30 minutes or more

Got in from my run... 40 minutes ago.

Was a good run, no stitches occurred. woooooo.
My legs are a lot more sore though... I was changing out of my running clothes and I was stumbling all over the place... XD

I think that's because like, before I went out for half an hour or so? So I would have spent 5 minutes on a warm up and cool down. 25 minutes running/jogging and walking. This time was about 10 minutes longer. I think I'll just keep adding 10 minutes every time now until I've been running/jogging and walking for at least an hour. I dunno...
But yeah, watched some Big Bang Theory followed by a bit of Scrubs. Then I went back to WTKGTS (When The Kids Go To Sleep). If you don't know what this is, it's a podcast with Shaycarl and Katielette from the YouTubes. Shaycarl, Shaytards, Katielette and a numerous number of other channels and so forth.
It's a great podcast as well. I hope to be on twitter at the right time some time and be able to ask them a question. As to what I ask, I don't quite now....
I have tweeted Shay asking what he'd think of a UK branch of the company he helped create, Maker Studio. He never replied of course.... I think the day Shay and Stephen Fry reply to a tweet of mine, will be a freaking happy day for me!
Listening to Moab Is My Washpot as well. On and off really. It's Stephen Fry's first auto biography? maybe? I dunno if it's first, but it's one of them. I think it's mostly of his childhood? It's a good listen and very interesting.

But anywaysh! I was talking to Mr Dannybokko (Dan) about running when I got back in and remembered I wasn't signed on Windows Live Messenger. I think, if I can keep up with running at least 3 times a week until summer 2013, Dan and I should do a marathon. I highly doubt I'll manage to finish, or if I do, it'll be very slowly! Is there any rules for a marathon run? Like... Could I do the running technique that I use? Run/jog for 60-90 seconds, walk for 120? We could probably manage that easily enough!
But yeah, this idea is from Shay again. He's running a marathon in 48 or 49 days? I've forgotten what marathon it is. Anyways!
This summer, I want to be taking a few people to Alton Towers. Graham and Dan have never been on roller coasters. Sucks to be them!
So I'll be dragging Graham, Dan, Dan will probably drag Nicky, maybe Callum as well, and anyone else who wants to come, and I want to pick up Chrisseh in Newcastle on the way.
I need to have passed my driving test though... I think I'm the only one with access to a large car really. My mums old Vauxhal Zafira. It's currently unused, and because of that, the battery is dead again. But dad has stopped insuring it since no one drives it. So if I can pass my test and insure it, he may fix the battery. Then I can claim the car! Yaaay! I get to drive behind the wheel of my mums car. I cannot say how much it'd mean to be actually. For so many years I sat next to my mum while she drove. It'd be nice to be driving it myself.
Honestly, when it comes to cars, I want an Audi R8 V10. But that's like £150,000! But yeah, I think my cars in the future, they will mainly be Vauxhall or Audi because I grew up with them. I love those cars. Other cars don't really interest me...
Anyway! Yeah so I think, in my mum's Zafira, I'll drive for a bit, I'll have Callum with me so we can swap. Don't think either of us would have driven so far before so it'd be ideal to take breaks every so often. Probably have Dan and Nicky with me as well, save the 5th seat for Chris. The car does have 2 more seats in the very back, but with the luggage, we'd be lucky to fit a 6th person at all... If others were coming too like... Zoe and Yasmin for instance. Those two and Graham could be in Zoe's car, although it's small but there'd be 3 of them and they could put luggage in the Zafira. Graham finishes his test too so he and Zoe can swap around.
But yeah... I need a job first and blaaargh...

Which reminds me! I got a call randomly today from Brighthouse. They are basically a store like PC World only, they sell electrical goods and furniture! For poor people too! So like, payment once a week until it's fully paid? Something like that. So I have an interview at the Leith store on Friday at 12pm. I wonder how I can ask about the pay without sounding... I dunno... would it be rude to enquire about payment? Just like, is it commission only or something? Does it have a base pay and commission? So unlike that first job, I won't be left with nothing if I can't make a sale. Anything sounds good compared to that honestly... door to door, asking people if they want to subscribe to a monthly donation thing for the British Red Cross. Not easy... Particularly the walking! But yeah... I think I'll also go to Ocean Terminal on that day and the Gyle to pick up a sheet with any available jobs. Graham said that the like, main contact desk or something, give you a print off of all the available jobs in the place. Very handy. So I'll save £3.20 I think it is, to buy a day ticket so I can get a bus all over the place.

