So here I am 26 and been dating the most amazing girl for almost two years, we got engaged two weeks ago and I couldn't be happier! :)

Whoop!

I should really update this journal more eh?

Well I'm working yet another weekend shift at work this week but thankfully I have a few days off in a week or two, Back in May I moved in with my girlfriend and things are going fine (I did'ent think she'd allow my server to be left on 24/7 ;) ) and a dsl router setup in the sitting room.

Got myself a 1024K/256K DSL line back in July, my very own DSL line FINALLY! Its far from cheap though as it costs 110 (euro) a month just for the DSL and that doesn't cover the 24 (euro) line rental I have to pay Eircom! (how I hate the company)

Since I have my own net access I have noticed a few things, I'm posting on /. more and various sites, I watch less tv as I have other things to do but funnily enough I watch RTÉ NEWS more then ever before (www.rte.ie/news/) as I can watch it streaming off of the net, although in saying that I watch it I still don't think its fair for me to pay 152 (euro) for a tv license just to own a tv that I barely even watch.
If I wasn't living with the girlfriend I'd properly sell my tv and get a projector just to piss off the tv license man.

argghh now I'm just ranting at this stage, anyway work in the morning so I'm off to bed early tonight....

on a side note why does /. not dislay the euro sign?

Well its been some time since my last update, I'm still in the same job and still with my girlfriend but things unfortuntaly have not been the best as of late which is very worrying.
We do have small arguments now and then and there on-going sometimes I feel I want to pack everything in and other-times I want to stay with it, sometimes I think one reason why I don't want to end things is I just don't want to be alone again as I've done it for years, but then when I think about that I just think thats me trying to make excuses because the real reason I don't want to loose her is because I love her.

To be honest I don't know what to do :-/

I'm still in the same job, infact the company has paid for me to travel to the UK for a month to do some work for them, its fine and all but I;m bored outa my mind here on my own.

All I brought with me was a modded x-box with x-box media center installed onto it (along with about 150+ films) I should brought my shuttle PC, but oh well.

On the plus side of things I've met some great people here and its been nice so far, even if I have only been here 1 week so far.

I had a great night out on Saturday with aload of people from the company here one of them was even nice enough to walk home with me to make sure I;d be ok (I drank I good bit)

Unfortuntaly I left my cell phone at home on Sat night and my girlfriend was trying to phone me (we talk everynight) and she was very worried and to be very honest I don't blame her one bit I would have been the same.
She worries about me, especially about how I feel over here (in UK) on my own, I wish she wouldn't :-(

Anyway to cut a long story short we had another argument about it (it was small) but we still had a argument and to be very honest yesterday was one of the worst days I've had in months, it brought back some memories about how I used to feel before I went to college a couple of years back and it scared the shit out of me.

Lets hope today is better, because I sure hope so...

The ranting starts again... :)

Well its been awhile but I think I should really start posting here again.

Things are going fine, still with my girlfriend almost 15 months now things are going ok but at times I feel something is a miss but then I've only got that feeling lately.
Maybe I'm just going though a phase at the moment??.

When I think back on how I was two years ago and then look at myself now, I think "your never happy" hmm well this subject is for another journal entry I think...

Works going fine, as always the customers wreak my head every second day or so, but atleast I got a pay raise as I've been working for the company for over a year.

Did overtime this week, working 12 hour shifts instead of the normal 8.5 hour shifts, I was half dead when it came to Friday and to make things worse I'm doing a parttime Novell/Linux network course in the local technical college so I had to be at the course on Saturday morning @ 10.00am...I was late.

Also at work I've put in a application for two new positions, I was truned down on one of them and I'm still waiting on a Interview for the new position.
Unfortunatly the new position has somewhat crazy hours and my girlfriends far from happy about it.

Hours work as follows:
6 months of 10pm - 8am for 4 days a week
6 months of day shift 5 days a week

There's around a 100 difference for each pay-cheque with the new job and another excellent point is I don't have to talk to the bloody customers anymore........well... don't get me wrong I don't hate all customers just the stuipid one's which there happens to be alot of.
Rarely do I talk to a customer who can install a DSL/Cable modem using device mgr.

On the other end of the scales we get the odd muppet who wants us to support Linux, all I can say to that is NO FECKEN WAY!
All we need to happen is some n00b to download Mandrake and want us to support our modems on it, I can just imagine the questions we have to ask.
"So do you have the latest Kernel?" and " do you have the latest version of KDE?"
It would be a support nightmare, don't these people have a brain in there skull?

