Month: July 2002

Quiet today again. Looking forward to tonight’s party.

Beer tonight with Julie, Caroline, Bren, Greg, Wendy and Paul R (happy birthday for Sunday!). And the loveliest barmaid in all of Christendom – shame she’s seeing someone.

Neighbourhood Watch: they were in when I got home, and have just had a pizza delivered. Anyone who wants to sponsor a webcam for this should click on the “support this site” link in the navbar.

Neighbourhood Watch: he’s back again, he’s certainly determined. He has just taken his jacket off and stuffed it in his bag, which he seems to have dumped in the alley which runs behind the house. Then he cleared his sinuses by gobbing all over his shoe (niiiiice), looked through the frosted glass of the front door, and then walked off towards the city. I’ve realised that he’s very young – 21 or 22 tops. And I see her drinking in town occasionally, so I guess it is possible that I’ll bump into them in town tonight.

…which is actually quite close to the mark. Try the Pull-o-Meter test yourself. via Parallax View.

Been busy today. So not said much here. And not got anything to say now.

Sad news that I failed to report the other day: Oddbins in South Street is to close. The company has been bought out by a large French chain, and they are closing all the smaller stores and rebranding the larger ones. This is a great loss to Chichester city centre – it is by far the best off licence and wine merchant (yes, better than Arthur Purchase for wines, in my view) and offers great customer service. More worryingly, it means I no longer have a source of Sagres beer.

Neighbourhood Watch: he’s just left. The Chinese food must have been alright, because he got a goodnight kiss on the doorstep. Darn – and there was me waiting to shark in there!
I notice I’m not the only one watching all this – looks like 185 are fascinated too.
Strange – he keeps walking away and then going back. She lets him in, kisses him again. Then he leaves again and then goes back. These people are very very strange.

My CD-ROM is definitely buggered. sigh. And my washer-dryer isn’t working too well either. How am I going to pay for all these broken things?
Talking of paying, the new gizmo that I’m working on is going to cost around £8 per month. And to allay Paul F’s fears, I’ve found a way to do it legally.

I think my monitor is on the fritz. Either that, or the entire web is developing a pale blue, washed-out look.