Before we could even read we were shown pictures of dinosaurs and were told that they lived 70 million years ago. After we’d learnt to read we read it for ourselves, and if you were anything like me you loved dinosaurs — and let’s face it they are pretty cool. But I was more interested in space. In school we were taught that 20 billion years ago there was a big bang and about 4 billion years ago the earth was formed, and gradually over the last few billion years humans evolved from some kind of soup that appeared when the rocks got rained on.

Hello blog reading friends! Firstly thanks to those who do read — I’m told that more people read than I thought did, so that’s good! If you read though please post a comment! That way I will know you have read my ramblings and will sleep easier at night.

So it’s been a few weeks since I wrote here. I’ve been enjoying a lazy reading week in which I have done little or rather no reading. Which has been fantastic. Yes I’ve played a lot of World of Warcraft, but not too much. Though just looking at xfire (which records the time I’ve spent playing games each week) I’ve played 40 hours of WoW this week. Which is like a full time job! If only I was getting paid! What’s even more disturbing is that I’ve spent the past year playing WoW and according to xfire I’ve played it for a total of 765 hours! Which if my calculations are correct is 31ish days! So I spent a whole month playing WoW in a year! Amazing really, and I’m sure very very sad!

Long time no blog so I thought I would fill you all in on what’s happening right now with me. Despite what you may think I have not been playing as much World of Warcraft as usual — I’ve been trying to do my coursework but am finding many other things to distract me. I am making progress though — it’ll be a tight squeeze to get it all done by Friday but I’ll manage, I always do. Oh and I got another ICA (In Course Assessment) today to model and build a database in Microsoft SQL Server 2003, gonna be a tough one but we’ve got till June to do it so loads of time.

Well I’ve had a break from my normal blog because I’ve been concentrating on my World of Warcraft Blog. I’ve been having a lot of fun with it, but today I decided to give it a rest because I was going a little crazy with the amount I’ve been playing.

I’ve been back at uni just over a week now and there’s really not much to say. I’m still good and so is everyone else. During my boredom I decided to go looking for an advert that I’d seen a few times that’s really impressed me. The Sony Bouncy Balls website (or Sony BRAVIA — my name is better) — if you haven’t seen it, check out the video because it’s quite simply amazing.

Well 2006 is officially here now as you all know. I’m tired and feeling pretty bored still at home. Tonight I’m off to Leeds and then tomorrow I’ll be back at Uni in Middlesbrough. I can’t wait to get back!

New Year’s Resolutions

1. Quit Drinking — Just to see if I can
2. Proper Diet — Instead of just freezer food everyday
3. Do some work — Because I don’t want to fail my second year
4. Invest more time in relationships — With God and People
5. Reinstall WoW — Rejoin British Beef and cause havoc on the Agamaggan server

There they are… How many of them will I keep? Who knows, I’m guessing not all of them but I’m bound to manage to keep a few.

A few days late but close enough. :)

Well Christmas is over for another year! I had a good day yesterday — we had 11 people over for dinner which is a first! We usually don’t do that kind of thing at Christmas so it made a nice change and it was good to see people. I am looking forward to having things get back to normal though. I get bored really easily over Christmas and I’m just looking forward to going out and seeing people again. There’s still a good few of my good mates that I haven’t seen yet and I’ve been back since Wednesday!

On Tuesday I had the pleasure of going to Matthew Maude and Miriam (Mim) Hilton’s wedding. It was a brilliant day — a big congratulations to you guys. Matt and Mim have only known each other a little more than a year and started seeing each other on January 1st of this year! Which is really cool, kinda puts things in perspective. To imagine that I could start seeing someone on January 1st and be married to them in less than a year… Crazy. Not that it’s gonna happen, I’m definitely not ready for marriage.

I spent the first part of this week getting my new website up and running. The long promised webspace from xengaming has finally arrived and I have to say that I’m very impressed. Unlimited space and bandwidth for £30 a year is without a doubt the best webhosting package on the planet. It took 6 months to get it all working but I’m a patient man. So go check out www.mattous.co.uk — I’ve set up the forums and gallery again so register and start posting! You can also upload your photos to the gallery now if you want somewhere to store photos or whatever.

Well I did! As many of you know I don’t like having my haircut, which is why it’s so long usually! For once I like it though so that’s a good thing! I’ve got an interview for placement next week so I’ve got to look slightly presentable. I would tell you who I’m going for the interview with but I would have to kill you. Seriously… Anyway the annoying thing about it is that I’m going down to London on Wednesday for this interview, staying at my house that evening, coming back up to uni for 1 more day of lectures (which I will not be going to because it’s the 15 hours of Christmas) and more importantly Matt and Mim’s wedding on the following Tuesday. Then the very next day I’m going back down to Kent again! I will have Pete for company though this time which will make the journey much more interesting!