MCLEAN

Is Tired

2006-08-28T22:06:00.000Z

Listening to - Maroon 5
reading - Vulcun 607 - Still on the same page as last time!!
Wants to - Sleep, preferably not alone :P --- one can hope...

I've worked 17 hours the last two days and played footy ball tonight, I'm now officially dead.

Its overtime, and sunday pay, so I'll be happy on the 8th, payday :-D
which has officially become the best day of each month.

Almost skink now though, well, £40 ish,
but that has to last two weeks til pay day, and as the last £200 only lasted two, its not looking good for my bank account right now.

Ah well!

Footy rocked.

Jono kepted passing me the ball, when i wasn't on his team,
and right infront of his goal. so I scored...

...a lot.

Then it was me, Wayne n Sack. We owned Brown, Galaga and Jono.
Then it was me Galaga and Wayne, vs Brown, Jono and Sack.
my team won
obv!

Then it was of the 'mugger' by climbing the fence, to play on the car park, where Dewi and Thomos (Boner - He doesn't like being called Boner, so I'll be kind, this once :P) joined us.

So it was me, Jono, Galaga and Dewi - What a shit team, obviously, me n Galaga are just plain awesome, but Jono had hurt his leg, and so switched with Sack.

I put on the skill, scored a few, Brown skinned me countless times with his awesomefootball owningness. I don't think we finished that game, Jono went home, then we couldn't be arsed 'cos we're all lazy sods.

Pictures:
left to right
Brown, sack ad Galaga
Wayne, and his powerful brain
Brown, Sack, Dewi, Galaga, Boner and Wayne
Brown, still not looking at the camera!
Sack, Dewi, Galaga and Wayne

Town tomorrow, with pretty much everyone mentioned above. Some are going to enroll at college (change courses n shite) then I'll get some stuff for college, maybe a Pizza Hutall you can eat buffet :P

Last time I went to town I spent about £80 (GO D2 Sale !!!!) which is alot for me, I can usually get away with £5 for bus fare and lunch.

Oooh I saw Severance like friday, yah friday. Its funny and scary, well funny and it made brown jump, which made Jarman jump and left me thinking 'wtf!'

If you get the chance go and watch it.

Do it!

I'm Back + Exam results :-D

2006-08-26T14:24:00.000Z

Hola!

Yup I'm back from Spain :-)
Well, actually

Some pictures for you:

Where I was staying
The views if you looked round the corner of the villa

I've posted a few pics of my trip to Terra Natura here on DA, go and check them out!

please?

It was a quite place, just outside of Javea or Xabia (Valencian), I would of prefered to be staying in Javea or the other little town we were by, we did have to rely on having the car, meaning my Dad couldn't drink when we went out, and my mum never does anyway.

It was fun though, especially the nice deep pool and the nice warm sun :-)

Has anyone else been away this summer? Are you going away?

I got my results on Thursday.

YEAH!!

I was nervous Thursday morning before I went,
but I was landed with my results :)

4 A*'s, 3 A's, 2 B's and a C. I also passed my BTEC in Sport and got some crappy Key Skills.

Most other people I've talked to have done well too, one or two havn't though :(

So, to celecrate I went into town and spent £80, with Brown, Jarman and for a while Ellis.
Then went out and played football for a few hours at 9 that night.
I got taken out for a meal by my mum and dad too, the food was nice, helped by the fact that I wasn't paying for it :P

I've got loads of photos that aren't god enough to submit as art, so I'll be submitting them as stock on here and sxc.
I hope they might be of use for some of you.

Home alone this Sunday, Parteh!?!?

nope :(

for one thing my nieghbours are sure to be checking, secondly I'm working at 8 the next morning.

Hopefully should be going out tonight, more exam result celebrations, hopefully alcohol will be involved, so far I've only had a pint of stella in celebration.

Listening to: Leave Before the Lights come on - Arctic Monkeys
Reading: Vulcan 607 by Rowland White

London Trip

2006-08-09T23:30:00.000Z

listening to: You've got a friend in me - The Zutons

This is being posted on my Deviant Art account too

wooh! I spent the weekend in London with my great friend Jen.

I went down Saturday and spent the day in Regents Park in Fruitfest, put on my Innocent smoothies. best of all it was free to get into!! Saturday night we got the train from London, went to the pub with Jen's uncle and then went back to his flat, where I started, on a relitivly comfy sofa.
I gave her a good laugh, carrying my bag for the weekend around London! I didn't find it so funny. just fucking heavy after like
hours of lugging it around!!

Sunday, well we just chilled in the flat and went to see Stormbreaker, whic surprisingly, is a pretty damn good movie, well, we all agreed
I didn't take many photos really. only off the eye, with my camera phone. If I'd have taken my decent camera I might have taken more, but I though it it might be a bit bulky.

oh well

here be some of the photos I did take: (I'm too fucking lazy to upload them all to imageshack now, as I did it earlier, writing this journal, and my pc fucking froze.)

Trafalger Square
Westminster Abby
Big Ben!
Buckingham Palace
The eye The eye is huage! I was like right by Waterloo when that was taken, quite close, but not very. and it's still huge!

As you can see, I didn't really see much of Londons attractions, but I had fun, so, meh! just gives me an excuse to go down again in the future.

this week and next are great. London the start of this week, pay day on friday, going to spain this sunday for a week!, what a way to spend life! I'll be happy in spain with some beers and hopefully a few people my own age. I don't fancy getting pisses with my sister as company.

I've got my phrase book, but I can't remember anything atm. fucking languages!

I'll be sure to take a few more pics over there, its there's anything interesting!

Wooh pay day Friday!!! £150 I think, probably down to around about zero by Sunday though!
lol, my mate, jono, is also starting work at tesco, but next week when I'm away. It'll be good to have someone I already know there.
Its good working there though, very nice people, most them are sound.I even got invited out on saturday night, shame I can't go. who cares if I'm below the legal drinking age? well, parents for one, but w/e.

Anyone out there kind enough to buy me a subscription? so I can have all the funky features?
I'll be able to have images in my journal then!
and be able to make polls!

DA v5 is looking hot, well done everyone that has worked on it!!
my only complaint is that some stuff is still the old DA, i.e. journal entry pages, message center. I'm sure it'll get changed and blended in.

Everyone head over to :iconlucias-tears: and check out her new competition, Princess with a Secret
take part or donate prizes!!
I'm working on my entery now, I hope I can get it finished in time
You've got until the 31st people!

Umm

2006-07-29T21:31:00.000Z

So I thought I'd blog, seen as I havn't in a couple of weeks.

Jobs going well!, Only two weeks to pay day, I'm looking forward to that!

Then I'm on holiday for a week!!!

Wooh!!

meh, thats todays blog done

Got a Job :-D

2006-07-13T15:03:00.000Z

Yup, had an interview in Tescos today, like I said told you in the last blog, went, took about an hour, abit less maybe, went to subway for lunch got home and a few hours got a phone call offering me a job 11 1/2 hours ish a week on mon, wed and fri evenings, 6 til 10, but I think ones abit shorter (1/2 hour). Its £5.02 an hour (why an extra 2p?) so its £55 ish a week, will do me nicely!

I did some vector art over the last couple of days:
Carry My Love
and
She Loves Me not
Expect more soon!!

Any feedback you have on either is much appreciated.

Short blog this time...

Boring Holidays

2006-07-11T14:07:00.000Z

Yup, I've done fuck all really, all this time I've been off. All I've done is go in to town looking for jobs, oh and I saw Pirates of the Caribbean on Saturday.

Got stuff to do for the next few days. I have a college computing taster course tommorow afternoon, which is just some basic java and visual basic, pretty geeky but meh. Then on Thursday I have a job interview at Tescos, its evening work, but its work if I can get it, so I have to be there at 10.45, less of a lie in for me then.

Pirates of the Caribbean is a grea film, funny quite a few places, the only thing that dissapointed me is that its just a run up to the third film which, I think, they have already started filming. So they've just left a load of questions for them to answer in the third film. Worth watching though.

I'm gonna try and get down to London for a day or something in the next couple of weeks, see how Jen is going.

I got bored yesterday, and took the camera into the garden, got two good pics:

- Bee
- Cat

Maybe not so good, what do you think?

I've tried doing some stuff in Photoshop a few times, just no inspiration to do anything.

No one seems to be coming out around here, been out a few times, only played footy like twice though! We played more while we were all in school!

My Weekend rocked :P !!!! :D :D :D Shower!! <3

2006-07-02T21:11:00.000Z

Just got back from a weekend with Jenny on a narrow boat, was a really great time, hope she agrees!

I got invited only like last Tuesday, we went on friday came back tonight. Was a bit hot, as in couldn't sleep too hot, but she countered that by just being there.

