Blog - November 2005
18:28 - 28/11/2005 - Not Exactly Great (but not bad either!) -
I'm just posting pretty much to complain, while I'm not particularly unhappy, depressed or any of that crap I possibly should be, so I'll moan about why I should be so that I won't be, if you follow me... So for starters, there's no Rachel, after 3-4 days of Rachel this is a nasty trick the world is playing, especially when I go to bed and it's all cold with no one to snuggle. Secondly I've got the lurgy, when coming back from Euston I walked about a quarter of the way back in just my t-shirt in sub-zero temperatures because my fever was making me feel like a cow on fire (those are especially hot you know), I did put my jumper and coat on after a while, the cold started seeping into my bones and I could kind of feel that sharp feeling you get a little while before you loose feeling entirely. That said I'm feeling quite a bit better today, though still not 100%, hopefully my immune system has killed the buggers off sharpish. Thirdly I lost my parker fountain pen, and had to buy another, annoying in itself when paired with fourthly, that I'm running short of cash, it's worse. Fourthly I'm running short of cash, I've got less than £300 to pay for 3 weeks food, 3 months bills, and all my Christmas shopping. I think I'll be into my overdraft by the end of December somehow. This raises a Fifth rather sucky thing, I'll have to work at Next over the Christmas holiday, and that'll mean I have to work on SALE day *shudder*. Now I'm gonna go buy some washing powder to deal with the small mountain of dirty cotton garments in the corner, then I guess I'll have to copy up the notes I made in biro and get to work on the problem sheets that I completely failed to do any of last week.
16:05 - 23/11/2005 - Wasting Time -
I'm pretty much making an update just to give you this link. Very funny set of toons, appeals to my sense of humour at lot, and I agree with the majority of his opinions too. Make me have lunch about an hour later than I was going to though. I'd love to vent some of my similar feelings, unfortunately I'm too bothered about not offending anyone I know, and also I try to appreciate that there are no right or wrong answers to anything so preaching your current opinion isn't very useful to anyone, entertaining perhaps.
I was probably going to just watch 24 until it was time for dinner, but I actually stopped and thought about it, and that would be a massive waste of my time, so instead I'm going to do some work. Talking of work, I asked Becci to text Sam at Next for me so I should be doing some work over the christmas holidays, mainly because I'm broke. I do really dislike working though, unfortunately I have to eat, and likely there will be some random crap I want to buy for no good reason soon enough, so off to Next it is.
On a different topic, I had computing lab this morning. I'm really enjoying computing lab actually, makes me think I should possible have done a programming degree or something, or at least should spend more of my spare time coding. Although today I feel into the area of, my code isn't working and I know which bit is the problem, but I don't know why it's a problem (this does not include syntax errors) which is slightly less fun. Anyway I'll stop talking random crap and get on with some work, I won't be getting any done over the weekend what with there being a Rachel around, yey!
16:14 - 19/11/2005 - Gaming! -
Now that I'm free of the World of Warcraft, I'm putting my gaming time back into Valve related things... Doing a bit of web browsing when I would have otherwise been playing the evil game I shall not name, I've discovered NS v3.1 was released earlier this month, and found Black Mesa: Source, which I don't mind saying looks sexy as. The new NS looks like it has some nice changes so I'm downloading that now and I'll give it a try, but what is even better is that this means Natural-Selection: Source is finally under-development, as soon as it's done I'm going to be mapping like a crazy man. Talking of mapping, I've decided to remake cargoship for Source, but it's going to be an entirely new layout, very loosely based on the ship in the usual suspects. Some might be thinking this is a backward step in my fight for a normal social life, but I disagree, CS, mapping and other such I can do in my free time when I have nothing better to do, but they don't compel me carry on playing, I also don't have to sign away 4 hours of my life, many many times in a row, if I want to get the most out of the game! That all said I'm going to wait for this download to finish so I can restart and enjoy shiny new graphics drivers!
21:19 - 18/11/2005 - Floor Chocolate -
I spilt some hot chocolate powder on the kitchen floor, quite a lot of it actually, I then thought it would be a good idea to mop it up... It wasn't. Sometimes I wonder where my brain is, I think it goes on walkies occasionally. Whilst I'm writing you might (or possibly not) like to know that I was almost up to date with problem sheets, what with having one per lecture course to do. Though we were given two more this afternoon, but still I'm now actually the most up to date of anyone in the house, who'd have thought it. For the rest of tonight I'm either going to, go to 'spoons' down the road, play Counter-Strike Source, play Dawn of War : Winter Assault or design a new website, or possibly a combination of all four, I wish you all an enjoyable weekend!
14:29 - 13/11/05 - Student Life? -
I've been back in London for quite a while now, and I've been online for about 2 weeks. I haven't updated, mainly because I'm lazy and was spending the time playing world of warcraft or going out. The latter may surprise any that knew me / read my blog last year, it's far easier to go out when there's a few others that you know that also want to. That said I haven't gone out in the last two weeks much, mainly because of how much it, and feeding myself 7 days a week as opposed to 2, was costing me. I spent most of the rest of the time playing World of Warcraft, too much, so I uninstalled it and most of the other games on my system (I left myself with Dawn of War: Winter Assault, and Steam). This second year is quite a lot harder than the first year, unfortunately I'm not used to actually having to work. I'm working on getting down to work and keeping up to date, and I'm catching up on the things I fell behind on due to excessive video gaming.
Lots of people have come to see me so far this term, I've seen Foz a couple of times, which is more than I've seen him in the last 2 years to be honest, and we had a lot of fun, made me feel right at home seeing him the first weekend I was down. Rachel has come to see me for a long weekend, coming down on thursday night, it's amazing how much different that extra day makes, we had such a great time, but now I'm missing her, thankfully she's coming down again in a couple of weeks. Tom, Ross and myself went on a jaunt into Chiswick to meet up with some CS people I know, which was doublely successful because we found them and got free drinks!
I managed to get my computer rather more stable, even before I uninstalled most of what was on it, mostly due to new bios drivers. That said it took me 2 hours of resetting my bios and trying to change the settings for the computer to actually work, because for some reason if you touch ANY settings in the bios the computer will 9 times out of 10 decide not to start up again. I'm still on wireless internet because the router is about 25 metres away and the cost of ethernet cables increases exponentially with length, such that I can feed myself for a week for the cash it would cost me to get a cable long enough.
I've got plenty of work to be getting on with, so I might not update again for a while, then again I might just for a distraction. Once I'm up to date with the work for my degree I might start on a new design for the site, this time I might have a go at using some images! This post has been a bit of a what I've been up to without any of the emotions involved, unfortunately my mood is somewhat unstable at the moment, swinging between happy, frustrated (at the fucking hard problem sheets...), depressed and lots in between. Now I'm going to go make lunch and then have ago at another evil problem sheet.