I've basically signed up here cos a friend of mine's on it, and she recommended so yeah, here I be.

Not really wrote a blog before, and it's too early in the day to really say what I've been up to, though currently I'm downloading a few things, moping over current relationship status cos it needs changing (I made a few mistakes that meant I lost someone who was very close to me, and it's something I regret. Maybe one day she'll take me back, who knows? But, at times it gets a bit depressing), and wondering what I'm going to do for the next week of half term, because unlike other places in the country I get two weeks.

So..yeah, hopefully this'll turn into a BIG blog that's filled with random junk that I've done during the day. If you're wanting to get in contact, I've got plenty of email address, but the one I frequent most is ps2_dc@hotmail.com.

For now, ta-ra.

EDIT: Just for the record, when I originally made this entry I wrote it without properly thinking (too early in the morning). It wasn't 2 years at all, it was about 6 months ago actually. Sorry to anybody if there was any confusion caused.

Well, today's been a good one. Had to get up early (9am, compared to yesterday's 1.40pm), have a shower etc. so I could get to work on time (I work at GAME, which is cool. Whether or not I'm there after Christmas though, different story).

First thing I had to do there was hoover the ceiling, which hurt as I had to look straight up, so my neck kinda hurt loads afterwards. Then I was asked to switch the PC aisles around, took me about an hour so that wasn't too bad I spose. Dragged on a bit after as there wasn't really anything to do, until I was asked to take the rubbish out.

Now, I'm usually one for exaggerating things, but I swear, the wasp that came flying out of the skip was HUGE! I wouldn't go near it till it was gone :P

Anyways, enough about work, hometime ^_^ I've been lazing around again, stopping only to watch Man United beat Arsenal 2-0, which is major coolness as Man U are the team I support. Since then, I've not really been doing much, just talking to my cool mates on MSN (I should mention three of them, as I promised I would. My bestest mates on MSN are definately Lani, Leah and Cloey. You're teh r0x0rZ!!!!!!!11111111111111111oneoneoneone :D)

So yeah, that was my oh-so-boring Sunday. Tomorrow's not really promising to be much different, I might actually download another film after downloading Resident Evil Apocalypse last night, and I'll definately talk to peeps on MSN, but other than that, it won't be a lot really.

Till tomorrow.

Today's mainly been all about Resident Evil...well, from about 2, cos it's all I've done all day, cept for watching The Terminal this morning. Good film, when it comes out legitimately I suggest you go out and buy it.

Also today, I went to see my Grandma, as it was her birthday today, so I did get out the house today for half an hour or so.

Not a lot else to report today I'm afraid, cept for that I'm talking with best mate Lani (bad luck in losing this evening, but you'll win the next match!! :)), and listening to music.

Tomorrow..well, I won't spoil it for you. Makes this blog kinda irrelevant then, don't it ^_^

GTA: SA in T - 4 days and counting. Shame I have to work the day it comes out, cuts down my play time considerably. More on that as the time comes though.

Till tomorrow.

Hehe, I enjoyed today. My sister tried to argue with me over my laptop and when she lost she said she'd get the parents in, and I still won. 1-Up ^_^

Anyway, what else have I been up to today? Listening to music (Current Track - something by The Music, still not got the tracklist in my head yet.), watched Saw earlier, which I'll get to in a minute, and then lazed around, talking to peeps on MSN, including bestest mate Cloey (glad you're feeling happy hun, hope it lasts for ages. Love ya loads ^_^)

Right, onto Saw. This is by far the weirdest, most fucked up psychological film I have ever seen, plus it's very graphic. I can handle gore on screen, but this bitch made me look away. It's THAT bad...go and watch it :D It's bloody brilliant ^_^

Right, this is what I don't get. If a bloke gets shot from above by three shotguns, how does he stay standing for about 20 seconds afterwards? I would have thought he would instantly collapse. Answers on a postcard if you can offer any sort of explanation.

What else is turning my cranial cogs right now...oh yeah, Grand Theft Auto. As always. I expect this to be in here all the way up till Friday. I'll also have to do some college work, I might get that done tomorrow as I'm running out of things to do online, and as such I think this is suffering as it's the same things day after day.

Oki doki, I'm off to go do something that's probably going to hold my interest for a few hours. Till tomorrow ^_^

Hehe, I got so enthralled with playing music at twice its normal speed I almost forget about this :|  I'm here though.

So, how was yesterday, seeing as it's 1:04am Thursday right now (GMT time). Well, I attempted to get some college work done, and it would have been more helpful if I actually was taught how to make efficient websites in FrontPage at college. Ah well, looks like today'll be dedicated to finding online tutorials and getting some knowledge. I also got some work done on my IVA (Integrational Vocational Assignment, it's like a 2 in 1. I only have to do one assignment, but it gets marked as if it's 2. Hard though :(), and will probably be working some more on that tomorrow as well, cos it's more interesting than trying to post at AWFF all day. Don't get me wrong, AWFF is a cool FF site, but it gets boring sitting around waiting for someone decent to sign on MSN, or for a decent post to be made at AWFF.

Hence why I've also been playing games, namely Fable on XBox and Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution on PS2. If I get bored tomorrow, I'll probably go all golden oldie and fire the Dreamcast up, give it something to do other than gather dust, cos none of them will get played from when GTA arrives on Friday till Halo 2 turns up 2 weeks today ^_^

Also, I'm glad to report that Man United beat Crewe 3-0 on Tuesday. Had I known about it last night I would have said so then, but as I thought it was today, I didn't know till about two hours ago. League Cup 4th Round, here we come :D Ooo..home tie against Crystal Palace. Sorry if you support them, but in November, I'll be once again singing Man United praises, as if I don't already *ahem*2-0 Gunners*ahem* ^_^

Oh, I also watched Super Mario Brothers, which took me two bloody days to download >_< Reminds me why neither terrestrial or satellite TV shows it anymore. Still, as far as nostalgia goes, it rocks XD Not sure what'll be next on my list though, possibly Edward Scissorhands, or I might download WWE Taboo Tuesday for the benefit of a friend of mine, cos he missed it.

Also today in the life of Gav:

-- I got moaned at by Dad cos I was still in bed when he got back at half 2. I didn't think it really mattered cos I'm on half term, but apparently it does. Ah well, still stayed in bed till half 4, so there ya go ^_^

-- I've decided that if you're going to listen to songs at double speed, never choose a punk song, cos if it sounded bad to start with, it'll sound even worse. Same with electronica, though the songs I've got actually got sound alright to start with, then get worse as it speeds up. Just Lose It's good though, a lot funnier.

-- My fingers are still hurting from when I last played Donkey Konga, which I believe was Friday. I might need to do something about that, cos it's worrying.

-- Cats meowing from beside your bed at 5 in the morning is also very scary, especially when you're half asleep and you don't know whether you're awake or not. I had to ask parents earlier whether he was actually upstairs, and he was. Sigh of relief there cos I didn't look stupid ^_^

I've exhausted my memory of the day now, so I'll stop here. Check back later today for today's proper entry ^_^

Two words for my overall good mood: San Andreas. Despite it not actually coming out until tomorrow, I got it this morning, thanks to both Gameplay despatching a day early and Royal Mail staying on schedule, and thus my whole "today is dedicated to college work" idea was thrown out the window, as I officially had better things to do, like getting re-educated in drive-by shootings.

I actually decided to get up as well, didn't really fancy the prospect of Dad having another go at me cos I'm exercising my right to be a lazy bastard. Still can't think of any films worth downloading, so I might not bother with that idea anymore, until something decent comes out., like The Ring 2 or Batman Begins.

I have to work tomorrow, which will be fun because of all the 10-year old GTA fanboys running around going "OMG!!! Itz oot, itz oot, fecking r0x0rZ!!!!!!!11111111oneoneone Lemme buy it bitch"

Me - "you old enough?

"No, but my bitchass parents are."

Me - "Yeah, but cos they'll be buying it for you, I can still refuse the sale...bitch"

Hate fanboys. Ah well, free GTA bandana if we've got enough left. Gotta love freebies ^_^

I'm gonna leave this short and sweet cos I can't honestly think of anything else. No doubt I'll moan on about GTA fanboys some more tomorrow, and how young we at work percieved the youngest to be. I'm gonna guess 10, but ya never know.

Ta-ta, my "adoring fans"

Another fun day at work today, especially as it was the proper day that Grand Theft Auto came out. I think we had about 200 copies at the start of the day, and had sold out all non-preordered copies by the end of the day. Getting another 30 in tomorrow..I think we'll probably have all them gone before I go to work at 12.

Was payday as well today. Got £41 from Game, and my last payslip from Partners had a cheque to the value of £117. What shocked me was that I'd got paid holiday pay..£2.07, which is about £45 less than what my holiday pay should have been. Still, apparently I've not "earned" it,  so £2 is better than nothing.

Still haven't done that Web. Design work, which'll get me in shit. Still, I'm living by the theory that I should have been taught the stuff first. I better have a go though, cos I'll be in trouble if I don't, and I don't really want that. It's bad enough trying to understand the few bits we are taught, mainly cos they don't usually follow on. I'll moan about that on Monday though, cos that's when I'm going back to college then (half term's almost over :() Ah well, 6 weeks and then it's Xmas hols.

Ooo..I thought I best mention this, case I'd forget, I got me a GTA bandana, w00t (I really ought to stop using "w00t", it makes no sense, to me it's unpronouncable and is just overall a crap term), Work rules. Loads.

Also, it's been..a week, almost? I'd really like to hear peeps' opinions on what ya think of my oh-so-boring life already :D Feedback = Good. No feedback = Bad, and rather depressing...well, not depressing, just bad. It'd just be really cool to have some opinions. Pweese? :(

Anywho, I'm off. I have stuff to do for work before I forget to do it, and that definately would = bad. Till tomorrow.

Sorry there's been no updates this weekend, in short: I couldn't be assed.

Saturday - Worked 12 - 5.30. Didn't stay afterwards so long this time, which isn't too bad. Was done by about 5.40.

Sunday - Day off (yay).

Monday - Back to college (not yay). Managed to get more time to do my Web Development work by saying I'd left it on my laptop (I haven't, it's still not done ^_^) and finished 15 minutes early. Then in the evening I watched Short Circuit followed by Short Circuit 2 (good films, download/buy/watch).

Today - I've not been up to much. Today was Dad's birthday, but I've been sat lazing around, thus are the joys of my weekly day off. 28 days left till Xmas hols, thanks to our new 6 week term system. I also had to attend a Christmas meeting at work, where we had to do the following:

1 - Hold a piece of paper above our heads and cut out an elephant, without looking.

2 - Discuss the Christmas period

3 - Watch a DVD about the GAME Sales Conference

4 - Play Trivial Pursuit (I got teamed with the manager and we won ^_^ My prize: The soundtrack to Good Morning, Vietnam)

So that was fun. Then on my way home I popped into ASDA and bought Once More With Feeling aka Placebo's greatest hits album. Very good.

