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Archive for June, 2000

so, my first correct bet :)

Monday, June 12th, 2000

YES! holland beat the czech republic (admittely only just) and this means i win £3.33 :D Yeah, not a lot I know, but now i can put it all on england tomorrow and win back (well hopefully) £10 on top! hurrah!

So, what have I been doing then, seeing as I haven’t posted since friday.

Well, friday night, hmmm, what did happen, ah yes, I went to see Gary (me old mate) and was dead suprised when his family actually remembered me! Which was really good, nice to see him again. I originally went round to fix his computer, but the motherboard was gone, so had to spend 2 hours, yes TWO WHOLE HOURS on the phone to tech support before they would admit this and come replace it :(
Anyway, after this we played a bit of Super Smash Bros, a most excellent game on the n64, using his, what can only be described as MAMOUTH 36″ dolby tv :) he has a nice stereo as well, some souped up kenwood thing with dolby (naturally ;))

Saturday, hmmm, got up late I seem to remember, processed some new accounts (money is rooooolling in :D) and rang up mr james. unfortunately, he wasn’t going out (although i kinda already knew this) so i had to try and persuade cheryl to go to x-static… would she, nope :( He promises he will be out next week end though, hurrah! :)
Went round cheryls and played quite a bit of catch and stuff in the garden with marc, until mrs m got all angry, so we got scared and hid :) (well, just until she’d gone :D) but mainly it was a lazy day. Went home late waving me arms around and stuff to the tunez on me md :lol:

Today was even more relaxed! Woke up at about 10:30, sleep again until 11:00, tv until 11:30, power cut out so shower wouldn’t work so more tv until about 12:50!! FInally got a shower (our shower generator needs electricity you see, and with dad constantly doing electric things, it keeps tripping :D) at about 1:00 :(
Went to Merton Abbey Mills to get some lunch (it is SOOOO worth it) which was really nice, food was absolutely pukka, some chicked stuff with lemon and soy sauce :)
Was really tired though, and we didn’t stay long, so i went over to cheryl’s to watch the football. However it seemed like i wouldn’t be there long as she got in a strop about me eyeing up some women at merton (but they were very nice :D ;)), this things gonna take time :(
Made peace a bit later, but i still think that now we split, i should be able to look, yeah, i still love her and everything (which she doesn’t believe :() but there are pretty women just begging to be looked at ;)
Anywayz, football was good (hurrah!) and went on until about 9:45, which was when i had to leave, get a burger from the petrol station and walk home…..

here now, had shower and ready to go to beddie byez :)
nite nite, lets hope tomorrow i can win even more :D

starting to make dollar$

Friday, June 9th, 2000

yes, its true, since i advertised at a lower price, no less than 4 (with an unconfirmed 7) people have signed up and thats all in 2 days!!! Mad! :eek:
So have been quite busy all day, making sure the system is all up and running, getting the new user details in and generally trying not to panic!

Got a really good component for Delphi which allows me to output straight to a website via the CGI interface (basically so like http://www.some.com/main.exe could output a website!!) which is gonna be really handy, and should help boost my cred :D oh the joys of programming!

Zak says he can get the fully boxed version of Delphi, 5 Enterprise for me for phree, which i really hope he does, as it will seriously help me out at uni, but i dunno time will tell :)
Talking of Mr Malek, Mr MalIk still owes me that other £20, grrr…. oh and talking of college, Nisha is in a bit of bother after getting caught with some of my work, i hope i can get her out of it :( i really want her to come SouthBank next year… *cross fingers*

Had a lovely tea tonite, mmmmm, Fajitas, well done Cheryl! Oh and put £5 on Holland beating the Czech Republic on sunday, COOOMMEE OONNN YYOOUU ORRAANNGGEE!!! heheheh :lol:

Anyway, am dead excited about all this extra ca$h, so will leave now to go and run and jump about!

woo hoo! :D :lol:

sorry people, not much time

Thursday, June 8th, 2000

I can’t write much as Jamie has sent me this excellent cd which i need to put on md for tomorrow via my computer.

Guess what, i finally got my £20 back from Zak today after about 3/4 months of waiting!!! I am now back in the money, woo hoo!

Also, I paid myself via the company :) £35 which i feel is well deserved, and that was from wilbur incase you didn’t know :D
Felt sooooo tired (as i think i said) and was no way i could face cisco, so went to cheryl’s house to rest :P It was really good, very nice nite, there was some program on tv about nudist camps :):) they were all old though :(:( although there was some miss nudist camp award, the winner wasn’t old :D woo hoo!

Played in the garden with marc for a bit, got this new game where we just chuck things from the balcony and one of us is below to catch it :) I know it sounds a bit childish, but very good fun…. hehehe :rolleyes: ’says cheryl!’

Downloaded all the club info for ibiza, it is gonna be COOL! have planned the whole two weeks :) not too sure if it’s all ok with cheryl though, oh well, she’s gonna have to lump it ;) (joking!) :P
Anyway, like i said, must dash, important music to copy!!!

one step beyond………… party ppl!

i forgot all about it!

Wednesday, June 7th, 2000

Sorry peeps, forgot to fill this in last night, i hope you weren’t all too disapointed but have been trying to sort out my cc payments :)
Not really much happened (i was at work!!!) but i have been given the opportunity to get a free :D Nokia 7110 just for fixing a computer… woo hoo!

Oh, I know, Gary (an old mate from years ago) rang me up to ask if i could fix his computer (charming! hehehe) so am going round on friday, will be nice to see him again, I wonder how much he has changed…. we’ll see :lol:

Got two new clients since putting my hosting charges down, and am now in the position (as i said above) of being able to take credit card payments, hurrah! just need to find a way of doing it :rolleyes:
Tried to get to sleep early, nope 1:30ish in the morning, and its really getting to me, i feel like crap now when i wake up, but never seem to be tired when night next comes around?!?

Anyway, at work now, and got a nasty NT bug to go try and sort out…. how much fun will this be?

laterz…. :P

hungry hungry hippos! :P

Tuesday, June 6th, 2000

hey all! well, i got to sleep sooooo late last night, and with work the next day as well :(
Infact, at around 1:40(ish) i got really hungry so went downstairs to the kitchen, and man did i get food :) muffins, chewy bars, LOADS of biscuits and a few glasses of milk disappeared in an instant :)
Didn’t help though, still stayed up until (about i think) 2:30 until i finally went into slumber! :D
It wasn’t so nice going back to work i must say, although i did aim to get quite a bit done, to show that i am worth staying in there :) So planned the new website, and looked into the possibility of the .ac.uk domain ending.

All i need do now, is write a proposal to show to the main man….. :eek: scared!

Too scared to place any more bets now, i sware, once all this is gone, i am NEVER going to bet again, i just want my money back…. plllleeeeeezzzzeeee!!!!

Badgered more people for cash, you know i am currently owed, £20 + £20 + £12.50 + £35, so thats um, £87.50!! No wonder i am so broke (and i only just got paid) :lol:

Keep thinking about the holiday and how great its gonna be! A lot of this is brought on by the amount of house/trance tunes i am getting my hands on, which always make me think of Ibiza…. i guess i am just too nostalgic :D
Finally got my £90 cheque from belgium so the company accounts are now up to date, and will pay all this in tomorrow, the bank balance is quite healthy you know :)
Oh, and Wilbur signed up today! cool! i gave him a discount, so hopefully i will get cheaper chinese (yeah rite! :lol:)

Perhaps i will finally watch Lethal Weapon 4 now, who knows… find out tomorrow :):D:lol: