MMX

We had a good year, you and I, didn't we? I think we did.

I read through all of my blogs form the last year and I accomplished quite a lot this year. Quite a lot indeed. I think I can look back on this year and even though it's a bit shit in places, I know I did good.

January:
I spent New Years last year walking home from Paul Mullally's house with the lads and the girls. It started snowing that night as well and usually I hate the snow but it was fun that night. Richie and Byron had a Kopperberg and were drinking it to keep warm. Dopes.
I remember being trapped at home by the snow, and then eventually getting into town on a ridiculous bus journey which only left me in glasnevin. The next month or so was awesome. Snow Date ftw!

We went to the good bits before Becca went home. Then her bus got cancelled so we continued on our night out and walked home. We both slept in her sitting room. We didn't watch LOTR and we stayed up till half 8 one morning. We found the Indian Restaurant which worked wonders. All in all, it was a good time.

Then I had exams but I don't remember them much.

February:
I remember two particular events from Feb, one of which stemmed from the other. Amy had only been back for a while and with snow and everything we hadn't been hanging out much. We had the chats one day amongst rude waitresses and then we walked through town. It was a good time.
This stemmed from the chats after a significant event. We don't talk about that here though.
Rebecca's birthdays were fun as well. I had the buzz in Dicey's and then the next day there was a surprise bday in the Turks head. Which was also quite good.

March:
I didn't celebrate my birthday. Which meant I didn't have to celebrate anyone elses throughout the year. Ha! Me and Greer put up the first of many rubbish recordings and my grandparents moved into a home.

April:
We went to Navan for Flem's bday. There was also Kate's song and Paul Conway playing with children.
Me and Becca went to the zoo but the Red Panda had eaten it's mate so it was rather unsuccessful all in all. Shame. I went to Doran's after with STace and White and it was loads of fun, surprisingly.
Rebecca started staying over in my gran's because I hate being on my own and it's our primary format for hanging out. No regrets!

May:
All I can remember about May is going on some ridiculous walks for hours and hours and having an ingrown toenail as a result. It was gross. I also stopped blogging loads so the next few months are a blur.

June:
I got a new job in June. They wanted me to start on a Monday but I had to go to a funeral so I couldn't. That funeral was the worst. I remember trying to just keep talking with Greer to distract myself and then I ended up on my own and then when I tried to talk after that, I just burst out in tears.
Work was a unique experience. And my attitude towards it further increases my confidence that I'll be as mature as I need to be, when I need to be. Grand!!!
I also didn't get to see FYS and TWY. :( Then Amy left again.

July
I spent most of July working and hanging out with Becca. She got baby turkeys and a cat and the cat hated her but loved me. Stoked. I also brought my PS2 down to her Dad's house and we played lots of Crash Bandicoot and Abe's Odyssey. There was also a lot of cooking involved as well as jam making and solstices.

August
Everything happened in August. I remember the day before Rose came over I such a panic attack. It was crazy. Then I calmed down and everything was fine. We spent almost 2 weeks together and then everything couldn't go back to normal again.
Highlights included Ryan's, Stephen's Green, Howth/Malahide, Iveagh Gardens, The Pint, Doyle's, Ice Cream, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Phoenix Park, Dun Laoighre and I'm sure there are countless more things I'd like not to forget. It was the best of times.

September
Work experience finished. We went to burger king on my last day. It was a nice thought. I started back in college as well and we did that Donkey Kong on the SNES sleepover thing in Bob's. That was good.

October
The receeding hairline of September became the unconvincing comb over of October and by the looks of things, I just played loads of computer games. That's not really a bad thing. I assume it was combinations of that, college and Becca and Greer hanging out in my Edenmore. I think I'm going to start calling it Edenmore instead of 'my gran's house'. It hasn't been her house for a long time now. There was also a depressing halloween somewhere in there...

Novemeber
Rose came over again and we had a great old time. I'm sure I did something for the first half of November as well but it seems unimportant in comparrison and was probably just college anyway.

December
Rose left and the snow started, It was like uni flu giving me the old one two. Unpleasant on both counts. We got a taxi to the airport at all hours of the morning and then we said goodbye probably for the last time. I went outside to wait for a bus for what felt like days in the freezing cold and watching the lightning. I slept for most of the bus trip because I was up quietly sulking for most of the night. There was a period of about of week where I felt like shit. After that, I distracted myself with computer games and college assignments and that was adequate until I handed my college work in. Then I felt like shit again.
When I got back to edenmore I spent hours cleaning because I hadn't for ages. Amy was supposed to be staying over but then her Dad wouldn't bring her bike or something ridic. I slept on the sofa for some reason and listened to mix cds all night.
Then Christmas happened snd I got sick so I spent most of it in bed, pretty much up until New Years. Cousins from South Africa came over and we had the buzz.

And now for 2011. Hopefully my hair won't fall out this year.

Happy New Year, everybody!

Good Morning, World!

I couldn't sleep and as such stayed up all night. It's been a while since that happened. I couldn't concentrate as much as I'd have liked to on my college work so I watched How I Met Your Mother, organised my i tunes library onto my netbook and watched ridiculous videos on the internet.

It was slightly productive. But only slightly...

I have the best idea for a present for Greer. I don't know what to get for anyone else. Disaster!

Fun with MIR. Yay!

I'd very much like for it to be some time last month again. I liked having some sort of direction in my life along with a something to work for. Being a lot happier overall was quite pleasant as well.

Life goes on...

I'm designing a functional spec for my Multimedia Information Systems. It's to do with using inputs such as a wearable camera and microphone and outputting helpful information based on these inputs to a handheld screen or earphones. It's incredible when you get into what it could actually do. Image detection would match items in shops and give them a rating based on your needs as a consumer (price comparison, quality etc) as well providing extra info on dvds by matching the cover you've picked up with an online image and returning a review or something.
I also quite like the idea of having a GPS system built in. It can use this to check your location, look for nearby bus stops on google maps, and return a time table for buses that go from there.
Over time, it could potentially detect patterns in behaviour such as if youre in a certain environment (bar) in the early hours of the morning, you'll probably want to order a taxi soon. It could check your locations and provide phone numbers for you.
There are so many endless possibilities.

It's quite similar to SixthSense Technology which is worth a look if you're bored or interested in that sort of thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SixthSense_(device)

Also, Bobby D's coming back on Monday. Excited for the return of the lad and the babe.

Heya!

I played guitar and really enjoyed it for the first time in a long time there. The past few days have been a constant headache. Trying to focus on anything that requires my attention has proven quite the challenge. I think I'm good now though... Well for a while anyway.

The last 2 weeks or so have been very eventful. My lecturer said today 'You shouldn't worry too much about things that are outside your control. There's not a damn thing you can do about them'. Let's give it a try shall we?

Lessthanforwardslashthree

Sonic Mask!!!

Aren't we all excited about late November and New Years? I know I am!

On a more depressing note, I fucking hate hospitals. Usually I can effectively ignore my surroundings by making jokes and the like but it just doesn't work in hospitals. My Granddad always gets upset when I leave as well. He said goodbye to everyone else and he was fine. Sigh.

I think I'm finished with going to clubs. They're just not fun and the people I always end up going with are complete goobers so I think I'll just stop going.

I'd really like to go home. Fuck these three hour breaks.

I'm bored in the library...

...so naturally, I'm writing a blog.



I wish DCU didn't insist on making ridiculous timetables. I have 9 hours of lectures a week. It could easily be squeezed into 2 days. But instead, I have 2 days with only one lecture.

Calculation time. If Richie needs to leave his house 2 hours before his lecture to get into college on time, and it takes 2 hours after a lecture is finished for him to get home, how many hours of Richie's day will he be giving up for 1 lecture.

Ridiculous! (It's 5 hours)

I have a three hour break today. Those two lectures could just be put in there and I'd be ever so happy.

I reread over a message I sent today. I probably shouldn't use the words frequency and volume as much as I do.

Coppers

I know I say this every time but for some reason I end up going back on the off chance that it might be fun. I really need to stop going here.

Also, there must be some sort of fire regulations that they're just not adhering to. It's impossible to get from one side of the room to the other without literally pushing people out of your way for the entire journey.

Everybody is a fucking idiot.

Final Fantasy IX

Great game. <3 PSN!

I tried to use the DCU library today. I was unsuccessful. I went back for round 2 though and I nailed it. You can check out books automatically now. It's all the shades of convenient. I think I'll go back to playing this game now.

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

Is the greatest game I have ever played. I'd love for side scrolling beat em ups to make a triumphant return to gaming. Doubtful though...

Someone needs to bring a PS3 controller over to my house and play this with me!

The movie is also incredible, but somewhat less incredible than the game.

Autumn

Winter is coming... Oh dear.

So now that work has finished and I'll need to be wasting a lot more time at a much higher frquency, I figured I'd get back into this again. Hurray for you, you lucky little bastard, you!

I'm in Bob's house waiting for everyone to wake up. I'm awake before everyone because I fell asleep way too early. Good night though. It involved Mortal Kombat, Donkey Kong and several Super Mario games. Grand!

I've to make some really big decisions this year. When I make plans, I include these decisions but when I think about making them, I really don't see how I can sometimes. It's all a bit crazy. I don't have to make them just yet though so I can put that off for the time being.

sigh...

Amy's back! Hey!!! I missed the whole trying to do one thing but being distracted by her need to say whatever comes into her mind at any given time.

So yeah, life is somewhat lacking now but it's kind of ok because I'm going to fix it. When you look back on time, it seems to fly by but when you look forward, it seems like so far away. Even December seems like too long and I don't even know if that's going to happen. Sigh... Stupid America.

I also love my friends and how they were ok with me ignoring them for like 2 weeks and now it's just back to normal. They're good kids.

I should write blogs more regularly.

So yeah, I'll update properly when I get a chance but till then...


The Postal Service
I will follow you into the dark
That Keane song
Help crossing roads
Bloomers
Fingers
Red Skittles
Turkish Delights
Magic vs Logic
Italiano!!

Thursday:
Airport
Ryan's B and B
Church
Work
Lights Show
Home

Friday:
Work
Stephen's Green
Pizza Hut
Doyles
Bus

Saturday:
Bus
Dart to Howth
Pier walk
Cliff walk
Dinner in that Italian Restaurant (Pasta Pesto and Pizza)
lost in Bayside - Disaster!
Malahide Park/Castle

Sunday:
11.00 bus
Tesco pasta and sambos
6.15 bus
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Park
Christ Church
Temple Bar
Ice Cream

Monday:
Walk home 6am
Work
Kylemore
Dublin Castle
Chester Beaty Gardens
Pac Man Graffitti

Tuesday:
Walk home 6am
Accepted that on Wed I'd be walking home at 6am

Wednesday:
Walk home 6am
Home after work


Thursday:
Wake up at home 7am
Project in The Pint
10.30pm - O'Connel Street

Friday:
Walk home 6am
Work
Arrive into town at the same time
Adventure walk to Phoenix Park
Garden
Presidents house
Big Cross
Kites
Return adventure walk
La Pizza

Saturday:
Exam
New clothes
Ratoath
Bus
Dart to Dún Laoghaire
Rain
House shopping
Skipping stones
Cornicopia
Dorans
The Pint

Sunday:
Iveagh Gardens
Daisy Chains
Govindas
Ice Cream part II
Bus
Goro Miyazaki

Monday:
Wake up at 5.30
Airport
Check in
Breakfast
Signing napkins

100th Blog... Apparently...

