Diary of an up and coming sociopath

In case anyone’s wondering where I’ve been the last couple of weeks, I’ve been playing GTA4. You don’t need me to tell you it’s great.

Had a busy weekend celebration Damian and Nikki’s birthday on two consecutive days, with Lorna and Sam also down for the occasion. We had dinner at some morroccan place, which did terrible chips but was otherwise quite nice, and decorated like an Indiana Jones set. We then walked to St. Steven’s Tavern for a drink or two, and then up the south bank of the Thames where we stopped off briefly at Namco station where Nikki and I played Air Hockey and Skee Ball, ultimately winning just enough tokens for a couple of bags of sweets. Josh and I did attempt to play pool, but it was charged BY THE MINUTE. 20p a MINUTE! Is this normal now? Am I out of touch with pool-gaming? Just the thought of paying that much makes me balk.

On Sunday we went for dinner at Brown’s (where I took Mum for mother’s day.) The food was pretty good, although they kept trying to serve us stuff that we didn’t ask for, then getting sort of irritated when we we told them we didn’t ask for it. At the end of the meal, we went to the pub where we played on a scam quiz machine that had no money in and therefore wouldn’t let us win anything. I did almost win at Tetris (Tetris for money! Who’d have guessed my years or practise would come in useful?) but alas, it was not to be.

This weekend, I’m off to Bristol for the comic convention. Hilarity will almost certainly ensue.