"Ok Bertha..."

After yesterday, I'm going to start calling Sean either Bertha or Gertrude.

That is because, while I was messing around online, Sean decided to come upstairs, knock on my door, and tell me that Mom wanted to talk to me. So, I went down to see what she wanted. She didn't really talk at all, though. I got downstairs, and the person doing all the talking was Sean. The whole conversation was about food.

He was telling me about how he was going through the trash I put outside and then was lecturing me about the wrappers and stuff inside that trash bag. I find it sad that he's now looking through trash just to find things to bitch about. I know there were a lot of junk food wrappers in there, but they were from several weeks, not all THIS week. Barely any of it was from this week. He was giving the impression that everything in that bag (all from a massive cleanup of my room) was eaten THIS week. If that were true, wouldn't I be fucking huge by now?

Anyway, since he's obsessed with bitching at us and saying either "Your Mom wants to talk to you" or "Your Mom said...", I figure I may as well give him a ridiculous female name, like Gertrude or Bertha. Mom barely says anything during these things, and Sean says just about everything like he thinks he's our mother.

How quickly will constantly calling him Gertrude or Bertha piss him off?

Loss of cash

I'm not in the best of moods right now.

Last night, I felt so dizzy that I had NO idea what I was doing, and I was supposed to be sorting out payment for the Betterware stuff I delivered. Because I couldn't see anything that well, I just had to guess what I was paying with. It turns out now that I have no cash left for food and all I need for the youth project. It looks like someone took advantage of my dizziness because I know I should have at least £15 left, which I don't have. Typical.

Problem is, feeling as dizzy as I was, I can't accuse the guy of taking it all because I'm not 100% sure of anything. I know I should have at least £15 left, but did he take it, or was it someone else? What the fuck am I supposed to do?

Seven months and nothing was done!?

I've got to say - I'm amazed at the news report about the 15-year-old girl who ran off to France with her 30-year-old teacher. I noticed it in the papers yesterday but never read into it. I read about it today because it was splashed across several of the newspapers' front pages.

Apparently, the school KNEW about the relationship between 15-year-old Megan Stammers and 30-year-old Jeremy Forrest 7 months ago, yet they seem to have done nothing about it. Really? How could a school be so fucking irresponsible? What is even more amazing is this line from The Daily Mail's website. It reads, "School in Eastbourne says it is 'deeply concerned and shocked' by events". How concerned can you honestly be if you knew about it for seven months yet did fuck all about it?

Jeremy Forrest is a married man too.

Let's hope that Megan is at least safe with the guy. No one would want to hear that she's been hurt or something by that sick fuck.

If you know nothing about the report or are interested in reading about it, check out the following link.

Why didn't school stop them? Staff knew about runaway teacher and pupil seven months ago.

Is he gone for good?

Yesterday was a great day for some news around here.

While I was outside collecting some cash from people, I discovered that Sean may never return. He went up to Birmingham on Wednesday, and I honestly thought it was only going to be for a week or so. But I heard yesterday that he no longer has his job here. According to the rumour, he said that a person would not need his date of birth for some police check thing because he's not going to return.

The question now, though, is...what exactly did he mean by that if it's true? Does it mean he's moving away from this area, or does it mean something else? I'm hoping like hell that it means he's not coming back here ever. It'll be great for my family if he never returns.

In one way, the whole moving away thing scares me. The reason for that is because what if that entire thing involves Mom going with him to live elsewhere? I can't talk to Mom about it because she'll say she knows nothing about it and then will ask Sean about it, or she'll know something about it and deny it's true. I can't risk Mom asking or telling Sean I know about it because that'll get me and others into trouble.

I will have to wait it out and seriously hope he'll be gone for good.

Why have they stopped?

Lately, I've been wondering what has been happening with my Employment and Support Benefit. I started claiming it around the 6th of July this year, and it was being paid in just about every week from then. However, that hasn't happened for the past three weeks or so. I have yet to have a letter or anything explaining why it would have been stopped.

What I'm starting to wonder is if Sean is the main cause of that. I feel they possibly called the house and asked for me, and he probably told them that I was working. Either that OR he told them that he'd tell me they'd called and that I would call them back.

I tried to call them today as soon as I got home. However, all I got repeatedly was that all the operators were busy and unable to answer my call. I had to give up on that in the end, as it'd reached 6 pm when lines were supposed to close. Try again tomorrow, I guess.

I completed the back wall of the newer shed today. I could not do anything more out there because we'd run out of insulation. We also need four more pieces of feather edge cladding (or something like that). We probably need several things, but that'll get sorted out later this week or at the beginning of next week. Definitely won't be happening tomorrow.

