Be Excellent To Each Other

Hope you're going to be OK dude. Come to the cottage for a cheer-up pint and a chat.

At least there's no shitty snow here most of the time.

It's not snowing yet, but starting to get cold. I like snow though.

Hmm.

*drips*

Blimey. Go sort yourself out, woman!

No point, got to go out again soon!

*quick waft over with the hair dryer*

*adjust collar*

Nik,

Sorry to the news but hope you're handling it ok.

It's a cliché, but when you get back to Blighty look to the future. Don't spend hours regretting going to Sweden - you tried it, it didn't work out, but at least you had the guts to go. Now onto something better.

And come to the cottage, obviously.

You'll be reet, lad. It's awful now, of course it is. But you'll be fine.

My YouTube account has been terminated because I uploaded some music from the Darius games. I should have known Taito would still have their eye on me (they forcibly removed some Metal Black stuff a few years ago). Durrr.

Been having a bit of a difficult time of it recently. Difficult to go into too much but I'm struggling a little. Could do with a few cuddles/smiles.

Big cyber hugs, and a promise of real ones in a couple of weeks.

Don't be such a wet.

Big party times with awesome friends coming up.
That'll bring you through.

Edit: and i texted you a funny photo. Or a phohohoto as i like to call them.

Not sure Mimi appreciates 'nob gags'.

Thanks guys I had a bagel with gold Marmite on it and Russell made me a cup of tea that didn't entirely suck. Horrible couple o' days. No Mali picture arrived

Oh shit! Someone has been gettin odd texts from me about yarn since saturday!

I thought it was a strange but intriguing come on Now I am sad too.

Not me!

*hugs*

hug!

Glomp und stroopwaffle.

(((hugs)))

Sorry Nick and Mimi! Hugs for Mimi, reacharound for Nick.

At least you'll be able to buy games at reasonable prices again!

Sam didn't pass his driving test.

Two months till he can get another one!

That doesn't matter. Everybody knows that people who pass second-time around are better drivers anyway.

Damn right.

He speaks the truth.

I passed first time, and my car just failed it's MOT and I suck at parallel parking. So it's true.

I passed first time.

Then had several years without a car during college / uni.

Aw yeah.

Passed 3rd time. And my Advanced 2nd time.

Second time here as well. Mrs Bulge passed first time. Nothing more to add, your honour.

Forth

Passed first time, as all good drivers do.

2nd time here !

2 guys in my school who passed first time wrote off their cars within about a month of passing.

I wrote my dad's car off before I had passed - beat that!

I drove past an elk climbing over the central reservation ?

I didn't crash.

First time on both car and bike tests

*pulls down trousers*
OooOoOooOwwewEEEeeEEeeEoOooWEEEEEEOOOOOoOoOOoOOWaahhhhhhwooooOOoOO!
*flaps flaccid penis around*
OooOoOooOwwewEEEeeEEeeEoOooWEEEEEEOOOOOoOoOOoOOWaahhhhhhwooooOOoOO!

I'm pretty sure that's an instant fail.

Nope. Worked for me.

Yes, I was lucky Gaz was my test officer.

I passed 2nd time.

*waves penis at Dimrill *

I'm always a bit dubious about Driving tests.
I can't help but feel that they're somewhat irrelevant. Experience should be something of a requirement before you can pass, and I don't think learner drivers generally have enough by the time they come to sit their first test. (See: the case of a kid at school who passed after 0 driving lessons and hadn't got a damn clue about observing what was going on on the road around him or any clue about how other drivers would behave)

I wouldn't be able to pass the test as it stands now, despite being a considerably better driver than I was when I passed (first time, incidentally).

I got well lucky about my test. They gave me a piss-easy route, it was mid-morning on a Monday so there was barely any traffic, and the only manoeuvres I had to do were a hill start and three-point turn.

So yeah, given how much the conditions can vary, it's not a massive indication of how good someone is. And besides, I'm a rubbish drivist.

I did come here to post about how I'd wasted an entire evening trying to copy old home movies to my PC but that seems mightily trivial now.

Hope everyone is alright and things work out. Nays aren't fun.

I think I've done a wetty.

I'm trying to copy old analogue video tapes onto my PC and yes.. it is quite infuriating.