I remember seeing Stacy had written 100 blogs before and I was like 'HOLY SHIT!!! THAT'S MENTAL'. I don't think it's that mental anymore.
I couldn't sleep so I thought I'd update this since it's been a while, but mainly because I can't sleep.

I effectively spend all of my free time with Rebecca now. It's rather pleasent and alot easier than hanging out with anyone else. A cat followed us back to her house a few weeks ago and she's been feeding it. It runs away when it see's her but will come over to me and play with me. :)
She also got 12 baby Chocobos (They look like chocobos but they're just turkeys) that soon will become less cute and pretty ugly. They've already grown loads in the week or so they've been there. They're all name Black Richie. So is the cat.
Me and Daddy O Fearghaile made Jam, It's delish!! And we keep making pesto from the basil leaves in the garden. Best house!!!!

Work is going fine. Stupid managers of certain departments need to start signing paperwork though. It literally takes 2 seconds and I can't do anything if you don't sign it!!! I should probably refrain from posting names... Yeah...
I've started wearing a suit into work. It's unneccessary yet awesome. No regrets!

Funsh playground
Driving
Howl at the Moon
Chasers
(In)Significance
Hayou Miyazaki
Barcode/Beach/Brand New

I'm sure alot more stuff has happened but that's all I can think of now...

http://www.moshspace.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1182&page=2

Hahaha. Best thread!

At least when Amy was here, I could blame recording mistakes on her.

I was recording today but I keep making mistakes and I'm getting annoyed with myself so I think I'll leave it for a while.

So I was supposed to start work on Monday but due to circumstances beyond anyone's control, I had to get it off and start on Tuesday instead. I'm glad I have the friends I have. Monday was the roughest day I've had in a long time. I spent the morning trying to keep myself together enough to talk to people and as soon as I entered the church grounds, my stomach somersaulted and I felt horribly sick. Headaches ensued.

Anyway, work is absolutely grand. I spend the day updating databases and finding solutions to problems the other departments have using their software. If you need your font changed, I'm your man! If a printer needs toner, what up? If a monitor is broken, I'll replace it with a new one. If the new data you've added to your excel file isn't showing up in the word document which you've imported it into, I'm the guy who tells you that you've imported the wrong file.

Bye Greer!!!

I wuv wu!!!!!

Today is the saddest of all days

I've been distracting myself all day but like... Yeah. :(

New Job

I got a new job. If the job was a movie I'd be credited as IT guy #4. I've no idea what they're expecting me to do but I assume it'll be grand because it's only work experience and if it was in any way too difficult, I wouldn't be there. They seemed pretty desperate as well.
I start on Monday at 9 O'clock. I'm thinking 5 days a week working from 9 until 5, installing programs and turning printers off and then back on again is essentially what's going to happen. We shall see.

I watched some the World Cup yesterday. It was crap. I fell asleep during it. I think that sums up my feelings towards football.

I wish my head didn't go to shit everytime I have to be on my own for more than a few minutes. This constant need for having someone around me is really getting on my tits. Last week, I told Rebecca to come over after work so at 2 in the morning she came over and we literally had a half an hour chat something to eat and slept until she had to go to work the next day.
I really don't know why, but being at home makes it a bit worse as well. I spend pretty much all of my time in my gran's now a days and there's no need for it.
Oh well. I'm hungry now. Time for foods.

It came today

Fuck.

I'm glad my passport didn't come yesterday

Because I literally would have killed someone if it came a few hours after the flight. I was convinced it was going to happen.

http://www.foundshit.com/

This blog is awesome. It's just loads of awesome/funny images. G'wan, sure you've come this far... You might as well take a look.

Stuff 'n' stuff

I wrote a new song. It's somewhat happyish... I'm not sure what happened there. But yeah. You can find it here if you are in any way interested.

http://www.myspace.com/blackrichie

My aunt's went home today. I can't wait to have my room back. I still have loads to do. They didn't really do much at all. They were supposed to be cleaning but they just cleaned what I already had and rearranged the furniture which I'm just going to undo because I keep walking into that fucking chair they put in the sitting room.

I hate that they're the way they are. I'd never bring any form of drugs into that house. I even have qualms about drinking there. And yet they came over for a week and smoked as much as they want. On the first day, we had a talk about how I've never done anything other than drinking but that I wasn't entirely opposed to the idea and that I know better than to take it home with me.

It's amazing how they were all so anti-drugs up a few years ago and now they're just this...

I can't wait to have my recording studio (my recording corner of the the sitting room).

I lessthan3 Science

What if there's a parrallel universe where that universe is the only universe...

Lads, I don't think we exist...

The Universe

I was watching The Universe on the Histroy Channel. It's absolutely mental! It was about the possibility of parrallel universes. I'm sure this information has been around for ages but I either couldn't understand it or just didn't take it in till now.

