Quick update: Comic idea refreshed.

Ok so I'm just making a quick blog currently using ubuntu which is such a great operating system. Thats not why I'm blogging just thought I would say that. I've tried to attempt this before but I think I'm going to give it a real try this time. Going to sit and create my own comic strip yes I know there are loads out there of varying degree's of quality but I'm cartoonist at heart and I've let myself slip such a downer about myself.

Anyway I need to buy in some equipment such as a tablet and scanner. Plus work on character design names and the general idea and direction of the comic strip. I have a basic idea of what to do and I really want to push at it. I know my girlfriend Marianna would like me to push at it and she is always trying to get me to draw again so I want to try and do this for her as well as for myself. It might give me the confidence enough to try and complete the full comic I always wanted to do.

Ubuntu definitely rocks though the audio problems I was having with it in the past are completely gone. Great OS recommend it as a secondary to windows any day. Heck if I could play my games on it properly I wouldn't use windows at all.

Frustration

Feeling so frustrated today so I'll make this short go to hell job centre for taking your shitty ass time. I'm trying to get my life back together and you keep fucking around with me.

Had a weird scare yesterday going to University my chest started to feel very sore I thought I was having a heart attack. I really need to get my health up to scratch but at the moment I've not had a single moment to myself to go do some exercise.

Got 2 new books to learn from the course today and I honestly can't be bothered so I'm just listening to some rock music as I hunt down survivors and eat there brains!.

Zombie Panic Source FTW!

Oh and job centre still go screw yourself

Work Pains!

Procrastination FTW

I took a break from my work at 16:30 today and I honestly can't face doing any more work. I'm enjoying it but I'm feeling like shit everyday I wake up. I don't mean in an emotional way I mean in a physical way and it honestly is doing my head in.

Currently have http://www.tvcatchup.com/ on to take my mind off the pain in my stomach. I never seem to have much of an interesting day and I don't really both surfing the net for funny you-tube videos. I've had an interest in maybe doing a pod-cast. Its just an idea so doubtful I will ever bother as I don't exact have an idea what it would be about or have anyone willing to do it with me. A one man pod-cast would be kind of sad to listen too.

So yeah last night during my lack of sleep I learned about xhtml and how to do internal links that skip to sections on the page you are currently viewing. I'm also learning that all the things I'm learning are no longer used and that CSS is now used for styling a website. I know learning this is to help me get a grasp of the actual code but honestly if its not used any more to style a website then why is it in the course work.

Obama wins prize for saying PEACE!

When I woke up today which was noon! I wake to find people twittering about Obama winning the noble peace prize and I ask myself why ? What exactly has that man done thus far that deserves one ? So far hes been a spinless President that has yet to pass a single bill that he promised during election.

I personally would love to see America finally get a healthcare system that treats people fairly. Were its not about how much money you have. That anyone even a person who is homeless out of no fault of his own can be treated. Instead in America they have a healthcare system that pushs you out of the door if you don't have the insurance. People going untreated and probably thousands dying each year because they couldn't afford the medical bills.

Its easy for me to rattle on about the healthcare issue I live in a country were if I break my leg or if I contract an illness that I can walk to my doctors or hospital and be treated for free. The NHS isn't perfect and I've listened to enough American news casters bash it. Here is what is the choice America face. Carry on with how you do things now and thousands go untreated because they can't afford it. Or step up to the plate and make the humane choice and develop a free healthcare system were even the poorest will never go untreated.

I think America is a great country, would love to go see it sometime hopefully with my girlfriend who could possibly show me a few things about it. I just see a few things that could be better. My girlfriends :P probably going to bonk me on the head for rambling on about this.

NHS for the win

Obama's noble peace prize for the lose he's done nothing to deserve it.

Blogging out frustration

Back pain and brain freeze

Currently reading through quite a bit of text to do with xhtml and its really going slow. I have to get 17 lessons done by next Tuesday and I really doubt I can do it. Especially with the way I'm feeling overall which I've tweeted about and also myspaced about.

