Below are the 5 most recent journal entries recorded in carefactory's LiveJournal:

Monday, April 10th, 2006
10:11 am	been a while Well... its been a rather long time since i wrote anything here lol :) I am so lazy ;) Since my last update my redundancy went thro, i lost my job but it turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me! I was only out of work for a few weeks before I started my current job which is a massive change of career path for me. Gone are the sitting on my ass behind a desk drinking tea and eating crap.... arrived are the days of 'proper' work, work that leaves me tired at the end of the day so i can actually sleep! :D I am training to be an Industrial Installation Electrician and its fkin great :) Best part of the job for me is the fact that I dont have to be pc, I dont have to be nice and amiable to people i dont like, I can swear and be as big a gobshite as I feel like.. such a change from the corprate enviroment of IBM that I was used to! Loving it. Money is kinda crap at the moment, but it wont be terribly long before thats sorted :) Company I work for is awesome too, couldnt wish for it any better :) Life is generally much better too, cant get over what a difference regular sleep makes hehe! Got involved with a lady for a wee while too, didnt turn out so good tho, very different people we turned out to be so the spark quickly went. Oh well! /shrug. Think I should give up and just be a bachelor for the rest of my time hehehe :D google earth rocks! 51°38'40"N 4°00'00" W <- where i am writing this :D Current Mood: tired Current Music: Gnarls Barkley - Crazy (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 16th, 2005
3:40 pm	Cows go moo! Its true, I heard one this morning :D Didnt sleep again last night, as aloof as i am in my attitude about my impending redundancy i think its unsettling me alot more then I let on, even to myself. I am a crappy sleeper at the best of times, but right now its terrible. Ended up chatting on daoc last night till about 4am (well, i whined a bit.. i am good at that :) ) and went back to bed, didnt really sleep at all tho so feeling a bit 'odd' today :D Some good news with the redundancy tho - they have recalculated my severance payment and its gone up quite a bit so I am making some travel plans something like this :- Nurburgring on the 3rd of July for 4 days (If your not a petrolhead google for it! if you are you know the draw of this). Not going to drive the circuit but going as a passenger/Video man for a good friend. Some friends of mine from Denmark (Lui and Marie) are visiting me on the 12th July (funnily enough my 30th birthday that day too!) for a week - Cant wait :) 16th September - 22nd September I am going to the Netherlands - travelling around a bit but will mostly be in Arnhem for the VE day celebrations with my Father and Grandfather. Now, I have a big gap between my visitors leaving and going to Netherlands so I just might take up the offer of jesterswife and windalyn to visit the shiney us of a :) Been looking around at flights and for the start of september i can get a London -> Dallas -> London for about £500 ($960 for you oversea's lot) which isnt too shabby ;) windalyn is checking some train/bus fares for me so I can get from her place to New Orlenans to visit jesterswife also. Its all a bit up in the air at the moment, but I would really like to make this happen as soon as possible, Patience is a virtue that overlooked me :p And yes, I am less irritated than yesterday - Just keeping my head down in work and minding my own business whilst doing as little as possible to fulfil my role ;) Current Mood: creative (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 15th, 2005
4:08 pm	bleh! Shitty day or what! Stayed up too late last night so that was a bad start, didnt sleep to well as the wind was up quite high and stuff was rattling around stopping me sleeping. In work today, tired and extreemly irritable and dealing with assholes who survive their lives with double standards. I am totally totally sick to the back teeth of people being one way to one person then another to another in a sly and underhand manner. If people were openly honest with each other then the world would, generally, be a much much nicer place. Applies to all manner of things too, not just work. Work is the killer for sure, but dealing with bullshit here all day doesnt make for a happy spesh >< Anyhoo, 8 days (6 shifts) left to do then i am the fk outta here, and stroll on too.. cant wait! scuse the whiney post, but if i didnt tell someone (virtual) then i think i would have slapped someone in work ;) Current Mood: annoyed Current Music: Just the noise in work... (Comment on this)
Friday, June 10th, 2005
12:14 pm	Moved! Well, moved at last :D Didnt move far really, only about 15 miles or so but still a major ballache, some of my stuff is way bigger than i remember it being :D Worst thing was trying to move my big leather lazy boy (yes i watch too much friends :p), the thing is way to wide and tall to get thro doors properly so i am now missing alot of skin from my knuckles lol :D Anyway, its much nicer here - living back with my dad (who is more like my best friend than my dad if truth be told), about 15 yards from the beach too! The view I get every day can be seen (live and updated) at www.gowerlive.co.uk Quite a funky site too, tells you all sorts about the area :D But omg does living by the beach rock! I had got accustomed to not living by the sea (grew up in this house) but now i am back i am not sure how i coped away from it, the sea is just so soothing :D Only 2 weeks left in work now too, finishing date is officially the 26th of June but they have no hope of me working that last weekend.. Its really hard going to work knowing that i wont be there long, motivation is a constant struggle. I am in from 1400-0000 (BST) today and i really really cant be arsed to even leave the house to go. Still, 2 weeks time I wont ever have to go back to there which is good, over 5 years in the same place at the same desk is just too much! Annoying thing is tho that I dont get my redundancy payout till the end of July and I have just recieved my last paypacket so 2 months I have to last on 1 months salary. My dads being pretty awesome about it tho - leaving me here kinda rent free for the immediate future so that is helping loads :D Gotta sort some stuff out tho - My 30th Birthday in a month and I havent arranged anything yet >< I am so damn lazy sometimes :D Current Mood: blah Current Music: Propellorheads - Take California (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 2nd, 2005
2:18 pm	Plans never work out do they :P Well, Was supposed to be moving house this weekend.. moving back down into my dads house but a friend that had 'sorted me a van out' to move clearly didnt which has left me a bit pissed off tbh, but hey ho - reschedule etc :p Quite looking forwards to living with my dad again, he's more like my best pal and given that he is on his own at the moment I think a bit of company will do him good. Plus he lives just a few yards from the beach which will be glorious if we get a half decent summer this year :D Work is a chore, my last day here will be friday june 24th but it feels like i have left already. I am kinda just 'attending' work rather than working. The stress and firefighting of the role have gone, and i am left sitting staring at a blank screen and looking out over a sea of 700 other people here, scurrying around busy. I have no motivation for it whatsoever, but i dont care for it anymore - this lot have had over 5 years of hard graft out of me for limited return... so basically fk em!! Still, I have had some good times here, some fun, some pain, some laughter and some riots :p Met some fantastic people, met some right wankers too by all accounts - but ya cant have it all :) Dont know how i am gonna feel on my leaving day, i think its going to be a mix of relief and elation but with some sadness that I wont be seeing some of the people here again or, at best, less frequently. Trying times indeed Current Mood: mischievous (1 Comment |Comment on this)