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Big Brother Award Tastic
Left work fairly punctually. Headed to the LSE to pay ref:Owen and pick up my clothes. £200 in exchange for a bag of shorts and tshirts must have looked very odd. No surprises as to who won. Mark Thomas was fab as ever and the presentation was slick as possible, considering the lights kept cutting out *smirk* ref:winjer seemed amused by my IRC client. Apparently they’ve been found out in the squat and will have to leave... After that ended I left Owen and Adam McG there still selling No2Id Tshirts as modelled live on stage by Mark and Simon. Wandered up to Retro to say byebye to Smess and to spank ref:Adam for not being in to have the laptop picked up...Chatted some to ref:puppy too and Dom - then headed home to bed because I was knackered.
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Rah!
Just had my quarterly review. Went dead well. Yay me. I rock 
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Need Sleep!
Went to ref:William’s for “dinner” which consisted of bitter and guinness down the pub with him, Harry, Zaty and Harvey, whom I’ve not seen in about 4 years. Sat in a pub in Battersea called the Cat something or other that was lovely! Zaty has far more bits for his EOS300 than me. Tsk.
Talked about everything from the Illuminati to whether or not we actually landed on the moon. Was fun. No actual dinner though 
Got back, sorted my toe out and went to bed. Slept baaad. Now I’m late
Garfield’s movie poster reminds me of Alasdair “me me me me my movie”. Harvs seems to be turning into him a bit. It’s sorta funny in a sick and voyeuristic kinda way. Large discussion with Will about whether or not James just wants to take advantage of me or not. And whether or not OldJames was a bastard - general consensus amongst my friends seems to be “yes”. He wasn’t *that* bad. Sheesh.
William seems to be under the misapprehension that because I’m overweight, people must want to use me as opposed to liking me for who I am...
Mailed my EOS yesterday. *sob*.
Off to the Big Brother awards tonight. I shall be pretending to be awake. Then Retro and ref:Smess’s leaving thing. Suspect I should drag him to the Swan for a leaving strip too...
Payday tomorrow!
James Friday!
XXL Saturday!
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Gah. Late!
Completely failed to get Owen’s No2Id thing finished. Going to attempt it at lunch over Terminal Services. Fun! Am going to the Big Brother awards on Weds, which should be fun. Off to ref:William’s tonight for food and stuff. Have camera with me, going to try and find the post office at lunch and post it. Talked to James a bit last night. He went to Manchester for his birthday a week late on Friday. Seems he’s still there! I think he might have been a little pissed though as it was taking him a while to reply to stuff. Told him I’d phone him tomorrow. Think I may have to drag him down on Friday
More bug fixing today. Have almost completed my tweaks for the evil Mac IE 5.x. Then I have to document how the UI works. That’ll be fun!
Watched League of Gentlemen 3.1 again last night. Realised I’ve misplaced Dune and Children of Dune. Grr.
There are two rufty tufty straight boys sat opposite each other next to me. One seems determined to hate the other. It’s vaguely entertaining...oops! 10am and am only at Earls Court!
Clever pTunes! Just randomly went from Pink Floyd’s “A New Machine Part I” which ends with the line “Nobody lives forever” To Queen’s “Who Wants to Live Forever” 
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hm
Now I have an empty hole where my keyboard once was. And I’m eating donuts. It’ll all end in tears 
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Tube broken, part XVII
UNATTENDED BAG! UNATTENDED BAG! UNATTENDED BAG! Etc. Oh the fun.
On a tube wearing sandals. With a scope toe. Yay. There’s a muscle mary opposite me wearing a cream cotton suit and muddy trainers to accentuate his tan. Rah. And a woman wearing sheer underwear is thrusting her arse in my face. Wish she’d sit down, don’t fancy yanking her shoe out of my toe. Grr.
Weekend one with no alcohol. No fags since I had two of Owen’s on Wednesday. Forgot to do Owen’s ID card yesterday - so I shall be doing that tonight. Bloke coming to buy my keyboard tonight. Bah. And I almost finished the film in the EOS yesterday at the picnic. Will use the rest tonight if Ref:Adam’s back in time from meeting Roj.
