Hey its me once again in a full scale ranting mode, today its petrol prices I think its a common subject and worry on most people’s minds these day’s. Well yesterday petrol was at a “affordable” 106.9 I got paid today and its just cost be £40 for half a tank @ 109.9 this is now killing me i’m worrying about getting to college now and further education might have to be cancelled due to extra living costs and all that general crap thats just really annoying the fuck out of me.

BUT apart from that everything is OK i guess the car is working 100% and have maxium mpg right now Im tempted to start stripping out unwanted weight to improve mpg that means bye bye sub The car had a full check up last week while having zorst and tyres sorted oh and tracking  which means it looks like its certainly going to pass MOT

I don’t know if I mention the new recent stuff I have been doing with chris and matt its called urbexing or Urban Exploring, looking at old bulidings and taking pictures etc its been pretty good travelling to unknown parts of the area looking at some really nice bulidings pretty cool but its a shame that 28dayslater.co.uk closed the forums a few days ago so we need to find a new home oh and the fact petrol has rose means its going to cost more to travel to these places too.

Been doing a few calculations and its costing roughly £8 (50 miles to and from college)  with the rise in price its soon not going to be worth going to college the prices are set to rise to 1.50 in august too so nah i’ll probably stop driving then. i’ll get some little bike thing or something, something has really gotta give.

House prices can’t afford a fucking car let alone a house fuck that. so yeah end of had enough college work has seriously got me down i did 4 assignments this week and the flash drive decided to do  “WRITE ERROR” AND MESS UP give up now.

- TOm

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 For some reason this never posted!

Some of you that know me, know that I don’t watch TV, its true I don’t have a TV in my room because most of the time there’s just total utter crap on it and that’s just the BBC. I don’t like the BBC for many reasons mainly Propaganda and the shi*te they air out to people, and yeah believe it or not people watch it and enjoy it, Why? well its beyond me.

Last week I had my first experience of telling the BBC to piss off, Amy has got free view fitted in her room now so I bought her a free view box from tesco, I’ve done my reserch and I know that shops tell the the BBC your details - NOT MINE. I decided to go-to the self service… I distracted the woman to take out the security tag while she was doing that I pressed ok on the screen to cancel the message about taking the details, she then simply entered her pin and I paid for it - Woo.

I hate my personal details on company database’s unless I allow it so this gave me this massive sense of achievement. As I walked out of tesco’s bracing the freeview box in my arms I shouted “FUCK YOU BBC” and proceeded to walk to the car. I think Amy was embarrassed I was ready to run if people came after me for my details though.

The weeks been slow at college its crap as normal and I have little motivation to do anything but work, in-fact thats all I seem to be interested in is doing my work and earning my money thats the point of life right? You earn the money then die. Thursday was valentines day I popped round amys for the night to see her for abit and exchanged gifts and then have a play fight with these heart things, valentines day is very commercialized these days, they sell glorified xmas crackers for valentines day now, whatever happened to the simple rose and a meal (possible reward at the end of the night ) ? Anyways these crackers was just like Christmas ones, they still go bang and u get jokes in them with red hats and keyrings - joy.

Oh well it was a good night but it shocked me how valentines day is now a big con for the big businesses to get more money out of people, even the little corner flower shops didn’t get as much as they normally do because tesco and asda etc was selling roses somuch cheaper then the little shops - bless them.

Cars going strong plenty of 307 mods bringing the phase number to 3.5 lol and cambelt is getting done pretty soon then a checkup on the general running of the car, service etc ready for MOT in June. Weather has been terrible down here the past 2 days thick fog covering the main roads has made traveling a nightmare, especially at night, frost and ice has been make life hard too. Can’t wait for the warm weather to get my splitter painted and fitted decided I’m probably going to get angel lights for my birthday with is coming up fast

Oh damn just realized i’ll have loads of assignments to do dammit! right better end it there then

- Tom

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Yes its true after near 2 months of no posting im back to post weekly again, I’ve been quite busy over the last month or so with work, car stuff, pug306.net and of college of course. Its been a interesting time, December was pretty busy and drove me into the red on my bank accounts so I couldn’t afford petrol to get to college for a week or so.

Well its the same again but this time car tax has drove every bank account I used into < £10 which that means no money for petrol to get to college thank god I get paid tomorrow. Well no alot has really happened in January apart from last week where I could of nearly had a serious accident i guess you could say, it was a clear road and dark at night coming back from work  and something came off a lorry and I hit it made we swerve a little bit lucky there was no other cars I had to jam on my brakes no idea what i’d hit until I went back and looked the next day, a busted lorry tyre!

But no damage to the car how lucky! The saturday night could of been avoided I guess if i didnt over take a clio with 5 people in then later on that night getting boxed in by another 2 cars and the clio, but i escaped! the car to my side got it in the wrong gear and shot back so i pulled out and floored it to get away I had no choice if i’d done 60 they would of boxed me in again lol.

This weekend im gonna be with amy her dads a amateur actor and is going to be in a show at blackfriars in boston so we gonna see that saturday, not sure what we are doing sunday though. My brother goes to Barcelona next week for something art related or something but he is stopping with mum and dad too so thats his holiday for the year.