I'll try and remember to update tomorrow, though if I can't be arsed you'll have to wait until Thursday. Tata peeps.

Today's been a fun one, peeps. I managed to worm a personal statement into college, despite it a week late, claiming that the Internet went down at home, and my teacher bought it ^_^

Also, I've been building up more frustration cos one of the many bastards in my group thinks that everything is his business, especially when it concerns the harsh breakup one of my mates is having at the moment. One of these days I'll snap and say something, cos I'm not the violent type...well, not usually.

Man United were on Sky Sports 2 this evening as well, UEFA Champions League game against Sparta Prague. 4-1 to the Reds, Ruud v.Nistlerooy with all 4 of our goals. w00tles. Bring on Man City this weekend.

I should also mention this as well, cos I was meaning to mention it a few days ago, but in typical Gav fashion, forgot. A few months ago, I was into writing poetry, albeit crap poetry, and thought it might have been of use to plug it a little, just so you can have a gander. Here tis: http://www.postpoems.com/members/ffxfan

Please, leave feedback on individual poems or in the guestbook if you like what you see, cos at times I do jot ideas down for new stuff, so you never know, next couple of weeks I might have some material to go in here.

Can't really think of much else to say, so I'll make the full stop on this paragraph my last one. Till tomorrow, or whenever I next update.

OK, college is officially pissing me off. Teachers are being bitches about work, in particular one Ian Fisher and his IVA lesson. He thinks that he can moan at us cos we're not doing the programming required, but the last I remember he's not even learned the code himself either. Complaints are going to be made, I assure you!!

I've got work tomorrow though, that should calm me down a bit. I enjoy working so maybe it'll help me let some steam off.

Not got a lot else to say cos of my pissed off mood, so I'll get back to you on a later date, maybe tomorrow evening. C ya soon peeps.

Yeah, I've not done this in a while, but to be honest I thought people would have had enough of me and my boring life, plus all the "mememememememe" thing day in, day out. So, if you actually ENJOYED reading this, sorry for the lack of updates. If you didn't, tough shit, you're gonna get more of it.

So, what's happened since my last update 5 years ago? Well..me and Cloey have fallen out about 4 or 5 times, and I think we've recently made up again, though I've not seen her tonight so I'm unsure on that, hopefully we have cos she's a really good friend who I do actually hold in high regards. She's been through a lot and has shown a lot of guts to get through it. Respect to you, Clo :)

Still working at Game, and still getting freebies. But that's not unusual these days. I might be getting a permanent part-time contract, though I'll know more in the next couple of weeks, cos my current contract ends on 22nd January.

College is the same as usual, FUCKING BORING! I've decided in the end not to pursue university, I've got too much to do as it is without having that breathing down my neck, so I've not bothered. Maybe after a year off, who knows?

And now, Christmas. Not really high on my priorities these past couple of months due to college (to be honest, I'm surprised as to how fast its been and gone this year), but here's a comprehensive list of what I got...roughly:

Sony Network Walkman MP3 player
Hitlist 2005 PC games (Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, FarCry, Hitman Contracts, Deus Ex: Invisible War, ToCA Race Driver 2, and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow)
Deoderant
Shower radio (cos I sing..err..rather loud..in the shower..**embarrassed**)

That Peter Kay Thing on DVD

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas 8CD OST

Choccy ^_^

Man United 2005 calendar

CD and CD player lens cleaner

err..what else...oh yeah, wallet, and £70

Not got anything planned for New Years, just gonna relax cos I need the rest. Out of what will be near as dammit 14 days off, I will have had only..8 off. Just over a week. Luvvly :(

Anyways, I can't think of anything else to say. If anything comes to mind I'll jot it down for tomorrow's entry, because I will try and make it daily again. Till then.

I'm so bored right now, hence the somewhat early blog entry, which will be my last of this year. Yeah, upsetting I know, but 2004's been a shite year somewhat anyways, as had 2003, and maybe even 2002. Hopefully 2k5 will be a lot better, though hope did desert me a while ago.

Anyways, I'm babbling on. Onto today! Today...I've been working. Again. My contract ends on the 12th January, so sometime next week I'm being contacted to be told whether or not I have a job. In the end, I've done my best to make an impression, so it's not really in my hands anymore. If I'm to give my personal opinion, I don't think I have, because out of us 4 Xmas Temps, two are able to work any time during the week, whilst the other one has school and I've got college, so they would be more useful. Still, I could be wrong.

I'm also missing Claire a lot. I can't be arsed to go into specifics today, because it'd take way too long. Anyways, she's spent the past couple of weeks in France so I've never really had time to speak to her all that extensively, but she's coming back on Sunday so by the middle of next week all should be back to normal. Well, it better be, else I'll...probably do nothing.

Soo..what with it being New Years Day tomorrow...I guess I should pad this out a little more and jot down some Resolutions that I'd never stick to. Firstly, I'm gonna cheer up. I've had 2 years or so of being downtrodden and not really optimistic about anything, so I'm going to try and change that. I'll give up on this one by Sunday, I swear. My general mood at the minute is anything but optimistic.

I feel that, at times, people are poking fun at me because I'm naturally anti-social, as in I don't drink alcohol or crap like that. I don't go out with friends, though that's understandable as really I don't have many friends to speak of in the first place, and I'm uncomfortable when around other people whom I don't know. If I had the confidence, or maybe even the will to go out and do these things, then maybe I'd end up a better person. I just feel so outcast when people are talking about their nights out, and I just shy away cos the only bit I can add would be "I was on the internet all night cos I've got nothing better to do that I'd enjoy". I just wish these people would respect me for who I am and what I do, and not disregard me because I don't enjoy the same things they do, ie getting piss-drunk, and constantly talking about sex, lesbians and tits, usually in that order.

Well, I'd just keep ranting about nothing that my "loyal" fans would enjoy reading about, so I'll call it a day here, and maybe pick it up again on my next entry.

Till next year

Gav

New year, new start. That's what people say..or should say. Before I drone on about the day's various happenings, I'd like to point out that, if I said yesterday I'd try and cheer up a little this year, then I've already failed on that, because today I've just felt like shite.

Anyways, with that over and done with, onto today. Considering the number of days I've been working, I've not really had much of a lie-in, so I was glad that I managed to stay in bed, and asleep, till half 11. Aside from last week though, I've not had many days off, as I mentioned previously, so I've not really had much of a break. College starts Wednesday though, so I won't even get much of a break until February at least. Shame, I just need to relax and regain some mental strength, because I'm feeling really half-arsed about most things. Maybe I'll be able to relax a little whilst at college, and take the work in my stride, doing bits and bobs but still staying on set targets. If not...I'm just going to lose concentration and fuck the whole thing over really quickly, and I don't really want that to happen.

Changing the subject, to at least try and make me feel better, Man United won today, 2-0 against Middlesborough. Unfortunately Chelsea and Arsenal did as well, so it's not changed much table wise. I also watched the DVD I got for Christmas, That Peter Kay Thing, and I must say, it's fast becoming the most unlogical christmas pressie of this year, besides the shower radio. Now, I like Peter Kay, and find him funny as a stand-up comedian, and there were funny bits during the DVD, but overall I found it to be crap. That said..it is Channel 4, so you can't really expect it to be God's gift to comedy. Five's the worst though, their definition of quality television was some Spanish slag tossing a pig off. Mmm..lovely, that'll rake em in.

OK, rant time. I've got nothing else to talk about, so I'm gonna rant. Today, seeing as I've already mentioned it, TV. Why must British TV be obsessed with shitty reality shows, like Big Brother, Pop Idol, Fame Academy, oh, and The X Factor. The only good one in my opinion is I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! because it has celebrities making arses out of themselves. It doesn't need sex or big money prizes to rake in the viewers. Another thing that bugs me is Eastenders. I mean, how depressive is that? It wouldn't surprise me if next Christmas Eve a mass murderer is let loose and kills half of the cast.

Moving on. I hope I don't feel like this for too long...being in a depressed state of mind is something I've still not got used to, after near enough two years of it. Hopefully it's something I never get used to, I'd rather be back in the days where I could just be happy with the way things are going. Maybe this year will be the year that happens...

I'm going to go now, my musings would only drag this on longer than anticipated. As it stands it's taken me 45 minutes to write.

Till tomorrow

Gav

Yes, I know I'm currently using today's entry title as my MSN name, but most people who read this won't talk to me on MSN, will they?

So, currently I'm copying music from my laptop onto my MP3 player, and it's taking way too fucking long! I wasn't expecting a simple job like this to take up what is currently 4 hours of time, but I'm not stopping till I've done, so it could be a long night.

Work was fun. Not only did I turn up an hour late thanks to a last minute rota change, but some twat knicked £60s worth of Xbox accessories. We think the CCTV cameras caught him though, so its just a case of reviewing them hopefully.

I've got tomorrow off, yay, although it's gonna be the last day off I'm gonna get, as its back to work on Tuesday, and then college on Wednesday. Yes, I've been griping about college since I started to write updates again, but hey, I hate it, it's so boring! At least when Wednesday's been and gone I'll be moaning about how boring college is, as opposed to me moaning on about having to go back :P

Today's been boring, and I can't think of much else I've done or thought about that warrents a mention. Tomorrow might be more productive.

Happy "Oh-Fuck-I'm-One-Day-Too-Late" Day

Gav

Babbler of the day has returned, with more weird and wonderful ramblings, this time themed around my happenings within the past 24 or so hours.

Firstly, I'd like to say that, within the next couple of weeks or so, once college kicks in, I might continue adding poetry into the portfolio I have on a site called PostPoems (I've already provided the link once, but if you're lazy, it's http://www.postpoems.com/members/ffxfan), so if you're interested in that, then keep your eyes open. Obviously if I do start, then it'll be mentioned in that day's blog entry.

With that out of the way, I shall continue onwards :) Today's been a lazy day of sorts, if I'm to be honest. I finished uploading my music onto my MP3 player, and then rearranged it slightly so everything went where it should have originally gone, so I've now freed up 2.5GB of HDD space, ready to be used for other purposes...actually, it will more than likely be used to download more music ready for transferring, but hey, cant have everything ^_^

I've spent the most of the day surfing the net, trying to hunt down some bargains on Amazon and chatting to mates on MSN, namely Claire, Ash, Lani and Leah. You gals rawk!! :D I've also not long come off of an hour long spree of Phantasy Star Online (if, on the offchance, you play it online and on the PC like I do, I'm MidoriKenshi). 'Twas boring, nobody at any really high levels joined my team so levelling up was rather hard to do. Only managed one level ¬_¬

Anywho, the reason for the relatively early blog is so that I don't forget to do it, because I always seem to be doing two things at once and it's very easy to lose track of time. Take yesterday for example. I eventually finished uploading my music albums onto my MP3 player at 3am GMT. That's a good 8 hours for about 15 - 20 CDs worth. Very boring to watch, especially as most albums needed bits renaming and crap like that. In the end though, it was worth it. Nobody can leech my albums off me now :D

That's basically all I've done today..I've got a few things on my mind though, so I'll talk about them.

