October 31st, 2006 by 0lly

I have been back at my day job again today, but im finding it SO difficult to do concentrate on the work im being given. Now i have had a taste of what mine and daves days will be like, i dont want to go back to this working for someone else crap. We had such a cool day, it flew by but we got enough done. If we can both crack on for 5 days a week every week, at least 10 till 5 or 6.. then we will be laughing all the way to the sweet shop.

The older ive got, the more and more independant i have become. I have lived off my own back since i was 18, i have ALWAYS had a business head on my shoulders, and im not good with numbers etc but im good with people, and i am enthusiastic towards my chosen career paths.

People study hard, go to uni, get in debt, and for what? A “9-5 job” where they sit behind a desk owned by someone else, using a pc that belongs to someone else, and making money for someone else. Whats the point in that? The way i look at it is your job is a massive part of your life, and in so many ways - it defines who you are as a person. And if you are happy in your work, then most off the time you’ll be happy in your life.

I guess some people are happy working 2-10 in a factory, doing the same thing day in day out. As they finish at 10, and thats it. No overtime no worryin about what they have to do tomorrow, no stressing about stuff your gonna get blamed for. Just turn up, work, and get paid. And if they are happy with that then so be it. Personally, i wont be happy until the only work im doing is work for MMS, and i know dave is the same.

I guess thigns will start to take shape these next few weeks.. Im nervous.. And im shitting myself in case i cant afford to live for a bit. But life is about taking risks. And im a serious risk taker!

The Futures Bright, The Futures Maxxd. 

October 31st, 2006 by 0lly

if your eating i appologise, but here are some pictures of my battered and rather unsightly hairy body.

In conclusion… Paintballing hurts.. A LOT… But its very worth it.. In fact, shooting people and getting shot is fucking great. I dont care that i ache and am bruised all over. Bangin!

Ill blog properly later..

October 30th, 2006 by 0lly

Today i spent the day with dave in the office, which is the first of many more days like it to come. We started off the day at about 9, went for a cup of rosie with Fee, and then headed to the office - stopping by at asda to get a tad of breakfast.

I spent most of the morning preparing my computer for the caining i intended to give it, i love raggin computers but they dont usually like being ragged. In fact the pc i was on was that fucked, i didnt really get much done until i got back after luinch. It had a million viruses, and was pretty damm clogged up with spyware and shit. Its running a lot smoother now and actually responds when i click on things.

Me and dave gel well, and with us both being here it means we can bounce ideas off each other all day long, and in the end we managed to get a fair bit done. It would be great if i was coming in tomorrow to carry on from where we have left off, but sadly im back at mmx3 tomorrow as i traded tomorrow for last friday (when i went to alton towers)

Oh yeah, that reminds me.. Alton towers was AWESOME! Rides were mint, and the fireworks at night was spectacular. Me, Gem, Chaz and Stu had a awesome time, although we did get wet right at the end when we went on the log flume.

I also went paintballin on saturday - which HURT LIKE FU*K - but was absolutly awesome! Ive never spent so much cash in one weekend, but it was worth every penny. I will update tomorrow in more detail, as right now im feeling a bit tired and i think me and dave are doin’ one.

So in conclusion, a brilliant weekend, followed by a very successful 1st day in the office.

Job’s a Gooden’

October 26th, 2006 by 0lly

Yes folks, today is the last proper “on the books” work day at MMX3. I have been here for nearly 2 years now.. woh! That has gone stupidly fast! I have really enjoyed working here, the people are great, the job is as laid back as they come, and the working enviroment is second to none. But for about a year and a half i have wanted out. I am not the kind of person that can sit here and do work for the benifit of someone else, over and over, day after day. It depresses me
Like it says in the history part of my blog, i have always been an entrepreneur. I ran mobile discos from the age of about 13, i have designed websites since i was around that age too, i have always been wanting to make a go of things off my own back. And now the next entrepreneural stage of my life is about to be kick started. dave and I have been working on maxxd related things for about 4 years. We have both built the site up (with the aid of our fantastic members and staff - big up yourselves) and it has grown each year. We have gained contacts all over the country who are either related to the car industry, or are a major part of the car industry. And now its time for us to take what we have gained, and use it to benifit others.

It feels fantastic to finally be taking things to the next level. Since sy has left the team we have managed to get so many things done, and so many more doorways of opportunity have been opened. Sy held us back in so many ways, now he is out the way there is nothing stopping us. Our dreams of working 5/6/7 days a week on our own baby, doing work that we like doing, and actually enjoying getting up in a morning and going into work are becoming a reality!

