Well NTL seems to be working just about ok at the moment, so time for an update. Had a pretty busy week this week with work and much other stuff, so here goes! Tuesday was our return to work after the bank holiday and it was visit from the landlord day, our shower is a little bit knackered at the moment and so he came round to have a looksy at it. It is broke so he is coming tomorrow to give us a new one, on top of that we found out on tuesday that SiMILE Media Solutions is now an official company, registered with companies house, so from 25th August 2006 we have been known and will now be trading as SiMILE Media Solutions LLP, go us! The work is coming slowly through at the moment, hopefully will be doing some work in nottingham in november, and the corporate stuff is coming along too.
Tuesday night it was off home for the evening so met up with ed and went to see Miami Vice, was a pretty good film, story was a bit long but the photography on it was really really good :-)
Wednesday comes along and i had to be in Ruddington at 8am for some test at Pharmaceutical profiles, was due to do a medical trial with them, but unfortunately i wasnt suitable for that one, whe trial was for an anti blood clot drug and cos i have had nose bleeds in the past i couldnt be used so away from them back to the grindstone, I am working on the dance show DVD at the moment and am just deciding whether to put it to DVD using Sony DVD Architect or Adobe Encore, at the moment Encore is winning but that does mean I have to learn it first so classroom in a book is coming out and i am working my butt off on that. Also on Wednesday on the way back from nottingham to stafford has a little incident with my car, coming out of uttoxeter, tried to avoid a piece of roadkill just as my phone went off, which startled me and i mounted the curb, no harm done to the car or the curb and noone else involved, but bang, the tyre blew, so that was £75 at Kwik fit for a new tyre....bit on the expensive side there, should have just gone to big city tyres in nottingham, but oh well.
So it comes to today, been doing more Encore learning today and had a trip into the office, to check post and try and get our web login details, we have 100mb of space on the uni web server for our website, but i dont know the password, and neither it seems, do IT so they are sorting it out for us,hopefully, so watch this space for news of the all new simile-media.co.uk
Finally, if you are reading this from blogspot, then you will notice this blog is now officially ad supported, these ads are targetted to the blogs content, and i also have links to firefox and google adsense, and a search box. So if you ever want to download firefox, or sign up for google adwords, or do a websearch, doing it from http://bmacrow.blogspot.com will hopefully earn your best buddy ben a little bit of money.
This weekend im back in nottingham again, going cycling on sundau in sherwood forest, all are invited, and just general fun stuff with ed and the gang so looking forward to all of that.
Until next time!!!!
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Service Suspended
Due to an NTl fault on our line our house's internet is currently out of action, so no blog, no facebook, no msn, no nothing.
Service will resume as soon as possible (when NTl get their arse's into gear!)
I'm available on my mobile if you need me tho!
That is all
Service will resume as soon as possible (when NTl get their arse's into gear!)
I'm available on my mobile if you need me tho!
That is all
Monday, August 28, 2006
Its a Bank Holiday!
Wow! Its Bank Holiday Monday and I cant see any rain and i CAN see the sun!, what are the chanced of that....especially being so close to "Oh so sunny" Stoke on Trent, so will i be taking advantage of this sunnyness? Will i crap, im lazy, totally lazy so I have the day slobbing round the house, Andy has gone to see his ladyfriend in Manchester so right now is probably finding out that although it is now PHENOMINABLY big and new, the Arndale centre still wreaks of nothingness and cheap crappy 60s buildingness (referring mainly to the huge tower of flats over it, much like Viccie centre in nottingham.
I was going to goto Derby on the train to kill time, but my dad rang this morning to say that ella and him were driving up to see me, which is nice :-) and they are taking me out for a meal later, which is nice also. Of course i do have pennance to serve through this nicety of a visit and a meal, my mothers old Sony Viao is being delivered and I have offered to open it up and try and fix the problem where the graphics card just decides anytime between 7 and 27 minutes is enough for the screen and so very nicely stops it working. So in a bit i am going to try and pretend i am a sony laptop engineer and get the service manual for my mothers lappytop.
Got told last week upon asking that i can have money instead of my usual theatre tickets for christmas, which is good cos I can put that towards my "visit rachel in L.A." fund, im trying to get over there for a week or 2 in easter time-ish, i recon ill need about a grand for it tho, for flights and car hire with a couple of hundred quid for food and entertainment, specially as rach said she would put me up so i would just feel bad frankly if i didnt repay the favour with a treat or two! Ill prob see if she wants to goto magic mountain, cos thats always fun, and i am planning on before i leave ringing the applause store, who now have a US section and trying to get a ticket or two to some show recordings, if I could get into a session of Whose Line is it Anyway? well that would just be fan-bloody-tastic!