Constructive conversation with Ex James last night, although he possibly would disagree. It’s almost like he suffers from that syndrome that young and attractive gayboys suffer from whereby they treat people bad but have plenty of hangers on and so don’t notice until they become older and less attractive to the hangers on. Woah. Big sidetrack. Adam commented that it seems like he just wants me there when he can be bothered and wants me to just not be when he can’t. I can’t be arsed with that. I always thought friendship was meant to be a two way street...
Friday was fun. Met someone from slagdar who was actually nice, intelligent and fun to be with. Am thinking I might keep him as a friend...He’s a LARPer and so started talking to ref:Warren about it - having sat on the sofa being shy for around an hour beforehand...
Also chatted to NewJames some. He was off to Manchester for the weekend as he’d not managed to do it for his birthday. Apparently someone bought him a sword for his 21st last weekend and he ran around his flat reenacting “Kill Bill” whilst pissed and scared everyone. He’s coming to London this weekend to see me. And we’re going to XXL with loads of people. Rah!
ref:Ron arrived from Manchester with yet another boyfriend...this one seems quite cool, but we’ll see if Ron can manage a 2 week one
Had quite a late night - but still woke up quite early...eventually said goodbye to the gaydar bloke then sat online failing to do any more FreakCity and chatting to random people...pootled around a bit. Changed my toe. MrsRon wanted to go to Burberry to look at coats for his sister. I made a “bangly gold earrings” faux pas and we went off. Amused by Ron’s “but you’re paying for the quality” comment on finding that the denim jacket she wanted was £220. I tried to impress them with the grandeur of Selfridges, but they wanted McDonalds. Ew.
Met Adam at the DLR for our foray into Kent for dinner with alamac and bromleyben - Arrived there, watched Shrek2 which was fab, and ate yummy lasagne + garlic bread and stuff. Played a silly drinking game involving one of those twisted metal wire things that you move a hoop round without touching it so as not to make it beep. If you did then you had to do a random forefit from 1-6. 1s were silly and 6s were depraved. Having to ferry people to the loo and back like a donkey was a good 6 and Sal got to squeak for an hour whenever anyone said “cheese”.
Headed home and bed.
Late to the picnic. Rah. We all cruised a worried looking muscle mary in Sainsburys at Camden. Met Adam’s mum and her new hubby.
Not ever been to that bit of Hampstead before. We were fagspotting and taking pointlessly pointless piccies everywhere...it randomly rained a bit and then stopped. Phil bought too much food and made Adam eat all the scotch eggs. I am *so* glad I’m not at home today. Him and Warren will be fumigating my flat for me.
Warren climbed a tree and hugged it lots. It was very sweet. Adam managed to squirt beer at people. The Fling Ring from the camping trip was released once more into the wild. It’s so rubbish it’s funny.
Went for a wander and peered around at lots of very strange men trying to look like they weren’t being inconspicuous whilst leaning against trees
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Bajoing.
Hm. Random moodswings are kinda fun.
Sold camera, need to go out and waste more film today so I can send it off to the nice man. Don’t think he’d want my photies in it.
Am sad to see it go, but I need the money, so no choice really...
Met a nice man yesterday called Lloyd...he left this morning. Have Ref:Ronnie and MrsRonnie (think it was Daz, can’t remember) staying this weekend. They’re in me bed asleep.
Ref:Adam went out to wish Jorge a happy birthday stating that he’d “not be long” and “wasn’t going to get stoned” - this coupled with Jorge’s admission to me that he was “trying to give up” led me to believe that Adam would fail to arrive back on time or be sober. How right was I?
Ref:Warren has stayed up all night playing the computer. Tsk.
Having a picnic with Ref 
hil tomorrow, should be good...and Ref:NewJames is coming to visit next weekend. Yay!
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Crap.
