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Christ! I've been busy ...
Aug. 4th, 2003 10:34 pm... so I'll have to keep it as brief as I can.
Friday
After work, I went with some of the guys to some local pubs and ended up at "The Sun" Clapham Common. Had to leave early as I had to get back to see T3 with my brother but I foolishly never took the time to have a pee. As a result, I depserately needed to go but found I had to hold it all the way up the Northern Line to the adptly named Waterloo where I could finally relieve myself. That's the last time I do that, I think I did some temporary damage holding it that long.
After getting home, I left with my brother to see the late showing of T3 in the THX cinema. I was very impressed witht he action sequences, specifically the crane chase near the start but it suffered hugely from not being scored, it was just left to sound effects. It seemed as if they run out of time / money after editing as there were poor titles, no theme and poor scoring throughout. However, the story was well done and did it's best not to contradict the previous two but ultimately, it wasn't T2. But then T2 was impossible to follow as it was so perfect. Oh, one more major bad point of the film was that it made fun of the franchise a bit too much. Some bits were understandable, like when Arnie gets his clothes as to be honest, if he did it any other way, he'd be copying the previous films but it was hard to take the film serious at times. As my brother said at one stage, "Oh my god, they've made it into a comedy!". In summary, good but it's just not T2.
Saturday
Got home fromthe cinema at 2am and got up at 7.30am meaning I had only 5hrs sleep. Did quite well off it however, got tot he meet on time anbd met the folks at Kings Cross as usual with the exception of meeting Skunki from Germany which was nice after talking with him on IRC all this time. As I was waiting for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gerald_duck, I stayed behind as the others went off.
Went to the pub, met the usual suspects, went on to Nando's and had chicken with 7 others. Then went to Kensington Gardens to catch up with everyone. Nattered a bit and then buggered off to Namco. At Namco, played DDR Extreme, just cos I wanted to have a go and for the best part of it, did rather well. I was annoyed that Captain Jack's Only You (From 5th mix) wasn't on there as it's one of those that looks really difficult but is actually really easy and fun to play :P. Collapsed at the bar and drunk fluids, relaxing before challenginghawx, makali and shinji at bowling. I played my worst game ever and came last before returning to the bar.
Somehow, Hawx talked me into staying over at his place for the night even though I didn't have a change of clothes or even any toiletries.timmypup, xendragon, Shinji and Makali also went to Hawx's place in Surrey for the night.
Hawx's place was nice, if bare. Xen made nice pasta. We had booze. I slept in Robert Smith's bed.
Sunday
Woke up after a reasonably nice sleep. We went into town for primarily a kettle and maybe a microwave if they were cheap enough. We came away with a kettle, toaster and sandwich maker set (for £20) and a £5 barbeque from Woolies. Also stocked up on food at Safeway courtesy of Makali (And Ice Cream from myself). Xen and co managed to construct the BBQ without any of the tools they suggest in the instructions and proceeded to try to light it. After at least 30mins of trying, we gave up and used the oven. While we were eating, the BBQ decided to ignite itself and burn all the charcoal... d'oh!
Somehow, I got talked into staying another night (don't worry, I was showering, borrowing towels, brushing my teeth with my finger and washing my clothes in the machine) and so we spent the evening in the pub after saying goodbye to Tim and Xen.
Monday
Tidied up the place, did the washing up, had a meal cooked by Makali again before hitting the pub en-route to getting a taxi to the station. This all happened over the course of 11am to 6pm so I'm sure I've missed something even though it happened today.
All the trains were fucked due tot he extreme heat causing the rails to buckle. Had to change at Woking and Basingstoke, waiting 30mins before getting the train home.
In summary, I had a great time, the meet was good but the time at Hawx's was miles better. Was great to get to know Makali and Xen better. tim's really lucky to have a girl like her... but I probably say that cos I'm lazy :P
It's fookin' hot right now as you probably know already. I don't know how I'm going to have a good night's sleep tonight.
Friday
After work, I went with some of the guys to some local pubs and ended up at "The Sun" Clapham Common. Had to leave early as I had to get back to see T3 with my brother but I foolishly never took the time to have a pee. As a result, I depserately needed to go but found I had to hold it all the way up the Northern Line to the adptly named Waterloo where I could finally relieve myself. That's the last time I do that, I think I did some temporary damage holding it that long.
After getting home, I left with my brother to see the late showing of T3 in the THX cinema. I was very impressed witht he action sequences, specifically the crane chase near the start but it suffered hugely from not being scored, it was just left to sound effects. It seemed as if they run out of time / money after editing as there were poor titles, no theme and poor scoring throughout. However, the story was well done and did it's best not to contradict the previous two but ultimately, it wasn't T2. But then T2 was impossible to follow as it was so perfect. Oh, one more major bad point of the film was that it made fun of the franchise a bit too much. Some bits were understandable, like when Arnie gets his clothes as to be honest, if he did it any other way, he'd be copying the previous films but it was hard to take the film serious at times. As my brother said at one stage, "Oh my god, they've made it into a comedy!". In summary, good but it's just not T2.
Saturday
Got home fromthe cinema at 2am and got up at 7.30am meaning I had only 5hrs sleep. Did quite well off it however, got tot he meet on time anbd met the folks at Kings Cross as usual with the exception of meeting Skunki from Germany which was nice after talking with him on IRC all this time. As I was waiting for
gerald_duck, I stayed behind as the others went off.Went to the pub, met the usual suspects, went on to Nando's and had chicken with 7 others. Then went to Kensington Gardens to catch up with everyone. Nattered a bit and then buggered off to Namco. At Namco, played DDR Extreme, just cos I wanted to have a go and for the best part of it, did rather well. I was annoyed that Captain Jack's Only You (From 5th mix) wasn't on there as it's one of those that looks really difficult but is actually really easy and fun to play :P. Collapsed at the bar and drunk fluids, relaxing before challenging
hawx, makali and shinji at bowling. I played my worst game ever and came last before returning to the bar.Somehow, Hawx talked me into staying over at his place for the night even though I didn't have a change of clothes or even any toiletries.
timmypup, xendragon, Shinji and Makali also went to Hawx's place in Surrey for the night.Hawx's place was nice, if bare. Xen made nice pasta. We had booze. I slept in Robert Smith's bed.
Sunday
Woke up after a reasonably nice sleep. We went into town for primarily a kettle and maybe a microwave if they were cheap enough. We came away with a kettle, toaster and sandwich maker set (for £20) and a £5 barbeque from Woolies. Also stocked up on food at Safeway courtesy of Makali (And Ice Cream from myself). Xen and co managed to construct the BBQ without any of the tools they suggest in the instructions and proceeded to try to light it. After at least 30mins of trying, we gave up and used the oven. While we were eating, the BBQ decided to ignite itself and burn all the charcoal... d'oh!
Somehow, I got talked into staying another night (don't worry, I was showering, borrowing towels, brushing my teeth with my finger and washing my clothes in the machine) and so we spent the evening in the pub after saying goodbye to Tim and Xen.
Monday
Tidied up the place, did the washing up, had a meal cooked by Makali again before hitting the pub en-route to getting a taxi to the station. This all happened over the course of 11am to 6pm so I'm sure I've missed something even though it happened today.
All the trains were fucked due tot he extreme heat causing the rails to buckle. Had to change at Woking and Basingstoke, waiting 30mins before getting the train home.
In summary, I had a great time, the meet was good but the time at Hawx's was miles better. Was great to get to know Makali and Xen better. tim's really lucky to have a girl like her... but I probably say that cos I'm lazy :P
It's fookin' hot right now as you probably know already. I don't know how I'm going to have a good night's sleep tonight.