Yesterday was spent actually doing so much of nothing that it still felt like morning as the sun set, so my body clock was fairly crapped up but its all good cos i have now slept so much in the past few days that hopefully i will have a nice productive working week, minus wednesday morning when im at Pharmaceutical Profiles having tests done to work out whether i can then test a new medicine, which will be nice, especially the £1600 they pay me for it so that will go into 3 funds......bens fund for L.A., bens fund for making his computer work a bit nicer, and bens fund for living!
Right i think its about time to leave now, tidy the old bedroom before father and sister appear on my doorstep wanting to see the new room i have for this year so for now i say see you soon!
me
P.S. It was never going to last long....bank holiday in stafford, close to stoke on trent....yes....its raining
I was going to goto Derby on the train to kill time, but my dad rang this morning to say that ella and him were driving up to see me, which is nice :-) and they are taking me out for a meal later, which is nice also. Of course i do have pennance to serve through this nicety of a visit and a meal, my mothers old Sony Viao is being delivered and I have offered to open it up and try and fix the problem where the graphics card just decides anytime between 7 and 27 minutes is enough for the screen and so very nicely stops it working. So in a bit i am going to try and pretend i am a sony laptop engineer and get the service manual for my mothers lappytop.
Got told last week upon asking that i can have money instead of my usual theatre tickets for christmas, which is good cos I can put that towards my "visit rachel in L.A." fund, im trying to get over there for a week or 2 in easter time-ish, i recon ill need about a grand for it tho, for flights and car hire with a couple of hundred quid for food and entertainment, specially as rach said she would put me up so i would just feel bad frankly if i didnt repay the favour with a treat or two! Ill prob see if she wants to goto magic mountain, cos thats always fun, and i am planning on before i leave ringing the applause store, who now have a US section and trying to get a ticket or two to some show recordings, if I could get into a session of Whose Line is it Anyway? well that would just be fan-bloody-tastic!
Yesterday was spent actually doing so much of nothing that it still felt like morning as the sun set, so my body clock was fairly crapped up but its all good cos i have now slept so much in the past few days that hopefully i will have a nice productive working week, minus wednesday morning when im at Pharmaceutical Profiles having tests done to work out whether i can then test a new medicine, which will be nice, especially the £1600 they pay me for it so that will go into 3 funds......bens fund for L.A., bens fund for making his computer work a bit nicer, and bens fund for living!
Right i think its about time to leave now, tidy the old bedroom before father and sister appear on my doorstep wanting to see the new room i have for this year so for now i say see you soon!
me
P.S. It was never going to last long....bank holiday in stafford, close to stoke on trent....yes....its raining
Sunday, August 27, 2006
Go Ape! in Sherwood Forest
Wow! What a day, bit insane but oh well! Started off by getting up and doing the usual morning stuff before heading off to loughborough to pick up Rob and Karen, Rob was on time, Karen was not, as usual so off to her house to pick her up then to my house where we were meeting a few other people. So we get half way to my house and my brother calls me....it seems that Kat and Biddie, Kats sister and Kats Sisters friend have beaten me to my own house...so i havent warned my mum n dad that they were turning up...OOOPS my bad but its all good and we get home to find everyone chatting merrily. Then the final two turn up, Ed and his Arizona friend and we all have a chat before leaving for the days activities. So to sum up we have a group of 10 in 2 cars, there is me, Andy Beksa(housemate), Ed Lax and Steph (Eds friend from Arizona), Rob Newbould and Karen, Kat and Biddie and Sarah (Kats lil sister) and Katy (Kats lil sisters friend) making a happy bunch of 10 happy campers who all pile off to ASDA to buy food. We buy lots of food, lots and lots in fact, £20 of picnic stuff and then off to Sherwood Forest!
We got to the forest and straight away devoured our picnic food (after everyone realise that it was now about 3pm and hardly anyone had actually eaten anything so far) lots of brie, cheddar, ham, branston, bread, sausage rolls, mcvities caramel digestives, cookies and more. The brie was a bit off and the apple juice opening didnt go too well, Katy decided the lid wasnt and so the whole carton pouring mechanism should be removed not just the lid. Pictures of our lovely picnic....
Then we decided to join the 5 year olds on the adventure playground, and adventure we had, there was a pole, some monkey bars and a weird thing with two wooden beams that made you look geriatric when you walked over it. Oh and a big wooden deer that was quite a challenge to mount, but we did and 6 of us got on it at the same time, much to the amusement of a family and their small kids, who didnt seem to mind the occasional swear word or rude gesture as the mountain of bodies on the deer increased.
