Upon awaking this morning, the view from our bedroom was this:

Would have been lovely had I not had to drive to work in Eastbourne in it, and had Sarah’s trains to uni not been cancelled.

My plan was to save up and buy myself an iMac and some pro recording equipment so that I have the basics for making myself high quality videos, which after all is the point of my newly registered business.

The first part of my plan went without a hitch. I saved my money and stowed it away safely. Phase two however has not gone so smoothly. Apple announced a while back that they were to release a new improved wonderful awe inspiring operating system. Knowing that if I bought a mac at this stage I would have to spend near £100 upgrading when this new system was released, I decided to hold off, stick the cash in an account and wait. since then apple have delayed release and left me pining for my potential iMac.

Last week I was asked to do another video for a previous client. Whenever I’ve needed to record a voiceover I borrowed equiptment from a colleague. He’s only gone and broken it!
So I have been forced (it took seconds to convince myself) to buy the recording gear for myself and hook it up to my PC until apple get their act together.

This of course means that I now have the necesarry gear to begin my project of reauthoring the audio for the Trumptonshire kids programmes as previously blogged about. YAY. time to get writing scripts! After I’ve made the video I’m being paid for of course…

My blogs seem to have been very boring of late. They’ll get better I promise!

P.s. apologies for the lack of entries over the last 8 days. Life got in the way.

During a normal working day, I take half an hour for lunch, during which I sit in the staff kitchen and either read, watch a video on my mobile phone, watch whatever someone else has chosen on the TV or join in the many conversations that occur.

Today I entered in the middle of a conversation about how old people are when they have their first child. Thrilling stuff I’m sure you’ll agree, so I contributed a couple of points and then got stuck in to ‘The Baltic With Bob’. It wasn’t long until the conversation had turned to my manager’s engagement party and how one woman in particular has ‘a thing’ for me, or more accurately, every bloke in our company, or even more accurately, every man on the planet. The next time I ventured away from the safety of my literary journey I found the conversation had drifted on into ‘my favorite motorway service station’. Shortly after this Neighbours started on the telly and so silence fell upon those in the room. It’s odd the things people talk about and how conversations develop.

Most of you will have heard that Apple are releasing the ‘iPhone‘ this year. Well, I’ve seen a couple of spoof videos about it that are very funny, unfortunately my favorite has been taken off youtube due to copyright infringement, but here a pretty good one that’s quite funny anyway.

This evening I had a conversation with my best mate in Southampton, which I really enjoyed. I miss having a mate around that I really really really know.
The main points of the conversation were that we don’t see enough of each other, my car needs fixing, he has a Christening to go to and that Birth Control isn’t. Seriously, it’s not. Think about it, an epidural is birth control. The pill and condoms are conception control, hence the name contraceptives. We felt quite strongly about this and decided we were going to write a letter. Only we didn’t know who we’d send it to. So I said I’d publish it online and hopefully the person in charge of these things would happen to read it.

So there we are. Job done.

It came!

My new board is here and I’m bursting to go and use it now. I doubt I’ll get the chance for a little while yet though. I know that none of you care that I have a new bodyboard, and I know that none of you particularly want to see any photos of it. But nevertheless I’m going to put some in this blog entry. If I can’t use the board yet I’m at least going to talk about it. So there. Oh yes, I got a bag with it too.

And now here’s a man doing crazy things that I want to be able to do.

And now on to the sad news. The Big Story has been cancelled this month. And so has the following one, and the following one…
The plug has been well and truly pulled while the church reassesses its approach to things etc. I’m not sure exactly what that means, but I think it’s very likely that the big story won’t be happening again, nor Sublime, the youth church that hosts it. I’m really going to miss it. I’ve been working on Big Storys for about 7 years I think. It’s been a really major part of my life, particularly my church life, and I’m probably going to lose contact with a lot of really good people who I really don’t want to lose contact with.

So here’s a tribute to the big story. It’s one of the promo videos I made that played on the big screens to kick off the event. All memories now…