The All-In-One Update

Yeah, yeah.. you know the drill by now. I'm busy, I'm working, I'm alive. Its all good news for me though so remember:

If I'm not posting here.. it probably because I'm having too much fun to be bothered.

1. I got my passport back. It had been well over a year since I lost it and over too years since the last time I set foot off this island but I finally got me a new passport. Managed to get the home office to transfer my visa (for a small fortune)

2. Not being content with that i went and got me visas to be able to go visit all those people across the channel.
I've already been on my first trip. Next one is in a couple of weeks and thereafter it should be a regular occurrence seeing me lugging my stuff on to the Eurostar Friday evenings and coming back on Monday.

3. I'm finally getting round to applying for Naturalising as British. Long time coming eh? Well It's gonna be 7 years since I've been here come January and I figure I'm as British as they come.. well sans the one night stands, pub brawls and drinking all night and puking at bus stops. Oh and the accent... i need to work on me Geordie accent. Fookin' Great! Oh Lordi, I'm hopeless. No wonder the gov't requires me to take a test to prove I know about Life In the United Kingdom.

I even bought the ebook on ebay (email me if you need a copy). So yeah I'm going to be reading it religiously to get rid of all those misconceptions (as above) about life in the UK.

4. Yes, I'm still sprung. And still the happiest person I know. Bring on Life!! (That sounded lame didn't it?)

5. Oh ja, almost forgot. I'm continuously geekifying everything around me. I've just spent over £500 building me a new computer to use as a file server cos I was getting tired of losing data all the time or having to delete some movies cos I was running out of space.

Currently is a £500+ empty can because even though it's got Suse Linux 10.1 sitting on it, it a long learning curve for me. The only experience I've had with Linux is from command line prompts of remote servers .

Having now to deal with getting all the hardware to work on a system I've put together myself is no small business. The initial reason for building the system was to use it as a file server and I'm tempted to go minimalistic and install a specialist software that will do just that. It'll seem like such a waste though so I guess I'll have to get used with tinkering with my OS. Who knows, it might even help with job prospects in future.

So there. I'm out.

Yours truly,
prrt!