And this is what it’s *meant* to look like 
/span> Just sold my camera on eBay. Feel dead inside. Mostly I want to curl up and hide and just not talk to anyone at all. Plus my toe is icky and vile and I need to put it in a bag so I can shower but I just haven’t got the energy/will to do it.
Freakcity’s nearly 2 months overdue for payment - hoping we don’t get cut off before I get paid next week.
Why does the world have to suck so much?
Was nice to have Phil looking after me on Tuesday - he’s looking good - said he’d lost all the weight he was trying to lose on Atkins in about a week and that he was going to make peritinitis an annual event. Tsk.
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Tube fucked, for a refreshing change...
I go into hospital in 6 hours. Ronnie has moved to Manchester. James has possibly found a new man. Adam has split with Simon. My laptop has broken *again*. My flat is a tip. My mind is melting. I am sat here, being driven by the power of music. And I just want to escape. This is not good. Things hurt too much, and I’m about to have a whole bout of real actual physical pain to go with it. Random people on gaydar wished me well this morning. People I didn’t know knew. Why can’t James even give me a simple “good luck”? I think I know the answer. It’s all very well and good saying you want us to remain close and that you want to stay friends, but actions speak louder than words and if you’re always “too busy” to see me yet can manage to see others with no hassles then I think I get the picture...
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smink
Very quiet in the office. No-one running around, more slow wandering than anything else. Lots of people telling each other very quietly that their heads are fine thankyouverymuch. Bless
Adam stayed up all night playing with the computer, I shall have to spank him later as that kinda thing’s bad for him...his mum’s coming to visit today so he’s tidied up loads of the flat which is sweet. He even cleaned the bathroom (and possibly created some new and amusing chemicals in the process)
Ron has decided to end it with Ian and so turned up at about 12:30am looking miserable. Hugged him lots. Had a snifter of voddie before bed and then went to bed at about 2ish. Woken up by Ron jumping in at 4:30...didn’t sleep well after that so am very knackered.
Adam’s barbecue tonight, if he wakes up in time
Simon texted Owen telling him he’s decided he’s now single. Don’t know if Adam knows yet. Will phone shortly.
Discovered T-mobile appear to have an unencrypted wireless network running in Hammersmith. *snigger*
Sorting out remote access this afternoon for next week. Still dreading Tuesday but what can I do. Really want to see James and have hugs but don’t know if I’ll be able to beforehand... 
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Pissheads!
Dullish day doing bugs...Then the company barbecue after. Free bar, vodka sleuch (if that’s how you say it) and lots and lots of very very nice food
Think Dave was a bit sleuched by the end. But he’s off now for a week so I doubt he’ll care until the morning.
Chatted with Phil lots who suggested that my operation on Tues could be painful - Unshocker. Made me think some though...Have arranged with work that I get to work from home for the rest of next week with Weds off sick. Taking my lappy into work tomorrow to get the VPN things installed and to test stuff over the weekend. Phil is gonna play taxi and look after me some on Tues as well...Yay...
Made desktop wallpaper out of one of my groyne pics from Cromer. Purty. Now I’m sat at Parson’s Green, waiting for a train, whilst they continue to drink lots more...
• 23:16: On a train...
So we left the office at 6ish. Fancy dress. Three of the team wearing ponchos and big bushy moustaches. Most of the rest of us with capguns. Most amusing! We chose to walk, many shouts of “Oi gringo”. Shoo.ting passers by with cap guns. One cyclist yelled “Why did the Mexican jump off a cliff?” but then promptly almost cycled into the back of an Astra so we never found out. We were at a cashpoint getting cash. Someone with a gun suggested it was a “polite hold-up”. Managed not to get lost - many more sniggers tho
Got to the venue. Gorgeous place. Upstairs bar, all beer free...mmmbeer. Down and out to the garden, with a big barbecue, tables, another bar, and then downstairs for a little patio and a “disco” room with DJ and another bar. Very cool.
