Free Music: Young Folks by Peter, Bjorn and John feat Victoria Be
Last night was a lot of fun. The Bombshell was in a good mood, it seems that my work on Queen Chav's laptop worked out, and I even had a good laugh with Shoe last night as well. She suggested that perhaps the reason I gave her a wide berth when I went past her was the fact that she's recently put on weight. I put forward a more reasonable suggestion that perhaps the reason was that I didn't want to smash her in the head with the pallet truck I was moving around on the shop floor.
I've also been trying to monetize this blog for a while, as some of you may have noticed. I think I've been doing a decent-ish job of it too. In the last 10 days, I have made $4.09. Yes, hardly a fortune, and no, I am not going to be able to live off it anytime soon. But it's 0.5% of the price of a laptop I want to get! And in the end, I will get there. By hook or by crook, I will have a sick Alienware laptop to blog from. I plan to dual boot it with Linux and whatever OS comes with it. Normally I wouldn't but Alienware has some awesome additional hardware in it. Shame to not put it to good use.
I have a lot to write about tomorrow, so I will close off this post and let you know all about my stuff tomorrow!
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10th March 2010: Milk MILK!
Free Music: Run To You by Roxette
Tonight has been a really quiet one. We had The Steam Train - for thosew of you who don't know, he is a regular customer who comes in about once or twice a week making huffing and puffing noises. And being a real pain in the arse. He always whinges that there isn't any 99p 2 litre bottles of milk at 11:30pm. Of course not. The sensible people during the day have bought the 99p milk.
Then just now we had the police woman who I think is quite cute. She has nice lips, she's Spanish, she's got an absolutely amazing bottom, and she's very tiny. I mean she must only be 5'3" tops. Anyway, she gave me a big lecture about how they love to catch drink drivers, and how bad they are. We report them. Of course we report them. Problem was she had me mixed up with The Hero who calls anyone with even the slightest whiff of alcohol on them who gets into a car. Even if they're the passenger. Man does that guy get into a frenzy over it.
This is just a quick post. I'll write another later. I have a few things I quite want to talk about.
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9th March 2010: Boys Clubs, Outlaws, Movies, and Libraries
Free Music: Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead
There was no blog post yesterday because it was my night off and I was hugely busy. I had The Boys Club which was really good. It's taken us a while but I really feel that we're starting to make a difference. It's a feeling supported throughout The Boys Club. The staff are no longer at each other's throats, which is a good thing. As The Vetran says - "Happy staff equals happy customers equals happy money". I was also busy with a bit of coding on my Linux project. It's unfortunate because all that work was potentially for nothing. Which reminds me, I still need to do a bit of work on my entry for the Micro Mart Netbook Distro project.
Then I was listening to Linux Outlaws. It's one of my favourite shows on the Internet. I love Fab's ranting and Dan's sense of humour is so acidic at times. It's a perfect match. But they were late due to technical issues. Then I decided to call my friend over for a drink. He stayed a little longer than I anticipated.
And then I spent the evening with my beautiful girlfriend and watched Adam with her. Even having watched it twice, it's still a great movie. This being said, I would be tempted to write a movie based on my own experiences. I'm already planning on writing a more Autism themed blog. Maybe it will be picked up by a TV or film company. I think I can make use of a few things I experience at work and in my day to day life.
I do plan on cutting loose a little next week. You see, I have next week off. So I want to do a few things I don't really have the time for when I am working. Like maybe spending an afternoon or even a day in Southampton Library. Why? Well, it's quiet, may have wifi, and will almost certainly have sockets. It means I can sit there and code for an afternoon or a day without being interupted or disrupted.
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7th March 2010:
No Free Music Today - sorry!
Tonight has been wierd. I am working with The Scotsman, which is always awkward. He is a difficult person to work with. Namely because he is so hard to read. I mean, he is angry and aggressive all the time. Even when he seems nice, you say something he doesn't agree with and he shouts. You ask him to do something and he refuses. And now he's told me that he's going to do as little as possible from now on because Miss C does and gets away with it. The problem is that he's a 65 year old shelf stacker but he's what I call Entitled. You see it a lot with teenage girls. Entitled people believe the world should stop for them. And when it doesn't, they flip out.
