Yo yo,

Just got back from Swindon and damn am i tired. On Wednesday i got a train from Piccadilly to Swindon (via Didcot etc) and stayed overnight in Swindon in a Travel Inn which….sucked, but i just watched TV mostly, and it was a double bed I phoned the reception to book me a taxi for 9am an when i went down at 9am they said ‘o Mr Marsh youve had a taxi waiting since 8.30′ ermm….What? So i had to book my own, get to intel etc. Finally get there, and wow is it nice. We get taken into a big meeting room, where we get an introduction etc and then go off to do some presentations, which i MURDERED, i was awesome It felt goooooooood. We then had to speak to some current interns, have lunch, etc etc, then had the interview, which once again i felt i did great, i was laid back with them, had a fluent conversation, made them think (a good one), told them good answers etc, and they seemed genuinely impressed. Plus, when they asked what i wanted to do, i said ‘oh, Networks – R&D of components, architecture, implementation, etc’ and the interviewer goes ‘really? well thats my department’ HA how awesome, so that was definantley Lady Luck smiling upon me. Got on the train at 4.40 and got back in Manchester at….9pm, very damn tired. Caught the bus home and have just crashed out cos im fooooooked. Didnt manage to get ANYTHING to eat except a 3 quid kebab all yesterday and today, because ive only got 40 quid to my name, so ive just had a load of cheese on toast, mmm. Anyway, im off to crash and burn in bed, had bout 10 coffees to stay on the ball today so im crashing off the caffeine lol. I find out whether ive got the job on Friday btw.

Payce, Mambo.

Well, just got in from reunion. And im knackered. 6 Hours on a train coming home, while on a real morning-after isnt nice!

Got up on friday an caught train, started drinkin at Oxford Road at 9am lol got on the train and turned it into a bombsite, bottles, toilet roll, crisps etc everywhere. Titch drank 1/4 litre of whisky an was sick, chubb was sick all over the carpet lol Got to butlins finally, got in our room, cracked the vodka bottles open and got bladdered, and we’ve been bladdred ever since. To recap-

- Shannon pissed all over the bandits

- We nicked the Burger King straws and ketchup holders an threw them at everyone!

- Chubb got a tattoo of superman on his cock

- We pissed in tonys suitcase, got the beds wet-through.

- Titch had a poo on Shannons bed and in his draw

- me an ste drank a crate we stole from these lads in our room

- Shannon smashed a picture worth 60 quid

- Tony broke a mirror worth a 100

- We chatted up about 300 women and didnt get one shag

- Threw bouncy balls all over the place

- Shannon Chubb and Titch streaked naked all around the campsite

- Locked Tony out the room for hours

- Shannon tried to put ste in a bin head first and ended up busting his head open, so we called him AHHHHHHMED!

- Titch hit Shannon for chuckin him out the window and bustin his arm open

- Tony hit Shannon for breaking everything in the room, pissing in his trainers and his suitcase lol

- Chubb drank a pint which had loads of salt and a full ash-tray tipped into it

- Tony broke ANOTHER phone lol

- Chubb nearly blinded everyone by emptying a full shaker of pepper onto the table and blowin it lol

and believe it or not,

OTHER THINGS. It must be said, it was a blinder, absolutely class. But god im tired. Ill get all the pictures and videos up soon lol

Still Excited! New Poem Too :

To The Top

Electricity Flows Through My Veins,
Pulses, 0’s and 1’s Control My Brain,
My arms feel like jelly, excited and free,
I never imagined this could ever happen to me,
Uncontrollable contractions, alter my mouth,
Getting ready to plan for my journey south,
Onward and upward, as the saying goes,
The excitement goes from my head to my toes,
Who knows what will happen when i go down,
In the sea of expectation ive already drowned,
But im on the upward stream,
Floating back to the boat,
Things might not be all they seem,
But a negative i cannot quote,
This has been great day,
In so many different ways,
If only every hour could be of this power,
This excitement and this joy,
Like a child playing with his new toy,
Self achievement i cannot stop,
The smile i cannot hide,
Im on my way to the top,
And im feeling great inside.

Sam Marsh 2006 (c)

Well, what a day / night. Ended up staying up till 4am playing with Java because it didnt want to work. Got up at 8 for OSM, and piddled around with Linux till 11. Got Andy Young to submit me for the Sun Microsystems placement Which is good. Had a HCI lecture, and then went to the staff/student committee, which was….alien to me, to say the least. Learned quite a lot though, and thought i contributed quite well! As i was walking out i got a phone call from INTEL! Thats right, Industry leading chip designer Intel, wow, asking me to go to an interview. How good. I reviewed the documentation they sent me, and its in SWINDON! Thats bloody Reading area. I.e London. Ive got to be there at 9.30am, which means either going down the night before and staying in a travel inn, or getting up at 5am and travelling down on the day. Now this is a challenge, but one im happy to take up. Anyone want to come down the night before with me (Women preferably lol), go for a meal or something, so im not lonely and scared! heh.

Well, what a fun day ive had. Done nothing at all, helped a few people with problems regarding stuff like registry entries being corrupt, re-writing some java code etc. Finished my Data Structures assignment, and installed a customer boot manager (http://www.osloader.com/) . Then installed Firefox and Thunderbird and messed around with Suse 10.1 some more now my boot issues are resolved. Ended up breaking X because i hacked at the kernel too much trying to get openGL to work oops. Anyway, back off to do some more work, a techies job is never done.

Right Linux, ive had enough of your freewaring ass.Every time i install it, it finds a way to frigging break! This time, i installed it on a seperate DRIVE, so it couldnt mess up my windows setup. Oh yes it did, GRUB decided to break, giving me ‘error 22′, so i couldnt choose beetween Suse or Windows, this is AFTER i get the GRUB screen, and click Windows and it gives me ‘hda(0,1)’ message on DOS and leaves me there…doing nothing…going HMMM……

So it can kiss my ass because im tired, irritated and really annoyed. As much as i slag Windows and MS off, at least their stuff actually ‘works’, albeit it in a loose term. Im going to bed.

Been listening to a lot of Oasis recently, and their song ‘Songbird’ inspired this masterpiece of mine. One for the ladies in the audience :

Waiting for her to come and set me free,
strike me with her arrow no more misery,
no more thinking about her and being alone,
not searching which bird to text on my mobile phone,
having someone to sleep with side by side,
knowing theres someone who in i confide,
someone to write these love songs to,
lying on my bed thinking ‘who’,
looking for the songbird they speak of,
wish it’d flap its wings and set me free like a dove,
unclasp the chains on my heart and free my love,
give me direction cos theres none from above,
show me where to go and what to say,
tell me what time and the special day,
show me where to stand and where to sit,
lift me out of this lonely single pit,
give me direction, and give me relief,
give me joy and give me self-belief,
i can only dream of these special things,
waiting for the dove to help me spread my wings,
give me power in my voice and help me decide,
give me self belief and turn the tide,
bring her straight to me and keep her here,
because you can be sure i’ll treat her dear,
theres been too many ifs and could of been’s,
now i know what all this love means….

Sam Marsh 2006.

Ciao.