Well guys, looks like I finally decided to show up. It’s been a long time, and too many damned things have changed. So I’m just not going to go through everything here! As things come up, I’ll explain what needs explaining.

My christmas holidays started on Friday the 17th, and I’ve been lounging in my room since then, doing nothing but …. studying!! Actually, no … I went out for a while on Saturday, just to get something to eat. Sid was at his job, so I was home alone. Fun Fun.

I was supposed to go to college yesterday, to give a CD to a new friend I’ve made at college. Additionally, I was to go out with my Greek friend George, to look for books, and to just kill some time. I hadn’t been to ‘Foyle’s’ bookshop before, and I was amazed at how many good computer books they had. Of course that means that I’m going to be there again tomorrow, to waste some of my own money on books! I need two books anyway, for my Distributed Systems course.

After that, we found a great computer shop where they were selling used laptops dirt cheap. At the minimum, the prices were around 250 pounds, and some of the better ones were for around 600 pounds. I’m just itching for a laptop nowadays, after finding out that a lot of linux developers seem to have laptops.

Oh, I forgot to mention we went to Burger King in between! I ate a LOT, of course. I can’t stop myself at Burger King, especially after fasting all day. Then it was off to the Trocadero! That’s like, a huge six (or seven or eight) story arcade/cinema/bar/restaurant place. There are so many damn arcade games to play and they’re all really cool. Since the last time I was there they’ve added a race simulation, where you actually get to sit in a *real* sports car, and there’s a huge computer screen in front of you where you can see
the race. You need two people to sit in the car, actually, and I think you race against each other.

But George went for the F-14 simulator, the one which actually rotates all the way around, so you if you want to do a 360 degree loop, you’re gonna go with it! It looked really cool when he was playing, and of course, I chickened out. I went for my specialty instead … a big Airbus A320 simulator. This one had excellent graphics and was the first time I got to control something even remotely close to the real thing. I didn’t get a chance to land the thing, though. Next time I’ll go for the Star Wars games, which are cool as well.

OK, after that, I felt like having ice cream for some reason, and just out of luck we ran into Baskin Robbins on the way down from the escalator. I had no choice.

Then, George wanted to drink coffee, so we went to a cafe in Leceister Square. Leceister square’s cool, lots of cinemas, discos, restaurants, street acts, luna parks … basically you can run around naked here, and people probably won’t mind
After that, it was off to HMV, and then I had to leave for home. I bid farewell to George, since he was leaving the next day for Greece. Then I got on the Bakerloo line service, and came home.

Sid wasn’t home yet, and I was really tired, so basically I just slept until a few hours ago. It’s 7:00 in the morning now, and I’m going back to sleep. Later, then. Let’s see what happens today …