Mr Cheese’s Skiing Adventure

At the time of writing, it’s 17 hours and 20 minutes until the Epic Mr Cheese Skiing Adventure Begins. You may have already noticed the well-suited temporary new header image (which actually shows Austria, where I’m going for the Adventure) and if not, look up to the top of the page, right now!

It’s a school ski trip to Alpendorf, Austria for a week with skiing all day everyday, Sunday-Thursday. We’re going by coach at 3:40 on Friday, leaving Eastbourne for Folkestone, where it’s onto the Eurotunnel for a while, when Calais all the way to the hotel in Alpendorf. All together it’s about a 14 hour trip, so I have my iPod and a pillow packed for the journey!

If there’s (free) wi-fi at the resort-type-place, I’ll blog each day about the adventures so far. If not, I’ll save posts as drafts then post them as one long ski trip novel when we get back on Saturday at about 12:30 pm.

I’ll be taking my camera, so watch this space for some snowy-white photos!

Oh, and for obvious reasons, don’t go expecting new MCSMS episodes for the next couple of weeks (unless you can tell me how to upload to YouTube from halfway up a mountain, that is). That’s Saturday 4th and Saturday 11th, for those calendar-worshipping people out there.

See you soon!

Ho-Hum…

Well, I don’t really have much to say at the moment, except I got my English coursework done on time (yippee) and I am definitely not very good at Tetris (boo). Oh, and I can’t wait to see the video of the Apple keynote which may, or may not, have finished yet. It started about 55 minutes ago – any ideas how long before the video will be online anyone?

Uhhhhhh…

Don’t come near me at the moment, unless you want a very sore throat and a major headache. 24 hours a day. Yep, I’ve got germs, and I am not feeling 100%, 75%, 50% or even 25%. I think it’s around 6.28% (which, coincidentally, is approximately 2π {That was this font’s pathetic attempt at a pi symbol, by the way}). Yes, alright, I did that on purpose, but who’s keeping score? So that’s the negative end, or the stick. Now for the positives, or carrot (unless you’re like me and you don’t like carrots, so instead go for a Dairy Milk):

I got my school Report the other day. It was kind of good news really, hence the carrot/Dairy Milk.

Subject – (Indicated Grade) – Actual Grade I achieved.

English – (A*) – A

Maths – (A*) – A-

Science – (A*) – A*

ICT – (A) – C¹

Geography – (A*) – A*

ICT Digital Imaging – (A) – A-

Media Studies – (A) – C²

French – (A) – B

So that wasn’t too bad. Also, bear in mind that that is the first report of the year; my GCSEs are in 1½ years.

¹ I wasn’t at school when the work was due in, so I had to be given a placeholder grade.

² We haven’t had any assessments in Media yet, so again, placeholder.

See you another time! By the way, Mr Cheese’s Stop Motion Show Episode 8 is live. Have fun!

Flight MCSM003 Has Been Delayed…

No, I don’t mean an actual aeroplane, silly! I mean that episode 3 of Mr Cheese’s Stop Motion Show will not be ready tomorrow. Once again, I forgot to bring it with me. I could have emailed it, put it on a memory stick, even put it on my iPod, but no – I had to forget. Again. Oh well. It’ll be ready Sunday night, early Monday morning I suppose. On the plus side, today was an inset day, so that was fun! Bye bye for now!

I Won!

I got an email at school informing me that I had won Photoshop Phriday. It’s a fortnightly competition where we are told the fortnight’s theme and we have to create a Photoshop image on that theme. This time it was Dinosaurs – What If They Never Went Extinct. It was me that won, obviously, and for my efforts I won a miniature Mars bar. Do you want to see my winning picture? Here you go:

Oh, My Feet! Part II

It was the school sponsored walk today! Yay! That meant we had to walk 10 miles up and down the Downs, so now I’m sitting here with no legs because they fell off when I go home. I didn’t have to wear school uniform, and I got to come home early, so that was a bonus. I probably won’t be writing until either Monday or Tuesday now, because we’re going on holiday for the weekend and I won’t have access to Mr Cheese’s. See you at some point, though!

Coming Soon To A Blog Near You…

First things first, nothing interesting happened today, considering there was school today. I got some French homework – learn 10 words, including “enfin” (lastly, finally).

But the main section of this post is to tell you about the upcoming feature of Mr Cheese’s Random Ramblings: a tutorial telling you how to make your own iPhone Style Icons. Won’t that be fun? Check back soon to get your share of the icon-making pie!

“Boom!” – Steve Jobs, “Let’s Rock” Event

Well, it may be “Boom!” and everything’s done for good old Steve Jobs (who’s apparently dead), but it’s certainly not for me. Having downloaded iTunes 8 and it working perfectly on my Mac, getting it to work on Harry’s PC was a rather big hassle. First, it wouldn’t install properly. Then, once it did install, everything was pixelated and pink. Finally, having sorted that out, it won’t find my shared library, which is why I’m now downloading my 257 songs onto a memory stick to transfer them over. You see, he used to just use the shared library to listen to my music, but now it won’t work. That’s Windows for you.

I also had a mini Microsoft Office-related trauma involving the mens’ public toilets, a rather large wooden bat and a bar of lead… No, I’m joking. It was actually a lot less exciting than that. My school have just upgraded to Office 2007, and I had to continue a PowerPoint presentation for homework. However, I saved it onto my memory stick, brought it home and… Uh oh. It’s a .pptx file, and I have Office 2004. Whoops! So I hastily downloaded the 2007 to 2004 file converter from Microsoft, and then got on with choosing my Corporate Identity for my ICT course.

Boring, Boring, Boring

Nothing, and I mean nothing, interesting happened today. I played a bit of Pokémon Pearl on my DS, but nothing else major. I got some reading homework in English, which involves reading a book called Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor. It’s a very, very old book – in the publishing info page, it says reprinted in 1988! I have to read an hour of it by Friday, which should be fairly easy; I like reading!

Tomorrow, I have ICT twice and then Media – that should be fun. I should point out that I don’t know whether it’s Core ICT or Digital Imaging, seeing as my timetable just says ICT or ICT GCSE each time, but either are good!

Back To School

Today, as you may have guessed, was the first day back at school. I’m in Year 10 now, so everything’s a lot more confusing – I have my own lessons to go to; I can’t ask any random person what lesson I have next. Today at school was spent mostly sorting out timetables and exercise books ready to begin properly next week to start studying GCSEs. I had Science, PE, Maths and RS today – less than usual, but that was because of all the admin stuff in the morning.