It seems like apart from the occasional fine, or the occasional downer - my life is pretty peachy at the moment. But i cant help feeling a bit worried. At the end of the day im kinda leaving my full time job, and ploughing head first into something that (in a very very very worst case senario) might not work. I guess we have to put some blood sweat and tears into it until it does work. Saying that, parts of it cant fail? I hope!

Anyway, i have got tomorrow off to go to alton towers, and then im paint ballin on saturday. I shall try and update asap.

Oh, and im on my old number for a few days as my old phone wont accept my new sim card. (07841… that number)

Peace out.

October 25th, 2006 by 0lly

I cant even begin to explain how fucking annoyed i am. It actually feels like the temperature of my blood is getting higher and higher. To start with i was late to work again, which set me off on the wrong foot. Ive then had work to do all day, which is not normal for this place, so has wound me up (ok, so that part is just me being lazy)

Then on my lunch break (which is the only period of my week whereby i can do personal things, as i work most weekends) i got down to the carphone warehouse as my phone is slow, wank, and the joypad has stopped working. I got there, and was stood waiting for 20 minutes before an employee decided to come down from upstairs and serve me. He then couldnt be more UNhelpful. He wouldnt pull any strings for me, wouldnt let me have a temp phone whilst mine was being fixed, unless i gave them £50 refundable deposit, and he was being a cock about my line rental too. So what, you sell me a shit phone, that breaks, and now im fucking left sufforing for it? I dont fucking think so you fucking slags!
Every other phone provider i have been with has looked after me. Orange, Vodafone, BT Cellnet (when they were around) and even o2 online. Yet i go in carphone wankhouse, and they fuck me about, my phones broke and they wont do shit about my high bills. I think they need a strongly worded letter sending to their office!

And to top it all off, im now sat here with no phone. I fucking hate not having a phone. I hate not having a phone more than i hate not having a car. I feel cut off, and its horrible. Im gonna borrow a phone off someone in a bit, but after that im phone-less till i get home. Im so fucking wound up right now.

I should be the happiest person in the world right now as i had some fantastic news last night, and i am really happy about that. I just cant stop thinkin ive been fucked over by a bunch of pricks that call themsleves a phone shop.

Well a lesson here for you Cuntphone Wankhouse. You can fuck some of your customers about - and they wont say shit. But amongst those few, there are always 1 or 2 really stubbern bastards (like me) who will not settle until they get what they want. I want looking after, so ill fucking fight untill i am. I dont want everything for free, i just want a bit of customer appreciation. Is that too much to ask?

October 24th, 2006 by 0lly

Actually, his name is winston. As that is the name i give to everything. I chose that for my post title as thats what they chant in “Fight Club” when “Bob” dies - and its the first thign that sprung into my head when i started writing “His name is..” Anyway, he is my new mate, hes a prickly fucker, but hes no trouble and just gets on with his business. He is probably quite diseased, so i didnt go too close to him. But we are homies now..

Introducing, winston!

He has lived in my back garden for a while now we think and just seems to rustle about in the night eating berries and small worms and stuff. He didnt seem afraid of the camera, and he didnt even curl up into a ball when i got close to him. I think he is only a baby tho. I recon im gonna leave him some food out tongiht, what do we all suggest i give him?

1. Milk and Bread?
2. Cat Food?
3. Kebab? (he mgiht actually eat some of his relatives depending on where i get the kebab from haha)
4. Pizza?

Im not sure what the preferred choice of food is by hedgehogs, they dont talk you see.. But im sure i heard you are supposed to break bread up into bits and soak it in milk. Ill google it later, but if you have any sugggestions then please feel free to comment.

I had a right mad night last night. I went to my mums with dave, to have my dinner that she’d plated me up from sunday. I ate it whilst dave read the paper, and we all chatted. Then shellybob rang me and his ma’ was out so we went round there for a few beers. My mum initially said we could take her car, but it was a good job we didnt as we didnt leave there till about half 12! Me and shelly was wasted, dave was as straght as a judge as he was driving me home. I spoke to Gem on webcam as i couldnt get up to her house to see her, it was nice to see and hear her for a bit. I miss her when shes not with me
I got home and made a few phone calls that took me up to about 2:30am, when i finally crashed in bed. I was blatently late for work this morning, but mark wasnt in, and no one else seemed to be bothered! I am gonna miss the laid back attitude of this company when i finally leave. If me and dave didnt have “take over the world” plans, then id quite happily stay and milk it here for a few years.

My final thought for the day.. O2 are a bucnch of wankers.. I was on orange for a year, and my bills were reasonably cheap. I never really went over £50. My last o2 bill was over £100, and ive reached £70+ already this month. I know im using my phone more but god DAMM! I think il call into the shop tomorrow and moan like fuck. My phones playing up, and my bills are too much. Sort it or miss out carphone warehouse bastards!

ive spent most of today trawling the web for funky fresh wordpress themes. But i cant find any. So i settled for this one, after trying about 20. It will do for the time being.

