Dark Alex's Really Long Post Thread.

[Alex]

They are definitely wh40k squats. I’ve got a few others kicking around I might add in, including one of the old mole mortars. Might even have a thudd gun kicking around I might add to the point. Got a few people who have messaged me about buying them. Depending on how I am feeling I might offer them to one of those guys or just stick them on ebay.

[Alex]

Well the nice day has vanished and we have rain. Somewhere on one motorway or another. They all look the same to me. Stopped at some roadside place where all the food looked like instant listeria, just add human digestive system.

[Alex]

Weather is seriously p**sing it down. The driver has put Dolly Parton on the radio. Considering throwing him out the window. If I think I can get away with it without having to fill in any paperwork it proberly will happen. Hmm, my evil glower might have given him a hint as he changed the CD. He can listen to anything he likes as long as it is what I like.

[Alex]

Arrived at hotel number 2. The guys at BN didn't want to unload the trucks until tomorrow which will delay our leaving time somewhat. As long as nothing delays us come Monday, I don't really care. Hotel is ok, nice setting but much smaller rooms. Going out for a couple of beers tonight and a meal. I am the only one in the group who could get drunk though, but that isn't something I especially want to do tonight.

The driver took a wrong turn and had to try and reverse around a mini roundabout. Some guy in the mini decided to drive around the truck and cut infront of it really close. Arran had no chance of seeing the car and it was only me shouting at him to slam on the breaks that stopped the mini bring crushed beneath our wheels. Twat. I won't even get a thank you for saving the guy from an accident or even just preventing damage to our truck. Oh well.

Other than that, the trip was fairly uneventful. Lets hope that keeps up.

[Alex]

So last night while I was at the bar waiting for the other guys to join me a woman with short blond hair and a white dress sitting at the bar kept smiling at me. I have this thing where I put my hand on the bar and tap my ring finger. The noise the ring makes signals my unavailability. Tonight a woman was trying to get me to sit closer to her on a bench and when I didn’t she lay down on the bench with her head against my leg. She was cute and all but I tapped my ring again.


Anyway I am back in my room (alone). Tomorrow we start the journey north again woohoo!

[Alex]

Got some rock playing while I (im)patiently wait. Only the knowledge that I can't get home tonight is preventing me waking everyone else up and starting the journey right away. Tomorrow however I will truly be chomping at the bit.

Still, got a nice tan from the sunshine. Not much else to do when you are riding shotgun for 6 to 8 hours a day.

Spent last night reading up on some of the more interesting theoretical physics papers. I tend to find the ones about alternative universes quite dull and lackluster, but ones about what we see as the accepted laws of reality in the universe not holding constent. We already know they break down at the quantum level and are pretty sure that as you approach the event horizon of a black hole, but it is suspected that if you were to travel far enough from this planet you'd find yourself in regions of space that are governed by altered rules.

Hardly a new theory, just go read some Lovecraft for example. Much of what he wrote about was based in what science was discovering in his time. Funny how a man crippled by his own fears was able to turn it into stories the way he did. Alas you might not find Cthulhu or Azathoth lurking out in those unfathomable gulfs, but imagine trying to communicate with any life forms out there. How could we interact with a race for example for whom 2+2 did not equal 4? Could be even recognise them as a lifeform. When it comes to the idea of life out there, I do think it is rank stupidity to believe that alone on our planet could life evolve. Wither or not they buzz the earth in flying saucers making crop circles, anal probing people and butchering cows, well that is a whole different matter and one I am buying into less. On the other hand, if aliens were more like us than I think they would be, that might just be the intersteller version of cow tipping and playing practical jokes.

Be a right pain if sticking things up peoples butts was how they communicate. Trying to sort out trade negotiations would turn into some wierd inter speices orgy. Hmm, would proctologists be our best hope for establishing peaceful relations?

Now there is the plot for a bad movie for you. Or maybe some fetish porn? Maybe even a sequel to Tucker & Dale where they go up against aliens and well, there attempts to ask to be taken to our leader goes down badly and causes all sorts of misunderstandings.

Holy crap, imagine aliens being taken to meet the current leader of the US? Wow, I would imagine they'd decide to take off and nuke the site from orbit. I'd find it hard not to say that would be a fair shout on their part.

