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It's that time again..

It seems like only a couple of weeks ago I was posting my last project work.

Anyone that had a close look at my last picture will have seen scribbles of my bike trailer brain child. Here's the latest.

Final renders and presentation boards to come next week I'm sure

Another Late Night...

A night in the library with Martin doing some work for a current project.

I think we're going to be here for a little while.

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Might need this soon!!

It's actually Aunty Anj's passport (I pinched it off her blog) as mine was delivered to my dad's house.

You get the idea, exciting huh?

Verity goes back home

Verity heads back home today after a week of fun and we finally got to see Avatar today which was stunning. We saw it at a 3D IMAX and we weren't disappointed.

Pancake Day!!

Today was an interesting day. We were both up nice and early, had pancakes for breakfast and set out for Eldon Square shopping 'mall' to get a glimps of the new Apple store being opened. Us and about 4.5k other people so needless to say we didn't get one of the free t-shirts but was still nice to see they had done a great job and it wasn't one of the small, pokey verity. I'll go and have a better look soon, I need to swap one of my transformers anyway.

We then went to see the long awaited Avatar but when we got our tickets we had been given 'row A - seats 9 & 10'. I've never sat in the front row of cinema ever, let alone at a 3D IMAX. So we swapped our tickets for 'the middle of the middle' seats, with extra leg-room and comfy chairs for the 09:45 showing on friday.

We're now off out for the Valentine dinner out we didn't do on Sunday

Hope everyone is well, love Sam and V x

Happy Valentine's Day All

It's one excuse after another I know, but blog posting is technologically hampered on my part at the moment, I'll go in to more detail in a couple of weeks i'm sure.

Verity has driven the 400miles to come up and see me as her school is closed for half time and the timing to coincide with Valentine's is perfect. Today we're going to drive down to Durham, which is very pretty, go on some pretty walks and take some pictures. Hopefully there'll be something nice I can share with you all.

No blog post is complete with out a picture so have a picture of me making an 'Ass' of myself.

Happy 1 year to us !!

It was actually on the 5th of January

(we met on new year's eve last year)

How time flies

Right - my last blog catch up effort was a bit poor so here goes...

All a bit of a mish-mash and in a funny order but here goes...

With the roads a bit dodgy to say the least a couple of weeks back the only way we could get James' car in was for him to spin the wheels to relive the friction and for me to push the car sideways into its space. You can see the footprint it left

In Brighton with James, fun times.

A picture Verity couldn't resist taking just after the New Year

Christmas morning at Verity's.

Some how Santa knew I wasn't going to be at home this year and had left some gifts for me by the chimney. What a clever fellow.

I went to use my stop watch the other day and found it was already running. Confused as to how you accidentally start a stopwatch on an iPhone I did a bit of maths traced it back to a point in time when I was in the pub at the end of summer and remember James mucking about with it. I left it running and presented it back to him at xmas to 'Stop' for me.

Interesting to know that if your phone gets switched off or runs out of battery the stopwatch carries on...

My first morning back in Sussex after getting home and this weather arrives. Verity's school is closed and Christmas quite literally comes early!!

Click HERE to see the rest of the pictures from that day if you haven't seen them already.

The bane of my life at the moment...

I got bored whilst waiting for a friend in a pub.

Another curry experiment

Remember me going to MPH in november, just after halloween. Well, I forgot to throw 'Spidey' away and he didn't look so well upon my return.

NEW YEAR'S EVE

My old work were having a masquerade themed party for NYE and I had free tickets so we got creative !!

Sorry for the mass blog - but my computer is going back in for another week on friday to look at Bluetooth issues so it'll be another quite week, I'll try and keep you updated via the iPhone

Let the blog catch up begin

It might not be in chronological order but as long as it's all there that should be ok, right?

Even I don't know what is going on at the moment !?

Again I find myself stating a blog post with an apology due to either not having time or a computer. This time It was the computer, and although not 100% sorted I do have it and can at least attempt to post some of the blog worthy material I have piling up on my Desktop and on my phone. I'll start with the first day I had in Seaford after getting home for Christmas. It was a Friday and after getting up bright and early to see Verity into school we get a text to say V's school is closed!!

SNOW DAY !!

We had a Snowman built by 10:30 am

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Click on the photo below to see all the pictures from that day of Snow fun

Christmas 2.0

Christmas all over again =D

Winter wonderland

Many apologies for the lack of postings again. My laptop is at the apple shop again, the GPU this time. Although I'm not too upset as I have all my work done and the 3 year warranty runs out in 2 weeks so the in a topsie-turvee kind of way it's actually quite a good thing.

I'm back in Sussex now and my timing could not have been better. I handed in my work 2 days earlier in order to get home sooner and see my girl, but had I have left 24hrs later I would have probabley only just got home. Crazy weather here at the moment.

It did however play into my hands. The first night back with Verity was great only to wake up to a text from her work saying school was closed!! SNOW DAY

More to come.

Busy busy busy...

Had a day off yesterday but it's all systems go for the wednesday deadline.

Expect to see more

(Colours not quite right due to CMYKness)

Another later night in the CAD lab...

Just taking a break from work so thought I would update the blog

This is what I am up to at the moment

It's the muscle behind my latest project which is a squib.

This is a pneumatic device that you cock and load with fake blood or dust and can be fired with the pull of a trigger to simulate a bullet hitting a person or object.

It's designed be cheap so that it can be used by amateurs, theatres or drama groups.

I'll be doing some sexy presentation boards soon so I'll let you know as soon as their done.

MPH: TopGear Live

Due to my computer 'miss-behaving' and being a bit pressed for spare time there are a few things that haven't gone up here yet.

So about a month back myself and two house mates got on a not so 'mega-bus' and headed for London town. We left Newcastle at 11pm Thursday and arrived in London at about 7am. After a coffee and a bit of sight-seeing I hopped on the train to Seaford and stayed with V. Next day Me and V got the train up to London and headed for Earls court for the MPH: Top Gear Live show. It was amazing.

Click the picture below to see some of the snaps from the exhibition area.

Sam needs your help!!

This is the company I want to work for.

Click the picture then click to see their showreel on the home page

Next year I have a placement, instead of lectures.

I've found quite a few places I would like to work but this firm stands out above the rest. I think they only take graduates but if I can only get someone to visit my website maybe I can change their mind. Think Wayne trying to get hold of Mr. Big at the end of Wayne's World.

So I need to get my website looking sh*t hot over xmas so I can do the big push in the new year.

Feedback from everyone as to what you think my website should include and how it should be presented would be greatly appreciated

To see how it's coming along visit www.spjohnson.co.uk

No it's not a ninja...

... it's just how I have to dress myself to brave my studies.

Today's high was 4°C!! My fridge is set to 5°!!

Spinning lady

This is something a friend showed to me that I find incredible.

Now you probably looked at the image before reading this but which direction is the lady spinning? Clockwise or anti-clockwise? The answer is either and it depends how your mind works... Apparently most of us will see her spinning clockwise, I did at first. But if you if you convince yourself that (in my case) it's not her right leg up in the air but her left, you'll see her rotating in the opposite direction. Nuts huh?