New Year

[thedarkproject]

Ouch, my head.

Last night was the party at gloomie_cookie and lost_in_moose's place. Despite seeming to be well out in the middle of nowhere, plenty of people trekked out there for an event that started slow but got completely mad by the time I left. I'm not sure that allowing vampiric_monkey to provide me with mixed alcohol of indeterminate origin was a good idea, and I definitely don't think that several of us climbing onto the extension's roof at 1am was particularly sensible either, although the latter did amuse the masses gathered on the driveway below, including fiendil and ninja_andy_p. I am covered in a myriad of little cuts and bruises, only some of which can be attributed to when Chris (a) threw me to the rough and wet floor on the rooftop, and (b) pushed me over so I ended up lying in the road on the way home. I also seem to vaguely recollect playing the first 2 bars of 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' on lost_in_moose's guitar, before someone forcibly stopped me, and singing some Evanescence song with Chris just before we left, wishing someone would forcibly stop me.

We got home at about 5am, and I finally got out of bed at 4pm, having tried and failed to do so on several earlier occasions due to feeling incredibly sick any time I moved. It's all good now though.

Other notable events of late include me getting Linux working again, though this did involve upgrading to Mandriva Linux 2006, and then fooling around with single-user mode to install new graphics drivers, as otherwise it would just lock up solid during the start up procedure. That's pretty lame considering I have a generic NVidia card, but there you go. Still, it works now and even my soundcard is supported by this release, so I was quickly able to load up Noatun and enjoy the fruits of njaard's labour. Maybe one day I'll look into fixing the spectrum analyzer on that thing.

I also went home to visit the family the other day, for a few hours at least. That was largely painless although spending 4 hours on the trains and an hour in Sheffield (home of several good and several bad memories) wasted most of the day. Mother is going completely the wrong way about training the doberman/rottweiler cross we have, Sister is helping her look after the children that Brother is not very capable of looking after (and who were liberated from Brother's ex-partner by the social services). Chaos.

On a more amusing note however, it was interesting to observe the different approaches taken by the train conductors in different parts of the country when announcing a pending stop:

Nottinghamshire: "Your next station stop will be Beeston. If you're leaving the train here, thank you for travelling with Central Trains. Please ensure you gather all your personal belongings, and mind the gap between the train and the platform edge. Beeston will be your next station stop."

Yorkshire: "Anyone for Meadow'all... we're 'ere."

Comments

[drusilla-filth.livejournal.com]

haha Yorkshire.

[vampiric-monkey.livejournal.com]

hehe, i liked the whole drink half of it then ask me what was in it. but you seem to have recovered better from it than i did. i'm a silly monkey sometimes. but as far as i can remember i had a great night!

[thedarkproject]

I just saw that you were the custodian of the drink, and you didn't object to me demanding some! So, it was all good. Glad you had a decent night, and thanks for the lecture (which you probably don't remember giving me) :)

[vampiric-monkey.livejournal.com]

what did i give you a lecture about? i have very little memory of most of the night

[thedarkproject]

It was about computer programming, and Andy. :P

[vampiric-monkey.livejournal.com]

how can i give you and andy a lecture about computer programming???

[thedarkproject]

Well, it was more of a motivational speech. :)

[vampiric-monkey.livejournal.com]

was it good? did it work?

[thedarkproject]

Well, it made me smile for a minute or two. ;)

[vampiric-monkey.livejournal.com]

so it was just amusing then?

[thedarkproject]

It was nice of you to be so positive, but mainly it went along the lines of "Andy said this, and he's my best friend, so it must be true" ;)

[vampiric-monkey.livejournal.com]

awww, bless me in my little drunken state. don't remember a single word of it, but i'm sure its all true.

[lost-in-moose.livejournal.com]

Reena and i had a god at actually working out how much i remember of the 10 or so hours of partying... about 45mins in some distorted snapshot fashion is pretty much all i remember, all of it brilliant!

Awesome.

[goffburd.livejournal.com]

Aye, them Yorkshire folk like to call a spade a spade!!

Oh and hope 2006 is a good year for you.

[chocolateandsex.livejournal.com]

Hey there, happy new year! Your post made me chuckle...

[ogly.livejournal.com]

man you were so drunk, and the roof antics were hilarious!

[thedarkproject]

Oh, it was noticeable? I didn't pick you up or anything did I? :/

[ogly.livejournal.com]

yeah i think a few people noticed your drunkeness lol, i think someone even said you were the most drunk they had ever seen you! and no i dont think you did try pick me up, although i dont remeber everything.

[thedarkproject]

Oh dear. Perhaps it was all the rooftop shenanighans that made people think I was completely hammered. I shall have to be less conspicuous in future!