Oooh…my poor head…

I went out to the pub with Olly last night. We where only going to go and have a couple, but that couple turned into a few more…you get the gist. We got back to my house about half twelve, and I proceded to throw up a bit. I was alright after that until I went to bed. You know how it is. You lie down then the room starts to spin, then you’re off the the loo to throw up. Gem wasn’t particularly pleased, especially when she came and slept downstairs, thanks to my snoring. Heh…

Anyway, I picked up the new car on Friday. Yes! We now have a car that works! Shame the Fiesta got written off. It was a great little car. Upto a point. We now have an 06 Fiat Punto, which Gem thinks looks gormless, and I think it looks a little like an Aston Martin. Just a little bit. Gem’s a bit annoyed as she hasn’t actually had chance to drive it yet. She won’t be able to for a day or so yet either. The snow started coming down again a couple of hours ago! Nice one!

I think that’ll do for now. See ya!

Weekend!

Yeah, I would.

Well obviously it’s not the weekend just yet, but I really can’t wait for it! Friday night will be the usual affair of sitting down with a few drinks and watch the old tellybox. Saturday on the other hand will be a little different!

Gem’s mum will be having the girls on Saturday night! Woohoo! So that means that Gem and I WILL be going out somewhere. Initial ideas are going out for a curry (which we seem to be doing more of recently) or going to the cinema. Gem wants to go and watch the new Underworld film, but I just don’t think it’ll be the same without Kate yummy whatserface. Shame. She looks yummy in that full on PVC…tight…fugure hugging….

Moving on….

On Sunday (depending on the hangover situation) we’ll be going car hunting. The Insurance company’s hire car will be going back as soon as we receive the cheque for the old car. Gem’s fallen for a Citreon C3. It does look nice, but the colour of the interior is a bit…blearg. But then again, this is going to be Gem’s car as she’s the one who does the most driving. Problem is though, she’s gone for a car at the first place we visit! We need to look around the other garages first and see what they have on offer. If we don;t find anything, then we’ll go back to the Citreon.

Must go now. I really do need to do some sort of work!

Still here?

Good, so am I! When I remember to post on here anyway!

So the RAM I bought from Crucial has been installed, and it works great! There is one downside though. Because I’ve installed the 32bit version of XP, it can only recognise just over 2gb of the memory. Even so, it runs like a dream!

It still takes a few minuted for the lappy to turn on, but when it’s all up and running…whoosh! The difference in running Flight Sim X for example is just massive! Previously it was running on 512mb RAM, and it took about 5 minutes to load up a mission. Now it taked just a few seconds, and runs without any slow-down at all! Lubness!

All I need to do now is sort out the graphics side of things. The ATi chip I have only runs at 128mb, so as you can imagine, it FSX doesn’t look quite as nice as it should. Unfortunatly, I think the graphcs card is an hembedded jobbie so I don’t think it can be changed. I think I remember seeing somewhere that more memory can be sent to it through the BIOS, so I’m going to look further into that!

Anyway, enough of the techie stuff.

Just before Christmas, Gem had a small accident in the car. No, she didn’t piss herself! A van ran into the car when she was driving. The damage only seemed to be a significant dent on the drivers side wing, but it turns out that there was more damage underneath and as such, the car has been written off as a total loss.

The insurance company got a hire car to us and picked up the Fiesta only a few hours later, which was great! Things have been going swimmingly until we spoke to our solicitor the other day. I’m not going to go into details on here, but things are starting to get a trifle frustrating now. I’m sure we’ll get that sorted out soon though (fingers, and everything crossed!).

We’re also expecting a cheque from the insurance company soon, so we’re about to go car hunting. Problem is though, I’m not sure we can get a half decent car for the amount of money we’ll be getting. I’m very reluctant to have Gem and the kids driving round in a cheap banger. Ah well, let’s see what’s out there first!

Anyone want to buy an Arcade machine?

Olivia and Danni playing Mario

So the other day I posted saying how skint we are, and trying to get rid of overdrafts etc. I also mentioned that there were a few bits and bobs that I didn’t really want to get rid of. One of such items is the arcade machine that you see pictured to the left.

