Strange Days
It has been a strange few days since my last post. I shan’t go into details but suffice to say, we had a bit of a health scare with Sally which resulted in an extremely unpleasant 24 hours but ended up with a Hollywood style happy ending. Long story short, everything is fine.
Yesterday (Thursday) we headed up to Southampton, this wasn’t a planned trip as we finished our Christmas shopping a little while ago. But I needed a distraction for a few hours to take our minds off things and while we were there I was determined to find out where the “new” branch of Forbidden Planet is located. The old shop closed down quite some time ago, and whenever I went hunting for it I could never find it.
Suffice to say, it was in one of the easiest to find locations, I was just looking in the wrong place. “It’s amazing what you can see when you open your eyes.”. A great philosophers words? No, Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor.
For those of you who don’t know what Forbidden Planet is, it is a chain of stores that deal with all things geeky. Comics, manga, everything sci-fi, action figures, t-shirts, ridiculously expensive statues. Basically, the mothership.
I’m glad Sally was with me. I may be doing my best to stray away from rampant consumerist urges but by the hammer of Thor I could have spent an absolute fortune in there. There was a beautiful hand painted Iron Man statue, a snip at £120. A vast array of t-shirts (who wouldn’t want an OCP t-shirt?), Transformers, Gears of War and Halo action figures locked away behind glass (which looked completely badass). Downstairs they had this original 1960s Dalek that was safely hidden away behind glass. I’ll be paying them a visit again in the near future. Best take my handler with me.
So to today, I have the house to myself this evening. Sally has gone to her works Christmas dinner and dance. I stopped going to these a few years ago, I’m not the most social of people and much prefer to spend time with a small group of close friends rather than a large group of casual acquaintances. I also seem to recall that the last time I went I ended up having way too much to drink and heading back to our room, collapsing and then feeling so sick the next morning we went home and Sally didn’t get her cooked breakfast. Never deprive a woman of a meal that has already been paid for. Top tip for you all there.
Which means that it’s just Will and I for the evening. This is what he will be doing for most of the time. He likes to sit and look out the window, perfecting his trademark stare at nothing in particular.
For my part, this is a large chunk of what I will be doing. If you’re going to install Windows, it might as well be on a 37″ display. Then the rest of the evening belongs to Live.
Soon be Christmas.
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And zombie killin’ !
We were vic-tor-re-us !!!!!!1 Private chat works much better then the in-game chat.
The FP store looks very cool. As I finish up my Christmas shopping, I’m going to have to watch what stors I go into.
wooot mini 12 of 12 ha ha