An update on my life.

March 10th, 2010

Hi Blogging world,

How are you all?

I’m back to update myself really where I’m at in life at the moment. There seems to be a lot going on, writing this post in itself is procrastination!

Church

Church seems to be good at the moment. Despite all the ranting I seem to do on here, its really not that bad at all. I guess its true that you only have something to say when its bad and when things are going well, people seem to neglect the fact to mention it to everyone. So I guess the fact that I havn’t rnated about it in a while means its good.

That being said, there are a few things that annoy me. GPIG seems to be getting busier and busier, getting harder to manage sometimes. There was a week a couple of weeks ago and it seems to go downhill. A badly planned quiz night, resulting in me and a few other team members getting very stressed and my practically switching off, which isn’t a good idea really. Although its helpful to have some of the dedicated adults which now come along (thanks David, Sharon, Kev and Wends). Although I get stressed and tired and groany at the end of GPIG, it really is one of the highlights of my week.

Splat is going good, however I cant really comment here. Whenever I say its been a good night its usually been a bad one where all the kids are naughty, however as long as it doesn’t affect anything technical, it doesn’t really concern me!

Switch is OK. We’ve tried to structure it differently as of our last meeting, but it isn’t a secret that I don’t think theres much point sometimes. Watch this space I guess.

Church generally doesn’t seem too bad either. That being said, I wag it far too often now! We’re following a series at the moment on the ten commandments, which is nice as it seems to follow a logical order and that I have found out some things that I didn’t really know! But yeah, they kinda go from 1 to 10 (with the exception of 6 and 7 which we swapped because of the snow.. yeah.).

I’m the tech director now! That doesnt mean a lot except that I budget now, and I can’t blame something not working on someone else. It also takes some stress off Jonny who seems to be doing so much else within the chuch!

Had a meeting about a website tonight. hmmmmmmmmm, gona be fun!

Thats about it for church. Seems to be going well. It gets hard at times but yeah its not an easy ride, you’ve got to stick in it. Some of my best and most honest friends I know through church and these are the ones that I’m going to stick by. No offence to the rest, I love you too!

Uni

This is the biggest stress of my life at the moment! I’ve got a fair few assigments due in before Easter, as well as having to do a presentation (seminar) and the pratical work for my dissertation! So what do I do? Nothing! However, I have updated my blog, been playing with Filemaker, ran out  of minutes because I’ve been phoning Ciara, been to a 3/4 hour meeting on a website/catching up with Jonny, been to uni, cleaned my whole room and spend a morning in bed, just today! Isn’t procrastination great?

I need to get down with the work now however. So yeah…..

Although its also a scary though that I finish my degree in a matter of a couple of months, I also get my results while I’m on holiday, which could be good or bad. I may need the address of a local entertainment facility in the US (*cough* I’m 21 so I can drink in the US), or I may need a small room I can lock myself in and sob for a day.

Thats about it for uni too tho. Not much to report except that I’ve got to get on with work!

Ciara

Spending lots of weekends in Aberystwyth is great, so is spending time with Ciara I love it! Since she’s proberbly not going to read this, I wont talk about her much!

General Computer/IT/etc.

I want an iPad!! I’m trying to find as many excuses as possible to get one. I’m also turning my laptop more and more into a desktop computer, therefore I need a portable device larger than my iPhone, obviously!

Other than that is all uni based. I read some interesting blogs tho.

Social Life

It sucks. I need a proper night out. Any takers?

Thanks for those that spent some time reading this for me, it gives you an insight into my currently incredibly boring life.

Luke

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Sleep

July 14th, 2009

OK, first of all, I apologies to all that have to come into contact with me over the next 24 hours. I apologies in advance for being a moody bastard.

Its 1amish, I’m knackered, I’ve not been sleeping well recently and the last thing I want to do right now is go to sleep (that might change based on other factors however). 8 hours (average) sleep a night I think, basically is a waste of time. We only get 24 hours in a day, 8 are spent on sleep, that one third of the day is spent with our eyes closed doing nothing at all. Thats 2.3 days a week spent just sleeping. Thats about 122 days a year just spent asleep (based on sleeping 8 hours a day, again).