I think I may go sleep now... I still have a piece of pizza left but I don't think I can manage it at all. So I think I'll just go sleeps now. Hopefully I don't wake up Yasmin. I definitely won't wake up Graham. He's a far too heavy sleeper!
Good night!

"I just want to let you know, Good luck. We're all counting on you"
Heh, classic line. Airplane that's from I think. Also featured in one of the Star Wars spoofs Family Guy did.

NIGHTNIGHT

Semi-Productive day today!

I went out shopping and bought stuff we needed.
Bought the Haribo I owed Gromble. Bought some Pepsi for the peoples coming for pizza, blahblahblah

Shame my money doesn't really last honestly but oh well... How I can make £106 last two weeks when I have to pay my phone bill every so often and blaaaaah, I don't know... Oh well!

When I got back I finished Half Life 2 Episode One. Went onto Trials HD when Callum told me he was beating me in skill games. Didn't take long to take the lead on them again! Although, Inside The Ball - Freaking hard.... Buuut I got 30m on Callum so woo. I only stopped there because I didn't know there were explosives I was about to go over, so they blew me up... Meh.
So once I beat Callum, I informed him of course. He apparently tried to beat me with some girls from next door. Not to sound sexist, but they wouldn't have a chance. I only say that because, at Robert Gordon University, I wouldn't imagine there are many gamer girls. I have yet to really come across any gamer girl honestly... It'll be a fun day when I do, I'm sure.
But I was right at least, Callum texted Graham and I to say "we give up" basically. So I win! Again!

Anyway, after I went onto Half Life 2 Episode Two. Sad ending, not as short as EP1 I don't think. But quite good. Also, I finished it today. Spent most of the day doing it.

I can understand that people are wanting episode 3 or just HL3 but honestly, staging a ... I wouldn't call it protest, even though they do. They are freaking stupid.
I love Halo for instance, but I'm not sitting here freaking out over the lack of any information...
Some may argue that at least we KNOW Halo 4 is coming. But so what if we don't know about Half Life? Surely that just means the surprise will be even greater!
It's the people who are so obsessed like this on the internet who make me ashamed of the internet... Then there's the people who fight for the internet, like Anonymous, Freedom Information Network, so on. They are great people.
I was watching a Philip Defranco Show yesterday I think. Philly D was talking about this UFC guy, how his site was hacked by anonymous because he supports SOPA and all that crap. He was like
"ORLY? DO IT AGAIN NOOBS!"
So they did, and put his personal details online.
The guy then proceeded to compare this act, to 9/11... Fucking dumbass for one, then he went on to say "they'll get Osama Bin Landen'd" and he then followed up by saying "I'll kick those nerds asses!" Have fun with that jackass... Start by jumping off a bridge.
We need less people who don't understand the internet and try to censor it and all that crap... Along with needed less racists and so on.
I was looking at a picture on Facebook about a situation on a plane. It was hilarious in the end. I'll go find it so I don't have to relay it, I'm useless with that.

...

This happened on TAM airlines.

A 50-something year old white woman arrived at her seat and saw that the passenger next to her was a black man. Visibly furious, she called the air hostess.

"What's the problem, ma'am?" the hostess asked her
"Can't you see?" the lady said - "I was given a seat next to a black man. I can't seat here next to him. You have to change my seat"

- "Please, calm down, ma" - said the hostess
"Unfortunately, all the seats are occupied, but I'm still going to check if we have any."

The hostess left and returned some minutes later.

"Madam, as I told you, there isn't any empty seat in this class- economy class.
But I spoke to the captain and he confirmed that there isn't any empty seats in the economy class. We only have seats in the first class."

And before the woman said anything, the hostess continued

"Look, it is unusual for our company to allow a passenger from the economy class change to the first class.
However, given the circumstances, the commandant thinks that it would be a scandal to make a passenger travel sat next to an unpleasant person."

And turning to the black man, the hostess said:

"Which means, Sir, if you would be so nice to pack your handbag, we have reserved you a seat in the first class..."