Had a burger with salad. We’re talking 1/2 pound burger cooked medium rare and freshly made from steak. Maize topped bun and salad etc. Gorgeously lovely. Chatted to some work people including a rather pissed Dave, then queued for half hour for the second barbecue and fresh chicken breast and lamb shish kebab with a side of corn on the cob.
Yum!
Far too full to drink very much, so quite happy...chatted more then headed home.
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Why do all my friends all of a sudden fancy Pete?
Didn’t make it to Retro last night. Tried phoning NewJames and his phone was off. Grr. OldJames has a job, gives me mixed feelings...Given that much of my problem with him had to do with him not having one I’m kinda wistful about it as I sort of wish it’d have happened earlier so we could have tried living together and being a real couple and stuff. Ah well. If he doesn’t want that then I just move on I guess. How many times have I written that? Urg. I’ll shut up now. Just kinda annoyed that whenever I talk with him about “us” he suggests we go round in circles...which was sorta true the first two times but I suspect wouldn’t be the case now as we’re both quite a bit different in where we are and what we’re doing than we were. *sigh*
Owen’s sister Cati gets married at the weekend - I’ve been invited to do video. Owen’s a tad nervous about the travelling and so I shall be there on Saturday evening. Am gonna lend him my laptop too so he can do ID card stuff on the way. Might bring the camera and stuff too and do some nice piccies for Cati.
Went to bed earlyish. Adam came in from Retro with housepet. They said hello hugs stuff and then rushed off to the Swan. Woke me up coming in and woke me up by cooking...or more accurately burning...smoke alarms at 3am ain’t pretty
So. Today I have careful bugsquishing to do. And this evening is the Company Barbecue. Yay. Free food!
Can’t afford to get a costume though. Bah. Western Theme...I suggested that I should get a whip and got funny looks and the kind of awkward silence usually reserved for spin the bottle. *smirk*
Should be fun anyways...
Am considering selling some photography. Chris Morris (the gay one, not the famous one) is considering using me as a photographer for one of his sites too...maybe a little extra cash
I am now financially fucked. Bankrupcy sounds fun
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Phonetastic
New phone arrived. Underwhelmed with Nokia’s vCard support - every time I sent it my phonebook it only ever picked up the first bit. Tsk. Copied it to the T3, weeded out the crap, then sent them via Bluetooth one by one to the 6230.
Bugfixing at work. *piles* of them. All registered to me and about 2/3 of them crap. Grr. Waded through lots of them...
Watched lots of early Buffy with Adam yesterday - was fun. Leftovers masquerading as food were the order of the day as I chipped my old potatos, chopped the old mushrooms and finished up the eggs and fish. Tasted yum tho
Phone camera is cool. Put keyboard on eBay again. Considering selling the cardcam. Yay all around...
Very tired. Gonna cook nice things then go (possibly) to Retro and say “hi” to people.
I now have IRC on my phone. How sad am I?
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Camping...
Cor. My Palm appears to have totally reset itself rather bizarrely!
So I’m writing this in BabyWord...hopefully I won’t accidentally lose it all or something
Arrived at the campsite at about 9:45pm. Uneventful drive - late setting off because Adam was late (unshocker) and Alasdair and Ben were early...Managed to get entirely lost by taking the wrong turning right at the end - but this only slowed us by around 10 minutes....
Nikki and Brian were there at around 8ish and had themselves all sorted out - tho she’d not put our tent up, the cow...
After ignoring her and not taking a right at the bottom and driving into a tree, we got to our pitch. The tent she’d lent me had been fingerpainted all over by the kids of someone and so looked gorgeous
Had some of their wines - Brian makes his own - and some of his homemade gin. Stayed up all night drinking and being randomly stupid. Embarrassed myself a tad. Oopsie. So was very wankered by the time they got up again.
My recollection of the morning is somewhat wobbly. Remember Ben buying cigs for me. Remember Puppy dribbling coke in my bellybutton as I sunbathed topless. Remember them all running off to steamtrains. We went to bed and I embarrassed myself a lot. Remember a damp Puppy waking us up and trying to pay for stuff by cheque in the Village Shop. Remember Adam being a bit poorly after eating explosive pastry and drinking some water...
