I didn’t enjoy working in a call centre last year, it was boring stressful work which involved trying to somehow make a connection with utter retards, just to complete your set target of crap per day, going weeks without hitting anything; so complete crap.

Sure, working for £8/h was nice, but since I only worked 3-4 hours a day that hardly mattered.

On Monday I’ll be going on a course, which upon passing (How ridiculously hard it is to pass get 28/40 questions right </sarcasm>[Could be 60...]) and after paying SIA an exorbitant fee, I’ll be a fully licensed security guard/bouncer…door supervisor.

It will mean that whilst I may not necessarily earn more per hour, I’ll put in more hours over the summer, so I’ll make more than about £200 a week.

Not to mention that I’ll get a lot of time to read up on course related material in the dead of night, hopefully.

We shall see, I think it might be interesting and at the very least it’s another qualification, and one I can use to work part-time with friends in Leicester but make more money in the same venue.

As gleaned from the Introversion forums, testing for their latest creation Multiwinia has begun, which will make an exciting addition to the IV stable in the form of a multiplayer version of Darwinia.

Hence Multiwinia…

Personally, I can’t wait for Linux beta testing to begin, hopefully it’ll be conducted before the game is released and not face problems as Defcon did.

I’ve not checked this for a while, which is why it comes as a surprise but it would appear that my Google page rank has dropped from 3 to 0 in the latest update.

What did I do to warrant such a significant drop? I haven’t run this blog any different, yet I gained PR in the update before this one, and the same behaviour seems to result in a drop now.

Quite a drop, I’m sure a lot of other people have been affected similarly, and probably share my feelings.

My track hubs came on Monday after I ordered them some time last week, hubs since I was unable to buy a rear hub on its own, at least I was unable to find any which were still in stock.

Now I just need to find myself a cheap 700C rim, and I can have the wheel built!

Might cheat and get a freewheel to screw on and attach it to one side of the hub just for when I’m lazy.

After that it’s solely a matter of being able to do London to Brighton on a fixed, which shouldn’t be a problem at all, just a matter of getting proper gearing set up, for the sole destroying and much feared Ditchling Beacon.

Which considering I’m 20 and fairly fit shouldn’t really be a problem anyway, everyone who seems to complain about it is in their 30s or 40s even.

As you may or may not know, I’m planning on taking part in this year’s BHF London to Brighton bike ride, which raises awareness/funds for the British Heart Foundation and has about 27000 people taking part each year!

They recently informed me that they have received my entry form, so hopefully everything will go smoothly and I’ll be entered, this being one of the things I’ve wanted to do for years but I wasn’t really active enough in London to do so!

Now that I’m back into crazy cyclist mode, I’ll not only be able to do it but I’m hoping to be able to do it within a decent time (although I have to stress that it is not a race, and could not be with the volume of people involved).

Obviously being a charity event, they want people to be sponsored, and as soon as I have my entry number I’ll be able to set up an online sponsoring page which accepts all major credit and debit cards (hint), and if I raise over £150 (hint #2) I’ll get priority entry for next year!