Diary of an up and coming sociopath

After a day of what I like to term “relaxation” (though it might better be described as abject laziness), on Sunday I managed to crawl out of bed at what some weirdoes would call a “reasonable” time and drive down to Brighton with Nikki to meet up with Paul and Relly for the first time since, like, July last year. Given the infrequent times we’re all actually free to get together for a social call , I fully expect Relly to be pregnant with her second child the next time I see her. We wandered around Brghton and I got a taste of what shopping for your first child is like. Let’s just say I’ll give it a few more years before thinking about that one in any serious manner.

We went for Breakfast/Lunch (Damn! If only there were some word that described a combination of the two…) at the “Ha Ha! Bar” which as you might expect, was a clown-themed eatery. Or rather you could be fogiven for thinking that because the Waitress managed to deliver Nikki and Paul’s food to the wrong table and then we had to wait for them to be cooked again. I was fully expecting the final bill to be delivered through the medium of a custard pie to the face. They did give Nikki 50% off her food, though, so I’ll not rail against them too much. Though, having said that, while the chips were great my chicken burger contained far less chicken than I was expecting. I was expecting a grilled slab, rather than the peeled mcnuggets I received. It concerns me to eat at a place where the food is trendier than I am. (me: “What the hell’s pancetta?” Nikki:”Ham”)

In Waterstones, I looked for Book 2 of Sin City because I’ve got 1, 3 4 and 5 but no joy. I tried to find Family Guy season 3 in Fopp but it seems all remaining copies have dropped off the planet, which is disappointing. Hopefully I’ll buy it off the interweb soon, but I’m still working through my Genshiken Vol. 3 and Sin City: Extended Cut DVDs which finally landed on Friday, the latter with a version of “The Big Fat Kill” (or was it The Hard Goodbye? I forget. The Marv one, anyway) even smaller than the previously shrunk version.

Today I finally threw in the towel and went to Argos to purchase a heater. It’s fair to say that the weather is ridiculously cold and if I can liberate some electricity into warming up the room, I’m all for it. It also blows out cold air for those times when I’ve been heating myself up too much. Wasn’t especially convenient to bring back on the Tube, but it was worth it in the end. Now I just have to consider buying an air conditioner in the summer.