A New Era

Welcome to the new face of wakingupsober. What a transformation...if I do say so myself! A whole new banner, not perfect, but getting there, a centred picture, a title on my post. All of it I think develops the site - I'm on my way to really making this my own blog.

Anyway...enough design talk...todays been very good. In assembley I got my music and rugby colours, and I got my history essay back - A*!

Went to Ignite this evening, it was all good.

Feeling rather chuffed with myself :). Just maths coursework now...

Seeya!

Hi. Good day. Come up with my final piece idea for art...and had a Chemistry test...even though he took our books in..idiot. Also, Sam, the guy I talked about yesterday, lent me a book on design...how nice :)

Guess what! Guess who ordered the Wacom Intuos3 A5 Tablet last night? That's right! ME!
It's coming by around the 10th April hopefully, so a little after my birthday, but ah well. Still....the tablet! Wahey!

I don't really know what else to say...Karen exceeded her bandwidth. Shame I don't have that much success. Ah well

Just writing up loads of history notes now. Fun Fun. Oh, I also got a new 512 pen drive today. Cool.

Night all

Hi. Good day. Good evening. I've spent time exploring the internet (as usual) and talking to a cool guy from my school...whom I've discovered is very cool...knows all about coding languages, and wants to be a web designer...even said we should work together.

I've also downloaded a load of photoshop brushes, which have enabled me to produce some various grunge style pictures. Here's a few as I leave you for tonight. Had chips for tea (again!) Also nearly convinced A5 tablet is best!


















Enjoy...

Hi. Decent day, nothing much to say. Music group was alright, I actually played my sax, and had the urge to play! Someone call the doctor....

I've also found on Amazon the tablet that I want..only a measly £200.

Nothing else to say so, night.

...(sorry...continued from below...so much to write!) goal.

Well, this rounds up what's been a great weekend. All I have to do now is my art homework. Doh!

Seeya

WOW! (no, not World of Warcraft :) ). What a great few days. Havn't posted since Thursday because my social life has been rather amazing, and just to make you jealous, I'm going to tell you all about it!

So, Friday, wanted to go into town to look for tablets, but it didn't work out, so I went to the Gathering instead, which was good.

Then, Saturday, what a great day. Started off by me going to my tutors which wasn't anything good, did my maths homework. Boring stuff. Then, went into town, shopped around for a mothers day present, and went to the awesome Apple shop and looked at the Intuos3 A5 tablet they had there - the guys were really nice, and what's best is that all my family tried it out, loved it, and my mum said that it would be better to get an A5 one - yippeee!

Then, the ultimate....FEEDER! It was great! It was at the NEC Arena, so a new venue for me, and it was cool. Goldie Lookin Chain were supporting - they were absolutely rubbish, but Feeder were great. Good songs, and although the set was a little short, still a great concert.

Then, today, church. Wow! The worship was amazing, the congregation really connected. It was fantastic, and my drumming I felt was really good. Then tonight, ID was boys and girls, and the guys had an amazing table football match, and I scored the winning

Hi. Good day, although chemistry test sucked :(

Very brief tonight, as I'm doing this rather late. Went out this evening to my life group at Izzy's, and we're holding an event, sortof social evening, and I'm designing the leaflets! My first almost...commission! I've nearly done them, just going to print off some samples tomorrow.

I've also decided on a tablet - I'm going for a Graphire4, hopefully the biggest one I can afford!

I'm also going to see Feeder on Saturday evening - the concert got postponed from last December because Grant (lead singer) had vocal bleeding, but it's back on! It's going to be amazing! I'll keep you posted.

Anyway, I'm out now. Oh, and physics coursework was all ok :)

Well hello. Just a brief entry tonight. Today's been ok, parents evening tonight. Went well, excellent comments in I.T. which was nice, plus other good comments. Generally good all round. My parents also apparently sucked up to my deputy and headmaster. As usual...

Had the fun task of physics coursework this evening...the resistance of a wire really is thrilling...trust me.

Havn't done much internet/design wise. Browsed forums, nothing much.

I'd better get back to finishing my coursework. On another note, I had a curry this evening. Yay for the tastebuds, not so yay for down below ...

Night night

Hi. I'm ok. Had a good day thank you. I got an A* in my english speach which has made me rather happy.

I spent normal time on the forum, and then, decided for some reason to download Opera. Wow! I've really taken to it - it's like Firefox but one step better, and I absolutely love the mouse controls, which are so convenient! So far, I've had no problems with compatability, apart from, yes, you guessed it - Blogger. Goes all nasty in Opera. Shame really.

I've completely moved into the whole Opera phase now, importing all my favourites and the like, but Firefox, don't worry - I shall still be using you for writing blogs, and I'll probably use you lots anyway.

I also have been lots on the istockphoto forums - especially the cage match section. It looks really good - inspiring and challenging design wise.

Havn't looked at tablets much this evening, briefly checked on Amazon. Nothing much.

Well, that's about today.

Hello there. Todays been ok, I'm ok, everythings ok.

Worship group was good this evening, some really good songs. Lots of fun! Played hockey today instead of football in games which was good, and tonight I've written my Public Speaking speech on car parks. In my research I have found two of the most interesting websites on the net. Sennen Cove in West Cornwall has it's own website - highly informative. The forum is a big hit with locals I hear...

Another equally amazing site is the site for the British Parking Association. Informative, and with around 20,000 hits a day, this site truly is thriving. I'll tell you how I do in the public speaking at a later date...

