Post of boredom
# 13 June 2008 02:27
I want my deviantArt subscription to go through. :(
Stupid lack of money.
Lack of money is annoying. I'm going away with David next weekend... with no money... YAY! At least I'll be with David. Money would be nice too though. ;)
Hehe anyways. Bored. This is really just a post of boredom.
Ooh yeah, GalacticBasic is back up. :)
Still banned from JPLegacy. :x
Silly over-active IP ban system. Why did I ever resign as Admin there? I'd have unbanned myself by now. lol
Quite annoying.
Hmm... will have to get my food out of the oven now.
Yes, food at 3.30am. I've been on nights this week; leave me alone :P
Thanks for reading this random little snippet of my life. lol
Andy
x
Minor annoyances
# 07 June 2008 19:49
So, I'm kinda hacked off.
1. My deviantArt subscription is delayed cos I have no money in my bank account, so I have to put up with this regular access that I haven't had to endure for like, 4 years, lol.
2. GalacticBasic.net is down. Still. I have no idea what's wrong with it and frankly I give up. Anyone any good at fixing websites? Grr!
3. I can't think of a #3.
Need to rant profusely at random objects and break them, I think. :)
So THAT'S why I don't modify my forums any more.
# 00:26
Yeah, so back in the days of phpBB, I was always spending hours adding cool modifications to my forums at Galactic Basic... And now I remembered why I stopped!
Because every time I do something goes horribly wrong and the site BREAKS.
How. Annoying.
Hopefully it will be back soon.
Andy x
Labels: galactic basic, websites
Really bugging me now.
# 04 December 2007 05:54
Anybody know why the Blog Archive Index won't work? It hasn't updated itself since January 2007, and I've just had to manually edit the file to list the new archive pages.
I've fiddled with setting and searched the help/FAQ to no avail. Damn Bloggeryness! Grr.
Any help appreciated.
Labels: websites
Where on Earth...
# 03 December 2007 19:39
...has this year gone? Really now, December already? It's gone super quick.
I AM quite annoyed that Wipeout HD seems to have been pushed back to January 2008. Was supposed to be this November just gone... *pout*
Anyways, just making a few changes to the site, hopefully it looks slightly better, although with the same overall theme as before. Not a drastic redesign by any standard.
Will probably be making a few more changes too sometime -although again nothing overly amazing.
Can't really promise I'll use the blog any more than usual though... Hmm.
Also, I wish midnight would hurry up so I can open the 4th door on my advent calender (which, as predicted by David is the Doctor Who one with the Daleks on the front, lol).
Mmm... Need chocolate...
Happy Birthday...
# 04 February 2007 02:41
...to Galactic Basic!
My Star Wars fansite is FIVE years old today! Wow!
Labels: websites
Two Thousand and Six (plus one)
# 31 December 2006 11:46
Well 2006 has been a strange year, a bit of the old but lots of the new. It's been pretty good overall, which has got to be a first... I mean the last few years before now have been pretty shitty to be fair. 2006 has been the first year that I have been comfortable with myself for a long time, and I've actually made a few accomplishments and new friends that I plan to keep.
Lets see what happened this year?
Hmm, in January I had my SCARY First Aid Course at Kidderminster College with Sam, as part of my promotion to Shift Manager at McDonald's. That was a nerve-wracking experience, but wasn't so bad and definitely can?t have been bad for my confidence.
February saw me actually go get my eyes tested and get some glasses, while March saw talk of the family moving to India, and a certain troublemaker who shall remain nameless finally quit at McDs - much to my joy. Lol
April brought my Shift Management Course at the Hamburger University in London, with Sam. Much fun was had by us down there and on the Tube. Was quite an experience and although I thought it would be scary it actually wasn't.
May was the month I started cutting down my coffee, and me and John broke up. I also had the start of my nightmare closes at work, with the Bitch Brigade out in force on my early ones to make my life hell, lol. And then there was the open that sent my on a mission to find a key in Anna's house and get back home for about 2 hours sleep before work. Oh god, what fun that was.
Then we get June, and the dreaded 06/06/06... Look up the blog post if you want, but it's where the catchphrase "it could only happen on an Andy Beard close" came from. I also got pissed off when my phone died after I got it slightly wet. And let's not forget that I came out to my mates at work, which caused less trouble than I thought it would? So I actually spent a lot of time worrying about nothing? Hmm, I can see a pattern emerging here lol.