The rest of them got back a bit later...they’d been zooming around on steamtrains and stuff like tards...bless ’em
I was feeling pretty dodgy but mostly I was ok - drank plenty of water and ate some barbecued chicken...mmmyum
Puppy made a ring of fire out of candles and we moved all the chairs into it and sat listening to his CD connection. Too much Shirlie Bassy...
He then played a CD of women in porn making orgasm noises everywhere. Lovely
We were all taken a bit by the radio controlled glider of one of the kids on the site. We desperately wanted one but didn’t have a chance to find anywhere that sold them. Adam made do by buying a ruberband powered glider which he then proceeded to put together all wrong and then sulk at when it wouldn’t fly without its wings falling off. Ben went off to buy a plane kite that flew about as well as that one. Nikki ran off and persuaded the small boys to let her play with the glider. Everyone drank a bit and I didn’t as I still felt shite.
Managed to break Pete’s chair by sitting on it. So need to diet.
Lenny turned up for the evening, but ended up drinking some and staying the night...was cool to see him as I’d not seen him in a year or so. He was on the site somewhere I think but I can’t remember what his old ID was so I’ll search the DB some time later and see if I can find his old one...
Possibly need to change the code so you enter your email address to get the password mailed to you...
It pissed it down at 7ish when we were barbecuing. We ran into tents, strapped everything down, shut everything up, then all huddled under the plastic thing Brian had erected between his car and a windbreak until it stopped a bit. The barbecue survived. Yay
Reentered the circle of fire. It was decided that the circle should have a single entrance/exit and a blessing should be uttered on arrival. Which we kept up until it wasn’t funny any more. Went to bed...
Woke up far too early, but it was all misty and pretty and stuff so took a couple of piccies then went back to bed. Adam kept nicking the covers. Grr.
We were sleeping on the sleeping bag I brought with me as we’d sniffed it and it was mank. We thought it was Sal’s one, but it wasn’t, it was apparently Lenny’s - he recognised it. Anyways, we looked at it and sniffed it and thought “er...no” and didn’t use it to sleep in...so we were using Adam’s as a sorta duvet, only he squirms far too much *giggle*
He’d made this thing for beads in his hair...and tied it in there with laccy bands - apparently I tore i
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Mmmlunchgood
Random bugfixing going on. Most of which is simple. Lunch at 1pm in the rather lovely Riverside Café. Had duck in black bean sauce
My first week at the company I go out for drinks with my line manager, Rach, and we’re talking about random things and I mention “furries” and the strange people from “londonfurs”...and her and her other half are highly amused about this...so we end up with this running joke about “furries” - now this came about in a team meeting...and Rob misheard...
So he’s apparently been going around telling people that Rach called me a fairy in the team meeting. So Rach tells me this at lunch and I just end up giggling for about 5 minutes, like a loon...
2hr lunch until 3pm. When I get to go home. Yay me! So am sat on the tube having a good day. Which means something will go wrong. Wonder what
Toucan (www.toucantele.com) have a pretty 3d rendered logo on their tube ad. Only the colours are all wrong. Silleh!
I am so very very tired today. I think I may sleep well regardless of temperature/rain/etc issues.
Going to take both the camera and the video cam I think. Can make film of us running around on beaches like ’tards
Need to dig out both my waterproofs and my chequebook when I get in...or it’ll end up being damp and embarassing...
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Camping goodness
Left work at about 3ish. Knackered, so shouldn’t have stayed up that late. Arranged to spread my half day over today and tomorrow.
