The Book of Ashes

Walk thru the pines at night with Gerry. Walk up Mt Koukou from home. 9:27AM

I forget what happened Wednesday. Oh yeah, the web server went down. Damian went home as he wasn't feeling too good and fell asleep so we didn't get it back up for a while. Sorry about that.

How sad is it that I did the mother load of house work, we it was the mother load for me. Cleaned the bathroom and wiped down a few cupboards. Then read my book and thats about it.

No hang on, I am forgetting that me and Gerry went for a walk up Mt Vic, at night, in the dark. Now Mt Vic is pine trees and not too much light up there. I have pretty much overcome my childhood fears of the dark (and werewolfs, yeah thats right I was scared of werewolfs cause of this werewolf program I watched once when I was at home alone in a big empty house, anyway...). Gerry was a little scared though. She didn't like me talked about the Blair Witch project nor did she like it when I tapped her on the back and said boo. We walked all the way to the top though and down the side to the hidden soccer field and back through the dark scary forest, past the cliff that was the old quary and back to where we begun. Hey, thats almost like that bear story where they sneak out the window, under the bridge, through the trees... etc, etc. Cool. By the end of it Gerry had overcome her fears though. It was a good walk.

Hmmm yes, maybe I should mention the family size bar of coconut rough chocolate. I got home with this and said, I'll show a little resolve and not eat any today. That got turned into, I'll just taste a row or two today, and make it last a few days. By the end of the night it was all gone and Gerry only had half a row. Note to self. Don't buy sugary stuff, you have no hope in hell of resisting it. You are weak, flabby, baby flesh with the will power of a fish. Yeah you heard me right...

Ok then lets talk about Thursday, the nothing day. Well I slept in today. Every other day I've gotten up around my usual time, in that respect at least I show some resolve. I was tired though. So there wasn't much to do, I had breakfast, did the dishes and headed out. I decided to go for a walk, up Mt Koukou. For those that know this is over the other side of town, through a couple of suburbs and up a hill. It contains the big transmitter tower for the city. So it took me almost 2 hours to get to the bottom of the hill where the walk began, then about 20-25 mins up the hill to the top where it was REAL windy. I could hardly stand up and kept being blown backwards. Then I came back, doing a bit of running down the hills. This took just over an hour. All up I did 3 and a half hours of good walking. It was great. I was worn and almost hungry. So today I've eaten ok. I have only had two pieces of liquoice and I can of coke. I've been snacking too much while being at home, part of being bored I guess, what else do you do

Work on the server, rollerhockey. 9:42AM

I got back into town, a little worn and a little sweatier. I went round to Damian's place and we did a little work on the server. He did the typing, learning how it worked as we went and saving me from using my arms. We have changed the houses area a bit. It is going to have a lot of use for Wellingtonians soon. It will tell you what deals are on at the pubs and when, where you can hold private functions and details about all the pubs. Pretty cool stuff. It just needs the pubs details in their now.

So after that I got home. Had some fruit muffin splits with Fi and headed out to roller hockey. Gerry's feet are hurting so she didn't come. She has an injury on one of them which is pissing her off. Hopefully it gets better, but doesn't look too good at the moment. Rollerhockey rocks. Had an excellent time there. Playing the game rocks more than the practice exercises. Next week is the last one though then theres only the games. I don't think I'm at the stage where I want to commit and buy all the gear and come along to games all the time, although it would be heaps of fun.

So now I'm at home. Have had chicken fried rice for tea and am full. Am listening to Garbage, I remember doing all nighters on the raytracing assignments in the COSC labs and listening to Garbage. They got me through those nights. Dan, you'll remember. What else is there to do? I'm pretty exhausted, which is good. Its my sisters birthday on Saturday. Got to get her a present tomorrow. I know what I'm getting though so just need to go find it. I've been in a good mood today. Things have gone well. I think walking relaxs you a lot and rollerhockey definitly pumps you up. Dan, write something in your diarys. I've had a comment from someone that your writing was cool. You just need to write another entry or two. Meet my friend Kramer, this is the dude, I'm training to beat in a running race when I got down to Wanaka for Diana's wedding. Hehehe, he has the ability to write, just not the time. Feel free to send him abusive messages, even if you don't know him, he can handle it, trust me. We are trying to get him up here to Wellington. Then the three Lords of the House of Speights will once again be united, who knows what crazy things will happen then?

Fate provides just enough to keep things sweet in my life, and no more. I will not win lotto, or find money easy, I must earn it. But fate will not let me down on the essential things. She never has before and I don't think she ever will. If something is meant to be, then it WILL be.

The greatest thing to fear is not the dark or whats in it, but your imagination. It has the ability, if you'll let it, to create far worse monsters than these..

Lots happening in the immediate future... 9:45AM

The imediate futures looking good. Pictionary with the girls and Gerry and her friends tomorrow night, then Brad's 24th on Saturday night and catch up with Tijs & Chris. Coolness. Sat is also Robyn's birthday so pancake brunch with her and Sunday Mum's coming down so lunch with her and Robyn then. All good. Busy, busy, busy..