Author: Olly

I  have finally decided on what im gonna do. The CCTV job is all well and good, but its not what i’m looking for. So im gonna recommend my friend and step bro Andy to the job. He is very interested in CCTV, and is a very clever lad, and like me has fuck all qualifications yet has a lot of experience. It will probably come as a shock to duncan, but im doing what’s best for him in the long run. And i am defiantly leaving MMX3 in the new year. Im gonna get a security position at weekends, and then not do anything in the week for a bit. That give me time to sort the bits and bobs out i never get time for, and then once i start getting bored i can look at opening a shop!

The franchise thing with dave may happen one day, but i’d want us both working on it… Anyway, i still think its probably not the best idea in the world. A website selling them would be much more cost effective! 🙂

Before i went to work saturday, i learnt the following..

Romantic diners are nice, choc is ace, nic loves shoppin

Its strange, how you can have a full nights sleep, 9 odd hours, with no interruptions, and still wake up tired. Yet other times, i can have 4 of 5 hours sleep, and i wake up instantly jumping around like a kangaroo. – I guess it is to do with the conditions you are sleeping in, who you are sleeping with, and what your sleeping on, but i have had instances where these laws have been broken, and I’ve had 9 hours in the comfiest bed in the world, and still woke up tired. This morning was one of these mornings..

I had woken up about 5:45, thanks to my alarm. It was pitch black, cold, and uncomfortable. I was on the floor of a portacabin on a building site in lincoln. I looked at my phone a few minutes later, and it was bang on 6oclock. I must remember next time that no one gets there till 7:20, so i can have an extra hour in bed. I got up anyway, and got dressed, then did a few checks outside to make sure nothing had been stolen in the night. I was fine, and so was my site.

Unfortunately for me, i had slept on a cold, hard floor for 2 nights on the trot, and because of this, my back is really hurting today. Its stiff and sore. And i had about 6 hours sleep, but i am knackered right now, and its only 11:49am! A hot bath and a lie down will sort that later.

One of the many pastimes i have for when im securing stuff, is sweetie wars. Now i guess this could be the start of some sad “I’ve got too much time on my hands” type experiment, but at the moment i think the word sweetie wars is more appropriate.

What you have to do, is…

1) find a table, and some coloured sweeties.
2) tip them out into a pile, NO eating!
3) start to line them up, in colour order
4) arrange into piles to make it easier
5) photograph the end result
6) identify a winner!

In that war, the pink smarties won. And that graph roughly shows that nestle really need to work on mixing the colours up a bit, i mean, there is probably 4 times the amount of pink smarties, to red ones! what’s going off?

I best get on with my work, im going home soon for lunch with nicola. Burgers is it!

In less than half a hour, ill be a free man. I say free, but only free for one night. Then i have to go work for 60 hours again, and then back to work. I haven’t had a weekend for a while 🙁

Nicola put our xmas tree up last night, and has done a splendid job! It looks nice and classy, not trampy or tacky like a lot of trees are. The best tips to achieving a nice tree, and DONT crowd it, NO tinsel, and NO coloured lights – All it needs now are a few prezzies under it, and the xmas spirit will be complete!

Im gutted i have to work this weekend as its the un-official MMX3 xmas party. They are all going bowling, and i was meant to go. But unfortunately i cant.

I feel really tired right now. I have to stay up to watch the late night hollyoaks, because the storyline is proper gripping! – Anyway, i have some things troubling me at the mo. I feel as if im being torn in two. I obviously have my dreams and stuff, and i have plans for my own life, such as starting a business of my very own, and jet setting around the world in search of the freshest trainers or whatever. The stuff that’s troubling me tho, is probably gonna dictate what my next year is gonna be like.

I have been offered a position, as a CCTV operative. For the time being anyway. As the company grows (thor-security) i will (apparently) grow too. And the way duncan put it, he wants ME to run the CCTV part. He wants me to manage the CCTV staff, and be 1st line of support to the operatives if anything go’s wrong. – And if im being perfectly honest. I really really really want to take the job, as having no qualifications means career’s (rather than jobs) are hard to have. – And this would certainly be a good career.

And the way duncan puts it, once its up and running id have quite a lot of freedom to do my own thing, whether that may be the shop with dave, or a lil shop of my own. Or whatever.

All i know, is that if i do have a total change of job, and start heading towards running the CCTV side of things, that is gonna for a while be important, and 1st priority. Whereas me and dave are supposed to be starting this franchise very soon. But what i don’t want to happen, is me wait and wait and wait for this franchise, and it not happen. Cos if i pass this job opportunity off, because of the franchise, and then that doesn’t take off, then i am truly fucked.

The more this day go’s on, the more i can see me handing my notice in on the 1st day back after xmas. – Nothing personal to this company, but its small potatoes, i aint small potatoes!