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Friday, 21 November 2008 09:59 |
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 I really like my job. It's nice to have autonomy in my role as an ICT consultant. As I cover five schools, I sometimes feel like I'm not completely involved in the decision making and strategies though, which can prove to be frustrating. However, in one of the more modern schools I cover, I was asked to design and cost out four seperate projects, which was enormous fun. The total cost of these projects? £35,000. I expected the school would have to dig into their finances or in some way "save up" to pay for them, but I was wrong. One form filled out applying to the LEA, and I was told to put the order in for the most expensive project (£13,000). Just like that.
Now, I'm glad that the education system is well supported, and there is no doubt that our schools should be kept modern. However, can someone please explain to me how one school can spend £13,000 whilst another one of my schools struggled to find the money for a £150 projector bulb last week? They have the same amount of pupils, their staff numbers have got to be pretty cloise, and their socio-economic area is extremely similar. Something isn't right here..... |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 11:25 |
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 My good friend Medium Dave and I attended our annual geek-fest in Manchester a few weekends ago. I may even chat about the experience later - I've a feeling that the third game of Blood Bowl I played would make a cracking short story. Anyhow, we both decided we wanted to get stuck into something different, and fancied doing some small scale tabletop gaming - and searched in earnest. Luckily, we eventually found "Urban War" and splashed out on a couple of starter packs and a rule book (which I, naturally, then found in PDF format online for free two days later).
 Both he (the rulebook god) and I (the rulebook dog) have been swotting up and are going to be having our first wee game on Saturday morning, which I'm thoroughly looking forward to. I'll let you know how it all goes and possibly write up a review of the rules from a first timer's point of view. 
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The novel...chapter one |
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 10:51 |
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 I've rewritten this chapter three times now, and it's getting to the point now where I'm pretty happy with it. I have a lot of the novel storyboarded out now, although admittedly a lot of it in my head, but some of it in my Writers Cafe Software too. It has been designed to be short, sharp, and raise a lot of questions without giving too many answers, as well as giving the reader the chance to decide whether they like my style of writing too. Anyway, here it is - enjoy it, hate it, but please have an opinion on it and let me know in your comments.
 Click on the PDF icon to the left to download the chapter as Portable Document Format. If you have no PDF reader, I thoroughly recommend Foxit - it's free, and a lot better than Adobe's PDF reader.
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 15:19 |
 I auditioned some weeks (about two months) ago for the role of Jud Fry in Rugby Amateur Theatre's production of Oklahoma. I messed up the singing audition pretty badly, so didn't expect to get the role, so no problem when I didn't get a call back for Jud (I was okay at the acting/dancing audition). However, I'm seething with rage that I haven't had any feedback whatsoever from any of the team, and all I got was a ten second phone message 7 WEEKS after the audition offering me a part in the chorus. I'm appreciative of the offer, but how about some constructive feedback first? I've sent two emails now asking for five minutes of someone's time and I've got nothing back. This is the same group who casked me to audition for the role as they were short of male actors (having giving a cracking performance in the audition for Deathtrap), and yet they treat their potential actors like this? Not cool. Not good. No excuse. |
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Saturday November 29th - Charity Show! |
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 10:56 |
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 On Saturday November 29th, I am performing in the main event of a charity show in Nottinghamshire. I will be taking on a former student of mine to hopefully raise funds for Cancer Research.
Unfortunately, Chris's father was taken from him by cancer recently. It is an absolute pleasure to do the show, and to be given the mian event with Chris means a lot to me. Hopefully we'll raise a lot of cash for this very worthy cause. |
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