One month down into the new year, and two weeks down into the new term.

 Unfortunately there's not much to say about it, had a statistics test, been to a few lectures, done a St John duty, helped out at refreshers fair. Not a lot else.

 On the  subject of St John though, tomorrow I do my first Ents duty (probably the first of many unfortunately) for the Hundred Reasons gig. Should be interesting at least, even if it does mean I'll miss going to the bar after the normal meeting (but I'm sure something can be done about that).

Anyway, its the end of the month so that means I'm updating my main site again http://gazza.xnapster.com, this month with a few new ideas but all the changes will be listed on the front page for anyone interested. And just to warn you I've discovered that you can find that site via google if you type in the right search (a muffin to anyone to actually bothers to find it and tells me).

Well that's it for now, hopefully for the next monthly update I'll have something more interesting to say otherwise I blog every so often now anyway. And a final warning, I'll probably be adding stuff to my myspace site shortly (due to certain pesterings) meaning that the internet will be full of yet more crap from me.

QOTD: 1+1 it could manage (2) and 2+2 (4) or tan 74 (3.4874145), but anything above 4 it represented as 'A Suffusion of Yellow"

 

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...

 

Sorry, was caught up in a sci-fi mood. Anyway there is a new hope if the news is true. 50p a pint from 5 - 9 tonight in the SU bar. It brings a tear to the eye I'm so happy.

 

I just pity those people on duty for St john tonight (and anyone that's working but I don't know of anyone specific there) and fear the time when I'm doing a Friday duty.

 

QOTD: "We are outnumbered, there is only one thing to do. We must attack!" - Admiral Andrew Cunningham

 

 

 

 

So I returned to uni last night, got every thing unpacked and organised and not a lot else. Now onto the fun stuff. Two solid days of revision followed by 4 days of finishing off my second lab report (which seems to be getting worse everytime I look at it). Surprisingly enough I've found myself feeling very bored for much of the day but feel that I've done fairly well in ignoring distractions, only watched one episode of Stargate Atlantis and haven't played any computer games yet (though I may do soon, I feel a growing need to confront the evil demonic girl and her electric monkeys in F.E.A.R).

 

Just a quick follow up from my previous blog. The battle with the laptop resulted in microsoft word and such like being installed (or alternative versions in the case of excel at least) but the digital tv is a job to be left to either my Dad or my Brother. Or possibly me in around two and a half months. One thing I did forget I realised was to set-up the windows messenger on it for the account I created my Dad so for now he'll have to continue sharing my Mum's.

 

Oh and just to clarify, the title of my previously blog was less to do with the tasks I was being set and more to do with the fact that I found one of the songs from the original Command and Conquer game (Target aka The Mechanical Man by Frank Klepacki, a song I always liked to hear though I can't remember why any more)

So my grand blog here and link to my main site to try and get more viewers idea probably hasn't worked out due to the lack of blogging. But anyway it's still Christmas holidays and I'm ill.

 

So onto the source of this blogs title. Before I went off to uni I'd become to goto guy for fixing (or more like jury-rigging) most electronic devices in the house, primarily the complicated digit box/tv/dvd/video machine/game cube set up which involve many scart cables, a scart box and needing to remember to flick certain switches to go from one to another. Whilst this may not sound like the greatest task ever, seeing as my relationship with technology is very much a hate-hate one involving much kicking, swearing and the occasional praying/sweet talking (such as offering to leave it alone for a while once it's completed the task I've set it) the problem grows. Added to the fact that I seemed to have to rebuild the system every two weeks because someones moved something or we've had a power cut or something.

 

My other main task was to try and keep the family computer going (which was formerly mine before our old one died and I got a new one). This computer had suffered more formattings than I can remember as well as other unconventional techniques of getting it to keep going whilst under my possesion, as well as blowing it's power supply (but that wasn't my fault, as far as I remember). Anyway, lets get to the point with all that back ground out of the way (hopefully you're still reading). Just before I departed for uni one of my Dad's laptops (BT give him hundreds it seems) died. Turns out the hard drive had gone kaput or something so my Dad got a new one and got a friend with an actual knowledge of computers to give him some disks and stuff to get everything working again. But lo-and-behold I've now been handed the laptop and tasked to get it operational again in three days (two of which are now gone). My first action was to collect all the installation disks I could, I planned to include some old operation systems (windows 98 to be specific) but I couldn't find it which lead to me giving up and watching X3: The Last Stand instead. However, halfway though the movie another idea came to be, something that I'd done too many times to my old pc but was worth a try, I used the XP upgrade disk to do a system repair (simple but effective it turned out) and thus I managed to get the laptop to actually boot up. I then went back to my movie and put it out of my mind for the night.

 

Today I moved onto my next two tasks with the laptop, getting microsoft office (word, powerpoint, etc) installed and as well as a digital tv thingy. This proved to be more difficult than anticipanted and I'm currently at a stalemate with one day left on the clock. The microsoft office disk appears to be damaged meaning that I can not install anything for it, and whilst the digital tv thing installed perfectly, it won't work until the sound drivers for the laptop are installed which I don't have, meaning that tomorrow I'll have to configure the laptop to access our home network so I can find those drivers on the internet.

 

I hate technology at times, and yet they always assign me to the tills in my tescos express? Well I've bored you enough now, I'll be back at uni Saturday and after that I'll hopefully start leading a more interesting life and be able to blog more, again please visit my main site (where you'll find this same blog along with many other things such as videos and more pictures)

So I got bored once again and started a new site (I think this is about my 4th now, with only one other still going). As you can see I've just started by adding some random bits and pieces to bulk out the site and a couple of blogs from my primary site

http://gazza.xnapster.com (which everyone should visit and sign the guest book at... please )

 

Hopefully in a day or two I'll have this thing sorted and then if I ever feel like I have something to say or am just bored I'll blog it here. Sorry.

So I missed the Christmas up-date but as everyone knows it's a busy time.

Well it's now 2007, unfortunately I didn't get off to the best start babysitting until 11 then being stuck at home by myself watching Jools Holland's Hootanany on BBC2 (wasn't as good as I remember it being the last time I watched it a few years ago) followed by working 9 - 6 at my tescos the next day when we were about the only shop open in a 30 mile radius.

But enough of the bad times, Christmas was good and I'm sure there will be plenty of good things to come in 2007, my new years resolution of conquring the psychology department in a violent coup may even come true.

In other news my fame is speading, in a small and unnoticable way. If any of you happen to type Machellen or General Machellen into google or the myspace web search then you'll find the two videos I've posted on youtube. Scary isn't it.

And so with my first psychology exam over and my history course work handed in, as far as I'm concerned this term is over.

On another note had the St John LINKS Christmas party last night, good meal off in Yates with reasonably priced drinks. Good company of course and I even got myself a snooker table through secret santa (I just got my person a bar of chocolate).

Looking forwards to getting back for Christmas, even if it does mean I'll have to be back in tescos, but that is redemed by the fact that they will help replenish the booze fund (which could well just suffer further damage due to Thursday nights in Fleet plus the A-level presentation evening on Monday)

Coming to the end of the first term here and thus far I've continued to survive (did an experiment in the psychology department which required them to monitor my pluse and it seemed to be there). I would say that it's been a good start but right now I'm looking at my first history essay (why did I choose this?) and my first exam, both for next Wednesday. On the other hand I'm now a member of the committee for the St John unit on campus and have done a couple of duties and treated a couple of injuries and I'm also slowly increasing my friend base. Just a final point of warning, I'm looking into starting up my webcomic again, just need to find the time to practice my drawing skills or hire an artist then I've got a fair few story lines planned out.