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And what a year 2010 turned out to be. BeeX people should stop, collaborate, and listen as I drop my science of the year in review on to those assembled.
Finishing the LPC was pretty good. I enjoyed the course and it was worth every penny (lots of pennies – MaliA’s accountant) of it. I’d definitely recommend it to people. The thing I remember most from the course was during the criminal litigation mock trial. The event was walking up the stairs into the dock. If you’ve never done this, and I sincerely hope you won’t ever have to, it’s quite a humbling experience, and one that scares the shit out of you. In any case, it was all OK, as the defendant was able to et away with the lesser GBH charge, and I argued his sentence down to some anger management courses and to stop fucking drinking.
Prior to finishing the course, I was able to go to Nice over the Easter break, and that’s a totally pro place, so everyone should go there, too. It’s fucking expensive but worth every penny. This was, of course, before Iceland decided that it hadn’t finished fucking about with Europe’s financial affairs and as a defiant “FUCK YOU” set off a volcano, grounding air traffic for a while. It was strange to not see aeroplanes in the sky, but a good kind of strange.
To further add amusement to injury, an oil platform exploded which only American hippies seemed to give a fuck about. Even Obama came out of the water untarnished over that one.
After that, I decided I hadn’t done enough to really try to get rid of the polar bears once and for all, and was lucky enough to spend a day driving Grim..’s Range Rover V8 Tomcat around Devil’s Pit. It was super awesome, and I really, really need one. It was also enormously generous of him to let me. For which I am truly grateful.
There was also an election in the UK, which has led to much LOLs after everything pretty much continued as normal.
The summer saw a drunken weekend in Brugge, for Old Man Afterthought’s 60th birthday We hit upon trying out as many beers as I could and then heading over to Normandy for a week. Telling MrsA ‘Andouille is really nice, you’ll love it’. She didn’t, I laughed. We then thought about buying a smallholding in France and renting out the barn as a LAN place. Might have legs, I dunno.
October saw me turning 31, and a week after that a superb weekend in the cottage that Curio’d rented. The only way to describe that weekend was EPIC. I don’t think I’ve laughed quite so much in ages in wonderful surroundings. So, many, many, thanks to Curio for that. Attending a couple of music quizzes in London, winning one of them was also absolutely awesome, well worth the train trips in and out. Thanks for that once again.
But, enough about me and the rest of the world. Albeit briefly.
BeeX has a special place in my heart, simply because we’re all pretty awesome. We might fight about things and have the odd hissy fit and storm off whilst others laugh about it, but I don’t think that there does exist any genuine malice. That’s clear enough from the Waco Weekend and things like that. I think we’ve a cracking bunch of people, and we do really, really well on the social side for a bunch of internet nerds that shoot the breeze in a series of ones and noughts bounced off a server somewhere in America. We’ve done so much together, from Xbox living it up, to playing snooker at 3am, to doing other cool stuff I can’t think of right now.
So let’s keep at it. 2010 was pretty pro. 2011 can be better. Cavey can quit and come back again, possibly 15 times next year; I’ll resubscribe to EvE ;and at a major stretch of the imagination, maybe, just maybe with a sprinkling of fairy dust and a wish upon a star, Mr Chris will come to a BeeXMeet. I’m sure the generosity of members to each other will also continue, as we are lucky to have some incredibly generous people here, with their time and resources.
Y’all take care now. Of yourselves. And each other.
And have a very, very merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year. You all deserve it and, possibly what is coming to you too.
Love and hugs,
I remain your humble servant,
M. Afterthought
Mighty Space Pirate (retired).
That was better than the Pope doing TFTD, wasn't it?
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