I finished watching Adam tonight. Such a good film. Very, very accurate portrayl of Aspergers, and I am glad that they included the rage aspect. I thought for a moment that they wouldn't, but I am glad that they did but not overloading it. But my big complaint is the ending. You get no closure. There is no real ending, it is kept kind of hanging to make a sequel, but you couldn't have a sequel. It wouldn't work. And what would you call it? Adam 2? Ridiculous title. The Revenge Of Adam - The Rage Returns! I am going to look at the alternate ending on the DVD because honestly, it couldn't be worse than the original.
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6th March 2010: This Is The Life
Free Music: This Is The Life by Amy McDonald
So, I had today all planned out. I was going to find out what my girlfriend thought of the flowers I ordered for her birthday, watch Adam with her, go to bed, wake up and go to Hampshire LUG today, do some shopping in Southampton then come home and then go to work. Well...everything went to crap basically.
The flowers haven't been delivered yet. Well done there Interflora. According to their site, they haven't even been made up yet. Yeah. Thanks for that. On top of this, last night I got told by my girlfriend that the amazing present that I planned to send her, she already had. I should have taken that as a sign of the crapness that would ensue. But no, I try to be optimistic and I get get dung thrown in my face.
So, she comes home from watching Alice In Wonderland (which I don't get to see here, thanks Odeon) and we end up not watching the film. Better than this, I also discover the MAC address on my laptop is missing - something I need to be able to use Wifi at Hampshire LUG. So I go hunting for my USB wifi adaptor and discover it's missing. Considering I was planning a huge coding session at the LUG meeting for my Linux distro, and therefore going to need Internet access, that makes the LUG meeting out of the question too. Hurrah hooray.
And the kicker? I get to work with The Scotsman tonight. Alone. For 8 hours. Misery only compounded by the fact that Queen Chav will be in at 7am minimum, probably 6:30am, or even 6 if Daddykins is cleaning and she gives him a lift into work. And I have to work half an hour extra tomorrow. So yes, this is the life indeed.
"We are all laying in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde. Not me. I just saw a poo float past...
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5th March 2010: Tiredness And Movies
Free Music: Sleeping In My Car by Roxette
I have no idea what's wrong with me tonight. I feel so tired, even a double espresso isn't working it's normal magic. I was watching a film I didn't think I'd seen - Mr Deeds. Such a great feelgood film. Plus there is always the great fact that Winnona Ryder is fantastic eye candy. Anyway, right now I am catching up with The Virtual Revolution on BBC iPlayer. Possibly one of the best programmes the BBC has ever made. And a great choice of presenter in Dr Aleks Krotoski. Geeks from the early 2000s may remember her from Bits. Yet another great technology show which fell because the people at Channel 4 didn't see how huge computers and gaming was going to be.
I've also been doing a few things behind the scenes at Supermarket Soap. As you may have seen from the addition to the side bar, I've joined a social network called MyLot. It's a lot like Facebook, and they have games etc, but you get paid for blogging, participating in the community, helping other people out. These kinds of things. The kinds of things which people should be doing anyway without financial incentives, but the money is nice. Tiny, but nice. If you want to sign up, sign up via my link as I get a little bit of money from it without it costing you a cent.
And I think that's it pretty much. The espresso seems to have kicked in a little, since I'm not feeling so tired all of a sudden. So I am going to post this, and compose the podcast, upload that too, and then spend some decent time with my girlfriend on her birthday and watch yet another movie together. It should be good, it's a film we've both been wanting to see - Adam.
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5th March 2010: Much Off Topicness
Free Music: Everybody Needs Somebody To Love by The Blues Brothers
So, I have been a bit lax with writing the blog posts today. You see, normally I write one at work, post it when I get in, then write another in the afternoon and post it in the evening. But last night for some reason I wasn't really in the mood for writing. I was really bored last night, and for someone with a short attention span, that isn't a good thing. Although quite what I would have written about, I have no idea. Nothing much at all happened last night. Although I did watch the beginning of Mozart And The Whale, which I couldn't really get into.
Actually, I am going to tackle this point. Mozart And The Whale could have been a really good film. The premise sounded good. Guy with Aspergers runs a club for autistic people, and a new girl with Aspergers joins, and he likes her and dates her. Despite a rocky first meeting. Anyway, there are a lot of background actors in this film who were a LOT better than Josh Hartnett in this film. Why? PORTRAYING ASPERGERS IS NOT DOING A KEANU REEVES IMPRESSION! Now, I don't have Aspergers. I have Dyspraxia with Aspergers tendencies. I had a friend at college who had extreme Aspergers, one of the nicest people you could ever wish to meet. Ok, rant over with.
