TC x 2

( two day's of tedious crap )

Weekend

Well, I doubt I'll do much tomorrow, but Fri/Sat was worth a write-up, as I actually left the house and socialised. Whee!

Friday, went to London to have independent medical consultant bloke look at leg and interview me, so that he can prepare a report for lawyers to argue over regarding impact (ho ho) of accident on my life. Hopefully he'll write suitably enrichening things.

After this, headed to pub with duranorak to see various people, including but not limited to adjectivemarcus, wechsler, valkyriekaren, babysimon, trishpiglet and emarkienna. No-one was as surprised to see me as I thought they should have been, but they did seem pleased to see me so I suppose that's okay. Chips were consumed, songs were sung, hugs were had. A pleasant evening.

Saturday, an epic trek down into southern regions of London, where a gathering of my friends (who mostly communicate via a mailing list called 'posse' these days) were planning on blowing things up. This went very well, although there was one firework that blew itself to pieces before it had finished firing all the sections, and as a result one medium-large explosive device landed halfway up the garden toward us before firing. Straight at us.

No-one was injured in the making of all this excitement, so a good fun evening there too. With hot-dogs. Yum.

I forgot to post tedious crap last night, so I've tried to remember it all today... I imagine it'll be close enough for my purposes.

Oh yes, and one of the posse gathering brought along a fire-staff, which was most entertaining. I think I'm going to have to get some fire poi, I can't have these geeky types outdoing me :)

Whoosh, BANG!

Pictures of our fireworks, by someone with a much better camera than me :)
http://www.mini1400.demon.co.uk/galleries/possebash/

*wibble*

Just finished Ender's Game, which is a pretty good book. Now I can't see anything on my bookshelves that I want to re-read again yet - I've been hitting my book collection quite hard lately, partly due to simple boredom, but largely for escapism purposes, and I've worked through all the good stuff at least once, two or three times in some cases.

I now feel quite miserable - escapism withdrawal. Letters from lawyer that I opened this morning hasn't really helped - the wranglings drag on, and I'm in one of those moods where I can see the many potential endings where I get totally fucked over a lot more convincingly than the ones where I actually get some sort of justice out of the whole thing.

Money is not going well at all... I'm into borrowing against my credit cards again now, which is a losing game but I don't have any other options. I'm very concerned about trying to find work - I know there are more skilled people out there than me who've been looking for long months, and that's pretty scary. I've been living in the middle of a huge framework of debts for years now, and it's not standing up well to the sudden withdrawal of my income - let alone to the possibility that I might not be able to reclaim all of what I've lost through this accident.

I've run out of steam here - I've just sat staring at the cursor blinking for the last ten minutes or so - so I might as well hit 'update' and go back to investigating the bookshelf. Must be somewhere on there that I can escape to...