Bike & weekend
Dec. 22nd, 2003 12:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julietSome bastard has nicked my bike *again*. Out of the back garden - looks like they came in over next door's fence. Could have been worse - they only took mine, not Pete's as well, & the house wasn't broken into. And I'm definitely insured this time. Insurance-bike-person is phoning me later; I should be able to sort out a cash claim, so that I can go down to Evans today & get a new bike (rather than going through the Halifax's slow & tortuous replacement procedure). 50 quid excess, of course, but that's better than 300quid which is what bike+lights+lock comes to.
Pete & I now have New & Exciting bike-security plans, involving large blocks of concrete & really heavy-duty iron chains. Dad's agreed to drive me back from their's on Saturday via Homebase, so I can get concrete-mix & the chains, & Pete's going to ask Threshers for a couple of wine boxes (to put the concrete-mix in). We're also going to investigate rearranging the shed to fit the bikes into it, but I suspect there's just not enough room - it's a pretty tiny shed. For the moment, Pete's bike is in the living-room, but this is not a useful long-term solution, & certainly not for *2* bikes.
Other than that, weekend was cool. Wheels Instead Of Hooves on Friday night was much fun, even though it seems Aphex didn't show (well, either he didn't show, we missed him (unlikely), or he was inexplicably Not Good (even more unlikely)). One of the downstairs DJs was quite shite (played things that were Too Slow, & then played sodding *jazz*, & then *funk*, & then I ran away screaming), but upstairs was being good. I am told that they were playing gabba, & drum'n'bass, upstairs, but that this was the more unusual/non-mainstream end of said genres. I liked, anyway. Nice *fast* things. Pete & I wandered back to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mouseboks's for a bit afterwards, before passing out cold splat.
After 3 hrs sleep or thereabouts, home & then off to Oxford. At least there was more sleep on the Ox Tube. Met up with Cathy & Ian, & then a rather hungover Richard, in the Wheatsheaf (& also got the battery on my watch replaced, yay). This was Good as I haven't seen any of them in ages. Talked to Rich about recent stuff, & got a v useful different perspective on some things. Which has caused me to think some more. Was late to dinner due to the talking, but not by *too* much, so... Dinner was good - Gino's is a nice restaurant, & by this time I'd been drinking Red Bull for several hours, so was awake again & ranty :-)
Yesterday I was mostly Useful Person. Dealt with bike-thievery, cleaned the rats out, tidied the living-room, made Christmas presents for Mum & Wendy, ate pizza (OK, that's not so much useful as just enjoyable), went over to dye yarn withmarnameow. It was supposed to be black but appears to have come out a rather greenish grey. I think I'll try overdying it with indigo, but possibly will make it up first & then dye the finished thing. Not sure.
This morning the office is largely empty, & I am bored & irritable & wish to go *home*. Bah.
Pete & I now have New & Exciting bike-security plans, involving large blocks of concrete & really heavy-duty iron chains. Dad's agreed to drive me back from their's on Saturday via Homebase, so I can get concrete-mix & the chains, & Pete's going to ask Threshers for a couple of wine boxes (to put the concrete-mix in). We're also going to investigate rearranging the shed to fit the bikes into it, but I suspect there's just not enough room - it's a pretty tiny shed. For the moment, Pete's bike is in the living-room, but this is not a useful long-term solution, & certainly not for *2* bikes.
Other than that, weekend was cool. Wheels Instead Of Hooves on Friday night was much fun, even though it seems Aphex didn't show (well, either he didn't show, we missed him (unlikely), or he was inexplicably Not Good (even more unlikely)). One of the downstairs DJs was quite shite (played things that were Too Slow, & then played sodding *jazz*, & then *funk*, & then I ran away screaming), but upstairs was being good. I am told that they were playing gabba, & drum'n'bass, upstairs, but that this was the more unusual/non-mainstream end of said genres. I liked, anyway. Nice *fast* things. Pete & I wandered back to
mouseboks's for a bit afterwards, before passing out cold splat. After 3 hrs sleep or thereabouts, home & then off to Oxford. At least there was more sleep on the Ox Tube. Met up with Cathy & Ian, & then a rather hungover Richard, in the Wheatsheaf (& also got the battery on my watch replaced, yay). This was Good as I haven't seen any of them in ages. Talked to Rich about recent stuff, & got a v useful different perspective on some things. Which has caused me to think some more. Was late to dinner due to the talking, but not by *too* much, so... Dinner was good - Gino's is a nice restaurant, & by this time I'd been drinking Red Bull for several hours, so was awake again & ranty :-)
Yesterday I was mostly Useful Person. Dealt with bike-thievery, cleaned the rats out, tidied the living-room, made Christmas presents for Mum & Wendy, ate pizza (OK, that's not so much useful as just enjoyable), went over to dye yarn with
marnameow. It was supposed to be black but appears to have come out a rather greenish grey. I think I'll try overdying it with indigo, but possibly will make it up first & then dye the finished thing. Not sure.This morning the office is largely empty, & I am bored & irritable & wish to go *home*. Bah.
