Warm Silence

I've been listening to this; wrapped in blankets...

Gypsy the Dog

Unsurprisingly I've been so so lazy. Went to visit my mother in hospital. She seemed better today after the previous night being sick, a reaction to the anesthesia. On the way back to U.E.A I chanced upon a man laying on his back across the pathway. As I approached him he looked to have pissed himself. Someone previously cycled past him and gave a glancing look. I started to quiz the piss stained man without much success. He had a worn face, his lips had white puss and he smelt of drink. He tried to explain that someone had stolen his dog Gypsy. Can I find it for him ? eh, what ? After determining that he was just drunk I turned and walked away. As I walked away he was shouting TWAT !!! YOU CUNT !! An ambulance had stopped and asked me if he was okay. I indicated that he was drunk and they drove away. Hope he's not dead, still, I can't say I that bothered.

Fruit Juice and Fifty Pence Piece

No reason for this post - other than an odd thought that I will share with err... whoever.

um... scrap that. I changed my mind. I hate coincedence !!! There, I said it...

Or is it ?

What ?

Wish is my #CMD_SHELL

Since my last post I have spent alot of time visiting hospital. Firstly I managed to fall off my bike breaking my right clavical. It didn't hurt much though I sat concussed at the side of the street waiting for the ambulance for almost one hour. While I was waiting a few street people asked me for money and cigarettes. Also, just before Christmas, I was punched in the face. Blood was dripping over my face; later it developed into a black eye. I walked through coffee shop in the Forum to get tissue for my wound, I was alittle embarrassed. Everything is just trouble at the moment... though I probably been asking for it... work, famly life, money. I'll see what else I can get people to break for me for 2011.

ANGRY

COLD...

Free to do what I like...

According to the weather forcast today was going to be greAT !!! I wouldn't know, I spent the whole day indoors.. MUST ADJUST BODY CLOCK TO WAKE EARLY !! MUST GET READY FOR WORK AGAIN !!! Start university again Monday. I'm excited, but worried about how difficult things may get.

PRACTICE SQL COMMANDS..

Be Seeing You...

More strange dreams - from what I can remember involving cutting someones' throat and being covered in blood raining from and open heart. There was more strange stuff - but too fucked-up to publish.

Oh- I've been pefecting my pancake making technique...

Saw lots of people, and as expected it was a mistake to speak to them.

Bought a cheap weight lifting bench to hold my free weights. Whilst walking through the streets of Norwich there was the usual pushing and shoving. The highlight was when a pram was rolled over my foot...

Luke and Chris knocked on my door- it's still unclear why..

Scream and Dream

Had an odd dream last night... it was kinda like a mini nervous break-down. I seemed to be in a taxi screaming as loud as I could manage - hope nobody heard as they might have thought someone was being hacked to death..

When I awoke I didn't feel too bad, almost restful. Wish I could lucid dream - that would be very handy.

Chris has returned to Norwich from his summer holiday. We walked into the city for him to buy a bicycle lock and some food. I say food but in actual fact he bought crisps, some berries and yogurt.. I bought 8 FAB ice lollies for 97p and ate all of them before they defrosted. It was abit embarrassing walking through the city with Chris. He looks about 10 years old and I'm not sure about eating crisps in public, it just seems wrong.

Old Fart

I pplanned to cycle to the beach today to watch the sunrise - instead I sat all day indoors farting, eating crisps, and ice cream. Despite the fact that yesterday I bought nice healthy food from the local deli, a 26 pack of Walker's crisps has been left in the kitchen cupboard. By myself I usually manage to eat fairly well and stay-away from fatty food. The crisps are so tempting. I can't control my craving for fat..

Still, I might manage to do some sit-ups yet.. but not as many as I would like...

Stupid Old Bike

I tried drinking last night, GREAT. I guess that's why I woke today feeling completely drained of energy. Luke made me get-up and we turned the front room into a bike workshop. He replaced the shifter cables. It was actually a bit disturbing to see Luke. Someone left the front door unlocked and Luke decided to let himself into the house. I woke to him standing in my room wearing tight lycra cycling shorts. What is worse he insists on wearing the shorts with tightly pulled-up socks that defy gravity.

ATWA

Walked about in then sun wearing a GAP t-shirt made in Vietnam...

read basic string to numeric algorithm...BAH !!!

Cut the Jap

It's really hard to choose what CMP modules to take this coming semester. I dropped 'beginner Japanese' in favour of 'Data Structures and Algorithms'. I hope to take Japanese at a later date. Lucky enough I've discovered a way of viewing all the lecture notes for every CMP module online. maybe I can be better prepared.

