Calvin's Daily Blog | 19th January | Musical Wizardry!

Hey guys! Might as well start a daily blog of what I've been doing all day.
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Today (Well, technically yesterday as I am posting this at 3AM the next day) was a crazy day. Let's get the ball rolling, shall we?

This morning, I was rudely awoken by a rather loud noise outside - it's been snowing here in Scotland for a few days now, and this morning all the snow fell off our roof and landed rather unfortunately on my mums car, setting off her car alarm. Considering the car is parked right next to my bedroom window... And the headlights started flashing into my window... Yeah. Not exactly the greatest start to the day, eh?
I went to CeX (also know as Entertainment Exchange up here) a couple of weeks ago and traded in £80 worth of games:

My apologies for the huge picture...
Anyhow, I got £80 worth of store credit, so decided to spend £28 on four particular games - Halo Reach, PGR4, Halo 3: ODST and Fable 3. However, the copy of Fable 3 I bought doesn't work.
My plan was to trade in the game before I went to my gig, but I never had time. My friend appeared outside my house to pick me up and take me to the gig just as I was going to leave.
On the plus side of that, I bought his old laptop off him for £30, and I'm using it now. Samsung R60 Plus - 2x512MB RAM, upgraded 500GB HDD, 16" screen, and about 28 minutes of battery life when fully charged. T-T

We went to see Moving Pictures, who are a Rush tribute band - if you live in the UK, and you like Rush, you should definitely check these guys out. You can find them either on their homepage or on their Facebook Page. Me and Connor arrived at the gig an hour early (Connor bought me the ticket) and we got the chance to hear them do their last sound-check, and dang was it awesome. A few minutes later we walked up to Morrisons, and I stupidly bought and ate 44 caramel shortcake bites, and now my stomach is killing me. Caramel bites + moshing = pain.
Once the doors opened, we got to the front of the stage immediately. I sat and stared at the guitars for the most part - I've never seen so many Gibsons in all my life, he even had a totally Alex Lifeson-esque doublenecked guitar, and I guitargasm'd.
Their show was amazing, totally worth the £13.50 I never spent on the ticket. Atmosphere was electric, everyone was headbanging and air-drumming and air-guitaring and having a laugh with the band between songs - one of the best cover bands to walk on the Earth, I'd say.

So, I originally said that the day was so-so, but I imagine you are struggling to see the negative point.
Well... my mum and her fiancée split up today. He was the closest thing to a fatherly figure I had, and we shared a lot of interests, from music and TV to our favourite shaving cream. He was pretty cool guy, he drove cool car and doesn't afraid of anything. Gonna miss him a lot.
Also, I failed my important History test resit on Thursday, and my mum has been called into school to look at my options. Ouch.

Anyways, that concludes my day in detail.

To sum it up in 10 words: Ears hurt, kinda sad, new Fluttershy episode made me cry.