Thought #1 - Chain E-mails.
What is the point of these? Do they originate as a practical joke and sent to somebody who's very superstituous/paranoid? I find the crap like "If u dnt snd tis bck wifin 3 dys, ur family wll die in a car akseedent" to be rather childish and, well, a waste of time on behalf of everybody who spends 15 minutes filling out the rather crappy questions, and then forwarding it to all 500 contacts they have in their address book. Of course, I've not seen one saying your family would die in a car accident, but you can see what I'm getting at. For the record, anybody who sends me one of them best not be expecting a reply, because I delete them as soon as they turn up.

Thought #2 - Disbelieving in oneself

OK, I'm guilty of this one, but why is it that everybody has something they think they'll fail at? I personally think that no sane person on this earth could find me attractive, but that's just me. I've gone through my fair share of pitfalls in this area of life so that's probably what's affecting me, but why are people who are really intelligent and stuff, worrying about upcoming exams? Or...why do girls ALWAYS think they're not good enough for their partner? Girls, heed this: IF YOU WASN'T GOOD ENOUGH, THEY WOULDN'T BE WITH YOU!!!!!!! Simple as ^_^

Yep, that's about it. If you've any comments, leave feedback. Would be nice to see opinions for once :D

Till Tomorrow

Gav

*sniff* Today might have been my last day at Game...the rotas for next week haven't been put up yet so I don't know whether or not I'm going to be there. Couldn't have had an easier day though...had nothing to do at all, except maybe dust the shop, but that's a 5 minute job.

Other than that, I've spent all evening listening to Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned by The Prodigy. I had downloaded it a while back, but accidentally deleted it whilst purging crappy music from my PC downstairs. Whoops. Still, I had £2 worth of Woolies vouchers that needed spending, so it's all good. They're out of the way now.

College tomorrow...of all the work I've had set that's been due, I've done none of it. Ah well, I was probably further ahead than the rest of the group anyway, so it's no big deal. I'll just accidentally forget to take my laptop to college tomorrow, thus meaning I have no proof of not doing the work :D They can't expect me to remember everything all the time, can they?

After I've published this entry, I'm going to fire up my Gamecube and play Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes methinks. I've got nothing better to do, and doing work would just bore me, so I'll decide against that. There's nothing on the net I wanna seriously look at, and all the cool people on MSN who I've been talking to are gone..well, except Hay, she's still around ^_^

Right, I'll leave this as it is. Prepare yourself for Ranting of the Year candidate 2005 tomorrow. Should be a blast :D

Gav

Let's get college out the way first, shall we? It was...well, not as bad as I had anticipated it to be. Boring would be the word that best suits it, seeing as prior to today crap was what I was going to say. That said, I did skip Key Skills, so that maybe had something to do with it ^_^

What else..oh, Game haven't got in touch yet with regards to a job, so I might pop in tomorrow and see what the situation is, because the manager did say he'd ring me, but I'm going to be at college most of the day, so if he does ring up I won't know about it. Better to be safe than sorry.

I spent most of this evening downloading some kickass remixes of videogame music from Overclockers ReMix, which is a bloody good site. Must have about 10 now, but that was just browsing for songs I really wanted. Tomorrow, or later tonight, I might just start generally sifting through and seeing what I find. Might be a classic somewhere just waiting to be unearthed, you just never know :P

Shout-out time, would just like to say hi to Ash and Sal, though I doubt they'll read this, it's always good to say hi. Also, if Florence happens to glance at this, hi to you too ^_^

Other than that..not a lot I can think of adding to be honest. Till tomorrow,

Gav

...a blog entry in the afternoon. I always seem to enter one in the evenings way back when everything that needs to have happened has already happened, so it doesn't leave much in the way of talking about my future plans. So, I thought to be different, I would make one when I do have time to do other stuff :P

Anyways, college today was alright, but not much of an improvement on yesterday, mainly because I had to start at 8.45am as opposed to yesterday's 11.15am. Those extra hours of sleep can be very vital ya know :) To make matters even worse, I had to put up with three hours of Programming Concepts, which is the worst lesson ever! OK, so I wanna go into programming as a career, but Fisher can make even the best idea sound so crap and boring, I just lose interest in the main task at hand and do things my way. Nine times out of ten it works, but I always seem to be shouted out on that very minor occasion that things don't turn out as planned. Ah well, I'll just have to surprise him by handing in a kickass IVA assignment that I did all on my own accord and without any major help, that'll show him ^_^

After that lesson finished, 'twas dinner time, so me and some mates decided to pop into town. I went into Game to find out the rota for next week, and ended up getting roped into having a chat about my contract. Well, I can't say too much about it until my Christmas Temp position is up, whenever that is...so all I can say is..me and my manager chatted about my contract. Then it was back to college for Computational Methods (aka Maths).

Piece of piss or what? OK, so the teacher did ask a bit much of us by wanting a piece of work in today that he didn't let us do over the Christmas hols, but we've talked him into giving us an extra week, so it's all cool. He had previously said that if it wasn't submitted on time he'd fail us, but seeing as none of us had done the work for today, then I guess he didn't feel up to giving all 7 of us fails. Common sense rules :D

Came straight home after that, and have been wasting my life away on the Net ever since, talking to people. Oh, and listening to some more OC ReMixes (currently Bomberman Bomberfuzz, totally kickass). I don't feel the need to download anymore just yet, so my hour and a half of remixes should last for a few days at least.

So, onto my plans for the rest of tonight: lazing about, and doing some college work. I meant to do some that was meant to be submitted the first Tuesday of the Xmas hols, but because I'd been working all that weekend, I forgot :( so I need to double efforts and try and get further than I would have done, just to get ahead of everybody else again. I hate playing catch-up with the other members of the group, especially if I was ahead of them to start off with. I guess I was about two lessons of them anyway, so I'm not going to be at any great loss. I also plan on maybe playing some more of Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, though if I don't, I've got all weekend, so no real loss. Oh, I've also got to have a shower, though I won't go into the specifics of that...sorry ladies ;) lol

I've got nothing else worth saying, so this'll be the end of this. Till tomorrow, or later tonight if I feel like adding a second entry.

Gav

How grand, you get a double dosage of Gav. Be honoured, cos it's not gonna happen often. This may even be a one off. Who knows?

Since my last entry, I actually decided to go and do some programming in Excel (the work I mentioned earlier), and get some of that up and running. However, my expertise on it all is limited (OK, so it's based on Visual Basic 6, but still, some new bits and bobs I don't know), so I've had bits and bobs of it crashing, and I dunno how to fix them. Still, it's gone from being a small program of 2 forms to a rather middlish sized one with 7 forms. Just a shame I couldn't have implemented more...ah well.

Also, I forgot to do this earlier, but thanks to the person who critiqued one of my poems positively ^_^. The reason I'm thanking is because I personally found the one s/he had chosen to be a bag-of-shite, so to see something positive written about it is a real confidence booster. Thanks a lot :D

That's about it, just an update really on my goings-on since this afternoon. I'm now gonna run downstairs and hopefully grab a mug of Sprite, and spend the rest of this evening on MSN and listening to music.

Till Tomorrow

Gav

WEEKEND!!! YAY!!!

Sorry, but you know, nothing like a good old weekend of lazing around doing fuck all after having three days of that boredom more commonly referred to as "college". Although, today wasn't so bad. Allow me to explain:

Lesson 1 - Programming Concepts (1hr 30mins): I had my evertrusty Sony Network Walkman turned on today, so most of the incessent ramblings I usually had to put up with on a Friday morning I drowned out rather easily. Having problems in the sense that the timebomb hack I installed for Microsoft VB.Net Trial Version didn't work, so I am somehow going to have to sort that out. Other than that...nothing majorly wrong.

Break 1 (45mins): I used this time to play Half-Life 2 some more, during which some dippy blonde tried to claim that I can't use my laptop in the refectory (dining-room place) in case it got stolen. Oh please, can somebody tell me exactly how my laptop can get stolen while I'm using it without me noticing. Honestly, some people today...

Lesson 2 - I forget (1hr 30mins): Another lesson in which I have IVA work to do. This one isn't as bad as Prog. Concepts as I actually understand what has to be done here, and as such have now got near enough 10 pages of documentation, as opposed to 3 in the other one.

Lunch (45mins): I ate. Funny that. Oh...I also got bored and played Phantasy Star Online offline for a bit..attracted a bit more unwanted attention, but I guess that was in awe of my Sony VAIO, other than the fact that I went through one whole level without getting hit once.

Lesson 3 - eCommerce (1hr 30mins): This is strangely the lesson I get sidetracked in most often, and I'm unsure why. Maybe it's because the assignment we've been given is just too..well, hard, and unexplained. A better explanation as to the task at hand would be lovely.

Break 2 (30mins): We're only supposed to have 15, but because of our group's inactivity to do work in the lesson prior. I am hoping to change that though.

And then..the last lesson was cancelled cos teacher didn't turn up :D So I then came home, and have been lazing around ever since, though I've not long ordered an AC Milan shirt from Kitbag. I was going to buy a pair of trainers and a training top, but both had sold out <_<

That's about it. I might be updating my poem portfolio later (I was gonna add 4 or 5 in but the Net slowed down, so I only got one done), so if you've been reading them and liked what ya saw, then yeah, there might be some new ones up. If not, I've probably put it off until tomorrow.

On a side-note before I go: AWFF is back up, yay ^_^ Everybody's favourite Legend (me) can once again begin to continue posting there as a time-filler. w00tles or what?

Till tomorrow.

Gav

This must be a new record..I think this is the 10th entry in a row. Cool or what?

For all you light sleepers out there, you might know this, but in case you don't..sleep is a major deterrent. I was lying in bed for about 45 mins to an hour last night trying to get to sleep. No wonder I've been yawning all day today, despite getting up at 11.

I've not really done a lot, so it's been a typical Saturday. I didn't have to work so..just lazed around. I downloaded some more OC Remixes, bout 5 or 6, might have to MP3 em soon. Also, no I've not updated poem portfolio. I might get around to it, but I've lost all urge to actually do ANYTHING this weekend.

I watched the results for today's FA Cup games fly in earlier..Man United drew 0-0 with Conference side Exeter City (for you who don't follow football, Conference is 3 divisions lower than Premiership). Dunno how Grantham did though, I should really have checked that out as well. Ah well.

Other things I've done today include whipping Hezz at online Pool 7-5, despite being utter crap. I suppose most of the shots I managed to pot were flukey, but yeah..7-5 that was. Probably won't be the first time we play. Just for the record, I'm crap both at online and offline pool, and also Snooker. Joisus, I'd be so lost if I tried to play Snooker these days, too used to Pool :P

Anyways, that'll about do, I reckon. Tomorrow I think I'm gonna have a break from the norm and just discuss things, rather than just talk about my day.