And all the passengers nearby, who were shocked to see the scene started applauding, some standing on their feet."

Brilliant in my opinion!

So yeah... Less jackasses in the world, more nice people please!

Wish I could win a lot of money so I can help my friends where ever they may be.

Ah well... One day I shall rule the world and then I'll save everyone who deserves a chance to live.

I don't want to sound like the next Hitler, but honestly. Send the jackasses who are racist, or ridiculously homophobic and unsupporting of transgenders and all that, send those bastards to a concentration camp...

I have a good transgender friend. "She's my little sister" I like to say. I love her very much and I wish I could help her but there's nothing I can do sadly...

Ah well... SO that's about for me. Think I'll try finish my margarita + double bacon pizza now then... I dunno, try and finish a game... Maybe I'll do Bioshock 2 at last.

Laters!

Not a very productive day again

Not a whole lot went on again today.
Tried to go as long as I could without eating because there's no food and Graham's grandparents would be bringing food around 7ish.
I ended up nomming Graham's Haribo and an orange. Not very filling but it was alright.
I owe Graham Haribo now... meh. I get money tomorrow so I can buy what I owe n suuuch.
Finished Half Life 2 though. It was so freaking confusing... The ending I mean...
I guess it doesn't help that I never played Half Life. I think I tried to in college once I had finished computer building related stuff, we were allowed to play games until everyone finished. But I didn't get far anyway.
I should definitely play Half Life when I have the chance.
So I've started Episode One now. It's interesting so far. But still a bit, "What the hell"-ish.

Had an intrusion from Yasmin when Graham got back. Graham likes picking up strays!
She's nice anyway. It's always fun to hang out with her, but it doesn't help that I'm still an awkward pillock.

She left maybe, 20 minutes ago for her bus, which she may miss. Because she can't find her way to Haymarket and the buses may be delayed or something? I don't know... But she may be coming back to stay the night. It's convenient really since she'd be coming tomorrow anyway for pizza!
At first, she wasn't going to come because she was going to go do her zumba class. I don't really see the attraction in zumba... Maybe to get toned and learn to dance when you're fit already, but to get fit? I don't think it's something I'd consider. Besides, I have an Xbox Kinect with Your Shape, Fitness Evolved 2012! It's probably better. Certainly better than any Wii fitness game... Wii sucks.

Actually, Callum managed to finally beat my time in a couple tracks on Trials HD. So I need to try and take back my leads.
It's amusing really, he tries so hard, but Dan and I beat his times all the time. I don't think I'll be at it for long, then I can get back to Half Life 2, Episode 2.

Anyhoo, I may not be able to get much of a blog out tomorrow... Depends on who may be sleeping over or what ever... I do have an app on my phone so I may try and do a quick blog while I'm on my run/jog.

So that's about all for meee... I had a lasagne for dinner at 7, and I'm hungry again...
Will be going to Tesco tomorrow and HMV. Need bread and stuff and I need new earphones... The left earphone stopped working on my ones... They've lasted about 3 years. It's sad... Oh well!
So I guess that's it for meee... Going to go back to Trials HD now... take care! buhbye

My Day, Part 2

Yeah so that first part was just so I could say I still blogged every day for x number of days. As long as I do a Part 2 and actually put something in part 2, I'm counting that...

So today was slow again.

Got up around 2pm, I wanted to stay in bed and try sleep some more to make the last of the food last because we wouldn't be getting our weekly food delivery till the next day instead. Nice timing, pain in the ass...

I had 4 slices of bread left, 4 slices of bacon. I had a marmite sandwich, as usual. And waited till around dinner time before I cooked the bacon and had it as a sandwich.

4 slices, may sound like a lot, but do consider how much the things shrink... It's like half the length in the end... Still wasn't all that filling anyway...

So I got a text from Graham, he said he was going to nandos!

We both love nandos, Graham was a nando-virgin till not too long ago. Dan and I were like "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!"

Seriously, Nandos is freaking amazing.

Anyhoo, I would have come if I had money. But turned out Zoe has a nice side. When she's not being mean to be in some way or another, she offered to buy me a meal as long as I pay her back.

