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Pub Quiz Round 2


11 Dec

I’m sitting in a pub at the mo and Dave says I am sad for blogging here. Hmmm… Probably but who cares. We have been at the pub quiz tonight and we are currently waiting for the results.

 

Unfortunately while we are waiting the quiz master insists on playing crappy jazzed up christmas tunes and believe me, they’re awful. As I say that, someone has just gone up and broken the CD player that was playing the music, we all thank her from the bottom of our hearts. The quiz was this week rather “taxing” and very christmas orientated but I believe we have done ok. We’ll see when the results come in I guess.

 

The results are being read now ……… And we have drawn for 1st place with another team…… After a grueling tie break in which Nic battled very hard to drink a “dirty pint” we lost, ho hum we can still pride ourselves in knowing we have incredible knowledge (and knowing that the other team in the tie actually got 50% of their answers from evesdropping on us ).

 

Right going to stop this entry here as Dave keeps on moaning.

 

Night all

 

 

A  

Monday and Poker night


06 Dec

Hello,

Sorry I did not write yesterday, after Monday things were all a bit of an effort to do! Anyway Monday night was great, the party was a huge success and everyone (including Paul and Matt) had a good time in Corporation. Also trying to put together exactly what happened and how everyone got home etc etc was just as much fun! Oh well maybe we will never know where Claire was for most of the night . She was in Corp just not entirely sure where!

The Poker night has been cancelled for tomorrow due to lack of interest (and someone wanting to have pizza with their girlfriend more) so when the new night is arranged I will let you know!!

My photo walk has not happened yet as it is chucking down rain at the moment and whilst rain can make great photo’s I am not in the mood for getting wet!

I’m off for lunch now. Bye

A

Last night


05 Dec

Photo’s here, Feeling ill, Will write later, going back to bed

Oh god!

A

Happy Birthday Dave


04 Dec

It’s David’s birthday today! We are all going to his house later for a party and then onto Corporation! Anyone who wants to meet us @ corp for a drink (or 50) is more than welcome! Get there about 10pm and look for me!! There will be around 40 peeps from our lot so you should be able to spot us.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVE

 

 

 

 

 

 

For your special day I have a present for you FAR better than you can ever imagine!!! HAHA You’ll see!!

Also I worked out today that I have been riding on this planet for 1,284,888,000 miles give or take a few million! Want to know how I worked this out? Read this post from WWdN In Exile

 

A

Sunday night after an eventful Weekend


04 Dec

Evening all,

         It’s Sunday night and I have been chilling out this afternoon, after a very full weekend. Friday was one of those days, having done a full mornings research for my dissertation my brain had gone into melt down mode by the afternoon, so I needed to find something that was going to, as well as rest my brain not bore me to death! Sleeping was out as I cannot sleep in the day (I have to be extremely tired), and I wasn’t in the mood for reading my book! I tried to do some alterations on my blog but the research I needed to do was far too much effort for my poor knackered brain! After some game playing on the PC (I had a sudden urge to re-install Halo!!) I then trawled through my google reader items and posted a few to my newly created public Reader Page I will keep adding to this so you can see what I read and what I enjoy reading about! This whole process only took 30 or so minutes though. Then I decided to see what Dave was doing, which turned out to be “not a lot” I promptly grabbed my shoes jacket and Zen and away I went on the 35 min walk to Dave’s house. I like the walk to Daves, it gives me time to think about and reflect on things, in fact some of my posts (past and future) have been thought up on the way to Daves house. Anyway, I arrived at Daves and we spent the afternoon playing Pro Evo ( I hate that game) and just chilling, Claire and Katie came over later in the evening and Jamie came home from work as well, so by 10pm there was a good 5 people (Al was there too) in the house and we all crashed on the couch and watched I Robot. Meadowhall_1

