Author: Padraig Fahy

  • Getting back in Anime

    Something that I have always enjoyed doing but never having enough of time to do so is watching Anime.

    I wouldn’t go out there and watch the Naruto’s or the One Piece or the big guys, I prefer the smaller 12-24 episode shows that are being shown. Another problem that I have had was that I would never bother to finish any series that I was watching. Yes, I have the whole series on my personal seedbox but it would just sit there and I would never watch it.

    So, when I was out last weekend with a friend, we were talking about anime and he was saying that started to watch GATE and that it was a really good anime. I said to him that I would check it out…So I did.

    At the time of writing, there has been 6 episodes aired and another 18 episodes to go. Over the next few days, I watched the 6 episodes of GATE and I bloody love it…to a point where I can’t wait till the next week to watch the next episode.

    It seems like a weird thing. I prefer to wait a week for the next episode to release than binge watch the entire show in one sitting.

    Funny how that works, eh?

    Links: http://myanimelist.net/anime/28907/Gate:_Jieitai_Kanochi_nite_Kaku_Tatakaeri

  • “We need Buffs!” “Enemies needs Nerfs!”

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    This ain’t WoW anymore kids…This is Final Fantasy XIV and it’s only going to get harder from here on in!

    http://nologam.com

     

  • PFN Update & Life Update!

    Hi everyone,

    It has been a long time since there has been a post on this blog…and that is for a couple of reasons which I will go through very quickly.
    1) I have been working a great deal and just haven’t had the chance to sit down and do a proper blog post.
    2) I have been working mostly on Nologam. We are growing a steady rate with newer people joining the server and the community every day. We are looking to get the rate of new members increased, but what is more important is activity.

    Over the past year, I have had a simple landing page for Gamers and Geeks with a simple ad about becoming a part of the network. Initially, my plan was to create a network where users from network members could discover new sites, communities and blogs and thus increase activity and exposure. I have had one email regarding that…and that went down the pan.

    For now, we are going to keep the name ‘Gamers and Geeks’ as a network name and use that for Nologam and then maybe change it if we get any new members into the network.

    As for this site, I closed it off a couple of weeks ago because Spam bots had got in and I was getting emails like crazy, but I have re-opened it with a new Spam filter thing called “CleanTalk”. If you use it, let me know how good it is. I am really interested because I may consider getting it for Nologam since there is a bit of a spam bot problem (but most of the staff seems to be dealing with them before I get to them which is awesome).

    For the future going forward, well, that is something that I haven’t decided on. There is a lot happening outside of the PFN to start something new. I feel that at the moment, I should stick and try to improve Nologam and get the results that I am ultimately looking for, rather than wasting my time, energy and money on something that isn’t going to be around for a long time.

    Now, onto my life stuff. Oh boy, what a up and down time we have had over the past 6 months of this year. My grandfather left us just a few days before his 80th birthday from Motor Neurone Disease and of course, it was a massive shock to me as it is the first family funeral that I have ever encountered. Even now, nearly 5 months on from his death, it is still surreal that he is no longer with us. The house is just not the same and it’s hard for me to go into the sitting room at times because I expect him to be there in his seat watching the TV. I explained this in the previous blog post, so there is no point in writing it out all again.

    My health…oh boy…
    Ever since I was born, I have had a Twisted Gut and thus have had problems with going to the loo. For the past few years, it has gotten so bad that the left side of my stomach (from my POV) was inflated like a balloon and it hurted. This wasn’t trapped air. This was my bowel full. I was in bed from the Saturday to a Wednesday and then I went to a doctor and he gave me a suppository and if that didn’t work, then I had to go to the hospital.

    After having this problem for so long, the suppository worked. And I started emptying my bowel. It took about 6 sleepless nights for me to empty my bowel. 6! Unbelievable. Since then I have been going at least once a day to make sure everything is right. That is ok, but as of a few days ago, I have seemed to miss a day and now, I can’t go (but I am working on resolving so…hopefully I will be ok)

    Anyway, that is enough from this long winded post and hopefully you haven’t been grossed out!

    Follow me on Twitter: @PadraigFahy

  • RIP Thomas Fahy. 1935 – 2015

    So last month, I posted about my grandfather not being well. 8 days after that post, he passed away…

    It has been a difficult month since then. The only grandparent that I grew up with has left us and it’s still surreal to this day to think that he has died. At times,  I think that he is in the sitting room watching the TV, but only to see darkness from the empty sitting room.

    The death of my grandfather has hurt me hard. There would be times where I would have to go to my room or the toilet at work and just have a cry… I miss him so much. All the mass cards that have been sent to us, all the visits from people that he met down the years all came to the wake and sympathised with my parents have been a reminder that he is gone and that he will never come back. He is now with his wife, my grandmother who I never met in heaven.

    This time of year he would have loved. The lovely spring days waiting for the sheep to lamb, the football being on and his favorite horses would be running at Cheltenham.

    He loved his horse racing, he would never be a huge betting man, but he would have a flutter during big/major events. Not hearing those races now is something that I will miss. He would always ring family at home in Galway and ask about how John Fahy the jockey would be doing on the horses.

    He was always a family man. He would ring up his nieces and nephews in Galway to check up on them and his brother and sister in USA and England respectively.

    There is so much that I want to share about him, but I would be here all night… But here is the final words..

    I miss you granddad. You will be dearly missed.

    Padraig

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  • Away from everything.

    Just very busy at the moment looking after my grandfather who is not doing very well. His breathing has got a lot worse in the past couple of months and now there is more pains and aches from him on a daily basis.

    Still working away, 9-5. Sometimes being at work can distract me from the issues that is going on at home, but at the same time, I want to be home to look after him.

    Everything has taken a bit of a backseat for a while. Nologam has taken a bit of a backseat and I have put another admin in charge for a while. Gaming is just non-existent at nights now, but if I can play for about 10 mins, then I am happy.

    There isn’t really much I can talk about other than what I have already mentioned, but for more active comments about what is happening, I am on the Twittering machine, @PadraigFahy

    Thank you 🙂

     

  • PadraigFahy.com Song of 2014

    2014 has been a great year for “good music”. While there has been the few songs that have been played to death on Radio and TV, there is one song that has stuck out to me as being a fantastic song.

    Now, I am not going to do a “Top 5” or “Top 10” list as that would be time consuming, so here it is…My favorite song of 2014!

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