I may be a lot of things, but I always pay someone back in the end. When I have the money, I'm paying back my dad, a lot of money, for all that he wasted on me... Bus passes that ended up being useless, money I stole from him or mum in the past.

Many of my friends know I stole money from them. So what? Unfortunately, my mother was an easy target... I wish I had the chance to truly apologise and pay her back... I miss her very much.

My dad was never an easy target though... A while ago, and Graham has enjoyed recounting this story, I stole £20 from my dad's wallet and went to the shops with Graham. I bought us a lot of crap and we were enjoying some of it in the park when I got a call from dad. I pretty much shat myself and dumped the stuff on Graham to hide, while I ran or cycled back home to face the storm.

In the end, I think my dad is actually a push over... Don't get me wrong, he's a crazy man, but he's also a push over. I don't quite know how and I can't begin to work out how... Either way, I do love my dad very much. As much as an oblivious blithering idiot that he can be. He's my father, my single -although he married again- parent.

Don't get me started on Carol though... She's my step mother and I'm sure in future, if I can keep this going, I will rant A LOT about her and her idiocy...

One thing I'll say real quick, she lectured me about how she brought up her kids. I'm not mean enough to say she brought them up wrongly then because of her table manners... Seriously, at a family meal, like Christmas lunch, you don't start eating as soon as it's in front of you... Even the most dimwitted of people, knows to wait for everyone... For instance, CRACKERS! You pull them before eating. Not Carol. She just dives right in.

Anyway!

So Zoe offered to buy me a meal, or Graham pulled her leg hard enough, I'm not sure, but I don't care.

We went to Nandos and I had a chicken burger this time. Medium as usual. Next time (thursday) I'm planning to up my chicken to hot though. Maybe double breast too in the burger because it was a bit too small for me... Or maybe it was the lack of much food that was why I was still hungry after a burger and chips...

Bottomless drinks are always win though. Nandos is lovely. If you have the chance, go there. If you don't know how hot your food can be for you, just go with medium at best. Dan loves to get extra hot... I don't actually know why he can handle it... he was brought up with spicy food? I'll have to ask him again at some point because I forgot again... If his reason is "Because I'm South African" -Wow all capitals and it's actually meant to be like that- Then I WILL punch him... Then he'll punch me back... or punch Graham. Who will punch him, and then he'll punch me. And I'll punch him, and you get the point... We punch each other like morons.

So I had a lovely Nandos Chicken Burger, Medium with chips and ketchup-chup, and I owe Zoe £10 (rounded up) and Graham £4 for a chocolate cake desert I wanted to try last Thursday. I didn't have money at the time and he was going to be getting a free 1/4 chicken so I stole it!

I should say, between eating my marmite sammich at around 2pm and then eating the bacon sammich at like 7pm then going to Nandos not long after. I played Half Life 2 for most of that gap.

I'm not going to lie, I never played Half Life 2 properly until a couple days ago.

I have tried in the past -I'm playing it on The Orange Box by the way- And I got so fed up with it that I rage-quit. It's a sort of puzzle game I guess and at times I just got so bored trying to work it out or what ever that I gave up. Strangely, I've died A LOT less times than I did the first time I tried playing... Sure I got lost, a lot, but I found my way easily enough. I think my first death in the game with this new playthrough was a stupid thing I did... There was a container I had to explode barrels in to open up to drive my boat through. I threw a grenade in, nothing happened. That alone was just frustrating... so I went up to it, a bit too close and shot... I died.

The grenade worked the second time though! Dumb game...

So yeah, I've not played Half Life either actually, I've watched Freeman's Mind on Machinima. It's an awesome series, I got very confused at one point. I can't be bothered trying to explain what was going on, but all I'll say is, he's progressing through, I think I missed some episodes? But then he's suddenly like, back at the start? Maybe there's an episode one, two thing going on with it too... I think once I get a good PC set up and good internet, I'll get Half Life and play it. 

For now, I'm somewhat enjoying Half Life 2 though. It's made me jump a little every so often. Dumb headcrabpeople... The faster ones are like "OH MY FUCKING GOD DIE DIE DIE" It's freaky.

It's also quite interesting to notice some things that are in other Valve games, Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress, Portal. Mainly sound effects really. But if you've played Portal 2, the guy, I've forgotten his name already... he mentions "Black Mesa can kiss my ass" something like that.

