Two Thousand and Nine

So updates.

Not posted here for a good long while now, so I figured I'd update things a little, more for my own sake than anything else. My memory is becoming more and more sieve-like as time goes on, so it's probably best that I try to document things as much as possible.

Still unemployed, as most people will already know. Went on a two-week course with a place called Support Training in Elgin last year, was alright. Started a placement via the Job Centre at ReBOOT back in November: tomorrow (i.e. today) is my last day, but I intend to keep volunteering. The place is a lot of fun, and I get to spend time doing what I like most - tinkering about with computers, fixing computer-based problems and helping people. That's right, Vertex didn't totally destroy my affinity for customer service.

Of course, I'm still playing WoW and loads of other games. I've got such a backlog right now it's not even funny. I know for a fact that I have at least 6 games sitting on my shelf that haven't even got the wrappers off yet, and countless others that have been partly played, but not completed. Constructing some sort of list / timetable for working through them is on the agenda. Tried, liked, but stopped playing WAR - what was a good game just wasn't as good as WoW, and I couldn't really afford to finance two MMO's.

Keeping up on the best of U.S. television as well - pretty sure I was watching Heroes since the last blog post, and definitely Scrubs, but I've also taken rather well to House and CSI (particularly NY). Not watching Mythbusters as much as I used to, mainly because I don't watch Sky that much anymore - Freeview has just about all I need in terms of TV.

Aside from the aforementioned... nothing's really changed in the last nine or ten months, which suits me just fine. Looking forwards, I have sent a few emails to Moray College to check when courses are starting for Computing, and what funding I'd be entitled to - they tell me to come see them in April or so and then apply. In the meantime, I'll keep gaming, searching for a job and making vague promises regarding attempts to update this blog regularly.