Super-Zero

So yeah, I didn’t get lazy with my post’s, I just was rather busy for the rest of the week. I just got back to Saintfield this evening so I thought I would give a sum up of the last 5 days in England. Thursday was spending enjoying the lovely weather and spending some time pottering around Aston with Kendal and Ashley – however this was cut short due to the iminent arrival of Ashleys better half back into the country – so we spent the rest of the day watching X-Files. I might as well explain now that in general this is what we did with our free time…Season 1 and 2 are now watched and out of the way…

But Kendal’s totally not into it…

Friday we took a ncie little top-down trip to Morley which is just North of Derby where Kendal used to live. Was nice taking the car out on the country roads…however there was a lot of driving up and down and up and down becuase we got lost…We did however end up in a town called Stanley, which I though rahter approprite, what with it being my name and all (pictures to come).

Friday night involved lots of trawling around Derby, avoiding the local whores (YES I AM TALKING ABOUT YOU GIRLS DRESSED IN SWAT OUTFITS THAT SEEMED TO FOLLOW US AROUND!! First at Revolution then at Scream…). We started off the night in a bar called Revolution (Club upstairs, not my type of music but seemed like a nice place anyway), then moved onto a very crowded pub called the Beddington Carriage (good music played here but lots of people). From there we went to Mosh, which is 3 bars, each on a different floor. Rock/pop punk on the ground, metal on the 2nd and sorta old skool on the 3rd. Just to point out though, the 2nd floor (Metal/Industrial) was one of the best Metal mixes I have ever heard. From there we headed to Screm, which definately wasn’t my scene at all, so I spent most of the night in the beer garden (not drinking due to lack of monies) and avoiding the public in general. Scream clsoed at two so we headed back to Mosh for an hour of seriously heavy metal and headbanging before heading home at 3am. Over all was a rather good night.

Saturday and Sunday involved X-Files and Gaming (we got a 14 – day Wold of Warcraft trail and decided to try it out together… Really enjoyed it despite being warned off by several people. Kendal loves it too!!) although we also took a trip to the Melbourne resevoir, where we paddled our toes in the water, admired the swans and generally enjoyed each others compnay.

Monday = lots of walking…walked to Elvaston, then to Elvaston Castle, Then round Aston (wood carrying ensued) but finished off the night with a chimnea and everyone all huddled round it.

And today I’m home… And Kendal is joing me on Thurday – but before then I have to get 4 teeth ripped out, so I’m going to be in hospital for the next two days…only one night though thank goodness…

Maybe I can blog on my phone…

OK, So while I wasn’t particularly busy yesterday afternoon, I was using my laptop to finish watching the first season of the X-Files… So this is basically a round up of the week so far (thats Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Well, there isn’t much to be said for Monday. We were in the house all day because the weather was pretty foul, so I persuaded Kendal to write my blog post for me (which was extremely kind of her) and then we watched some X-Files…Something which she will deny all knowledge of. Its not like she’s really getting into it or anything…

So that pretty much sum up Monday in a nutshell! Tuesday was a lot more interesting with a foray into town and the spending of what little money I have. Including an anniversary present for my dearest and a couple of awesome t-shirts for me. The evening was round off with another party – this one at a beautiful house (barn conversion) in the middle of the country. And what fun it was as the party (and clear skies) happened to coincide with the peak of the Persied meteor shower. We lay outside on the trampoline (with blankets and such to keep us warm) and stared at the sky. In an hour we saw collectively about 25 meteors, some quite bright, leaving very visible trails, and others less so, but still just as spectacular. And some of the people there lost their “shooting star” virginity, which is always good.

Not only was the star show entertaining but the conversation was also excellent, ranging from philosophical discussion, astrophysics and just general gossip and chat. Certainly glad I was able to catch this shower as I usually forget and end up sitting out on a cold Octobers evening on my own for the Geminids…. For some more information on this years show, check out http://iya2009.com/perseid-meteor-shower-peaks-on-tuesday.html.

After it got too cold and the conversation started to stem we headed back inside where most people began to get ready for bed (about 2am). At this point I picked up a rubix cube that had somehow made its way onto the table in the lounge. 2 1/2 hours later I had one complete side and 4 partially completed sides. Some of this can be given credit to the internet and it’s wonderful theories on solving rubix cubes (as opposed to looking up the solution I preferred to look up the general theories behind the algorithms used to solve it and try and apply the rest myself…) but to be honest I hit a pretty hard spot, and every time I tried something new I kept messing it up and had to try and rectify my mistake. I now really want a rubix cube…

Wednesday morning consisted of waking up after 4 hours of sleep and continuing my rubix cube endeavour to no avail. At this point we found a scaleletrix set and decided to have a Mini vs Subaru race…turns out the Subaru has a large magnet on its back to prevent drifting…the Mini didn’t…a short ride home in the back of a fiesta (I couldn’t have the car unfortunately) and we were home…to watch more X-Files. Now, with season one out of the way, one wonders what we might do with today…

Hey all, had yet another fantastically warm, sunny day in Tea-and-Scones Land which was great for me if not so nice for the boyfriend. I hadn’t quite appreciated the sense of freedom one has with a car, so we took the Street KA down to Elvaston Castle for a couple of hours to soak up loads of Vitamin D and poddle round the woods/gardens/lakeside.