I was amusing myself earlier by thinking, Half Life 3 or 2: Episode 3, or what ever people go on about, maybe Gordon Freeman will find a portal gun! Now that'd be fun!

So that's about all that's happened to me today... Maybe I'll manage to finish all the unfinished games I have, before I get a job at last... I don't know, but the lack of real money is a pain in the ass!

I applied for a Ticket Services Assistant position, I don't know if I've said this in a previous blog, I must have actually... Screw it, I'm going to put on my old person cap!#

BACK IN MY DAY- no.

So the job is from March 5th to September 2nd, pretty good space filler between, well March 4th and the start of college, which by the way, I'm freaking out over applying... I DON'T WANT TO WAIT TILL THE FIRST OF FEBRUARY TO APPLY! I realise It's like 2 days at this point, but for god sake, I want to apply now and get it out of the way! Anyway,

The job would pay me £5500 in the end. It's pretty good really, and I'll probably end up spending half of that on a Macbook and Canon 550D camera. I really want a better camera for YouTube stuff and the course I'll hopefully be doing, and a Mac would be such a nice upgrade from this shitty HP laptop... Graham likes to say "it's a shitty windows laptop" Honestly, I want to just tell Graham, he knows pretty much nothing about computers... Graham is one of these guys who is basically like "everything is shit unless I actually like it" He used to think Dubstep is shit, some of you probably do too -look at me, talking to readers as if there's more than like one...- But he grew into it. It probably helped that at least 3 people he hangs out with, love dubstep. Myself, Yasmin and Callum, although Callum has been to this flat like, once... So I don't think he gets much credit.

But yeah, my laptop has windows vista. Yes, it's vista. Cry me a river, I like it. But the laptop is made by HP.

HP products are pretty shitty honestly... This laptop is HP, suuuuucks. The printer I have in my room back in Dalgety Bay. SUUUUUCKS. It tries to take the whole stack of paper in the tray when printing... I have to feed in one page at a time...

My dad likes to say "HP Paid for this house!" I don't give a fuck dad... HP is the reason we came to Scotland, now you've quit and go back to London most of the week to work. Glad it's too late to move down south but I will do that one day anyway. I'll drag Dan and Graham, kicking and screaming. Dan will probably drag Nicky and Sam (his dog) and Graham will try drag Smudge (his dog) and I will actually kick Smudge into the middle of a motorway... I don't like him, at all... Pain in the fucking ass. NEUTER HIM ALREADY!

Blahblahblah words and things and stuff *pictures Peter Griffin's reaction since I've said the title of this blog in the blog itself* Although that image was about saying movie/tv show titles in the film... Anyhoo! I think that's me for the night.. it's 3:31am and I want to do a bit more Half Life 2 and reply to peoples on facebook. Then get depressed about my life.

Actually about that, (WHEN WILL IT END?!) I was listening to Michael McIntyre's audio book, again, lastnight and earlier (I fell asleep with it on). His life seems quite a lot like mine at the start. He lost his dad in in his early 50s at the age of 17. I lost my mum when I was 17 and she was early 50s. We both hadn't pulled a girl for a longlong time, I'm still a virgin in that sense, and we both hadn't had sex for a longlong time, again, still a virgin here -It's the curse of being a Virgo!- No shame in it honestly. I'm proud to have seperated myself from like, every guy ever... I'd rather have sex with a girl who I would have a future with. I don't care how long the relationship would be, as long as it was more than like a month or two... Anyway!

So Michael's story basically made me think, He didn't have much luck finding anyone until he was in University. And he was doing a course he didn't much care for.

I am looking into getting into film related stuff, and I'll no doubt, thoroughly enjoy it and make a few new friends. Maybe that's where I've been messing up. Maybe I'll finally find someone, when I'm on the right bloody course.

It may just be my idiocy going to a new level. But I want to cheer up and maybe this is how I do it.

In any case, I want to do well in this damn course. I don't see myself doing anything that isn't related to video. Eventually, I won't have to be working like that because my YouTube stardom would arrive and take me away!