So if there's an infinitely large universe, probability say that there is an infinite number of identical worlds to ours. It would also mean that, as long as the laws of physics are obeyed as we understand them, there could be avatar people or Klingons or all sorts of variations.

Well probably anyway... Who knows. I'm no astro physicist.

Physics, I love you!

:/

I had an ingrown toenail. There was a lot of puss. Alot of puss! So I got a nail and poked it and squeezed it all out and it was disgusting. But now it doesn't hurt at all.

It still looks fairly gross though...

Drawings

YAY DRAWINGS!!!! I might do more in a while. My Mam was smoking in my room. :/

I have an ingrown toenail :(

It's not as bad as my previous experience of these bastards but it did keep me up half the night, trying to find a comfortable position to sleep in while avoiding the blankets touching my foot in any way.

The pain was the result of walking pretty much non stop from about 12 until 6. Man were my dogs barking. Haha. Best saying! Anyway, I walked to Howth via Baldoyle and then half of a cliff walk. And then home. I should stop doing this to myself. I think I'll just start going for walks in St Anne's park or something. It just makes so much more sense.

I really wanted to draw the other day and didn't know what to draw so I found one of those 'let me draw you' threads on the b9 and started drawing everone. Fun times. That other guy was rubbish. I'd like to think it was someone taking the piss out of the attention seekers who want to be drawn. I don't think so though... Shame.

Remember Lebanese waitress? She was good...

Frank Turner is playing in a little over a week. I'm excited.

I'm also pretty sure my passport won't be here on time for Four Year Strong and The Wonder Years. Shame. The ferry it is. I'm going to find some lovely lebanese girl who's also on her own and we're going to have a great time and fall in love but then the ferry will crash into an iceberg and we'll both die.

I'd love some falafel actually...

Four months, three weeks, two days

The abortion movie is on film four. It's going to give me nightmares. :(

Man I hate PHP

Rebecca stayed over last night and told me to call her at half 10. I called her at half 11 because I wanted to sleep more. She actually got up at 2. What a mess of a person.
I'm teaching her guitar so we can jam. It'll also make her really hot. Then I will be a prick to her and she will love me. Ha. But seriously, this is going to be awesome. She likes all the popular songs I like that Greer hates and I've got Greer for all the amazing stuff that no one's ever heard of before. Can't go wrong.

Studying PHP is not fun. Man I hate you, college.

I have a cold. I made the sick noise that I make when I'm sick this morning so I'm definately sick. Fuck my life!

Richie's a hipster now. Time to remove him from my life!

I should sleep now...

I was lying in bed trying to sleep and couldn't so I stuck on my ipod. I was listening to Brand New as it had been a while and I love them so and after about three or four songs, I got up and wrote a few lines, pulled out my guitar and whispered them to myself in the kitchen.

I was looking at old messages today. :)

Good night, the internet.

It's been a while...

I've kinda lost interest in this a little bit but I don't really want to turn my back on updating my thoughts and such in the form of a blog. I just don't feel like sharing what I seem to thinking about pretty much constantly at this point in time.

Maybe when I get my shit together. More than likely, never though.

In other less vague news, I did a cover of Jesus Christ which you can listen to here:
http://folkspace.tumblr.com

or download here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?nm1tmdductd

While you're listening to it, you should have this playing in the background because it sounds awesome and gets rid of some of that background noise from the vocals. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNfOfURuJuA

When I was younger I used to think that there was a secret that everyone over a certain age knew about and when you got to a certain age, they'd tell you. Once you were told the secret, you'd realise it's importance as a secret and you'd never tell anyone under that certain age. Every year I was half expecting the secrets of the world to be revealed to me within a sentence. Like they'd just say a word and then everything would click and make sense. That's what your Mam meant when she said 'It's a grown up thing' or 'I'll tell you when you're older'. I was always a little bit scared that I'd die before I got to that age and live eternally in heaven as a child and never find it out.

Zain just said this as a come back to Adam...

"At least I'm not going to die alone like you."

Best child!

To do list

I decided that I was going to make a to do list for the summer. Well more a places to visit thing. Just places I went as a kid that I haven't been in ages. Basically it's just going to crush all that notalgia I've built up and the end result will be something along the lines of 'Well this is shit'.
I think I'll start a seperate blog and have them all together. Sure, we'll see what happens.
I started watching the US office. I think enough time has passed for me to accept that it's shit and still watch it. I want a Pam. I'd totally stay late in work and let her sleep on my shoulder.

Sutton
Baldoyle
Interrailing
Football match
Dollymount

I just got lazy and don't want to write any more. Bullet points ftw.

Beach

I decided I needed to get out of the house for a while (as in a bit further than the garden) so I went for a stroll, as you do when you're me. I ended up going to Bull Island (I think it's Dollymount beach but it could also be Sandymount. One is a beach and one is a luas stop. I know no more) and having a little lie down as it got dark. It was nice having the ocean drown out that ever present sound of traffic.

We rerecorded an old song because I didn't like the recording. When I say an old song, I mean a song from last month. That is all.

http://folkspace.tumblr.com/

I'm a gardener, me!

