Shoes

I discovered yesterday that my car had been leaking oil. Before I left for uni I popped the bonnet and discovered that the oil had completely ran out, if I’d drove it in the engine could have exploded. This morning I took it in to a garage to get it looked at and apparently the pressure gage for the oil was broken. It was replaced and was really cheap, the garage even topped her up with new oil.

Today was also my uncle Daves 50th birthday. Me, my parents, Simon and the idiot all drove down to Snape where my uncle lives. My three cousins from London and my aunt and uncle from there all came up to see him too. It was the biggest family gathering since my cousin Victoria’s wedding a month or two back (which me and my parents weren’t able to attend). Luckily I’ll be able to see them all again, unfortunately it’ll be at Simon and the idiots wedding*. It was good night. I drove back alone on the night, the others had rooms at the pub. I must say that driving home on the A19 at night without any traffic to slow you down is great fun.

Well I’m going to bed now, all that socialising and driving has knackered me out.

* Please note that when I say the word “wedding” in this sentence I’m spitting the word out.

We were told in our Games Dev lecture we have a presentation next week for our game concept. We’re really not ready for this. Hopefully we’ll get some help in the dev class which I have in about an hour.

I had to take a break mid-post for a few minutes there because the fire alarm in the uni building went off. ¬__¬

Nothing else has happened so far today, such a dull day. I’ve also changed the links on the side so my youtube channel is linked. Before anyone says, yes, I know I’m a big nerd.

Well it’s been two weeks since I returned to uni and gosh darn it almost a week since my last post. I’ve been given my ICA (In Course Assessment) for my Advanced Animation class and the first assignment on my Drawing and Composition 3 module. D&C was my least liked subject in first and second year but it doesn’t seem like it’s going to be as bad this year. In my Games Development lecture earlier this week the team was finalised with the addition of another animator (James) and a second second programmer (Dave). That gives us a team of seven, kind of. Shaun is off sick….with swine flu……yeah.

Other than uni I’ve not been up to much. I’ve been neglecting reading the three books I got for Christmas and really need to get read. I found out there’s a new Discworld book out, woop. I bought Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days for the DS last Friday and I picked up a copy of Saints Row 2 today. Strangely a brand new copy worked out £7 cheaper than a second hand one. Like the big game geek I am I re-watched a few of the GameTrailers Retrospectives (which are really well made by the way) and I’ve started watching through Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe on YouTube. I love that show.

Well today was my first day back at university and it was pretty much what I thought it was going to be like. First thing I did was go to Middlesbrough Tower and got my car registered for parking. I then went to Oasis and got myself a super cheap A4 sketch book. I headed up to my usual computer room and sat down to do some more of my project work only to discover I’d left my USB stick at home ¬__¬

Shaun arrived and told me his idea for earning money after we graduate. It was actually a good idea, he really has found a hole in the market we could make use of. I was surprised.  The Games Development lecture was interesting in a number of ways. Firstly we only recognised about a handful of people in the whole lecture hall. A new lecturer was introduced and he explained how the module would work. He then told us that by the end of next weeks lectures we would all be in ours groups. They’re really not wasting any time here.

After lecture we went shopping for supplies and I picked up a copy of Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box for the DS. It’s great, I’ll do a review later.

Now I’m sitting at home scouring the school of computing forums to see what Games Development group requests are popping up.

Well today can pretty much be summed up with the word “waiting”. Early morning I woke up an hour before my alarm was set to get me up and entered into a weird semi-sleep state. I’d drift off, have a short dream and wake up to find on a minute or two had passed. This lasted for the full hour until my alarm did it’s job. I rolled my ass out of bed, got ready and drove my car to the garage for an oil change and to get the boot lock fixed.

Going home required the use of public transport and I was forced to use a bus for the first time in who knows when. I’m spoilt with my car. I then sat at home and waited for the call. Seven hours later I phoned them to find out what the heel was going on. They said they’d be done in an hour and in less than that I was waiting for another bus.

The oil has been change although I can’t tell any difference and the boot now opens. Woo! It’s about time. It didn’t cost as much as we all thought it would so that was good. The rest of the day was wasted in my usual manner.

Tomorrow marks my return to uni and the official start of my final year. The first lecture (and only one for tomorrow) is Games Development. The module in which we must make a game in groups with people from other courses. This should be interesting. Shaun has also told me he’s thought of something we could do to earn some money after we graduate. Apparently it’s games related and it’s a hole in the market. He refuses to tell me until we meet tomorrow so he can show me the research. I don’t know whether I should be worried about this or not. I guess I’ll find out tomorrow.