In July I was feeling a bit down, cos my birthday plans were all turning from crap to crappier? Then I got together with my first proper boyfriend, Ashley, which totally changed the outlook I had on the year and lifted me out of my little rut and gave me another confidence boost.
August and September were actually pretty good, as I was seeing Ash, but it got crappy at the end with what was undoubtedly my worst week EVER, where everything I had planned to do on my week off went completely wrong and lasted until the beginning of October when Ash broke up with me. So that little crappiness overload dropped me back down into that hole again, but my mates helped me up out of it. Yay for them!
Also in October I started getting more into Numerology and stuff like that - it's interesting, I think, lol - and had a few drunken nights, experienced general crappy feelings on and off throughout the month and was made Co-Forum Manager at JPLegacy.org (the web's largest Jurassic Park information resource - yes, I'm a geek, so the fuck what? lol).
And on to November... Hmm, was a tough month with things going on in regards to work, friends, and guys, where I didn't know what was going on and stuff, but I got through it in the end. Think I've talked about some of the events enough so I don't see need to continue further about it.
Lastly, December comes along, and to be honest, it seems to have been the best month of this year. I've done things I thought I'd never do, and things I rarely do, and apart from the ever-present crappyness at work things went pretty good.
Hehe, so that was my year in brief. I've met a few new people who have affected me greatly in this year. Strangely I got to know them all through MySpace.com lol
Firstly there is Andy, who used to live in Stourport but moved to Brum, to go to the College of Cakes. Almost had a thing going on with him towards the end of the year but that didn't work out because of distance, and other things. But he's been a good online friend throughout the year, although I actually never managed to meet up with him.
Then I met Ashley in Game in Kidderminster, and later on MySpace too. We got talking and eventually started seeing eachother, and for the first time I was actually in a relationship with someone I could actually be with, hold, and was truly happy with. Things didn't work out, however, but we're still friends though so that's all good.
The third good friend of this year is Anthony from Redditch. He has been a really good friend and helped me out a lot despite the fact that we only ever spoke online for most of the year, dunno what I would have done without his advice really. Also he led me to...
...the last but definitely not least, Jon (aka Billy), who is an amazing guy who I really love spending time with and hope to spend lots of time with in the new year. He has become such a good friend in such a short space of time
So, yeah, 2006 certainly has had its ups and downs, but I've pulled through it and think I actually have become a stronger person for it. I've changed a bit too; personality-wise I'm still the same old annoying Andy B, lol. But I seem to have more confidence than I did at the start... Basically because the events of the year have required me to build some up.
Now as for 2007, I plan on finally getting away from McDonald?s. Have grown so fed up of the place now it's unbelievable... Still the same old shite as ever, being under-appreciated and underpaid as ever, so the time has come.
Also I plan on moving out of my parents' house, although this will prolly depend on me getting a new job first so I can afford it. Lol
Don?t plan on any new relationships, I'll just wait and see if anyone comes along. Just looking for new friends and such for now. If I met the right person I'm sure I could make an exception though.
Want to go out with my friends more too, don't seem to do that enough despite having good times.
Soundtrack of the year would definitely be mainly made up of Snow Patrol and Death Cab for Cutie for me... heh, how depressing. Add a dash of The Boy Least Likely To, and My Chemical Romance ;)
Hope everyone has a great night tonight, and hope 2007 gets off to a great start for you all!
Take care,
Andy
xxx
Labels: boys, crap, family, friends, music, new year, websites, work
tiredness
# 08 October 2006 00:40
God, so tired. Slept for a couple hours just, and woke at at 1am, lol.
Was looking up about that concert in Jan. You should go check these out:
http://www.theboyleastlikelyto.co.uk/
http://www.wearethelittleones.com/
Do it, or else.
Other than that I'm tired. Oh wait I already mentioned that. Umm yeah, none of the people I want to invite to start up on my new forum have been sighted online, so thats going a bit slow. Hmm.
Laters
x
The Saga of Crap
# 06 October 2006 01:11
Yess... I'm having a bad run of luck at the moment, it seems.
