I can't believe it. My last blog entry was in March, and now it's (checks watch) September. Actually, it's not very surprising because I tend to procastinate.

Anyway, I got my AS* results last month which were: A in French (woo hoo) B in Chemistry, C in Biology and err...an E in maths which I've now dropped. So, this year is my last year of school before I go into the big wide world. That's interesting.

*AS level = British system where you study 3 or 4 subjects and take exams in them halfway through and at the end of the year.

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So what do I want to do with my life? Interesting question, and it's one I've tried to put off thinking about until recently. But now we have to suddenly make a decision and we're meant to know exactly what career we want. Loads of people my age seem to know exactly what they're gonna do for the next 5 years and what they're going to be. To be completely honest, I don't have a clue. I was originally thinking about doing Biochemistry at University but I hate doing practical experiments...so now I'm thinking about zoology or something like that. Yes, interesting.

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And finally, some things I hate: (I just feel like having a good rant.)

- Fire alarms. Not only are they set off by the smallest thing, such as a fly buzzing around the detector, they're also incredibly noisy. If they were half the volume, everyone would still hear them.

- Pickled onions. Why can't they just leave the onions alone instead of dunking them in a disgusting vinegar-y liquid? Onions taste fine as they are.

Hmm, I can only think of 2 things. I must be in a pretty good mood right now.

Hopefully my next blog entry won't be too far away, but knowing me, don't expect one until next March or even later.

Wow, time flies...it only seemed like a week ago when I made my last blog entry, when it was in fact, 54 days and 3 hours ago -.- I'm not naturally a blogging person so I find it difficult to get inspiration to make new blog entries each week or day even, as some people do. But I feel it's time for the latest instalment for my blog. Below are some things that are worthy of mention, though they will probably bore you all to death.

- Lent. Who needs lent? It's just an excuse to make people miserable for 40 days. If you want to give something up, can't you do it at any time during the year? Anyway - I'm giving up fish, because I don't like it anyway. Hooray for the easy way out.

- Snow. Snow is so rare round here, it's exciting when we're predicted it. We were predicted snow for most of this week, which would have been great as I could have a few days off school, and possibly build a snowman - although my garden slopes so much, it would be more like an automatic tobogganing snowman, rolling down the hill before I get the chance to put the head on. Back to the point...no snow at all :( And it looks like it's warming up for the weekend. Gah!

- Results. This month some time, I'm getting my dreaded results for the exams I sat in January. I am not looking forward to seeing my results, because I know I completely messed up Maths, and the Biology paper was incredibly hard. Still, we can resit the exams over the summer, so if my percentages are in the single figures (slight exaggeration but you know what I mean,) I have another chance at failure passing 

 - Coursework. I've also got my practical courseworks coming up in Biology and Chemistry this month. Basically they're practical experiments which count towards my final grades :O I can't say I'm looking forward to them, but they're just something you just have to put up with, a bit like sisters.

So that's it for now...hope you enjoyed the read. My next blogging instalment will hopefully be next week, but more likely, some time in May.

Jon

After having spent a lot of my Christmas holidays 'revising' for my coming exams (which actually meant trying to push them to the back of my mind) I've now got to come to terms with the fact that my first exams start in no less than 4 days time... For those who don't know, I have exams in Biology, Chemistry and Maths - I'm also taking French at school but I don't have an exam in that until June, which is nice. They're all squashed together on the 10th and 11th of January so at least when they're finished, I won't have as much pressure for a while. Still, they are incredibly evil as I have to go to lessons in between exams, so you can imagine I'll be pretty tired for a few days. Also, as  I'm having to cram in my last minute revision, I won't be quite as active here for the next few days or so...

Changing the subject a little, I had a good break over Christmas. It was meant to be a time to do my revision but im my typical procrastinative (is that a word?) style, I didn't quite get round to as much as I should have done...

Hope to write my next entry when my exams are over...have a good day everyone :-)

Jon

Seven Things To Do Before I Die:
-- Fly in a plane.
-- Have children.

-- Get married.

-- See every single episode of The Simpsons.                                                    

-- Work out the meaning of life.

-- Get a degree (the sooner the better...before my brain cells degenerate, hehe.)                                                                                                                    

-- Write a book.

Seven Things I Cannot Do:
-- Be organised.

-- Write neatly.

-- Remember people's birthdays, but I am a man...                                           

-- Make people laugh.                                                                                           

-- Sing (not even out of tune, let alone in tune.)                                               

-- Resist procrastinating. I get easily distracted when I'm trying to revise; it's not good.

-- Tell butter from 'I can't believe it's not butter.'

Seven Things I Do Not Like:
-- Rainy, windy days.

-- People who break rules just to appear cool.