It was also my friend Caroline’s 18th birthday so we (mainly I, actually) got all dressed up and headed down to Melbourne for lots of lovely stuff to eat and a bit of banter. It was all v nice and clean so I think we were all rather apprehensive about spilling drinks on the carpet. Despite that there was excellent service from Caroline’s two younger brothers which was v surprising given what we’d all heard about them!

Stan told me I should mention the sweet champagne about now, which was ‘amazing’ in most people’s opinions. Personally I thought it tasted like crap, but then champagne isn’t to my taste. Probably because it isn’t electric blue and an alcopop.

We also saw a bit of my friend Ashley who got the tattoo last Thursday. It’s looking a bit icky at the moment, but as soon as it scabs properly and falls off then it should be a beautiful, inky black. Can’t wait and it isn’t even etched onto my skin.

Talk soon, love.

K x

So another lovely couple of days in England! Weather has been absolutely kick-ass thus far.

So on Friday we spend most of the day just hanging about Aston…At least I think we did… – Got given the keys to a lovely blue Street Ka on which I promptly dropped the top and took for a spin about the local roads just to get used to it. Beautiful car for country roads – seems to handle pretty well although definitely strange compared to my 106.

Friday night we were partay-ing although I seemed to fade out really really fast which was annoying. Not only that but I seemed to take an allergic reaction to something that turned me into a wheezing plague for all of Saturday. After a relaxing 2 hour walk around the beautiful canal-ways of Derbyshire I pretty much collapsed on the couch for a few hours. Seemed to help my chest a fair bit as well.

The evening was spent (boring-ly you may think) watching X-Files Season 1. Only got through about 4 episodes (3 hours worth…) but its so awesome its totally worth it. Kinda cheating as I only have one photo and its not even from the party…however it is rather cool none the less!

So it was refreshing  to log on this morning and have 5 comments to moderate. Granted they were all spam but hey, at least we are getting traffic!

So I am currently in England stay with my girlfriend for the next 2 weeks. I have a convertible to drive and its not raining, so why I am inside is a question I can’t really answer. Granted, however, we don’t really have anywhere to go but I do want to take the car for a cruise just so I can get used to the handling.

Also she hasn’t complained about my beard, which can only be a good thing.

So I hope to have a picture up each day of whatever we accomplish, though I didn’t bring my camera (because I am a tard) so I am forced to use the (relatively good) camera on my PDA.

Today’s picture is taken from yesterday’s activities which involved Kendal’s friend getting a tattoo. Hope you like it!

P.S. In case any of you want a fantastically made tattoo, all hand drawn and designed on the day, check out Tradition 180 in the Guild Hall in Derby. Not only are all the staff fantastic, the main tattooist was cool AND was wearing a Fez!!

Or at least, it should be under the weight of all the rain we have had here recently. I was out on Thursday and it was just torrential.

So its been a while since I have written anything and its simply becuase I have had so much to do! I though summer would be easy but it seems I’m getting all the work to do… suppose thats what I get for not having a job. Hopefully that will change soon becuase I’ve applied for a few jobs.

In other news, if I ever get any time I might try and work on some new content for the site but honestly I’m not sure if I will have the time once I got back to uni. Part of me wants to relaunch the forums but I don’t really see a point yet.

BUT…

SUPER HAPPY FUN NEWS!

Super-zero (thats us ) may be getting a co-op webcomic! That’s right both Jonny Shields and Greg Lee have expressed an interest in hosting a webcomic here! So we shall see how that goes!

Other than that I found a moth graveyard behind the fans of my computer…I hope WaterCooling UK hurry up and get my case panel back to me!!

Well thats about it for this time. Going to try and get 3 updates a week at least in to keep the site content fresh!

Oooo before I got I caught the Nothern Irish premiere (thats to CityBeat for giving us free tickets) of G-Force. Honestly, it was very much aimed at kids. Movies like Ice Age and Shrek normally include innuendo and jokes that adults can find funny, that won’t corrupt small children. This movie was a very young humour, but some great 3D effects and a relateively enjoyable storyline. So might be worth a watch if there is nothing else on!