internet

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.

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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)

27 baby

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.

Im i a home owner? NOPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good afternoon to one and all, Well people stop what you are doing and take a moment to sit in joy and happiness with me as I sit here in my house for the last time, thought it would be a point to write my last blog from this house.

All my bags are packed and im ready to go (ok ok stolen from a song) but I am, there is very little still In my house and im not taking that stuff, just made all the phone calls you have to make when moving and in a second im off to town the cancel all the direct debits and that’s that. Ok maybe not all as I have nowhere to live for the time being but hey I can live with that for now.

Moving yester day was fun, a lot of hard work but fun.

I wouldn’t mind being a van man, after spending some of the day behind the wheel of what I would consider a BIG van I started to like it, it’s like driving sat in your sofa. Don’t get me wrong there was one or two moments when the wind picked up I thought the thing was going to overturn but to my delight it didn’t.

But my van man expedition was not just for the fun but to get everything moved and I can say I did, I managed to get everything I now own in to the smallest room at my mum’s house! Quite a feat if you know me. One brilliant thing was it had a rear loader, that this is so much fun, down then up again then down again, I could have spent all day on that thing.

Ok that’s it, no more home owner!

late night laptop manic

I come to you live from my bedroom, started to pack everything, not the internet that will be the last thing to go.

I like how one moment in time can have such a impact on now and the future, sometime I think they can pass you by but every now and then there is one that stands out, it feel like a few day before Christmas when I was a kid, them final few days where you have wanted the Christmas present for as long as you can remember and your so close its just excitement, well that’s exactly where I am, and no matter how much there is to do that I haven’t even thought about I will get there.

One thing I would like to pass on this evening is the ‘man in the moon’ he is on the mighty boosh and I think he’s fantastic.

2 days left

tick tock .........

So I come to you today with plans in hand, if everything goes how it should by Monday the 15^th I will no longer own my house and I will be free, that’s right readers the day that I thought would never come is now here, so got me a van and got me some moving to do, at the moment I have nowhere to go so storing some things at my mum’s for the time being as it should only be a few week before I have a place in Manchester. So got Sunday Monday to get everything out that I want, got a home clearance coming round to get rid of the stuff I don’t want as that would be some extra cash in my tight pockets.

But I don’t care I have nowhere to go, I can live like that for weeks and weeks if that what it takes, so hopefully my next post will come after Monday and I will have done! DONE!

As for everything else got enough work from work to keep my bust until I die, trying to tech other people the finer points of the complex world of projection can be a difficult task but one I have been given! I could spend days trying to explain and train someone in the fine art of projection but I don’t have that sort of time.

I have started working on a new video project, the first time I'm shooting all the footage and using a mini dv cam as well which means a change in quality, a change for the good. Its coming on well but I only can shoot footage when I'm in there and if I get a little spare time, it’s not my ambition to star in my short films but I will have to do. Think I’ll keep the project under wraps for the time being until its done.

Started to look at a car upgrade, mine has done me well but after 5 years and thousands of miles it’s starting to show it age, I could do without a car as I'm looking at moving in to the middle of Manchester but I love the thing and still like the idea of keeping hold of it, so a new one is on the books but we will see what comes up.

this day would never come

And now I bring the best news, its almost like a late Christmas present. I should …… wait for it …….. have sold my house buy this Friday or next! That’s dome and dusted, no more selling, money in my pocket, thanks bye!

How happy I'm i! extremely would be the word, so now I start to seriously box up most of belongings all ready to be loaded in to the back of a van (£120 for 3 days) and taken to Manchester, granted there will be a gray area there where I won’t live anywhere but I think I can survive somehow!

Got to go microwave just binged at me! Food!

the new year

So I write this latest blog entry on the eve of a new year which got me thinking of the past year, you know what I would remember 2006 for, now this was odd. If you have been keeping up with my blog you will know what a different year 2006 has been for me and I still go in to 2007 carrying some baggage from 2006 but hopefully not for long. I managed to start the year of like any other year but come to the end of it and things have changed and all for the good, I love my new position at work and I feel like I'm going to be able to really sink my teeth in to it come 2007, my life has changed so much for the good and with in a few week I should have moved to Manchester and have my very own place to call home, I have so many ideas about my room, it may sound simple but I think its something to look forward to, not just that but not having the connection to my old house or the money issues I have at the moment.
So as 2007 slowly comes over the hill I find myself having a little think of what I could get up to in what I think will be a amazing year, well my job is something that keeps me busy but I feel there is so much I can do to make it better and that’s something in really going to go at, once the house is sorted I think it will become easier to concentrate on, I would like to do some travailing not quite sure where but it would be nice to take 2 maybe 3 weeks off and have a plan and just go, would have to save some money for a trip like that but I think I would really really like it. But 1st thing 1st I need to move and get a little settled. I want to spend more time on my little video projects and bring it up to a new level of editing and planning and see what I can come up with, I have few idea’s for some new projects which I'm going to start working on very soon. I have a few new years resolutions which I want to work on but I'm not going in to them.
But you know as for the rest of my life I would not even think about changing any of for all the tea in china, I'm happy with nearly everything!

As for Christmas I got a few things that I would love to share with the world,
1st would be my first ever pair of Converse trainers
2nd would be my very own triads
3rd would be this wicked robot, it walks and everything!



Check out my little video I did for it (sorry about the spelling mistakes and all)

I did and up buying myself a 2.5” usb external 120gb hard drive as my laptop seams to get very full very quickly and it should help with my video editing, also got a usb thingy (not sure what to call it) jogging wheel to help with the old editing stuff.

