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

Video?!

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

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Me and shelly have broke up, she said that it wasn’t working out and she didnt feel hapy again… typical so thats it… no more some of my mates knew I had a idea something was up with her because she has neglected me all week and I feel a little used too because i taxi’d her and a mate from coningsby to donnington last saturday and then went round hers sunday to fix her pc *sigh* oh well!

yesterday was a pretty sh*tty day at college too it was really pissing me off i’m glad i’ve got 2 weeks off to just chill out and recharge my batteries because i’ve felt so run down and find out shelly wanted to end it really didnt help, damn my stupidity. Wednesday was interesting at college… Well i was in lesson wen mick walked in a and kinda shouted out “TOM PARKER” I thought i was in trouble (as i do) then he asked me to come to the front so I did… and he gave me this easter egg for 100% attendence this term which i was pretty happy about, I shared the egg with my mates

heres a bad picture of me shaking hand with mick and the egg itself! lol!

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I don’t know if I mentioned it in the last post but my car has being playing up this time with the plip on my key it wont unlock or lock… I wednesday me, marshall and storer took a trip upto peugeot to see what they could do… at first the bloke got my car wrong eventually after getting the chasis number they found my car on the computer… aparently it is the key so a new one has been ordered heres the painful part:

• Price of the plip/key - £52
• Labour £32
• Unknown number entered into the calculator… 17.5 (guessing thats VAT)

Final price… £99.98, £100 to get the car sorted… so its going in this wednesday (11th) to have it sorted out… bless it oh well I guess I need these things sorted. i guess thats all really hopefully going to be opening SiteDesignr (new site) this easter hol i’ve been making progress on it

Have a good easter I have got a video too!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSPBxDK8kSo[/youtube]

its the new Linkin Park song/video! album out May 14th!

- Tom

PS: Added a mini blog to the right hand side i post on it when im bored I can txt to it to when i’m out and about

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Yes this week i’ve been impressed I love out new time table because most of its in the labs or 148 woo :D, Today i laid in bed because I wasnt gonna set off for college until 9 this way its alot better because I should be able to skip some of the rush hour traffic and that I aint got a hour to kill soon as i get to college :)Downside is that I aint really got to see my gf shelly much this week but we do make use of the time together when we get it so that pretty cool! I went round shellys on sunday to spend some time together it was nice being together and I tried to sort out her PC while I was there but she had some many viruses (180) and so much adware and spware (993) that removing the effected files removed explorer.exe - oops.

I’ve done some minor upgrades to my system this week with a new 160gb SATA (3gb/s) hard drive and putting the old 120gb into my grentz PC and selling the 40gb out of my grentz PC to someone at college. I’m also buliding another system which i will sell in the end I think because i can’t find a decent use for it, I had serveral ideas at first these were:

• Linux webserver - Could use it for developing projects like SysTom or Paid jobs
• Media Center - Required buying decent graphics card and tv card…
• Spare Machine - Would only collect dust…
• Dedicated fileserver - WAP (grentz PC) is now one…
• BETA Tester machine - Not really in many BETA products anymore.

So yeah there some good ideas there but they will either require more money which i don’t like spending or would get bored of using in the end.

Work is going alright this week too whih is good, Ooooh yeah Saturday was interesting because on Wednesday grandad bought a new pump for the front pond so Saturday was my day getting it to fit the orginal system, at first this proved to be abit of a pain because the pipe was too small to fit the pump, but with some inprovisation i managed to get some bits of piping together and make it join to the pipe I added a tap too.

With all that in place it was ready to go put it all together and what happened? the filter floods so it was a good job I added the tap to turn down the pressure few tweaks later its back on without flooding… go me. So yeah thats all really i got a video as normal this one is a little bit wierd

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg1qd570gq4[/youtube]

Catchy tune!

- Tom Parker

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Last week was pretty boring we didnt do alot just some college work and we started out City & Guilds work too, I plowed ahead to try get some work done, but i’ve still got Sad 2 to finish and to tell the truth im kinda stuck on it now… Web dev aint a problem thats straight forward and i think thats what i’ll get done hopefully by friday!

Pete is now back at college he is very loud we aint been used to such noises in weeks lol! Didnt see alot of shelly this week but we did see each other as much as possible She is on placement this week so I may or may not get to see her depending on how our breaks fallin with each others so i hope we do get to see each other abit more, im going round hers on sunday

We did get another pic of each other this week too here it is:

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Bless her

Its been a interesting week at work too! The power station is off for a month and work started this week I was up in control  room and well theres not a great deal of work to do really not as bad as i thought it would be. The system is currently being upgraded this i found very interesting because its actaully seeing what i’ve learn in college like SAD the current system would of been analysized then plans drawn up what whats require and now there implementing it and bug reporting as its bespoke software.

I have a funny idea its  either VB or C++ too I really wanna learn more buI aint the most talkitive person at work like I am at college… all in good time Also I have been experimenting with php and mysql and made a user login system then expanded it to a posting system too if you feel a  need to try it out heres the link its pretty basic though!

http://www.tomwrote.info/phpjunk/New%20Folder/

Thats all really nothing else and I have the perfect video lined up too!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcUvgRi4Y7A[/youtube]

Thanks for reading

- Tom Parker

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I really am in pain this week I can hardly walk cuz f my back i think i’ve slipped a disc or something but it kills and i walk like a stick insect because if i walk normally it hurts so i have to walk retarded it still hurts but not as bad well i aint really done alot all week i’ve attempted to get some college work done!

So i’ve been pretty busy this week today i went to the doctor today about my back and he has subscribed me some pills so hopefully my back pains will be cured! Then I got attacked by my razor when I was shaving I had it unde the hot water then put it on my face and the shock made me jerk and cut all my lip thats begining to heal up.

Today my new CPU turned up so I did a mini upgrade from a Intel Celeron D 2.66Ghz with 256k cache to a Intel Pentium 4 HT 3Ghz with 2mb cache. I can kinda notice  speed difference bu the cache will be the biggest improvement!

And i’ve upgraded my grents pc too ok this is enough PC talk. Me and shelly getting along well i’m missing her i cant wait to get back to college to see her and my mates! oh well heres a video!

Going along with the last posts glow stick theme heres 12 being blended!

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Sorry not much of a post better then nothing

- Tom

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