Till Then

Gav

Sorry for the lack of update yesterday, but it was so boring I felt that an update wasn't needed.

Anyways, instead of droning on about my day as I usually do (although I would like to mention that I bought a new TV and a webcam), I'm going to give you a list. Yep..a list. What of? Well..The Top Ten Most Attractive Females of AWFF (Assuming I Can Think Of Ten). And here they are:

10 - Amber (Krisp)

09 - Katelynd (Maiden Yuna)

08 - ??? (Ice Queen)

07 - Cherry...if that was her AWFF name o_O

06 - Suui (Hinata Koalla...I think)

05 - Sarah (Saturn)

04 - Lani (Rikku)

03 - Leah (Lulu)

02 - Florence (vivo)

AND...NUMBER ONE!

CLAIRE!!!!!!!!!!! (Yuna Croft)

If I've had a crap day, expect to see more of these somewhat random lists to pop up. It's a break from the norm I suppose. Well..before I go..I suppose I best touch on my day, at least.

College was alright, I skipped Portfolio intentionally but got told that our teacher was off ill, so I was relieved cos I wouldn't get bollocked for it. Because of said teachers illness, then the lesson afterwards was crap cos he taught that as well. Then...I forget what the lesson afterwards is called, but that was crap as well..I actually got told off for doing work. How weird is that? o_O

Anyways, after college I made a short trip into town again (I had gone prior to college starting to price up TVs, and had bought OutRun 2 on Xbox for £20.) and ended up buying all 4 Batman films on DVD for a total of £20. Bargain if you ask me, those films rule.

Tea was nice (sausages, chips and baked beans, with nice, cool Coca-Cola as a drink...mmmmm..gotta love it ^_^), and then after that I went to get my TV, opting for a Sanyo 28" for just under £200, and a webcam for £30. Not bad quality for the cam, considering its price. Definately not complaining.

Anyways, that is about it..I'm working tomorrow 12 - 5.30, so no doubt I'll be talking about that tomorrow.

Tally-Ho!

Gav

10 - College Work
09 - Chatting with somebody I really despise (although I can't think of anybody)

08 - Playing Resident Evil: Outbreak on PS2 (God, that game's awful compared to the rest >_<)

07 - Playing Halo blindfolded, AND with the Xbox pad upside down, on Legendary mode.

06 - Commit musical suicide and listen to pop music.

05 - Playing Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes on Gamecube

04 - Watch Batman Returns

03 - Play anything on Dreamcast

02 - Spending time with girlfriend

AND AT NUMBER ONE:

Sleeping.

Now, a quick rundown of Tuesday (seeing as right now it's Wednesday, 00:30am):

I was working 12 til 5.30. Got up early to have a shower and a shave beforehand. Nothing special really, town was dead so I didn't really get much to do. Was home by 5.50. Spent time online AND on webcam, then ate. (Today it was pizza n chips..nice ^_^), then back online till..I think it was 10pm, when I got utterly bored and decided to put Batman on. Cool film ^_^ Now I'm here, updating blog, wondering when I'm gonna go to bed..maybe earlier than last nights 3am.

Anywho..I'll try to be on time with today's update..whenever I make it.

Ta-ta, my adoring fans.

Gav

After a somewhat tiresome day at college, I thought I'd make a quick update to tell you just how bored I am, lol.

I'm currently chatting with Claire, and wondering what I could be doing other than browsing the net. I've got some Computational Methods work to be getting on with, so that is always an option..other than that, I could just stick a console on and play one of them.

Man United are playing Chelsea later in the first leg of the Carling Cup Semi-Final, so I'll be watching that. If I decide to do an evening update, I'll let you know what the score was. Hopefully I'll be reporting on a Man U win, but you never know...

Well, that's about it. More later...maybe..

Regards

Gav

Just a smallish update, as promised earlier this afternoon.

Firstly, my Computational Methods work. I believe that this will more than likely be a no-go area, because I've not long remembered that I forgot to send myself the work needed to complete it. So..the only other option I think I have left is to try and juggle it with the IVA work I'll undoubtedly be doing tomorrow morning. Failing that, I have a backup plan that may not work, but is worth trying anyway ^_^

The Man United game ended 0-0. I'm not all that bothered because it was the First Leg, so there's another game to play (which is two weeks yesterday, I believe). It's good that we didn't concede any goals, although in a perfect world it would have been nice to have scored one, just to put a bit more pressure on Chelsea, if that's at all possible. All in all, a good game though, scoreline was probably justified.

That's all for now. Until tomorrow.

Gav

Very boring day today in the life of me. College sucked more than usual, mainly because I had three hours of productiveness sucked out of my soul by a boring Scouser (no offense to any Scousers who happen to read this, but he is so fucking boring), and then Comp. Methods went no better. Still, didn't get told off for not doing the work..I suppose not being the only one in that situation kinda helped the matter.

I'm going to have a change from the norm tonight I think and watch the other two Batman films..so far it's been one a night, but I'm just so bored, what with having no work that I'd like to get on with.

In other news - MY AC MILAN SHIRT TURNED UP!!! YAYNESS! Expect piccies soon, especially as I now have a webcam which I can take pics with. Also, I've been chatting via webcam with Hezz, the same one I whipped 7-5 at pool the other day. She's so cool, one of mah bestest mates by far. Always is there for me when I have a problem, which is something I respect loads.

Some people will probably have a go at me for putting this, but on Saturday it will have been two years since me and ex split up. I'm gonna find it so ironically weird if she happens to turn up at Game while I'm working. I definately won't serve her..I'm sure I can find better things to do in the stockroom. But yeah...that's probably a tale for a really rainy day..and a really long blog entry.

My random lists should turn up again tomorrow, this time with Gav's Top 10 Songs Volume 1. Hope the anticipation is nearing fever pitch now you know that :P

Till tomorrow.

Gav

I'm feeling really down and crap so I'll keep this short, cos I don't really wanna drone about it.

First of all, sorry but the Top 10 is going to be postponed until I'm feeling happier. So there.

College was alright, a break from sitting at home I guess. Nobody really seemed to want to have a gripe about how little we as a group were working, though for once I decided I had better put an effort in for E-Commerce, and actually got the most work done, I think. Only major downside was that I've now blocked myself out of Visual Basic.NET on my laptop. Whilst I was trying to timebomb it, I used up its remaining uses that you get after the original expiry date. Shitty or what? Yeah..definately shitty.

At home I've had two power cuts, adding to the one this morning, which is also very shitty. I spent the time playing Half-Life 2 though (thank God for laptops and their battery power). I've also been feeling down the past hour or so, and thanks must go to Hezz for at least keeping me on the right side of crying...she doesn't and probably won't know it, because as far as I know she doesn't read this..but she means a lot to me, as I'm sure I've mentioned before, and I hope we never drift out of touch, because she's somebody I want to know for the rest of my life. And I mean that. Also, thanks Cloey for talking to me...I know we've only spoken about me most of the evening, and you don't particularly like me doing that, but it has helped.

So yeah, that's about it. Less said about tomorrow the better I think...well, till tomorrow at least.

Night peeps.

Gav

If you live in England, you'll probably understand today's title. If not..Wayne Rooney scored against Liverpool, giving Man United the win. Scouser is a term given to Liverpudlians, and Rooney is a Liverpudlian...so yeah.

The only majorly cool thing I did today that's worth mentioning is beating my target at work. The manager set me £700 to do in 5 hours, and I ended up taking about £875. That was fun. Other than that...not a lot, to be honest.

So...here are my Top 10 Songs Volume 1.

10 - Like A Stone (Audioslave)

09 - Dirty Fighter (Acumen Nation)

08 - In The City (Razorlight)

07 - Out Of Nothing (Embrace)

06 - Glow (Alien Ant Farm)

05 - Radioman (Feeder)

04 - Butterflies and Hurricanes (Muse)

03 - Citizen Erased (Muse)

02 - Just A Day (Feeder)

AND AT NUMBER ONE!!!

New Born (Muse)

If you agree/disagree with my choices, or would like to recommend some songs, leave me a message. I'm always looking for bands I've never heard of, because I think it's the best way of finding good music. I must own about 7 or 8 CDs from bands who haven't gone mainstream, so most of my mates haven't heard of them, it's great ^_^ So yeah, any recommendations, gimme a buzz.

Till tomorrow

Gav

 I've not seen Claire at all this weekend...I hope she's coping OK. She'll eventually read this I guess.

Anyways, today's pretty much been the same as yesterday, nothing to do that was worth doing. Instead I've decided to plug some more through Burnout 3, as Ninja Gaiden and OutRun2 are pissing me off. I suppose I could have played any of my PC games, but I was too busy chatting with cam to friends, today mainly being Cloey and Amber, who also rocks along with anybody else who I mention in here positively.

I've also been downloading albums for my MP3 player, and I was going to get some more today but due to time constraints, I didn't. The ones I did get were:

Secret Machines - September 000 EP
The Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It
lostprophets - The Fake Sound Of Progress

Tomorrow I'm looking at maybe going a bit more obscure and downloading music from bands I've only heard names of, ie A Perfect Circle, Tool, Modest Mouse etc etc. That should be fun ^_^

That's about it to be honest. I've not really done a lot else. Maybe tomorrow will be more productive.

Happy Crashing
Gav

I forgot what I was going to do today, blog wise...ah well, it can't have been important.

College was cool. You know it's gonna be cool when they let you play Half-Life 2 inbetween lessons, just pure sweetness ^_^ Other than that, I did some more work for a change, although I think I'm going to end up being prejudiced against because the rest of the group don't. If so, I'm just gonna tell it like it is. I wanna work and get the qualification, so if the teachers don't wanna help me out because the rest of the group seem less arsed about it, then I may as well quit. Meh, see how it goes.

MP3 wise, I own another 4 albums now:

Crossfade - Crossfade
A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
A Perfect Circle - eMOTIVe

Hoping to maybe get some help with getting some more when Florence comes online later, if she turns up. She recommended a lot of bands for me, but I'm having trouble finding places to download them, so maybe she could send me the songs ^_^

That's about it. If boredom reaches critical levels, I just might try watching Batman & Robin again, though I might not. Dunno yet.

Tomorrow's entry might be a bit late, as Man U play Exeter City in a replay of their FA Cup 3rd Round match, so I'll update when that's finished.

Till then
Gav

Not planning on making this a quick one. I just wanted to let you know that I'm ok, and that everything is going alright in my life. Work was alright, and I've done fuck all since coming home.

That's about it ^_^ I'll be sure to be more detailed tomorrow.

Gav

Yep, Manchester United advance to the 4th Round of the FA Cup. Just thought I'd like to point that out first.