Saturday was ok, I went into town first thing and did some shopping and then came back to my flat. After a cup of tea it was time for Claire and I to go and battle our way through Meadowhall shopping centre. It is Daves birthday tomorrow so we.. sorry, Claire, had to get him a present or two and of course Andy, gets taken along to help her! Well 6 hours later we got home and boy was I tired, my feet, back and neck all ached, I felt like I had just climbed the Old Man of Coniston. I spent a bit of money on some things but generally was a good geek and resisted the temptations of all the lovely shops. Once I got back and had a cup of tea, which restored some of my energy and I tidied up my room. Lorrae then came round at about 7 to watch telly! She doesn’t have a telly at the moment so she comes round and invades my room to watch things (Lorrae you know I am joking, I love having you round!!) So we watched XFactor  and “Take That Live” (there is no smiley for “Shoot me” but imagine one) and then we watched Parkinson which was great as it had Daniel Craig, Ben Elton and Robin Williams on, put those 3 together and you really do get a great show! Oh and I cooked a fantastic meal, Pizza (bunged in the oven) and for afters Lorrae brought a Vienetta  which lasted all of about 10 mins

Sunday as I said at the start I chilled really, I did some work this morning and also some more shopping with Claire and we started to decorate the flat with xmas decorations. I also really needed to start catching up on my E-mails and I was going to do that this afternoon but just… didn’t… so at some point I will get round to reading the 300 or so mails I have and deleting the 600 junk mail my spam filter has collected! If you have e-mailed me and I haven’t replied yet, you now know why.

WeatherI am going to do a Photowalk at some point this week hopefully, I want the weather to be right and at the moment it’s all looking a bit grey and dismal for my part of the world, as you can see from my weather widget <==. A photowalk by definition is “When a photographer goes on a walk somewhere familiar or unfamiliar with a camera and takes random spur-of-the-moment, unposed photos.” I have never done this but one of my favourite photographers Thomas Hawk does it a lot and seeing his work really makes me want to head off out there and take some snaps. Also walking around Sheffield I see so many points where I think “boy that would make a great photo”, but I never have my camera. When I have done it I will let you all know and post them to flickr for you all to see!!

Right it’s 11:45 and I need some shut eye before tomorrow, see you all soon.

 

 

Take me Drunk, I'm home


30 Nov

— No, I’ve not lost the plot and no I am not P***ed, I saw the title of this entry on a sticker on the side of a wheelchair today and it made me laugh – that’s all. —         

         Evening all I am much less fragile now (thanks to a subway sandwich and a coke ) and so I thought I’d tell you about my day!        

        Firstly I managed to make it though today and get my assignment handed in so that was a good point, I also did a bit of window shopping with Lorrae (well she bought things and I looked) so I have a few ideas for xmas presents! I did though get home this afternoon and discover I had post! Now post can be and usually is, quite fun, unless it’s a bill then it sux! Well this post was pants, It was from the student loans company, it was one of their friendly reminders just saying “Hi, hope your well, you now owe us a whopping £8,552.00, Have a good day” They send them round once a year or so just to remind you that once you complete your degree and get a job a percentage of ur salary will be sucked away before you ever see it and this will go on for 80 million years or until you die, which ever comes first! Ok maybe not that long, but doing some maths I reckon it’s gonna take roughly 15 years to pay that of for most people (ok ok it’s job and salary dependent, but I am just averaging). Oh well only another 1.5 years to go and a cool 6.5k more to add to that yum!

Other than that my day has been ok! DHL are useless but that is a totally different story and not one I have the energy to post here now!

Ho hum I am off for a cup of tea now!

Bye for now

A

The Pat Video


16 Nov

Well it’s the Afternoon now!

I managed to get up for Uni ok and have now been back home for an hour! I looked through the collection of vids and photos and found a pretty good video actually!So I have uploaded it to my YouTube account! Here it is!

 Also, all the photos from last night have now been uploaded to my Flickr account! click here to see them!  UPDATE: This is from soapbox now as YouTube reduced the quality of my video too much when I uploaded it!! hm… might be a blog entry in that (youtube vs soapbox) watch this space 


Video: Pat Sharpe

It's Pat Sharpe


16 Nov

I went out tonight with 2 possible aims! I have a cold at the mo so it was entirely depended on how a felt. Aim No.1, Go out and celebrate Mr Alex Mason’s birthday with him and watch the football then come home! Aim No. 2 Do the above but if feeling well enough go to Kingdom (aka mingdom) and see the legendary Pat Sharpe with the birthday boy and everyone else. Well after a few beers the illness subsided and I went to Mingdom!

