Money, money, money.

So today I ordered a new pair of trainers, since the pair of Vans I bought last year are falling apart so much it’s about time to retire them. Though, obviously, I won’t actually be giving them up until their ‘functionality’ ceases – that is to say, whilst wearing them and doing something, one of them rips itself in two.

I’m trying to save as much money in a savings account as possible right now, so I tried to find the cheapest pair of shoes I liked. I ended up picking out a pair of Converses, which are fairly similar to my current pair of Vans, and decided to order those. They were over 30% off too, so I was only having to pay £24.95 for them.

Fortunately, I also received a 15% off voucher code in my e-mail from them, and though normally I don’t read their newsletters, I did and discovered this wondrous code. So, including the tiny postage fee (£1.95), I’ve got a brand new pair of shoes coming – probably tomorrow, if they ship today as they promise – for £22.31.

This pleases me.

I would also like to bring to your attention this site; it’s a reward site that pays you for searching with them. Once you’ve earnt £20 (the equivalent of about 940 searches by my estimations) you can enter payment details and they’ll send you the money via that method.

Today, after just a month of use, I passed £20, so soon I’ll have myself a nice deposit in my bank. As this, too, pleases me, I’d invite you to sign up to it via the link above and use it as often as possible. You’ll benefit me, as I’ll get a bonus for each search you make (not taken out of your own money, obviously) and you’ll also benefit yourself – who couldn’t do with an extra £20 a month?

Week One is complete.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, I’ve found updating once a day for the entire week slightly hectic. The site’s redesign not only makes things much easier to find and a tonne more logical, but also insanely more time-consuming when updating files in my admin panel. Not to mention the fact that some days, multiple sections are updated, making this site more of a commitment than ever.

Still, this is how it’ll be from now on, until the date that I become too stressed with it all and bundle a bunch of update days together to free up some time for myself. Not that I’m lacking that, right now.

I’ve whacked a couple more things on my Amazon wishlist, which can be found through the main site, and so if anyone feels like anonymously getting me a four-month-early birthday present, feel free; there are 22 books on there, 19 of which are currently available, any one of which I’d like. Some more than others, of course, and this is more obvious as I have now given priorities to everything – unreleased books are the only things in the ‘lowest’ category, so ignore those. So if you fancy making me really happy, pick something from the higher priorities. Or pick anything by Stephen King. I can almost definitely guarantee I will like it – unless it’s anything like Carrie, which I wasn’t too into.

Thinking of books; some of the regular readers from previous iterations of the site may have noticed that the reading list is currently missing. It will be back eventually and probably updated on a more regular basis when I return it.

Hello, Friday afternoon

“You need something to chew. You can’t just eat salad, your teeth are meant for chewing. If you don’t use them, you’ll lose them.”

This is actually something I was told the other day. There will be an article on the site about the person that told me this at some point, but I don’t know exactly when as it’ll end up being another long one similar in scale to the Laurell K. Hamilton article I wrote a month ago – which, incidentally, got the attention of Hamilton herself and several counterpoints by her assistant were made. These will one day be released as I offer counter-counterpoints in an extension of the article and mention things I forget the first time around.

On Monday I got some books I ordered last night, including It Ate Billy On Christmas, a fantastic graphic novel I’ve been meaning to get since October last year, when I heard it was to be released in November. I also got two volumes of Tsubasa Chronicle, but I’ve read those now and am aching for volume 4. If anyone fancies buying a copy for me, check out my Amazon wishlist, linked on the main site.

Wednesday, thanks to the Halo-themed comic and a front page mention on halo.bungie.org, Boring Internet received the most hits in a day yet, coming in at just under 1400. Game-based comics will become a semi-regular occurrence, as I planned since before Boring Comics started; I even considered it in Pixelated Anne but the artwork is too difficult and time-consuming to bother.

To the one thousand, three hundred and something that came to check out the Halo comic; please check out more features of the site. You dwarf the regular readers by like 40 times. Join them.

The blog lives!

By now any of the older, more settled-in readers of Boring Internet will have seen the brand new design of the site and, with luck, be fainting with joy at its semi-decency; several rungs above the two previous designs.

As for the new people here; welcome to the blog attached to www.boringinternet.co.uk. Here you’ll find crap that doesn’t exactly fit in with the main website; be it non-funny rants, comments on what’s to come or just news from the life of Me.

For now, enjoy the new website and what’s to come. The update schedule is about to become slightly more hectic, people; expect lots of new things, all of which will bring pain and joy in unequal proportions.

Mostly pain.