I just bid on Ebay.
I was after a Risc PC; a "brand new boxed" Risc PC, put up for auction by an Ex-Pace Ex-Acorn employee who bought them at the staff sale at the close down of the Acorn office. It was looking like a good price, it sat on £256 for about a week. Of course, one expects a bit of activity towards the end, so this is when I planned to make my move.
Also up for sale, by the same person for the same reasons, were a couple of network cards, a 586 card (a Risc ...
So, I get a phone call at 8.30.
I, needless to say, was asleep.
Anyway, I come to enough to find my phone. It's a with-held number. Only one person I know who rings me shows up as a with-held number, but ever since that time I answered with 'HIIIIIYAAAAAAA' and it turned out to be Kent Police, I've been a little cautious when answering. Especially at 8.30 in the morning.
I answer it. "Hello?"
Turns out, it's a good job I was cautious. It's the person in charge of a website I maintain ...
I am revising. One more exam left; tomorrow at 9.30. I could really do with there being a day in between, I want to go to sleep *now*, not after I've revised :(
On the plus side, my Risc PC NIC and 5x86 cards arrived yesterday. Now all I need is a Risc PC to put them in.
I've had about 10 hours sleep since Wednesday, got up at 5am today, I think I should be tired. I used to be tired, earlier today. But I don't seem to be any more, so I'm writing code instead, while listening to the original matrix soundtrack.
Oh, and I now appear to have 17 weeks of holiday.
Which is nice.
Hi there. Forgot to post. Meh. So, what's happened?
I posted on Saturday.
Sunday, I wrote an e-mail to Teletext, and wrote code for tonbschl.
Monday, I got a phone call from tonbschl saying they didnt want the code any more. I played Vice City, and then made cheese biscuits. Tristan ate the cheese biscuits while drinking a bottle and a half of wine. We were going to watch a film, but he was pretty drunk, so I told him to go to bed...
Tuesday, I played Vice City, completed the main mission story, and went to the pub ...