Was browsing flickr and came across this picture. It has made me realise how much i've missed a proper autumn this year. If you remember last year, i was in Italy for a week where i was really impressed by what autumn can be like. Some photos from that trip are on my Picasa (from before i switched fully to flickr) here: http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/Garethness/Italy08Autumn?authkey=Gv1sRgCJGGyK-j84OfPg&feat=directlink

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net


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Current Location: broadgate park, beeston, uk
Current Mood: amused

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
garethness goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as a robot.
assisted tricks you! You get a wet rag.
auroraldreams tricks you! You get a dead frog.
feelingsuperior tricks you! You get a rock.
isaviel tricks you! You get a rotten egg.
katsuninken tricks you! You get a clothespin.
milusia gives you 1 mauve passionfruit-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
phaedie tricks you! You get a piece of paper.
pixiepanic gives you 3 white coconut-flavoured gummy bats.
porkface gives you 1 purple banana-flavoured jawbreakers.
sugar_shrapnel gives you 6 blue spearmint-flavoured gumdrops.
garethness ends up with 11 pieces of candy, a wet rag, a dead frog, a rock, a rotten egg, a clothespin, and a piece of paper.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

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Current Location: broadgate park, beeston, uk
Current Mood: indescribable

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Tags: internet, uni
Current Location: broadgate park, beeston, uk
Current Mood: cranky

Paddy has to go to the vet today. Paddy hates the vets. To keep him in the house we kept him in the utility room. My mum came down with the cat carrier and opened the door. Paddy bolted out the door outside.

My mum effing and blinding at her bad luck is overshadowed by Betty strolling inside, seeing the cat carrier and casually crawling into it and falling asleep.

Why cant all kitties be like that?

As i mentioned on my previous post, i move out tomorrow. I've started packing already. I have some stuff from when i moved out a few years ago, but surprisingly not as much as i had thought i did. This confuses me as i cant quite figure out what was so big in storage (other than my bed) which stopped me from just keeping it in the shed and saving me £120-£80 a month.

So yeah, i move out on Sunday. I'm staying in university managed accommodation. I will be just off campus, unfortunately the far side of campus, but there's an upside to this. University park is one of the prettiest university campuses in the UK, I will get lots of exercise, I walk past the building in which my Dad works/teaches in, so when i'm poor i can (maybe) invite him out for dinner, and then have him pay? Or more likely, it's good having family well within reach.

I am in self catered accommodation, so i have to get back into the swing of making myself food. I have an en suite bathroom though, which is good. I am going to be a boring university student, one of those ones who stays home and works and does assignments on time (that's the aim anyway).

Stuff i've bought:

I bought a lovely new bag. This bag fits my laptop nicely! My current bags arent that well suited. I have a laptop backpack, which is designed for 17" laptops. My laptop is 11.1" and somewhat drowns in it, plus i dont really need that much space. My other bag is a camera bag. It's great being able to have my SLR and my laptop together, but not so good for university where i wont be needing a camera, but will be needing paper and pens.

Lots of kitchen stuff. Well, my Mum actually did. She gave me a lot of the old stuff in the kitchen. Partly because it's old, partly because it matches nothing, partly to make space. She topped up what i didnt have on a trip to Tesco. The result though is i have the strangest set of kitchen utensils of all time. I have mugs which are black and white lines/bubbles, pale green plates, vivid orange vegetable peelers, white bowls, black dinner trays for example. It's free so i dont care, and half of it will get broken/stolen/knackered so it's a moot point.

A printer! This is actually part of my 101 list! I bought a laser printer. I made the best of the last of my staff discount and got a £75 laser printer for £49. Lovely job. Although the equipment on campus is good, around essay time, the print queue is around 6 hours long. I could send stuff to my Dad to get printed off in his office, but it's far from ideal if i'm working late.

A fridge. I got a smallish fridge as it was cheap and i would like somewhere which i can store my luxaries in without worrying about it vanishing if i'm away for 24hours. It may sound petty, but it's a sad case of life for many university flats. I just hope it's the size i think it is (it arrives tomorrow). I would hate to find it's too large to fit in my room.

Linen, blankets, Stationery. Quite limited buy on this. It's not really something i like buying too much of in advance before i figure out what i'll need. I have folders, paper trays, blankets, sheets, pillows, trays for bathroom etc. I'll buy whatever else in due course.


I get internet access as part of my room. I essentially connect to the university network. This is good. It means i'll get 30-500mbps internet. Unfortunately, it will be locked down to hell. It already says no torrents, which i can deal with as i dont download stuff anymore, but other ports are blocked as well. I just hope they dont block gaming ports etc. Another pain is, you get 1 data port in a room. You can only have 1 thing plugged in at once, you cannot bring your own networking equipment (router, bridge, wap), so wtf am i going to do with my laptop? I figured i'll bridge my ethernet ports on my pc and just tether my laptop. Far from ideal, but if i get bothered, i still have WWAN (cellular) internet. and

I'm about 15 minutes walk from Beeston train station, where there's hourly trains direct to Birmingham. I can also change in Leicester to get to brum, making it a train every 30 minutes. This will mean i can see pixiepanic simply and easily.



I should get some sleep now, as i have an epic day of tying up loose ends, packing (including my computer?!?!?!?!)  and laundry. wish me luck

Tags: engineering, technology, university, update
Current Location: Leicester, uk
Current Mood: sleepy

I move out on Sunday. I start university on Monday. I have so much to do!

That said, i'm going to start posting more now, just not this second because my printer is here!

Tags: technology, uni, update
Current Location: Leicester, UK, Home
Current Mood: giddy

My laptop got delivered the other day, well, in fact almost a week ago! The past week has flown by. In fact, the past 2 weeks have flown by, in a sort. Last week Maz was in Spain which sucked, so i worked some night shifts at work to try and ensure i no longer bounce in and out of my overdraft before i start university which, by the way, is getting scarily close. She arrived back on Saturday night, i drove up after work on Sunday, and we drove back here on Tuesday. We're both full of cold right now. Well, i dont think i have a cold, but i have this weird sickness feeling which sucks.

Back to the laptop, I got my laptop last week. It arrived, no problems with it. Battery life is as expected, very very very good. I've been trying to set it up to how i had my previous laptop, but still needs a bit more work. I should really consider sending it off to Sony as well so it can be tinkered with for that product recall thingymabob a few months ago, (a few months? wasn't that like last year?). Anyway, yes. I have my schedule for my first week of university which starts on the 21st. I'm moving in before that because there's little to be sat around here for. I finish work on the 13th. I would like to make brownies for my co-workers for my last day. It would be nice. Most people when they leave just slack and whatever, or get to give people a piece of their mind that they never had the guts to do before hand. I'm in a strange situation that i quite enjoyed my job on the whole, didn't have any feuds with colleagues, and will probably miss working there (but not my much really).

My accommodation provider is already being a fucktard by saying OHSHIT ARE YOU STILL COMING? COS LIKE, WE HAVENT HAD YOU SAY YES YOU ARE, SO ARE YOU? yes, yes. i am coming, hence why i've got a few thousand pounds of my money in your bank account ffs.

Gotta sort out insurance too. I hate having to put a value on my belongings. It's like, well i bought you 3 years ago, so do i put your current value or the value it would cost to replace you?

Anyway, sleep time for me, so i guess i'll have to continue this post another time. Enjoy reading until then :) x

Tags: laptop, sick, sony vaio, travel, uni, update
Current Location: Leicester, UK, Home
Current Mood: sleepy

( Yet another chicken video )

Tags: chickens
Current Location: Leicester, UK, Home
Current Mood: cheerful

Fluffy.