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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Well it’s been the first week back at college and if I’m honest with myself I really think I’ve enjoyed it. I am doing Networking/techie stuff for the whole year which I love doing. Didn’t do a lot Monday mostly talking and stuff then we finished early enough for me to get to work to finish at 7 so I got the whole evening to play with.

Tuesday is a Optional day it’s normally your day off but for me and 8 others it’s an extra qualification called A+ by CompTIA (Computing Technology Industry Association) it’s a industry recognized qualification:

Topics of the Core examination include IRQs, direct memory access, practical computer repair, including installing or repairing: hard drives, modems, network cards, CPUs, power supplies, printers, and so forth. The focus of the exam is not theory, but practice. Sometimes graphics are used in exam questions. Topics included in the Operating Systems Exam include: memory management, configuration files, and historical operating environments rather than the cutting edge, newer technologies. (Wikipedia)

So it’s right up my street basically. Wednesday I had off so I washed the car then built a diluter which is like a bottle added to the hose pipe so I can spray car shampoo straight onto the car hmmm I’ll go get a pic…

Full image here with descriptions on the image just mouse over the image

So that was fun making lol… Thursday was a b*tch and it really did take it out of me, Friday was all right too so yeah im pretty happy with the layout of the time table apart from Thursdays but that’s fine I’d rather have one hard day lol.

Been testing some new anti-spam software for my blog called  Defensio im currently BETA testing it overall its not too bad but its let in a little bit of spam… but it is new so…

- Tom

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This morning I got up at 7am trying to get myself back in the routine ready for college which I start on Monday, I got up had a shower then had a play about with my cars sub which I’ve built a false floor and mounted the sub within the floor to hold it in place (pics coming soon). After I finished with that I decide to drive up town to see what I had in the bank for petrol and stuff.

I got into town (totally forgot it was Friday - Market Day) and parked up next to a modded ford fezzy and walked up to Natwest. Well there was a woman who pushed in front, didn’t bother me too much as I stood and waited for her to go I noticed the door was covered top to bottom in “translucent white stuff” And I though to myself “Why would someone do that?”

The woman then left and it was my turn as I approached the ATM I noticed it also was covered in white stuff in-fact the whole bank was, I don’t know what it was and I didn’t really want to know what it was so I entered my pin printed off a mini statement and then walked back to the car still wondering why anyone would feel the need to cover a bank in white stuff.

So after that I waited a while then at 10.30 I set off to go see Amy for the day, I got there at 11 then we set off to Boston, parked up in college car park since we are students then walked into town did some shopping, I finally used that £10 voucher college give me when I won an award in first dip. I bought some clothes and paper, pen and stuff for college. I think I’ve spent over £100 getting college stuff which isn’t too bad.

We briefly met up with Rich and Terri, Terri went off to lesson so then we walked back to the cars and said bye and I went to Amy’s house for a bit. Then we noticed what time it was I had to get to work, and she had to go pick up her sister from school so we both rushed off. I got home with 10 minutes to spare which wasn’t too bad.

So that’s all that has happened today not a bad day really great being with Amy! This weeks been slow, someone broke into the Windmill well there’s nothing in there for anyone unless they want over 10 tones of pigeon sh*t pathetic! So I had to fit a new lock inside the mill and stuff Nana decided to come inside to and piss me off, I could of done everything required on my own with no problems.

In one way I can’t wait to get back to college to see my mates, the staff and to get out the house!

Goodnight

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Most of the local arround here would of heard about the recent fire outbreak in Skegness well Saturday Amy, Me and her sister drove down to go get some pics of the place. The picture will speak for themselves anyone who is familar with the place will also notice theres a few big bulidings thats disapeared.

Its pretty bad down there but still alot of people having “fun” lol

- Tom

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Hey all mostly site updates this week. I’ve been so busy with web design work for clients its been hard to fit in a blog post here and there following my previous rant and Microsoft and there block of the the *.info domain I have purchased tomwrote.co.uk and tomwrote.com I will have to rewrite some of the javascript backend so all the domains will work as you will noticed there are problems with the site right now.

So not a great deal going on abit of overtime here and there with a few sundays chucked in. Tuesday I had a drive down with dave to grantham to buy a bonnet as I was told of pug306.net that there was a mint phase 2/3 bonnet there I rant up and they wanted £50 for it so I went down to find it, I did find the car and bonnet but after pushing the lid down only to find it was dented worse than mine.

Then we travelled further to tatershall to have a look arround there bigger place but nothing special so still looking for a bonnet *sigh* In my (lack) of spare time i’ve also been developing a home media network called “Median” pronouced Media-EN and it stands for Media Network basically it allows my recent aquired laptop i fixed that college was chucking out but issac kindly said I could have, to control my pc over the network.

Its a simple web GUI that alows full control over what I am playing i’m also currently working on a iTunes version so i can control my music just from the laptop. Hopefully going to see Amy this saturday but as I found out in a txt today shes feeling a little under the weather *sigh* hopefully she will be better soon! I still have no idea when i’m going back to college either but and have my results! 5 passes and 5 merits… thing is I was never given the chance to redo my web dev upto distinction how nice!

People at work keep asking me what i’m gonna do when I finish college I still have no ideabut its nice that some are suggesting ideas now and i am finding it alot easier to talk to them or some at least. There currently having some work done at the power station so theres a few more on site currently so the place can be a little bit more messier then normal.

I guess thats it hmmm video time? I guess so lets see what I got…

if your feeling down try watch this without smiling

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=cKNzEvK_5u8[/youtube]

- Tom

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