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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I wish it was that easy to blog sometimes but after a month without updates I just cant offer that to you all, so what’s happened today oh nothing much…. just that my PORTABLE HARD DRIVE WAS STOLEN! (The following paragraph can be skipped because I’m just going to swear in it.)

What f*cking t*ssers with no f*cking life what so ever, no f*cking respect for other peoples f*cking stuff, what the f*ck gives them the go ahead to go through someone else’s property  to steal something that’s worthless to them, yeah that’s all my work from last year and some of this year I have a IVA  due soon and EUS due Monday which I’ve now got to do AGAIN, right I tell you what, if anyone knows who has it I am not bothered give me back the data and you can have the drive that’s all I ask, you can copy the 15gb of music too.

I hate people that steal, but I will thank the person who handed the bag in to reception with other things still inside it thanks. Now tonight I’ve just had to explain to client a backup of his site has been stolen too, he isn’t happy I am not happy and I just generally hate the person that took it, I don’t hate many people at all but I hate that person a lot.

W*NKER! </end rant>

Insurance is finally sorted and now all I have to pay is £721 back to my nana and granddad… thank god! So I can drive my car and I’m insured! Mum comes over next week also and due to the recent thing at college I’m going to get my college work done and handed in and I’m going to spend the week with my mum, because I don’t get to see her a lot… and right now I need her.

I really don’t feel like I’m in the mood for this today so this will do for now I think you can gather the mood I’m in.

- Tom

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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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It didn’t last too long, the summer holidays are coming 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 a lot has happened since the last post, I have not 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 but that’s how I work, if it’s not right it’s not going live. Anyways! On the 23rd August I 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 surprised Amy by turning up on her door step and spending an hour with her lol. Ooooh last night I drove down to Stamford to pickup my new bonnet too! I’m really impressed with it.

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 queue 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 that’s 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! That is all that’s really happened since last post lol.

- Tom

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