Queen Chav was even nicer to me this morning than normal. I couldn't believe it. I mean...she even joked with me. I am now deeply suspicious of her motives. Maybe she wants something from me. Maybe she wants Windows 7 installed on her laptop and she knows that I would be the person to come to for that. Not a good thing. I dislike installing Windows on any machine or any version. My point of view is that Linux is a superior OS, it makes better use of the hardware, has fewer viruses, and has virtually no malware. Plus it is more secure. Why would you ever want to use something less efficient and less secure?
And yes, today's post is very off topic. I realise this. And I do appologise. I'll probably post again a little later, and be really off topic!
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4th March 2010: Happy Bosses, Chatty Chavs And Theft
Free Music: Clubbed To Death by Escala (Yep, still on the modern classical kick)
I am telling you, things are getting stranger and stranger at The Store. First up, The Bombshell wasn't just happy, he was really happy last night. So strange. I mean, he even said goodbye to me. That is practically unheard of. I am going to be really worried if I get an invite into The Clique. Although to a certain extent, I do understand it. I think people, especially The Boss have realised that I know a LOT about The Store, and it scares them senseless that if I went in a bad way, I might reveal all the naughtiness they get up to. And they do get up to a lot of naughtiness behind the scenes.
But then, to add to the wierdness, Queen Chav is being really friendly to me. I mean, she's chatting with me, being nice to me, a complete reversal from 2 months ago when she was being a complete bitch to me and finding every excuse under the sun to slap me down. But hey, that is Queen Chav. She is is nice to me for a few months, then an absolute cow, then goes back to being nice. No reason or sign is given for these changes. It just happens and I am supposed to deal with it. She is such an odd individual.
I was just sitting here thinking about how to make a little money from this blog, and it hit me something that The Scotsman said to me. We were discussing a certain member of staff who takes DVDs home, copies them and then brings them back. Now, The Scotsman said that he felt it was OK because it wasn't stealing. I told him I disagreed, because you didn't pay for the movie, which at that moment belonged to The Store. Which he countered with the argument that I said that I felt downloading movies was fine but this wasn't. I said when people download movies, the movie belongs to no-one (except, the really thin argument of the movie industry) but this is an item paid for by a business therefore it belongs to the business. He told me I should still do it too. Anyway, I digress. The thing is, if I wanted, I could use our advance copies of albums and upload music to Grooveshark (they who provide the music here) and get paid by them for the uploads. And I thought about it, but I've decided against it. Though my morals may be thin on the ground, I'd never steal from an employer. No need to. I have money - I pay for what I want from The Store. This said, I have told The Boss that I'd steal the spare touchscreen monitor we have at The Store if he didn't put it somewhere more secure. It vanished the next day.
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4th March 2010: Missing Supervisors And Amazing Films
Free Music: Requiem For A Dream (Full Orchestral Version) by Clint Mansell
Quick note about the song - it's one of my favourite modern classical pieces. For me, it's just an epic piece of music, this version especially. Plus I love how dark and brooding it is. Blame "Pop Star To Opera Star" for getting me back into classical music...
Well, I had a fun start to the shift. Crackbaby and Mrs DJ were in, and The Bombshell still wasn't there at 11pm. So, I got the pleasure of Crackbaby slurring at me "What if he don't come in? What you gonna do? Ain't calling me, I'm gonna be drunk, aight." Going to be? He sounded absolutely smashed as it was. But then this is the guy who thinks that a broken hand is "pretty cool". Idiot. Anyway, so after 10 minutes of waiting and panicking, The Bombshell drove across the forecourt at about 40mph and almost through the front of the store. Unfortunately for him, Mrs DJ had already called Queen Chav and told her that The Bombshell was missing in action. He ran in, clocked in, and when Mrs DJ asked where he had been, he yelled "I am late, so f*cking what?" Nice attitude. I was told to f*ck off when I joking said he couldn't give me any shit tonight.