Today my gran's house felt like a home again for the first time in such a long time. Playing guitar between cooking food and looking after my grandparents seemed to suck the life out of the place. Rebecca stayed over last night and was singing as she was walking through the place and I've no idea why but it just reminded me of growing up and when my parents lived here and everything that needed to be done, got done.
She sat out in the garden for a while and I remembered how huge it seemed when I was smaller. Looking back, I've no idea how an apple tree and several pair trees fit in the garden with enough place left for me to run around with my cars and trucks.
I decided I'd cut the grass and I spent about 3 hours putting order into the garden and hiding all the eye sores in the shed and finding a place for everything. I really quite enjoyed it.
Now however, I am hungry and I'm hoping that a fried egg on a heel and a bowl of cereal will be enough for me... I don't want to spend more money. :(

The Collection of the Bins

I just wheeled the wheely bin out because I heard the bin truck going by. A few seconds later, I collected it. I looked around and suddenly everyone was on the road collecting their bins and having a chit chat. It was like the social event of the morning that everyone knew about but no body talked about.

Rule 1 of The Collection of the Bins: You don't talk about The Collection of the Bins
Rule 2 of The Collection of the Bins: YOU DON'T TALK ABOUT THE COLLECTION OF THE BINS!!!

I had a nice chat with Mrs. Kilmartin and then she went across the road to say hi to Mrs. Reid. I'd have stayed out longer and joined in the fun but my coffee was getting cold. I can't wait for next week.

I'm exagerating a little bit but not as much as you might think...

Song, Zoo, Home.

New Song: http://folkspace.tumblr.com

I think needs a bit of cello. I'm going to go try and teach myself the cello now. I'll do it outside though because it's far to sunny to be staying inside.

I went to the zoo yesterday. It was a bit rubbish. And it was the day before yesterday now that I hink of it. The Red Panda was asleep and has since grown up and is less cute and the other one is dead. What's the point in going if there are no Red Pandas? The bird house seemed closed and it was all very unexciting. We did get in for free though so I can't complain too much.

We proceeded to find a beer garden in Nancy Hands or something, and then Stace and White came to play. I had a good time. Heather's came on in Doran's. It was delightfully confusing.

I really don't like homes. Before I get too old to look after myself, I'm going to move into a studio type apartment. Everything's going to be in one room and I'll need not worry about being moved into a home.

G'way, would ya?

It's weird when people don't act in a way they should. There are ways and means and things you just don't do in these situations. People need to grow up. I'm aware that I can't really talk but if I needed to be more responsible, I would be.

I visited my grandparent's new home place a few days ago. I'm not sure what I expected but it seemed eh... shit. For one I thought it would be more homely and not really painfully neutral. It's just an empty hotel room and a massive kitchen area for everyone to come hang out in when they're not in their hotel room. I do get alot of looking after and don't need to cook or anything anymore but still... It's not somewhere I'd like to end up.

I've to get my eyes tested tomorrow. They've been very bloodshot recently. Also my mam is coming home but I want to go to a gig so I probably won't see her till Thursday. I hope there's money in my account...

Happy Birthday, Flemmy.

You're a big girl now.

We're going out in Navan tonight. This better be the most fun ever! But before that, we shall be chillin in Ak's and before that, songs about inappropriate fake romances between me and certain people's sister need to be recorded. :)

I've to get my eyes tested on Wednesday morning. It's the same day that Momsy comes home and there is a gig on that night so I probably won't see her. Rachel is going to Engerland tomorrow. I didn't even get to say hi. :( Sorry Canadia.

I need a new cuddle buddy. Someone embrace me for a few hours.

Ladies...

You're welcome! ;)

I miss my Mam :(

I've been doing nothing but minding the house since last Thursday. Excluding a brief visit to Dunshaughlin, I haven't left the house. Kill me!

My grandparents are moving into a home on Thursday. I'm pretty stoked about this. No more skipping college/gigs/nights out/hanging with friends to look after them. My uncle is moving them on Thursday and asked my Dad, who has a house to look after while the kids are off school and a job to go to everyday, to help him move them. Mr. 'I'm not going to the hospital with my Mam because I need a nap because I've work tomorrow and now Richie has to skip college while his Mam picks up her kids from fucking Ratoath' wants some help moving the people he refused to help move when they needed help moving.
My Dad wants me to help instead. My uncle can go fuck himself if he thinks I'm going to change my plans to accomodate a slight inconvenience for him.

Aw man... Amy has written the best outro ever. I'm literally nursing a semi and feel all tingly just thinking about. Fuck me, it's incredible!

Happy Belated Birthday, Black

I'm twenty two now. Doesn't it just make you sick?

I went to a gig the night before where RAN and Homesick/Starters were playing. I honestly didn't remember how incredible RAN was. I can't believe I was considering leaving before then. And Starters are right up my alley. They're gonna be my favourite local band fairly soon.

I went back to my gran's and slept for a bit and found myself being woken up at 4 in the morning by an insane amount of door banging and bell ringing. I assumed it was someone going to rob/murder me so I decided not to answer and to ignore it. Then I noticed flashing lights outside and heard someone say they were a Garda so I answered.

They evacuated the road due to a bomb scare. In trying to find out where I could take my grandparents, the Garda suggested a neighbours house. Dope. They were nice enough to let us sit in their car in the end though. It so long to wake them up as well. All the time I was thinking 'WE'RE GONNA DIE' but realistically I was thinking 'There's no bomb. I should just go back to bed.'

Anyway, they kept us outside for an hour and a half and then sent us back in. Fucking Edenmore Avenue. Ruining my birthday...

SIGNIFICANCE DAY

Today is significance day. Four years and we're still going strong. *Quotes random four year strong lyric*

But yeah. I'm not going to do another Amy Greer Murphy appreciation blog because it was awfully homosexual the last time and I haven't quite manned up yet. But I have the best idea. I have to go to town now and look for said idea. And the ingredients to the present I'm going to make as well. They won't be ready for a while. They never are...

