Is yesterday tomorrow, today?

Quote of the moment: "If any of the departments is taken out, the whole tower falls down. Or it should do...."

I think I shall have to write this in the past tense, even though I haven't slept since it happened.

Yesterday's shift at Tesco was the best so far. Why? Because I spent an hour and a half being educated in the "Living Service" programme. This involved free chocolate. I would like any Tesco personnel programme for this one advantage alone! But it also involved stickers, playmats, videos, a room with a mini theatre curtain across the door, and most importantly, wooden building blocks. These were cubic, and so when at the start we were instructed to sit on the floor in a circle and use the blocks, each labelled with the name of a store department, the majority response was to put one on another in a column with a base of 4 (2 x 2). Logs are not involved, Vince/Rob/Anyone who might think this was challenging :P However, this obviously proved unstable due to a lack of interlinking, so I set each layer at a 45 degree angle/rotation from the previous one, so that all blocks both supported and rested on two other blocks. This meant that when the time came for the "Without all of these departments, the store would collapse" soundbite, there was a disapointing failure of the "store" to do anything other than wobble. It was rather like Jenga :D

Upon returning home from Tesco I was informed that Paddy had only just left, having stopped by to give me my orders regarding a cinema trip. When I eventually got hold of him, he, Rob and Dan Haustrup were in the foyer at Cineworld, tickets bought, film "beginning" then. How handy! I thus skidded there pronto on the lovely icy roads, and saw the Manchurian Candidate. Which was cool. When we left I got my first full view of Rob's hair, which is cooler!

Thereafter ensued a trip to Pizza Hut, where the Eastern European waitress flirted with Paddy. When I made a comment about "Nadia", he thought I was referring to the Portugese one... SIGH. We then made our way to Paddy's house, where we ate, drank coke, and admired Rob's Hair (It's so cool it's become a proper noun :P). Xbox obviously followed. Rob was delivered home at midnight by Paddy, and in the intervening hour I vastly inflated his Xbox live death count (and added to the kills by 5) while Dan tried to argue with confused Americans via the microphone. Sometimes in Danish, just for extra effect.

Dan departed around 2am, whereupon we set to Halo 2, co-operative. By 5.45, when I left, it was (apparently) nearing completion! Hurrah! And hence the rather early time of this post... I'm off to catch some sleep before meeting up for Gamecube action at Will T's at 3pm! Super-turbo-hardcore-games-fest-action-marathon!