And that's about it for work news. It's been a slow night. I spent the evening watching a film called Ben X. Amazing film. It more or less mirrors my life at school. Autistic boy with no friends, gets bullied by the other kids there, and eventually gets force given an ecstasy pill by them. I haven't seen the rest yet, but the trashing and breaking of stuff, that mirrors me. And the bulllying. Fortunately not the force being given drugs. And unfortunately not the supportive teachers. I think the ending is going to be a shocker. It's in Dutch or Swedish, not sure which, certainly a language which sounds like that with English subtitles. And I discovered a new, somewhat shocking ability. I was watching the film, reading the subtitles, and about half an hour into the film I realised something - I was hearing the subtitles in the actor's voices. I suppose it makes sense, after all reading a book makes a sort of DVD in my head effect, why not other forms of text and media with similar effect?
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3rd March 2010: I Think I Stepped Into A Parallel Chicken Company
Free Music: Code Money by Jonathan Coulton
So, before I wrote about how dull the night was. I could not have been more wrong. It kicked off at about 4:15am. That was when The Scotsman came over to me and told me that he didn't feel well and that he was going home. But after he finished the cage he was working on. The guy does this every now and again. Although maybe since he has only been there just over a year, it's not such a great thing that we've noticed that it's not just an isolated incident. I mean, in the past he has left Miss C on her own.
Anyway. Then Shoe came in. She was on fire. First she yelled at me for the wine stands not being filled, until I explained that they had been left that way for us. She calmed down and became sinister. I offered to fill them and she said "No. The person who was supposed to fill them will fill them. Don't do what I say the first time, they'll do it the second." I grinned and said that it sounded like that was full of spite, malice and vengence. She laughed and said that was probably because it was. She tore into the guy who was supposed to have filled them. Apparently he pushed it onto one of his staff (Crackbaby) who when the end of his shift came just put the boxes of wine away and left. Apparently Crackbaby is in later, and will be having a bad day due to who his supervisor is.
Plus Queen Chav was in. And she was nice to me. I mean...really nice. She apologised that the rota for next week was wrong. And she did the bread for me. And later told me that my opinion mattered to her. Since when? I complimented her on her new haircut and said that it suited her. She asked if it was too butch or too short. I told her that it wasn't and it suited her really well. I was being half nice. Because it does suit her. And for her it isn't too butch or too short. Skinhead is too short for women (in my opinion) but she has it probably as short as mine when I cut it. And she's combed it and somehow greased it into backward facing spikes. How is this not too butch? Queen Chav is a very butch woman. Very masculine in her mannerisms. I actually feel bad for her, because I know The Bombshell will mock it tomorrow viciously.
Lastly, nothing to do with work, just my neighbours. If they do not stop hammering, drilling, or generally doing work to their house, I am going to do something drastic to them. They always do it in the morning, always about 10am. I go to bed about that time. It's quarter to 10 and it sounds like they are drilling through my wall. Now, you see, being somewhat juvinile with my sense of humour, I think decent revenge would be to throw one of my algae eating fish's algae wafers over their wall. Why? Well...they have a garden covered in lovely black and white pebbles. No grass. Now, chocolate lovers already know that Green And Black is best. I think that probably extends to landscape gardening too...
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3rd March 2010: Time's Wings Got Clipped Today
Free Music: The Picard Song by DarkMateria
Wow, tonight is really dragging. I can't quite explain why. The Scotsman is being mood swingy. I feel he is taking the place of Slaphead tonight in that department. And Miss C is being...well...Miss C. The Scotsman is doing everything he can to wind her up, and she's doing everything she can to wind him up.
Anyway, at least I am off on Saturday, Means I get to go and be geeky with fellow geeks. Plus a couple of people from my mother's work might be going there too. That could be interesting because they really don't get Linux at all. But I do love my being able to go out and be geeky. And not have to worry what other people think, because everyone there will be a geek. Just a shame I forgot my phone today otherwise I could e-mail Damian (head of security at the uni) and let him know I was coming over.
And that's honestly about it for tonight. Really short post. But then, nothing has happened all night. Slow, slow night. Pah.
2nd March 2010: Coding, Gambling, Films and Possible New Careers
Free Music: All Summer Long by Kid Rock (Yes, I am aware it isn't Summer yet...)
