I could have done with avoiding rugby and picking up a pair of kneepads prior to playing paintball this weekend …

Started off playing paintball at a Delta Force site and managed to smash my knee in the second from last game. It wasn’t too serious (so I played the last game ) however it reeaally hurt to kneel down on it. My team won, which was good, and I got a decent kill/death ratio, so at the end of the day I hobbled home feeling quite pleased with myself.

I have now bought a pair of second hand kneepads from a guy over at www.p8ntballer-forums.com so I should now be fairly safe from knee related paintball injuries!

My knee was feeling much better on Monday so I went out with family and friends up to Dovedale and did the up Thorpe Cloud and over the stepping stones round trip from the Dovedale car park.

We then went on to Ilam where we decided to play a game of rugby, and to cut a short story even shorter, I managed to get a knee smack in the middle of my cheekbone whilst making a diving tackle within the first two minutes of play.

I have never come across concussion before, but … according to my very worried Mum, my Dad, and a nurse that Mum found (that is a long story…) I definitely had it.

Hence I wasn’t allowed to do much on Tuesday except read the course books for my next OU course (Fortunately I am allowed to go back to normal work in Leicester tomorrow).

My latest course in my epic journey towards a degree is M366 Natural and Artificial Intelligence which has it’s first tutorial this Saturday.

Block 1 is quite interesting and I’m looking forward to meeting my new tutor at the tutorial.

Anyway must go, I apparently can’t stay up til my usual 1am as it’s bad for the concussion… bye!

I took the MT365 exam this morning.

Nice exam, I think I’ve done well, the four mock exams I did over the last 2 days paid off nicely as some really similar stuff came up in the exam and it helped to have the examples fresh in my mind.

My right hand and shoulder are still aching from the three hour exam, it’s an awful lot of writing.

That concludes my third year with the open university, but I don’t really get a break as the first course of my fourth year started last week. It’s what you get when you try to spread the workload and stagger course start times

Anyway, I have the afternoon off, then it’s study time tonight and back to work tomorrow…

Working on a gallery to archive all the BWDC entries.

You can find it here: http://joshuascotton.com/bwdc/main.php

Amazing finish to the match tonight!

Jonny seems to have found his kicking touch again.

On to the final England …

My public pgp key can be found in full below and also at http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0×3E4E0E21

Finally created a banner for the week day challenges over at blenderartists.org

Let me know what you think of it. I’m currently working on some proper guidelines for the challenge which is now onto it’s 12th week.

That is when I’ve finished revising for my OU exam on Tuesday!