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Jan 31st 2007 [Rant] Lets spend more!

My nan is annoying me, first it was the tyres Now its petrol my nan has these great new way for me to spend more money instead of half a tank of petrol I should be putting in a fulll tank… why the hell would I do that?! Because I get £30 a week from EMA I have made that work, £20 on petrol which is enough for a week, and £10 on food which lasts about 2 weeks… Why would I spend maybe £50 every 2 weeks on a full tank when I managing just fine with £20 a week… urgh!

When she was telling me this she was poaint scissors and me… and I hate that so i turned arorund and said “And don’t point scissors at me you wouldn’t like it if i pointed a knife at you” (while holding and knife pointing at her) yeah she soon stopped pointing the scissors at me then. But what really annoys me is the fact that she doesn’t listen to me.

One of there friends come round and brings a floppy disk… At first I was like “What is that” then I remembered it was a floppy disk… damn I aint used one of them in years! So much infact that none of our PC’s have floppy drives anymore. So i went out in my cold store and found a floppy drive blew the dust off it and plugged it into the grentz pc, I was missing a floppy cable which I told her i would findwhen I got some college work done.

Anyways the next day I went to college and when i come home… what the hell they had a visit to PC World… I mean thats a sin on its own, BUT they asked a employee there for a floppy cable, now the guy who sold them this is either… VERY VERY stupid or VERY VERY stupid and a a55h0le, he got them a Belkin top of the range floppy cable 80cm’s… for a 5 1/2 floppy drive… one of these…

floppy drive

These things was from the 1980’s! and the amount they charged for it £7 WHAAAAT!! £7 :| PC World made my nan bend over and take that up the ass! (not literary, context speaking) b*stards! How can PC World rip off old people like that with the wrong item!? there 50p online! I demanded to take it back to them and i’ll soon give them some lip, i’m still pissed off about them not giving my CV back!

So yes guy PC World suck exspecially the one in Boston! I sugest boycotting PC World and showing the customers its cheaper online! I’ve told my nan to take it back else I will… no doubt they will hide it and tell me they took it back when they didn’t! AFter finding a floppy cable that works and getting it all fitted, i insert the floppy disk to find a *.GED file…

We didn’t have the program to open it so i googled online and aparently it some family tree software file… Why cant old people stick to one program for making family trees that way it make life easier… sadly that will never happen. I have no work today… I have saturdays off and some sundays like this sunday :) The weeks been pretty good, got to know some people and that so im pretty happy!

My nan today really upset me, I went to wash my car today and she has chucked out all my washing stuff like the cloths and that, without my permission she even admitted to it, so i was really reall pissed off i went to the shed to find a sponge and she said “dont use that it will fall to bits” to which i replied with “what else can i f*cking use you chucked all my stuff out”! Then that turned into a full scale arguement in which half of it i stuttered and made no sense at all.

I told her basically everything i’d ranted about on here because it was getting to boiling point and its like… when i told her about rich and his car accident she goes “oh i bet he was speeding” no he wasn’t speeding she just automatically assumes that, and thats what annoys the hell outta me.

Joe hasn’t talked to her in months because everytime he talk she goes on about how she disagree’d and in there day they did so and so… well soorry but this isn’t the 1900’s this is the 2000 and we like our music and the way we dress… oh yeah shes still hiding clothes and admitted infront of joe that she was gonna throw out some pairs of jeans without his permssion he wasn’t happy either.

Urgh i really respect them they just annoy me really badly and i’m not proud of having ago at her but it was driving me up the wall, its getting to the point of i dont wanna be in the same room with them anymore, because they constantly patronize and moan about stuff and, i really dont care what they think  is best I am 18 and i learn from my mistakes, always have always will.

Rant over.

Heres a video of a new airline called yorkpoo[censored]e airlines… sadly they only fly arround yorkshire ;) enjoy!

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Jan 24th 2007 Another Day, Another clean office

Hey everyone sorry to the subscribers that received that random email, I’m trying out Windows Live Writer for posting on my blog so far it seems pretty good with a good range of plugins. So yes I have been working 6 to 8.30 and so far its been pretty good because well there’s not many people about at night time and the people that are there seem pretty nice!

