Jesus: 1 - Hallow's Eve: 0 - Tuesday

Up early, got to Java lecture, sat through Java lecture listening to something I learnt when I was about 16 (if you want to think more of me, I taught myself this part from books, not taught by a person). Overall not at good as normal but it's gotta be covered. Surprisingly enough, most of the class don't care. I've managed to identify at least 12 people that do care, they're all in the same lab as me which is rather handy. After the lecture I sat down in the Anglesea buidling for an hour before going to see my tutor. After seeing him (he said I can use him as a reference which is kinda neat) I carried on sitting down. While sitting down I did of course peruse WoA and spent my time very well making an extended Timetable. There's a slightly higherquality version here for those with a nicer connection (might not display as nicely in IE either, it's a .png). As there's currently no key for it, the yellow going to red gradients represent when I anticipate travelling, the yellow to green is also travel. One is to Uni, the other is from, you can work out which direction is which. Also note that the Tutor session is every other week (I missed it last week so went this one to catch up). Also, I have this semester 2 or 3 labs sometime in Thursday afternoon, they're one off but quite long. For those that think this is really snazzy and want a version for their timetable, I'll happily make one for free. There's one problem. I will know your timetable and can ambush you as you walk around Portsmouth (assuming you live here). After the Tutorial/WoA session I went to Software Systems, we're learning about UML and it's not making a vast ammount of sense. By that I don't mean that I can't understand the language, no, I just find it hard to see where I will use it. I somehow come to a conlcusion without using it and it all works nicely. Still, if I'm going to get a placement next year it might be worth putting in the extra effort here. As clearly labeled on the timetable I walked home and umm, did a lot. By "a lot" I mean that I had a nap. Walking back in I attended Digital Electronics. Last year this was a subject that I struggled with a fair bit, it's not my strong point. Today we were doing diagrams on the board, seeing as I use a text editor you'd think this was a problem. Not so! I found a solution (based off of my experiance of programming languages) that allowed me to represent the diagram in text. After Digital I attended more Software Systems but by the end was too tired to to go to the Data Coms tutorial so instead walked home. I walked home with a gentleman called Mathew whom I met last year at Langstone, it was quite nice (he's still living in Langstone so was happy to have company for the first half of the walk). Getting home I had a delicious and nutritious pot noodle dinner (nutritious for a programmer anyway) and spent the evening working on my PHP tutorials for the denezins of WoAm, though, the tutorials are open to all and apparently easy to understand. If you're interested, go to here to see them, you don't have to register to read them, though if you want to post replies to a topic you will, we've had problems with spam bots and this was the only way to solve it (combined with a custom Spambot blocker I wrote). Now for why the title says that Jesus is beating Hallow's Eve. Very simply, my housemates said that I could deal with Trick or Treaters. A sum total of one group turned up but I enjoyed it. The two girls (yes, girls not ladies) were dressed as something meant to be scary, the parents stood at the edge of the path to our door keeping a watchful eye on them. Out of the house came something that actually was scary (me in shorts, t-shirt and no shoes or socks). Rather than give them sweets I asked them about why they were supporting Evil and started to talk to them about Jesus. Sadly the children were too high on sugar to understand any of it but the parents both heard it all. They felt they'd met a weirdo and took their children away. Strange that, I didn't realise they wanted sweets until they told me, I just assumed they wanted to hear the good news. Well, maybe that's just me being optimistic. I didn't give them any sweets (they walked off before I could think of anything, that and I wasn't finnished talking about the Gospel). Tomorrow will hopefully be a fun day, I've got a special Faculty of Technology meeting, the one that I'm the rep for that I got voted for. Better yet, I get to miss a lecture for it (and they'll have free food there!!!).