Edit - Wiggy had a thing on his site, and it could work out how many of your favorite drinks it would take to kill you. My favorite drink is mars drinks, and the closest it had to that was Chocolate Milk.

It would take 2962.05 glasses of Chocolate Milk to put you down.

Damm.. best not ever drink 3 thousand glasses of milk.. You know.. Like you do
Wow, if it was mars drinks, that would be nearly £2000 worth of mars drinks.. Mmmm

Peace Out

October 23rd, 2006 by 0lly

Here is Jimmy. He is the youngest person ever to join the british army. He is 7 years old, and likes “Blowing shit up” - We were not allowed to interview him, so we spoke to his mother who was based in iraq with him. We asked her why he was fighting for our country at such a young age, and why he wasnt out playing with his friends in parks etc. She replied “Jimmy has always been a war-y bastard, and was always facinated with guns. We took him to a army recruitment day so he could see inside an army base, and by the time we left he’d been enrolled into the RHR. We are very proud of him”. We managed to ask jimmy one question, we asked what he thought would happen when he first killed someone, he replied “they would die”

Haha…

Ive had a great weekend, we went ice skating on friday - which was a right laugh. Stu could actually skate which was a total dissapointment as i expected him to be falling over. He could skate really well actually.. I think me and dangerous need to go somewhere else skating next time as sutton really is too small. Later on we all went back to my house and had a mad session of drinking etc. We hit the sack about midnight ISH and then had a nice lie in on saturday morning.

I took my phone to the Carphone warehouse as i think i need my firmware updating, but they told me i had to ring up and they would do it remotley. I rang up, and they said i had to go into the store to do it. Wankers.. I have got to work this morning and my joystick on it has stopped working properly so im rining up later and gona get it replaced. I dont pay my bills to have a none woring phone! Sort it out O2 you bunch of pricks! Has anyone else had a problem with a Nokia N73? Or any new ish nokia? Mine just keeps going REALLY slow! Grrrr
Saturday night was awesome too, nice and chilled and a nice early night - as i had to work on sunday 7:30am to 7:30pm. Work was shit, and even mroe shit than usual as my laptop speakers stopped working so i had to make do with radio 1 for 12 hours! Arggggg! Plus it rained from the start of the shift, to the end.. Sunday night was another chilled one, which in all fairness im beginning to love. I love relaxing with the people i care about around me.
Oh, and it seems that im now a cock as well as a big ego’d twat. This guy is original isnt he! The first time i read his sorry excuse for a blog, i got the impression that it would start being used to stir shit in my life. I almost forsaw him writing shit on there to send me into a state of paranoia. But you know what, its not gonna work. I will talk to her about the things you have written, but i will believe what she says when she replies. Its called trust, something you obvioulsy have no concept of.

What’s ironic, is that he mentioned that he was suprised that i read his blog. Why? Its on the internet mate, and thats means its freely available for anyone to do whatever they want with - it doesnt help me being an internet whore, and sucking up webpages like a dyson. I read everything… Plus, the only way he could of known i read his - is by reading mine. So, what are your reasons for reading mine? Either your addicted to the words of wisdom i quite often spawn from my overactive imagination, or its so you can keep tabs on whats happening with me and a certain person. What, so are you a stalker now? Can you not move on, face facts, and realise you blew your chances? You had a shot.. two in fact.. Just fuck off and get on with your life now, savvy? Im sure you wont find it hard to pick up the pieces, seeing as you rock so much.. Although i think its only you that thinks you rock.. Or so your blog URL suggests. :lol: Im training the new guy up today, and this is my last proper week at MMX3. After this week, the future’s bright, the future’s maxxd. Holla at ya boy!

Work prevails.. Adios amigos..

October 20th, 2006 by 0lly

Hahaha.. Apparently im a big ego’ed twat. Is that really so? Lets look a bit further into that..

Definitions of ego:

an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others

self: your consciousness of your own identity

(psychoanalysis) the conscious mind

So hang on, does this definition mean that ever blogger that writes a blog entry about themselves has a large ego? As a blog is about the life of the person who created? Or do i drone on about me me me and big myself up far too much? Who knows?! I guess its just the incoherant ramblings of a lost soul, trying to claw themselves out of a state of self pity.

Anyway, its nearly the weekend and im so bloody glad about it. This week seems to of dragged on and on and on. I guess its always the same when your waiting for something that you are really looking forward to, time always seems to pick the most inconveniant points in which to slow down.

