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Thursday, 11 Nov 2004

Well well well, what a night, where can we start?

4:00 - Heard a "Hi" across the street after picking up a batch full of newspapers, looked across to see Steph offering to walk on the paper-round with me... "Ok" I said, on the walk we walked and talked and near the end she complained that I never have shown her my house, well what else was there to do? So a Jen styled "ok I will show you my house" and we were sat down playing Sonic (Courtesy of "Gens" the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive emulator) she didn't like the game much and after yet another loss it was time to pick another game "Ren & Stimpy" it was. I kept looking at the clock and could not get over how fabulous we were doing for time, I thought "oh here we go first chance of me being home early enough to be more than ready and I’m suddenly in demand which will end up making me late" but a glance at the clock told me the party wasn't for another 3 hours, how fantastic is that? It kinda fell upon us that Steff wanted to go, so (keeping to her promise I walked her home) "Teas ready" my mum shouts as I’m coming down the stairs "2 minutes.." I call, so a quick 2-minute speed walk to her house and back and a quick tuck into my tea and I found myself clock glancing again.

6:00 - "1 hour and 30 minutes" till the party "opens" I rushed my tea, jumped in the shower and had 1 hour to play with, so I went downstairs and my mum informed me she was going to IKEA so I said "I’ll come with you" she asked me what time I was going to get there, 8:00 she said would be best, she stated in an advisory tone that you don't want to get there for 7:30 because you'd be waiting for people and feel time drag, walking in at 8 did seem a good option. So we went to IKEA and that kind of dragged, storage boxes don't quite rattle my cage I’m afraid (or should that be rattle my box Tongue).

7:38 - Left IKEA, I was becomming a bit more anxious that we should make a move. "ASDA's now" my mother informed me, I protested and said "I'll wait in the car" in a "Don't be long" tone, 08ish she returned, "bought you a jacket" she says, I was probably more grateful she was only 20 minutes in ASDAs (but thanked her for the jacket I'll love it to bits later, but what mattered most at the moment was that I got to the party at the time I planned)

08:10ish - Arrived at the party, I saw Kong-Wai & Ashleigh Downey wondering how to get in to the party, I joined them in their quest for entrance, although I don't particularly know them or could refer to them as friends, they've never said a bad thing about me and I’ve never said a bad thing about them so joining the search party wasn’t all that uncomfortable. I rang Ben and he came to the door and met me.

I met the group already inside and met DJ Dan who pulled me in and shown me the ropes of his fantastic CDM2 he offered to let me give it a spin so guided me towards maxing the volume to Deck B, hitting the play button on Deck B at the right time and nullifying Deck A's volume, he also explained the Cue channels (1, 2, 3), 2 & 3 were for the two decks (A, B respectively) and unusually channel 1 was for the Mike "if your sad enough to want to hear your own voice" he explained, I suspect channel 1 is the CUE channel for external inputs. "Some people use this instead to mix the tracks" (he pointed to the Deck A to B mixer slider), "but I always do it this way (mimics raising deck A's volume and lowering Deck B) "just like OtsDj" I asked "yeah you got it! just like Ots!"

I drifted back and for the DJ stand a few times and mingled with the others, "are you ok?” "(Snidely) oh are you missing your year 12's" after getting slightly worried I was coming across as not enjoying myself I drifted back to the DJ stand and helped Dan think of some songs to play "Don't Stop Me Now - Queen" "Logical Song - Scooter" "Night Fever - Bee Gees" "Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 4000"

He also played the Locomotion - Little Eva which I didn't know the moves to but that kept the dancing alive too. As the night kicked on Ellen eventually found me and screamed "OH MY GOD YOU CAME OUT" (I had to laugh at that, She really does have me down as living in front of my computer, even though enough people have seen me out and about by now for her to maybe know that I do tend to go out a bit too). We hugged and carried on dancing and she was like "OH MY GOD YOUR DANCING TOO!" I was like "yeah full of surprises me" anyway she rather amused me, we went over to her group and there was Emily Madge I think (I have kinda forgotten her name, but I remembered it at the time) and she was really off her head drunk and said "We have the same driving instructor" I couldn't help but smile, I wasn't completely sure on what else I could add to that so I just smiled sweetly

I left by about 11:30 (Although most were staying till 12/1/2) so on my way out I said bye to Ellen and Dan, Hugged Sarah and went on my merry way home.

That concludes my narration for this evening, hopefully by tomorrow I should regain my ability to hear!

Photee's are below, Apoligies for the poor quality, I didn't want to annoy everyone by taking a camera with a flash and didn't feel up to being a right nerd and taking my Digital Video Camcorder.. But you oh so lucky lucky people get to try out my "Picture Viewer" I created Tongue

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