Me and amy goto spain later in the year for just over a week in july so thats going to be cool, just gotta get her passport sorted but I think thats underway can its just got to be posted off now. Its always nice to get comments off old school friends just before christmas I got another comment from a primary school friend which was cool, have not hear much off her but she is probably busy lol.

I’ve got abit of web design work on the side too, that helping and a few more potential ones on the way. oh and the car still needs its cambelt doing probably gonna have to chase that one up in a week or 2 can’t keep putting it off though. I’ve done a few things on my car like dewiper the rear window got a few new things to add mainly my new dash lights, LED’s are shit and keep blowing so i’ve moved onto something else i’m not gonna spoil the secret but lets say its coming from bulguria and thats all I guess hmmm videos… not really watched many recently

Oh and one more thing I hope you like the new design

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Christmas came far too early this year and petrol prices went too far up, too much that its stopped me getting to college, I can’t afford it. I earn on average £71 a week this was fine it was keeping my car on the road and paying for food. Only certain petrol’s work in my car cheap stuff i get hardly any MPG but BP half a tank will last me all week. BP is 103.9 a litre here and ok that doesn’t seem much but it soon adds up.

Christmas is coming up fast i’ve had to buy presents just like everyone else but on £71 a week that really doesn’t reach very far at all my grentz present was £50 thats £25 each (fair enough right?) that left me with £21, My brother decides to use my card to get his Christmas present… £25ish later im in the red then he uses the card again to get grand dads present £33 wow…. £54 in the red. Then comes this week I got paid wait now i have to pay off that debt and it leaves me £17 to pay with for the week - Bollocks’d.

So I decided ok i’ll fill up my tank with that £17 to get to college £17 really doesnt go very far at all infact its only just allowed me to get to college twice this week and work (10 minute drive) for the rest of the week. My bank accounts gonna be in the red and so will the car… I have to meet up with pug306.net staff this weekend for a meet and a meeting about the site i’m taking amy with me.

its a 260 mile all round trip plus we are stopping in hotel for the night amy said she will pay half of the petrol and hotel that sounds good… but we also have gotta find food and drin, I think we are taking a picnic sort of thing to eat on the way but we are gonna need some sort of tea lol.

So where does that leave me next week for college? Well it depends whats left in my tank. I think this country is a mess and I can only home the petrol strikes are gonna help drop them its about f*cking time someone stood upto them and let them walk all over us. I think its sad that the prices of things are going up and its crippling not just students but alot of the younger generation too, I’m in £920 debt with my grandparents thats Insurance + Brake repair - I aint even started paying that off I have car tax £175 in January I have started keeping back money where I can for my tax unless its gone up.

Hmmm heres some scotish chav video

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2AbcH-JIag[/youtube]

- Tom

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I really do hate them, yeah its coming to that time again to insure the car… well I’ve tried something new this time, quoting the car in September then quoting it every other day until i get to the desired date, result: £780 comp 150 excess mods declared, excellent so I bought it… wait… WRONG!

Your policy has not been issued and cover is not yet in force. Payment may have been taken from your card. We apologise for any inconvenience.

I did this on a sunday night… a little peed off at that point, couldn’t ring them Monday was at college same with Tuesday.. so I rang them today, I hate ringing up company’s on the phone because they bend you over and mentally rape you. So I gave the guy my quote number etc he ran me through the details got right to the end and he said “So today I can quote you ** Said the price here really fast** thats £90 a month with a £200 deposit… at that point my heart stopped and I instantly thought… WHAT!?!

I started to do quotes online while the bloke was running through it all, this was infact the cheapest I could get so I bit the bullet and said yes baring in mind there was constant pressure to give an answer right there and then. £90 is affordable no problems I guess…  i’ll just have to watch what I buy and manage my money better fair enough its a lesson in life.

Wait theres more the guy then said hey we are doing a special offer for students breakdown cover… I said no thanks i’ll be alright without it and the guy says nah you could do with it, you pay £7 deposit and then £6 a month I got forced into it and lkept saying no and stuff but I never got anywhere and i’m now paying £96 a month, way to go ENDSLEIGH now i’m stuff with that because its October and as i’m learning the insurance like to rape you more at the end of the year.

I guess that’s all, nan decided to remove the cardboard in the garage yesterday that really pissed me off, its basic common sense why there’s card board on the wall, to stop the door from getting damaged on the wall - duhhh. College well yesterday a total of 5 people actually turned up for A+ yesterday which is a huge disappointment for them who want to do the course, however some was either ill or in Jamies case had an accident.

Why is everyone ill at the moment, Joe came home today feeling sh*t, I wasn’t well last week either im now getting over and that recovering rapidly, at one point I got a sore throat and panicked thinking my glandular fever was coming back. Me and Ay had a little spat at each other Friday night but it was all sorted by Saturday afternoon lol oh well, least I ave my health, and a roof over my head… dunno how long for though *sigh*

- Tom

Some might like this video, others may however not
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZUjjrF1EPdI[/youtube]

PS: Photo Page broke

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