Man it is dusty as hell in the Living room, which also houses DAS UBERCOMPUTER. We are having a new fire put in next Thursday, and today the builder came round to enlarge the hole in the wall. It was damn quick, about an hour of drilling, with a big fuckin’ drill, and then it was over.
Thank god for Dysons say I!!!
Though the mind and spirit are active the body is tired and craves bed.
So who I’m I not indulge my favorite physical entity.
But first what have I been up to.
Well first Rachel took me for a Birthday meal at Hansa’s, a vegetarian Indian Restaurant here in Leeds. The finest curry I have ever had, my stomach is still thanking me.
Those who know me, know that I’m into my Role playing Games, so I’ve designed a test site for WWW.MOTORTROLL.COM, which currently lives on my personal web page click here for a preview.
Its basically just a plan at the moment, so hopefully I’ll have time to put in some content in over the weekend. I’m going to mail some friends and get some feedback probably Sunday night. Also going to update my web site so that it loads faster, some more News items, rants and Spam of the week.
Looks like Frag-Energy is finally going to get moved to a new host and updated sometime next week, the webmaster got me to check the contract with the new network yesterday, so all those reviews I have written over the last month or so should get posted up soon. YAY!
Also while you’re at it check out my mate Ralph’s webpage for the up coming Dream Land ridge game, click here
Oh well time for bed
No George> He rang to say that he wasn’t coming. He had an earlier function which meant mingling with the second year students on his Fine Art Course. He said he mingled a lot and bought 12 cans of Stella…then he waffled on about bleaching his bath “its ace” he goes. Hee hee 🙂
Therefore me and the Good lady of Smethurst are having a quite night in on the pizza and beers…which is good.
Its been fun to write these entries, so I have made a decision to update my live journal much more often. In fact I seem to finally be in the mood to get down and do some serious keyboard bashing, My typing speed amazes me, compared to what it was a year ago. Sat down and finished off a seriously long article for Frag-Energy, yesterday, and bashed out another review in a under an hour. So watch out for more non-sense from monsieur Newt.
Yup hit the big 29 today. Had a day of complte blissfull lazyness today, watched The Prisoner (of which i got the 5 DVD box set for my present from Rachel; woo woo!) and then went into town and spent none of my birthday money!
Going to have some beers tonight, my bro George is coming round later, and probably have a lazy day tomorrow (its a Uni day but I only have two lectures, one fo which is total dross)
For more info on The Prisoner check out this link for Six of One :The official Prisioner Appreciation Society http://www.netreach.net/~sixofone/
Thought I post something new, since I ‘ve not been up and at you for a while.
Well what have I been upto.
Course and chillin’. Perhaps abit too much chillin’ but what the hay, it took a while to distress after working for the Beast (the Gov). But don’t worry kids I’m stepping up a gear to get what needs to be done…well done.
Must take more time to update this journal. Despite a lot of deep relaxation here at ranch relaxo, which looks a heck of a lot more tidy because of my efforts over the last week or so.
Had a good weekend, popping in on Ralph’s pre-lan party, and getting well hammered, and then going to Rachel’s Gran’s 80th birthday meal, at a superb Italian restaurant in the countryside outside Rochdale. Got back yesterday, and today haven’t done much except play FPS and do some more cleaning.
feeling a tad apprehensive about tomorrow, haven’t done any work +will the course tutor sorted out the timetable?
Oh well I’m sure it will all be fine.
Guess what I’m not at work!!!
Had my leaving on Friday and that left me Green until pretty much
today.
Had my first lectures on Tuesday, which was fun since the course leader is
making up the timetable as he goes along. So far I’ve had Software
development (programming in C++ whoo whoo Half-life Mod here i come!),
Databases (not as boring as I had first thought, since our lecturer is a
spit for Jeremy Clarkeson, bothe physically and personality!) and Project
Management for IT projects (for which the first half tutor was still abroad
on his holidays, so we where in at the deep end with the 7th lecture of the
course which scared the heck out of half the class). So the first day was
class.
In again on Friday, for a half day, so have today and tomorrow off (as well
as Monday’s—do I hear the term Long Weekends?). Still finding it strange
and a bit difficult to adjust to the new regime. Quite literally don’t know
what day of the week it is. Monday my mind dealt with it by thinking I was
having a day off work, today I was unemployed. Oh well, things are settling
down now.
It is the last days of my time in the Civil Service. The entrys in the Book Of Doom are getting fewer……Newtman is exiting the Civil Service for a less boring life. Can’t say im unhappy about it.
Registered yesterday the Leeds Metropolitian Uni, up at the Becketts’ Park. It was a weird experience. Damp and scruffy I arrived at the lush and picturesque Campus, most of the buildings seem to be from the Edwardian period, amongst of hordes of wannabe models, sport stars and trendy boy lads.
Went to the Grange where the Computer Dept is based, only to find that we were meant to be in another building. Oh well…I forgot the randomness and waiting around that happens with student life…much better than “I like to walk around, but I’m paid to sit around” of office culture.
Due to the non-materialization of the Tour, I walked over to my friends in Hyde Park who have just finished the course, who filled me in much more than the induction.
Then walked back, again thought the wind and rain ( I reckon I did the equivalent of a 10 mile hike that day) and Enrolled with the minimum of fuss..which was strange.
Had a quick beer in the Becketts Bar…and then went home.
Overall that feeling of infinite space is back and I like it.
Having a quiet night in. The Good Lady of Smethurst has gone to her parents, so its just me, the cats (1 in, 1 out at present) the Internet and some Rapture Coffee that came as a free gift, not half bad.
So here’s the awful links of the night.
Somethingawful– a comp-geek piss take, painful but true and has to be said…..is this what I’m turning into?
Jermysworld-A boy and his work-cubicle!!! check out www.camville.com for more reasons why the Internet revolution will fail….saying that a webcam is only £50 so you might see da da da da NEWTCAM!
If you like classic Samurai Action you’ll like Lone Wolf and Cub, now out in Dark Horse Comics.
Okay I’ll go to bed now, I admit I was just trying out putting up a picture on the journal entry.