Happy Significance day everyone! I hope you have someone out there as awesome as Amy. (You don't)

Uwwaahhh!

Facebook is the absolute worst. I spent ages looking for someone. he had his name in Irish. Cock Biscuits! As well as that, chat never works and it keeps saying people are online when they're not. Not to mention the fact that my siblings keep trying to add me. And fucking facebook groups. Fuck!

I hate almost everything I write. I should just record it anyway for the sake of having something there. I think I will. Fuck it sure.

So I came into college and I can't get in contact with the people I need to be in contact with so I think I'll just go. I'm so going to end up having to repeat my third year project. Sigh...

We Have Music!

Finally.

http://folkspace.tumblr.com/

LESS VOCALS! LESS GUITAR!

Songs are coming on well. It's all very exciting. There will hopefully be two songs up later. Everyone, get excited. By everyone I mean you, Amy and to a lesser extent, Canadia. Hurray!!!

I got Final Fantasy XIII. It's quite possibly the best game ever. It's in no way difficult but it's just awesome. And there's loads of characters who the game focuses on so you can just ignore the characters you don't like.

Austrailian accents though... Eugh.

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Freddie. :(
We barely knew ye.

Dementia

I really do hate it. A pot of diluted orange on the stove is not what I need to wake up to in the morning. I really have no idea how they manage when I'm not here.

Everything about yesterday was incredible...

Except the curry chips. They were grand. I expected better though.

I listened to title fight a few weeks ago and liked it and then didn't listen to it again until just before the gig. Man that was a bad decision. Still had a great time though. Every band should cover community and play it last. It's just the best song.

After that we had a moving party except instead of packing and moving, we watched rent. No regrets!

Ricky Gervais podcasts are the funniest things ever. I was laughing away to myself like a maniac waiting for the bus. I was hoping someone would phone me so I could mention what I was listening to and the people around me wouldn't think I'm insane. Oh well.

I like the nice weather. I think I'll walk to town in a while. :)

I've started origami-ing. I'm not very good.

It's been ages since I wrote something here. It's been like a week anyway. Which is less frequent than usual. It's mainly because I haven't been doing much worth talking about. But let's talk about it anyway, shall we?

I've been playing FFXII again. I'm hoping to finish it before FFXIII comes out. It's very doubtful though.

Me and Richie went on Chat Roulette looking for each other but we didn't find each other but I did get 2 girls in one t shirt. I lol'd hard. They were sound albeit somewhat confused and distracted. Richie found a girl friend in Oregon named Kels but then got disconnected. He looked so sad for the next few minutes. Then he got back into his raving and danced the night away. On Chat Roulette. He's well cool.

I started another blog. It's not a real blog. It's more a blog where I can make stuff up and entertain myself by creating lesser used metaphores and pretend my heart has been ripped from my chest. I'll probably also write songs and stick them up on the page. They're all going to be about the same girl though. Her name is Amy because no other name would be as funny.

blackrichie.tumblr.com

Four Year Strong's new album is awesome. You should listen to it if you haven't already. I'll probably also get into Mayday parade because it's right down my alley.

You should also take a lookie at this video. Love it, for it is awesome!









It's weird when you think one thing is going to happen and then another thing comes up and punches you in the face. Didn't see it coming... I imagine it'll fix itself. I'm not that bothered really though. When it comes down to it, this was always going to happen.

I helped Demps move out. We went to Blanch for food and people watched. We tried to establish whether the pretty girl was a knack or not. I couldn't think of a nice neutral question to ask her though. Disappointing. I guess we'll never know. We also legged it to avoid seeing those people from school you never liked but who always seemed to say hi as if you were good friends. G'way, would ya?

SIGNIFICANCE DAY SOON!!!! I should start making that present. I'll need a blank photo album, a printer and some very colourful ink. I also found the best photos of me as a kid. They should be burned for I looked disgusting!

I should stop typing now. This is getting way too long...

Diagon Alley/Coppers

Last night was fun. We went to a gig in what seemed to be Diagon Alley (It's a decent sized pub but just doesn't take up any space in the geographical sense). It was alot better than coppers but then again, these things always are. Although, the lols were had in coppers...

Guy: Are you Finnoula?
Amy: No I'm Amy. Hi.
Richie: I'm Finnoula Crowley but you can call me Scruff.

I am well in there. Also Greer singing into mops was hilarious. And Scruff dancing around the mop was terrifying. 's all good...

Inappropriate jokes > Most things

I can't believe I missed the half 2 pole though. I was soooo gonna not score anyone. :)

Dreams...

Need to fuck right off. Trying to put these thoughts in my head. The bastard! That's the second one like this I had and the first time it almost ruined my life.

I was supposed to get up for college at 8 but I actually just got up. Thanks Gran. :( Oh well. This module is a bit ridiculous anyway. Communication Skills is definately something that should be done in first year. Even before. These kind of secondary traits should be thought much earlier and then the technical side of things later. But whatevs. Easy marks I guess.

Microsoft

We just had a lecture from some guy from Microsoft. Basically Microsoft is a cult. You give them a few hours a day of effort and ideas and they will give you money, happiness and self worth. Fact! It's so creepy when everyone is smiling in these sort of presentations. Happiest fuckers you'll ever see are in presentations. It's almost creepy.

http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html

If you're interested in this kind of stuff, you'll find this ineresting. Intigration of the digital world into real life and all that jazz. Basically we're all going to be borg with technology hanging out of us and eventually we'll stop thinking and do what the internet tells us to do and we will be drones to the system but we will be happy and at the end of the day, that's what matters.
In all seriousness though, it's a pretty impressive presentation. Get into it!

