Tuesday, July 26, 2005

T'is a fine day fer commentin'!

Comments! 19th July JJRiddler: I really do need some more apples, actually. Thanks for reminding me ^_^ MistressRoxie: I guess you caught me there, heh. I can't think that any ill feelings have lingered until today, but thank you *hugs* Hevn: Mmm, fruits ^____^ 20th July JJRiddler: They do take a while. This one I did in instalments over food and dog-walking, heh. And you know me. Anything can be taken out of context ^_~ 22nd July Dragon Warrior: I'm doing well, sir ^_^ How are you? Hevn: *hugs* As long as you're sure. I can't promise to always be able to give advice, especially considering the rare intervals at which I get to actually read your site, but if you do need anything, you only need to ask. I'm really pushing to get a new router... Lady Lea: I'm all right, heh ^_^ *hugs* AleXavier: Hello there ^_^ It has been a long time, hehe. 23rd July I guess for the most part it's a big thank you to everyone -^____^- I really, really appreciate it. But no, golf meant golf. And it hurt... a bit, heh ^_^; Exhaustion Exhausted Exhausts To finish up the birthday stuffs, I got PMs from Ozymandius, Kaedesan DDG, Gavin and TigerFantasy17, and an e-mail from RAIN! I haven't herd from her in ages, hehe. And it was her birthday on the 24th. I will send replies to everyone as soon as I have time. Saturday evening was great fun. Jeremy had bought Metroid Prime 2: Echoes for me and it plays really nicely, heh ^_^ We didn't stop for long, though- we didn't know how long we had until the golf course closed, so we skidaddled in no uncertain terms over to Lawrence. Some... problems arose though, and we went back to Jeremy's for a bit, then picked up lawrence a bit later and headed off to the driving range. Lawrence made me a CD with lots of orchestral game music on it, hee. It's very nice, and just the kind of thing I like listening to when I'm going to sleep. Fore! I have never played golf before. It was a frightening experience walking into the club (as in the building, not the ball-hitting-stick) and seeing it look so clean and... well... posh. I have a rather odd preconception of the kind of people who play golf, and not just the fact that they're all men. I didn't want to appear too much like a 20-year old who just wanted to have a good time, even though that's exactly what I was. I imagined some prude of a golfer muttering some disparaging remark rather loudly and it turning into some kind of food fight, but thankfully it didn't turn out like that. I'd quite like to try it again sometime, actually. Even though I hurt my hands pretty much whenever I hit the ball, I'd like to get practiced enough so that doesn't happen. It'd also be nice to have the balls go in a straight line, heh ^_^; But it was cool, and the little tee-machine was pretty funky. I didn't realise it was a rubber tube, though- I thought it was plastic and was trying desperately hard not to hit it so as not to shatter it. But having a something that breaks as soon as you hit it (as you're meant to) would be a pretty stupid idea. We ate pizza. Well, I ate most of a pizza and decided it was far too much. I went home, tired and satisfied, and also worrying a little about how much sleep I was going to lose out on. Ah, another perfectly normal- BANGsparklesparklehideous scraping noisesTHUMP Yes, I got my Civil War costume together and drove to Arundel Castle. I actually arrived ahead of Paul, which was both unexpected and convenient (athough I didn't know it yet). As I drove slowly down the hill towards the front gate, there came a horrible noise; the kind that sounds like something falling off the underneath of your car and being scraped into the road underneath you. My exhaust pipe had broken- rusted clean though -and dropped onto the ground. It wasn't the back of it, either- it was the front, meaning that driving the car forwards forced the metal tube into the ground and made the car sound like three motorbikes at once. Unfortunately it didn't have that kind of power. Paul helped me back up to the car park where my rather sorry-looking Nissan collapsed in a corner, and he took me down to where I was due to be on guard duty... ...for four hours... ...in the rain. My felt hat slowly melted over my face and my casaque (like a cloak in several segments with buttons joining or not joining them all up) was absolutely soaked. Thankfully, the rain cleared up in time for our demonstrations. And although Derren had a broken thumb he still managed to beat me every time and gave me a rather ferocious kicking that scraped my shin and bruised a tendon in my elbow. He was tired and frustrated at his plaster being wet, though. I'd still prefer to have full working use of my arm, mind you >.> I was picked up by a cool breakdown retrieval man who took me all the way back to the garage in Southbourne even though it was technically outside his area ^_^ I was very happy to have actually been able to get home, heh. And then I went to see a fund-raising musical concert with Dan at the Festival Theatre. Lovely lovely stuffs. Could have done with a little more sleep, though... And that's about it, I think. I'm going to see War of the Worlds today and meet up with friends. I also need to get some trainer socks. *hugs everyone tightly* I'll see you soon ^_^

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