Hey it’s me once again in a full scale ranting mode, today its petrol prices I think it’s a common subject and worry on most people’s minds these day’s. Well yesterday petrol was at an “affordable” 106.9 I got paid today and its just cost me £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 that’s just really annoying the f*ck out of me.

BUT apart from that everything is OK I guess the car is working 100% and have maximum mpg right now I’m 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 tires 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 buildings and taking pictures etc its been pretty good travelling to unknown parts of the area looking at some really nice buildings 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 got to give.

House prices can’t afford a car let alone a house. 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 it’s 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 research and I know that shops tell 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 databases unless I allow it so this gave me this massive sense of achievement. As I walked out of Tesco’s bracing the free view box in my arms I shouted “FUCK YOU BBC” and proceeded to walk to the car. I think Amy was embarrassed.

The weeks been slow at college its crap as normal and Thursday was valentines day I popped round Amys for the night to see her for a bit 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 key rings - 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 so much cheaper then the little shops - bless them.

Cars going strong plenty of 307 mods bringing the phase number to 3.5 lol and cam belt 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 dam it! Right better end it there then

- Tom

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Yes its true after near 2 months of no posting I’m 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. It’s been an 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 it’s 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 not a lot 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 me 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 tire!

But no damage to the car how lucky! The Saturday night could of been avoided I guess if I didn’t 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 I’m going to be with Amy, her dads a amateur actor and is going to be in a show at black friars in Boston so we are going to 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 that’s his holiday for the year.

Me and Amy go to Spain later in the year for just over a week in July so that’s going to be cool, just got to get her passport sorted but I think that’s 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 heard much off her but she is probably busy lol.

I’ve got a bit 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 cam belt doing probably going to 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 going to spoil the secret but lets say its coming from Bulgaria and that’s all I guess hmmm videos… not really watched many recently

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

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Christmas came far too early this year and petrol prices went too far up, too much that it’s 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 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 that’s £25 each (fair enough right?) that left me with £21, My brother decides to use my card to get his Christmas present… £25ish later I’m 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 – B*llocks.

So I decided ok I’ll fill up my tank with that £17 to get to college £17 really doesn’t go very far at all in fact 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 going to 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 got to find food and drink, I think we are taking a picnic sort of thing to eat on the way but we are going to 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 hope the petrol strikes are going to help drop them its about f*cking time someone stood up to them instead of letting them walk all over us. I think its sad that the prices of things are going up and its crippling not just students but a lot of the younger generation too, I’m in £920 debt with my grandparents that’s Insurance + Brake repair - I have not 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.

- Tom

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I wish it was that easy to blog sometimes but after a month without updates I just cant offer that to you all, so what’s happened today oh nothing much…. just that my PORTABLE HARD DRIVE WAS STOLEN! (The following paragraph can be skipped because I’m just going to swear in it.)

What f*cking t*ssers with no f*cking life what so ever, no f*cking respect for other peoples f*cking stuff, what the f*ck gives them the go ahead to go through someone else’s property  to steal something that’s worthless to them, yeah that’s all my work from last year and some of this year I have a IVA  due soon and EUS due Monday which I’ve now got to do AGAIN, right I tell you what, if anyone knows who has it I am not bothered give me back the data and you can have the drive that’s all I ask, you can copy the 15gb of music too.

I hate people that steal, but I will thank the person who handed the bag in to reception with other things still inside it thanks. Now tonight I’ve just had to explain to client a backup of his site has been stolen too, he isn’t happy I am not happy and I just generally hate the person that took it, I don’t hate many people at all but I hate that person a lot.

W*NKER! </end rant>

Insurance is finally sorted and now all I have to pay is £721 back to my nana and granddad… thank god! So I can drive my car and I’m insured! Mum comes over next week also and due to the recent thing at college I’m going to get my college work done and handed in and I’m going to spend the week with my mum, because I don’t get to see her a lot… and right now I need her.

I really don’t feel like I’m in the mood for this today so this will do for now I think you can gather the mood I’m in.

- Tom

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