As promised here is the update you have all been waiting for!! The afoot things are:

1) The car wasn’t ready yesterday as promised due to the salesman not taxing the car. Hmm. Seems to be a slight silliness there, naturally i was not happy and at one point wasn’t sure if I was going to go for it. Anyway, I have been given another car to use until monday when I go back for 6pm to pick it up and if all is well on the bodywork as well, then give the rest of the money.

Got a full tank of petrol to drive away with as well with my new car which is an added bouns.

However the hire car from the insurence had to go back and I must say, the VW Polo car was brilliant to drive, felt really confortable, smooth to drive, like I said before the only fault with it was I couldn’t afford it!! It is a shame, but all good things must come to an end. Next car i get, which hopefully for just financial reasons will not be for a fair few years, i will look at the VW range seriously. What can i say further?

2) Well friends the love life had taken a bit of pounding really, as I hadn’t seen natalie in a fair while, and even then it is not as regular as work is taking over. I did see Nat friday however as the work which was due to take place on the friday had fallen through due to incorrect paperwork and the fact that they were very late in getting approval that nothing could be done. hahahaha!! Though would have loved to have know this far far sooner so then could have made better plans. Went to see the film shooter with Nat, and well it was alright but not overly fantastic film. She was just happy to be there with me.

But in all honesty It feels like we are taking a break from each other, even though it is only due to work and uni commitments at present. I don’t know, tis strange to say the least. And I get the feeling this is beginning to take a toll. Role on the summer for gods sakes!!

3) Saw Dave (“Sunny Wales” Dave) yesterday as I was in the neighbourhood and thought it would be jolly rude to not see him. Had a good chinwag at the Rainbow pub about plans etc, and the future, and it was a refreshing and relaxing change. And as it was a excellent day to be outside, what more do you need? Dave, Hope you get the rest you need mate!!

4) Lost on the Grand National. Never mind, you just have to. National duty or something….

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5) Sunday Morning so far, was spent fixing someone’s laptop. SVCHOST.exe was using a fair amount of system resource again, I experience this on my laptop a number of times, but only narrowed it down to Windows Installer 3.1 recently, there is a hotfix out there for this btw, search for KB893803 on Microsoft Technet. This solved the problem and Keith is happy. Extra money follows now!! 🙂

6) I have a swanky new phone too, as Orange were most persistent in trying to keep me on their contracts!! The tariff has changed despite costing the same money each month, and now I have unlimited texts to use (well they say fair use applies, but I am not likely to use over say, 5000 texts per month any time soon!!) plus 500 minutes talk time!! And a new phone which costs an awful lot for free. Quite pleased really.

The phone is the Motorola KRZR K1 to be precise, which is a phone first and foremost!! Yes the Windows Smartphone I had before, the C600 from Orange is no longer in use boys and girls, may sell that on ebay to get a few quid despite the hammered condition it is in. It still works of course, but the motorola has not needed a reboot for Bluetooth to work yet, so it has already won! There is Phone tools software which came with it but it doesn’t work with the phone, one quick email to Support later, got the beta version which does work and now I can plug in the phone to the laptop and use it as a modem, or indeed sending text messages via the laptop instead of using the handset!! It never worked on the old Nokia 6230 I had years ago, but it does on this. Shame Office 2007 is not supported yet, but a new version is due soon and this should be corrected. I still can’t believe it, the phone works!! Also the memory card that came with the phone (128MB) broke straught away, but luckly I had already ordered a Sandisk 1GB MicroSD card (can use it in the phone or with the adapter, the Digital Camera, which is excellent) and that has proven to be very good. All in all quite good!!

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7) Friday saw some of the old gang from Telford and Surronding areas: Steve has returned from Estonia (and a brief segway to Latvia to take photos) and he had a nice time. Excellent. Meant to be going bowling with the gang on Monday, but as the car has ruled that out, it will have to be another time. Damn it!! Saw Matt as well after, and yes good people he is still alive!! Toby never really says much but never mind!

8) Assignment work is still in progress. Over 500 words now for Project managment!! Believe me that is an achievement for something which is complete rubbish!

And that is it! See Glyn, i didn’t wait did I?