It's been a while, but I'm still alive. Aside from a few family matters and me having to quit my job, nothing much has really happened since last time I posted.
One interesting thing I've done however is pay off all of my student loans, all of it. Technically If I don't pay them off the goverment just writes it off, but I didn't do that. I hated seeing all of the interest accumulate each in those letters they send you each year and the idea that I owe somebody thousands of pounds just tormented me, so using all the money I saved I spent a huge amount of money paying off part of it just to reduce the interest to a fraction, and then a year later I payed the rest of it off, and that's that. I hope the person they sold the debt to was pleased they actually got somthing for that, I bet it's a rare occurance.