Going for breakfast at 08:00. We are getting picked up at 08:30 and the unloading starts at 09:00. Should take an hour, hour and a half to get unloaded if everything is ready to rock when we get there.

Wanna bet it isn't ready?

[Alex]

Sitting in yet another motorway service station, this time at the M6 toll road for anyone familiar with that stretch of road. I’ll be happy to be done with them for a while. Grabbed a couple of baguettes one for now, one for later but it turned out I was hungrier than I thought and I ate both. Been listening to show tunes on the radio so I decided to meditate for an hour and tune them out. I find being able to isolate myself from my surroundings to be a useful talent. I never seem to manage to just drop off to sleep but I do feel relaxed and refreshed afterwards.

[Alex]

I swear Ash has grown about a foot while I've been away. Caught up with Game of Thrones, read the complaints people are making about it and pointed out that they might have forgotten what show they were watching. Good and innocent people die bad deaths in that show. Go back and watch The Red Wedding.

Binging on Lucifer now while having a couple of welcome home beers. Heading for a bath and a shave next and I'll be all ready for work tomorrow. Well physically anyway. Indy should have his books made into a multi million blockbuster series of movies and then decide to share his wealth with us so we can all retire and devote all our days to watching the worst movies on the planet.

[Trevor]

Indy should have his books made into a multi million blockbuster series of movies and then decide to share his wealth with us so we can all retire and devote all our days to watching the worst movies on the planet.

Agreed. 

[Alex]

Watching a show about various people and events in pro wrestling. The first episode was the Macho Man and Miss Elizabeth. Some interesting stuff, although much of it is about wrestlers that I hadn't really heard of before. Back onto Lucifer now.

Was asked if I wanted to volunteer for upcoming D-day commemorations. Told Bally that I felt it was only fair that I took a step backward and gave someone else a chance to volunteer. I think Bally understood what I was really saying there.

[Alex]

Kristi is out tonight so it's just me and Ash. Put him to bed at his usual time but he woke up screaming 45 minutes later. Managed to get him settled by playing an hour-long video of home videos of dogs.

That boy does surely seem to like dogs.

Anyway, he is back in his cot now and hopefully will sleep until tomorrow. Watching some film from the '80s called Cut & Run which was picked randomly.

Kev 'asked' me to help make a raft for the upcoming raft race. Told him I am washing my hair that day. He wasn't happy but I told him I have done my volunteering for this month and he should ask someone who never does anything (like Stresshead for example).

Scorchingly hot day today and supposed to get hotter over the coming weekend. Got my brother coming up and Gus's leaving do on Friday. I'll go to that and then leave early to meet him from his train. The idea is that we are going to run through some of the games from the shelf of shame (ones that have not yet been played), although I will need to play him at Mega Mania.

Time to go finish building and painting my Stug.

[316zombie]

have you read the well of the world series, by jack chalker? some interesting concepts of aliens/other worlds there....

[Alex]

Is that the one where the hero turns out to have forgotten he is god?

[Trevor]

Told him I am washing my hair that day.

 

I needed that. 

[Alex]

1509 days left.

In 1509 Battle of Diu: The Portuguese defeat a coalition of Indians, Muslims and Italians. Henry VIII becomes King of England (for 38 years) on the death of his father, Henry VII. Pope Julius II places Venice under interdict and excommunication, for refusing to cede part of Romagna to papal control. Battle of Agnadello: French forces defeat the Venetians. Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon.
Luca Pacioli's De divina proportione, concerning the golden ratio, is published in Venice, with illustrations by Leonardo da Vinci. Brasenose College, Oxford is founded by a lawyer, Sir Richard Sutton, of Prestbury, Cheshire, and the Bishop of Lincoln, William Smyth. King Henry VIII of England and Queen Consort Catherine of Aragon are crowned.  Krishnadevaraya ascends the throne of the Vijayanagara Empire. The Constantinople earthquake destroys 109 mosques and kills an estimated 10,000 people. Portuguese fidalgo Diogo Lopes de Sequeira becomes the first European to reach Malacca, having crossed the Gulf of Bengal. Afonso de Albuquerque becomes the governor of the Portuguese settlements in India. Erasmus writes his most famous work, In Praise of Folly. St Paul's School, London is founded by John Colet, Dean of St Paul's Cathedral. Royal Grammar School, Guildford, England, is founded under the will of Robert Beckingham. Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, England, is founded as a grammar school for boys.