On the subject of Linux I'm moving my server over to SuSE 9.0 Pro as I'm sick to death of windows I'm also working on changing my desktop over to SuSE as well once I find some more programs I need. :-)

test., this thing keeps deleteing my entries... :-(

Well its been awhile since my last journal entry and I hope you'll all forgive me :-)

Well I'm still dating the same girl, her name is Margaret, she's abit younger then me (by a couple of months) but things are going fine.

I'm amazed how much things have changed recently, every so often I have to take a step back and gasp in amazment, its strange....I think I'm just not used to such massive change even if it is quiet brilliant.
Rite I'm taking crap yet again so I'll shut up.

Well its coming upto christmas I'm woundering what to get Margaret, does anyone have any ideas?

Still hard at work, work over christmas kinda sucks but its better then being broke all the time.
Because of the shift work I'm doing now (anything between 08:00 and 00:00) I've lost track of the days of the week, which is ALOT of fun :-P

My standard of living is up by 300%, I want for nothing, have no depts and no loans and straight off buy anything I want rather then paying for it each week.
yes, yes I know, I should save money for a rainy day and I am. But still its good.

so generally life is good!!

I even felt /. deserves some of my nwe found money and signed up for a supscription for here (10 worth) since the site has been such a good source of news and interest.

On that note I still think a system in which a person can donate 1c (thats euro cent, not US cent :) ) to a site they'd like.
It would be cheap, you could have a budget of 5 a month or something and if a site gets like 5000 visits a day and every second visitor donates 1c the site would be doing well..

Well its been 3 months now and I still am with my girlfriend, I think I deserve a min-wave for myself :-)

This time last year I could never have imagined such events, well planning a nice romantic weekend away soon.
Hopefully things will go well

Woohooo!!! :-D

Well after two weeks of "training" at AOL I've got the job, and I start Monday.

It pays dam good money so I'm happy, I've almost all my debts paid off at the moment and two weeks from now I'll have them all paid off and I can relax abity more.

So that part of my life is going GOO0D!

The other part is also going good, I still have a girlfriend, though she's gone on Holidays this week to Spain.
She'll be back on Monday so that'll be nice.

This week I'm going about getting into a night course or two, one that I have in mind is Novell/Linux/Mac & Windows networks, it don't cost that much and it'll come in handy.

Well things are good for a change and I'm dam happy :D

Wow so many changes, WERE do I start?
I suppose I should start from the beginning, in my last entry I mentioned I had a new job.

Well my new job was nothing great, I was working in a shop and only got paid 6.39 per hour so it was pretty crap to be honest.
Anyway I worked there for just over a month untill I was fired.

There's a nice little story to the being fired part :-D

While I was working in the shop I kept on looking for a new job and I got one.
From tomorrow I'm working in Technical Support in AOL, its 1 more per hour (starting off) plus it'll look better on my CV :)
Anyway about two weeks ago I went to AOL and did the entry test and the interview few hours later they phoned me and told me I had the job YEAHHH!

So the next day I was at work in the shop and the boss starting telling me off about something she had ALREADY told me off for twice before, she just decided to pick on me yet again and well frankly I felt I didn'ent need to take it anymore.
So I told her off for treating her staff like CRAP! and told her she shouldn't do what she's doing.

Three days later I was let go because apparently "I wasn't able for the work"

Now I know alot of people will say "thats real life" but its not, I'm a honest employee, even if I do crap work I still don't steal from my employer. I always do the best I can, but when the boss is'ent nice, life is to short to put up with it every day.

Anyway onto the next part of whats happened since my last Journal entry.

I have a GIRLFRIEND, yes thats right!
You read it correctly.

I'm expecting the world to end any second now :-)

Met her about 3 and a half weeks ago and straight away we hit it off, which is VERY unusual for me.
None the less things are going well.

I've done ALOT of things in the past 3 and a half weeks that I've NEVER done before, that includes making love.

Its been a most interesting couple of weeks I must say.

Right, I better get back to work, will try write in my journal more often now :)

Its been a strange week, I've FINALLY got myself a second job so I can now afford to have more then the basics.
Uptill now I've been living on my one day of working per week, which *just* covered basic rent and food.
Although for the past few weeks I've been doing almost a full weeks work because staff were on Holidays.
Anyway its great now, I have money at last!!!

Now, time to buy the XDA O2 Phone thingy :D