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So I decided to make a few upgrades to my pc, a new graphics card for one and a new case, so having taken everything out and put the gubins back in a new case and putting a new graphics card in a boot up for it all to work fine which is a nice change from the usual first boot I normally end up with. Now windows boots fine but getting the driver loaded is another matter, I think due to some old drivers the new drivers would not install causing me a mountain of problems which all lead to one solution a clean reinstall, trust me If I think it was possible to just get the old install working I would have but it was not going to happen this time round. I did end up getting a nice case with a nice quite cooling system to keep the noise down, when it final got here there was a small piece broken off but it took that long to finally get here think I will just stick it back on instead of sending it back. So now with the 4600 due core and x91950 pro and 2GB of matched ram with a big power supply it should swim along quite happily and I hope so trying to get the graphics out of my 22” TFT and the broadband got installed to I come to you from my flat, with internet and everything!

The only thing left to do apart from putting all the software and updates back on the thing is to get it activated again seeing as this would be the 3^rd time with hardware changes windows through a little wobbly about it but that’s just a phone call and sorted.

So I spent some time hunting for someone who didn’t cap the internet connection coming in to my flat and trust me there is no one out there so I ended up going for someone who didn’t cap it as much and went with Eclipse, now there are a little unknown and I was unsure until today when they just won the best customer broadband supplier

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So now im all moved in, got all my stuff sat in a room and im slow making my way through it trying to make some sense of the madness. 1^st thing 1^st computer is set up and now with a 22” Ausu widescreen TFT and a now big fast cpu on its way, got media canter installed with a tv tuner in there so its all go on the computer front, on thing im missing at the moment would be a internet connection, you may have noticed this as I have many blogs all in one go due to the fact when im sat here typing I have no internet!

It’s a little strange being somewhere different and at the moment my girl friends feels more like home that my home but im sure this will change the more I get used to living there. The car park is cool, is under the flat building and to get in you wave this fob around and the door opens, is ace and I could and have spent all day driving in and out with a big smile on my face.

Over xmas I did a load of videos for a work party and I got a good response from people who had seen them, the other day I got call of one of the guys from the office saying they had got an email about it, now this is where I thought shit, if you have seen them there are a lot….hang on ….. Loads of film clips in there and I thought I was I deep shit but one of our cinemas in Liverpool really liked them and would like a copy for their own party! How cool! Well for me anyway. You never know the dvd may even get finished this year (cough cough Cinemc).

Anyone spotted there digging up the triangle again? What’s that all about, no sooner have they make it nice and put a big wheel there they take it down and dig the place up again, I know Manchester is well developed but can we enjoy the developed bits before they change it all around again? Or though I would like to thank Manche

ster city council for putting up the barriers that come out of the ground, I think there ace. All the law abiding drivers in Manchester don’t go down the bus lanes so don’t have anything to worry about but the stupid plonkers who don’t think the rules apply to them do and there the people who keep driving in to the things, one minute they not there and the next crunch………car stops…….head his window………car stops……..expensive short cut. Now I know you should pity the fool (hay Mr T) but there are Signs that say ‘DANGER BARRIERS’. Im sure you can get footage of the people driving in to the things but hay I have no internet connection so I can’t try and find the link for you all.

I need to pay off a small loan I have with NatWest and I have been trying to pay the thing off now for the last 4 weeks, every time I get on the phone they tell me how sorry they are and how everything will be sorted in a few days and not to worry, in the past 4 weeks I have spoke to the load department 22 time or so and not a 5 mins conversation a good 40 mins each time as I explain to them what is going on, now I come to check my balance again today and guess what, yes I have to much money in their which can mean only one thing NatWest have not removed th

eir heads from the asses and still can’t sort out the simplest task of taking money out of my account, I really really can’t believe how incompetent they can be and no matter how hard I try I can’t get them to take the money so tomorrow I take this up to a new level all together and I won’t speak to anyone apart from the highest person there and I will rain down a fiery hell like no loan manager has ever seen before and scream in to the debt free world of freedom with the roar of his soul, ok a little of base there and now back to the bed room and laptop staring back at me. But by no means to I think NatWest are bad and if you would like to open an account please email fuckmeover@natwest.com and im sure they will make you happy.

Right the girl friend is nearly finished her UNI work, that would be Sian to me and you, so I have to go. I hope to get this blog posted and have some tales to tell about the NatWest saga.