-- Stereotypes - or classing people into categories.

-- Prejudices; of all kinds.

-- Terrorism.

-- Changing the times and days of my favourite TV programmes all the time.

-- General rudeness, in real life or on the internet.

Seven Things That Attract Or Would Attract Me To My Mate:
-- Honesty/faithfulness.

-- Intelligence.

-- Thoughtfulness.

-- Good looks, but long term, that's only secondary to the points above.

-- Sense of humour similar to mine. This should probably be top in the list

-- Good music taste.

-- Similar opinions - but not on everything.

Seven Things I Say Most Often:
-- Yeah, I know                                                                                                   

-- I dunno

-- No                                                                                                                     

-- Yes

-- Maybe

-- Sure

-- Computer says no
Seven Books or Series That I love:

-- Harry Potter series

-- Lord of the Rings Trilogy.                                                                                 

-- Terry Pratchett's Discworld books.                                                                 

-- Chronicles of Narnia - at least, I did when I was younger.

[Sorry I can only think of 4]


Seven Movies I Watch Over and Over Again:
-- Shrek

-- Shrek 2

-- The original Lion, the witch and the wardrobe cartoon film.

-- Simpsons season 5

-- And three others

Seven People I'm Tagging to Hop on the Bandwagon:

-- Infuzion

-- FHPD18

--ERIKHA

--lilprincess92

--willow

-- cat70

-- amber

Most of these people probably have already been tagged...

 

Greetings, Dr Hazardus here. Are you addicted to the internet? Do you feel the internet is taking over your life? If the answer was yes to either of those, you had better look below:

You are officially addicted to the internet when...:

All of your friends have an @ in their names.

All your daydreaming is preoccupied with getting a faster connection to the net.

As your car crashes through the guardrail on a mountain road, your first instinct is to search for the "back" button.

The last girl you picked up was only a jpeg.

The remote to the TV is missing ... and you don't even care.

You ask a plumber how much it would cost to replace the chair in front of your computer with a toilet.

You begin to wonder how on earth your service provider is allowed to call 500 hours per month "unlimited."

You can't call your mother...she doesn't have internet access.

You check your mail. It says "no new messages." So you check it again.

You code your homework in HTML and give your instructor the URL.

You create a homepage with the impression to cure the afflicted...but your hidden agenda is to receive more e-mail.

You don't know what sex over three of your closest friends are, because they have neutral nicknames and you never bothered to ask.

You find yourself typing "com" after every period when using a word processor.com

You forget what year it is.

You get a tattoo that says "This body best viewed with Netscape 4.1 or higher."

You kiss your girlfriend/boyfriend's home page.

You miss more than five meals a week downloading the latest games.

You move into a new house and decide to Netscape before you landscape.

You name your children Eudora, Mozilla and Dotcom.

You notice that your night dreams are in HTML.

You put a pillow case over your laptop so your lover doesn't see it while you are pretending to catch your breath.

You refer to going to the bathroom as downloading.

You refuse to go to a vacation spot with no electricity and no phone lines.

 You spend half of the plane trip with your laptop on your lap ... and your child in the overhead compartment.

You start introducing yourself as 'Jim @whatever.com'

You start looking for hot HTML addresses in public restrooms.

You start tilting your head sideways to smile.

You step out of your room and realize that your parents have moved and you don't have a clue when it happened.

You tell the cab driver you live at http://123.elm.street/house/bluetrim.html

You tell the kids they can't use the computer because "Daddy's got work to do" and you don't even have a job.

You turn off your computer and get this awful empty feeling, like you just pulled the plug on a loved one.

You wake up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop and check your e-mail on the way back to bed.

Your bookmark takes 15 minutes to scroll from top to bottom.

Your dog has its own home page.

Your eyeglasses have a web site burned in on them.

Your friends no longer send you e-mail...they just log on to your IRC channel.

Your husband tells you he's had the beard for 2 months.

Your phone bill comes to your doorstep in a box.

Your virtual girlfriend finds a new net sweetheart with a larger bandwidth.

Your wife drapes a blond wig over your monitor to remind you of what she looks like.

Your wife makes a new rule: "The computer cannot come to bed."

Your wife says communication is important in a marriage...so you buy another computer and install a second phone line so the two of you can chat.

 

And finally it happens...Hazard is out of the stone age.

I'm now on broadband, so I can kiss slooow 28k dialup goodbye hopefully for good! Last week I finally got round to going on my ISPs website and signed up for broadband. The target activation date was today but I took that with a pinch of salt because we all know how inefficient service providers usually are. But a couple of days ago, a suspicious looking black package arrived in the post. Thinking it might be something from my secret society...[oops I've said too much] I opened it and saw that the broadband modem had come, with some wires. Then earlier today I got a confirmation email saying that the line had activated! So I connected the modem up to the computer, making sure not  jam a plug in the wrong socket (which I managed to do - it took 20 minutes to get it out again...) and taking care not to electrocute myself I finally connected everything up correctly and voila - 2.2 mb broadband for me.