Tomorrow, I'm meant to meet Erik at the hotel, and we're supposed to be working on a whole bunch of website stuff. I don't know which websites that will be, though. Hopefully, we'll learn a lot more about CSS and PHP. That's something I should practice at home. Can I practice that sort of thing online without affecting my website? I'd rather not practice on my own website and then discover I've fucked up everything.

Notepad++

After searching for a program that would display syntax highlighting, I think I've finally found what I've been looking for!

While coding some CSS on WordPress, I noticed that as you're coding, the commands are coloured, showing you what is what. Out of curiosity, I wondered if there was something online - for free - that would do that with all kinds of coding. CSS, HTML, PHP, etc. After some searching, I think I've found JUST the tool.

It's called Notepad++. After playing with it for just a little bit, I don't think I could say that I'm any happier with a free program than I am with this one!

If you're a website coder, whether it's HTML, PHP, CSS or whatever, I'd highly recommend this program to you!

"I'm fine!"...but am I really?

I think I pretty much let everyone down today.

I woke up feeling pretty fucking lousy, and having Sean around really did not help that at all. On the way to the youth project in Lostwithiel, I found out that my usual train from Liskeard to Lostwithiel was utterly packed from announcements at the station about why the train was delayed. As the time got closer to the expected arrival time, it was announced that only one coach was available. Due to the amount of people standing in the station for that train, I decided to skip over my usual train and catch the next one. Sadly, this meant that I had to remain sat at the station for about another hour.

It was about 11:30 when I got out to the woodlands in Lostwithiel to get on with some work. By then, I was beginning to feel even worse. I was meant to fill up the three water containers with water from the stream and start working on the interior walls of the new shed. I filled up those three containers and then struggled to carry them back up to the field. Those things are heavy when they're full.

Working on the walls is where I failed and started to feel miserable about my efforts. It took me about five tries to get one piece cut down to even fit into the area I was trying to fit it. It didn't fit in that well even after all of that effort because there were some large gaps from where I went a little wonky with the sawing. After all that effort, I was feeling stressed and miserable, but I was hoping it didn't seem like that to Richard.

That is one thing I lie about at times - how I'm feeling. I'll tell people I'm perfectly fine and all. However, some days, that can be a complete lie because deep down, I'm feeling like total shit, and I hope that it doesn't show. I'm sure it does show at times, though.

I feel like I let Richard down by the amount of work I achieved. For about 30 minutes or so, I just stood there, procrastinating about working on the wall. I didn't feel like working any more on it because I was just feeling that fucking lousy!

Back To The Future timeline

After completing Back To The Future - The Game, I decided to look at the Back To The Future wiki, aka Futurepedia. Why? I wanted to see what the timeline would be like.

I was surprised while reading it that there are eight different timelines throughout the movie trilogy. Each timeline began whenever the time machine went back to the past. Any leaps into the future wouldn't affect the current timeline. I'm curious how many timelines there would now be if the Back To The Future - The Game episodes were considered canon. But it seems from the wiki that these weren't considered canon at all, which is a shame because it's a good game.

The timelines are a lot of fun to read if you're into the Back To The Future series.

Timeline 1 is pretty straightforward. This is the original, unaltered timeline. In this timeline, Biff becomes George's boss and continues bullying him.

Timeline 2 is the timeline brought into existence by Marty's accidental time journey into 1955. This timeline exists at the end of the first movie before Doc takes Marty and Jennifer into 2015. In this timeline, George becomes an author, and Biff becomes a car detailer.

Timeline 3 is the timeline Doc brings into existence by travelling to 1985 to seek Marty and Jennifer's help. In this timeline, the fate of the McFly children ought to have been greatly improved. Unfortunately, "Old" Biff's stealing the DeLorean and travelling back to 1955 retroactively changes this timeline's events and brings Timeline 4 into existence instead. Biff quickly returns the DeLorean to 2015 undetected (before any past alterations have occurred), and Doc, Marty, and Jennifer depart moments before it fades away. It is implied that Doc would bring Marty and Jennifer back to 1985 after the future excursion because their future selves still exist and are appropriately aged in 2015.

Timeline 4 is the timeline Old Biff brings into existence in 1955 by arriving from 2015 in the stolen DeLorean, almanac in hand. It is replaced with a virtually identical Timeline 5 on October 26th, 1985, when Doc, Marty, Einstein and Jennifer arrive from 2015 and observe the damage Biff has accomplished.