Other than that, before we get into detail, I'd like to apologise for the short, slightly rushed blog entry yesterday. I really couldn't be arsed to go into any detail, yet I felt that I had to write something, so yeah..that's why.

RIGHT! Onto today. ^_^

I had an extended rest this morning as Tutorial at college had been cancelled, so instead of setting off at 10:45, I had until 11:30..extra 45 minutes worth of eating (yay). Despite setting off on good time, I still managed to arrive 15 minutes late...oops.

The only lesson I had I dedicated to sorting out my IVA program, which I have had to eventually delete and start again as it decided to keep chucking build errors at me left, right and centre. Problem was, it was all automatically-generated code which I was not going to edit for the life of me, so I had to delete 5 weeks worth of programming and start again. I am not amused...fucking Visual Basic.NET <_<

Whilst on my way home, I decided to pop into Game as yesterday I'd been asked to develop new pre-order sheets for use behind the tills, so that people who buy games can easily preorder the top titles etc etc. After working on them for the best part of an hour last night, I was pleased when the manager said he thought they were very good, and was exactly what he was looking for. Nice to see that the work I do is appreciated by somebody, especially seeing as I had offered to do it.

My cousin came round at about 2, and I proceeded to kick his ass at Burnout 3, in one instance winning a 5 Round Crash game by $1.5million. He needs practice, or something. Either that or I'm too good, one or the other. He'll be coming round again tomorrow, so I'll either trash him at Burnout 3 again, or he might try another game that he'll be better at, though given the amount of time I play games compared to him, I doubt that.

This evening..not done a lot, just sat talking with mates on MSN, sorting out a problem at AWFF which really did need sorting (Leah...it wasn't my decision, I did try and talk them out of it..I'm sowwy that I couldn't :( ), and watched the Man U game which was on BBC1, and ended 2-0 (haha Lani :P)

I reckon I'm going to make Thursday's National List Day, where you can expect a Random List(tm). Tomorrow...Top 10 Films. Of course, if you ever feel the need to comment/complain, leave feedback *insert cheap plug for inserting feedback to read here* and I'll see what can be done about it.

If I can be arsed to ask people for it, over the next few weeks the theme of this blog, as in visual theme, will be changing, so you can always leave feedback on that, as something I like you might hate etc etc. (positive) COMMENTS ARE GOOD PEOPLE!!!

I shall leave you all with this very simple brain teaser - What colour is my living room carpet??

Night Night
Gav

Before we get into the gist of today's entry, I would like to moan about one thing first: Computer Technicians.

They claim to know it all, and they probably do (well, they definately know more than me..), but I would love to know why they would take the entire college server down during college hours, thus meaning that near enough 2,000 students, me included, have lost the work they were doing at the time. Luckily for me I wasn't doing too much work at the time so I've only lost something like 9 or 10 lines, but still, it pisses me off.

Here are my possible reasonings behind such idiocy:

1 - Technicians, skilled as they are in their field, have the brain capacity of a peanut, and therefore didn't think of the consequences before they went and turned the server off.
2 - They DID think of the consequences, but didn't expect half the college to be using PCs at the time, despite keeping logs of what ever user on the network is doing.
3 - They got bored and wanted something to do.

I, personally, think it was number 3, seeing as we've caught them playing F1 2004 on multiplayer mode over the network before...they get paid for that as well..charming.

ANYWAY! Top Ten Films, as voted for by the Gav Dominion...or me.

10 - The 6th Day
09 - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
08 - American Pie
07 - Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
06 - Minority Report
05 - The Matrix Revolutions
04 - 28 Days Later
03 - The Matrix Reloaded
02 - Resident Evil
AND AT NUMBER ONE: Spider-Man 2!

Of course..this is only current opinion..I might have chosen a completely different 10 by tomorrow. Still, next week..well, I'll leave it as a surprise.

And, before leaving, I'd like to wish you all a very Happy "We're-One-Day-Away-From-The-End-Of-The-Third-Week-Of-2005" Day. Have a gud 'un ^_^

Gav

Another short-ish update today, mainly because college was boring, only more so than usual, because today I could have actually fallen asleep...Though I also think that going to bed at 3am for the past month or so is finally starting to take its toll. One or the other.

Also, because I hadn't mentioned it a few days ago, I now own another 3 albums, downloaded of course. They are:

Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
The Early November - For All Of This EP
The Early November - Room's Too Cold

I'm not too fond of the DCFC album, though I reckon I'll need to listen to it a bit more before making a full criticism of it.

Other than that..I'm going to Lincoln tomorrow with parents. I thought it would be better than spending all day online, so yeah, that'll be fun ^_^ I'm not gonna be looking to spend money, but you never know..I have been on the look out for a proper copy of "Volume 3 - The Subliminal Verses" by Slipknot, so if I find it..yeah.

That's all for now, more on my depressive life tomorrow!
Gav

Considering that I usually don't like going on shopping trips with parents, today was really cool, mainly as I spent money, and actually had the time to do so. Here's what I got:

2 Diadora hoodies (one dark blue, the other light blue)
Fila jacket
2 pairs of jeans (No Fear blue, and this other company...them ones were black)
Navy and silver Umbro X-Static shirt
Navy and white Airwalk trainers
Slipknot - Volume 3: The Subliminal Verses
Jeff Buckley - Grace: Legacy Edition
SimCity 4 on PC.

So yeah..mainly clothes, but a few other bits and pieces. Overall, a very fun day.

Anyways, as that's what I've been doing all day, I've not got a lot else to say. Tomorrow I've got the fun task of trying to set sisters PC up on a wireless network..could be interesting to say the least. More details tomorrow evening.

Happy Sleeping
Gav

This is just a small update saying that, for reasons beyond my control, I won't be updating my blog for a few days. Those who I felt should know about what has happened do know what has happened, although there are still a few who I shall tell soon enough.

I want you all to know that I will be OK, and that I'll be back updating once things start looking up again. If for any reason you'd want to contact me, I'll still be on MSN (ps2_dc@hotmail.com), so you're more than welcome to add me and say hi..just tell me you've come from here so I don't mistake you for some really random person.

Other than that..keep well, and I'll see you soon.

Gav

Well..It's back to blogging. I feel that I'm able to move onto normal services in my life, so to speak, therefore I'm going to.

This week hasn't been the best of weeks, I'll admit that, but at least I now have a stable base to work from.

I'll post a proper blog entry tomorrow, as this was just to inform people that I am indeed back.

Gav

Yeah..me being me I always forget to do things. Updating this being one of them.

This weekend has been..well..weird, to say the least. There's been some things that I promised myself I'd do, and ended up not fulfilling them, mainly due to four distractions: football (FA Cup weekend), Football Manager 2005, Final Fantasy X-2, and my close friends, Kirsten in particular as right now I think she needs all the support that can be given. Granted, anything is better than college work, but it's due in a week on Thursday, and I'm only just halfway through. Fingers will have to be pulled out of ears, or however the phrase goes.

I've also rediscovered the joys of Disprin, dissolvable tablet things. Basically, you get a cup of water, pop in 2 Disprin tablets, watch them fizz, stir, and drink. Sorted. Headache goes away in about 20 minutes. Better than rolling around in bed for 3 or 4 hours, which I actually did this morning. Never. Again.

In other news, by the time I wake up, I should have 2 brand new CDs, joygasm ^_^ They being:

Feeder - Pushing The Senses
Athlete - Tourist

I don't know which one I'll be listening to more, but no doubt you'll hear about it tomorrow. My uncle also bought me the unofficial biography of Muse, another UK band that I rave about constantly to friends at college, usually to their annoyment. :P I had a flick through it earlier, and it looks a very interesting read. When I get around to reading it, that is. Still have the Halo trilogy and Half-Life 2: Raising The Bar to get through.

Well, I should be off. It's 2:50am, I need the loo and I'm getting sleepy, therefore going to sleep is a better option than staying on here babbling about fuck all.

G'night
Gav

Only a few will get what that means..those who read yesterday's blog entry should do. Either way, I'm not explaining it.

College was...blah. I've near enough passed Website Development, and I've done fuck all work, so I suppose the bits I have done are of a high standard, which is always good. Lesson afterwards wasn't as good though. I'd rather have that extra half hour of working, but because the rest of the group are bastards and do fuck all..meh is the only "word" that can describe it.

Went into Game as well...I now own two proper GAME shirts to wear when working, and a Sonic Mega Collection Plus promotional shirt, but I can use that to doss about in, along with my Burnout 3, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, Primal, Hyper Street Fighter II, Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines, Halo 2, Half-Life 2, WWE SmackDown! vs RAW, and Pro Evolution Soccer 4 shirts. Yeah...I've got a lot.

Other than that..nothing worth mentioning. My entry on Wednesday might be small, if I even decide to make one, as I'm going to be attending the funeral of my grandad, who passed away Sunday January 23rd. I'll miss him a lot, but I am glad he went peacefully, and in no pain. You'll always be on my mind and in my heart, Grandad. I love you.

Till tomorrow
Gav

Quick update here before I go to watch Arsenal v Man United (I will let you know the score).

Work today was fun, it's been another day where we've not really done a lot. Plus..today's the first day of the second month of the two thousand and fifth year, aka 1st Feb. Didn't really give or get given that "pinch, punch, first day of the month" bullcrap, but then again, I grew out of that years ago...bout mid-2004, if I'm to be precise ^_^

We're finally having our Christmas party, w00tles. Yes, it's 5 weeks overdue, but still, least we're having one. Going bowling!!!! It's going to be a laugh, I know that much. Won't say why though, cos that'll spoil the surprise.

Right, 4 mins till kickoff. I need to go downstairs and get a good seat, so do enjoy yourselves. Hopefully I will.

Gav

^^ That was the final score. The scoring went as thus:

Patrick Viera - Arsenal
Ryan Giggs - Manchester United
Dennis Bergkamp - Arsenal
Cristiano Ronaldo (2) - Manchester United
John O'Shea - Manchester United

So yeah, I'm very happy with the result. It'll shut Wenger up for all of..ooh..24 hours, if the wanker can keep his gob shut that long.

If you're a Gunner and I've offended you: tough shit. You hate us, and thus likewise. Enjoy eating our dust ;)

I might skip on the update tomorrow, so I shall see ya'll on Thursday. Enjoy yourselves.
Gav

Well...I'm just going to skip to today. I'm sure many could imagine how yesterday went.

College was..alright. The builders, who are building a new performing arts block, decided to drill through a water mains pipe, so I gather, so the college had no water. It ended up closing. I'm going to use that excuse as a reason to not attend college tomorrow, as I really don't want to. Besides, I'm sure I could get more work done at home anyway, so that's my plan.

I downloaded another album for my MP3 player today, thanks to a recommendation by Clo. It's the self titled debut album by Straylight Run, and is very good. Thanks for the tip Clo ^_^

...That's about it. Time to go and update the Best Game Ever competition at AWFF now. We're in the Round of 16 currently, about halfway through it, so only 3 full rounds to go. Fun fun.