So as the sun goes down for the last time in 2006 I come to an end, I also need to get some booze before everything shuts so I must go, I hope you have had as much fun reading my blog over the last year as I have had writing it, happy new year and I’ll see you all soon.

Boxing day peps

Well ho ho ho-my-god I'm kind of glad that’s over for another year, its was good and I did eventually get festive but with the worry of my forever dying car and the fact I couldn’t get everyone presents I would have like to due to the ever impending financial events of my life but after spending some time with most of my family it was a track over to Liverpool for me to spend the remainder of xmas day. And my car got me all the way! Thank you car!
Did santa give me what I wanted, well there were no keys to a apartment in Manchester with a car that works but think that’s one I will have to do on my own but I did get some wonderful presents and money which was a very welcome gift, I could only have the money if I spent it on myself and not on bills which again was nice so now I get to decided what would make my life easier or how to make myself look peaty’er. I have some ideas but we will see.
I think one of the reason xmas is not so big this year is work, working the close xmas eve and back in all day for boxing day dosnt add to the holiday period but it pays the bills don’t forget and I do get new year off which may make up for the work through xmas, I can imagine everyone would have like to have taken xmas off but this can’t happen in my industry!

I have been watching quite a few film over the last week like, renaissance, bond, pans labyrinth, perfume, happy feet, the wizard of ozz, London to Brighton and maybe a few more but just haven’t had tome to give them the monkey rating! I would give them all high scores anyway, maybe my film picking skills have now finally been sharpened or maybe I have an extra person picking some of them, thinks it’s a bit of both!
Well got to go as someone has to run the films when you come to watch them on boxing day, its boxing day people why would you want to go to the cinema, go to a park or the pub (something for all age groups)
cyall

Ho-Ho-Ho

So its Christmas eve and I'm sat at work with 6 more hours to go before I attempt to get to my dads for the evening, I say attempt as my car is and will never be very well so I'm going to try and get the 40 or so miles over there and back to Liverpool tomorrow. Got all the possible Christmas shopping I could have done on the budget I have got which is not very big at all and I'm all set for the big day.
I did have the wonderful idea for as long as I could remember that I would not have my house by now! Come on Christmas I thought all of this would have been done and dusted, but its not to be well not yet anyway, I actually went home for a change yesterday, now this wasn’t really by chose as I'm more than happy in Manchester but I thought I should pop back, get some washing done, check to see if all is well at my house and it was with nothing exciting to report back at all!
So not to long then in the car for a while and then who knows, all I know is for Christmas eve I'm not feeling very Christmassy, I hope it will come to me.

Merry Christmas

Cast party all over

Hi all,
So you may have noticed the lack of blogs over the last few weeks. this is all down to the amount of time i was spending working on the latest project to keep me busy, the staff party at work. As i work in a cinema i thought it would have been a good idea to have a MTV style awards ceremony instead of the quick one we usually have, now this took way more time than i have fist thought as i spent every spare minute i had editing video's of the even, i didn’t help having 19 categories. But after all the hard work with the video's, getting the clips, all the hardware set up i was really really happy with how the even went and from the feed back i get everyone else really enjoyed it to. I have started to put all the work i have done online but there were a few people there recording the event so a dvd can be put together of the entire evening.

So still no house sale! and i guess you must wonder what this could be now, maybe god has a problem or they need to check every brick or the grass is the wrong green well you would be wrong, after all this work it seams my solicitors are ready to go but the buyers solicitors are still waiting on some searches which they should have put in for along time ago, so it will be at lease after Christmas now and my mind says after new year. So this blows my plans for Christmas presents for everyone as now i will be back to haveing no money, and when i say no money i really mean no money, if my back had the choose i wouldn’t be eating. But hay life gose on.

Manager Award
Best High Five Action Sequence
Mrs I’ll Take Your Shift
Mr I’ll Take Your Shift
Projection Award
Best Comedic Act
Best Cashier
Clueless Award
Drunken Master Award
Best Couple
TL Award
Look A Like
The Hoff Award
Best Female
Best Male
The Heroes Award
Sammy J Award
Sexy Female
Sexy Male
Amelie Award
Credits and Winners

Well lets catch up on the last few weeks, I managed to get drunk beyond belief the other night, went to watch a friend on his first stand up gig and he was very good by the way but after drinking a bit to much. So we got on the bus to get back but I only managed two stops before getting off due to ‘sickness’ (think we all know what I'm talking about!). so after starting to feel better I decided to get back on a bus the next stop down and managed all of 2 mins before having to get off again! So instead of a 4 mins bus ride it turned in to a 35min walk, what a plonker! I felt like a bit of an idiot but I didn’t feel to bad as the week before I had to do the same thing but this time I was the one who didn’t have enough, and that night it rained like you have never seen before, I didn’t mind as I was sure then that one day the roles would be changed and they soon where.

So I'm still in Blackburn but so so lose to moving and it would be a welcome change, to be honest I do spend quilt a lot of time in Manchester and I'm loving it, it could be nice not to have to travel 50 mile round trip to get some clean cloths and to have my stuff closer but I'm sure that will all change, I even think I'm in to single numbers in the times I have to go home.

I been spending loads and loads of time working on the clips for the upcoming cast party, as soon as there done they will be put online for everyone to see, I even hope I will get time to put the winners on the clips as at the moment it runs up to ‘the winner is’ and that’s when it get announced. They look good and I expect the night to be one to remember.

Got to go, being home means my time is full of cleaning and getting stuff for the week ect……….bye