Was on the close, oh fun fun. First Michelle rang in sick, apparently having collapsed or something... then half way through the night Dan had some bad news and I let him go. Managed to blag Ben to stay on the close and get Kyle to stop til 12, but it was all looking a bit pear-shaped.
Then we ran out of shake mix and regular buns, and later some guy reached in through the drive thru window and robbed £80 out of the till while nobody was there. Great. Just HAPPENs to always be my shift when things go to pot... -_-
And then the bloody PC wouldn't close, so I had to leave it for the morning. The close wasn't to good either, so I'll prolly get a bollocking tomorrow. *sigh*
I need a new job. Anyone? Please? :(
lol
Oh wells.
Rang a friend on my break cos I feel the need to go get drunk and talk a bit about... things. So hopefully I shall be rather merry tomorrow night. hehe
Soon I'll be inviting a few peoples to join the staff for my new site... Maybe tomorrow if I can be bothered. lol
til next time
x
Labels: crap, friends, it could only happen on an Andy Beard close, websites, work
Hmm...
# 04 October 2006 22:29
Hmm, I just thought. stupid illness maybe caused by these tablets I be taking for my crappy skin. Oxytetrasomething. I'll see how it goes, maybe i'll get used to them.
And I remembered I DO have something else to report. Started working on that random chat site AT LAST. The one based on the Bar and Grill series of threads around the place, so look out for that soon. May be asking a few people if they want to join the staff for the startup. :P
Decided to go with IPB, cos vBulletin although rather nice, is also rather expensive. Maybe I'll switch to vBulletin later if the site makes any money (doubtful).
I'm sure there was something else I was going to say, but I have forgotten what that was. Hmm. Oh well.
laters
x
WordPress, part 2
# 29 August 2006 22:46
Well, might not bother with WordPress... Too much like hard work. lol
Won't be able to import all my Blogger posts like I should be able to, and the restyling is giving me a headache. lol
But, I'll prolly still go ahead with v13.2 and prolly just make this site my blog only. Possibly shove the pics and stuff I already have into a little corner somewhere. :P
Want to put my deviantArt linkage somewhere on here too...
x
Labels: websites
WordPress
# 00:58
Alrighty, so I decided to mess about with this WordPress thingy. All I need to do now is import all of the posts from my Blogger.com account... and yeah I am restyle the site again. I can't help it! >.<
Although, to be honest, it's not going to be a complete redesign... more like a v13.2 or something. And yes, I am quite aware that I should be working on GalacticBasic.net but, well, sue me. lol
'til next time!
Andy
x
Labels: websites
I'm happy if you're happy
# 20 August 2006 00:47
It's all Ashley's fault! :P
Yeah, he said a while ago that he was looking for a CD... The Best Party Ever, by The Boy Least Likely To.
So I thought I'd be clever and find it for him, only he found it himself and now I have a copy too. lol. But yeah, got kinda hooked on their catchy tunes. yay!
So, I now have had "I'm Glad I Hitched My Apple Wagon to Your Star" stuck in my head for a few days. Set it as my mobile phone ringtone too, lol. Deary me.
Must have been another of his grand and evil plans. 
We are going to see them in Brum in October! :D
In other news, I am still working on Galactic Basic v8, it's just been slow. Worked 10 days in a row, just. And I finally got a weekend off, and have nothing to do with it! :(
Went into Kidder earlier to spend my £40 clothing allowance from work, and anoyingly I managed to not getting anything for work, so I'll have to go back sometime... Need to find a decent tie that I like! Sam and Karla reckon I should get a pink one, but I'm not so sure about that. Hmm...
Anyways... I'm going to sleep now. lol
Take care pplz!
x
# 04 October 2003 20:19
Hey, looky!
Part of new(ish) site up. Now on version 11.2 - the slightly better than before version.
Still have to get the fiction pages up, though. :)
Oh, and I beat Ansem on KH, gotta start fnishing up so I can complete it now :D
# 03 October 2003 21:25
Been playing "Kingdom Hearts" again. Damn that game is so good. lol, I never wanted to buy it because it looked too kiddish, and it was Disney, but then I remembered it was Squaresoft too, and it was a Platinum title, so it was cheaper than most other games... But anyway, I'm on the Hollow Bastion level, and just had to fight Maleficent, then her again as a dragon thing (that took ages), and now I have to fight Riku/Ansem. Damn, I got him down to his last couple of HP before he killed me yet again. I needed a rest so I came online. Plus my dad was back from work and wanted the TV.
