The Life of Shaииoи

Well, another month (and a bit) passes where I’ve totally neglected my blog, Whats new really? Not a lot!

Life, well life is life, Working hard to earn some cash, 6 weeks in at Jaycar and so far and I have to say im enjoying it heaps, there are a few annoyances here and there but you get that with every job I guess. The guys I’m currently working with are pretty easy going and good to have a chat with, which makes things much easier and makes the day go by that little bit faster plus the fact that work is about a 10 minute walk away, mostly up hill, and is helping me lose some pounds .

I’ve been attempting to save money (again haha) with little success again, bills and needless spending start to add up after a while, well, um mostly needless spending more than anything, but I’m getting there. Looking towards renting somewhere eventually, and giving my beloved CD/DVD/Game collections a new home (man I miss my CD wall ). But for the most part things are moving along nicely after a few rough patches, starting a new life is hard after all, but will be all worth it in the end

Well thats all for now, I’ll update some more hopefully in the near future.

Woot Woot! Got a Phone call from Jaycar today and I got the job!

I start Tomorrow Woot!

Feeling pretty good right now .

Well its been just over a month 2 months since my last post, alot has happened in this time, mostly bad, but some great things did make there way into the mix… *cough Linkin Park cough*

Linkin Park was needless to say FUCKING AWESOME, our seats were just awesome, not that we used them much . Chris Cornell opened and sang an assortment of Audioslave and Soundgarden songs, along with some of his own songs, he was pretty damned good. Once Linkin Park took the stage we were on our feet from the time the first song started to the end of the show, singing along and screaming like little school girls, we walked out with no voices and my ears didn’t stop ringing until 2 days later :D. I’d have to say my highlight was hearing Crawling and Numb live, in person Was so worth it and after waiting since the first time I heard Crawling on MTV to see them live in concert I have to say I wasn’t disappointed, like really how could you be disappointed? If they ever tour Australia again I’ll be hitting every show I swear!

Back to the real world for a moment *stupid world you go squish now*….

A whole heap of annoying family shit happened just before the LP concert, so now we have sorta relocated, won’t go into much detail about that though. Been looking for work pretty hardcore, ended up landing 2 Interviews, one was a total flop, the other (until 10:24am this morning) was looking really promising, but I should find out about that hopefully by the end of today or next week. Should be a sweet job if I get it, 5minutes walk up the road, good company what more could you ask for?

Anyway until I find out about this job, I’m gonna listen to alot of loud music and shoot some annoying little tards.

LINKIN PARK TOMORROW WOOOOO….

Now that I have that out of the way, Ive finished the Orange Box, HAHA people who pre-ordered it retail are suckers . Portal was great fun but a little too short, and HL2 EP2 OMFG the ending :O . Been playing HEAPS of Team Fortress 2 lately, really enjoying it, the rendering style + the Scouts baseball bat = Full of Win…

Photography wise, Ive been playing around with Macros  of just general stuff like flowers and various computer parts, I’m looking into getting a 28-135 Canon EF lense as just a walk around lense hopefully sometime in the near future as I’m sort of limited in what I want to do with the stock 18-55mm. I might be getting a tripod + head for xmas which should be nice and sweet…

Work… Is… The usual, ill have a post with some stuff about that soon…

But now I guess I should get back to work, been here for 1/2 an hour and Ive done nothing…

Another Friday without being paid…

I’m sure I don’t want to do anything on a Friday night, I work hard, I should be paid on time.Don’t you agree? I mean we made an agreement that I would be paid on a Thursday, Ive kept my end of this agreement by working everyday, why Is it so hard to pay me?

At 10am I might be tempted call a Strike of the “Shannon Likes being Paid” Union…

Theres a WHOLE lot more to this story but I think thats somewhere I shouldn’t go….

I’m sure as most of you may know I am a Computer Technician, and have been a Computer Technician since basically the time I left school. I’ve seen alot of things inside Computers, There is however one thing that above all other things the has to be most Disgusting that I have found inside a Computer:

Cockroaches, The little tiny ones.

They like to get inside Power Supply’s and Nest in the warmth. Now you see once there in the PSU theres really not much you can do it will eventually die, leaving behind a distinctive stink, not your standard fried electronics smell but a much worse one, in extreme cases I’ve seen Computers covered from top to bottom with Cockroach crap, and crispy fried critters, with a smell that could make you throw up from the other side of the room.

Now a savvy Customer will get the problem once take some advice and deal with it, but when not dealt with swiftly it can become costly, very costly. Having to replace a Power Supply every time the buggers get in there can end up costing more than the computer is actually worth in the end. One case I’ve replaced the power supply in a computer about 8 times… You would think that this person would think there is something wrong there wouldn’t you?

So in closing, omfg people get rid of them I’m the poor sucker that has to clean em out of your computers. Take My advice when we give it to you! I don’t just say it for the sheer hell of it!

YAY for escaping to Queensland Tomorrow. No work for 5 days, Nice and warm, 1 billion places to take photos. Were driving up so my PSP is loaded with music and Ghost in the Shell EPS, and GAMES, to occupy me on the way up, DS is charged and waiting… Hopefully with both of them fully charged ill have the 10 hrs drive covered!

In other news….. TF2 BETA OMFG…. all I can say is…. , I SO can’t wait until October for it to come out.

Anyway I’ll probably make a post when I get settled in up in Queensland.

But Until then… /toddles off to play more beta…

I Win

I probably should blog something considerable, but really can’t be arsed at the moment.

Went to the Drags at WSID on Saturday they were pretty sweet as usual, I’ll have a post about them… like… Tomorrow I guess. I gave my 400D a fairly good run taking about 350 photos in total, most came out pretty good. Gave me a real chance to get to know the settings and things alot better.

FragFest SpringLAN is this Saturday, really looking forward to catching up with some gaming buddies this weekend, plus its another decent photo op , and a chance to play some games I haven’t played in months.

Spose I should crash now, work tomorrow… Joy again…

Today I FINALLY picked up a DSLR Camera, and after 4 months of waiting and saving its finally mine! I ended up picking the Canon EOS400D with 18-55mm and 75-300mm Twin Lens kit and a 2GB SanDisk Extreme III CF Card, all for a nice round price . I’m looking forward to taking it out and getting some snaps tomorrow and also to improving my Photography Skills over time.

I’ll have some Snaps up in the near future (when I get some time to get my head around everything and some spare time! >.<).