More than you can shake a stick at...

I forgot to mention yesterday about a portable movie player that I bought from a friend of a friend.  For £40 I got myself a 30GB HD and the components for a widescreen LCD movie player (even up to DivX of mpeg4), as well as being a picture viewer and music player.  I say components because the seller had pulled the thing apart to inspect a fault - and whilst doing so, managed to break it even further.  So with the ever-skillful Usman (hall's mate), he and I fixed the player with a few solder jobs here and there.  I think it's working now but I managed to corrupt a spare HD whilst transferring data through a caddy - which was incredibly annoying as I had just copied a load of photos from other people of the celebratory party at the pub (see yesterday's post).  Think it's all okay now - minus the pictures - need to get them again.

So, the electronics job went on until about 3am this morning, and I needed to leave the accomodations by 10am or so (which turned out not to be true when I actually left around about 11pm).  Luckily, I had sorted out most of the packing during Friday and I found that I had managed to collect a lot of things over the year - probably as much as I did during my two years at the rented house in Southampton.  Anyway, managed to get everything into two cars and back home where most of it is still lying about the house in pieces - must deal with before the end of the day.

Ummm... well the plan is to wait until the middle of next week when the final results come out for the MA: Design, and then I'll start updating my CV and sending them out to companies.  I found out that IDEO aren't conducting interviews until the end of September, so I've kinda got a month to sort things out.  Hmm, that kinda assumes I'm not going to get any other job than the IDEO one - we'll see, but hope that's not the case.

Okay, I've got to sort out this HD for the movie player.  And then unpack properly.  And setup the rest of my gear.  The fun never stops.