Into August

Right! Time to post a catchup on a few things I hadn't got round to posting about yet. Once again! Well you should all know by now that I am probably one of the web's most irregular posters...

Birthday Weekend
Hehe, anyway, my birthday weekend sometime ago started on Friday 25th July. My birthday was littered with preparing for Saturday, which I shall explain about shortly, but we did take some time out to provide me with a selection of presents, most noteworthy being quite a lot of PSP-based games. I was also promised a new iPhone, although O2 stocks were low and so I was unable to get one on the day.

Saturday was our Jarrett Family's Summer Party, representing our celebration of Summer, and my Dad and my Birthdays. It started at 12:30 and finished around the same time 12 hours later. And it was awesome! We had our usual large bouncy slide, and smaller bouncy castle. In addition, we also had a large marquee which housed the food that our lovely caterers offered. And we had near perfect weather. There wasn't much else we could ask for!! Thank you to everyone who attended and I hope you enjoyed yourselves!!

Sunday was our day of cleaning up, followed by rest. The party on Sunday left a lot of mess, and so the morning was spent tidying and dealing with the recycling, while the afternoon and evening spent in relaxation.

Monday 28th July dawned early, as it was my Dad's birthday. His presents included a new BBQ, delivered to him before the party started, and a few other things of course. He also managed to get his new BMW M3 delivered on the same day! So all around, it was a pretty awesome weekend.

Past Weeks
As promised, a review of the past weeks is in order. Work has generally been the same, with a few new websites being brought into the mix. I may post more about that in a later blog entry. As for my room, the carpet has been laid, the lights installed, and all that needs to be completed now is a few paint jobs, the curtains (the last thing on my list now) and the LCARS accessories. I may soon post a few pictures up onto the web to show you what my room looks like now!

Then, there is the Avatar: The Last Airbender finale! Oh, awesome was an understatement. I don't think I've ever seen a more perfect ending, as there was only one slight niggle from my point of view (that being Zuko's mother... what was the point of bringing up that question moments before the end?) But other then that, it was brilliant! And the way Aang defeated the Firelord I thought was perfectly fitting, despite some criticism I read on the forums.

Anyway, I'll post more about my University and other matters in another post.

The Present
Right now, I am on holiday in Paris, France. I will be starting to write an offline diary (unlike my previous holidays and more like my first real recorded holiday) and posting them as and when I get Internet time. So until then... au revoir!

Happy Birthday

I am 20 today!! No longer a teenager, and no longer able to use that excuse for things!

Feel free to leave any comments you wish to, and when I find an ounce of time, I will blog a full report of this weekend (and past weeks) onto here.

Until then then...

Happy Birthday Andrew!!

I would like to wish my brother Andrew a

MOST HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

He is 17 today! Hip hip horray!!

Birthday and More...

Well, it's been quite a bit of time since my last blog post so here's one to cover the time lost! Again...

25th July 2007
Yep, my birthday! OK, well I spent most of the day playing computer games and generally relaxing. The evening was spent getting my presents, birthday cake and birthday wishes. I got a nice chocolate birthday cake, and a PSP and some games. All good!

28th July 2007
The day of the Jarrett's Summer Party dawned bright and early as I continued my work from Friday morning at 10am and didn't stop until about 1pm. The party then continued until late and included loads of food, crisps, sweets, bouncy castle fun, talking to and helping people around the house, and of course the creme da la creme of the party, the giant bouncy slide (that became wet in the evening to remove friction!) Overall an awesome day!

Since
Since then I've been working during the day and relaxing during the evening (most weekdays) and playing on my PSP as well as on my MMORPG PC games (of which I don't need to remind you what they are!)

Also, I have been working on the completion of the creation of a Star Trek RPG on a Trek forum. If anyone here likes Star Trek, and likes RPG'ing (which involves pretending to be a character from the Trek universe on a starship), then give me a shout and I'll tell you how to join up!

Anyway, that's all for now. More later I guess!

Byron's Birthday Weekend

Friday
Friday morning was spent playing Master of Orion II. The afternoon was spent updating my forums with a new mod (which is huge and adds tons of features). So I spent 3 hours sifting through code, only to find out firstly that my forums were buggered up, and then on looking for how to repair it, I found out that actually the reason why they were buggered up was because I had installed an out-of-date version of the mod. The new version could be simply installed in around 10-15 minutes.

Oh well!!

Saturday
I have some kind of deal with my younger brothers. Because I don't generally buy them presents, and the fact that I am the elder brother (and so although I help them a lot I am generally more or less in control), on their birthdays they get to get their every whim answered for (I will do anything as long as it doesn't break any rules).

So today was spent obeying my youngest brother, Byron, because on Monday (his real birthday) we all had schools and uni's to attend. So much for free-will, lol!

Sunday
Byron was on a roll from the previous day, and stormed into this day eagerly. With the bouncy castle setup and the table laid for a feast, the partying began! First came the hour-long magic show (which I sat through to keep control) and then bouncy castle time, lunch, bouncy castle time.

Once the party was over, the presents were opened, and then we spent the rest of the day relaxing and playing. Ah well, good times!

Byron's Birthday

To My Youngest Brother Byron, who's 5 today, best wishes and a Happy Birthday to You!