Preparing for the Inevitable

Well, I recently posted this on my Facebook account as my status, and I thought it deserved a little bit more then I put. So, I will post this on my blog now, and make this as public as I can.

This Thursday, there is a 50:50 chance that I will be going to South Africa. Why a 50:50 chance? Why not 100%?

It all started sometime last week. With under one week to go until we need to go to South Africa, my brother and I find out that our passports had expired. Not only had they expired, but they were children passports and we were adults. Under new British law, it is required that those needing new adult British passports for the first time have to sit an interview and possibly wait up to 6 weeks for the new passport.

But what was extremely strange was that our passports should have still been valid. We had 4 and a half year passports, and we should have had 5 year passports. A short call to the passport office, and we had an appointment booked for Tuesday (tomorrow).

So, the inevitable is that we are going to fail to get our passports, not be allowed to fly to South Africa, and not turn up for the wedding we are invited to go to. All in all, that's something that needs to be prepared for.

Here's to the inevitable being obliterated!!

Silent Work

Yesterday was a day spent working. I got up at 10:30am and worked solidly until 5:30pm, when I stopped. I then spent the rest of the evening playing Guild Wars: end of story, that's all, goodnight.

Today I woke up and had a nose-bleed in the shower, ran down the hill to catch my train which I just saw pulling out of the station, half-an hour later caught the next one, arrived in Uni 20 minutes late with another nose-bleed and then arrived in my lecture 40 minutes late overall. Not good.

Still, I handed in my CIS108 (Business) assignment and went to my Java lecture (CIS109), where I worked on my Java project and also something special was introduced (talk about this in a later blog...)

And as I am talking in CIS language, I thought I might as well list the sub-courses my Internet Computing course is comprised of:

• CIS102: Mathematics for Computing (Maths)
  
• CIS108: Information Systems: Foundations of E-Business (Business)
  
• CIS109: Introduction to Java and Object-Oriented Programming (Java)
  
• CIS110: Introduction to Computing and the Internet (Computer Hardware/HTML and CSS Programming etc/how Internet works)

That's all for today's blog.