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You may (or may not) remember a blathering post I made on here about how shitty my router is. Well, my new one arrived the other day and it has been nothing but plain sailing. Fuck you in the face BT. If you are really interested it is a Linksys WAG200G, or in picture form it’s one of these:

Rather exciting as you can see. Good news is that it works.

I’ve also got a couple of new toys. Firstly there was the router, but my latest is this really cool freeview usb stick for my computer so I can watch digital telly on it using the miracles of Windows Media Centre. I always wondered what that was for… You might be thinking it’s a silly idea to use slow old USB when i could put a PCI card in but the truth is that i’ve run out of space with my DUAL GRAPHICS CARDS ahehahahaha.

Other big news is that i’m almost totally moved into my new bedrooms above the garage. Cool thing about this is that I get a living room and a bedroom next to eachother so it’s like a mini house but without the kitchen or bathroom. Only down side of it being like a real house is that I get all the moving in rubbish which comes with… well… moving in. I’ve been living amongst unpacked boxes and sleeping on a sofa bed for like 3 weeks or something! Still, it will be worth it in the end. I’ll keep you posted on this super exciting news! :trex:

Last Saturday was George’s 18th birthday and in true Essex lout style we went out on the town and got totally shit faced, especially George. He had found this drink called an Irish Car Bomb on the internet somewhere and decided to try it out. The recipie is as follows:

1. 1 shot of Irish whisky in a pint glass
2. top it up almost to the top with Guinness
3. float a shot of Bailies on the top
4. Throw up

The whole thing cost about £8 so he won’t be doing that again, it tasted like Guinness milk shake which was cool but the Bailies curdled which is not cool. Whole night lasted till 2am when George was too pissed to drink any more and went home. Good night out, here’s some photographic evidence:

Great.

Miscellaneous news is as follows: I’m still enjoying college, even if I know most of the stuff they have tried to teach me so far. Oh well! Team Fortress 2 is totally kick ass, especially as I can now stay connected for long enough to play (god bless you router). Max is off to uni on Sunday and i’ll miss him, boo hoo :(. Han seems to be having a great time in Africa and should be starting out on her main journey next week. I miss her a lot :huggle:

Love to you all.

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