Now... I have some site sorting to do. Yes, this site! I'm actually doing something to it! lol
so-so
# 24 September 2003 22:04
This morning it was cold. Damn cold.
Then the bus didn't turn up, so I had to walk to the bus stop outside the high school. Luckily it was too early in the morning for anyone to be at school, because I'd hate to have had to kill someone.
So anyway, to cut a long story short, I was 15 mins late for work. Was no big deal, as I'd phoned to tell them I would be late. Mark however, had missed his alarm or something, and arrived two hours late, so he got a right telling off... hehe.
Later, at about 3.15pm, the lights flickered, then all the power went off. Fun! At first. Because there was no power we had to shut, which is good! But: It also meant, no extractors, no lights, no air conditioning. It was dark (save for the emergency lighting), and the kitchen was filling with the smoke that the extractors had stopped... extracting.
We had to chuck all the food away... Although some of it didn't make it to the bin ;) And we used the time to clean everything down ready for when it came back on. Eventually it did return at 3.55, and I was off at 4.
Also today I completed Jedi Academy, on both Dark and Light endings, and had a little bit of multiplayering.
Then I got to grips with some more PHP, and found out that what I had planned for part of GBnet5 isn't going to work so simple after all. So it's back to the drawing board for that particular bit of behind-the-scenes code.
Now, I got an early again tomorrow, so I best be going to bed. 'night.
Forgotten stuff...
# 04 September 2003 23:05
I was looking for something and found a huge pile of papers I'd forgotten about. They include pages and pages of writing about the history of the Beeurd Empire, designs of ships and plans of cities... Lists of inventory and weapons. And old designs for GBnet that never made it into actual HTML.
Memories... heh. Anyways, I came up with yet another story idea, and this is probably the one that I will do. Although I have said that many times... 'tis another classic battle between good and evil... Just got to find that stuff I wrote years ago, to see if any of it would be useful this time round.
# 19 August 2003 19:32
My sister had a friend round last night, and they rented Parappa the Rappa 2 from the video store... Damn that games addictive, lol.
Anyways, I finally did it. For years I've been wanting to try a new hairstyle and I actually did it today... I've never had hair so short, and it is still just an average length! And it doesn't poke my eyes out any more! Yay!
I also got my webcam working again, so don't miss this rare opportunity to see your favourite evil Emperor!
# 09 August 2003 00:10
Discovered the wonders of formatting the layout of a website using CSS instead of HTML. I basically designed the whole layout of the site in a fraction of the time and a fraction of the code.
Also, I got my alternate stylesheet switcher working. I was having problems, until I realised that the script was case-sensitive, and added in my Caps. Then it worked fine, in all it's stylish cookieness glory.
Also, I heard about this craze thats growing currently, "flash mobbing" ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/3136873.stm ). Looks cool in a crazy kinda way.
If anyone's organizing one in my area then I might have to show up. Not like I have anything better to do, lol.
# 05 August 2003 12:09
Okay... I'm sorting out the template for the comment system... So this is post just so I got a special place to test it.
Labels: websites
Umm...
# 27 July 2003 14:53
Dammit... I can't even remember what I was gonna post now...
Oh cool... Shout Outs are back... Again...
Labels: websites
# 17 July 2003 14:24
I'm not in the best of moods right now, so it would not be a good idea for anyone to try annoying me.
Last night some of you may have been asked by me who "frog maul" was on AIM... Well I know now who it is, and I'm so pissed off at them. Any respect I had left for them has now completely evaporated.
I don't care whether I deserved it or not, and it just further enforces my opinion that nobody can be trusted. I hope you're laughing at your joke, because I'm certainly not, and don't ever come near GB again.
# 13 July 2003 21:18
Woohoo!
With some help from a couple of people over at Jurassic Park Database, I finally got my webcam working!
http://www.beeurdempire.co.uk/cam/
Now... Worship me, underlings!
# 12 July 2003 12:15
Woohoo!