I looked in more detail at the tablets - and even asked on the forum(.net...obviously) about good brands, and Wacom has come up trumps. I looked on the site again, it's either the volito or graphire now. It's just finding the best price. I'm going to look around town soon hopefully.

I can think of nothing more to say (except again the blogger image uploading is playing up - picture to follow asap).

Signing out.

Hi. Sorry I havn't posted in two whole days - terrible to keep my fans waiting I know. I am sincerly sorry. Blame it on my parents - grounded on Friday and not allowed on the computer! It was terrible. Then yesterday, I was out all day and didn't have any time. So it is today that I finally update you on how I am. I am ok. Well...now that's over and done with..I can tell you some alarming news.

I read the other day on the amazing .net forum (Here's the link to the actual post) that there was a scam going on at Amazon (not by Amazon, obviously) but that people on there were selling fake 1GB memory sticks. This obviously alarmed me because although I havn't bought one as of yet, I was about to, and this is rather lucky. However - Costco has come to the rescue, as when my mother was browsing there yesterday saw one, and now I'll get one from there.

Friday was boring - nothing eventful, and Saturday was good. Saw the Pink Panther with some friends, then went back to his house, had fun then came home. Church was good this morning, and my playing was average/good. I've spent this afternoon taking pictures for the site banner I'm designing - you'll see all too soon. I've got various idea's...and the great thing is I'm thinking about how the tablet will help - I really can't wait! I must get back onto Wacom and chose one - so that I can look around for good prices. Fun fun!

The photograph is of some woodblocks I saw whilst on holiday. Enjoy. Ok...it isn't letting me, but I'll get it up as soon as possible. Ah ha. Got it up now. Also, I've deleted various unnecessary content from the sidebars - now it only contains the essentials. I'd really better get back to doing my art....

Hello. Generally I am ok - looking forward to the weekend and a break from school. Hopefully going to see the Pink Panther film and go round to a friends for a sleepover - should be good fun, the only problem being that I have to leave at 9 - places to be, people to see etc.

Today was ok - school was normal, and my drama teacher is back from the dead! She's been off for ages - so I started singing..."guess who's back, from the dead, medway's back" etc, to the tune of that Eminem song of which I don't know the name. Think I did average in my Chemistry test. I don't really care about it though!

Moving onto more interesting topics, I've been looking through the code for this blog, trying to understand it - I'm failing generally, but there are some areas that I'm understanding which is good. I tried opening it up in Dreamweaver, but it didn't help - I'll wait till the arrival of the tablet before doing too much, but in the meanwhile read through the code.

I've also spent quite a lot of time going through and choosing the "best of the best" out of my pictures I've taken. Quite pleased with the results - it's something I've been meaning to do for a while, and it means I can get rid of the stupid Coldplay screensaver, which for some reason I downloaded. I've also gone through some images taking sections of them and editing them - nothing much, just changing the levels and exposure slightly.

I spend too much time on the computer, and I realised that I need to do more practicle work. Ah well. It can wait. Probably edit later on, or create a new post like I did last night. Which reminds me to tell you (my avid readers, awaiting my next post with madness) that I've come to the conclusion that I should post a mid way through the evening, so I have more interesting things to talk about than just school. I rushed home yesterday to tell you all my...exciting...news.

Wow this blog is long - I think the longest I've ever done so far. Enjoy.

Well, in the last post I said I would edit it as the evening went on, but i've found i've too much to say - making editing time consuming and pointless. I'm not sure if blogs are just meant to be one post a day, but I think this is turning more into a diary/journal (which reminds me that I have a live journal account). Ah well.

As far as the Wacom tablet is concerned, I've been browsing around - I checked Amazon, not too bad price wise - and I've been pleasantly surprised by how good a tablet I can get for a reasonably modest price. Hopefully for my birthday i'll get a really nice one.

I've also had a good evening - fish 'n' chips for tea and watched the football. Also, to boot, my mum suggested me getting a digital camera, and didn't seem phased when I talked about a digital SLR costing £400-500. She also gave the go ahead for the 1GB memory card and tablet - (she's joining the revolution (as well as msn!) ).

Note to self - design a banner, and work out how to put it into this page.

Second day of blogging. Still not quite sure what this should be but hey, it's going to be fun. Maybe in a year from now....this could be popular.

I won't get my hopes up.

Read an article in .net mag last night all about blogging - interesting, and talking about making blogs out of the ordinary (something this currently isn't). Hopefully soonish, i'll make my own template....only thing holding me back is the technical know-how. Currently, I'm pants at CSS - i've got no idea where to begin.

As for creating a template...I think I'd like a more natural feel...this is fairly rigid at the moment, and there's not too much I can do to really make it my own. I looked last night at some Wacom tablets - as it's my birthday I was thinking it might be an ideal tool.

As for my day (although not over yet), it's been ok. School was usually varied...some lessons good, some lessons average - nothing bad today. I'll be spending a few hours on here tonight, and this post will probably edited if I find new things. I'm going to buy a 1GB memory card for my camera later, bargain off Amazon!

askar

This is a picture I took one morning, when I woke up and found some snow on some old coal pieces from the barbecue. My first photograph of what will hopefully be a nice set.

This is my first post - nothing amazing yet, and I doubt none of the posts will be amazing! I'm using this as a basic blog, just somewhere to write down my thoughts, my feelings and general interests. I hope to put a few of my pictures on here, and eventually create my own template - hopefully using a tablet I want for my birthday.