in the UK, certainly the most well known in the world and they're looking at my script!
Unfortunately, as the heading of this entry says, it's not gone to plan. Tonight I got an email via Peter giving me the news that an "established writer/performer" has already got a similar show commissioned and mine is out the window.
Gutted.
However, I'm not giving up hope! I'm refusing to let this one go! The Idea (which I'm not going to dive away on here) is too good to just let it go and the show that's just been commissioned sounds quite different! Perhaps not different enough for the same channel to have them both at the same time but definitely different enough to get mine made!
Time to get my plans into action! Mwahahahaha!
Monday, 5 March 2007
.....I love you!
I'm in the dog house.
Over the last couple of posts I've been referring to my girlfriend as "my girlfriend" and my girlfriend has taken the hump with me over it.
So I'm making this whole blog about her. Ladies and gentlemen, may I present: Louise!
Over the last couple of posts I've been referring to my girlfriend as "my girlfriend" and my girlfriend has taken the hump with me over it.
So I'm making this whole blog about her. Ladies and gentlemen, may I present: Louise!
I first met Wizzy (its her nickname) nearly two years ago on Saturday the 23rd of April which just so happens to be St. Georges day! We'd been set up on a blind date by a mutual friend of ours called Kathy so the only clues that I got to the woman I've called the love of my life was through text messages and one single phone call.
I've talked since with people who've been on blind dates. They've said they were nervous or a bit jittery because, lets be fair, you never know what the persons going to be like until you actually meet them in the flesh. Thing is... I didn't feel that. I felt like it was all going to be good right from the off and the only fluttering I felt in my belly lasted only a few seconds *just* before I actually met her.
The day was a glorified pub crawl without the alcoholism and tons of talking. I got to know her inside and out, what she liked and didn't like, all the while being sucked into her beautiful blue eyes. I was smitten with her from the beginning and we shared our first kiss in a little corner booth in The George pub in Stockport. The downside now is that the pub is all boarded up so we can't snuggle up in there again.
Two dates later I told her that I loved her and one thing about me is that if I say that I love or hate something then I mean it! I wouldn't trade her for anything in the world and apart from her time keeping which is lousy, there's not a single thing I'd change about her! She's everything that I've been looking for in a woman; I can play games like Gears of War with her for hours then we can snuggle on the couch just holding each other. She's tender and sweet yet has a wicked sense of humor and a much stronger stomach than I've got!
She's warm, caring, cute as hell! She is without a doubt the single most important person in the world to me and she's the only person that I've ever seriously thought about putting a ring on her finger.
She is d'babe and she's all mine!
I've talked since with people who've been on blind dates. They've said they were nervous or a bit jittery because, lets be fair, you never know what the persons going to be like until you actually meet them in the flesh. Thing is... I didn't feel that. I felt like it was all going to be good right from the off and the only fluttering I felt in my belly lasted only a few seconds *just* before I actually met her.
The day was a glorified pub crawl without the alcoholism and tons of talking. I got to know her inside and out, what she liked and didn't like, all the while being sucked into her beautiful blue eyes. I was smitten with her from the beginning and we shared our first kiss in a little corner booth in The George pub in Stockport. The downside now is that the pub is all boarded up so we can't snuggle up in there again.
Two dates later I told her that I loved her and one thing about me is that if I say that I love or hate something then I mean it! I wouldn't trade her for anything in the world and apart from her time keeping which is lousy, there's not a single thing I'd change about her! She's everything that I've been looking for in a woman; I can play games like Gears of War with her for hours then we can snuggle on the couch just holding each other. She's tender and sweet yet has a wicked sense of humor and a much stronger stomach than I've got!
She's warm, caring, cute as hell! She is without a doubt the single most important person in the world to me and she's the only person that I've ever seriously thought about putting a ring on her finger.
She is d'babe and she's all mine!
Sunday, 4 March 2007
Bitching
Ive just had a "discussion" with my girlfriends sister. Now I *could* go on a rant here and complain and moan and otherwise bitch about her. But I'm not. I am going to take the high ground on the whole subject and just say that she has my pity. I feel sorry for her.
In other news, Ive been messing round with Linux, Ubuntu to be exact. First I installed the wrong build so I had to uninstall which resulted in messing up windows so I had to repair it. Unfortunately the repair effectively ripped SP2 out of windows rendering IE7 and Media Player 11 as well as other apps useless BUT re-installing SP2 proved to be a minefield as something got messed up with Linux and most of the important components needed for the install vanished.
So with the right version of Ubuntu installed I gave up on windows for the time being only to be confronted by Linux's big failing: If you don't know your commands, your screwed!
Seriously! With windows you get an app or game and all it takes is a double click of a file normally marked "setup" or "Install" and before you know it the install shield takes over and soon enough your messing around with your new bit of software. With Linux there is no easy double clicking (most of the time). With Linux you need to open the terminal box, type in a code to get the software because there's no websites with an easy install file to grab, then when you get it you need another code to run it then another to update it, then another to run it, it just goes on and on!
With windows being screwed I had no real choice but to do a fresh install so barely a month after doing it before I was up to my arms in the windows file directories copying all my music, saved games and all those other little things, such as amusing pictures of innocent toddlers with amazingly offensive t-shirts which are soooo funny, that make my computer what it is. All that was moved (again) onto my back up partition while my c drive was re-formatted and windows put back on.
Then a long night of waiting for the updates to come through again and copying all the stuff back to where its supposed to be at which point I noticed that the dual boot software that kicked in just after Ubuntu was installed no longer works! Now I have a 13gig part of my hard drive that I can't get without re-installing Ubuntu which I'm really not sure is worth the hassle.
Yes it looks nice and yes it does seem faster and prettier than windows but until the REALLY make a version of Linux that an idiot like me can use without blowing up the house I don't think I'll be going back for more.
In other news, Ive been messing round with Linux, Ubuntu to be exact. First I installed the wrong build so I had to uninstall which resulted in messing up windows so I had to repair it. Unfortunately the repair effectively ripped SP2 out of windows rendering IE7 and Media Player 11 as well as other apps useless BUT re-installing SP2 proved to be a minefield as something got messed up with Linux and most of the important components needed for the install vanished.
So with the right version of Ubuntu installed I gave up on windows for the time being only to be confronted by Linux's big failing: If you don't know your commands, your screwed!
Seriously! With windows you get an app or game and all it takes is a double click of a file normally marked "setup" or "Install" and before you know it the install shield takes over and soon enough your messing around with your new bit of software. With Linux there is no easy double clicking (most of the time). With Linux you need to open the terminal box, type in a code to get the software because there's no websites with an easy install file to grab, then when you get it you need another code to run it then another to update it, then another to run it, it just goes on and on!
With windows being screwed I had no real choice but to do a fresh install so barely a month after doing it before I was up to my arms in the windows file directories copying all my music, saved games and all those other little things, such as amusing pictures of innocent toddlers with amazingly offensive t-shirts which are soooo funny, that make my computer what it is. All that was moved (again) onto my back up partition while my c drive was re-formatted and windows put back on.
Then a long night of waiting for the updates to come through again and copying all the stuff back to where its supposed to be at which point I noticed that the dual boot software that kicked in just after Ubuntu was installed no longer works! Now I have a 13gig part of my hard drive that I can't get without re-installing Ubuntu which I'm really not sure is worth the hassle.
Yes it looks nice and yes it does seem faster and prettier than windows but until the REALLY make a version of Linux that an idiot like me can use without blowing up the house I don't think I'll be going back for more.
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