Category: My Past

It was January 2005, and a nervous shirt and tie wearing guy called 0lly turned up for his interview at a company called Mini Marquees. They make the best promotional marquees in the world, fact! And a friend of mine worked there and had put in a good word for me. The job i was going for was a Digital Printers job, and although i wasnt 100% suited/qualified for the job – my IT knowledge meant i was adaptable and could fit in with the job quite well…

…That was 2 years ago next month, and today is my last proper day here. Its been 2 of the best years of my life. The company is run by a chap who REALLY knows what he’s doing. hes one of the most switched on business men i have ever met, and i have met a fair few! He looks after his employees, and isnt tight when it comes to spending money to improve the working enviroment for his staff. Best MD Ever!

The production manager is also the bollocks, he knows whats happeneing, and when its happening. He is also a good mate of mine, and if i was to put money on who’d be running this company in a few years, it would deffo be him! Best Manager Ever!

The main designer, has also become a very close mate of mine. Ive seen him go thru a lot over the last 2 years, and he’s still going strong. Without him, this business would not have the speed and accuracy it has when dealing with customer designs. This chap is the backbone of MMX3. Best Designer Ever!

And the rest of the people who work there are ace too. The women in the sewing room, the sales guys, and the staff in the offices downstairs. Its the best working enviroment you could possibly ask for whilst working for someone else. Best Working Enviroment Ever!

The next best thing, is working for yourself. And thats exactly what the rest of my life is gonna contain.

Dave and myself have managed to get some funding from the Princes Trust, to help get our business off the ground – So when we say 2007 is going to be the year, we mean THE year.

I think we’re finishing early today, and probably going for a drink after work. And its the MMX3 Xmas party tomorrow. Then im having till January the 1st off, and then its time.

Im not used to being at MMX3 on a monday. This is reallyu gonna shake my week up! We have that meeting with the princes trust tomorrow, and thats the final one. So hopefully we’ll know by the end of the week if we got it, and if we do then we can relax and take our time doing things in 2007 so that they get done properly.

It also means i can take the time to make a few structural changes to the maxxd setup. Currenty we have a server and host a shit load of sites, i need to downgrade a little, as we need to spend our time on making money, not fixing wank servers that are hosted by COMPLETE useless fucking twats who call themselves Layered Technologies! NEVER EVER EVER go with them. They may start out cheap, but its gets costly, and you never can pay too much for GOOD support. LT have never heard of customer service! Bloody bastards!

Anyway, i have been looking for a partially managed reseller account, with unlimited resources (yes, there are some available) and with the ability to import accounts from cpanel/WHM. So far NONE have the option to do this. I have found many UK based web hosts, who offer VERY good deals, but all have their own custom made control panle software. So id have to re-created each account one-by-one. Erm, no thanks! But we do need to cut costs..

If any of you know of anyhting that may suit my needs, then holla. If there isnt one in the world with CpanelWHM compatibility, then i require FULL SSH access, so i can copy all shit across at once. These ones i have found only give partial SSH access, so again, i’d have to do each account one by one. 🙁

I have to go home now, and spend some of the money i dont have.

If Layered Technologies made lager.. It would be the most foulest tasting horrible lager in the world.. Probably..

My mind has been doing backflips this last week or so. I have had so much on in regards working and everyhting, that i havent been paying enough attention to my feelings for Gemma. Of course i have been expressing emotion to her, but i havent let the feelings develop in me enough to be able to handle all that is going off. I know that might not make sence to you, but it does to me. I dont think i have ever met any one who seems as compatible with me as she does. We like the same stuff, and when she isnt with me i think about her all the time, and miss her like mad. I have fallen in love with her, and unlike other relationships i would do anything she asked of me, whenever she asked it.

So why is it then, that i still think about my ex from time to time? I dont mean fantasize about her or anything like that, i just remember her every so often and it makes me sad. I have no fucking idea why tho, the relationship was doomed, she annoyed the hell out of me, she was clingy, dependant and didnt have her own life – she became part of mine. We used to argue all the time, fall out over everyhting and to be honest i grew to dispise her becasue of the amount of previous sexual partners she admitted she’d had. I dont remember the exact number – but it was HUGE. And ever since that day i couldnt shake that thought from my head.

I guess the problem is that when i got with her, she moved in, and stayed there pretty much every day for a year and a half. Now imagine you get a dog, and he’s around you for a year and a half, but he shits everywhere, and chews your superstars. If he died or ran away after a year and a half, you’d be sad – even though he was a little bastard. I guess thats what im feeling, cos i certinaly dont feel an attraction to her any more.

I just want to move on now, and develop my ties with Gem. I love her very much and cant let her go. I asked myself a question when i was in my last relationship. it was;

“Can you see yourself with her in 5 years time?”

The answer before was a downright NO.

The answer this time, is a definate YES.

Do you people belive in soul mates?

Hahah.. Today we went to pc world and bought ourselves a printer. Some other business “things” have progressed further today, and hopefully me and dave may be celebrating something next tuesday. I wont say any more on the matter, as it wil probably Jinx it!

Things are going great at the mo, everything seems to be happening for a reason. Things happen that force us to do stuff, and that leads on to other stuff and its all just getting better and better.

More updates tomorrow, im nackered! 🙂