And it finished by her getting hyper after drinking too much coke and having Sticky Toffee Pudding, well most of it.

Went to the pub by where the boat was hired out and had the most ficking amazing burger going!! followed by one and abit sticky toffee puddings!!!!

Weekend Quotes:
"Mind what you do
...
Dont tb" - Mum, on Saturday night while away : / Don't they trust me?

"Just get her pissed and send her off to bed" - Saturday, how we could get rid of my sister if she ever annoys us.

There's more, but my heads gone blank atm!

Heh, we watched the England game on Saturday, they were unlucky, but haha. I can't believe Brazil are out too though! Especially after knocking my team, Ghana out in the last round!!! Meh, just means I wasted £4 on the sweepstake, atleast Jarman aint gonna win it :P

The new bathroom is fitted (did I moan last time about not having a shower, meh, if you know me you probably heard about me not having a working shower!!) and the shower is ace! I've fallen in love with it.

Job search goes on, got some application forms to fill out and I handed out loads of CV's in shops around town with Brown on Thursday. I'm guessing its gonna take a while for me to get one, though I hope not.

DA stuff - Just look in my gallery for anything new you aint seen, if your really interested.

I love Fridays! thanks Jenny!!

Heh, that'll do for now, off for a nice long hot(ish) shower.

The Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift

2006-06-16T21:35:00.000Z

Went to see the Fast and the Furious , Tokyo Drift with Jen, Brown, Nem and Simmy. It was a great day out , a film worth watching if you get the chance. We managed to get in to teh first showing of it in the Wrexham Odeon, and it wasn't too busy, which was good.

Lol, Bow Wow played a character called Twinkie, though surprisingly he doesn't get called that too often, it got the laughs going.

No new deviations from me atm, cba really, even when I have nothing to do, its annoying, ideas I do get, I can't do, then when I try to think of something to do, I can't think.

I downloaded the stumble FF addon, which is cool, loads of funny, wierd, down right scary sites keep coming up. I'd link to it for ya'll, but I'm lazy...

Argh, I'm being bugged about getting a job,I need one, but I aint even finished my exams yet, I wanna have a few weeks where I can just relax and not worry about anything, meh, it should be a few weeks anyway, I hope.

Meh, thats it for this installment of my amazing blog.

Good Times :P and exams...

2006-06-13T20:10:00.000Z

I'm being ordered to blog more, so, here I go...

Good Times? Yup! Especially Friday!!

It Started with the friday of the prom night, I got to dance with Jenny, well, forced at first to get up and dance, then I started enjoying it a lot, even if I have no sense of rhythm!

Then the next Friday, Nem got me admitting I liked Jenny, which I see now I should of said so earlier!

Then last Friday we went to town, sat and talked in the park, then went and saw the Omen, which incidently is shit, but I didn't mind :P

She's an amazing girl, gives lots of hugs to :D

Not much new on DA, The Purple One which I am very proud of.

Oh, and I became more 1337 :D I'm 1337

and this is new too Something About A Fairy

And Exams... Four left, Chemistry tomorrow, Physics Friday (Cinema after though, with Jen, Nem, Brown 'n' Simmeh!), then two Welsh exams on Monday, then I don't need to go into school again! Just have to wait until August to get my results then.

College in September, as long as I get atleast 5 B's in my GCSE's, I'll be taking Maths (Mechanical), Chemistry, Physics and Computing, although they sound hard!

And I need to get a part time job, else I'm gonna quickly run out of cash to spend :(

I get a holiday in August, A week in a Spanish Villa, with pool and all! Woot, good times!

Ummm, thats all I can think of for the moment! But I'm sure I'll be blogging soon enough.

BTW, I'll accept donations, so i can keep my phone topped up :P

Ice Skating

2006-04-17T14:56:00.000Z

I went ice skating on Saturday, for the first time ever, was fun :D, although I fell over twice and got blisters of the boots : / which sucks, but it was good and I'd definatly do it again some time.

It wasn't that hard to get started either, I thought I might of struggled more than I did, but it only took 5 or 10 minutes to find my feet, even my 6 year cousin was skating on his own by the end, though he didn't really go anywhere.

\ / Only One week of summer holidays left!
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Need to post something!!!

2006-04-01T09:03:00.000Z

I haven't posted for so long now, I feel I need to write something in here.

errrm, well I started going to the gym, the aim is to go 3 times a week, Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, I've been Tuesday and Thursday this week and I'm going tomorrow. So far there has always been at least three of us going, so it's not boring, there's people to talk, to and compete against.

