Friday night’s events have been covered quite satisfactorily in Callum’s entry here so I don’t think I will bother. Instead, I will focus my attention on the events of yesterday.
Morning and Early Afternoon
I woke up at Pete’s house with no desire to go anywhere quickly. Then I got a phone call from Nicho telling me I had to be at the cinema in about 15 minutes for Sophie Bullock’s birthday event. Bearing in mind that I was in Whatton in the middle of nowhere we decided that this would be impossible.
Instead, I caught a bus into Bingham, fed the cat at my mother’s house, had a shower and caught a second bus into town. I texted Nicho to discover where everyone was, they were still in the cinema so I decided to have a look at a formal wear shop. We discussed student discounts. I got a call from Nicho saying that they were out so I left clutching their brochure.
I walked up to the cinema and while I waited for the green man to appear I glanced up at the huge glass building that contains the cinema. Everyone was there waving at me- which made me smile.
We decided to go to the Hard Rock Cafe… so we did.
The place was pretty meaty, with only 4 vegetarian dishes (only two of the salads were vegetarian), and quite expensive so I decided to have a side portion of chips and two glasses of tap water. This came to £1.95, which is damn good value for such an enjoyable experience. For some reason, when it came around to paying the bill both myself and Suzi (who ordered tap water and a salad) decided to give in a fiver. Don’t know why but whatever.
List of People there
Charlie Crowson, Ellerby, |Glyn|, Jade, Nicho, Sita, Sophie Bullock, Sophie Noon, Suzi,
Afternoon
John (Fenton) texted me to say that he was shopping for clothes for Jordan with Jordan, Brooke and Freya, and getting very bored doing so. I said that I would go and meet him. I departed from the group getting a prolonged hug from Ellerby and the general idea that Suzi thought I fancied John (which isn’t true).
I met up with John and we were walking towards the bus when I decided that I wanted some alcohol for the evening so we rang Jordan and didn’t get through. We tried Freya and she answered and said that Jordan would be willing to get me some and that we should meet him at the Broadway.
On the way to Broadway we saw two lesbians kissing. It then turned out that one of them was a boy. We laughed at him in his skinny jeans while he girlishly ran to Broadway. We arrived ourselves, greeted by Brooke, Freya, Jordan, and Kindell. I asked Jordan if he could buy me a six pack of beer and he agreed, telling me that he was charging £1 per item. I’m not sure what I think of this, in some ways I think it is perfectly acceptable charging for a service. However, on the other hand I wasn’t sure what I felt in regards to him making money out of his friends. Ah well, it’s his choice I guess.
Kate the Year 8 then appeared from nowhere and began talking to John. I walked over to them and asked John if he wanted to leave. While he answered me Kate began squeezing my leg. I said she was being a dog and then corrected myself to yorkshire terrier. I asked her when I was coming to her house for tea and it was arranged that I would go the following Saturday (21st January). John then pointed to the table that Kate had come from and sitting at it was the the lesbian-boy still clad with skinny jeans. John and I laughed at him and all her other friends for a while and then asked to be introduced to them. She declined. She then returned to her seat and pointed at us and said things to her friends. We beckoned her over and she came. We pointed out that we felt it was unfair that her other friends knew about us when we didn’t know about them. She had no good comeback for this but luckily for her, her friends appeared and dragger her off. I only just had enough time to say “Good afternoon young man” to one of them- what a cheek.
I left with John for the bus. I got distracted again. I decided I wanted to get some bakery products so we went to Dawson’s. I asked the girls there if it was ok if I paid in coppers and they said it would be fine. So we bought three donuts in a pounds worth of coppers. Awesome.
We finally arrived at the bus to see that Sophie (Ellerby) and Suzi were on it. What a pleasant surprise. They both wanted some of my donut so they disposed of their chewing gum and had a bite. The bus journey was enjoyably spent watching John threaten to punch Sophie and Sophie telling John that it wouldn’t hurt.
By the time we were arriving in Bingham, Suzi had realised that she would miss her bus to Bottesford. Sophie said that she couldn’t go to her house so I said that she could come to mine with John. She said that she would go to Sophie’s to get her stuff and then ring us.
Early Evening
When we arrived back at the house John decided he wanted to go on Heroes IV. The first problem we found was that the mouse was not working. We unplugged it and then replugged it.
Still nothing.
We restarted the computer.
The mouse worked.
The internet did not.
We unplugged and replugged the modem.
No luck.
We restarted the computer.
The screen stopped working.
And it didn’t sound like the computer was working.
John crawled under the desk and began unplugging and replugging all the wires there were. This didn’t do anything either. So we gave up and went upstairs to get some Paracetemol for John, who was by this point quite ill. While we were upstairs, John got a call from Jamie asking where he was. John asked me if Jamie could come over and I agreed.