The weather has calmed down from the gale force winds to snow… I’ve never drove in snow hopefully it wont snow another its seem to have melted now well most of it! College is going ok we got some assignments to be in soon i guess i better get them finished but its keeping track of them which is tricky.

The cars subwoofer is fitted and sounds pretty good its 10 inch and its Vibe its got quite a kick to it too so i’m pretty impressed, I’m thinking of covering it in gray car carpet to make it blend in :) here’s a picture of it before it was fitted.

Subwoofer

Car tax is coming up soon so i am am trying to not spend any money i wont get pay this week either I have to wait till next week… and i doubt I’ll have EMA I lost mine but found it today so I need to get all my lessons signed for Monday and Tuesday… well I was there so…

Thanks it for now sorry subscribers for th screw up, I blame Windows live Writer ;)

- Tom Parker

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Jan 20th 2007 I have a job!

I HAVE A JOB! Yes its true its working in a power station cleaning offices pays not too bad £5.75 a hour for 2hrs every night the people are really nice so far so i feel I will enjoy it :) I start monday, cant wait really it be nice to get out lol.
If you live in the UK you will know it was VERY VERY windy like gale force wind and rain, and who drove to college init? Me yes silly me i really should of got the bus that day but well a bus is more prone to blow over so I went out in it. Cars, vans, and loads of lorries scattered about in trees, lamp posts and dykes.

3 lorries blown over just along the A16 then theres the rain… and lots of it some roads in boston was just flooded water upto 5 inchs deep… in some parts then there was part of the college’s roof tiles flying off, amazing to watch but also very dangerous. Thats all really aout the weather now the snow is gonna come apparently!

Anyways I have a new life rule… NEVER drink and go on eBay… you end up buying things which… to be perfectly honest you won’t want when your sober… for example a 400w Vibe subwoofer… I aint got the car fully wired up yet to test what it sounds like… my guess it what its gonna sound sh*t!

Tomorrow will be fun because i’ll be fitting the power cable to the battery then into the car and into the boot… loads of fun! And just now I got this really random email which was really interesting to read! Aparently theres a guy at my college who come accross my website and have a browse arround, he has a 306 and has a dint in the same place as me… wierd aye?

This guy has lived in a different country called france… where as i lived in spain… i’ve never been to france maybe one day! Hope you recieved my email back mate the postmaster said know to your main email addy :(

Anyways i’ll post in the week when i’m in the right mood to blog… I started writing this at 6pm and its now 11.57… oops! Oh and I just noticed i been blog for… 4yrs :| thats just…. shocking!

- Tom

oooo a video…. errrm 2 videos of people parking cars… Or… rather not parking them.. enjoy!

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Jan 10th 2007 Shopping for ICE

Well since I have got my new headunit I guess its time to get some bass :D everyone knows i’m picky on what I get for my car and i’m always out looking for hours for the very best deal. I joined some forums and tried to find out some more information.. I guess i’m getting there and the clear message is… your not gonna get anything for £100.. thats if its custom bulit - great!

So i’ve been on ebay and loads of online shops i found quite a few deals for under £100 with the sub, amp and wiring kit but then another thing thats been sitting in my mind came up… will my car handle it on the forums they said anything under 800w will be fine, another thing is what size sub… 10″ 12″ or 15″ lol forget the 15″ too expensive but how do I decide on a 12″ or 10″ ?

Its seems the views are split, one forum likes 10’s and the other likes 12’s I was originally looking for a 12″ because I thought the 10″ looked too small… lol but if its the right wattage it gives out alot of “punch” and does lower frequencies. But then the other forum are supporting 12″ and saying they give out more bass are will do low freqencies too…

Looking arround on ebay its true… the 10″ are more expensive and i’m guessing this is because there better so I started putting in some bids. I’ve bidded on a FLI Trap 10 twin thats 1600w together and I could power them with a cheap 500w amp and that wouldn’t cause any trouble either but that would mean buying wiring kit etc.

