Well, its my 21st birthday today.
I am typing this sitting in my new executive chair, with my new digital camera charging on top of the printer, I’m drinking a cold Larger left over from Christmas and my new t-shirts (4 of them) are in a pile on the bed.
I also got a road atlas of the UK, six cards and £45.
Going out for a meal with the family later tonight
See ya!
The same old thing happened!
I drove around, practicing manoeuvers.
Today (3rd May) drove down the Portway past @Bristol and then up park street, after that I’m not sure, but we did up going through Westbury and Southmead.
Did three or four turns in the road at the Downs. I also did a couple of left reverses and a parallel park.
Theory test next week, I’m doing a test run on Friday to see how long it will take me to get to the test centre.
Hooray! I booked my first driving lesson! (even though you probably guessed that from the title!)
I booked it with Drivercraft. It will cost me £8.50 an hour, and it is a two hour lesson.
The lesson is booked for Thursday at 2pm (GMT). Thats tomorrow!
I have mixed emotions about it.
I am happy that I have finally booked a lesson, its been 3years and 8months since I turned 17.
I am also nervous and scared at the same time, but I think that is only natural.
Watch out other road users!
Here I come!
Now I go,
Bye…
Happy New Year to everyone
This is how I celebrated the New Year with my dad and sister, mum went out to a party *sigh*
10 minutes to midnight and we decided to walk onto the Avonmouth motorway bridge, just what we did last year! Only this year we were at the bottom of the steps leading up to the roadway when midnight struck.
So we jogged up the steps and watched the fireworks from the start of the bridge instead of over the park & ride like we did last year.
So then, onto New Year resolutions:
Thats it for now.
I’ll keep you posted!
Aw!
Thursday night there was a few centimetres of snow, but this morning its all melted.
One day we’ll get a white Christmas, this year it is only four days late!
Though on Wednesday we had a light dusting of snow that looked like very thick frost, but it was all melted in a couple of hours
Lets just hope we get more!
Cool, its boxing day, and I have managed to make a Christmas present work on Linux with no frustration, and I have setup two other things that I have been putting off for a while.
First to the Christmas present, its a USB 2 8 in 1 card reader/writer with a slot for SD cards, just what I wanted!
Reading the pdf manual on the CD tells me that on Mac OS 10.3 and higher just needs plugging in. One deep breath and its plugged in, check dmesg and it has been recognised.
Plug in the SD card, its put in upside-down (weird!) and a new icon appears on my desktop.
It has been automatically mounted under /mnt/removable
All my files are there. Whoohoo 🙂
The second success is finally getting DVD playback.
I was Stumbling around the web when I came across xinehq.de I’ve already got the player installed, it just didn’t want to play DVDs!
A quick google for libdvdcss, a download of the rpm and its installed
I have now watched the first five minutes of both “The Italian Job” (original) and “Johnny English”
The third and final success is the installation of the Belkin bluetooth adapter that I brought when I brought my PDA, 3 years ago!
I plugged it in, the little blue light stared to flash, and I downloaded BlueZ and managed to scan and make a short, but successful connaction with my PDA.
I also managed to find the computer with the PDA
Phew!
All that and I still managed to cook dinner!
Christmas is only a few days away now, Ive only just finished Christmas shopping
As I’m typing this up there is the sound of sellotape being unwound from the roll and wrapped two or three times around some ones or others present(s).
The lack of updates has been partly due to the fact that I am spending so much time at work and other projects, like the infamous new project, and IMfriends which is still in alpha testing, and probably won’t ever see the light of day.
Today/tomorrow/Friday (depending on your view of things) will be rammed at work as it is payday, and there is still two days of Christmas shopping days left.
Roll on May… 😉
Tilly the rat died sometime during yesterday afternoon/evening, while I was at work.
When I got home that evening I had a quick look in the cage and I saw that she was lying in front of her nest box.
When I went to play with her later on during the night she was still in the same spot, and was cold.
I don’t really feel all that sad for her, as she was probably in some form of discomfort, and she was old.
Wherever she is now, she is at rest
Hello,
I am Anthony Rogers, I am 20 years old, even though I don’t look it!
I have a website hosted at http://members.lycos.co.uk http://www.roganty.co.uk
I have had this site for the past two to three years and keep on updating it infrequently.
At the moment I am working on an image gallery script with its own admin area.
I started this project for use in the Photo Section on my website, but I will release it for general use.
My dad and I went to the The Swan Inns 1st Beer Festival. We paid £5 for a ticket, which got us a commemorative 1/2 pint beer mug. A further £10 brought us four beer tokens each.
On offer was around 20 different beers from around the UK, plus a couple of ciders, in total there was 24 different beers.
The four beers that I tried was: Gem, Autumnal, Dark Island, and Abbot Ale;
The four beers that dad tried was: Roaring Meg, Wicked Witch, Old Bob, and Piddle in the Wind
Thats all for now!