This Monkeys & Pirates blog has been through periods where I’ve posted updates daily, and times when there have been many months between posts.

This is my latest attempt to get going again with a decent level of frequency.

My life has changed a lot over the past 7 years of this blog, so for my first new post I’m going to look back at my first ever post I’m mcphee, and this is my blog which introduced me on April 21 2003.

I’m mcphee, and this is my blog – 21 April 2003

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: I had big plans for my website, but haven’t touched it for ages, this is a gentle way back into it.

My mate Pixie(recently upgraded to mate from aquaintance), and Mojo have both started their own blogs, they both make entertaining reading.  I thought I’d give it a try, if nothing else to prove that not all role-players lead such entertaining lives.

That’s the basic introduction, ideally I’d update this daily, but that’s not going to happen, hence the title of the blog.

In future blogs I’ll introduce the various cast of people in my life.
The main characters – in alphabetical to avoid offence, are played by Claire, Lara, Mark A, Mojo and Pixie.

In the seven years since I wrote that, many things have changed, I live in Australia now, but since living in the UK wasn’t mentioned in the original post I’ll come back to that later.

I’m still a geek, but I no longer roleplay (since moving to Australia I no longer have a circle of geek friends nearby, and have yet to find a workable way to roleplay online), and Buffy is no longer on the air.

I haven’t played Everquest since World of Warcraft came out at the end of 2004.  I don’t even play WoW as much as I’d like to these days, mainly again due to being in Australia and the time difference and lag with the uk.

I no longer buy too many dvd’s, Screenselect/loveFilm succesfully cured me of the need to buy dvd’s.

I also haven’t been to a ninjutsu class since 2005ish.

More people probably call me skippy than mcphee now (a WoW thing), and in Australia I either get called by my actual name, or Manchester.  If I had to choose one nickname that represented me, it’d still be mcphee tho, or phee.

Mojo and Pixie no longer blog.

And as for the min characters in my life, Me & Claire broke up four years ago, I lost touch with Lara even before that, Mark A, Mojo & Pixie I’m still good friends with, but speak to far less than I’d like, and see them (since moving to Aus) much much less than I’d like.

My how things have changed within the lifespan of this blog!

Ok, that turned out to be a list of inaccuracies from blog #1, in my next post (blog #399) I’ll write a bit more about what my life is like now, rather than just listing what my life isn’t like anymore!