Personally, I think this is a complete waste of time. Think of the whole number of other things we could be doing in this time. Think of everything else you wish you could do in the meantime which we normally say “we havn’t got time for” We wouldn’t necessarily have to have weekends from work, cause we’re just awake all the time. Obviously we’d want to not work hard sometimes. But take tiredness and cba’s and laziness out of the world and see what you left with?

Doe’s anyone know why we have to sleep. I mean why did God choose to make our bodies that they need rest. What’s the scientific reason for needing to sleep.

So what it comes to is me not wanting to go to bed at night because I think its a waste of time. The reasons why I will go to bed shortly is because: a. I have to have sleep, b. I’m bored, c. I need a task thats not going to wake the house up, d. 24 hour Tesco is useless.

Anyway, point made.

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Oasis

July 9th, 2009

Went to go and see Oasis Tuesday night. They were absolutly flippin awesome!

Theres not a lot else I can say about it really. There was a good mix of new music which sounds good and old classics which got the whole Ricoh going.

Wasn’t anything overly special about the actual production, there was some good camera work/effects though.

Just wanted to share this with the world!

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Coundon Court School Concert

July 3rd, 2009

On Tuesday I went to my old schools Summer Concert. To start off with I think it was an excellent concert. The students that played there are very talented. I would love to play an instrument, I tried guitar once and badly failed, but yeah!

Few things that annoyed me:

Lighting It was bad, sorry, it was. I mean, whats with lighting up the back of someones head, it really does work. If their lighting bar had been positioned correctly, they would have a good coverage of the floor as well as the stage, since the floor seems to be used at most productions. Secondly, some of the lighting has been there longer than I have been a student there, and I left Coundon Court two years ago, make an investment! Thirdly, the colour changing on the “band” in the corner looked really bad, do something about it. Fourthly, the glitter ball looked weird just because of the shadow it created, it missed like half of it out. Thats all for now, but seriously do some investment!

Sound One of the musicians or teachers making adjustments in the “band area” just doesn’t cut it for a concert. Use the skills of the students that can do sound and get them the right side of the speakers and do a proper mix! Mic people up! Half of the time I couldn’t hear the person presenting, she was too quiet. A bit of support would have helped loads, especially for people who’s hearing is worse than mine. Next, mic up or get an input from the instruments, even if its just the lead ones. I know it might be easier said than done, but with a stage hand its really not hard. When the two guys were doing their guitar thing (BTECH I think), I couldn’t hear them. Position the speakers correctly, what’s the point in them both being at the right of the room? Sounds completely out of place when there playing a backing track to the person thats on stage..

Stage Setup There’s an absolutely huge stage which is used for probably 10% of the concert. Every thing else seemed to be floor level, or on one height of movable staging (if you get me). This is rubbish for those that are sitting at floor level that are expected to see through peoples head. Move the band from the corner, onto stage, make full use of the stage for the orchestra, and if you need to do a scene change, at least you have curtains.

Credit OK, some teachers move on, it seemed half of the time the teachers/staff were the centre of attention. The attention needs to be back on the students really, it their concert. Give them full credit at the end, get them involved in the organization and the ones that have shown exception reward them instead of giving flowers or whatever to one teacher that has decided to make a slight career change.

Overall I thought it was a good concert. I’ve got some friends who were in it, and they performed very well. Sorry for the rant, mostly technical stuff but since I was sitting with David, who only half cared and Ciara who didn’t care, I had to release it somewhere!

Luke

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OK, try two…..

July 3rd, 2009

Hi,

Second attempt really at making a blog. Reasons for doing this really is cause sometimes I have a lot of different things in my head I want to get out. They might be a. because I cant be bothered to write the same thing to everyone, b. I want to get it into the air and no one I’m talking to at that time would be even slightly interested, or c. I feel I want to share those thoughts with the world!

Going to put things on here that I find interesting, technically wise, IT wise, christian wise, friends wise, uni wise and things I find funny!

Don’t know what else to say here, but I’ll write my about me soon anyway.

Luke

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