Pling!

Grandma

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/5387896.stm

That’s my Grandma.

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zomg, I have a job interview thingy with IBM in Portsmouth. This is fairly exciting stuff.

Another zomg, at least one of the companies I applied to reads this blog, so, best be careful what I post!

Not long until I’m back in York now. Fun XD

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Dear Christopher

I am writing to let you know that the resit examinations Board meeting took place on Friday and that you have satisfied the examiners and can progress to the 2nd year of your course.

Your complete set of results following the resit assessments is as follows:
Clump A: 82.00%
ADS closed (Max: 50): 32 ADS Open (Max: 50): 42
POP (Max: 50): 49
Clump B: 61.67%
CAR (Max 100): 61
ICS (Max: 50): 31.5
Clump C: 55.50%
DAD closed (Max 80): 37 DAD Open (Max 20): 7.25
IDD (Max 50): 39
Clump D: 40.33%
ICM (Max 50): 23
MCS (Max 100): 37.5

The Department rule is that resit marks cannot be used to improve your original overall mark for the year above the pass mark of 40%.
The overall percentage mark which will be carried forward for this year and used to calculate your degree will therefore be: 54.71%

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How to drop £776

Decide you want to do some more amateur radio is the easy option. After selling my shitty handheld for £14 on eBay (I paid £50 for it, iirc) I realised waiting to raise some money was pointless, so I went ahead and bought the radios I was going to buy at LARS:

1 x FT-857D FT857 Yaesu HF 50 144 430 MHz (FT-857D FT85) = £555.00
1 x G5RV HALF Watson 40-20-15-10m Dipole (G5-RV) = £21.95
1 x MFJ-904 3.5-30MHz 150W Travel Tuner with SWR/PWR meter (MFJ-904) = £99.95
1 x W-25AM Watson 25A PSU (W-25AM) = £89.95
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Sub-Total: £766.85
UK (Best Way): £10.00
VAT: £114.21
Total: £776.85

Ouch.

Just hope it’s worth it. And that the aerial fits in my garden.

I’m not going to LARS now. Why? Because I’ve been asked to sell merchandise at the Robbie Williams concert at Leeds, and if I do well, in Milton Keynes as well. So, getting paid to watch Robbie Williams, and flog merch afterwards = good in my book.

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