Here comes an odd post, but oh wells, after going AMF tonight, I thought I would have a quick go on the teddy - grabbing machine, after winning on the fruit machines, and with all luck - I won one! So, before we headed off home, we decided to take some snaps of Teddy’s first ever trip - to AMF!
A moment to sit back and ponder, something which I’ve been doing a lot over the past few days, ‘reflecting with thoroughness and care’, as the dictionary would put it… and, well, I have had plenty to think about, ranging from nearly everything. It’s been a different and intriguing weekend, along with being very busy - and tiring. But thats that, all of my ICT work is finally complete, handed in, sent off to be marked, and everything - nothing more to do but wait, and hope. One more exam on Wednesday, and thats all that… The other stuff I don’t plan to mention here, somethings just arn’t suitable for a public blog post.
Well, exam season is in full heat, I’ve taken two exams and handed in two ICT units so far, and still I have a further three exams, and another two ICT units to hand in over the next couple of weeks. Also, even though I will be at school regularly over the next few weeks still, today was the day I decided to complete one of the tasks of my final departure from the school, which was, to empty my locker and bring all my stuff home, leaving just a few lone items inside, until they will inevitably go too…
Following a discussion the other day, it will soon be time to say goodbye to many people who I have known, worked with, became friends with over the past seven years which I have been attending the school for, but more so since joining sixth form, where I have made many great friendships with many people, and have become an increasingly active member within the school itself. The end of a big era of my life is hurtling towards me, and even though I’ll look forward to the future, there’s still a part of me who will miss what I currently have.
Along with that comes the possibility of leaving friends behind and never seeing them again. We all know it happens, its a fact of life almost that friends come and go, even with good intentions of keeping in contact, sometimes its just not meant to be… even though I’ll try, and hope I’ll keep in contact with a few people, and hopefully they all know who they are. I’ve managed to remain in regular contact with a friend, even now, two years since he left school, so I know it can happen, and there’s not always just a brick wall come the end of it all.
But, that’s not for a few weeks yet, and a few things will possibility be happening in between then… nothing in particular I should add…
Over the past few weeks mainly because of the work I’ve been doing, but also because of other things, I haven’t really been getting the full recommended ‘8hrs’ of sleep that we all apparently need. But, I’ve worked out now that I’m living my life more efficiently…. this is the 21st century… the world’s moving so fast, there’s no time for sleep… or at least, that’s a quote I made for the situation…
Onto some other news and the kittens are doing fine. Sorry for no photos yet, but I will take some soon! I may also be making a new website for a local company in the next few weeks, I’ll keep you peeled on that, and, my ‘interview’ with the online magazine should be published on their website, Fresh Angles, when it comes back online in the next few weeks after being renovated..
Continuing Trial: Audible Version (2MB)
Comments on the audible version would be apreciated too! I was bored at the start, and thats why I made it for the last blog, but, I thought I would make another for this blog, so more people can see it and such…
Well, today was indeed my 18th birthday, and with it, my first exam today too, an AS British History re-take, even though I passed last time, I thought it would give me a chance to up my grade a bit… but anyways, it all starts off with me, and two others from my class not actually being listed as being in the exam… but after ten minutes, when everyone else had started… they seemed to be able to sort us out. It went ok, questions were fine, even when I had my history teacher behind me reading what I was writing, and then jokingly whisper that if I failed, he would kill me… hehe…
“Hello, I’m a policeman” is what I was greeted to upon the other day after returning from an interesting trip to Newton Abbot where I was witness to a prat driver refusing to take no for an answer when there was someone injured lying on the road, and still attempting to drive around them, which was quite amusing (the arogance of the driver that is, not the incident which had occured). But, I’m getting ahead of myself. The policeman wasn’t to do about that, but a house fire which had occured the previous night up my road. Now, I don’t know why a policeman in full uniform had to verify he was one, but nevertheless, it was to see if we had seen anyone suspicious in our road at about 2-3am the night before… something I had to say I didn’t, as I don’t often watch my street at 2am on the lookout for suspicious activities taking place…
Onto more kitten news! Since last week, the mum kitten has been neutered, but my other cat, today of all days, also had kittens - five of them, four of them being black, and one tabby, I’ll as last time, post some photos in due course.
Barclays seem to be serial card senders for me after being sent three different new debit cards… the first came a few weeks back, just a standard chip & pin card, replacing my older one… but with the wrong title before my name, so I asked them to change it… and, they did, sending me a 2nd last week with the correct full name. After coming home today, I had another one waiting for me - exactly same as the last, but they’ve all got different numbers and such, so now I’m going to have to contact them to find out which one I can use without being attacked by a vicious team of anti-fraud squad members by mistake or something…
Over the past few weeks, whenever someone has asked me how I am, I simply always replied with ‘Fine’, its just easier, but, it got me thinking how it really is just the easy way of getting out of the question. No explanation, no nothing. Even on a couple occasions when stuff isn’t always fine, it just saves on the hastle of explaining everything… So, the thing I was thinking about really was, yea, everyone can say these things, they may act fine, but, are they really? Interesting concept to think about really…
Onto project news, and filming and editing of a short video to showthe PBS remote control car is done! It’s been posted in the Film section since June 1st, and since then (as of 10pm June 6th) the amount of bandwidth (downloaded content) from my site is seven times higher than the entire month of May, in only 6 days! The MTS filming task is still taking place, but you can watch updates, again on the film page.
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