Happy Rocking
Gav

At this current moment in time, either I've pissed everybody off, or everybody is in a state of ignorance, so I thought "eh, why not? I'll update blog". So..tough luck to you lot, I'm here now :D

I'll start with yesterday, as I think that seems the most reasonable. I bought some games. I haven't actually bought one myself since I got..OutRun2 on Xbox a few weeks back. What did you get, I hear you ask? Well:

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Gamecube)
Viewtiful Joe (Playstation 2)

Quite a mad choice, considering Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords is out next Friday, but hey, I've got the money, plus I get discount, both staff and loyalty, so it's not all that bad really.

The GAME Xmas Party next..and it was CRAP! I mean, I knew we were going bowling, but I expected them to do something afterwards, but they all ended up going home. Very anti-climatic. I didn't even do that well, got 47 in Game 1, thus finishing last, and 60 in Game 2, ending second to last.

And now - Today. I've done Sweet F.A. except for talking to people on MSN, and listening to Straylight Run. Oh..I've played a bit of Paper Mario as well. Probably the longest a game on Gamecube has been played since I got my big telly :P Still, tis very good.

Tomorrow, nanna's coming around for dinner, so that'll be fun I'm guessing. I also intend on starting to finish off my IVA work that's due in Thursday. If I can get that done as soon as possible, I'll have time to get the other one done. Still, half term week after next, so I can relax a little then, though I am meant to be meeting up with Claire, if all goes well...more on that another day I reckon.

Right, time for more Paper Mario. G'night everybody.
Gav

I NEED A BREAK!!!

Till tomorrow...lol, kidding. As if I'd leave this at just one line, though today has been like that. I've had nothing to do, mainly as the IVA work I wanted to do over the weekend is actually still on the college network, and not on my laptop. Ooops..that's 3 days of possible working wasted. Still, I have until Thursday, I will work hard with the evenings that I've got left. Else I'll get arseraped, and that's not good.

Random Rant #2 - Parents

Why do they have to always just walk in, even if I've got the door closed. HELLO! IF THE FUCKING DOOR IS CLOSED, IT'S CLOSED FOR A FUCKING REASON! Gr..well, I don't own the house, so I guess I can't tell them what to do, but still..it's not as bad as Sister walking in. I want privacy dammit, stop walzing in >_<

I admit, they don't do it as much now as they used to. For example, Dad hardly ever comes in. He came in earlier and didn't notice that I've got a new PS2, and he was facing it. There's only a massive size difference..not TOO noticable, is it? Meh. Well..I suppose, thinking about it, it's probably better that he didn't notice it, but yeah.

Right, done ranting, done posting, done fucking about. See ya'll tomorrow.
Gav

College, don't ya just love it? Well...I don't, that's for sure.

An assignment that I've been working on (I may or may not have mentioned it previously) is due in on Friday, and I feel that slowly, but surely, I am approaching the end. Which is good, because I'm getting fucking sick to death with having to type hour after hour after hour, just so I can get a good grade.

OK, if I do get a good grade, then I'll sit back and think "Yes, those days when I did kill my arms typing shit paid off, I really accomplished something", but at the moment, I just cannot be arsed.

Seeing as everybody else has mentioned it in blogs (or if they haven't, they will do no doubt), I will talk about Satan Day..I mean Saint Valentines Day. Sorry..easy mistake to make.

I don't care for it much, and I don't expect anything from anybody, nor am I asking for anything, so if I do get anything it'll either be a welcome surprise or unwanted. I vouch for the latter. I never have got anything meaningful, just some crappy homemade cards by total mingers which I didn't even care to hold (one year, one of them tried to force it against me by pushing it against my chest. I just carried on walking by, ignoring them, and they ended up dropping it into a puddle. Oh well, not my problem). Just another day to me, I'm afraid. If you don't like it, tough titties, I'm not going to change my opinion on what is a commercialised crapfest just because somebody thinks I'm wrong.

And with that, I'm off to murder little sister, she's listening (and trying to sing along) to Damien Rice, and that deserves murder in itself, nevermind the fact that she's an annoying little bitch, which also deserves murder in itself.

See y'all soon.
Gav

Well..this is only going to be a quick one.

College sucks

Life sucks, but not as much as college

Friends rule, especially Kirsten and Miss One-Four-Seven ^_^ (Get well soon Kirsten, my thoughts will be with you every step of the way.)

Half-Term rules.

Working at GAME owns.

Till tomorrow
Gav

Yesterday was a blog entry more out of boredom than anything, and it didn't do much to help.

Today's been shite, as you can imagine with it being Valentine's Day. I swear, to every one person who looks forward to it, there are three people who hate it. I'm one of them, though for once it'd be nice to have a card or something. This year I got all of nothing, not even from Claire. That said, if plans stay as plans, which with me is always unlikely, then she's coming to visit Thursday.

I had to go into college to hand some work in, which I managed to do quite easily without being spotted by the person I needed to hand it in to. That's probably the only highlight of the night though, as my efforts to get Electric Six's new album today suffered a setback when nowhere in town stocked it. Probably too busy trying to sell plastic flowers to care about us who don't give a shit.

Ah, I'm done moaning. Got nothing optimistic to say today.

Till tomorrow
Gav

Those who know me on MSN also know that I had removed the "The Legend" tagline from my screen name, but after a two, three week hiatus, it's returned. Joy? Oh yes.

So..what of today, oh Sir Gav? Well..I got Electric Six's new album, Senor Smoke this morning, and had recently downloaded American Hi-Fi's new album, Hearts on Parade. So, musically it's been good.

However, with good news there is always the bad. Claire's not coming to meet me. I'm totally gutted, as I knew that this would happen, and I had placed all my trust in her, thinking that she might have been able to prove me wrong. Now I'm at a crossroads. I can either stay with her and wait another 6/7 weeks for another chance to meet up, or leave her and try to find somebody else a bit closer to home. I think I have a fair idea of what I want to do, but I'm going to take a couple of days to mull it over.

Well...with that, I'm off to mope. G'night
Gav

Weird as it sounds, I'm actually looking forward to college again. I can't get much more stressed than I am already, so I guess it won't hurt.

#finalfantasy (The official chat site on IRC for AWFF) has been getting on my nerves ever since I got promoted to Operator there, which is the highest you can get. Nobody seems to have really gelled with our new rules as of yet, and that's frustrating because me and some of the other staff spent a whole evening making sure that they weren't too restricting, so you could still chat and have fun. They'll get used to them eventually, I hope.

Bought a new game today. As if March wasn't going to be a busy month as far as games go anyway, I went and bought my 4th since OutRun2. This time I bought Dead or Alive Ultimate on Xbox, and it rocks. I'll need to borrow my cousin's copy of DOA3 though so I can unlock Hitomi, because apparently you need a DOA3 save in order to do it. Probably the only downfall to the game, but oh well.

When college rolls around no doubt the blog entries will go back to being daily, but until then, sayanara.

Gav

Who cares? One entry is better than none at all :)

I am currently playing Knights of the Old Republic II, and I think that, given a few more evenings of solid gameplay, I'll have completed it. Not too bad, cos even though the game is only a week old, I've put almost 30 hours of gameplay into it, and that's currently. Who knows what the final game counter will be.

College was meant to start today, until I was told by a friend that it doesn't start until Wednesday. Heh, if I hadn't have sent him a text, I wouldn't have known, and would have braved the cold for fuck all. Still, I haven't escaped it fully, no doubt I'll have to walk to work tomorrow morning >_<

My situation with Claire is still that: a situation. I still don't know what I'm going to do, though I am now starting to think that maybe it's best if we move on. I don't think we've been the same since Thursday, and if that's not ringing alarm bells I don't know what would.

And yeah, you may have read about this in other blogs, as she was known to a few of us from AWFF, but Kirsten sadly passed away Sunday afternoon (GMT time). I'm going to miss her a lot, she was like a rock for me when my grandad died. Still, her memory will always live on with me, as will the love and respect I had for her. She won't be forgotten.

I can't think of much else to add, and there's only so long I can leave KOTOR II on pause before I need to start playing again. Priorities are priorities :P

--Gav--

You know, if I could set visual reminders on my laptop that I'd take heed to, I'd do it so that I'd remember to update this daily or whatever. Still, it's more recent than Matto's, so I'm not that upset.

It's the weekend, yay. I've only been back at college three days, and I feel like I deserve the two day break already. That said, as previously mentioned, I didn't really de-stress over half term, so I'll happily take as much time as is needed. Hopefully though, things are on the up.

Things with Claire are getting better now. I've decided to stay with her, and I have renewed confidence that she won't prove my decision to be the wrong one. Well, at least I hope she doesn't. College is also getting better. I've got one IVA down, and the other has to be in for 18th March, which is 3 weeks today. Might be another tight squeeze, but I'm sure I can manage it. The program is done, the documentation just needs doing.

Life in general is slowly getting better, I feel. I'm not feeling as low/depressed as I did a few days back, but that's probably because I've been listening to random crappy music this evening, and chatting with Cloey, who after everything I still consider to be one of the best mates I've ever had. She probably won't read this, so will never know because I'm afraid of bringing it up in normal conversation, but she is.

The weather hasn't helped my mood much though, what with the constant snow and fuck knows what else. Luckily it hasn't snowed for a while now, and hopefully it'll stay that way. Knowing my luck, though, it'll stay snow-free over the weekend, and start again on Monday, when I'm due to go to college <_< Such is life.

Anyway, that's all for now. I will try my hardest to remember to update tomorrow, and let you know of how grand my Saturday has been.

Till then
--Gav--

Clock, if I remember rightly, 1995. Year of the shit dance music..and it's not really got any better since (except for Daft Punk).

Anyway, today I've had another good day, but that said, I have been spending cash. I bought myself a new computer chair, because the old one was about as comfortable as sitting on rocks, and I bought all of Doves' albums (namely Lost Souls, The Last Broadcast and their new one, Some Cities). So, it's all good.

I've got to babysit tomorrow, which I'm not really looking forward to because I'm going to be offline, but if I can get a good position set up, I might be able to play some PC games or something, as it's easier and quicker to set up than any of my games consoles. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is probably going to be the game of choice, but who knows?

That also means that, unless I do one after I've finished, whenever that is, I won't be making a blog entry tomorrow, so hopefully I'll remember to update Sunday as well when I do one for Monday.

Now that's all out the way, I'm off to eat. If something major happens, I'll make a new update and let the world know.

Till then
-=Gav=-

When did I last update? Oh..I must have done Saturday...so it's just Sunday then ^_^

Up until 5pm, I was dossing around, mainly playing Paper Mario on Gamecube. Then I went to take a quick shower, eat, and had to babysit for my uncle.