Next it was time for the days main activity, Go Ape! an aerial assault course in sherwood forest which is possibly the most fun you can have in a climbing harness, it basically consists of like 7 big challenges where you climb a rope ladder, traverse cables and cargo nets then re-enter the ground on a zip line with a thud and a brown patch on your trousers, I think we pissed off the safety people a little bit but thats just ed for you, much fun was had, especially when my glasses feel into the foliage below from 30 foot in the air!
Following our wonderful time at Go Ape we all decided hunger had set in again and so food was in order so off to nottingham to the corner house where pizza hut fed us, not before we waited in PArliament Street Car PArk for 10 minutes, so we could get the cheap clubber parking of course.....more pictures:
, ed andy rob and i were all very hungry so ordered this meal deal where for £5.50 each we got 4 starters, a large pizza, a medium pizza and 4 desserts. Well our starters got stuck in the lift?!?!?!?! (yes thats what they said) so they gave us 2 portions of each, they ran out of large pizza bases so gave us 3 mediums instead of a large and a medium and so we were pretty damned stuffed by the end.
Finally it was time to leave for home, tho home for me meant stafford, via newton linford to drop off rob and then leicester to drop of sarah and katy. The bit og blogging and now im off to bed. So all in all a good day....know 3 new people so hello Katy, Sarah and Steph who are all tres cool and hope i see again soon (well wont with steph she off to dublin as i type virtually then off to hungary next weekend) for drinking and merriment.
Next week the activity is go karting, yes ben is behind a RACING wheel WOOOOO!!!!!
C ya all soon!
(oh yes....only one problem with go ape for you men our there......warning that sat on myself within the harness alot!)
We got to the forest and straight away devoured our picnic food (after everyone realise that it was now about 3pm and hardly anyone had actually eaten anything so far) lots of brie, cheddar, ham, branston, bread, sausage rolls, mcvities caramel digestives, cookies and more. The brie was a bit off and the apple juice opening didnt go too well, Katy decided the lid wasnt and so the whole carton pouring mechanism should be removed not just the lid. Pictures of our lovely picnic....
Then we decided to join the 5 year olds on the adventure playground, and adventure we had, there was a pole, some monkey bars and a weird thing with two wooden beams that made you look geriatric when you walked over it. Oh and a big wooden deer that was quite a challenge to mount, but we did and 6 of us got on it at the same time, much to the amusement of a family and their small kids, who didnt seem to mind the occasional swear word or rude gesture as the mountain of bodies on the deer increased.
Next it was time for the days main activity, Go Ape! an aerial assault course in sherwood forest which is possibly the most fun you can have in a climbing harness, it basically consists of like 7 big challenges where you climb a rope ladder, traverse cables and cargo nets then re-enter the ground on a zip line with a thud and a brown patch on your trousers, I think we pissed off the safety people a little bit but thats just ed for you, much fun was had, especially when my glasses feel into the foliage below from 30 foot in the air!
Following our wonderful time at Go Ape we all decided hunger had set in again and so food was in order so off to nottingham to the corner house where pizza hut fed us, not before we waited in PArliament Street Car PArk for 10 minutes, so we could get the cheap clubber parking of course.....more pictures:
, ed andy rob and i were all very hungry so ordered this meal deal where for £5.50 each we got 4 starters, a large pizza, a medium pizza and 4 desserts. Well our starters got stuck in the lift?!?!?!?! (yes thats what they said) so they gave us 2 portions of each, they ran out of large pizza bases so gave us 3 mediums instead of a large and a medium and so we were pretty damned stuffed by the end.Finally it was time to leave for home, tho home for me meant stafford, via newton linford to drop off rob and then leicester to drop of sarah and katy. The bit og blogging and now im off to bed. So all in all a good day....know 3 new people so hello Katy, Sarah and Steph who are all tres cool and hope i see again soon (well wont with steph she off to dublin as i type virtually then off to hungary next weekend) for drinking and merriment.
Next week the activity is go karting, yes ben is behind a RACING wheel WOOOOO!!!!!
C ya all soon!
(oh yes....only one problem with go ape for you men our there......warning that sat on myself within the harness alot!)
Friday, August 25, 2006
Welcome
Well its time i started one...yes....my very own weblog ot sure what to say yet so ill just do a general life update.
Well im back in Stafford running my business now its going pretty well...see it at www.simile-media.co.uk. We are getting some decent enquiries in so hopefully it will be all good soon.
Anyway this little post was just to make sure this is all working so ill update u all real soon!
Well im back in Stafford running my business now its going pretty well...see it at www.simile-media.co.uk. We are getting some decent enquiries in so hopefully it will be all good soon.
Anyway this little post was just to make sure this is all working so ill update u all real soon!
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