I was doing my assignment for my OU course on Tuesday, and I heard a *KLUNK* then my computer shut down. It restarted itself, and half way through, *KLUNK* it reastarted. There was a further 3 KLUNKs before I gave up and let it go to sleep for the day. I had another go on Wednesday, but as soon as I booted up, there was a *KLUNK* and off it went again.

I contacted the OU – Open University and asked when I would get my grant. They told me it wouldn’t be long, so I used the money they had given me so far as well as a bit of my own money to get myself a Laptop. So I am now using this with great joy.

It is an Advent 6301, dual core T2370 1.73 processors, 2 gig DDR2 memory, 120 gig hard drive, 17″ widescreen TFT screen and a DVD +/- RW, wireless LAN, Windows VISTA Home Premium, and I have set it up to communicate with my XBOX>

On the whole, I am very happy with it.

Eee, I’ve been a bit on the busy side for the last couple of weeks so I haven’t really had time to write a blog. Thought I might write everything down now.

The kids both had their sports days. They were on the same day. Our son’s was in the morning, and our daughter’s was in the afternoon. With our son, there was a course of non-competitive games such as goals, basketball, running with a beanbag, hockey. Then they had a 100 metre sprint. Our son won his race by a smidge. Our daughter’s had no non-competitive stuff, it was all racing which was good. She was in three races, her relay team came 3rd, and she came third in her own race, so they were both happy and so were we.

My son had his acheivements evening and he got a certificate for Secondary Pupil with most consistently good behaviour so we were happy with that. We have yet to meet his new teacher, and not sure what they are like. Our daughter has another male teacher for year 6 which is unusual for a primary school, but I like male teachers, they don’t tend to suffer with PMT. lol

We finished the Star Wars game, and it was a cracking end. Darth Malas (the bad guy) walked through the door and was set upon by Jarek StarChaser (human male soldier / elite trooper) and Fuh Fett (human male mandalorian soldier), while Naob Marr (Miraluka female force adept) swirled stuff around him and blasted tables and other shrapnel at him. Phuc Mei (Kel-Dor male Scoundrel / Ace / Deep Space Pilot) was shooting at him, before managing to lose an eye when his weapon exploded on him, and C2-1E (Droid masculine programming – originally C2-1B but after upgrades and being blown apart was now an E) was attempting to heal people as well as take pot shots at Malas. Deebo (Ewok male soldier / sniper) had blown a hand off when his rifle malfunctioned, then tried to escape. He got to his powered glider and was getting away. Jarek dealt the killing blow. Malas dropped to his knees, grinned and said “I win” before dropping to the floor and his barradium detonator attached to his heart went off with the power of a 10 megaton nuke instantly obliterating everyone in the room. Deebo was flying by this point when the airbourne shock wave brought him down. He survived the fall, only to see the ground rippling towards him at a very fast speed. He hid behind a rock and tree which disintegrated a fraction before he did. No survivors. They called me a few names.

We have now started Vampire – The Dark Ages. Going to see what that is like.

Talishia finally started hew new job today, so she is happy with that, and it gets her out of my hair too. Don’t get me wrong, I love her, but too long under each other’s feet with her complaining about not starting work was getting very stressful. Hopefully we can get the money sorted out near enough straight away so that we have no major problems that last a long time.

I had the results of my M150 course through today. I had a pass of 85 which is great. I can rest now and get on with some stuff. Yahey.

And that’s all I can think of for the moment.

This last week has been an odd week. There has been quite a bit going with nothing really achieved if you know what I mean.

Talishia quit her job. She was a domiciliary going to people’s homes and helping them out by washing them, bathing them, helping them get dressed and doing housework and things like that. She liked the job. The only problem was, was the fact that she had walk from house to house with only getting paid while she was actually in the house. She would leave at 8:00 in the morning and get home just after 13:00 with getting paid for 2 1/2 hours. So that is 5 hours and get paid for half of that. Tali did have an interview at a home which went well, and then was called back for a second interview where the woman pulled everything apart that Tali had done stating things like looking after the kids is not an excuse for not working. The original interviewer phoned her up to offer the position, but she turned it down. She said that she would not work for someone who attempted to intimidate her. She does have another interview tomorrow with a different care home.

Talishia also made a great friend from a source that she did not expect – I have been forbidden at this time to say any more than that as it could cause some legal complications at some point in the not too distant future. Suffice to say that trying to get her off of the computer now is trying to prise a nail out of the floor with a hammer made from melting jelly.

My son (Artie as I call him) was having problems at school with bullying. He has Asperger’s Syndrome and goes to a special needs school. The boy that has been giving him trouble was at his original school as well, and he gave him trouble there. As I was bullied at school, I was not going to allow the same thing happen to my son as well. So I phoned the school and had a chat with his teacher. On Friday Artie came home and told me that everything was now sorted out and that the other brat was going to be nice to him.  We will see.

I have finally purchased my own domain which I will be getting up and running very soon. It will be http://www.katt-enterprises.co.uk but at the moment it just says that the domain has been purchased. I am currently trying to sort out some kind of logo for Katt Enterprises. My mate Lou did one which was great, but it doesn’t scan well onto the computer. I tried recreating it but to no avail.

Dr Who! MY GOD! The ending of that was awesome. If you know anything about next weeks, please DON’T TELL ME! I have been having a chat with a friend of mine on MySpace and he has come up with a number of ideas:

1. Donna still has the time beetle and she may bend time back and get herself killed instead of the doctor.
2. This is all taking place in a parallel universe
3. He regenerates into himself thus becoming the 11th doctor
4. It’s not a full regeneration and he only heals himself
5. David Tennant really has regenerated and pulled off an astounding blast for the finale fooling most people

My thoughts are as follows:

1. That would be possible had it not fallen off at the end of Turn Left
2. Highly unlikely
3. That would be absurd
4. Doubtful – but with the hand there, it may cause that – a sort of save point or extra life
5. That would be out of this world. That would be one of the best kept secrets in TV history!

Role-playing tonight is quite possibly the last Star Wars that I will be running. The Sith Lord that they are up against at the moment, Darth Malas, is about to attack them (they know this as the Force Adept has seen it in the future) if he wins, they all die, if he loses – the barradium detonator attached to his heart may put some sort of damper on getting out of where they are at the moment. I am soooo looking forward to being called all the names under the sun. They have already been beaten by this guy 3 times and barely escaped each time.

I have also got my confirmation through of my next open University course that will begin in October. I am going to choose one to start in March or April too so that I can get the full amount of money that has been allocated to me.

I know it has been a while since I finished the course, but I have been having a total relax and relapse.

The score I got was 93%. My response when I saw that was “Oh my f*cking god!!!” I was sure I had got some of it well wrong, so I was shocked when I had most of it right. If I could, I would have done backflips around the room.