White Boards

I miss making whiteboards for people. Facebook graffiti app just isn't the same. I just want my ffart tool. :(

Blackrock, Bray and Dublin Bay

I hate being alone but some of my favorite experiences have been just sitting somewhere by myself and watching the tide come in or walking along beside a body of water with music so loud you can pretend the traffic doesn't exist or that it's the soundtrack to your thoughts or something. There are a few places in this city like that where I go to reflect on what's going on in my life and most are rather difficult to get to. It's nice to have them though and know that they're not going anywhere.

I wish other people enjoyed these sort of things as much as I do.

Friends

I have the best friends. They're all literally the greatest people ever.

I decided the other day that I was fed up of feeling sorry for myself and down all the time so I decided to be happy. And now everything has fallen into place. Any thoughts or insecurities I had a few days ago have gone away and life is fucking amazing again.

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Rose made me a card for V Day. She's the nicest person I've never met.

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj145/Black-Richie/VDaycard.jpg

I wish she'd come to Ireland. :(

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The box has been opened and the cat is dead. Even though it's super disappointing, I'm glad I know.

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Me and Greer had coffee and ice cream last night. The girl serving us was such a bitch. Maybe TOM paid her a visit or something. We had an amazing chat. And then we walked around town for ages. I was having a great time. I was slightly disappointed when we saw people we knew. Oh well. I missed you. I wish we were both happy all the time so everytime we hang out we can be more pleasant instead of cynical like usual.

Myspace

You'd think that someone would read over these things before they're published to everyone's profile. Tards.

It's amazing how well tablets work. I feel like normal now.

Blech

I feel like absolute shit today. I've the worse headache and a horrible cough and everytime I cough I can taste a chest infection so I keep trying not to. I should go home in case my grandparents get sick.
I thought I was dying last night. I was so hot and I didn't know why. Turns out it was just the heating left on. My feet were really cold and I kept shuffling around to get warm but everytime I nearly threw up. Needless to say I stayed home from college. And I had the strangest thoughts as well. I've no idea what that was about.

You should surround yourself with people that pick you up. Not the ones that are constantly bringing you back down.

I less-than-symbol 3 my Rose

She's so much easier to talk to than most other people.

Moving on...

I don't really know how to say what I'd like to say so I'm just going to quote this song and hopefully when I look back over this, I'll know what I wanted to say.

I've got friends in all the right places,
I know what they want and I know they don't want me to stay.

What's your favorite element?

I love when I ask people questions like this and they give me a proper answer.

Me
Gold
It conducts electricity better than any other metal

Kate
Phospherus
I like the way it glows ans fizzes when you put it in water

Dave (Girl from party. Everyone was called Dave)
Hydrogen
Because it only has one electron

Becca
Oxygen
It seems pretty vital to everything

Denise (Aunt)
Mercury
It's used to balance telescopes when you look into space

At previously mentioned party, someone couldn't remember my name so she started calling me Blackberry. Everyone needs to be more like this girl.

The Dundrum Shopping Experience
The Wagamamas Dinner Experience
Juno
Peep Show
An unnecessary amount of beans

I wish some people were better at life.

Hate and Love

I really miss the hate and love threads. All I want is to make a tiny little comment that someone will take off topic leading to hilarious posting. Making a thread for it seems like I'll want to talk about it. I just like complaining and it disappoints me when a great outlet for complaining is taken away. :(

I have a functional spec I should be doing. This is my break. I'll give myself the time it takes to eat some dinner as the rest of my break and then I'll get back into it. I couldn't have just chose philosophy could I? No, had to get a job out of my degree in the end, didn't I?

We went to karaoke last night for Stacy's birthday. Happy Birthday Stacy, even though you probably don't read this. It was immense. Highlights included Total Eclipse of the Heart, Not the Circle of Life and A Thousand Miles. Good times. I can't wait for dinner on Wednesday or Thursday. And for this functional spec to be over so I can stop hating on college so much.

Music

I love recording music. Despite the fact that I'm not very good and can't record to a click track and sound horrible when I sing, it's actually the most fun ever. I just need a band name. Just because I don't say every little name that pops into my head, doesn't mean that I'm not thinking of names! Yeah!

*sick noise*

I can't wait for this exam to be over. I just want to sleep. :(

I wish I could just be happy and not have shit dragging me down as soon as I get to a state where I am content most of the time. I hate you sometimes, life.

I really shouldn't joke but...

Me: She must be knackered after shaking so much for the last 20 minutes.
Richie: To be fair, I bet she couldn't do it if she wasn't having a seizure.

Amazing!

So yeah. My Gran had a seizure today. I'm going to make jokes about it because that's what I do. It's probably going to make you feel uncomfortable. But that's ok. I'll stop in a few days.
One of the ambulance guys looked like Ricky Gervais. I was going to say it but then realised that if there probably couldn't have been a worse time to bring that up.

Just one exam left. Yuss! My leg got super sore for some reason. I'd really like to just go to bed. Sigh.

Studying...

...makes me want to think about anything but study. Here's what I was thinking about:

I've decided I want to do something worthwhile with my life outside of college. I'm thinking along the lines of getting my fitness level up. It's a bit ridiculous how unhealthy I am. And my diet is just awful. So the plan is to sort out my diet and be more active. I'm thinking along the lines of jogging, swimming and if I join a gym, that, otherwise I'll come up with some alternative. Also I want to document everything to see how long it takes and all that jazz. Writing a blog about it makes it a little more real.