Just got the blog to run off the beeurdEmpire server... No more annoying ad at the top! Yay!
Labels: websites
# 20 May 2003 12:49
*sigh*
Well, I finally did that security upgrade for the GBnet forums, but didn't realise how much of my modifications it would overwrite... So needless to say, a lot of it is messed up. As for v4, I am so sick of looking at the damn thing that I don't even want to carry on with it.
I did come up with a good design for v5, but that design needs phpBB 2.2 to be released first, and that's months away yet.
Was trying to fix some of the forum stuff yesterday, but site went down, so instead went on JK2 to see if CorSec and GI were still playing somewhere , I found CorSec and joined in the FFA he was in. Later the game changed to team FFA, and our team had a serious arse-kicking, 'twas more like a massacre than a game. lol
When you lose 20 - 0, you know there's a problem in your strategy...
So, I tried to pull us together to work as a team, but I think it was like putting all the targets in one convenient place so they didn't need to look for us... We still lost miserably...
*sigh*
Such is life...
# 18 May 2003 11:47
Grr... My sisters have hijacked my fishtank.
I was gonna have some nice fish in my room, they already have a rabbit, guinea-pig, rat and hamster between them. Plus I paid for that tank, so I'm not going to let them have it, they won't be able to afford all the stuff anyway.
In other news, the timeline for GBnet[v4] is finished, I've started getting all that fanfiction formatted to GBnet-ness now. :)
Also, I was messing with the colours on the GBnet forums, we now have alternating shades of dark blue for the post backgrounds.
I had to do that so that the new spoiler BBcode would work properly.
# 17 May 2003 00:08
Added the GuestMap!
Wow, look at it's coolness!
'tis the GuestBook of the future.. Today!
Labels: websites
# 16 May 2003 20:45
I've set my self the goal of getting GBnet[v4] finished in the next couple of weeks. It's gonna be hard work, but once the timeline is out of the way it should be pretty easy from there on. That timeline is doing my head in, but I hope that it'll be worth all the effort when it is finally finished.
I rediscovered Metal Gear Solid 2, so I have been playing that a lot recently... I sorta forgot about it for a year, even though I was waiting for the damn game for long enough, lol.
Just got the latest articles for Psycho Weekly 11 sent off to Furday, so it's all in his very furry hands now. Hopefully he'll be quicker than I was...
# 14 May 2003 15:31
Largely uneventful day... They finally showed me how to filter the vats at work - I've only been there three years.
Came up with some cool ideas for Galactic Basic. But nobody will be able to see them until v4 is done.
I _am_ working on it, honestly.
# 05 May 2003 20:24
Got the shout outs added for your blog-viewing pleasure :)
Nice busy day at work... Well not nice, but was busy, and was made even nicer by the fact that it was double-pay, due to the Bank Holiday. Hurrah!
I should be tidying the rest of my room, but my computer kept begging me to use it, so I couldn't let it down now, could I?
# 04 May 2003 22:47
Almost eleven hours after I started...
/me is exausted.
I've moved my PC and bed around... Behind me is all the junk I have yet to sort out... And I hope I don't need to get to my wardrobe anytime soon.
*takes a peek behind him*
Holy Sith, this is going to take all week...
On a brighter note I found the diary I kept of when I was making GalacticBasic.net and the SWdb. Finally I'll be able to rwrite that article about the birth of GBnet... :D
# 02 May 2003 22:08
Well, I think it looks a lot better now.
I might add a bit of cellpadding to the tables the blog text goes in, but right now, if I make it look any better my ego will probably get so big it won't fit in my house.
Anyways. We had a full-field (inspection type thing) at work today. Quite funny, especially when we had a huge delivery that took 4 hours to put away. It was all away before they arrived to inspect the place though.
I'm pretty glad they didn't ask me any questions, because although I probably would have got them right, when I'm asked important stuff my mind somehow goes blank. lol.
Dunno how we did though... Heh, st00pid customer of the year award goes to the guy this afternoon that bought a pack of 4 nuggets for £1.19 so that he would get a sauce free, intead of paying 5p for it.
Idiots
Labels: classic McMoments, websites, work
# 20:44
Okay... I gots this blog thingy. But it looks kinda crap.
*wanders off to reformat it*
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