Been working all over the place recently. Night shifts in Fortfield in Carrick, normal shifts in Rathcoole, my poor wee body clock is a bit broken, hence the quarter to four post at the minute! I suppose this is a better thing than sticking to my normal sleeping pattern though, it’s getting me sleeping through about half the day, which I think is maybe closer to what I need on nights? I should maybe try doing that thing where you sleep for half an hour at a time? Only problem would be getting the half hour during an 8 hour shift…

I tidied my room a bit today, it’s actually a little cleaner than before, but it still needs a lot of work! Maybe get a chance to do some more tomorrow.

Anyway I’m actually getting a little tired now, so I’ll head to sleep, yknow make hay while the sun shines, and all that jazz!

Cheerio

Amanda and I were in Fuerteventura from mid June until the end of June. We had a really good time, such a lovely country. We also got engaged

Right now I’m sitting in the Subway in SPAR Mallusk. Had a breakfast thing, very tasty! Currently waiting on the car getting serviced. Must say, I’m at a bit of a loose end for a few hours! Might dander down into Glengormley or something. Hopefully the car won’t be too long

Sadly my flash doesn’t seem to be working, it won’t charge, so I presume something has blown up, which is crap. Shall have to send it to Mr Nikon and see if he’ll fix I think it’s still under warranty, and it’s insured, but only if it costs more than £100 to fix… And I don’t know if I would want to claim on the insurance for something like this… Views please people lol.

Anyway I’m going to head on here, and find something fun to do. Cya!

Watching an old episdode of gladiators, funny programme!

It’s a terrible morning, really wet, roads covered in standing water, bit un-fun for driving..

Anyway, don’t know what I’m doing next week, mum’s school sports day on Thursday, so I have a date with my camera, as usual. The place that does her website is stopping their free service, so going to design her a new website I think… Exciting stuff!

Anyway, don’t have much else to say right now, might blog again soon if I can think of anything interesting to say…

Only 2 weeks and a few days of class left, and then into exams…  Even those are over really early, so summer will come soon!  Need to lose a bit of weight before we go away to Fuertaventura lol…  Don’t wanna be too big!  Oh well.

Currently watching some old episodes of The Gadget Show, currently on the Christmas/Winter special from last year.  Really funny!  The last one had a jet powered hovercraft, which was quite funny.  The wee jets always remind me of Clarkson in Top Gear live a couple of years ago – he built a jet powered wheelchair – God, did it make some noise!

Got a telephoto lens a few weeks ago, it’s pretty cool having the option of zooming in a bit more.  Good for taking the slightly further away pics.  Glad that it has VR though, really makes a difference at full zoom!

Only one night of Anchor Boys left too!  Nice to finish a the end of the year…

Going on my flying lesson that Amanda’s mum and dad (and maybe her sister) got me for my birthday last summer.  Can’t wait.  Should be good fun   Getting new sunglasses too, just in case I need them

There’s a cool computer controlled house in Dubai on TGS.  Are we going to end up with these houses in 20 years?  Ortis just walked into a room, the computer knew he wanted to watch a movie, he walked into the room, the computer decided to shut the curtains, turn the TV on…  Stuff like that lol.  Crazy!  Think it’s developed by eHome?  Pretty damn nifty…  What a way to spook the burglars!

Anyway, I better head on, need to go and get my dinner..  Yum pizza

Cheerio!!

Not really a lot going on, last week of Easter hols, have to tidy my room, and have a couple of short assignments to do, nothing too stressful though   Been working a bit, although very little extra compared to usual, just the odd hour here and there…  Think that’s the best way, just doing extra hours at the start of your shift lol.

Went for a bit of a drive/BBQ on Sunday with Amanda.  We originally decided to go to Crawfordsburn, but when we got that length it was packed, so decided to head down the side of Ards a bit…  Ended up outside Millisle, which was actually lovely and quiet, and we had our BBQ there.  Had some lovely, very tasty burgers, chicken kebabs, and some hot dogs…  The only issue was the lack of rolls in the shops, our own shop had run out, so had Carrick Milestone, and Tesco in Newtownabbey.  We ended up with ciabattas for the hot dogs, and crusty baps for the burgers…  Nice though!

Random, dad just rang me there, for maybe 30 seconds…  I have to go and pick up his car from QUB this afternoon, and he was just reminding me not to be too late lol.

Anyway, better love you all and leave you!  Promise it won’t be too long before I blog again.

We had our BB display on Friday past.  It wasn’t as good as previous years, not too sure why.  There is a slight lack of older boys, which I think is affecting the quality of potential items for the display…  Also the Company Section don’t do much drill, which I think is a pretty important part of the BB.  Even the Junior Section didn’t dedicate a complete item to figure marching, they had to have a wee dance at the end.  Nothing wrong with that, but the quality of the marching was awful.  The Anchor Boys and ‘Puppies’ were quite good, although I am biased, but their items had a certain finesse, although they were a bit long winded, mainly due to the lack of space for the games, meaning only half the boys could actually participate at a time…  And obviously they all had to have a go!

This morning has been quite boring, just the usual 9am lecture on Nuclear & Atomic Physics, which is a bit dry, but nonetheless essential…  It wasn’t without it’s usual drama…  Some eejit had broken the VGA lead into the projector, and worst of all, didn’t bother reporting it, meaning the lecture didn’t start until 9.15am, but hey, what can you do…

I was reading an interesting article in April’s edition of ‘RadCom’, published by the RSGB.  It was in the EMC (ElectroMagnetic Compatibility) section, and was talking about a radio amateur in England who had been having severe trouble with man made interference.  He built himself a small detector, on the end of a fishing rod, to try and find the telephone line that the interference was coming from, and tracked down the offending house.  When checking with the owner of the house he found that the guy had a number of switch mode power supplies, the ‘bricks’ that are plugged into the wall, to power USB drives…  It was found that these were causing the interference, and the telephone lines were picking up the interference, ‘transmitting’ it all over the place…  Unplugging the power supplies when they weren’t needed fixed the interference problem…  An added side effect was that the guys DSL connection greatly increased in speed…  So if you’re experiencing slow DSL connection problems, perhaps try unplugging some of the power supplies you have around the house, things like phone chargers, ipod chargers, laptop power supplies and digital photo frames, to name but a few, and you might find you get a great increase in speed…  Of course you might need some of these things, but switching them off when not in use could save you a pile of energy, and also increase your broadband speed…

I think it’s probably busy today, St. Patrick’s day tomorrow, so the Post Office were doing the payouts for tomorrow today… Great!

Anyway, it’s almost time for my final class of the day… Ok! Well I only had 2 anyway, but it’s still my *final class*

Cheers