Met Adam at the station. We were supposed to be having lunch but he didn’t arrive until 4. Tsk. Dirty stopout. So we wandered around Hammersmith plotting world domination and peering at houses that were gorgeous and far too expensive for us. Wandered past the office in the rain. Pretty houseboat caught Adam’s eye...He suggested we buy one somewhere cheap and have it towed here. I said that was a fine idea as long as it could have broadband
Took Adam back via Shepherds Bush to look at other pretty flats. Decided to go for coffee on Old Compton Street and chat more. We’ve decided to get somewhere nicer with 3 beds if we can, then we get a room each and an office
Old Compton St was nice. Fluffy. Full of ugly old men trying to look young. Rah! Popped into some of the cuter porn shops for a giggle. Grannies being gangbanged caught our eye, as well as some upset woman being double penetrated. Must get some straight porn to laugh at...
Dozed a bit. Got up again when Warren called. Still not found a lift for him so he’s probably not going to manage camping
Going to leave work at 3ish today, run home, pack and go camping. Big team lunch at the Riverside Café today - should be nice
Still knackered. Our CEO resigned yesterday. Seems odd. Phoned by an agency about a job - 6 month contract paying lots of money. Not sure, but might go for it...
Phoned James and got answerphone. Apologised to OldJames for being stroppy.
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Holy Mother of Bob!
I’m a tad late. I got to bed at 4am. Oops! Fun night though. Felt crap about arguing with James. I know I have reasons for being pissed off an all, but I’ll never force him to understand the bits he chooses to put down to me being a jealous ex lover...
Need to break out of this pattern we’re in. We don’t see each other for a while, we argue, we see each other and kiss and make up and remember how nice it is to be together again...then not see each other for a while...
I don’t think we’re going to be close for a while. Our expectations of each other are too different. We don’t really get on, aside from the special cuddles...we just don’t have a lot in common. He seems to think it’s cool to try and be an Ãœbergeek or something, and I intensely dislike him when he’s with other geeks. And he hates all my friends. And seems to love telling me this. I can’t of course hate his because in 2.5 years of allegedly being important to him I’ve not met any of them.
So this time we’re gonna just not kiss and make up. The hurt’ll go after a while. Being mean in my Journal is almost like methodone
Long day of frustrating bugs yesterday. Some bits of the test site were very broken, so I feel I may have some reopened when I get in eventually this morning.
Adam mentioned he was doing karaoke, and I wasn’t going to go but by 6pm I was in such a bad mood I thought Fuck It and went to meet him in Bar Aquada (or however it’s spelt). Felt crappy for turning up and sucking the life out of the conversation. Must apologise to Dee for it as that’s who Adam and Simon were out with.
Trundled to Retro - managed to have a few drinks and do karaoke. “There is a Light and it Never Goes Out” - I’m nothing if not predictable..."I’m going to depress you all now because frankly I’m having a shit week and I don’t see why you lot should be happy" - Listened to Breakfast at Tiffany’s and thought of OldJames. How crap am I? Missed NewJames as it was the first time in Retro since we were there last.
We decided in the end to Amateur Strip. Warren, Simon and Adam made a pact that they’d all enter and if any of them won they’d split it. Adam won. Candy shaved all their pubes off. It was funny
Met (Saint)Steve in the Swan too. Been chatting to him for aaages online but never met him before. Was nice! He’s much gayer in real life
Smee was there. He’s split with Ed. Claims it’s all ok.
Went home at 2ish, Adam and Simon took the other Ed(photo) to Chariots. Stayed up chatting to Warren until 4am. Ick.
Today will be mostly fuelled by caffeine.
Adam is meant to be taking me to lunch later and I’m going to try and phone NewJames later too for a chat. My new phone’s been delayed Was going to phone him using my free minutes. Grr.
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Bored with life
Phil’s stomach is all owchie So busy at work the last two days. Lunch at 4pm isn’t fun....
Walked past a woman yesterday ranting about how she loved Robbie Williams to two policemen. Loudly. “That fucking Nicole Appleton, excuse my French, she was having his little baby and she aborted it” What’s *that* about?