Anyway... For now, I want to find a job so I can earn money to buy a Mac and Canon 550D. Go to College and do this NQ Media Technologies, maybe apply for the HND Audio Visual course too in case I'm able to do that instead, jumping right into it. Although I'd rather do the NQ still so I can be pointed in the absolute right direction.

Hope I get a job soon, and I hope I'm able to take a few days off in early May. My Cousin, Captain Olly Osborne of the Royal Marines, is getting married on May 4th to a lovely woman. Gorgie, she's a police officer. I feel sorry for their child! Actually, I still wonder what that'd make her to me though. Cousin in-law? Nothing? Meh... She's lovely and she has such a nice dog, Bowser. Cross breed dog, forgot what kind, but she's so freaking cute!

Also, my dad likes to make the same awful joke, "May the forth, be with you" Just terrible... Senile old fool!

Right! I think that's about it from me... Judge me all you like, I am a potato.

Good night!

Heh 3:43 again, like yesterday night. Makes me think of Halo. Can't wait for Halo 4! OK I'll stop. NIGHT!

My day, Part One

I MADE A BLOG BEFORE MIDNIGHT GMT! YAAAAY

Part two coming soon, when I stop playing Half life 2 and blaaaah

Sloooooooooow day

Had a very slow, slow day...
Andrew (he owns the flat), was coming on Friday, probably for another poker night since he missed the Tuesday one.
Anyhoo, he usually gets in at like 5/6am, buuut today he got in at like 1/2pm and passed out on the sofa pretty much... So I was stuck in my bed, as warm as it is, with nothing to do really...
So he's on the sofa snoring, I come in around 3 and make a nice marmite sammich. I love marmite. I really do.
So I go back to my bed and stay there for hoooours... I get texts from Graham asking me to wake up Andrew and such so I try. I tried soooo much to wake him up... I was pretty much semi-shouting and getting no where... At about 9.40pm I begin doing my dinner, a couple chicken breasts covered in nandos spice and instead of just putting them in the oven that way, I cut them open and put some spice inside. It worked so nicely.
Naturally it still has nothing on an actual nandos meal, but it was actually quite hot for once, my tongue was on fire a bit!
I think it may be time to step up though at nandos. I usually get medium on my chicken, but I think next time I go to nandos (thursday is nando night) I think I'll get hot, maybe have a burger too instead of butterflied chicken breast.
I can't wait for it honestly.
But I've finished my spice stuffs so I'll have to try find some more. I don't know if the tesco up the road sells it though...
My dad and brother got me the medium stuff at ASDA back in Dalgety Bay, I later saw a "hot" one at the tesco in the Bay. So it's possible the tesco towards Lothian Road has the spice somewhere. I've not really looked around for spices or sauces since I've had no urge to make anything like Spaghetti Bolognese or what ever else may take my fancy.
I would if we had the pots n such for it honestly... Bleh... I miss spaghetti Bolognese. Big pot for spaghetti, big pot for mince/bolognese and a colander I think it is?
So anyway, I get on MSN and chrisseh is like "Y U NO BLOG?!" and I'm like, fuck off... just kidding chrisseh! but you suck...

So thats about it for meeee... Watching big bang theory, waiting for shaytards video to load so I can watch that too... dumdydumdydum

So have fun everyone!
Annnnd back I go to being sad about stuff... bye!

What's on my mind..?

