Pete’s Totally Pointless Blog.

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Transmition terminated.

I realised that it’s been a while since I’ve updated my blog, so I thought I’d try and start posting small posts here and there to stop the blog dying out.

I’ve decided to go to the Cathouse on Saturday night, a venue/nightclub that’s less than a 3 minute walk from my work. I’ll go to see what it’s like, since it’s recently been renovated and apparently it looks a lot different that what it looked like before (before it wasn’t really that good a venue).

In other news, I’ve been reading Game Coding Complete, 2nd Edition by Mike McShaffry recently. I must say, it’s a fantastic book. Right now I’m on Chapter 14: 3D Scenes. Unlike other game books, it gives you a real insight into the world of game development, including his “Tales From The Pixel Mines”, which are his own personal experiences from working with companies such as Origin and Ion Storm. I recommend it to anyone wanting to start game programming.

Oh, and I need to go out and buy some audio equiptment for my PC so that I can record good quality sound. Ah, the beauty of working in a music shop.

Back to school tomorrow. It can get to fuck. It’s a waste of my time. All that happens is that I sit on my arse for 6 hours surrounded by neds and skanks. And the teachers can fuck off too.

It’s slow, it never loads, and I hate it. I hate it and it sucks. Seriously, by the time it loads, whatever I’ve had to say has left my mind, I’ve forgotten whatever meaningful things I could pleasure you with. Five minutes till new year. What’s the big deal? Why celebrate a new year? It’s just the same as any other new fucking thing. Why isn’t there giant celebrations at the end of every month? The end of every week, every day, every hour? Seriously, what is the fucking point? It’s just fucking pointless.

And this is the end of my ranting. For now. I’m going to go to bed and sleep.

So MX Tabs is gone. That sucks, I got all of my tabs from there, now I’m having to scour the net for decent tabs, but they’re all terrible and inaccurate, especially compared to the ones offered by the users of MX Tabs. Bah, that sucks.

In other news, I’m really really ill, but I’m kinda better now.

In more other news, I’m going to have to buy a new DVD drive for my PC because this one’s jammed open. So I’ll get that on Monday when I go to work, they’re only £35 in the shop across the road from the shop I work in.

Bah! The English exam was pathetic. It was so easy that I think I failed. It’s not even worth discussing….

Then I went to see Doom. I was a few hours early, so I popped in to Gamestation and played the Xbox 360. I’m speechless. It’s beautiful. The graphic detail is amazing. I played Call of Duty 2, and this may sound weird, but I love the smoke grenades probably more than any other aspect of the game. The detail in the smoke is astonishing. Absolutely unbelievable. So I’m getting a 360 in January.

Then I went to the cinema to see Doom. The cinema was absolutely deserted. It was just me, one of my mates and some weird random guy. There was no-one else in the cinema apart from the staff. And no, I don’t mean that there was no-one else there to see Doom, I mean that there was no-one else in the cinema.

The movie was amazing. When it went in to first person, I was amazed. It was absolutely immense. And the movie’s scenery stuck unbelievably closely to Doom 3. Everything was almost exactly the same, with a few minor scenery changes for filming purposes. The special effects had me at a loss for words at some bits, but sometimes they were almost deliberately cheesey.

Anyway, I have a physics exam tomorrow and I’m too lazy to post anything else, so I’ll post something else tomorrow. Maybe.

I got paid today. £60. Works out at around £4 an hour or something like that. So I’m happy.
So with that money, I intend to squander it all on completely meaningless items on the run up to Christmas. Oh, and I’m going to go to the cinema tomorrow to see Doom after my English exam. Hooray for English exams….
Note the exitement.

In other news, a guy that I work with kept dropping subtle hints at me that he wanted me to play bass in his band by saying things like,

“So you’re a bassist eh? Yeah, my band needs a new bassist…”

Then eventually he came right out and said it. Which was nice.

Anyway, I have an english exam tomorrow, so I better start relaxing and unwinding infront of the TV otherwise I might fail it. Bai!

I watched Green Street last night. I gotta say, even though I don’t like football, it was a really good film. Amazing ending. Not one of those stupid happy-clappy feel good endings. I watched Saw last night too. Again, a really good ending. Quite a good film too. Better than Creep, that’s for sure. Creep is by far the worst movie I have ever seen in my life. I can’t believe I actually bought it. So I might watch Saw 2 some time soon.

I’m going to go see Doom on Monday after my English exam with a couple of friends. Doom is a movie based on the ever-popular Doom series of games which if you haven’t heard of, you really need to get a life. Or, lose one, which would probably be more appropriate. I’ve seen trailers for it and it looks really good. So I’ll let you all know what it’s like.

Serenity is another movie that I want to see, so I might go see that some time soon.

Anyway, thats enough of my pointless ranting. Goodbai!

Next week I’ll be able to afford ASO hosting. Yippeeee!!!!!!!!!!

So as of next week, I’ll have ASO hosting (Medium Plan ) and I’ll be buying domains like crazy. OK I’ll be buying 2, but that’s not the point.

So yeah, I’ll be fairly happy with my newfangled hosting and all that, so I’ll be happy.

My day today was quite good.

Third period, PE:

Me: “Sir, I’ve ‘forgotten’ my PE stuff, it appears that I can’t take part”
PE Teacher: “Oh well. I’ve got a note for you.”

Now at this point I thought, “Oh great, I get to copy something out. The joy.”

But instead he handed me a piece of paper. I unfolded it, and it ended out it was a job offer from the shop I did my work experience with. Which was fun. So I’ve just landed myself in a hole in the sense that 6 days a week I have to get up at 8am, and on Saturdays I get the joy of getting up at 7.

The bright side is at least I get money now. My web design business is going nowhere. Maybe the fact that I build websites for free has something to do with it. And my job, combined with my Christmas money, means a new Bass…. oooooooh… and maybe even some upgrades for peecee.

I have to write an entire french essay tonight. Beautiful. I better get onto it.

Oh yeah, and I payed £50 for a girl to spend the day with me on Thursday. Don’t worry, the money went to charity.
It’s actually a slave auction where you buy people.

Anyway, I shall report back to you at a later date. Right now I have to go get my french essay done.