Big update

Friday wasn't a bad day in work, and the evening was spent round at Andy's with Rob, Em, Will and Vicky. Rob and Andy made some rather tasty and spicy buffalo wings and there was plenty of BoomBlox action going on. It was a really good evening.

Yesterday was an eventful day. First it was an early start to meet up with my Dad and his wife and some of her family from Norway who I haven't seen for a very long time. It started out with the traditional Saturday coffee and scones, followed by the also traditional fish and chips for lunch, which was good. The afternoon was spent playing with iPod touch applications, laptops and looking at photos from a Norwegian zoo, which were really cool.

After that, I went home briefly to drop off the laptop, before continuing on to meet up with some people I used to work with for the usual Wii gaming and Chinese food evening. However, on the way, we saw something on the road. It turned out to be three tiny kittens. Two ran away from us while one went across the road and nearly got run over. We pulled over and managed to grab one of them but couldn't see either of the other two. A guy pulled over to help but the other two were totally out of sight.

The one we rescued clearly hadn't been handled before as it spat at me as I picked it up but it was far too small and scrawny to put up any struggle, just bones and fluff. The poor thing seemed rather shellshocked as we continued the journey. There was some debate about what to do with it but Amy and Huw decided they would keep it as they had thought about a cat before.
The evening proceeded as normal with Guitar Hero and Mario Kart aplenty and lots of food, but this time everyone was distracted because we were all keeping an eye on the kitten. He was quite subdued but he did a bit of exploring and got stuck under a radiator. He seemed happier when he could curl up on people though.

Today has pretty much been a lazy day of watching DVDs. I did however put some doubled up guitar strings and an old bass string on the Monstrosity and they made enough of an interesting sound for me to hack a pickup into it. It still needs a proper nut and the bass strings, and the pickup isn't the right size, but so it far it seems to work OK.

Malignant Narcissism.