Diary of an up and coming sociopath

Hmm. Lost a bit of momentum over the past day or two. Thursday was my last day at work this week, because of the bank holiday, so I celebrated by removing any restraints I had imposed on my free time and staying awake until half three in the morning watchign cartoons and plying emulated games, the usual kind of thing that I used to do a lot but now have little time for.

On Friday I spent the morning tidying up (and when I say Morning I mean the first couple of hours after I woke up, in the afternoon) and then drove up to Nikki’s. Except, she wasn’t back, so I went and picked up my vast amounts of post from home. It’s the usual stuff, credit card bills and bank statements which the internet has already rendeed obselete. Kind of ridiculous really. I got an Egg card to other day so that I could effect a 0% balance ransfer because the interest on my current credit card is cripplingly high. It’s only about £20 a month, but unfortunately, when you’re having to pay it off in £30 chunks, that’s what I call cripplingly high. Once the transfer goes through I’ll have a few months to really take a chunk out of it without the “two steps forward, one step back” mentality that interest brings with it. Also I got a free tenner for using Egg’s suspiciously unassuming money manager. It’s so useful there’s got to be a catch. If it’s just detail harvesting I can manage, but if the leaders of Egg take to the stars in their giant spaceship with all my money in tow, then I’ll feel like a moron. Or a scientologist.

Actually, same thing.

Today Nikki and I went shopping, wandered around leamington looking for a birthday present for Pad, and decided on some garden lights working under the assumption that even though he had some, he’d like more. Either it was true, or he feigned it well because he seemed pleased with them. It’ll go with all the soil he asked for. i find my grandparents especially hard to buy for. With Dad I can at least go for a CD or DVD if it gets dire, but by the time you reach about 70 pop culture is so far behind you that it’s pretty useless going that route. I think a DVD player might be an idea next time I’m stuck, because then they can a least have DVDs of films I know they like.

Went up Josh’sfor a bit because there weren’t enough people around to go properly out, and in what can only be described as gross revisionism, I totally thrashed him and Sam at Soul Calibur 2 and Mario Tennis. I once considered Gamecubes to be shite, but I realise now it was just the N64 that was making me think that. If I was going to buy a console these days, it’d probably be a Gamecube. Maybe I’ll wait and see how much money I’ve got free when the next generation of consoles arrives. (Hint: I am Betamax Man. If I buy the nintendo next gen console, you can be sure the price halves the week after, or that nintendo collapses within the year. Every time I waste money on consumer electronics, catastrophies happen. Do the opposite of what I do. I predict that the nintendo DS will be considered a relative failure wihin a year, and mostly because I keep thinking of buying one…)

And, finally for now because I’m getting tired and I’m already going to backdate this post to account for the gross gap in updating and/or conversion to BST, I wanted to chime in with the obligatory Doctor Who post. Coming next, though you’ll probably have read it before this one.