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[Oct. 19th, 2008|12:33 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  tired | ] |
| [ | music |
| | The Town And The Hills, The Lucksmiths | ] |
Today was pleasant. ...Well, yesterday, technically, but I've been suffering from mild insomnia*, I figured I'd type it up to distract myself and hopefully be sleepy by the time I stop.
I crashed on Chris' couch Friday night. There was an event on at Olympic Park that had appeal, and it's a lot easier to get to Olympic Park from his place than it is from mine.
I fell asleep at probably 12:15. I proceeded to be woken up by my body clock at 6:30. ...Yays. I tried to get back to sleep, failed, and decided to settle in to watch an episode of Torchwood. Unfortunately, as I powered everything up, a mass of sound burst through the speakers that I wasn't expecting. This apparently woke Chris up, since he proceeded to wander out around seven - about three hours earlier than he'd planned to get up.
We chatted with Liz and Nancy, hung out, etc for the next couple of hours. At ten or so (maybe a bit earlier), we wandered over to the station to catch a train to Lidcombe, in order to catch the connecting Sprint to Olympic Park. "Follow the nerds."
We wound up at Olympic Park at 10:15, and went to grab some breakfast. Then we headed over to the Badgery Pavillion (Badger badger badger... What the Hell is a "Badgery" pavillion anyway? Dad says it's named after someone, or something. He would.) to attend the "Atomic PC LIVE! 08". It isn't really a conference, though that's what I heard it described as a time or two by Chris. It's more a (tiny, tiny) convention - "Hey! We're shiny! Buy us!" - Meanwhile, guys in Stormtrooper outfits wander around. We ran into Brinton, and Anne-Claire.
We finished there by twelve or so, and then sort of went, "Well, what do we do now?"
I remembered that I'd been meaning to check out the Art & About photos in Hyde Park, so we decided to catch a train to the city (which felt really expensive for CityRail; $5.20 for a train fare?). We had lunch at one of the copious numbers of cafes in the QVB. The meal gave me a mild stomach ache, but it may just be "Eaten too much + Stomach cramps = Badness".
Since we were nearby anyway, we swung past the Tin Soldier to ask whether monty Python Fluxx had come in yet. It hadn't. *pouts*
The pictures were cool, though I didn't "get" several of them (even with the sentence or two of explanation from the catalogue).
After that, we wandered over to the King George garden (still part of Hyde Park, but with fountain (that isn't the big fountain) and shade). We sat there for an hour or two, skimming through a Melbourne guidebook to identify attractions that had appeal.
We then wandered back to ProgSoc. We examined the contents of our longlist, and compiled them into a shortlist of essentials. Then I remembered that we'd promised to pack up CompSoc for Will. CompSoc is dead, long live CompSoc. It took half an hour or so - I was actually suprised by how much junk CompSoc had accumulated. We rescued Phoenix from Union reaquisition Hell, and even discovered the legitimate Windows XP CD it came with, amongst the detritus.
Chris and I then headed over to the Lansdowne to drop in on James' belated birthday party. The rest of the attendees appeared to be Credo members, which kind of left us, and me in particular, out of the loop. We had dinner, and then the rest went off to go clubbing. Chris and I headed to the bus stop and he acted as my eyes to tell me which bus was which.
...Sitting badly and typing on the laptop is starting to hurt my hands. Anyway, it's past one. I think I'll crash and see if I sleep any better now - I'm starting to actually feel tired, which kind of helps, I suppose. I'll take my iPod with me, just in case it's necessary, purely because otherwise I'd have to climb down again to fetch it if I did need it.
-Mmaster
*Mild, since as soon as I discover tonight's Magic Combo (TM), I'll fall asleep essentially straight away. Last night it was putting some music on. A couple of nights ago, it was crashing on my couch instead of the top bunk - though that messed up my back for several days after the fact. |
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