Diary of an up and coming sociopath

On boxing day I spent the day at Nan’s with Rob, Dad, Nikki, Jo and Rob’s girlfriend Lucy, watching horrendous boxing day TV and playing scrabble because there was too much food inside us to do anything else. The day after, I went to Nikki’s for a bit for her mum’s birthday thing, and then spent the evening (and a fair portion of the night) at Josh’s helping out with his uni work, playing DS games and watching music TV (including “the world’s most fantabulous homes” or something, which involved some truly ludicrous examples of what can only loosely be termed houses.)

I managed to miss most of the snow we had through being asleep, though it was snowing when I arrived at Josh’s and when I left my car was covered in what seemed like three feet of ice where the snow had melted then frozen again when it hit the car, so I spent a good portion of time waiting for the heaters to melt the ice and trying to prevent the car from skidding away.

This morning, we came back to London and were confronted with the reality of trying to warm up a house that’s not been lived in during the coldest period of the year. That is to say, it is the unreality of that situation that we were forced to deal with. I did, however, hook up the DS to the wireless system, so even though my joints were slowly seizing up I managed to thrash some faceless unknowns at Mario Kart. It’s an odd sensation, the knowledge that somewhere in the world there’s some gu, like you, holding his DS, playing Mario Kart, and very possibly getting annoyed that you keep beating him. It almost seems worth losing on purpose to bring some joy into their lives (except, as Josh will attest, I’m a total bastard who taunts people as I beat them by doing things like slowing down just so I can hit them with a shell, or hiding fake item boxes inside real ones.)

I also watched the second half of the Evening with Kevin Smith DVD which, at six quid for four hours, is probably the best value laughs the entire format provides.

I’m considering a proper site overhaul in the few days I’ve got before I go back to work. I was never fully happy with the current design and I think the content of the site, being a good few years out of date now, could do with some overhaulage. But no promises.