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Yesterday was fun: football with the studenty-types in deepest darkest Radford, where even the most pleasant children's playground is a den for pot-smoking fathers watching their children and suspect packages being exchanged by hooded kids on BMXs. 100 minutes of play showed me to be in somewhat better physical shape than I expected, though my playing skills were dire. The slippery surface didn't help much though, in my defence. Still, 'twas all good fun, and hopefully there'll be more of that in the future. (Note to self: n0tasquirrel makes cute squeaking noise when ball is kicked at her. Must test this again next time.)

After that, I had just enough time to get home, get changed, and consume a plate full of junk food, before heading out to enjoy my place on the semi-guest-list - not paying full price, but still paying - for Cradle of Filth and Evil Scarecrow. The latter band played to their home crowd, and did well. Then came the tour support Hansel And Gretel - at least I think that's what they were called, as Googling for names like that just turns up the fairy tale. They were quite funny to look at, if nothing else. The drummer was far too showy for the simplistic beats he was pounding out, though I wouldn't dare say that to him, as he looked like Vin Diesel's bigger brother. He also had to contend with a ride cymbal placed up on the podium behind him for a while, meaning it was located above the microphones that are supposed to be above the cymbals. Weird. After them, CoF came on, and were boooooooooooring. It's hard to say what was so bad, but the sound was dire and the individual performances workmanlike at best. So a few songs in, we went to the pub instead.

This morning, I met up with jen_whitewave and synphony at the pub, which was serving meals with surplus amounts of unidentified vegetables. From there I had Jen graciously take me to the supermarket for fun and adventures, or alternatively about £50 of groceries. Almost as soon as I got back with it all, Chris and Allan invited me to another pub lunch which I unfortunately had to decline, on the grounds of requiring some indoor-time as well as not requiring 2 large meals in one day.

Back to work tomorrow.

I'm considering buying a new computer now, since there seems to be absolutely nothing I can do to get this one to work, and it's coming up to six months that I've been without the ability to play 80% of my games, which is just not good. Anybody got any recommendations? (Which don't involve the words 'Mac' or 'Apple', rlucas666.)