Timeline 5 is the alternate timeline brought into existence when Marty, Doc, Jennifer and Einstein return from 2015. This is referred to by Doc as 1985A, which is depicted in BTTF Part II. The key difference between this timeline and Timeline 4 is the simultaneous presence of two Martys (his doppelganger overseas at boarding school), two Docs (his doppelganger committed to a mental institution and unable to invent the time machine) and the alternate Einstein and Jennifer, the latter who is still unconscious from what she has witnessed in 2015 (their 1985A doppelgangers, if they have any, are never seen or mentioned).

Timeline 6 is the key timeline brought into existence when Doc and Marty arrive in 1955 to relieve Biff of his newly acquired almanac from the future, thus preventing Timeline 4 and Timeline 5 from coming into existence, but without disturbing Timeline 2 as Marty has previously accomplished. This timeline is depicted in the "1955" part of Back to the Future Part II. For clarification, this timeline can be considered a "patched" version of Timeline 2, with double Docs and Martys. It bears noting that at some point during this one-day period, three instances of Doc's DeLorean are present in Hill Valley simultaneously.

Timeline 7 is the timeline Doc and Marty exist in, separated by seven decades, at the end of Back to the Future Part II and the beginning of Part III (i.e., before Marty's trip back to 1885). It is a timeline in which Doc lives in 1885, without Marty, for only eight months and almost seven days. As it seems the careful Doc's presence has little impact on history (until 1955 when his DeLorean is unearthed), this timeline is nearly identical to Timeline 2 with Timeline 6. Because of Doc's unintended trip to 1885, on November 12th, 1955, in this timeline, four DeLorean time machines exist simultaneously because this is a timeline where a DeLorean has been stored in a mine for more than 70 years. Even as 1955 Doc is planning to send DeLorean "A" back to the future; 2015 Biff brings DeLorean "B" with an almanac inside, and 1985 Doc and Marty bring DeLorean "C" to retrieve the almanac -- there is DeLorean "D" inside the Delgado Mine.

Timeline 8 is the timeline that comes into existence when Marty arrives in 1885 to try to prevent the events that lead to Doc's death in Timeline 7 at the hands of Buford Tannen. It is this timeline that Doc and Marty appear for most of Back to the Future Part III. It is also the final timeline depicted in the trilogy, as the DeLorean will no longer travel backwards in time. Since Marty chooses not to race Needles upon his return to 1985, the future is changed again, and the alternate futures Doc and Marty have experienced in Timeline 2 and Timeline 3 are erased by this timeline. Note: Two DeLoreans exist in this timeline for five days in 1885, from September 2nd, when Marty arrived, until September 7th, when he departed for 1985.

If you're interested in reading about all the timelines in greater detail, then check out the Back To The Future timeline.

I think what I'll have to do at some point is continue the timelines as best as I can in my blog to include the games and any changes they would have possibly made to the future if they were considered canon, which I don't think a lot of people will. But it could be fun to try out.

"I like what you're doing...but..."

It's been one of those idiotic days today.

The day out at the project started off being standard. I arrived out there to see that only Richard was there. Not too long after I got there, Darren showed up. Pretty much all we did was screw in some support beams to support the roof on the second "shed". That wasn't completed, though, because we soon left on a road trip. It wasn't much of a trip. We were getting this large van off of the land. The van is being turned into a temporary home for Richard and his family.

This is where the idiotic part came in.

A guy pulled up to the land in his car just before we were about to depart in the large van and started telling Richard a whole load of complete and utter bullshit. He was whining about everything we were doing and that the cockerels were keeping him awake at night. They're going to be gone soon anyway.

He then whined about language out on the woodlands. Apparently, many of the youths have been swearing extremely loudly. He claims that because of that, a lot of local kids have started swearing, too. If this HAS happened, then it's happened at times that I haven't been out there because the only thing I've ever heard yelled out is "MODERN WARFARE!" and just random noises. Nothing that could be considered swearing. There has been swearing on the land, but it's never been loud.

Another thing he whined about was planning for everything out on the land. He told us he'd called the council about planning and all and was told that Richard told them nothing. Funny - Richard had a meeting with them today about it all. How could they not have heard anything? I honestly think the guy lied about actually calling them and does not want us around in that area.

He claimed that he likes what we're doing but was saying he hates everything we're doing.

I've got to say it's honestly fucking stupid how many people say they love what we're doing, yet bitch and moan about everything that we're doing. If you like what we're doing, then shut the fuck up and let us get on with it instead of trying to hinder our progress. We already lost six months of work because of one fucking dickhead; we don't need MORE work lost because of people having some retarded problem with us.

I wonder if the planners Richard met with today ended up bringing up complaints from that fucking asshole. I'm sure it was probably mentioned. Even if he never called them, I'm sure someone else called and lodged idiotic complaints.