Hey Vegeta...

I passed my theory, happy days. 50/50 on the questions, too. Not so great on the hazard perception, but that thing's shaky as hell anyway.
I got a bit worried on the way there as my train was twenty three minutes late, but somehow I still managed to get there five minutes early.
Also, really randomly, Lofty was getting the same train into Stevenage to just look around and do some shopping, and even happened to get the same train back, which was cool as I hardly ever see him. Strangely though he won't be coming clubbing tonight, even though he's taking loads of time off work, but oh well.

The hazard perception videos I've been watching over the last few days have made me very reminiscent of the Wales rally, as Tosh (the endless source of information) tells me the largest DSA building is in Swansea after I told him about how I recognized having driven along many of the roads. It reminded me of how good it was just driving in between everything and wandering around Swansea and Cardiff, not even thinking about any of the actual rallying. Now I can't wait until the next rally, which I'll be driving to and from, even though it's still two hundred and twenty six days away.

Speaking of my driving antics, I almost bought a car yesterday. There's a really shifty character that works in a laundrette who always makes us tea when we clean his windows, and yesterday he was trying to shift a 1.5 automatic Daewoo, which clearly hadn't been driven in months. It had some compression problems which could've been anything from spark plugs to the head gasket. But because he was selling it for £100 it was a win win situation anyway, as even if it was a complete dud we could strip it and sell the lump alone to make a profit.
If I had my licence and a driveway or garage to keep it in I would've grabbed it right there. I probably would've at least been able to rag it around a track a couple of times before having a laugh stripping it apart with Paul and Andrew and making some money on it.
Ahh well, working in a trade job I'm sure this won't be the last cheap set of wheels I'll come across.

I had a brief look at flights to Blackpool to do this intensive course yesterday, but didn't have as much luck as I'd been hoping. Half the results I got were news articles on how companies like Ryanair don't even fly up there anymore, and trains are bound to be absurdly expensive. But I'll have to have another better look soon, as there's nothing down here remotely as good as that place.

The books I'd ordered arrived over the last couple of days. I'll start reading volume five of Genshiken soon, but I'm going to save volume ten of Initial D and Welcome to the N.H.K for Blackpool.
The blurb of Welcome to portrays it as the most otaku-awesome light novel ever written, so I am very much looking forward to diving into it, I just need to sort out how I'm going to get to this promised land first.

Also, I wasn't really thinking about my gamerscore on the 360 as anything interesting until I hit the five figure mark, but today after returning home I got a gold on the last race of the Semi-Pro series on Forza, kicking up the score by 35 points to 9025. Now whenever anyone asks me what my gamerscore is I can say "It's over NINE THOUSAAAND!" and have them look at me like I'm trippin' balls.
lol internet meme