It’s got over 1,000 games on it, and is an awesome piece of kit. Unfortunatly it’s sat there gathering dust and not being used. So the time really has come that I need to get rid of it. Reluctantly. Really very relucantly. But needs must and as such, it will be going on eBay sometime this week.

The thing that scares me the most is that I don’t know how much money I’m going to get for it. I don’t know how much to start bidding at or anything.

I’m also probably going to start crying like a little baby once it’s on there too. I’ll keep you updated as to when the auction is up and running.

Ah…sod it…*cries*

Been a while ain’t it?!

Firstly, Happy New Year to you all!

Secondly, I know it’s been a while since I updated this blog, so I thought I’d better do something about it!

This post is mostly going to be a whinge about money. Or rather, lack of it.

Currently I’m using an iMac for my daily computer usage at home. It’s a fair few years old and starting to slow right down. A few months ago I dod a complete reinstall which seemed to help for a short while. Unfortunatly it’s started to slow right down again, wich is completely unacceptable, as the only stuff that’s installed on it is Photoshop and Apple Works.

Obviously I’m on the look out for a PC, but it has to be a half decent on, that will quite happily run Flight Sim X without any problem whatsoever. Anyone got any ideas?

I’m also wanting a PS3 at the moment too, but again, funds are not forthcoming. I’ve recently got rid of the Wii and a few games, but the money I got from that has just gone onto paying some yearly fees and some of the overdraft. I’ve also just had a free mobile upgrade and sold my o2 XDA on ebay. I don;t see that money either as it’s going straight onto the overdraft too.

I do have an arcade machine that’s just sat there doing nothing, but I’m really quite reluctant to get rid of it. It has over 1,000 games pre-loaded on it. I also have an extremely rare Nintendo DS that was given to me by the guys at Nintendo on a day out that they arranged to promote a game. I don’t want to get rid of that either.

I got a statement from the credit card company today. They have decided to increase my limit by 500 quid. What the hell?! I’m trying to clear off my debts! I don’t want to be tempted to spend more money that ain’t mine!

On another note, my sister Carla and her t’other half Olly has recently had a baby girl. They’ve also just meoved into a house around the corner from us. Less distance to go when we visit each other and have a few drinkies!

That’s all for now, because I really can’t be arsed. We’ve just bought Condemed for the Xbox 360 for 8 quid today. Gem wants me to play it for her as she’s too scared to play it herself. *sigh*

Happy Christmas!

Paul In New Post Shocker!

I know! I keep reminding myself to slap a new post on here, but things have been a trifle busy here at the moment. I’m just taking a few mins before it all kicks off again at work to give you readers (are there actually any?) a quick update.

We moved house last Friday! Out of the shitty terraced 2 bedroomed hole, and into a newly built 4 bedroomed house. Already, this new one feels more homely than the old one. I even have one of the bedrooms as my own little office. Yay for me! The kids are sharing a room at the mo, but we’ll be seperating them into their own rooms soon.

I need to shoot off (snigger), but I’ll be back later now that internet is restored at home, and I may even have some pics too!

Ta ta!

Busy? You’d better believe it!

I know, not many updates recently! There’s a really good reason for that!

A/ Work is busy as hell at the moment. I’ve actually had a week off, but I’ve spent more time in the office than at home! Typical!

B/ We’ve been looking at a new house, and it looks like that all is going well. The mortgage application has gone through, paperwork is at the solicitors, and Gem’s started packing already. All we need now is the house to be built!

C/ The Tooth Fairy is now bankrupt, thanks to Olivia and her habit of loosing her teeth! We really can’y afford this kind of tooth-falling-outerage!

D/ Dani is still as clumsy as hell. A new bruise on her noggin, thanks to yet another fall onto the coffee table

That’s all for now, but I’ll have a bigger post very soon!

Oh, and Gem’s started to play Bomber Man Live, and even had a couple of goes on Gears Of War!

I’ve lost my car…

It’s gone. Thanks to Gem. She passed her driving test this morning.

You know what this means don’t you? I now have to de-mothball the bike, tax it, pass my theory test, and do my bike test. All because I’m a lazy sod and can’t be assed to walk anywhere!

Congratulations!

There are some congratulations in order, but at the mo I’m not sure if I’m allowed to say anything just yet! As soon as I get a reply from him, then I’ll post up the news!