School's out forever

I have now officially finished school. Fantastic! Unfortunately, I still have a seven exams to go before I really finish school. Nevertheless, it's nice to be moving from one major segment of my life to another.

Interestingly, in the leavers assembly, I won an award. Now, I'm not usually the sort of person who'd typically be considered award worthy, but this wasn't just an award. It was a giant spoon. The award is called the Gadfly award, and according to Wikipedia, "Gadfly is a term for people who upset the status quo by posing upsetting or novel questions, or attempt to stimulate innovation by proving an irritant." Hence the spoon, I guess. The term Gadfly has been used to describe a number of philosophers, politicians and others throughout history. But I think Stefan stated it most accurately, "I guess being annoying paid off!" A side effect of winning this award is that I've been invited to a dinner with the creator of the award. Certainly an interesting set of events. I guess this is some form of positive recongnition for being a pain in the ass. I certainly mean well by it ;)

On another note, I got my new Logitech G25 steering wheel for use with my Playstation 3. The steering wheel works great. The tables, on the other hand, did not work so well. I tried to use it at first without a table but naturally the thing spun itself around. Time for Plan B. I have an old desk like they have in hospitals that slides underneath the bed. While setting it up, I managed to shear off a bolt and bend a screw and it fell apart. Crap.... Plan C. I attached lots of coat hangers to it to try to stabilise it. I managed to use it to play it a bit, but every time I made a sharp left turn, the desk fell apart again. Plan D. I tried attaching some wooden legs to replace the ones I broke. I attached the steering wheel and... oh ho, it was so unbalanced it fell forward and into my lap due to the weight of the steering wheel.

Plan E is to design and construct a new desk from scratch. Hopefully I'll manage that tomorrow.