You’ll notice there’s been a lack of blogposts recently. I say recently. It’s been a few weeks - but I’ll try and do a few over the next week or so to keep you all happy and stuff.

So, a little while ago, I started building a little radio studio downstairs. It came along quite nicely - It looks almost finished! But it doesn’t quite work yet. It needs a bit of wiring to and from the desk, plus a few more fittings such as speakers, cameras etc… The project never got halted as such - there was, as there seems to be in the world wherever you turn, a small funding crisis.

Nothing to do with me going broke or ought. Far from it! I just decided to buy a car didn’t I? It made my disposable income (from which the studio is kinda funded) drop rather suddenly. I had to pay a deposit for a car, and then work out how much money I’d need to fund it for the however many months I’d be paying it off. I’m glad to now report that it’s all sorted. I’ve done the sums, and although I haven’t actually got the new car yet (hopefully sometime in the next couple of weeks), the installation of the studio continues!

Today I ordered some new parts to refurbish one of the 3 PCs that will be housed in there. Currently, I have 3 old PCs that have come together from a variety of sources. One is my old one before I went off to university. One is my dad’s old one from the office that the studio has now taken over from. The third is from work - it broke and got replaced, yet the chassis still works and will save me a few quid. The real bonus - they all look the same on the outside, and they’re not too bad looking either really. I stripped one of them of EVERYTHING yesterday. It now doesn’t have any drives (hard disk or optical), no PSU, no motherboard, no cards or anything. I left the floppy disk drive - mainly cos I won’t have anything to fill the hole with. Doesn’t mean I’m going to reattach it though… who the fook uses them anyway these days?

So I bought everything new. People might moan at this and ask why? Well, they were all seriously out of date. The PCs were originally built in 2004 and haven’t really been changed since. Lots of things have changed. Processors are a lot faster now, RAM is in abundance and hard disks are bigger and faster. Of course, building a radio studio, the all important thing is noise. These things must be silent. Or at least as quiet as I can get them to be. Hopefully this will be achieved in the use of Water Cooling. Something that I’ve never tried before but have always been rather intrigued about. The idea of it seems simple and I’m going to put myself to the test with it when the stuff arrives on Tuesday. Part of me can’t wait. The other part wants the toilet.

I’m only building one unit for the moment. A kind of test run or guinea pig, if you must. If it passes my strict quality control standards on noise and stuff, I’ll be happy and will gladly continue to buy more parts and do more things.

Estimated time till the studio is up and running? I’ll get back to you on that one…

So 20 days ago I decided I’d go to the gym. Which I did. And continued to go for many days afterwards. I then decided to make it into a feature - so here it is! It’s my Fifty Days of Fitness.

So far I’ve been training at the gym for 20 days consecutively. Lots of early mornings (easy when you set your body clock to that time of day), and plenty of healthy eating. And I’m noticing some nice differences. The reason? Well Summer is around the corner and I want to look good. And I shall. So hah.

Only 30 days left to go! I’ll keep you updated either here or on twitter

I’m looking for ideas of something to do to get me out of the slumps of boredom and get my mind off certain things. I’m going crazy otherwise. Answers here, by text or on twitter. All suggestions taken on board (where appropriate)

Awww… I’m no longer a teenager!

What a shame…

Anyway. Quick thank you to everyone who’s wished me happy birthday today - whether you facebooked me, twittered me, texted me, rang me, spoke to me in person or played Happy Birthday down the phone to me on the trombone as my grandad did (I bet his neighbours were happy when he did this at 9am)

Anyhow. Ta and goodbye - off for family dinner!

I’ve decided to finally succomb to the pressure and start Twitting.

I’ve had my Twitter account for well over a year now, but until now it’s had absolutely nothing on it. I’ve felt a little left out to be honest, and so have now pledged to twit on a regular basis. It makes a lot of sense too as my mobile is with Vodafone, which supposedly gives me free twitting from my mobile, and the ability to receive things from Twitter when I’m out and about - it all sounds good to me! What’s there to lose!? Plus, with the addition of my mobile broadband dongle I can now blog from virtually anywhere where I have my netbook to hand. Super huh!?

So why not welcome me to the Twitter community by having a look at my page and following me or something - I’m still a bit new on there so be nice!: www.twitter.com/tomholt