Jonathan "Tempest" Phillips

In response to me recording an episode of Kritzkast on Valentine’s day, A lot of people have asked me about why I’m not spending the day with my wife. Some people already know the answer to this question, but some people still don’t. Mainly because i haven’t shouted it from the roof tops. Like I’m about to now.

Around 2 months ago, me and my wife of around 6 months decided that we were going our separate ways. We had been together for 7 years before we got married, so its not like we rushed into things. I won’t go into details, but I will say that it has been possibly one of the most stress free break ups in history. We are both on good terms, we are both in good places now, How ever we are not together.

Don’t worry, We are both good. We’ve been through the grieving process and have returned to our normal selves. I have returned back to the UK and have been here since December. Although this does mean that I am now back on the market. So if any women would like to take me off the market, you know where to find me

Recently I had a temporary posistion working for a large telivison broadcaster. Due to the name I best not say who. I was brought in to help customers signing up for a new sports channel called ESPN. You know it. the american channel. Well they are making their “Big Break” over here. Problem was, after 4 days the 200+ staff had 9 calls.

AHHHHHHH

Well it was at that point that we were all then placed on out bound calls. Rining up sports customer and and fucking with their day. “BUY MY SHIT SIR……OR THEY WILL BEAT ME AGAIN” Even if we did say that we would have still been yelled at. Every call i made sucked a small part of my soul out of my body.

So I said fuck it. They had breached my contract and forced me to do outbound calls to customer i did not want to call. So i left. I sent a very “Thoughtful” email to my recruitment agency who bascially gave me a temp job with a much better company. I will be working in customer service so i will still get yelling people, but these people are wanting help that i can give and hopefully will leave the call with a smile on their face.

I start work tomorrow morning and i am so much happier for it.

Yesterday I found out some big BIG news. My other half. Claudia, has just received a job offer for Blizzard. Yes you heard me right. Blizzard. The biggest name in gaming, the maker of the biggest online community and the only games company to have its own convention, Blizzard. She is going to be a GM or Games Master for world of warcraft. They are the people you turn to in game if something goes wrong. Get stuck in a wall, turn to her, Somebody griefing, turn to her, need help learning the game, turn to her.

Believe me when I say this is a dream job. she will be paid to be a working part of her (and over 11 millions others) favorite game. I am so very VERY happy for her and am incredibly happy for her and for us. The thought of her getting into the gaming industry is an amazing feet. Something she should feel very proud about and something I am very proud of her for.

But this does bring a big change to my life. She is not able to do this job from her home PC, much to the distress of myself. the location of this job is not within driving distance. in fact its not with in a train right……hell its not really a plane journey every day. Its in cork in Ireland. Yes that’s right were all going to Ireland. I’m going to have to quit my job to follow her, which I will gladly do. I will no longer be a limey, I will be a Guinness drinking drunk. YAY!

Watch this space.

I realised yesterday that I had several projects and tasks that I have wanted to do for a long long time. But every time I find myself with some sort of gap or ability to proceed with one of my projects, I find myself with either 2 or 3 other projects or a whole heap or real life activities that need to be performed. I’ve just moved house and not all of the boxes have yet to find a home. There is a PC to set up, Videos to pack away, stuff to sell on eBay or cash converters and Dishes that need to be unpacked and cleaned. Then there is all the things that need to be done to keep a clan up and running, mountains of work and car problems. Not to mention the huge pile of tasks needed to get the wedding sorted.

Now I want to point out, I am in no way complaining about having all of these items to do. I love all of them. yes even cleaning up the house. I’m a very active person. If I have to spend a day sitting around watching the TV I feel I have wasted the day. Even if I am sitting on the PC I’m either playing a game, working on a project or sorting out something clan related.

But all I really want to do, is all of the above with Claudia. Sitting around watching some crappy TV show all day, doesn’t feel like a waste if I have done it with her. But I feel it is harder and harder to make the time as work keeps filling up my day and then filling up my weekends. My fav past time is sitting in front of the TV with my arm around my Claudia and the other with a fork in a curry.

But getting to my original point. I seems to be loosing an uphill battle against time. Because no matter how much I do there always seems to be more things that need to be done. I have a script I started for a film in the summer of 2002, I have a film that is complete except the editing. Its been filmed for about a year now, but I have yet to find the time to actually edit the damn thing. And now I have shot myself in the foot by saying I will edit the TF2 Podcast Kritkast.

I now feel like I have made an immortal enemy, who everyday I battle with and every day loose at his hand. My nemesis is an evil I shall never defeat. A dictator with an unlimited supply of torture laid out for me. His name is Time.

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