The GameCube Guide To The Galaxy
Quote of the moment:
"So long and thanks for all the fish" - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
Today I went into work, only to discover that due to some sort of cock-up the 4 people scheduled to work today were joined by the 2 new agency workers who both started this week and had been told they would work Sunday by the agency. I pointed out the two man surplus to the Chef and he asked if I wanted the day off. Given that I've worked 9 days out of the last 10, I said yes!
I took advantage of this gifted day off to go to Will T's with Jim, play some Cube and then head to the cinema. There was also some Fifa 2004, after which Jim posed with the vibrating joystick on his lap. I did have my camera but forgot to bring it home with me. Supper was provided, as ever, by the excellent Thorne Restaurant Ltd and was super, thanks for asking. It was followed by some real, non-electronic football in the garden, with Thorne Bros United winning on the penalty shoot-out after the match ended suddenly with Edward getting put to bed when he screamed too much at my retaliation to his grass throwing. Oops. In addition to that overexuberance, when discussing Mission Impossible at supper and how it had spawned xXx etc, I said "I bet there were a lot of porn versions of THAT film". Cue silence and stifled grins, enter tumbleweed stage left.
On the way to the cinema, with me in the back and Will T beside him, Jim was getting a bit overexcited and was wiggling down the road. He then started turning a slight bend and I told him to put both hands on the wheel. As he turned around to reply (the fool) the wheel slipped somewhat and we swerved towards the verge, then away and around in a long skid (starting at 40mph plus) that ended with the car sideways across the road. It was pretty cool, although I didn't feel that way until I'd finished staring at the hedge getting closer through the back window.
The Hitchhiker's Guide was pretty cool, although Jim's chief impression seemed to be how hot Zooey Deschanel is. Strange name. Anyway, as with Lord of the Rings I saw the film(s) before reading the book, so I was spared the disappointment of "Oh, they left that out/changed that/made that up", although it was at least a Douglas Adams script/screenplay.
On the way out we picked up some posters for The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse, for which we saw a very promising trailer. There was also one for Kingdom of Heaven, but according to Will T:
"its far to curtailed, with litle back story development and nary a training montage in site" (sic)
I laughed partly at the bad spelling but mostly at the idea of a Ridley Scott medieval training montage, as per A Knight's Tale.
After that we went back, gamed some more and Jim and I had a sit-ups contest. No prizes for guessing who was the tortoise and who was the hare, but I did keep going for two minutes to his one and, probably from the competitive edge, managed 34 situps in the first minute and a new PB of 60 in 2 minutes. Hurrah!
"So long and thanks for all the fish" - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
Today I went into work, only to discover that due to some sort of cock-up the 4 people scheduled to work today were joined by the 2 new agency workers who both started this week and had been told they would work Sunday by the agency. I pointed out the two man surplus to the Chef and he asked if I wanted the day off. Given that I've worked 9 days out of the last 10, I said yes!
I took advantage of this gifted day off to go to Will T's with Jim, play some Cube and then head to the cinema. There was also some Fifa 2004, after which Jim posed with the vibrating joystick on his lap. I did have my camera but forgot to bring it home with me. Supper was provided, as ever, by the excellent Thorne Restaurant Ltd and was super, thanks for asking. It was followed by some real, non-electronic football in the garden, with Thorne Bros United winning on the penalty shoot-out after the match ended suddenly with Edward getting put to bed when he screamed too much at my retaliation to his grass throwing. Oops. In addition to that overexuberance, when discussing Mission Impossible at supper and how it had spawned xXx etc, I said "I bet there were a lot of porn versions of THAT film". Cue silence and stifled grins, enter tumbleweed stage left.
On the way to the cinema, with me in the back and Will T beside him, Jim was getting a bit overexcited and was wiggling down the road. He then started turning a slight bend and I told him to put both hands on the wheel. As he turned around to reply (the fool) the wheel slipped somewhat and we swerved towards the verge, then away and around in a long skid (starting at 40mph plus) that ended with the car sideways across the road. It was pretty cool, although I didn't feel that way until I'd finished staring at the hedge getting closer through the back window.
The Hitchhiker's Guide was pretty cool, although Jim's chief impression seemed to be how hot Zooey Deschanel is. Strange name. Anyway, as with Lord of the Rings I saw the film(s) before reading the book, so I was spared the disappointment of "Oh, they left that out/changed that/made that up", although it was at least a Douglas Adams script/screenplay.
On the way out we picked up some posters for The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse, for which we saw a very promising trailer. There was also one for Kingdom of Heaven, but according to Will T:
"its far to curtailed, with litle back story development and nary a training montage in site" (sic)
I laughed partly at the bad spelling but mostly at the idea of a Ridley Scott medieval training montage, as per A Knight's Tale.
After that we went back, gamed some more and Jim and I had a sit-ups contest. No prizes for guessing who was the tortoise and who was the hare, but I did keep going for two minutes to his one and, probably from the competitive edge, managed 34 situps in the first minute and a new PB of 60 in 2 minutes. Hurrah!
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