Diary of an up and coming sociopath

Yesterday Tom arrived from Edinburgh. He’s on his way to Spain where he’s going to live for the next few months, and since he lives up the other end of the country we roped him into staying here for a day or two before he goes. The plane flies from London, after all. Trust me, I’m a travel category developer.

In practise, this has meant sitting around watching anime and debating the futility of existance/politics and all that stuff what we used tot alk about when we were students together in Oxford. Much has changed since that fateful time, though when we’re all together it’s as if no time has passed at all. A depressing reality. Tom showed us a proxy he wrote that runs on his PC in Edinburgh and strips out unnecessary text from his IRC conversations in what is a stroke of utter genius, because it means he can save money on his GPRS connection while abroad because it’s taking care of stuff and only sending the essential data through his phone. This probably doesn’t mean a great deal to a lot of you but anyone who’s a proper compter geek will recognise the brilliance. Only a scotsman could come up with such a way of saving money.

This morning we went to Tescos and Tom bought himself some essentials for the time away, like socks, and then in the evening we went to the Toby Carvery up the road in Windsor. I bought Tom his last meal in the UK, partially in celebration of how I somehow have actualy not maxed out my overdraft this month. By the time Reading rolls around I’ll be paid again at my new rate and things will hopefully be even better next month. Between paying off debts and buying a new PC, it’s a useful time to be spending less. Not that you’d notice, because I bought another Alias TPB the other day. I’ve been waiting for Volumes 1 and 2 to be re-released for well over a year now, and suddenly they both spring up within 2 weeks of each other. Can’t complain.