Robboman

I've had a long summer holiday, and Year 3 of Uni is almost upon me. But along the way there's been highlights. One of them was a trip to the Lake District for one week with family. I've never seen a place look so foreign in Britain, especially since the weather was unusually hot. There were 2 long walks during the week, and the first one was overgrown with bracken. (shortly followed by jokes about swimming in the sea of bracken) The second one was much more stunning and I took some pictures with my camera. Another highlight was the canoeing down a creek between Hullbridge and Battlesbridge with one of my long-time friends. It was one of tho

Despite not updating or checking DA for ages, I'm still here. Quite a lot has happened since the last journal, including lots of problems with the Internet. After finally getting it fixed, I'm back at my old home for Easter. I managed to pass Year 2 Semester 1 of my course, with about 60% average. Funnily enough, that's almost exactly what I expected to get. Provided it carries on like this I'll get a reasonably good degree (everything counts towards the final mark now). I've got a nasty couple of projects coming up soon, so I'll be very busy. Not to mention the difficulty of the maths and physics is going through the roof. On the gaming fr

Before I left to go back to Southampton, I went round to Dawn's house (a cabin with a good few acres of field) and it was there a crazy sport was born. It involved tying a rope to the back of a quad bike, and towing someone on a skateboard. I was the one on the skateboard, having not done so for a year. There was a small  tarmac road going into the field, with some small speed bumps. My friend Greg was on the quad, driving on the road. It took a few attempts to find a good speed but once we got going it was awesome. If only I had a video camera. Anyway, I'm in a new home in Southampton at the moment, ready to start the first semester of year