It makes the blog look brighter and its how I like to see life. Nice, light, easy, even though at times it may not seem like it, but life is as it is. More updates coming to the blog soon, so keep an eye out and let me know what you think of it.

Leave a comment and tell me if you like the new theme, what you do or don’t like about it. All comments welcome.

Mike.

I last posted on the 25th of May. Two days later I was in Dublin and then spent the night in Maynooth with Wayne and Stephen. Just had a nice relaxing day in Dublin for myself. Nothing too stressful. That evening Wayne, Stephen and I all had a few cans at theirs, nothing too hectic as we all had to be up the following morning. I had to catch a flight to London the following day and try to get through the morning rush hour traffic on the M50.

I was in London for the next three days, as was David. Met up with him in the evenings and we went for a few drinks. We where at the famous Chelsea Flower show on the Friday. It was massive. Lots of nice gardens. This was more Davids thing than mine. I enjoyed it and spent a good bit of time relaxing around the band stand listening to the music. Once I came back to Ireland I spent another night with Wayne before heading back to Galway.

The following weekend saw the June bank holiday and also Dignity Wests official opening weekend. The cheeky girls, yes the real cheeky girls, where there on the Friday night and a Lady Gaga tribute group on the Sunday night.

Last weekend saw another birthday come and go. Was out Friday, Saturday and Sunday night. Sunday was Davids birthday. We had dinner in a spanish restaurant on Domnick street called Cava. It was a really nice place. The music was good, but the food was not really to my taste. I’m am a very plain eater so when I go to restaurants like this I always try to keep an open mind. If I was into that kind of food, I’m sure I would have liked it.

I survived the redundacies in work. Romours of more to come, but as of yet, they are just romours and nothing more. This weekend sees the company BBQ in the Radisson. Free food, possibly a few drinks too, hopefully, but one thing that is sure, it will be great craic.

I’m still looking for a plugin for the blog to create a gallery page with photos from London. Until then, au revoir France!!!

Then it’s off to Dublin airport in the morning to catch my flight to London where I will be staying for three nights. Will be relaxing and discovering the place on Thursday, catching the Chelsea flower show on Friday with a friend and doing a bit of shopping and site seeing on Saturday before heading home on Sunday.

Just looking forward to the few days relaxation and rest from norm. I know I still have to post some photos from my previous visit to London back in January. I am looking for a suitable plug-in that will allow me to create galleries for people to come look at.

Will post again soon.

Mike

Now that I have finished college for the summer, I’ll get the chance to complete my home study course for PC repair and upgrade. It’s an easy course. I just need the piece of paper that says I can do these things. So bring it on. Also now that I don’t have to attend classes during the day it leaves me a lot more time for myself during the day before going to work. Plans, finish home study course, reading some of my many unread books and getting out and enjoying the weather by plenty of walking.

Planning to go back to London at the end of this month, volcanic ash cloud permitting. Loved London when I was there back in January. Chelsea flower show is on during the dates that I plan to be there, so I’ll get myself a ticket and pop along to see what all of the fuss is about.

Mike.

Off to Dublin tomorrow for the night. Gonna head up early meet my cousin and shop for the day, find somewhere to stay and then head out for the night. If I don’t find somewhere to stay I’ll just get the bus back to Galway after the night club. I love going out in Dublin. I think it is due to the fact that it is somewhere different, also the scene is a lot different and much better than the one here in Galway.

Had an exam yesterday. Not good, but I was expecting that. It’s one of those subjects that is just almost impossible to understand. I’m not alone on this one. I have asked other classmates and they are all in the same boat. None of us like the subject or the teaching method use, rather than the lecturer. I have a project and a report due in on Tuesday morning. Almost done with it now, then it is just one more exam after that and I am free of college until September.

Well that is all the update that I have for the moment. I would like to post more frequently but never really get the chance to, maybe with the summer coming and college finished until September I may get to posting more often.

Mike.

This app allows me to create a post, a page and to read and edit comments. It will be very handy for making quick posts on da go.

The one thing about posting from my phone is that there are far less ways to make a post look better. I have plugins for both my blog and browser that enhance my post editing capabilities.

So, for now from me and my phone, goodbye.