I downloaded Skype today, though I have no contacts.

Haven't submitted much to DA lately, though I did submit this: Beyond the Hills which was made in Terragen, which I decided to download again, finally.

Rome: Total War FTW!! This is a great game, I'm playing as the roman faction of Scipii, I have the most territory, having just wiped out Spain :D Get this game!!

Wales were pathetic!!

2006-02-26T16:57:00.000Z

Well they've lost, final score is 31-5 to Ireland. We were going well for the first 20 minutes until steven Jones got taken off injured, then we fell apart!! Henson was terrible, couldn't kick touch and just passed the ball off wenever he got it. When Wales did have the ball they made no ground at all, the ball just went from side to side before it was turned over or Wales knocked or something.

Just for Ridge

2006-02-26T00:47:00.000Z

This one is jus for Ridge...

Read his blog here...

We Love you Scotland, We Do!

2006-02-26T00:19:00.000Z

Yep, thats right, they beat England in the Six nations today, they also won the calcutta cup. Scotland actually deserved to win too, it wasn't just a fluke, they defended hard and attacked just as well and forced English errors. The final score was 18-12, not the biggest of wins but still good enough.

France beat Italy, rarther unsurprisingly, but Italy put up a very good fight, especially in the first forty minutes.

Wales play Ireland away tommorow, a game we need to win if we're going to keep our Six Nations title!!

In other news, I'm know a member of a CS clan along with sack, rob, robs, rouge and some other guy as sack put it. We'll probably suck but what the heck?

Forums
Website, which needs configuring atm.

24 is on tommorow, well, actually today as its 00:24 atm, only 20 hours and 36 minutes to go...

I finished all by btec, well the minimum of what I had to do, but its done! Geography is next, not looking forward to that!

OMG I need to update

2006-02-20T22:17:00.000Z

So, whats new?

Well, Wales won their second game of the six nations againsst scotland!!

24 Started two weeks ago, so I've seen the first 4 episodes, which have turned out to be pretty good, they've created a slightly confusing plot and leaves you thinking exactly what is going to happen over the coming weeks.

Its half term atm, atlast, but I have homework to do :/ Sucks, doesn't it?

Should be going to the cinema tomorrow, can't remember what we're supposed to be seeing though, meh.

I went to the cinema last week with Wayne, Sack and Jono, which was an interesting experience. We saw Final Destination 3, an alright film, but definatly not a must see, from what I know of the first 2 this film has pretty much the same storyline of people dyeing in the most impossible ways. Jono really liked this film, rating it 8/10, well, simple minds I guess...

Three new Deviations, the first is a basic animation tutorial for adobe imageready, the second is a digital painting and the third is my current desktop.

Tutorial
Painting
Desktop

Got a new wirless router on Saturday, set it up so I could get on the net, but my connection keeps cutting out now ad then :/

On sunday I managed to network the two computers properly, later sunday night I try fixing the mess I'd made trying to install Linux, so I formatted the partition as another storage drive on my PC, restarted after and got a Grub bootloader error, which I couldn't get past to boot into windows and then get rid of Grub, so I tried a partial recovery, which leaves the files I've made intact, but recovers the other factory settings, this failed to add in a file for windows, twhich meant I couldn't get into windows!, so I try booting in again I still get the grub error, in the end I had to format and totally reinstall windows, so I've spent most my spare time today getting my improtant programs back and getting the network to atleast communicate.

My Lesson, keep backups!!

hurt my foot on Friday, but I don't have a clue how, which added to a fairly crap day. In school we has some hyped up guy trying to motivate us to do revision and stuff, though I did learn some Japanese! The course was called "Learning to Learn" what a crap title for motivating.

With my foot still hurting today, I couldn't refuse walking around twon for a few hours before playing football for an hour, which has ofcourse made it worse, so I get to look forward to limping around my paperound tommorow, then round town and up to the Cinema. I should really stop moadning about this, I don't get any sympathy anyway.

In the Navy

2006-02-09T20:30:00.000Z

In the Navy,

We take Willy up the bum.

In the Navy,

We take it like our mum.

In the Navy,

We like a bit of brown.

In the Navy,

Pushing up and down.

One! Two! Three! Four!

Bang him like you bang a door!

In the Navy,

We lift each other’s shirts.