Going to keep reading to about 18:00 and then take a break. Marianna should be home from work by then so that will cheer me up.

The talking box

Now that I got my day out of the way and blogged I just want to quickly blog about a man called David Cameron. I've already tweeted about him but my god why are people blinded by this idiot.

Hes keeping practically everything labour have done for this country in regards to policy. The whole ready for change is a total Americanism coined by obama. This man has no personality of his own hes just a talking box that disagree's with everything the labour government do in parliament then repeats that he is going to do the exact same if he gets into power.

Seriously I know no one reads my blog but if you do please don't vote that man in. Maybe my view is tainted by the fact I'm Scottish I grew up with parents that suffered the Margaret Thatcher years. But to me conservatives are never a good vote, you would be better off voting lib dem than conservatives.

CIW Master Web Designer Certification

Feeling the Burn

Doing a course at the moment to get certified in a specific field in IT. Started it last Tuesday and have about 12 weeks to get to grips with the course work so I can then go on to do the exams and pass.

Work is going at a slow but steady pace nearly completed the first of the 3 books which add up to give me a certification in the foundations of IT then I go on from that and do another 2 modules which gives me the Master web designer certification.

The final part of the course deals with database specialists once I pass that exam I become certified as both a web designer and database specialist.

Games and Hobbies

During the breaks I give myself while doing my course work. I've been playing Professor Layton and Pandora's box with my girlfriend Marianna. Never played this type of game before but finding it great fun loving the Japanese anime style video in-between chapters and the voice acting is quite funny to listen too. I think my girlfriend likes my impressions of the voices better though.

On Thursday nights I've been travelling down to the local community center were I've been doing some guitar lessons. Really fun to do but the actual practice has taken its toll on my fingers so just waiting for them to recover before I continue on.

Looking up at the stars

Last thought and its got nothing to do with anything I'm actually doing. Astronomy such a great subject and an interesting hobby to pick up regardless of skill level. When I was on one of my breaks I tried to find a site that allowed me as a user to watch live streams of telescopes.

What I found was pretty much nothing. I use to love sitting outside with my cheap telescope that my parents got me just looking up at the starts using the constellations as a guide to look at some really beautiful starts. I don't really have the time nor the money any more to get back into it so it saddens that a site like I described doesn't exist.

Update: Toothache and magic

Haven't been doing very well healthwise but to pass the time I have gotten into a very famouse card game called Magic the Gathering. I use to play a video game version of it on my original xbox over xbox live. Managed to grab a few good deals on some cards.

Bought a coldsnap booster box and 3 dissension decks. Made my own personal Snow blue and black deck, a red and white deck for my girlfriend and a Mono snow green deck. Been really fun getting into the game love the artwork on the cards. So much so that they partially inspired me to get back into drawing again.

I went to see my friend Robbert watched a few movies there and played some MTG which was fun. Only bad point about it is the distance I fell asleep 3 times come back from stirling.

Nothing much else has happened of any significance so I'll bring it up to this weekend were I had the worst pain in my life. Now I've had toothache before but nothing compared to this. Sadly a victim fell to this pain namely one of my teeth. He was a proud and noble warrior. Sure he had to be patched up when I was 12 but did that mean he had to be evicted ?

So yeah I have 1 less tooth and though I miss the bugger I'm glad hes gone. In fact he tried to kill me as the dentist removed him. Tried to choke me with the very same filling that patched him up 14 years ago.

Since its just an update and I'm really not good at blogging just quickly end on the last bit of news. I was robbed, NO! not really robbed some little con man managed to get my details of my bank card and buy themself £30 worth of credit on the O2 network. I've reported it had to get rid of my card and the banks looking into it for me. Hopefully I get my money back as that is all I care about.

Will update more soon I tend to forget this is here and not really bother updating it. I tweet more than I blog.

