First Social Event of the Year

Posted in Personal on 01:48, 16th Oct 06

This year seems set to be awesome, I’ve got an amazing room, a lovely floormate ( thats you Sarah ;) ) and reasonably cheap rent/bills, what more could I want? A full social planner!

On a whim I invited myself to a pub quiz I overheard Sarah being invited to, okay rude of me I accept this but its a fracking pub quiz, I’ve had years of practice with Network:MK that surely must be a benefit to ‘the team’, if I had someone strange join in with my group of friends and right off the bat they promoted success they would be fine in my book, otherwise they would take the usual windy road. In all likeliness we weren’t going to win but there is no warm planning for a success …read more »

Random Encounter

Posted in Personal, Scouting on 01:21, 20th Sep 06

So I’ve gone off to Bristol to get myself setup for University restarting next week and I decide to look up some old friends. Despite missing an update on the ol’ address thing I managed to eventually track them down.

We chat for a while catch up, show off all our new gadgets and find out what each other is doing this year and make plans to go down the pub. Dave’s invited some fellow students from another house to join us and when they arrive low and behold one of them is wearing a World Scout Jamboree T-Shirt! Talk about a small world, and to make things even smaller one of her friends that she has brought with her is a Cub Scout leader …read more »

Scout Network Gathering 2006

Posted in Scout Camp, SSAGO on 20:43, 17th Apr 06
Scout Network Gathering

My 4th Network Gathering, despite knowing for months that I would be going in one form or another at the last minute I organised a lift with Jon saving myself and …read more »

Here’s To You

Posted in Personal on 18:51, 25th Feb 06

So last Friday I was in the middle of my trip to Birmingham and I get a phone call from an old friend in Milton Keynes who after pleasantries tells me that Sean, someone who I worked with has passed on.

I met him on my first day at my first real job after sixth form and we got on instantly. For the next 6 months before he left I learnt a lot from him, both about the job and life. I never told him this but he was a great mentor for me and I don’t think I would’ve done so well at that or any of my following jobs …read more »

Thunderbirds Are Go!

Posted in Personal on 01:21, 16th Feb 06
Thunderbird 4 / Car Graphic

Okay slight exaggeration but if ‘they’ could make up their confounded minds on the name of my car I wouldn’t be in this predicament. It’s the “Yellow Brick” when I’m with Neil, the “Flying Banana” with the Parents, on Episode III night it was the “Millenium Canary” so Tomorrow Matthew its going to be a Thunderbird, most likely Thunderbird 4 since its yellow with large red lights on the back that look similar to 4′s the thrusters, however mine doesn’t have the ability to go underwater…yet.. …read more »

Woohoo all upto date!

Posted in Personal on 20:33, 8th Feb 06

I’ve managed to find a potential new housemate for next year, with all the randomly assigned housemates I’m been lumped with I’m looking forward to living with someone I’ve chosen myself.

I’ve reworked the code for the Go Jamboree forum so that it’s all completely commented for official records, cleaned it up so it “runs” quicker and added exactly one mod, it would have been more but there seem to be some compatibility issues so I’m holding back on them …read more »

Long Night

Posted in Personal on 20:55, 22nd Jan 06

So Saturday had to be one of the most productive days I’ve had for quite some time, so much so that 8 hours passed between meals, as positive reinforcement to this good work I decided to pop down Tescos to pick up some treats. So I thought lets see if anyone else is awake and ask the housemates if they want anything.

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