Then theres loads of 12″ kits your can get passive (powered with external amp) or active (powered by bulit in amp) passive is what I want. Active would work but they done have very good amps eg 1000w sub with bulit in amp 300w… its abit… yeah. these are the kits i’ve been looking into:

12″ deals

10″ deals

so yeah not sure what to do right now I guess i’ll just wait and see with my bids on ebay if I win anything then i’ll go from there if not i’ll go with one of these… if anyone knows of any other good deals then post and comment or contact me :) I guess thats it really college is going good had a new learning support person yesterday he seems pretty cool and i can talk to him etc so i’m happy with that.

If anyone likes trance (better then that clubland 10 sh*t - complete toss) I found this site with does a 3hr podcast of free trance non-stop on every tuesday aka Trance-Tuesday :D - http://tranceportal.org

That plus this one too http://www.djaddison.com your sorted for 5hrs a week :D I just stick them on my ipod and listen to them in the car… easier to listen to with a good beat :)

I guess thats all really nothing else has happened, well it has but i’d like to keep that quite for now :)

- Tom

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Jan 4th 2007 Mini Rantâ„¢

Well I know i’ve been posting alot recently maybe twice a week but i feel i need to get stuff off my chest like my nan and the microwave. Yes this one has really annoyed me, The microwave a solid as a brick appliance which 99% of homes have, The bulb went in the microwave sure thats not a problem just get a new bulb… I took it out and I said that i’d email panasonic and get one sorted out £20 tops.

NO! this is too f**king simple! Yesterday morning I woke up nobody was in the house… strange wonder where they have gone… 1 hr later oh sorry we been to boston to buy a microwave… OH MY GOD… WHY!?! *whacks head against wall* its not just that its where they got in from… Downtown… the most overpriced stuff i mean DOWNTOWN!!! You know that place that adds on £20 extra because the people that buy there are to blind to shop arround!

Ok sorry but that bit really annoyed me… but the price aswell! £199 I mean who the hell pays for £200 microwave?! and the other microwave is fine! I even proved it by cooking a burger init but no… that microwave was broke.. must buy overpriced expensive microwave… must buy from downtown… must get ripped off.

BUT no it doesn’t end there! I need a new tire front drivers side (damn my wheel spins on the first couple of weeks) the last tire cost me £40 from nana and grandads “special tire” dealer… where they pay £91 per tire! So I went with richs “special tire” dealer £20… I was like woah! a tire is a tire for all I care mine got about another month left on them and i’ll have them sorted = Tom happy.

I announced my good news to the table and tea time tonight… of course i was faced with oohhh it could be a remould ooohhh it could be from china (they have something against stuff bought from china/hong kong/japan) I really wanted to shout then but no i’m too nice to do that! So i ate up and stormed upstairs.

I haven’t told them about my new toy and I don’t plan to either because they will only moan about it, no really all they will do is moan… oh whats wrong with your old one well it has no pre-outs and its not very loud… guessed what I got yet?! thats right another headunit and the other is on ebay so that will be good to get some money back from it.

Oh thats another thing we went to take a printer back to PC World (again over priced and crap thats why we was taking it back) and grandad thought he would ask a question about his cammera and Matt was in there we reconised each other anyways… so my grandad asked “Does this cammera take a different storage media? matt said yeah it takes CF (Compact Flash) I got outside and I said “I BEEN TRYING TO TELL YOU THAT SINCE CHRISTMAS DAY!!!” his reply was… well peter (that bloke that stopped round christmas time) said it didn’t… sorry but that guy knows F.A.

If he knows so much why couldn’t he remove a virus, work out how to use the wireless, work out the difference between wired and wireless internet and delete cookies etc??! because he is a newb! I really can’t stand people who think they know the lot and thy know NOTHING! it annoys the hell out of me.

He asked my nan to ask me how to fix his laptop and I fixed it and i never got a thanks its just things like that p*ss me off and if he was so smart he would realise the cammera had a slot on it that said CF!! Anyways after hammering that all on the keyboard I think the keyboard has had enough hammering tonight bless it its only new!

Anyways heres another video http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xwr1a_palestinian-military-training

- Tom (annoyed) Parker

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