Have a good night campers.

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Ps got the armrug EP from Fopp the other day and its well worth a listen, only £2 so worth it, go on next time your in town just go and get it, you could tell your friends you got this cd you heard about from a blog, hahahahaha that would be cool, also check out thier myspace

Today Hot Fuzz hits Manchester with the regional premier of the new film Hot Fuzz, if you follow my films you would know I had chance to see this film a few weeks ago and what a film. Now with the prem aspect to this it has started to turn this day in to a hard one, not only do they take away tha last reel of the film and bring it back the following day but you have so many checks to do on the projector and cleaning to make sure everything is working as it should, then we have the conference aspect to set up with all the wired and wireless mics to set up and lights with digitl projectors makes the day in to a busy one all while running 6 projectors and dealing with the day to day aspect.

So the big night starts with me out side having a cig just the see Simon Peg and Nick Frost walk by on their way to the event I was running, what would I do at this point? Finish my cig that’s what, after everyone had been seated (including my girl friend sneaking in at the back) they did a short intro then in to the film. Everyone seemed to really lik it and it got many many laughs. After the show there was about 50mins of Q&A and can I say how good it is to see people like Simon and Nick staying on for things like that, most of the time they are there for a short time and then off again but not thease two. I did feel sorry for them with the odd person who was a little two odd and the questions always started with ‘I make films and I wondered’ or ‘I do acting and wondered’ and even the people who would act out spaced scenes.

Did get to meet (properly) the Technical manager of Universal, you know the people who distribute the films and a man from Dolby who didn’t like our sony sound processor one little bit but he was a sound bloke. I should have been out for drinks tonight round at Odd bar in the northern quarter but im just shattered and don’t think I could have handled anything to drink and I have to get up early ish to get the keys form my flat and get stuff moved.

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So I hope you all had a good weekend as did I, ok had to work sat but did get to have a relaxed day sun. Booked some tickets to watch Regina spector at the Academy on Thursday 15^th, she had sold out but they moved it to Academy 1 to get more people in, if your unsure of her work have a look at the video below.

Put the deposit and 1^st months rent on my new flat today, not cheap but glad I got it done so should have the keys in the next few days. Will be so nice only living 3 mins walk from Piccadilly gardens or should I say 8 mins staggering distance back to my flat just in time for me to be sick on my door step. Speaking of being sick yep I was, only ment to be a sneaky pint but one was two, tow was three and so on.

And I forgot to tell you I had a fantastic birthday meal at ‘Room’ in Manchester, very very good.

I spent all day sat in the pub drinking coffee just so I could use the internet, its is free!!!!!!!!! (got to download the latest Heroes)

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This will be m first blog entry now in the year of 27 in age, yes I had my birthday yesterday and 27 is now that age that I am, ok now 27 doesn’t appear to be one of those ages where loads happens or you would expect anything exciting to happen but to all you young people out there where 27 it just a distant figure in the distance its not a dull as you would expect. I spent the first part of the day flat hunting and boy o boy did I find some nice flats, in all had a look around about 13 and I have 2 more today, its strange how there will only be a small thing that I didn’t like and that flat would be out the running but with one in mind and 2 more which may be better the flat hunting sage is slowly coming to a close and very very soon I will be in this Manchester flat with my feet up enjoying city living.

I have been enjoying a week off from work and during this time I did expect to be moving in to my new flat but as I have gathered nothing goes to plan when its moving home so instead I have been keeping busy, got my self a mp3 player last week and something I can keep everything on and not just the music im listening to at the time so 30gb should keep me happy from some time. Apart from that I haven’t really spent anything . Got to watch some films and when I get chance I will update my film viewing section as some were really good and well worth a watch.

And as for my birthday I did get some presents that did stand out, not only did I get the best birthday card I have ever got from anyone but a gift to boot, I got to micro lighting, that would be where you get in a shoe box with a wing attached to the thing and a motor on the back! Ok death may be a aspect of this present that I will ignore but I really really really can’t wait to get up there.

Also got to watch some band last week and Armrug (check out there myspace) were really good, had a good night and managed to keep it together on the bus even though I started to feel a little rough, Dam Bus’s!

I also started to the rent sorted on my new flat! And its nice, got a car park with a automatic door which is so cool and got some good sized room 4 mins from the center of town, cant wait to get moved, although its nice staying with the girl friend and I hope the amount of time we spent together wont change just the surroundings.