I have a problem! - Sunday

I got up, went to Church. Today Jonathan was on Holiday so we had a guest speaker. He didn't have a single point to make but covered the miracle of the feeding of the 5000 (actually more like 20000-25000 because it only counted the men). Overall he mostly talked about God Testing us and Challenging us. He also did a cool one man sketch on the miracle (we were all laughing). After Church we went to the Thatched cottage and after waiting for over an hour, got a table. I hadn't eaten anything for the whole day up until that point. I ate just about all of the half roast chicken (partly to prove Lorna wrong, she said I'd not finnish it) and even ate a little left over ice cream that Steve didn't want (I used my fingers too, though apparently this was a bad idea). After that I went home and did some more of my MySQL WoA Database thing (we're having a competition to name it). I re-did a bit of stuff I did yesterday that wasn't working, the 2nd set of code was not only shorter and easier to read, but it also worked! I went to the evening service with Steve H (we and Chris Brough were the only students there). I am very glad I went because not only did I learn about some stuff I didn't know (Old Testament stuff) but it also Challenged me. The speaker (a different guy from this morning) said about how if Jesus returned, those that truely trusted in him would be taken up. Did we really trust in him? It's certainly made me think. Now onto the commedy! Literally. Sunday Night Live is an Evangelical event that I gave out fliers for on Wednesday (I didn't spy the pole climbing lady there). It was proceeded with some Jaz, then some Comedy from a Christian Comedian. It was incredible, the way that he told stories that were hilariously funny yet also merged seamlessly into Christian challenges. There was some free food and then more from Mark Richie (the comedian). I then had two choices, get a lift home from Steve H or help clean up. One of the things that I then remembered from the morning service was "What does Jesus want you to do?" I'm glad I did what Jesus wanted because it is going to be awesomely funny tomorrow if I get enough votes. Yes, votes, you'll read why in a minute (or less if you skip ahead). I cleaned up a load of stuff and chatted with Huw a bit, there was music playing and he managed to record me dancing to it, he wants to post it on the internet, I'm considering it. Justin talked to us a little, Justin was wearing a badge on a piece of elastic. As a joke Huw pulled it back a little and let it snap back, it got the upper half of Justin's chest and didn't make a noise. Justin, for whatever reason, did it himself. He however managed to hit his throat quite hard. It was most amusing. Now the voting. At the end of it there was a bucket of flowers. I managed to get 21 of them. Here and here are two (only slightly) different pictures of them. Emma saw me with them and said... Emma: You need to give them to a lady Me: Umm, I just took them because they were free and look nice, who would I give them to? Emma: Someone you fancy Me: And who do I fancy? Emma: I don't know, you've not told me Me: Assuming I don't fancy anybody, who do I give them to? Emma: Lizzie? Me: Why? Emma: Because she's a nice person Me: Not only has she already left, but she didn't say goodbye, I think that disqualifies her Emma didn't have a comeback to this, but that's okay because I have a solution. While walking back with Huw I came up with the cunning plan of having blog readers vote for whom I should give them to! So, without further adoo, here is a list of ladies I know that are single. Emma and Marcia, lovely ladies that you are you are not on the list as I doubt they would reach you in time. Anybody that votes for Emma or Marcia should also put down someone on the following list or your vote gets ignored. You must post your name, and if you're not a registered blogspot member, in some way prove who you are if you're from WoA. Brierley (She has got a Boyfriend) Helen (Also has a Boyfriend) Jo (Yep, she's got one too) Sarah (She's the one on the right and is married to the guy on the left) Lizzie (Single, if she's chosen I'll make sure there's someone with a camera incase her response is funny) Sarah (Yeah, she's taken too) Siän (Single, again, I'll have a camera, her reaction would be very funny) Karen (As the picture might imply, Karen is going out with Stew) Ceryn (I think she's taken) Lorna (She's taken, you'll probably remember her from this Lauren (My housemate, she's in one of the later photos, she apparently doesn't like these flowers) You've seen the flowers, now lets see some "action" shots (okay, my housemates thought it'd be funny and I had the camera out). This is Gareth posing as me, holding the flowers, waiting for the right moment. This is what happens when a camera flash goes off in your face. This is what I'll look like giving them to a Lady. If I get lucky, this might be a picture of me and {insert name of Lady in question here} afterwards, I might have to apply copius ammounts of chocolate to cover up the problem of being ugly, I might just manage it! So, you need to vote by whatever time tomorrow I have CU or your vote won't count. I do know where most of the people live and it might be funnier to do it like that, however there's something about doing it infront of 20 - 60 people that just says "funny" like nothing else. To vote, post a comment saying who you vote for, why is an optional extra.