Hello everyone! It’s been a while since I last posted so… to recap.

It was my birthday on Tuesday (15yrs old, and yes, I mean OLD J) and I received a cool computer game (Railroad Tycoon 3, which is a computer game where you build a railroad and make money from it and the industries using it), an audio book by G.A. Henty (more on that in a moment), a book on cricket (a major sport in Australia), and the book Ben Hur. Jess (you can see her blog on my friend’s list) gave me a blog coupon, as she is very clever with HTML and all that stuff. So expect some major revisions on this blog, and soon!

I now also have a job at a local soft drink distributor and farming machine parts shop, mainly working in the storeroom sorting things out but also to sweep and odd jobs. I do 2 ½ hours for two days a week. I enjoy the work and it’s for pay which is good. I intend to by a cheap bow and arrows, model soldiers, and stuff for my model railroad (as well as books and audios) sometime. I’ll have to post some pictures of my model railroad (read: model mess!) on here soon. It’s a proper, HO scale (87 times smaller than the real thing), electric train set on a table, I’m working on hills and will have a small town and trees and a jetty too eventually.

The audio I’m listening to is a historical novel by G.A. Henty about William Wallace and Robert Bruce’s fight for Scottish freedom against medieval England in 1296-1314 AD. G.A. Henty wrote many good books for boys on Hannibal, William Wallace, the battle of Hastings and others a long time ago (I don’t know when.). I have only read “The Young Carthaginian” which is about Hannibal and his war against Rome. This audio is gently abridged but still very good. I’m up to the battle of Bannockburn, right at the end of the audio where Robert Bruce defeated the English mounted knights with his spearmen, who were of a lower social rank. That battle’s the old story, the proud knights charging recklessly against socially inferior opponents who held a superior position (like the battles of Crecy and Agincourt, where the outnumbered English defeated the chivalrous knights of France). I’m nearly finished the audio, with less then a hour to go.

This is becoming a long post J! I’ll stop now and tell you more later!

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May. 14, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Zack G

Hey Joshua, how's things?
If you like RailTycoon, you might want to have a look at SimuTrans (www.simutrans.com) to download it. It's pretty big, but hey, it's a massive game. Where it lacks in graphics (which it does rather a lot), it makes up for it in realism numerically. Worth a look. Anyway enjoy your job, it sounds good.
Cyaz round, Zack.

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May. 15, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Dot

Well, Happy Belated Birthday.

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