We failed in our mission for Paracetemol so John went into the living room to relax in front of the TV while I went back to fix the computer. I turned the PC on and it worked immediately. So I fetched John and we went to play Heroes IV!
Unfortunately, for some reason 3D0 had chosen not to include mulitplayer mode in the CD version. So we spent an enjoyable half hour looking for the correct patches. We found a page that had a long list of patches for both the American and English version of the game. We downloaded all the necessary patches for the English version and popped onto Myspace for a laugh.
By looking at the wikipedia entry for Myspace and Country Populations we discovered that if Myspace were to be classified as a country it would be the 57th biggest population on the world with the highest concentration of emo fags.
My computer was going very slowly now so I closed down a few unnecessary programs, including Google Web Accelerater. Closing Web Accelerater also had the effect of stopping all my downloads. So we restarted them.
It was at this point that we realised that Suzi wasn’t coming over.
When the first patch had finally finished I opened it and an error popped up. I looked at the properties of the Heroes IV file and it told me that it was American.
I cancelled all the downloads and started again with the American versions. While we were waiting we went into the living room and watched Futurama.
After Futurama had finished we went back to the computer and opened the newly downloaded American patch.
It didn’t work, so we waited for Jamie to arrive and left for Bingham.
Co-op
Firstly we went to the Pizza Pasta Bar and I got a pizza. Then we went to the Co-op. On the way we saw a huge group of chavs. One of them shouted “Rob their Pizza,” so we walked briskly into the Co-op.
Lauren was there wasting her final few minutes of work-time tidying up the shelves by bringing items closer to the potential customers.
Martin was also there, having been kicked out of Dave’s while B.A.P. (Black and Proud) had a practise rap session.
By the time we we left the Co-op I had finished my pizza and the chavs had left.
Dave’s
We arrived at Dave’s and Lauren began drinking Red Rooster. When Jordan arrived I cracked open a beer. The night’s events included:
Rapping
Techno Dancing
Crisp Sculpting Contests
A very Hyper Lauren
List of People There
Brett, Brooke, Dave, Freya, Grace, Jamie, John, Jordan, Lauren, Martin, Pete, SFFI, Tom Moreland
The Cake Mission
At one point during the night, Jordan casually mentioned that he would like some cake. This made me want cake too. It was agreed that we would go on a cake mission.
And an hour later we got around to it.
The Co-op had closed long ago by this point so we went to Senior Pepper (Pizza place) for hot chocoloate fudge cake.
Jordan didn’t have time to get cake as his bus had arrived. I changed my mind about the cake so myself, Freya and Jamie ordered two portions of fries between us. Jamie was on the phone at this point, so Freya and I entertained ourselves by working out where north was while waiting for the chips.
We were interupted by John shouting at us from the Co-op that the bus was coming. I began to run, followed shortly by Freya. Jamie went to the pizza place to get the chips but we shouted at him that he would miss it.
The Journey to John’s via Lampost 8
The bus didn’t bother stopping for us so we had to jump onto the bus while it was moving like a proper cowboy. The bus didn’t bother to brake while going around corners so we got there quite quickly. Jamie was still on the phone, John was speaking to someone he knew and Freya was talking to Moreland so I sat quietly.
The bus stopped at the Royal Oak so we commenced our short walk to John’s. Jamie was still on the phone to his new girlfriend Laura and I asked her if she liked me. She did, so that was good.
Freya needed to get her stuff from her house which was past John’s. Moreland, Jamie and I didn’t want to walk there so we let John accompany her himself. We were next to a lampost which had the number 8 stuck onto it. We told them “We’ll meet you at Lampost 8. If you arrive at Lampost 7, you’ve gone too far.”
Moreland told us that the manor opposite us house the insane which excited us somewhat. He also told us that they had a trampoline. Jamie, being both a very brave rebel, ventured inside to have a go on it. I followed him, and Moreland followed me, and we sat on the swings for a few moments before I got scared and retreated back to Lampost 8.
We then noticed that the upstairs light had come on in a house nearby. There was a woman peeping around the curtain at us. We waved at her and she left.
The light went off but the person returned. She clearly didn’t think we could see her so we waved at her again.
She left again.
The light went back on and she returned.
So we waved.
And she left.
A few minutes later the security light went on. This was clearly an attempt to scare us off. But we held strong and protected Lampost 8.
Then a man came out and said we were being too loud. We apologised but remained at Lampost 8. He squinted at each of us in turn and then said “I’ve memorised your face now.”
We couldn’t work out exactly what he was going to do with the mental images of our faces- maybe draw them and send them in to America’s Most Wanted?
We decided that the best bet would be to retreat to Lampost 7. We stayed there for a short while, plucking up the courage to advance back to Lampost 8. We did, and John and Freya returned.
John’s House
We went into John’s house and ate lots of toast and then went to bed. In the morning there were plenty of other events to blog but this story had already taken 2154 words.