So, after all that, I just sat around watching telly. Played Prince of Persia for a bit, but I had a headache, so I ended up watching 100 Greatest Cartoons on Channel 4. I can only remember the top three, so here they are, if you missed it/live in America:

1 - The Simpsons
2 - Tom & Jerry
3 - South Park

I've got about 2 and a half hours before college now, so I'll keep this brief, and will try and remember to update later tonight.

Ta-ra
-=Gav=-

Doing maths. In my head. It's probably the worst decision I ever made in my life.

Why, I hear you ask? Because I had a FUCKING CALCULATOR IN MY FUCKING POCKET, THAT'S WHY!! Ugh, why do I bother sometimes, eh?

...Yeah, call that Rant #3 if you want. I don't care. TO COLLEGE!

It sucked balls. As usual. I actually got told off in both lessons for doing work, whereas the rest of them got bollocked for not doing work. Where's the point in that? Where is the bloody point? I'd complain, but then I'd get told off for complaining, so it's not worth the extra hassle.

Since I've got home, I've done a whole lot of nothing, except listening to Doves and playing on emulators.

On a side note, I've noticed that I seem to talk about me a whole hell of a lot, which may or may not seem egotistical. To that note, I've thought up reasons as to why I'd talk about me all the time, and ways I could go about making that not as often:

Firstly, I'd talk about me a lot because..this is a blog. My blog. About me. The person who writes it. So obviously, it's all about me.
Secondly, due to lack of interesting friends offline, and my general ignorance online most of the time, I don't talk much with other people. I mean, take this for example. On MSN, I have 15 contacts currently online, all of whom I'll talk to. Nobody hated on there. But I'm only talking with three. Make sense? I didn't think so.
Lastly, I'm just a boring sod with nothing better to do.

Here are my possible solutions:

1 - Get more friends who are hopefully more interesting, and talk more with friends online.
2 - Get out more. Oh yeah, like this has chance of happening -_-
3 - Actually find outside factors to talk about, which I take interest in, but aren't about me. Like...my town.
4 - Just stop updating.

If you've got any suggestions as to how to make Boring Gav(tm) more interesting, leave feedback. If your idea is really good/crap/mindnumbingly boring, you'll get a mention when I next raise this subject matter ^_^

Till tomorrow
-=Boring Gav=-

Although in 45 minutes it's gonna be Thursday. Still, hi ^_^

You wanna know the best way to cure a headache? Listen to hard rock. I don't know HOW it works, it just WORKS. Must be magic.

I'm starting to develop a taste for metal music. You know, the hard stuff, screaming vocals, louder than usual guitars, that kinda shit. After listening to Fozzy and Killswitch Engage, it's growing on me a lot. Plus I like them older bands like Iron Maiden etc etc. Talking of Fozzy, I have their first album now. One more to go :)

I'm in the process of acquiring the Probot album, another metal band. Though, this one is the brainchild of a certain Dave Grohl, modern musical genius. They were raved about when the album came out...erm..2 years ago now? So hopefully it's good. If not...I'll keep it anyway :D

Whilst I'm rambling, I've noticed that I use "Anyway" a lot in blog entries :P It's a bit of a habit, I'm afraid, and I am trying to mix it up a little, so as not to sound tedious.

Coming tomorrow - Another "Top 10"(tm) list. This one will be: Top 10 Favourite Choccy Bars ^_^ Chocolate!!!!!

Before I go, I'd like to thank Miss One-Four-Seven and miatheprincess for their feedback on the last blog entry. Can't say I like your idea of me stalking you though Florence, but hey, we all know you fancy me, just come out and say it :P

G'night peeps.
-=Gav=-

Magic. I must be the master of leaving blog entries until the last minute. Because of this, I'm afraid the Top 10(tm) list will be postponed until further notice. Instead, this is going to be one of those classic "all about me" entries I was trying to avoid only 2 days ago :P

We'll leave college out, as that's always boring. I went into GAME afterwards to remind them to save me a copy of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, which comes out tomorrow. Despite preordering it, they're a forgetful bunch, so it's always best to remind them :D Whilst in there, I got a Fatal Fury hat (from King of Fighters: Maximum Impact), and a bag advertising Duel Masters: Sempai Legends, just for the hell of it.

Since getting home, I've been downloading albums. Again. Here's the list that I've either downloaded or are downloading:

Saliva - Survival of the Sickest
Sum 41 - Chuck
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News (Still downloading)
Wheatus - Suck Fony (Still downloading)

So..that's about it. Till tomorrow
-=Gav=-

Well, the depression periods have returned, just as I thought I'd got rid of them. Needless to say, this weekend hasn't gone great.

OK, in its defense I've had Metal Gear Solid 3, so I've been able to at least play that to take my mind off things. Anyway, I don't want to go into it, so I'm not going to.

In other news: I'm going to Athlete, and getting Gran Turismo 4, this coming Wednesday. So hopefully, if I'm not happier by then, I will be.

And that is that. Short and sweet.

Till whenever I next update
-=Gav=-

The week's started again, and I'm not as bad as I was at the weekend. I guess it's because the Athlete gig is approaching, and I've refound an old obsession of mine:

Power Rangers

I kid you not. Despite having the first movie for quite some time now (I never paid much interest to the Turbo series), I've actually gone back and relived some of my childhood, looking at screenshots and stuff like that.

However, it gets better. Tonight, I have stumbled across torrents for every single season of Power Rangers (so that's the original MMPR up to Dino Thunder, as S.P.D hasn't aired in its entirety yet, even though Mystic Force has been announced). I'm only interested in the first four though, so I've started to download them ^_^ (the first four seasons were: MMPR S1, MMPR S2, MMPR S3, and PR Zeo). Joy :D

Other than that, it's been a boring day. Had interesting chats with Miss One-Four-Seven, Cloey and TOFKA Meph (TOFKA = The One Formally Known As). Cloey in particular has been like a shining light recently, as has Florence. If I've ever got a problem, they'll help out..or Clo'll just take the piss :P

I've not got anything else to do, and I've now finished my update for the day, so I'll just ramble on about things that are on my mind:

- Girls, girls girls...why do you always think that men have got nothing but sex on the brain, eh? I mean, most people will be thinking about other "important" things such as boozing, football, and just being lazy fuckers, but do NOT try and class me with them. I find it quite offensive that you can actually say I'm like that when I'm not. I'm also pretty sure that I'm not the only one, as well. I mean, I actually listen to problems that my female friends are having, if they respect/like me enough to want to tell me, and I try to help them out. Most guys wouldn't even do that with their girlfriends..

- College teachers. You piss me off so much, you deserve more than one mention. If we're not paying attention to you, stop trying to get us to pay attention to you, cos it'll just make us more pissed off with you. Also, stop being fucking twats. I get along with some of my teachers, cos they actually listen to me, but others just try and fob me off with the lamest excuses known to man. I have no respect for them.

- Whilst I'm ranting...I don't like this "Suggested Topics" thing that has been implemented here. OK, it might have been a good idea, if the topics actually matched the actual entry being made. So far I've got: "lesbian", "tbs", "sailormoon" and some other random 'suggested' topics. What. The. Fuck? Prior to this upcoming sentance, when did I mention lesbianism, Taking Back Sunday, or Sailor Moon? Answer: I FUCKING DIDN'T. Some testing needs to be done there people..pick out more suitable keywords.

- Finally, if you've got this far, I applaud you. Please leave a comment. I know Vivz will, but I'd like more than one..make me feel special..pweese? :( You could also try nominating my blog if you found it at all enjoyable, even if it put a smile on your face for one minute. I'd like to be more than just a speck of dust on this planet...blah blah blah depressive teenager "OMFG I'M GONNA KIL MISELF0rz!!!!!!!111" crap.

Night people..
-=Gav=-

Well, somebody from the MindSay community must have read my rant that I made yesterday, lol. Either that, or I stated a point that was already shared by many people, in that the suggested topics idea was crap. Actually, the Tags idea is probably better, as it's completely optional, and it's not forced on you.

Work today was hetic. Surprising, considering we hardly had any customers, but we've had to organise the shop to keep the two District Managers happy. I think they both left fairly content with it all, which is good.

Man United lost to AC Milan, again :( Another 1-0ler, so that's us out the Champions League for another year. Can't say I'm all that disappointed with the result, more disappointed with the overall performance, truth be known. Still, always next year.

It's now been...4 days since I last spoke to Claire properly. I get the impression she doesn't wanna talk to me, though it's probably just me. In fact...yeah, it's more than likely me being idiotic about it all.

Whilst I remember, I'm not going to update tomorrow because I'm going to be at a gig. Going to see a popular British band called Athlete at Rock City in Nottingham. It should be fun, I'm looking forward to it. Oh, that reminds me, I'll need some money.

And finally, before I go, I retract my statement about the Tags being a good idea..seems the "Suggested..." idea is still around. GO AWAY! I DON'T WANT YOUR NON-RELATED SUGGESTIONS!! I mean, birth year? What the fuck? When did I mention that? :S

Oh well, I'm sure my one rant (despite it occuring twice) won't sway the opinions of the owners, so I'll stop trying :p G'night
-=Gav=-

Well, how interesting. Today's Red Nose Day in the UK, where the British public donate money to Africa to try and fight poverty and AIDS and stuff. As of midnight, we, as a country, have raised in excess of £35m, which works out at roughly US $70m. I've gotta say, for something which makes people laugh, as in the actual day, it isn't half depressing...well, VERY depressing.

To make the day worse..Somethings in my life have, as a consequence, led to me leaving Claire. She doesn't it know it at this time, because I've not spoken to her, but when I do, it's over. There is nothing she can do to change my mind, and there is nothing I want to do or think about that will make me reconsider. I'm gutted, but at the end of the day, it's not my fault.

Here comes the good point though: It's the weekend.

Good Night
-=Gav=-

Basically, I'm going to talk about a girl who's really been a good friend to me the past few months, and hasn't really been given a mention in my blogs, mainly cos I'm forgetful. This girl is: Brittany (known to most/some as pookie).

Cuteness aside, she's really great. You know, great as in, she walks into a room, and the place has been brightened up. I don't know her in real life, it's an online friendship, though if the opportunity arose, I'd love to go visit her, or vice versa, and just spend a fortnight in her company.

I can't think of enough good things to say about her, she's just that great. Hopefully we'll always stay in touch, even if life drags us kicking and screaming from our computers. Not sure how yet, but I'm sure we'll think of something.

If you're also a special person to me and you've not been mentioned yet, don't worry, you're time is coming ;) I'm not going to neglect anybody, and refuse to let people know what I think of them. Unless I hate you, then you can keep believing that I actually like you ;)

Hehe, nah, kidding, I don't hate many people, though at the moment there are two or three.

Well, I'm done. Till tomorrow people
-=Gav=-

Yesterday was so fun. Kicking ass on Halo 2, ONLINE! (I was using my cousin's account, NJHunZ, and was the guest, so if you remember me, HAHAHA, I PROBABLY KICKED YOUR FUCKING ASS, LOSERS!!), and I also preordered a PSP from America which I should hopefully be getting within the fortnight. Get in!

