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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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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Woke up this morning to find out our tractor was stolen from our shed last night i felt sick to the stomach i went for a drive arround see if i could find it, highly unlikely I know but worth a try I guess! It brought a tear to my eye that someone could do this to my grentz business, its been reported to police etc but doubt we will see it again.

So today it been a fact or bumping up security on the shed thats been fun I guess and while doing that I been spraying my bumper so its back to normal what a fun life I leed. The weekend was better I guess… Saturday I sold my phase front bumper and drove up to Grantham with it but the people picking it up got lost so we was there for 3hrs (got there 1hr early) luck we was meeting at McD’s so we could buy food and stuff lol.

Sunday drove to Brackly which is Silverstone way for a 306 meet which never happened really. Got there 1hr early (pattern showing here) sat at the green man pub with amy and waited and waited lol. Then Jo (meet organiser) turned up spoke to her a little while and then Mark turned up and that was it.

waited a hr nobody else turn up… that really takes the bicuit… 14 confirmed people coming yet only 4 turn up! We went for a drive to the woods for our BBQ Amy’s mum kindly bought us some meat for our BBQ and lent us some chairs and a cool bag how cool is that? So I bought 2 portable BBQ’s some coke and stuff.

Got the the woods and Mark had to go because of his gf or something so he went then Matt (jo bf) turned up cattering for 4 people - no problem. Plenty to go round lol we made a good day of it even when coming home there was a Ford fest on so we followed loads of Fords home both classics and new…. that explains the Ford GT I followed up the M1 (followed it just for the sound lol)

The rest of the week… work and errm thats all I think… I was gonna blog about something else the other day but I cant remember now lol hmmm… oh well couldnt be too important I guess……

- Tom

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I think we are back on the air, live and kicking again, yesterday I once again got the Digg Effect woo! and bandwith went sky high! So i guessed it was time to move to a new server and cheaper then what I was paying on my prior web host. I have moved to DreamHost… I did look at my mates hosting but I did the maths and this worked out to be a better deal for my needs… well more than enough.

This is now what I have got!

• 200gb of webspace with goes up 1GB a week!
•  2tb - Yes 2 Terrabytes of bandwth
• Everything else is virtually unlimited.
• $190.80 for 2yrs BUT click here to drop it to £47.80 for 2yrs!

Compare that to my old host:

• 500mb of webspace
• 10gb of bandwith
• Everything else is unlimited.
• £30 a year thats £60 for 2yrs!

Hopefully this will be faster and the FTP seems alot quicker  too, Been busy working on my dedicated webdesign site and online portfolio but cant decide on a design yet. Development aint going too bad been putting some content on there and doing that. I’ve kinda missed shelly but i cba with it anymore just fed up of everything really.

Aparently slagging people off when I have’nt ok maybe moaned a little but don’t we all do that? be completely honest don’t you moan about some people you mean no harm but you just need to get it off your chest.  its comming to the point I cba to come to college anymore there always some sh*t and i get the blame for it.

I really don’t wanna do next yrs course because the ways things are i’m lost in life with no real idea what to do anymore. i’m fed up living in this country too my cars too expensive yet I have to keep it because its in dads name I have TW*T wrote on my windows of my car and a d*ck on the back window f*cking childish!

i’m just begining to f*ck my life it isn’t worth it anymore because the way people are with me I AM MISUNDERSTOOD most of the time people take things I say WAY to seriously, where a joke gets turned arround into a nasty comment I HATE IT because I didnt intend it to be like that and it f*cking drives me wild with anger because I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE TWIST SH*T ROUND!

Fine if you don’t like me stay away, don’t bother me and I won’t bother you, i’m seriously f*cked of with this childish bullsh*t its doing my head in because all I wanted to do when I started college was come here f*cking leanr something then p*ss off out of the country forever! This country has f*ck all to offer to the english people apart from benifits from taxpayers money.

Whats the point in working? we are only paying the lazy b*stards that cant get off there arse and get a job… harsh… ok I know myself its hard to get a job BUT AT LEAST F*CKING TRY! ARGGHH. FUCK I HATE MY LIFE.

- Tom…

PS: Might not come back to college!

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