In the Navy,

We bang him till it hurts.

In the Navy,

We poke each others turd.

In the Navy,

An arse like lemon curd.

One! Two! Three! Four!

Don’t stop ‘till he begs for more!

In the Navy,

Limp wrists are all aloof,

In the Navy,

Were all a bunch of Poofs.

In the Navy,

We do it in the sack.

In the Navy,

And make his pelvis crack.

One! Two! Three! Four!

On the bed, and on the floor!

Five! Six! Seven! Eight!

Vaseline! And that’s your fate!

In the Navy,

We take Willy up the bum.

In the Navy,

We take it like our mum.

In the Navy,

We like a bit of brown.

In the Navy,

Pushing up and down.

One! Two! Three! Four!

Bang him till his ass is sore!

Five! Six! Seven! Eight!

The captain’s behind his first-mate!

By Gareth Jones (a.k.a. Ridge)

A round of Applause for Rigde please, and Galaga who I heard say a few lines *claps*. Pure Class Guys!!!

Well, we lost!

2006-02-05T12:03:00.000Z

Ireland won 26 - 16 over italy, though one of their "trys" wasn't actually a try as the ball didn't hit the ground.

And Wales got demolished 47 - 13, in the last ten minutes England score3d like 3 trys, two of which shouldn't have been, the first was when the ref got in the way leaving the a static Welshman helpless and just yards of his own try line. The second was a knockon from the English player!!

Sky Broadband

2006-02-04T13:20:00.000Z

http://www.sky.com/skybybroadband/home

This means you can download and watch sports highlights and Movies on your home PC, for free!!

You have to have be with sky and be a Sky movies and Sky Sports subscriber and have a sky.com account, which is free.

Movie downloads are a bit slow, but they are free and legal so I'm not really bothered about that.

The Six Nations

2006-02-04T13:13:00.000Z

The nations is starting in 20 minutes from the time I'm typing this, and being Welsh I am of course hoping that the Welsh get the grandslam for a second year running! Wales's first match is against England at 3:00 today at Twickenham , they havn't won their since 98, so lets hope we can change that today, we beat them 11-9 last year in Cardiff! Italy and Ireland play the first game at 1:30 today, so I'll be waching that, I think I want Italy to win, as I feel Ireland are more of a threat to Wales.

I'll post score updates after games have been played.

Computer Games!!

2006-01-31T19:23:00.000Z

What games do you play, enjoy, dislike?

At the moment I'm into

Counter Strike CS 1.6
Call of Duty 2
Dawn of War Winter Assault

well that's it.

Battlefield 2 is a major disappointment in how much it sucks!!! I can't believe I bought it. My mum decided to by me a game called First to Fight, which is crap "developed with the U.S. Marines" Well, that explains a lot...

First Blog entry

2006-01-31T18:05:00.000Z

Well, this is my first blog entry. I'm known to mates as MC LEAN, or if your Ridge, MC CLEAN. I'm in my final year of school and I live in north Wales. Enough of the boring stuff...

Interests:

Rugby - Great sport, though I know many don't agree...
Football - Great laugh, when playing with the crew, it's shite in school though.
Internet/MSN - Just browsing the web or chattin on MSN.
Graphic Design - Well as it sounds, just using Photoshop and stuff to make graphics.

Websites I Visit:

Deviant Art - A giant art community, I go by the name of High Elf on there, but don't ask why. My Gallery on DA.

Urban Dead - "A Massively Multi-Player Web-Based Zombie Apocalypse" - As it sounds...

Rapid Assault Forum - A clan for Urban Dead, set up by the one and only Galaga.

OGame - "A strategic space simulation game" - What more can I say? Oh yeah, its pretty damn boring.

Meh,might add a few more sits, if I can be arsed.

MSN addy - mclean85@msn.com,s'pose most people reading this will already know it though :/

What else can I write?

errm nothing I can think of, so i'll leave it there.

MCLEAN

*Is Tired*

I'm Back + Exam results :-D

London Trip

Umm

Got a Job :-D

Boring Holidays

My Weekend rocked :P !!!! :D :D :D Shower!! <3

The Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift

Good Times :P and exams...

Ice Skating

Need to post something!!!

Wales were pathetic!!

Just for Ridge

We Love you Scotland, We Do!

OMG I need to update

In the Navy

Well, we lost!

Sky Broadband

The Six Nations

Computer Games!!

First Blog entry

Is Tired