The Book of Sifty

Offline update... 1:11AM

So a long overdue and very offline update.

Other weekend was of course my birthday. Friday was Ashes flat warming thing. I turned up with some beer and Deanne. I'd managed to scooter home and go for nice bike ride. Have a relaxed dinner then get picked up by Deanne. The plan was some drinks at Ashes then into town. DJ Manson calls. Deanne and I drive back from Ashes to pick him up from where he was. Then Leon calls. He's coming to Ashes too, but should he bring beer? Yes. Jody shows up, Crispy Damian and entourage arrive, there's a posse in effect. Leon arrives, with a measly 6 pack of beer and.. a liter of Tequila. The rest is documented in the pages of the disturbances. What isn't shown is the birthday kiss from the barmaid at Paradiso and several more shots of free tequila. Then it was home about 3am. Leon's friend Inga was there. Leon had left sometime earlier to meet her at our house, and let her in. He lost his keys though and I arrived home expecting to see them huddled up somewhere. But I'd suggested, rather uselessly at the time, that he check some windows. Well the first window he tried. Right next to the back door was unlocked! Anyway apparently I talked with Inga and Leon for about an hour, and make useful coherent conversation.

They were drinking straight Vodka.

I drank water. It didn't help in the slightest the next day.

Next day was my birthday, as much as it tried to ignore it. Despite the massive pounding herd of elephants dancing around in my head, it was good day. Got up at 9:30am to a phone call. My head hurt so much I couldn't even think. The very first person who test drove ems car was keen to see it again. Ugh.. that morning. How would I like to meet them at the car market thing? To be honest I'd kind of almost given up on the whole car sales thing. I was contemplating a drive it out to the depths of the valley and paying somebody to 'disappear' it for the insurance. My head was still numb and hadn't even really started to hurt when I blundered my way through town in the SillyCar. They wanted to pay $5000. I tried for more, with my lowest price being $5000, and my head pounding.

We pissed about bargaining for a while. Arriving at $5k. They were sold. My head hurt. I didn't care. Did they have the cash? No. Could I get deposit? Sure if you want drive it out to the Newlands and get it. You can't take it out of money machine? Apparently not. So out to the Ville, and on into the depths of Newlands.

That afternoon I spent building a radio station. Well fabricating the aerial and installing it up the road from Ashes. A long story I'll tell later.

My friend Ben arrived from the UK for visit. He was in good spirts and will be back later this year with his new English girlfriend.

Inga stayed with us for a few night. I hadn't seen her since first year. We used to go out clubbing together way back in the day.

Last Friday was Kat and Kramer's leaving party, I was a little under the weather from the previous weekend still. Saturday was Jacquis flat warming. Chris DJ'd. Ash managed twelve hours of drinking. I finally saw the infamous Fi in person. Although I didn't meet her.

Monday I had drinks at the Beehive (I kid you not ' although it was a whole bunch less exciting than you could possibly ever imagine).

Now its Friday night, and I'm tired and typing up a perihelion entry.

null 1:33AM

So now it Thursday the next week and I'm still typing up an offline entry! Sorry. (Actually its now Saturday when I'm pasting this in) So last weekend .. Friday I attempted to see a movie with Leon.. we failed totally. There was nothing on at any thearte .. we missed all the 8 to 9pm movies. All the 11 ish one looked like crap. So we ended up having a coffee and humorous sift up and down the treacherous main drag of Courtenay place. A very different perspective when you're sober!'



Okay now I promised a word in my last entry. Uselissity ' This is something I'm trying to lower. This is a three pronged attack.

1. Attempt not to be late to things when people are specifically waiting for me. Now tom-time is something I get a lot of mockery for, on the whole however I'm not late when I have somebody waiting.. but I'm late for everything else.


2. To be more decisive and less of a sifter about important things in my life'
   
   

Okay thats two pronged.. I'll think of the third in a bit.

My last week in code:


DECLARE SLEEP, EAT


WEEKDONE = 0

OPEN ""DICT.WEEKDAYS"" TO @DICT ELSE GOTO FILE.ERROR

PERFROM ""SELECT WEEKDAYS WITH WEEK NE '' (S)""


UNTIL weekdone = 1

''''''' CALL SLEEP

''''''' CALL EAT'''''

''''''' GOSUB WORK

'''''''
IF' WEEKDAY' <1,1> = ""F"" THEN GOSUB DRINK

REPEAT



* sub drink

DRINK:


'' '''' PERFORM ""BEER.DRINK""


'' '''' PERFORM ""TEQUILA.DRINK""


'' '''' PERFORM ""HANGOVER.PAIN""


''''''' PERFORM ""BRUNCH.EAT""


''''''' RETURN


* sub work - under revision 12/07/02 - Tom

WORK:''''''
'''''''
CLEAR.BRAIN


'' '''' PERFORM ""LUNCH""


''''''' RETURN


Yes Ash thats AREV code.. you should be getting to know that better soon ;)

Friday night.. 1:50AM

Hey Chrissy!
Yeah Cell did indeed suck.
Had a water and went home. I like the cakes on your website.. hmm cake..

Ash what happened to you bud? Remember flowers are a guys best weapon ;)

Hey Kate check out BSR. It can be done.