Anyway, friend mention number 2: Miss One-Four-Seven/Florence/vivô. Another close friend of mine, she feels as though she can talk to me about anything, and naturally I feel the same as I can trust her, as she doesn't go around spreading shit. Yeah, most of my close friends don't do that, such as Cloey and Rik-Rik, but Florence definately doesn't, nor would I spread shit around about her. I respect, and love, our friendship quite a lot, and she's another person I also want to keep in touch with. I'd be gutted if we didn't.

On another note, you'll probably notice that most of my closest friends are actually female. Well..there's no real reason for that, they just are.

Oh, and I must mention this: The dumbness of people who work on fairgrounds. Some kid, he must have been 15, came into work today to trade in a PS2 game for another one (those who are in the least interested, it was Max Payne 2 for Mortal Kombat Deception). As he was trading in, we have to ask him to fill in three grey boxes; one for name, one for address and another for a signiture.

Well, he manages the name bit, but then stands there looking at the address box, going "erm..err.." Here's what happened afterwards (btw, Gary is my cuz, and the dude serving the kid):

Gary: "Just put your address here please"
Kid: "Yeah, but..erm.."
Gary: "Well where do you live?"
Kid: "Very far away, because I work on the fair."
Gary: "Well just put 'Fair' down then, and sign it."
Kid: "OK...How dya spell 'Fair'?"

Erm...DUMBASS! Just so you're now aware, all fairground workers are inbred and are NOT educated in anything other than spinning waltzers, operating fairground rides and asking people to "scream if they wanna go faster".

Night people ;)
-=Gav=-

Song lyrics as subject titles. Do you object? That's good, cos I won't stop doing it :P

Anyway, today is the day before Resident Evil 4 comes out in Europe, not that it matters, because today's been different.

I downloaded Get Born by Jet today, and once I started listening to it, I've not stopped. Fucking awesome album, I can't believe I didn't buy it when it was out. Still, I have it now. The current status of Power Rangers: Season 1 is 62.23% (it's been downloading since last Monday), so that might be done over the weekend, and if not, it'll be bloody close. Least then I can spend my Easter break watching it until my PSP arrives..HEY! I could even put episodes of PR on my PSP :P What a great idea.

Couple of shoutouts now:

Pookie: Hey hun. Dunno why I'm mentioning you, I just am. You're cool. Love ya loads ^_^
Mia: Your blog's weird..especially that dream thing you posted yesterday/day before. And I thought mine were fucked up...:P
Cloey: Sorry to hear about what's happened, but you'll get through it. I'm here if you need me hun.
Rik-Rik: Hewwo! Hopefully things will go well with you n Fe tomorrow if ya see him. Keep me informed! :D
Claire: If you still read this, you're a bitch. If you thought you'd ruined my life, then tough titties to you. Hate you now ;)

Right, I'm done..time to doss around on MSN for a little while and then go to bed. Night
-=Gav=-

Hmm, firstly, I'd like to point out that me and pookie aren't dating. A couple of my friends seem to have taken the wrong impression over what I wrote in my last entry. So, I just wanted to clear that up :P

Right, onto my weekend. Friday night I was babysitting, so I couldn't update my blog then, even if I wanted to, and it was so fucking BORING! I had to sit through almost 4 hours of crap evening telly before I could even set up my Gamecube and start playing Resident Evil 4.

Yesterday, I was playing Resident Evil 4 for a bit, then I stopped to play Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, then moved back onto RE4, then onto Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater on PS2, which I completed at..1am this morning ^_^

Whilst doing that, I was chatting with people on MSN. Mainly Lani, cos she was online a lot, and Magus, who knows I'm right about the PSP owning the DS, but because he's a Nintendo fanboy he declines to admit it.

Today's been pretty much the same as yesterday: gaming. Today's game has been Gran Turismo 4 though, just getting some of the races done.

Can't believe it's been a week since me and Claire split...I still can't believe that she lied to me about everything. Still, I'm single now and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't kinda enjoying it. I was intending on maybe finding somebody closer to home or, failing that, somebody I could see often, when I'm ready, of course. I have a couple in mind, but one's already turned me down because of our previous history. As for the others, I would be surprised if they didn't say no as well.

That's about it. Till tomorrow, or whenever I update because I don't seem to be regular anymore ^_^
-=Gav=-

Yay, about fucking time Easter reared its head. Means I'm closer to getting my PSP, plus I've got two weeks off. JOYGASM!!!!!!!!!

However, bad news. My England shirt hasn't turned up yet, despite the fact that it was a preorder, so it should have turned up yesterday. Rawk on Royal Mail \m/ (>_<) \m/

Bought Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening yesterday for the princely sum of £1, after trading four really shitty games in. It's very good, and very hard as well. Nice to see games finally offering a challenge. Also got Lullabies To Paralyze by Queens of the Stone Age today, despite already owning the album, cos I downloaded it a month or two ago, but I'm a fan so..I'll happily buy an album I've already played to death.

Gotta love heavy bass guitars, hehe. My bedroom floor is vibrating ^_^ Which would mean, in theory, that my walls are as well, cos my stereo speakers are attached to the wall.

Here are some random thoughts and things, in an attempt to be more interesting:

- The weather is shit. Yeah, it's kinda warm, but it's cloudy, and looks like it could rain. Wonderful.
- I was going to buy a microphone today for my laptop. I didn't though, so HAHA! Nobody is ever going to hear my voice, EVAH!
- I've gotta work Easter Sunday ¬_¬ Still, plus side is I lose the Tuesday, Thursday and Friday I was meant to work, and gain next Saturday, so..in the end I only lose 1 hour, so I'm not going to complain.
- I still don't like the suggested tags idea.
- It's been 6 weeks since February half term...doesn't the time fly, eh?
- If you pour a drop of alcohol onto a scorpion..just a drop..it goes mad and stings itself to death.
- Bees can only sting you once before dying. Wasps can sting 6 times before suffering the same fate.
- Sharks are dangerous, though if you punch them square on the nose, they'll swim away in pain because their skull is weak. Still..what're the odds you're able to do that before said shark comes and decides to use you as a meal?

OK, I'm done. Until next I blog.
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Before I start, I'd like to direct your attention to my newest project: A comic parody of Megaman. It can be found here: http://members.lycos.co.uk/realemotion/TheAdventuresofMegaman/ At the moment, only Episode 1 is there, but in time I'll start to make more, and then it'll be, hopefully, something to keep my occupied. Might help pass the time over Easter.

I plan on keeping this brief, mainly as I've not been doing a lot.

Current Mood: Content, could be better, but definately could be a lot worse.

Haha, I ripped your idea off Matto :P

Ya know, normally I like Easter. Chocolate, the ability to be able to laze around and just indulge. So, because of having to work, my entire day has been ruined.

Yeah, it could have been worse. The deputy manageress who I had to work with (I dislike her, she's not very good at her job, truth be known) could have been a total bitch, and got me to do everything whilst she sat back and did fuck all, but she didn't. It's just the fact that I had to give up my day just so Game could open. If a couple other shops had opened as well then yeah, OK, maybe there would have been a point, but Game was the only shop in town to open this year. Wasteful.

On the plus side, I'm not back until Saturday, doing 10 - 4 again. It should pass by quicker, hopefully. Saturday's are usually busy.

I don't know what else to talk about, to be honest. I'd go on about the thoughts in my head, though if I'm to be honest, they're a bit of a mess, and there's nothing important/worth mentioning. Plus there's the fact that I keep myself to myself i.e. I don't reveal my actual feelings most of the time, except to people I know I'm close to.

Well..till tomorrow.
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• Was at work today. It was so boring, and I never got the chance to talk to the manager about any opportunities for more hours, so I'll have to go in Monday and see what can be done then.
• Man United lost in the FA Cup Final :( They were totally raping Arsenal during normal time, and extra time, but then lost 5-4 in the penalty shootout. Meh..that's always a fucking lottery anyways.
• For some reason, I don't feel 100%. There's just..I dunno, something wrong with me. This is in reference to me being ill yesterday, not anything else, before anybody gets worried.
• Ooo..I got a tag for "sexiest man alive". Hehe..somebody must know me :P Still hate that idea though.
• Things personally are clearing up a little. I'm meeting up with Hev during half-term, if she's able to get the Saturday off work, and I'd be lying if I said that I'm not looking forward to it. Maybe we'll be able to hit it off..who knows? I'm definately hopeful though ^_^
• I actually have a day off!! It's my first full day off since..erm..I can't remember when. Two weeks ago, I think. I plan on just lazing around. Nothing new there.

http://www.mindsay.com/images/mssplash7-final-bigger-3-bu.jpg

Anybody else get the feeling that the dog in this pic is scared shitless?

• A 14-year old kid who stabbed his grandmother to death whilst sleepwalking. This was blamed on the fact that he'd played Diablo (PC) the day before. (Read that on http://www.cad-comic.com, and felt it was suitable for the argument I'm posing).
• In the UK, last summer, the whole Manhunt (PS2) debacle. A 16 year old kid kills his friend. The parents of the boy who wass killed pin it on the fact that the killer was playing Manhunt, and his mind was warped. The game was banned, until it was proven in court that it wasn't the killer who had played it, rather the killed.
• I remember reading a case, I think it was in America or Brazil, where kids were playing out a game of Resident Evil (PSone), where one group of kids were "zombies", and the others had shotguns loaded with live ammunition.

• Go into town, possibly coming come with DVDs/CDs/both.
• Book new hair appointment and have it cut before Mena comes down, as it's been about two months since I had it done last.
• Resist urge to take Gamecube games in and come back with another PSP game (this one's the most likely to not happen).
• Watch England v Wales (World Cup Qualifier).
• Finish off Mena's DVD of CDs.
• Tell Mena I love her more times than she'll say it to me :D

• Sega Europe
• Codemasters
• Sony (Studio Liverpool, Studio Cambridge and LONDONstudio)
• Eidos Interactive
• Rareware
• Criterion Games
• Climax
• Sumo Digital
• Ubisoft
• Konami
• Namco
• Capcom
• Nintendo
• Microsoft Game Studios
• Gameplay
• Simply Games
• Gamestation
• Atari
• HMV
• MVC
• and more which I can't remember

• Look through each and every game I own that can be traded in towards Xbox 360, and decide whether to keep them or not.
• Make a tidy list of games I want to get rid of.
• Buy printer cartridges.
• Start working out some T+Cs for a Loyalty competition GAME Grantham wanna run, which I'm in charge of. Bad idea of you ask me :P
• Play a bit of Flames, and try to get good at it.
• Some other crap that I'll probably think up on the day.

• All The Right Reasons - Nickelback
• You Could Have It Much Better - Franz Ferdinand

Answers on a postcard.