It is a very wet bank holiday weekend and with not having anywhere in particular to go I dived head on into all the PCs that need repairing. I had one PC that I was fixing for someone which was not starting up. Got that going and packed it up and is ready to be delivered to its owner.

The next one was my own Dell PC which has been giving trouble for quite some time now. At start up it was giving an error message. After a lot of routing and fault finding I discovered that it was a corrupt file that was stopping it from loading. Repaired it and this PC is now up and running and is now going to act as my main base station for downloading and running a lot of background tasks that take a lot of time to complete and which might take a lot of CPU power. This would leave me my netbook to do everyday tasks and programming.

All in all it did take me a few hours to do but I now have another item ticked off my to do list.

I’ve been running Linux for the last month or so on my netbook. I love using it, it’s simple, fast and easy for the most part. It loads up in a minute or two, unlike windows which loads up in a minute or two also, but then spends the next three or four loading shit loads of programs and apps that I most likely won’t use.

I have very little trouble with linux, Ubuntu to be precise. That was until recently and it was my fault. I uninstalled it in error and tried to reinstall it and it worked, for a few days atleast. Now I can’t even get it to install!!

I think that maybe the iso image that I am using for Ubuntu maybe damged of corrupt somehow. I am trying to install it on a PC which I am working on the moment for someone, but it won’t install on that either. I download the ISO for opensuse yesterday and plan to install that on both the netbook and the PC and see how it goes.

Dispite the problems I might be having with PCs and my netbook, I love trying to problem shoot them and see if I can get them all going again. I am currently setting up a new wireless network around my apartment so that I can link all my PCs, laptops, notebooks, DAB radio and TV together, regardless of where they are in the apartment. I shall write a post about the again another time.

The problem that faces most people is that they are blinded by problems, that they can’t see a way out, a way to achieve what they want, what they need to do. Overthinking problems is a way to get stuck in a rut. Consider the problem, focus on what you need to do to get where you want. Planing step by step. Big goals can be reached by setting small goals as a stepping stone on the way.

I have my plans for my future, my goals set, my stepping stones are being arranged in order to make the path that bit easier. My problems, not over thought about, not getting in my way. Dealing with them as best I can, but not hindering my progress.

I know what I want from life, what I want to achieve and to be honest, I am ready to start getting to my goal. I have been one of the worlds worst prograssionators, but I am ready to move on, to finally do something with my life.

Cons;

1. No job. Duh!!

2. Living on benefits such as unemployment benefit, rent allowance and, well I think that is it.

3. Still have loans and bills to pay. How?

Pros;

1. Redundancy money

2. More free time.

3. Redundancy money will pay off loans, which sorts part of 3 in the cons list.

4. Possibility to return to college full-time and get a qualification while waiting out the “economic downturn”

Getting a redundancy is a mixed bag really. If I get it, what choice do I have but to accept it and get on with life and see what I can do. If I don’t get it, life goes on as normal and everyone’s, well most people are, happy.

Ok so moving on, college is all go. Working on projects and studying for exams as I go. College is an aspect of life that I like and don’t plan on giving up anytime soon. Once my current course is finished I plan on doing more. I really want to get deeper into programming languages and web development. I think that no matter what I am at in life or where I am, I’ll always be studying something. Knowledge is power after all.

Paddys week is coming up and we are meant to have the whole week off work, but I will be in on the Monday and Tuesday to help out on overhauling some of the machines while there is no production. I am looking forward to have the rest of the week off. Last year paddys day was a lot of fun, it was really sunny and warm, which is what we need at the moment after all of this cold weather of late.

It bonus time of year again and I am wondering what to get out of it, most of it is gone on the car, tax, insurance, service. However I do have some leftover and I have a few things in mind that I want to get. A new coat, new sunglasses and a few decent belts. So as you can see it’s nothing major.

I recently put an ad in the Galway Independent for PC repair as a way of making a few extra euros. Had a call for a job on Friday morning last but it was cancelled. So I am going to run the ad for a few more weeks to see how it goes. So if any of you or your friends are having PC trouble or need something done, who you gonna call? Mike Folan!! Iincase any of you don’t have my phone number and do need me, 0876953564.

Ok that is all for now, I think. Chat to you all again another time.

Mike