Mat Bowles

Today, I cooked myself a decent breakfast (which was prompted by me forgetting to turn off the damned alarm clock), did some stuff online, made some decent sandwiches (with healthy salad type fillings, quorn slices (and cheese, no point in sandiches without cheese) and drove to Exeter.

The drive took longer than expected. Traffic didn't move, at all, for half an hour at the bottom of Telegraph Hill. Someone had managed to flip their car (big time), didn't see what had happened as the clear up was finished but the tailback was huge.

At GameSoc, played a game of Attack! with mapp, dainul, Beef and Vaughan, who I hadn't met before. I love attack, but the steep learning curve for the mechanics means it takes too long to set up the first game, which meant we ran out of time. mapp won, but we finished early, and he was very vulnerable at the end of that turn. Still, enough players both capable of playing and interested means that when we do get around to setting up the big double board all day game there will be people interested.

After that, played Tongiaki with granjero, Laurence and others, then played the silly duck game with Duncan. It's a very silly duck game. I love it.

Got home, came online, had a connection time out problem with most of the sites I wanted to read, and have finally got them loaded.

Oh.


Which Doctor Who are you?
this quiz was made by Auntie Krizu(:>)
At least I'm not Baker again. May have to go visit parents next weekend, sister has now moved in with them as the bungalow she's bought hasn't been vacated yet, and Easter + Mum's birthday, about time I managed to be a 'son', I've been such an all round flake recently. Other people have birthdays due as well, busy weekend methinks.

K, I'm coming down with the bug every other bugger in the office has had, so I'm just finishing covering the welfare desk then going home. In the meantime, Sunday...

Got to GameSoc late, (most of the people that said they'd ring did, which meant I was delayed by answering the phone to people who were making sure I wouldn't be late- that and getting angry about an ID cards article I'd read while eating brunch) and met up with nearly_everyone, people were playing Tongiaki and Pirate's Cove, so I watched and then we played Scrabble. Well, 4 of us did, mapp insisted on scoring. ( Scrabbletastic... Short version? I win. Big time. ). Fun, but not a game I want to play regularly.
Fluxx: Bloody silly game. paulatpingu wins be cheating (I think). Always fun, always silly.
Doom, the Board Game: Now, you know this is going to go wrong when the first question someone asks is "When is PVP enabled"? ( Doom? Doomed we were )
Fun, very Space Hulk like, worth another blast sometime but nothing to take seriously.
Domaine: Written (IIRC) by the same guy that made Settlers of Catan, with artwork by Franz Vohwinkel (who I've met), one of those games that looks complicated but really isn't.
Amun Re: Egyption pyramid building. ( The Nile floods... ) Can anyone remember who won?

So, 5 different games played in 8 hours. That's pretty good, very cool. Thx all for a pretty good day. Right, time to vacate the office, I actually finished work half an hour ago but, well, Simon's telling stories from his cruise work...

Did I mention I'm ill? It's man-flu for sure, but, well, I'm still ill.

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Bunker was fun last night; I just got up. Odds of driving to Exeter very slim so I'll see people whenever.
In the meantime, I'm off to trawl the net and annoy some "true fans" of H2G2 who are still whinging about the changes. I might just quote Adams at them on the subject.

So, I've heard it's open, closed, closing, or completely still open.

I was planning on driving up, but if it's not on that would be pointless.

From what I heard, there should be no problems as only the upstairs flat was raided, not the pub or club, and the licensees are not implicated in anything. But that's just another of the runours.

Does anyone know anything concrete one way or the other? Staff are apparently booked to be working.

Godsdamn it! I decidd to update because I'd got a cool idea, but went to a few other tabs first. Now I'm back here and, um, it's gone. Ah well, just blither about the weekend I guess.

Went to the Bunker Saturday night, apparently got there about ten minutes after mapp left. Still, blacktone was there and nadriel was down, so that meant there was a human to talk to and Mike to take the piss out of (lots, sorry Mike, but, well, open goals and all)...

Chris and Anne-Marie were there, which kinda segues me into my next bit. Y'see, I first met Chris when he was a customer in the shop I worked at. I'd left school, dropped out of college, and was working full time. He was 11. Anne-Marie, I met independently. I worked for her dad. Again, the time I met her, she was 11. Now, they're both functioning adults, and a pretty happy couple. Gods I feel old, of the 5 people in the nightclub I actually like talking to, two of them I've known, as an adult, since they were kids.

That, and the club was full of kiddies and teenygoths. Seems to be getting worse. That's not just me getting old. So few people there that were worth speaking to. I had to check probable age before admiring the women; half, on a proper look, were cute kids, not women yet, certainly too young for me. Gah! What the fuck happend to the Bunker being the hangout of people into their 20s? That's what it was like when I first moved to Exeter. Where are the students? Oy, Wordsworth, Franglen! What's happened to you lot bringing people down for me to talk to? It's getting to the point that I may stop going unless people tell me they'll be there. Ah well.

Watching Mike was fun. Mike? Next time we talk, a few more notes on technique needed methinks. That was one pretty impressive crash and burn. Still, a worthy effort...

Night all, job to go to tomorrow (not that I'll sleep tonight)...