Not a whole lot... And that happens a lot... I want to try and do a blog once a day if I can. If I miss a day, meh... But I'll try not to miss 2 days or more. Anyway!
So I'm in the flat once more... Bored out of my mind.
I did the washing up and then Zoe and Graham get here with their friend, I keep forgetting her name... Zoe decides to make mac & cheese for her and their friend. Makes a nice mess of stuff which I have to wash because Graham has gone back home to Dunfermline for the weekend and I'm not about to leave stuff for when he's back...
Anyhoo, They then go out ice skating, Graham asks if I want to come, I can't because I lack money and I doubt I'd have much fun anyway. Graham is my only friend out of those who were going, the others either don't really know me or don't like me much.
So I stick on When The Kids Go To Sleep, Shaycarl and Katielette's podcast, which I was a few shows behind on.
For one, they had a guest on an episode, Omar! He's a fun guy, he apparently IS KassemG's brother as well. Unless Shay be trolling...
But they were talking about Maker Studios, the company Shay, KassemG and a couple others I think? set up a long time ago. It's doing so well. And I've thought about it before, but if I had the subscriber base and money. I'd love to talk to the makers of Maker Studios about starting up a UK based Maker Studios. They're based in California.
There are quite a few well known UK YouTubers. Charlieissocoollike being the obvious and only one to some... But there's the guys behind Eddsworld, Edd, Tom and Matt. Mainly Edd behind that though. The guys behind Hat Films, I've forgotten their actual names so I'll use their game names, DJH3Max, Trottimus and Alsmithy. I myself don't know about many UK based youtubers. Most I'm aware of seem to be game or cartoon/animation related.
But still, if OssyVlogs took off in my new, multiple direction, and The DaS Show with the game news and such. It'd be pretty awesome to have a UK Maker Studio. Plus perhaps people like Shay or Kassem may consider coming to the UK to be in videos and so on.
And yeah... that's all that's on my mind really...
Other than that, I'm still getting depressed easily about multiple things...  Usual stuff like being single being the main cause of it all really, but then there's also, I'm essentially sleeping on the floor every night in a cold flat. There's no insulation and so the heating suuucks, I'm having to live off £50 and I can't manage that because I want so much and don't tend to think before doing... blahblahblah...
I cannot wait till I get a good enough job to earn plenty, so that I can get a flat with a few others, at least 3 others. Do a part time job while I do my new course at Stevenson College.
It's taken a while really but I've worked out, I think, that Film production is really my thing. Making videos, writing scripts, filming, editing, working with sound and so on. So I've looked at courses and Stevenson offers the best course for me to do to work out 100% where I'm headed and then I might be able to go to Uni for the next few years or what ever.
It's NQ Media Technology. What I'd be doing in the course would be, Video Production, Camera Operation, Editing, Sound Multimedia, Animation, Photography and Research and Project Management.
It's definitely something that suits me but where it'll take me, I don't know... That course can lead into HNC/D Audio Visual Technology which seems right from what Graham told me when he did it. And he didn't like it because it was that. The other option was HNC/D Creative Industries: Television.
I do actually have an issue with Stevenson being a bit fail on their website. Their application forms are written only at the moment, you can't apply online yet till Feb 1st, WHY?! I don't want to be waiting for so long for goodness sake... But anyway, those applications are out of date. It's amusing. There's so much on the site that's out of date or just wrong... I tried to be clever and add /apply to the end of the URL on the course page and it took me to a sort of unfinished page.
Anyway... Yeah soo I actually sent an email about this to my dad, about the course, a possible job I applied for which is from March 5th to September 2nd which is pretty convenient. It'll end pretty much when college starts. And it'd be very useful to have a macbook and canon 550D for the course, I could afford it after that job because I'll have hopefully earned about £5,500. The Mac and camera would be around £2,500. But it'd be helpful to have more left over to live on so I asked my dad if he'd be willing to contribute to it. But he replied with something like:
That's a lot to think about! I'm in France right now, chat later!
He's so useless sometimes...


But I guess that's about it for me for now... more on my mind than I thought...
And just for future reference, I may have said it before but still, I have a feeling my mental instability or what ever the hell it is that's wrong with me, that basically puts me in a position where I can't help but be so depressed about being single and shit, that stuff is bound to come up quite a bit in future. You have been warned!


See you laters.

Finished MW3 on Veteran?

So it took a while to get around to finishing it... But I finished Call of Duty, Modern Warfare 3 at last. Just intel and various achievements left to get...
But, I finished the last 2 levels on a different console, I seem to have not got the achievements though...
I didn't get the achievement for finishing the game on Hardened/Veteran, nor the achievement for doing the last 3 missions on veteran... What gives? I spent all that time for nothing!
I think I may need to keep MW3 to do the last 2 missions on my console before I can lend it to Dan... Gives me a chance to get the intel I'm missing too I guess.... Ugh.
I've done the last level twice for sure at least, and both times it's sent shivers up my spine. It's an amazing ending to the story. But a very sad one too... It's a shame what happened to a few of the characters but oh well...
Going to try and get an achievement that I missed then probably try fall asleep.