I got close enough to Pat Sharpe to say hello (see pics below). It was a good night though I did leave before everyone else as I am still feeling rubbish! It is now 1.06am Thursday morning and I am in Uni for 9am! That said I think I can claim to be the 1st person in Sheffield to have posted a blog with a Photo of Pat Sharpe in Sheffields Kingdom nightclub! Oh and just for Jamie I got a photo of him shaking the legends hand! Happy days bud, happy days!

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Pat you are a Legend!

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It’s J and Pat!! Best Friends!

All copyright of this photo belongs to both myself, Andrew Wardlaw and Jamie Lavington!! No unauthorised copies maybe produced

 

Head meet Hangover, Hangover meet head!


03 Oct

Ug……. What a morning, got up at 11am and all I could muster to say do or think was “need coffee” and then wobble to get one! Yep I went out last night, after some dithering around by Claire we decided to go meet Dom (Matt’s mate) and his mate in the graduate! So Claire, Matt, James and myself all jumped in a taxi and went over to the pub. Dave, Jamie and Al (and later the other Al) met us all there as well. Needless to say the whole idea of “just a couple” that Claire had come up with didn’t last more that ooohhh… 15 seconds. Anyway, come 12:30, 10 mins after drinking up time we got thrown outta the pub :( but that didn’t matter tooo much as by that point I think we had all had to much! Then came the …… argument/debate/pleading kinda thing, Claire wanted to go back to Dave’s house to continue on the night but Matt (the flat pet and keyless as he doesn’t pay to live here) wanted to go home. I was going to do whatever Matt decided cause he needed to get home and If I went to Daves an left him on his own he couldn’t have! Anyway Claire pleaded and begged and argued and moaned but in the end Matt and I went home for a rest while Claire, went to Dave’s. Matt did point out a funny thing though, Claire who has lectures at Collegiate Campus was going to Dave’s and most likely would end up on his couch and not coming home at 3am. Now Dave lives a) about 4 miles from my Flat and B) to get back to the flat (which Claire has to do) She has to walk past Collegiate Campus! So as she is in at 11 that means she’d have to be up at 8am to get back get washed etc etc and go out to lectures which is nearly all the way to Dave’s again :) ! So neway….. She didn’t go to her 11am lecture, in fact she just txt Matt and asked him to go pick her up and he has (nutter) so I think Matt and myself made a good decision would you not agree??

Oh and on the way back here last night I had a lovely kebab my first of the new uni year!

Right I’m off I have to be in Uni at 2 and need food, more coffee and a shower

Byeeeeeeeee

A post from Uni


02 Oct

Yep I’m in uni between lectures so I thought I’d use this time constructivly and write a blog. Ok ok i know I should be learning and enhancing my knowledge (isn’t that the same thing) but it’s the first day and I have very little to learn! Just had a lecture on the Fundamentals of Computer Architecture where our lecturer built a PC right infront of us just missing the case e.g. there is a motherboard and some ram etc etc put it all on a table plug it all in and see what happens! It worked great until he picked it all up and the PSU and the motherboard touched together and then there was a pop and some smoke and no more was it a working PC! Dave’s just sat down next to me HI Dave!!!! Jamie is to my left and Kev’s over there <--

I got a lecture at 5 till 6 then I am done and Matt is going to drive me home! Mainly because I have food at my house and he's hungry! He also seems to be the Flat pet which is nice, he needs a home! I am tryong to get some pictures from freshers week onto here at the mo but the technology is letting me down! I might have to put them up later when I am back in my flat and can use my phones data cable. Sying that I might get one in a sec hold on......

Bingo

Me and the Lovely Claire

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s me and Claire!!! More to come later

Right I am off now got a lecture with a woman called NOREEN!!!!

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