Category: My Past

This past weekend really opened my eyes. For a start, selling a mag how we were selling it is a fucking stupid idea. Well its not, but its a mammoth task for just me and dave. plus im sick of going to shows and not enjoying myself.

This show was the icing on the cake as nationals is always set to be the best show of the year. But, as we kinda figured out on the sunday if you take the good weather away from nationals – there is nothing left!

Every single year apart from one (newark, it was windy!) nationals has been the best show ever. And now, after their 5th show ever – i even wonder if they will do another one. I recon that the rubbish, and the bad reports they will get from this year could be the demise of the show!

In other news, im not doing too bad with my bills and stuff. I have managed to get cash paid into my house account, and i have got to try and find £100 today to pay to my lloydstsb loan – apart from that its only my car insurance that is in dire need of paying. I am putting my car up for sale tonight tho, after a good clean and a polish!

Anyway – back to the point i was trying to make. This weekend opened my eyes to a lot of things, and one of them was the fact we’ve spent so much time and effort on this magazine – and its just the wrong time completely. We need someone major to back it or its just not gonna be worth us doing it any more. Lets see what the future holds!

For the time being i am just going to concentrate on stuff that makes money – whether that’s for me or for maxxd.

I guess i have been hoping for a miracle, or something random to happen that leave me with some cash. Like some refunded bank charges, or the sale of my car.. Then id be able to pay for some bits and bobs and have fun at nationals. But, suprisingly enough no miracle happened – no money fell from the sky – i didnt sell my car, and no bank charges were refunded.

I cannot borrow any money off anyone, i cannot get a loan, i cant extend my overdraft. I have no savings.. I literally have nowhere to turn! I cant afford my ticket, i cant afford to get down there, cant afford to buy anything to take there. I dont know what to do..

Im gonna check my bank again, just in case something random happened like a computer error.

Yeah like thats gonna happen! 🙁

EDIT – I rang my mum, and again.. she’s helping me out. I feel like im 15 again getting pocket money.. 🙁

Then i have got news for you. I was thinking that an application to access my gmail straight from my phone instead of having to go thru the internet, would be great. So i googled it, and sure enough thanks to a blog entry by Hennie from the Sabinet Tech Watch i found the application i was looking for.

Simply point your symbian phone to http://gmail.com/app – and download the application. Its perfectly safe, and takes advantage of the phones Java support to give a brilliant interface to use – not too dissimilar from the regular gmail interface you get on your pc – albeit a tad smaller.

I have set up my olstar@gmail.com email to use with that, so if anyone ever needs me then you now know what to do. Unless ive been cut off, which happens a lot recently.. bah..

The Maxxd Mag was never meant to take over everything we do, but again IT HAS. Dave, ollie and myself didnt leave the office on friday morning untill 2:00am – then back to work at 8:30am to finish some more bits and bobs off on the first proper edition of the Maxxd Magazine.

Its now 14:12 on saturday, and im back at work again to do some more work on it. The designers that originally did the mag for us failed to tell us all images needed to be CMYK, and tif’s – so i now have the task of changing nearly 150 images in qwark – one by one.

Its not something im looking forward to, and i would be doing it now except i need to copy the contents of all the folders to my laptop harddrive (not my portable one) so that it runs faster. Its USB1 you see, and its slower than something that is pisstakingly slow.

Just checked, 46 minutes remaining! I think that time thing when copying files is a load of rubbish really. It will be some kind of formula, (size of file) / (max available transfer rate) x 4,000,000 – as it never really seems very accurate.

In other news, im still struggling to make ends meet – i literally take each day as it comes. I dont even have the cash available to buy a nationals ticket yet, and its next weekend! I hope something changes soon.