NIGHTNIGHT

I'm going for a run tonight... it's half 1... bit late now

So thanks to Dan, I'm trying to go running every couple days. Try and get fit and lose weight.
Thanks buddy.
-side note- Three decided to put back my money so that I had a tenner again. (£10 that is) So I went and bought myself food and stuff with £2.25 left over for a bottomless drink at Nandos. - Thursday is Nandos night... NANDOS IS AMAZING! So yeah. Went to Nandos, had Graham's free 1/4 chicken and yeah, it were tastey.
So then Dan decides to invite me over to his again, I was going to go for a run, but since he would be too, I decided to come invade his house.
Soooo we end up playing Portal 2 and watching videos, for a bit too long... It's half past 1 in the morning... Guess I'll have to go for my jog/run in the morning.
I think it won't take too long for me to go running every day/night so it won't matter much if I miss a day every so often, but still... If I were still at the flat, I'd have gone for my run at least 2 hours ago...

My friend didn't want this on here, but I did... So I just gave them an alias!
Weird video Sap decided to put on... Woman goes into her kitchen with a bathrobe on. Has a cucumber, takes off her bathrobe and inserts it, doon yonder... Sap's a weirdo sometimes. And if he reads this... DIRTY BASTARD.

Why is it I can't help myself being all depressing around people... Particularly when it's late. But I end up just going something like:
The world hates me, women hate me. I'm unappealing to women and I'll die alone.
That's more or less what I end up saying but still... Why can't I stop myself doing that -.-
I think I have insomnia too now since I came to the flat I'm staying in with Graham... I don't know if it's sleeping on the futon or going to bed too early or Graham's sleep talking/random noises or the odd car going by... But I just can't fall asleep for hours!

Money Money Money, where the fuck are you

I hate being tight for money... I had about £11 in my account which I was planning to buy food with for the next few days, week if i could pull that off. But my phone bill was all like
"AWW HELL NO! We're taking your money and putting you into £23 overdraft, son!"

Sooo I had about 80p in my wallet which I managed to buy a loaf of bread for. About 8 sandwiches worth in there.
I just need to survive till Tuesday when I get my JSA again...
Think I've finally worked out, I'm an idiot when I have money, as much as I want it, no buying pointless crap!

It's still irritating though that, I've applied to about 30 places, and like, no replies ever...
I had one reply, I had an interview for it, I got the job, but the job was insane and I couldn't do it...
For one, the minimum pay was nothing... It was a door to door thing, getting people to Donate to the British Red Cross. £10 donated means you're paid £25 and a month later another £17 if the customer continues on their donation subscription.
I'm sure it's great to work without  a limit to how much you earn, It's likely you make a sale a day which is £150 a week at best which is pretty good honestly. But being at work from 10.30am to 10.30pm, walking around for about 7 hours... it's murder and not for me.
I really need a freaking job so I can actually afford food and stop mooching off Graham's grandparents... I didn't want to be doing that but I ended up in that situation...
One thing for sure, when I can, I'm paying them back for the money they spent on me when I could have spent my own on me...

SOPA PIPA ACTA - Who let these people have power?!

So no doubt a lot of people know about SOPA and PIPA by now. I say "a lot" and not "EVERYONE" because well... some people are annoyingly passive. The kind of people who don't actually speak up until they feel the affects - Fucking twats. Just as bad as those who are trying to push these things.


So SOPA and PIPA have been postponed I'd say. I bet they'll be back. But thanks to a Dutch country I think? ACTA has become public. It's been a secret for the past 3 years or so. And it's worse than SOPA or PIPA.


Essentially, if you sent your friend an mp3 via blutooth on your phone, you can go to prison. The way the video below put it, you pay for lessons to cook a nice roast chicken. You take this knowledge and teach it to your wife/husband. Now you are both felons.
"But how would  anyone know?" you ask? Well we'd also be getting watched...


As my friend Jurrien put it when he found out:
"I've lost all faith in humans.

the world is BASED around the internet

fuck the internet up and the world will go into turmoil"

Why won't people fucking learn? Although I did say, I've not so much lost faith in humans. I've lost it in those bastards that try to run our countries. Even though ACTA has actually been discussed, by people who weren't elected or what ever, to be in charge!

Just watch this, do what you can to prevent this. It has to be stopped or hell WILL break loose on the world.