One more full week here at MMX3, then im down to 3 days a week. Im so looking forward to it! Me and dave have been speaking about how thigns are going to operate, and how we are going to acheive goals and milestones that we’ve layed out. To be honest if thigns go to plan, we shoud only have to work in our 3 days a week jobs for a month, maybe two - then we can leave and pile all our efforts into just the one cause! We have an office, we have everything we need to get things off the ground. We just now need to devote as much time as possible to it and really make a go of things.

Im not looking forward to having to fill out tax returns, in fact im not looking forward to any of the hidden nasties that come with being self employed. But luckily i have a brilliant business partner who isnt number blind (i swear im number blind) who will sort them all out for me. Cheers dave
Im only working sunday this week, as i have requested saturday off - i deserve a lie in me thinks. I have a good reason for having a lie in too, but thats another story.

I am being a teacher this week, and teaching the new guy (adam) how to do my job. I hate teaching..

Sionara.

October 18th, 2006 by 0lly

Yes, today i actuallly had something to do!

A customer had moaned and wanted a canopy replacing, so i had to reprint it. Its not like ive been swamped over with work, but i thas kept me busy most of the day. Me and wiggo had a random jaunt about at lunch time, where we spotted this abortion;

Now i dont want to sound like the barry boys flids who diss all cars that have had anything changed on them at all, but WHY would you do that to a car? Ok, so when this car is finished, and has had a good few extra thousand pounds spent on it, it might look alright. But as it stands right now, it just looks shocking! They are nice cars too as standard (Toyota Paseo)

It was quite an eventfull lunch break, and i was sad to have to come back and sit in this wack office watching stuff print out and tossing it off on the internet. Does anyone else feel like they have seen most of the internet already? I rarely find something new and cool. Its always newer and “upgraded”.

I have bought the first pair of kicks in about a month and a half. Im quite proud of myself as i had got to a stage where i was buying a lot! They are halloween superstars and like quite a few of my recent purchases they are winging their way to me from the US of A.

How cool are they! They cost me nearly £60 tho, but like the pair i bought before these - they are rare and limited edition. Put it this way if you saw someone else wearing these in england, id be shocked! Never mind seeing them for sale in a shop in england!

I had a lovely sleep last night, wasnt the longest sleep ive had but i woke up feeling quite refreshed - which was a relief as the morning before it felt like i haddnt slept a wink! I wont get an early night tongiht, but i might try and hit the sack about 9:30pm on thursday as i have a VERY busy weekend ahead of me

Hopefully my own personal massuse will sort my back out for me soon, its giving me some right greif. I Should start sitting priopery at my desk, as 10 years slouched in front of a pc cant be good for anyone.

P.s., if you havent seen “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby” yet, then watch it! Its quite possibly the funniest film ie watched in AGES! I wwont go into any detail apart from this…

Shake and bake baby!

Woooo!

October 17th, 2006 by 0lly

Again, ive got one of those mental block things where i cant think of anything cool or interesting to write about. I suppose i should just record my day to day goings on, but to be honest its boring and i wouldnt want to send you all to sleep reading about the fact ive just got a drink of hot chocloate, or what im currently doing to waste my days and make myself look busy.

Me and dave are going full steam ahead with our Sales and Marketing company, but we are looking at ways of getting it (and our directory) exposed to the world. We have dugg it, and we have sent out myspace bullitens, but we need more ways of spreading the word. Im trying to figure out how to add banners to the top and bottom of maxxd.com (any php guru’s can help if they wish wink wink ) and then maybe banners on other cruise sites.. Id love it of the digg.com link works, as thats a really cool way of exposing things on the internet.

Im really starting to get fuked off with MMX3.. I sit here with fuck all to do, and would get moaned at if they found out i wasnt doing anything. I know that if i tell the boss man tho, he’ll probably find me shit work to do where i get dirty and tired. God i can be such a lazy twat at times.

Now, i dont use the word love very often, in fact, i rarely use it - and when i have in the past i have used it to make my life easier, and lessen the arguments. But im now feeling things that ive not felt before.. I think of a certain someone and i smile, everything shit in my life turns to gold, and like ive said to her - it all feels a bit too good to be true and i keep thinking ill wake up in some coma and it will of all been a dream. If it is, i guess it would explan why i dont dream, or if your in a coma, and your dreaming you are alive and stuff, do you dream in your coma-dream? or have i drank far too much hot chocolate today to the extent its leaked into my brain and causing me to chat complete bollocks?

Ahhhh it feels good to completley talk crap for a few minutes..

This concludes my “im bored as fuck and in a non interesting mood” bullshit blog entry..

Have a nice day

Enjoy the rabbit in a hat with a bat.. or something..