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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Peoples been wonder why I have not posted in a while well i’ll explain that after showing u the past 2 attempts i’ve made to blog:

Wheres the motivation?

Wheres the Inspiration?
Its gone…

Its so bad that I hardly blog here anymore, at one time where I used to blog weekly about my “fun” life its just gone

Stop closing the garage door.

It highly pisses me off, I dont like the garage door being closed all the time I open the garage door to take my car out drive up to shop come home (maximum of 10 minutes) Put car in garage… wait the doors closed!! argh Open door *waits for door to open* the door eventually opens and put car in.

Whats causes the door to be closed? because someone is a little bit button-happy and enjoys closing the door… Not for long however I shall be rewiring the button so it only opens the door and wont close it again, this will make both party’s happy, I get to have the door open and I can close it when I want and they get to open the door and full-fill there button-happiness.

I might buy a small RF kit to put on my car keys too.

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So what now well i’m going to actually attempt to fully post tonight. Saturday was pretty cool i spent the day with amy then went out with pete, kt and bex that night it was going well i didnt mix my drinks until last minute urrrrghhhh then sunday i spent all day recovering not able to hold water or food in my tummy very long.

Today i didnt bother going into college instead tried to get some work done for college (which i have hardly any interest in anymore) and some work on pug306.net downtime problems as well and some client web design work and stuff.. I’m finally learning how to run a business properly with contacts and stuff so its a big step for me.

Petrol prices dont go there today i see diesel at £1.15 a litre and £1.10 for petrol outrageous, I attempted to put esso into my tank but it justdrank that so its back to good old BP stuff. Christmas is coming up FAST with only 3 weeks to go and i’ve nearly finished my christmas shopping all done online this yea - screw shops, actually i think i did all my xmas shopping online last year lol.

I guess theres a few thing I enjoy at college being with my TRUSTED mates and working in 148 on the new game machines - though even that can be tense at times. As christmas comes along TV reminds me its a family time… i feel for people who don’t have there full family to spend christmas with i wont be with my parents for the 3rd year running. *sigh*

oh well… least everything with me and amy is going well I love her and i think im coming with terms that I want to stay with her (is that the fact that im turning 20 in march *shudder* and nobody else will want me by then lol) thats another thing turning 20 in march I thought i’d never see that happen but wow here it is speeding along

- Tom

Everyone loves boro pat (warning lots of swearing)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI9rHxrO0C4[/youtube]

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Well its 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/techy stuff for the whole year which I love doing. Didn’t do alot 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 its normally your day off but for me and 8 others its an extra qualification called A+ by CompTIA (Computing Technology Industry Association) its a industry recognised 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 its 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… hmmm shall we have a video…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBnkpWwpSv0[/youtube]

- 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 upto Natwest. Well there was a woman who pushed infront, 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 dunno what it was and I didn’t really wanna 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 awhile 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 ain’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 abit. 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 mins 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 tonnes 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!

Amazing video of this guy doing a shadow shock well worth watching and I met after u seen it you’ll try replicate it with your own hands

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

Goodnight

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 It didn’t last too long, the summer holidays are comming to a end and the back to school signs are back up, yeah that hateful time, or so it was when i was actually at school. This summer has gone fast its been a nice break but at the same time nice to get back and see my mates and be with amy more (hopefully) . Not alot has happened since the last post, I aint been down to skeg anymore to get anymore photos either.

Mostly hard at work either at the power station or at home doing the finishing touches on SiteDesignr and getting things sorted, but i’m still not happy with the layout of the portfolio, sometimes I try too hard butt thats how I work, if its no right its not going live. Anyways! on the 23rd August me and rich met up in boston for a while, while terri was doing some exams and stuff.

We had a walk and drive about it was a good day then I went and suprised amy by turning up on her door step and spending a hour with her lol. Ooooh last night I drove down to stamford to pickup my new bonnet too!I’m really impressed with it too.

Well me and joe went got this bonnet fitted with the help of the guy I bought it off lol, then it rolled on to 10pm and we needed food! well we put in some details in sat nav and told it to find food. First it said McDonalds… no thanks had enough of that… then Little Chief oh ok cool we will got there then we passed KFC… Ok f**k it that will do.

So we went to KFC I stood there waiting in a que of 1 person in front for 10 minutes getting a little pissed off and then seeing that all the guys was foreign and wearing hoodies while cooking… urghhhh thats not very clean is it, so we walked out lol. Went hunting again and see Pizza Hut… sorted.

Got home about 11 shattered though but happy too! thats all thats really happened since last post lol.

Todays video is a guide of how to irrate people!

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

- Tom

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