Burning Cals

Just back from the gym and I'm completely knackered. It was fun though I did really well on the cross trainer which has been the death of me since I started using it. Managed to up the resistance another 2 levels and went none stop for 10 minutes before completely collapsing 10 seconds near the end. Did 20 minutes on the treadmill and 20 minutes on the exercise bike and a few weights in between to strengthen my arms.

After the gym I went for a bit of a walk around town with Angela (My sister) and I managed to pick up a really good pair of headphones for my phone so I can listen to my music without the worry of them falling out. Looked around some game shops saw a DS lite for £59.99 which my sister had to drag me away from. (Recovering game addict :P world of warcraft and many more mmo's have taken precious time away from my life) Wandered around for a bit more (I have a tendency to just walk around with no real purpose). Angela bought some stuff for her friends new dog which I went to see after I went for a nice meal in the local Chinese. Through it all though I've been thinking of Marianna my mind really is all the way in Ireland.

I really hope I can get work soon my CV is lacking in a lot of things never finished college and my high school grades aren't all that great either. For the most part though I mention things are looking up finding work is what makes me depressed. In the current market there is just hardly any jobs going and the ones that are available I can't apply for or if I can they are given to a better qualified person. I'm not one to complain but I don't know how I'm supposed to get work experience if no one will give me chance enough to prove I can do the actual work.

Text Robbert about going to the cinema when we go up to see him next week in Stirling so that should be fun. Going to go watch drag me to hell which I honestly can't wait to see as I'm a huge fan of the Director. He was responsible for creating one of my favourite horror movies of all time Evil dead 1,2 and Army of Darkness. So that was pretty much everything that went on today apart from somethings here and there. Burned a lot of calories today and then put them right back on lol.

Got an appointment with the trust soon so I'm hoping the guy can help me find work or at least put me on some courses which can help my chances of getting work. Its fairly hard pushing myself like this when I have depression I'm constantly fighting myself to have enough will power to get out of bed to do all these things I've been doing. Not to mention the fact I have to start getting my dad out of the house down to the swimming baths. Hes over weight so not sure if thats the best excercise for him or just to go walking. I wouldn't mind if he tagged along at the gym the people there could help him figure out what is best to get him healthy without straining himself. Anyway I've rambled on enough as it is will blog later if I can push myself to work on my book.

Dusty Post

Dusts off the old blog site, ok so things for me seem to be going pretty good. Just recently back from seeing my girlfriend in Ireland and apart from the long, depressive and endless job hunt things seem to be picking up. Been in a right depression for a few months now Marianna has been :) so good to me even though I'm a pain in ass most of the time when I feel down. Even started writing down things for the story I've always wanted to write.

Me a writer always makes me laugh considering how horrible my grammar, spelling and general use of the english language is but you know what they say everyone has at least one book in them (Just not a very good one). Going to save up a bit of money and get a proper work desk so I can get back to drawing. Originally this is what this blog was used for but since then I deleted all that work. I want try my hardest to get my art skills up to a point were I can turn my story into a comic.

Not a clue were to start from though I've been and done all the things you need to do to practice and to be honest my hearts not into doing that anymore. Want to practice but don't want it to be mindnumingly boring. Been reading Batman: The Dark Knight returns and I have to say its probably one of the best comics I've read in a while really dark for a batman comic which from my perspective is a plus. I really love reading comics or manga with a more mature feel to it. Like this manga called Monster which is about a surgeon who makes the choice of saving a young boy over the mayor and turns out the boy is pure evil. Then another manga I've read called Death note very dark manga. Anyway my point is its really hard to find comics or manga with a dark or mature feel to it so its refreshing to read something with that feel to it.

I use to love pure action comics and manga but now I just can't pull myself to read them they just feel so shallow and I generally can guess the end before I even finish them.

I also have a twitter which I also need to start using again www.twitter.com/dktens

On my to do list:

Finish reading my terry pratchet novels
Read the rest of my hellboy comics
Write some of my story or at least ideas for possible scenes in it
Stop eating o.O biscuits they are bad for me