Instead of studying I've been watching tutorial on how to give massages. I think maybe I'll take classes or something. Just watching the videos is super relaxing.

I have a databases exam tomorrow. Such a boring subject. What were you thinking, 18 year old Richie? Tardbag!

And here's some bullet points about the last few days:

24th
The Quays Restaurant
Avatar again

23rd
Moshspace Anniversary show
Strange Bouncers
Dorans
not Citibar
That other place whose name escapes me
Girl Fight
Charlies

22nd
Sin é
Porterhouse

Trousers

My exam went well. Thanks to everyone who made it possible.

When I got into my gran's last night, my jeans were soaked. I thought I had a few pairs there but evidently, I did not. As a result I wore Amy's size 6 trousers. Why they're there, I do not know. They're very white and very tight and very see through.
This morning I got up and my jeans were still wet so I decided I'd suit up because that's all that was there. So I wore a suit to my exam. Man I love wearing suits. No regrets!

My Granddad lost his wallet. If you find it, please contact me. It's easily identifiable from the €800 in it. I think I should start managing their finances.

AI

I'm as boring and insignificant as an Input node travelling to a single hidden node whose weight is set to zero. No matter what my input is, my out put will always be fucking zero!

I got 68% in my CA for artificial intelligence. And after looking quickly at the questions, I know how to properly do 10 out 24. Multiple choice, no negative marking. This should give me around 40 per cent. I'm ok with that. The minimum Ive to get is 20. I'll be fine. It's going to be a breeze. I'm going to look for something interesting about human or machine intelligence that wasn't in the course. Bonus Marks are awesome!

My friends all say...
WE ALL SAY!!!!

I like when I make smart things silly

My first exam went amazingly. The three things that I studied in detail came up. I wrote so much. The exam was called 'Information System Strategy' and one of the questions was 'What external elements would you analyse when making an Information System Strategy?' So I broke it down and asked myself what an information system strategy was. I didn't know.

That can't be good...

My brain is like the sine wave 1/x. As I get closer to zero, I become and more and more chaotic. It's getting to the stage where I can no longer predict where, between one and zero, I am on an x-axis when given a y value.

I feel like an unstable atomic nucleus spontaniously losing energy. Where I was one a proud carbon-14 atom, I have decayed and am now barely a nitrogen-14 atom. I am emitting radiation at an unpredictable rate.

I feel so alone, like a completely independent state of matter different from liquids, solids, plasma or gasses which our pathetic human minds couldn't even begin to understand.

You're Erwin Schrödinger and I'm your faithful feline companion who you have doomed to live in this eternal state of life and death until such time as you see fit to check in on me.

I feel like an insignificant pixel trying to show you a high resolution image, but all I can manage is a single colour from my arsenal of 16 million (156 to the power of 3) possibilities at any given time.

This is why no one likes you

I'm waiting for Edward to come back so I can leave. He's gone to print off notes. He's staying up all night because he left everything till the last minute. Learn from his mistakes! I never do but someone definately should.

It's been ages since I've written a blog. It seems like longer than it actually was. It's probably a good thing since I'd been feeling like super-shit for a few weeks. Luckily though everything has snapped back into contentment. I'm putting it down to a few friends. They're the best friends.

I have an exam tomorrow. I started studying this morning. I'm about half done. I'm going to power nap on the bus home and then study some more. I'm quite enjoying the studying, which I also hate. It feels good to be productive, or something.

Music is going well. Hopefully when my exams are complete, I'll have time to record something properly. I hate you, Amy. Like proper hate!

As you may have guessed, whoever you are, this blog is more about reminding me about what happened in my life, rather than it being of any significant value to you. Although if it is, I'm glad you're getting something out of it.

Somethings I'd like to be reminded of when I look back over this:

LOTR Marathon
I <3 MY BLACK RICHIE WALL
That Indian Resteraunt
08.30
Postits (I bet you're laughing at that, Amy. Tard)
Almost being locked out
"Stop Playing the Game"
Cancelled Bus
ex-Radio City club place
Snow fights
Sleep Overs in the living room
Pizza
Shuffle Shuffle
Young Wolves

!Studying

I just downloaded all of my exam papers for the past few years and all the downloadable notes I could find. I'm not sure how else to put of studying so I'm writing a blog. Hurrah!

The upstairs in my grans house was freezing. I almost dragged a matress downstairs but then I just realised I could drag my bed closer to the radiator. It means I can't open the wardrobes or anything but it's a grand sacrifice.

Someone needs to come play with me this evening. My gran's house is hella boring.

My hands were extremely cold and I needed to pee so I held my hands over the stream of piss and allowed the steam rising from the yellow magic to tickle my fingers warm. It wasn't enough so I took a shower as well.

No regrets!

I wish I could distract myself with being happy, or even content, when other people aren't around. I've literally spent all of the last few days in the company of a group of friends and had a great time. I've been alone (family doesn't count) now for about an hour and already I want to go back to bed and listen to the weakerthans. I want to go to college but I can't afford the bus. :(

Yesterday we did a photo shoot. It was loads of fun. Worth standing out in the cold by Lydia's car for ages. We also pretended to smoke so we'd look cool. We had so many cigarrettes in our ears and mouths and such.

I need to leave this house.

Fuck the incapability of people to deal with situations in a civilised fashion.