Had an interesting meeting with mchicago on Friday. After we finished cleaning up the bottle of home brewed Ginger Ale he managed to smash on the patio (lol) we geeked about the next stage in our world domination plans, quite exciting. Then he left and djkoa turned up to discuss capture cards and Svideo inputs for a video he’s shooting (with bouncykaz‘s broadcast quality camera, mwahaha).
I’ve just finished an extremely relaxing 4 day “pretend” holiday with lauperr. Spent half a day at my cousin Kate’s who I haven’t seen for ages and love dearly. She seems to be coping pretty well with married life and has a lovely little flat. There were 12 family members in one room and almost complete silence. It seems we are such a boring lot that we have nothing to talk about! I bought Minority Report on DVD and a Practical Driving Test CD-ROM before heading back to lauperr‘s.
I’ve now had the fun taken out of me for Sunday when lauperr and I sat at either end of the sofa with his and hers WiFi laptops talking to each other on IRC whilst watching the matrix triology back to back. Apparently that’s sad or something?
We went for a brief drink in the pub and I bought a raffle ticket with the number 42 on it, was sure I was going to win, but didn’t. Then djkoa turned up at the house and chatted for a bit.
Monday morning was cool, we went for a wander in the fields to visit the lambs, my lamb is sheep 7 which I have (in a very original manner) named Shaun. No sign of sheep 109 thank goodness! We sat on a bridge over a river and played pooh sticks, rescued the river (stream!) from a fallen log which was blocking its path and generally enjoyed the sunshine. I won’t say any more about our “holiday” because I could go on forever. Except maybe the fact I ate too much and put on about 7lbs in four days. More detailed account on lauperr‘s lj.
Since my last post reubs and I have been to look at two cars for sale. I really need a car for next year. The first was one of those cute little Fiats with the funny name that seem to have an interior made of cardboard. They wanted £1000 and it was worth a maximum of £800. Then there was a white metro which was OK but it was worth about £400 and had no tax and they would only go down to £625. Pah. I want a landrover or my own VW camper with a split screen, but I can’t afford them either 😛
I realised today that I have a very short amount of time in which to choose between Nottingham and Warwick University for Computer Science and convince my firm and insurance offers to let me defer my entry. I’m going to try and visit Warwick again this week. I ended up talking to a girl in the Warwick compsoc IRC channel who is in her third year at Nottingham University (!) and went to my school (!!) Had an interesting conversation about her fascinating relationship. She is a bisexual with a bisexual Bisexual F2M Transexual boyfriend. (!!!) Figure that one out. She asked about Mr C (if he’s reading) and also Mr Underhill’s boring GS lessons. (We did also talk about universities!)
I found out that Ella (efields) has an lj and it has me wondering what other old friends might have a blog. All hail the goddess! *bows*
I’ve apparently been added to the soon-to-be-made-public Planet ALUG site for users’ web logs, so now all of ALUG get to listen my aimless ramble as well as my lj buddies 😛
That long enough for you wonchop? Oh, Wonchop just released a hilarious new Flash animation and luckily djkoa and Ruthy saw the funny side…