Phil got peritinitis - apparently he almost died and had to have an operation on his stomach - he’s been in hospital the last two weeks and just got out. Flimsy excuse for not going camping if you ask me
Got out of work at 6ish. Big improvement on 8 the day before. Tube was broken, so was a little late too. Got most of the bugs squished too before the code freeze.
Knackered. Met my Aunt for a brief chat about PCs, as Matt wants to buy one so he can sell antiques on eBay. They’ve just signed up to 1mb broadband...bless. Still seems to be a big gap between what Oliver wants to do and how he gets there...
Need to fix my website as it’s broken at the moment. Oops!
Talked with Alasdair about hosting at Alivewww. May move Stone in there. Argued with James some (the old one) - seems he’s quite happy publically rubbing my face in anything I do wrong yet can’t take criticism. Have sort of given up on him now. We have nothing in common unless we’re physically in the same place - It’s just crap really. He claims he wants us to stay close, but his actions say something different.
Talked travel arrangements with other Alasdair for the weekend. Am borrowing a tent from Nikki. Should be fun!
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Tried to wear you as a jewel, chose to wear you as a bruise...
Didn’t do too much on Thursday as we were both knackered. Logged on to shagdar to see a message from James he sent whilst we were in the sauna explaining his PC was broken and he’d only just got my message about Leeds and inviting me over if I had time. Felt bad about that coz it was so sweet - Showed Adam and he "aww"ed. I had an early night, Adam went for a walk.
Chatted to random people online, as Adam was on many coaches to Reading to retrieve Simon. Got stood up by a random bloke. Plotted how to acquire money. Fun. Honed my scaryoldman profile with appropriate pics Adam took in the sauna
By now it was Friday. William told me of his houseboy, I told him off for copying me. Arranged to meet them @ CXR at 5ish. Arrived @ 6:15ish. Oops. William’s houseboy is lovely, but a tad camp. He claims this is only when he’s drunk but I suspect that this is far from the truth
Pissed about in CXR for a couple of hours, leaving rather predictably just as happy hour started. Got to Retro in time to wish Adam a happy birthday. I’m none too sure if he’ll remember that! Miggyman was there and lovely. Not met him before and doubtless gave a good impression as I slurred onto him. Oops! Got a brief potted history of Will’s boy, I suspect he and Adam will form a houseboy union and demand better wages.
Gaz and Deev turned up at closing time, just in time for me to fail to drunkenly convince them to come to the Swan.
Ran off home via the offy for a little coke. Had voddie and chatted to people some. Bed too late considering it’s Pride tomorrow...
Danny had made all these plans for everyone to meet up and they invariably fell apart. Got to Marble Arch at about 12:15, having been unable to get gays off my carpet. Was much smaller than previous years. Met up with some freakcity people. Igster waved an “out” balloon at me and sarcastically asked where FreakCity’s ones were. Yeah right. As soon as I start charging for the site I can waste license money on balloons. Pointed out that FreakCity was too fruity for gays...
Found Justin Fink who I’ve not seen in ages. Taught him how to open champagne whilst marching. Watched as he tried to swig it like coke and got it all down him. Giggled.
Saw wotsit who runs Sim. Walked past a woman who was punching herself repeatedly in the head. Finished the march and did Sainsburys Local (a local supermarket for local people) and bought various gorgeous things including a huge chocolate truffle cheesecake. Deev bought 24 bottles of Stella and instantly regretted it as we started the walk to St James’ Park from Victoria.
Five days later, we arrived, lost and alone, half dead from lack of gin, to the post pride picnic.
Some scary old man attempted to massage his ego by singing to a backing track and claiming it as tradition...his batteries didn’t hold out.
Took loads of piccies, ate too much. Hugged various people. Giggled as Richard and then Simon lost their trousers. The pissheads. Zaty has my camera but with an added wide bit at the end. After some amusement we headed to Retro to meet others. Wasn’t planning on drinking at all.
James phoned me. From London. Which surprised me a tad!
He tried to get me to come to XXL with him, but I got him to come to Retro instead.
