Weekend whereabouts

I'm assuming I woke up at some point on Friday because that enabled me to do things.

After the conclusion of me doing things I got myself ready to go round to stay the night at Stephen's. I must have taken quite a while to get ready as Dorothy left for David & Ruth's party at the same time I went to get the bus. The number five goes right from round the corner all the way to just round the corner from Stephen's house so it's not too traumatic even if it does go a funny route which takes over 3,000 seconds.

By that time Ian & Bridget had also left for the party and had left Stephen instructions on how to heat up the tea. The first major stumbling block was when it came to using the hob and he didn't know how it worked or even if it was gas and electricity. Now that he's becoming a student I think he should be taught how such things operate... although maybe not in this advanced and enlightened age of the takeaway.... mmmmm.... takeaway.

A couple of hours after I was at the house and we'd all played several games of Buzz and Mandy (the dog) had beaten Johnny (the person) Stephen was on MSN and Alan came on and asked him if I'd arrived ok. He pretended I hadn't and kept the conversation going in that direction for some time and got Alan pretty wound up so he phoned Dorothy who tried to phone me. tut tut... not that Stephen would wind up Alan, more that Dorothy would phone me during a game of Buzz. We also shared a bar of 'Heaven' chocolate or 'Blasphemy Bar' as we called it. Susan came in at some point and gave us all Christmas Crackers to pull and fed us chicken and then made me eat a Lychee... I worry about that girl. I decided to wind her up by showing her the room plan for Keswick this year but just before I showed her it I did a couple of quick swaps in order to put her in with Uncle Frank. He's actually her uncle's uncle so not technically related to her. He's a lovely, but eccentric, old man who talks rather a lot and says not very much... NOBODY REPLY TO THIS POST SAYING THAT SOUND'S LIKE ME OTHERWISE I WILL NOT BE AMUSED!!! Susan got suitably wound up and started trying to beg and bribe me not to put her in with him. tee hee

Everyone went to bed really early, about 1am, so I sat up on my laptop most of the night as usual and then got up and did a bit of w-o-r-k.

When everyone was up we went to church to set up for Alice's party. After setting up some tables and benches and various little jobs like that I put on Scissor Sisters downstairs for Alan and Sarah. They liked it so much they decided that at the party they wanted to perform a dance routine to the backing of 'I Don't Feel Like Dancing'.

The actual party was fun. Everyone ate well. I was really bad and had a huge bit of cheesecake and a huge bit of chocolate torte. I never learn.... but it was scrummy. They were both home-made by Dorothy so it would have been very rude of me not to try them... in large quantities.

The games were interesting although I'm not entirely sure an eldercly close relative of Dorothy, Alice, Carolyn and Ian really enjoyed such games as passing a balloon under necks etc

Everyone went to bed, people have a bad habit of doing that... I'm not always sure why they'd want to be doing that. I also found out on Saturday that Dorothy had told Fraser I wouldn't be out at church on Sunday night and wouldn't be doing tech so that meant I only had Sunday morning's script to finish although it was mostly done. I couldn't do Sunday Evening's as the chairman hadn't given me or the band the songs even although they're due by Tuesday grrrrrrrrrrrr so I was glad that I had Sunday evening off and wouldn't be having to do it.

Evening passed and morning came and it was Sunday which meant I had to go to church. Jamie was back drumming this week which meant Fraser was able to being training someone Douglas how to do sound which just left me video to look after. I stayed around for lunch and even tried vegetarian lasagne. I'm getting very adventurous in my old age! Just before lunch Fraser had said he was busy with a barbecue all afternoon and after some moderate violence I agreed to prepare the script for Sunday evening and leave it for him. By this stage I'd just been handed a piece of paper with the evening songs on them by the chairman and he promised me they were all modern and would all be in my database. I sat down to do them after lunch only to discover that they weren't all modern unless 1672 is considered modern. I had to type a few of them out by hand and being old songs they had several verses and some very long and strange words. The setup of the desk is also such that it's not very easy or comfortable for me to type something out of a book on to my laptop as it's not really designed very well for that sort of thing so that made me very grumpy so did the thought that if I'd had the list before I'd left home or if the church had an internet connection it'd be so so easy just to grab the lyrics for the songs off of the internet... so I wasn't smused.

When I got home I was actually quite tired, probably after the emotional trauma of it all. I can't remember much of the late afternoon but I think come evening I was really pretty drowsy if not asleep on the couch so was pretty glad I hadn't had to go to church and do tech and sit through a speaker I struggle with and then go to evening communion.... I was just far too tired.

When Donald came in he said that the computer had frozen at church during a song, that hardly anyone (especially young people) had turned up, the singing was rubbish and the speaker spoke on totally the wrong subject to what he was given. John came to visit a wee while after Donald got in and we all had a chat and a lovely cup of tea... well, I had a lovely bottle of water like usual.
I was still a bit out of it initally but I soon perked up and got into the conversation and was obviously awake enough to stay up until 6am watching ER and House and then to get back up again at 8:30.

Not much has happened since then although the Virgin Media internet connectino goes off everytime I try to download a torrent which is most annoying as all of the ones I'm trying to download are perfectly illegal... I mean legal (seriously, they are... one of those two things... honest they are in no way not illegal). I'm worried that when I get Virgin Media this could happen to me. I plan on getting their high speed broadband although there's little point if downloading things is against the rules because that's usually why people want a fast connection.

I found a video on YouTube and don't know what to make of it. I couldn't understand who the group really represented and what objectives they had other than to slag off Christians.