Well, I feel I have had a productive day off. I've been busily coding my new poker bot. Now, for those who are booing me, or throwing things at their laptops at this moment, stop. My poker bot is not one of these evil "fire and forget" bots. Those I do have a problem with. I also have a problem with people selling bots. If you want to play poker automatically, write it yourself. If you want to make easy(ish) money out of poker, learn to code AI. I'm also going to run two bots against each other soon. Well, not quite against each other, but give them a "contest" of 100 hands each, and see which comes out better. One is predefined with rules. One learns. There is reasoning behind this. I'm really interested in seeing what a bot that knows nothing about anything learns about poker from just playing. I'm running a similar project with an old chatterbot of mine who has quite a personality, but no capacity to learn. I've given her the ability to learn and make her own memories now. Fun evening that was, stripping 25% of the code out of a 20,000 line AI program (faked memories and bluffing she was a human).
So, the test of my AI bot got me the net sum of £20. Not bad. I was tempted to play a little with the lovely ladies at Challenge Jackpot, as I have in the past. And those days were fun, but there is something I don't like about it. I don't like that they share technology with Virgin Games. Namely because I have had very odd results at Virgin Games in the past. Now Challenge Jackpot can tell me until they are blue in the face that they have the most advanced, smoothest and accurate "real wheel" for Roulette and I don't care. I have seen too much odd things at Challenge, and sorry, but you lost a player. This being said - Ruth Frances is still hot.
I also had a bit of a spending spree on Amazon last night. My amazing girlfriend showed me a trailer for a film called Adam. The premise is boy meets girl. Boy is shy around girl. Girl asks boy out. Girl gets mad at boy for being so blunt. Boy explains he has Aspergers Syndrome. There are some wonderful clips in the trailer. Like the part where he's at some relative of the girl's home and the relative says "Do you want to see my new baby's pictures?" and the girlfriend says enthusiasticly "Yes!" at the same time Adam says in a monotone voice "No". Been there, done that a million times with Miss C. She is forever wanting me to see Baby J. Also where she buys him a box of chocolates as a present and he looks at them, looks at her and says "I'm not Forrest Gump you know." I have been there too. Like when people ask what Autism is and I say "Think Rainman" and then they yell "Oh! What's the square root of..." I have to explain that I am NOT Rainman, I simply have the same condition. But yes, I can Card Count. Anyway, back to the spending spree. I decided that I would get Adam on DVD. But Amazon had a deal where I could get other DVDs of Autism stories in a bundle for less than buying them seperately. I took it, and then hunted for more. I ended up buying 5 DVDs in the end. No. It's not a self pity thing. It's an empathy thing. I cannot relate to normal people in normal situations doing normal things. Just like people don't understand why I close my eyes when I am searching for a word (it's like a mental Google Images but the images are images and words). Or why I glaze over when they are giving me directions (I'm picturing it in my mind). Or why when I am in a new neighbourhood, I look at everything (landmarks to find my way back). I empathise with Autistic characters. I Am Sam is one of the best movies I've ever seen and if you haven't seen it, rent it and buy Kleenex, it made my ex cry every time. Same with Rainman, just an amazing film. These characters live in my world. I can relate to them entirely.
Lastly, I may have a change of career ahead of me. No, I haven't been fired (yet) by The Store. I have applied for another job. One more suited to my abilities, temprement, prefered working environment and co-worker selection. It's typing, on my own, at home, with no-one to bug me. Effectively, I type 50-60 pages of stuff they give me, they pay me £8 per page, and they come collect my work every 5 days. I can't wait to get started if I get the job. Plus 50-60 pages in 5 days is nothing for me. Once I get going, my words per minute rate is 175. I was tested once. Then frisked and pockets emptied. Then retested. Then interrogated and congratulated on how I was so fast, and for smashing the record. The previous record was set by the woman interrogating me. The owner of the agency. She managed 160. I think just under 10% better is good.
Anyway, that was me yesterday. Hope you enjoyed reading it. And as per earlier - if you have any suggestions for music you want to hear, let me know. No ridiculing of selections, I promise. I like everything from classical to metal to pop to dubstep.
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2nd March 2010: Celebrations
Free Music: Celebration Playlist - My Favourite Black Eyed Peas Songs
So, those who know me well know I am a massive fan of music. I have a Spotify Premium account and pay for my music like a good boy. Hell, I even give Spotify away in my Linux distro and give music away via my Podcast catcher via Rathole Radio (awesome show, big props to Dan Lynch). So, I am giving away music. You see, Youtube is good, but patchy. Sometimes there are songs I would love to share with you guys, and Youtube just doesn't have it. So I am going rogue. Grooveshark pays uploaders to give them a beautiful database and then pays record companies via ad revenue. Everyone gets paid. It's a nice, elegant system.