Got really nervous about it for no apparent reason...not seen him in about 8 months and last time we met was in Queen’s Court in Leeds and we were both pissed and both had boyfriends but both kinda liked each other.
He’s got a pink mohican now and looks so damn sexy it’s scary...he was with a friend but his friend disappeared off for a bit so we got to hug lots and he got to be groped by everyone in Retro, which was fun. He handled DrunkOwen very well - “we’ve not seen your willy yet either...” *flop*
He went back on the tube to Clapham, randomly beating someone up for not liking him being gay on the way - just before he left he asked me if I’d be his boyfriend if he came to live in London. It was so s
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Ooops, long time no chat!
Been too busy to stick anything in this thing. My subtle and cunning plan to finish Freakcity over my holiday failed. I used the laptop I dragged to Leeds a grand total of once!
After getting back from Manchester we wandered for a bit. Bumped into a courtyard party at Queens Court. Phoned Gaz and met up with him, Paul and Lee. They wanted to take me to McDonalds but I was having none of that and instead dragged them to Bella Pasta opposite. Got a gayboy waiter with funny eyes...*titter*. Ate food and ran for the bus.
Took Gaz and Adam to the Bridge. It’s been done up since I was last there and now looks like some glorified wine bar - which is kinda funny as all the scary old men were still there...
After that, for pure comedy I took them both to the Penny - they were very impressed
During chatting it turned out that Adam hadn’t seen Priscilla - so we just had to watch it! We went back to Gaz/Deev’s place and whapped it on. Slightly amused by the buses and being on the “brown line” - we’re such children. Del and Matt had woken up by this point and we invited them over too - handy as I had no idea how to get back from there...
Got back lateish and went to bed.
Up earlyish and then dragged Adam, Del and Matt round Leeds some. Marvelled at everything being shut.. Don’t really remember what else we did apart from randomly miss the train back
Monday nights at Queens Court is £1 a drink, so we had to really!
20:02: Leeds part III
Crap. Remind me to never go on holiday again! Only just finished work!
Got to Queens Court at about 11ish. Was meant to be seeing James there, but he didn’t turn up. Nor did Gaz. Adam spent most of the evening waving his tits at people, and I got drunk but managed until 1am before giving up and having a fag. Entertaining evening
Got back after much kebabness, pissing-up-alleyness, general tomfoolery and stuff. Started on the aftershock (!!!) at about 3am and managed to down the bottle. Matt went to bed as he was working earlier than Del but we were being too loud for him. He stormed back in and announced he was going to sleep in the downstairs hall. Oops! We went downstairs and stayed up all night chatting to the point where Nina was going to work and we asked her for some fags on the way out...*giggle*
Woke up late. Felt very crappy, unsurprisingly. Went out to find food and let Adam beat up the people in the bank to obtain cash but failed on both counts. Came back at 6ish. Adam went upstairs and chatted to Nina and I went back to bed. I was very high maintenance that day. Adam managed my demands admirably!
Got up at 10pmish - I am such a lush! Went off to a kebabish with the boys and we bought enough meat to feed a few hundred people. Played Monopoly until about 3am. Gosh. Must stop with these late nights. Del cheats like a woman of few morals (spose that’s a landlord’s son for ya...) and I lost hideously. Went to bed and sulked
Up quite early on Weds, so got online and chatted to random people some. Adam eventually got up too, so we tried the bank thing again, but to no avail. Wandered for a bit then Del invited us to visit him at work at the sauna. Got the train to Dewsbury and eventually found the place. There were about 10 old people there, all of whom comically followed Adam into the steam room at once and then filed out again glumly one-by-one as they realised he wasn’t interested. Back to the house after...more monopoly. Adam decided to stay up all night, I suspect because he wanted a fag. Had to be at Dyer St for 6:50am, so up at 5:30am. Packed, sorta said bye to Del+Matt (they were both too asleep to remember). Got on the coach dead quick. Fuck all people on it so we got the back seat. Yay.
Will talk more tomorrow of things past, meeting James randomly in Retro and Pride fun