Been cycling, cooking noodles, throwing stuff away, re-arranging my tiny room.

Sean the new house-mate moved some stuff into his room today. He asked me for a front door key. I gave him mine, I will use the back door instead.

Two uber geeks arrived today to visit Adam. Adam has only ever met them online. They look trust worthy enough...

I've just been downstairs to find no sign of Adam, but found the two 'Welsh computer gamers' having a LAN party in the front room. And why the hell has the fridge been filled with plates of chips dowsed in ketchup ???

Track and Field

Luke came-over and after some adjustment to my bike we cycled into town. Luke bought new bike parts and a rfid chip from http://www.immobilise.com/

Cycling was fairly difficult for me uphill, but as I found-out later the back brake was very slightly on, making cycling alot harder...

I looked pretty stupid with my podge belly and a tight Burghaus top.

There's a new and looks to be interesting podcast : http://www.japanpodcast.net


that is all...

Robots, toy tanks and Lube...

Woke early (well, earlier than any other student.) Went to the doctor's surgery. It was raining outside so I thought about wearing the trench coat, as I haven't a umbrella. Decided against it, a trench coat whilst wearing shorts underneath isn't a good look...

Spent the day trying to research mobility and robotics. Then Luke appeared.

Luke lubed the chain to my new bike, then made use of our free wireless Internet. I was trying to watch old 26C3 footage on wireless Tesla power experiments, though Luke kept showing me YouTube clips of toy tanks and Russian aircraft.

Freebie GB

I've found-out I could have claimed some free money; so I will.
Went to Luke's house, where he cooked me curry rice. He had never cooked 'curry rice' before and it was abit experimental. We spent the rest of the night watching season one of the tv series 'Red Dwarf'. Like always I nearly fell asleep.

Charity

Luke came-over. He's moved into his new house here in Norwich. For some unknown reason he started to give me random stuff. He gave me an old bicycle and a trench coat, also, a raid PCI card.

Back at Luke's house we sat eating carrots and scanned for wireless on his rubbish Alienware Dell... he tried to play a Red dwarf DVD but for some lame reason he didn't have the correct Linux codec... Luke has two decent books, one on Solaris 10, the other, algorithms and methods of the Linux kernal. He says that he's going to read them, I have no reason to doubt that.

I walked home through Eaton Park indifferent as usual.

Also, people who shop on Sunday aren't worth listening to, or worth my time.

Somehow...

Seem to be held in limbo at present, waiting for the new semester to start. Somehow I managed to progress to the second year of my degree, but I'm finding it difficult, and will have to try harder this coming year.

People seem to be returning to campus and stuff happening again...

I expect to have a new housemate arrive soon. Lets hope he's clean and tidy. Not being a facist about it, but some basic hygiene would be good.

Watched 'The Big Lebowski' the other day and 'This is England'. Both not that good...

King of Cups

Doesn't look like I'll be able to go to Berlin. No surprise.

There's masses of snow here, and the temperature in Germany is apparently going to be -10 degree celcius.

Just been sat indoors for the past few days, sleeping bag, coffee, camped next to the radiator reading. Might go visit mum and dad.

It's so cold here, Adam's cup cracked when he poured boiling water into it. I tried hard not to laugh... I own all the cups !!!

Apparently Nothing

I continue to drift along trying not to be mental. Always around Christmas time I became more mental than usual. Mumbling on the bus, with all my good intentions I always end with some mental leakage.

I seems to be getting okay passes on my University assignments, though I'm not sure how. Mostly luck I guess. Something I've really taken an interest in is Java serverlets. It took me awhile to get a Java development enviroment and postgreSQL installed on my eeepc, but now I'm all set.

I seems to be a lot of group-work at University, I really hate working in groups.

I must have looked a bit of a clown in Nero coffee shop today. I have holes in my pockets. Firstly, I dropped change into my pockets only for it to fall through my trouser leg bottoms, spilling onto the floor. Then I reached my other pocket to pull-out a stream of paper napkins I'd collected from different coffee shops.

Seriously thinking about a loan to get me to Berlin...maybe.

Happy Christmas, hope you're well. And Cor, don't work too hard !!!

A strange situation happened today. I witnessed the old lady walking ahead of me, fall flat on her face dropping her bag of Christmas cards. As I bent down to pick-up the dropped items. Loose change and bank cards spilt from my pockets onto the street. Suddenly my priorities had changed; I was swarmed by people helping the elderly lady to her feet.

Just my luck, I didn't help, it must have looked like I was pinching her money and credit cards instead.