So why am I celebrating? Well...you see, I went into work all fired up, ready to go at a delivery and back stock. And then discovered I wasn't working. So I put some Black Eyed Peas on with Grooveshark, and then decided I would share the celebratory goodness with you, my wonderful readers. I have to say that my favourite tracks on this playlist are the first three. I Gotta Feeling always makes me feel good, I discovered Where Is The Love way before any radio station in the UK when I was unemployed, and Anxiety features two of my favourite bands - The Black Eyed Peas and Papa Roach.
And since I am giving away music - any requests? Don't worry, your requests won't be mocked, my taste runs from Tchaikovsky to Pixie Lott via AC/DC and 2Pac.
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1st March 2010: More Ramblings
So, I have been doing a little more thinking about this blog and things I am going to do with it. I do think one thing I want to do is thank the people who support this blog more than I do already. So if I reference a blog I like, then I am going to give them a link. In addition to the Blogs I Love list. As bloggers we all know how important backlinks are for...well...everything.
I've also figured out what I am going to blog about on my days off. That has always been an issue for me. I think I am going to blog about stuff I do, and things which are in the news which interest me. I might go and have coffee once or twice a week on my days off and write all about what I see and hear. Cafes are awesome places for people watching and hearing really stupid things. Plus I might hang out in shops and spot other really terrible customer service or, on the flipside, really awesome customer service. After all, us retail slaves have to stick together!
So, that's it. I think I'm kinda done with outlines and stuff of what's going to happen with this blog.
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1st March 2010: Resurrection
Video Of The Day: To Be Loved by Papa Roach with lyrics
Ok, so I have been giving this blogging business a bit of thought. And a bit of research. I looked over The State Of The Blogosphere 2009 by Technorati. And I found this blog was lacking a little. Well, ok, in most areas this blog was lacking. However, there was one little tidbit of joy. It appears that this blog has all the foundations to do well because a lot of the technologies people are using for their blogs are being used on this blog. Interesting. Stuff liek RSS, Commenting, Traffic Counting.
But there were things lacking. For example photos. Apparently very successful blogs use photos. I'd never noticed this, but hey, what's the worst that can happen? But then I got a revelation. Because another technology successful bloggers use is video. Now, I have been using video for a LONG time. Since before this blog had it's own domain. I even tried bending Microsoft's coding restrictions to allow it on MSN Spaces when it first started. I digress. That is another hit I have.
And then I hit gold. Successful bloggers blog more often than non successful bloggers. Ok, so that shouldn't have been a surprise to me. But it doesn't always follow either. I mean, we all know Jeremy Clarkson. He does a 1 hour show several times a year and writes one column a week for The Sun and one article a month for Top Gear Magazine. But then you have the writers at The Daily Sport. They write day in day out. Neither are journalistic standards to worry Tony Parsons, but surely by writing lots, The Daily Sport writers should be better known. So I am going to try a little experiment. And a challange to myself. Regulars will know I am not very good at writing consistently. I regularly take 3 or 4 days off from blogging. Not any more. I am setting myself the challange of blogging every day. And blogging often. Now, my first thought was to split every story into a post. And I may go that way. But only if I can make each post a decent-ish size. I.e.: Not too small, not too big. And then every day put all this content into a podcast.
Lastly, I've decided that I am going to bite the bullet and try and make some money from this lil blog o'mine. But there are technical challanges with this! And yes, I do see making money from a blog as purely a technical challange. Other than content, and I know people like my content, there is nothing technological, financial, or even supernatural which is fundementally different from this blog and blogs which make insane money. Well, ok, I am less of an advertising whore, but that can change (or not, I do actually care about asthetics...) Anyway, here is my problem - due to the contract between me and Bidvertiser.com, I cannot tell you to click those ads above this section. But I do have a raft of solutions of my own. Stuff from the old blog. Stuff which is new.
The Store Manager is about to kick into action. Big time. And those who remember me from the old blog might remember how determined I can be when I become passionate about something. Well...I am passionate about this. My mindset before was that this was my business and I was determined to succeed. This has changed. This is my business. I am determined to succeed, and this time I have nothing to lose and everything to gain, so I am going at it hell for leather.
Oh, and if I make it, the fanatics of this blog (you know who you are) get the first rides in my sports car. Could be interesting in Milan...
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