It takes a bit of adjusting; specially as I've become so used to waiting 5 minutes for a page to load, it's a bit of a shock when I can open 10 windows and they're all fully loaded by 15 seconds. It's amazing...definitely a time saver at a time when I need to save time the most - [just used the word 'time' in that sentence 3 times...meh.]

So basically I should be more active on grab which is hopefully a good thing. I'll see you all around; and if you want to catch up or have a chat, PM me. I've now managed to sift through most of the million or so pages of PMs that have built up since July (errk...)

Hazard/Jon

SOME NEWS...not very exciting news, but worth a read anyway.

Some of you may have noticed I haven't been on grab much at all recently...and it seems like years since I wrote my last blog entry. The main reason for my...disappearance is because my internet connection is so slow (still) and it literally takes minutes just to load one page. Just reading through a few recent posts in Grab Bag takes over 20 minutes, let alone the other forums. This week (or hopefully soon at least) I'm going to try and get broadband. I've never had it before so I'm not quite sure how to set it up but I'm going to go on my ISP's website and try to work it out. This will mean my internet will be a LOT faster and it won't take so long just to load each page, so I'll be able to be more active on the forums again :) Some pages just refuse to load as it is, and with the increasing pressure of schoolwork this year, I just can't afford to wait this long for webpages to load.

So hazard will be making a comeback. Is that good or bad? :p

Hi everyone, you might not see me posting on grab quite as much for the indefinite future. As you might or might not know I have a lot of schoolwork at the moment. Three weeks into the term, I'm being bogged down with work and I'm gonna have to spend more time each night working. This means I won't be on the grab message boards quite as much. I'll still be doing my CL job, that goes without saying, but I won't have as much time to post on the forums like I used to. Also I'm getting fed up of my super-slow internet connection which takes about 3 minutes just to load one page.

Some of you might care, but a great deal of members probably won't. So I'll see you all later...

Yep, I'm still alive

Well it's definitely been a long time since I last updated my blog (3 weeks in fact!) so I think it's time I make a new entry. It's completely my fault that I haven't updated this blog for 3 weeks but life has been hectic (excuses!) I've started back at school, already with an excessive workload - 2 Biology projects on the go and I just don't know where to start! I'll try to go on grab as often as I have been doing but later on in the year this might just not be possible. I can see myself having to do 4/5 hours homework every night soon. Having said that, my move hasn't been too bad. Nearly everything is out of boxes and I'm beginning to feel the new house is mine now. Still snail-speed internet though...:(

This is meant to be a 'joke' blog too but I want to make slightly more serious posts too, so you all actually know what's going on in my life. This blog isn't very exciting, but to be honest, neither is my life.

You'll be pleased to know things are generally going well. This year, I now have access to The Common Room (O.o) and can wear different coloured uniform so I can boss the younger kids about :p But gahh...exams start in January! I'm still recovering from my GCSEs!

Interesting fact of the...day/ week/ who knows?:

Golf can be fun! Yes, you read right. Golf can be fun.

I'm now doing one hour of it every Wednesday (with the school) and it's actually fun! Basically all we have to do is stand on a covered shelter and whack the ball with a club as if our life depended on it, and watch helplessly as the ball travels as far away from the target as is realistically possible. Still no worries eh?

It costs money though.

Are you still rambling on, hazard?

Ok, I'll end this entry now. It's getting late and I tend to bump into walls when it gets past a certain time. Hope you had fun reading this. If you didn't, the alarm clock will wake you up tomorrow morning.

Until next time, have fun everyone

Jon

This so called 'humour' blog only actually has 2 humour posts on it so far so it's not actually very funny. So I think it's time for something else that might make you laugh. If you can relate to this, then there is cause for concern.

Here are 10 signs that you're on the net too often:

1. You tilt your head 90 degrees to smile.
2. You try to switch views while driving.
3. You wait for the computer to crash before taking a break.
4. You use PayPal to give your kids their allowance.
5. You miss your friends when you're away from the computer.
6. Just before the accident everything goes blue and you see "YOU.EXE caused a General Protection Fault in module YOURLIFE.EXE at 0011:000000a0".
7. You have monitor "tan".
8. Your spouse/significant other has to IM you for dinner.
9. You start using expressions like AFAIK or LMFAO during face-to-face conversations.
10. You set a power supply up in your bedroom, so you can fall asleep to the familiar hum of the fan.