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October 31, 2005
Twick or Tweeeeeeeeet!?!
Well, the big day is here at last. The day when countless numbers of children all over the world believe that the ultimate bottom of the evil abyss is reached by wearting a black biner with holes cut in for the arms, and dragging along their mum's newest addis broom. The sad thing is that my folks are currently hiding in the back room of the house with the lights off, and the curtains closed and all doors be-twixt them and the front door firmly closed shut.
So, yeah, we really get into the spirit of Trick or Tweeeeeeet night in our house.
Actually they are far more concerned about the night thats coming up in a few days time. November the 4th. Mischief Night.
For those of you who arent from the UK - and I think its specifically a grim north tradition - Mischief Night is when the local kids go out and cause mischief. Generally it was meant to be the "trick" part of halloween, but without the victims being bale to opt out with a treat. You'd just find somewhere and be michievious.
And, when I was a kid, it was just mischief. Sprinkle a car windscreen with flour or something pointless like that. What ever we did it never caused permanent damage, and it was ALWAYS easy to clean off.
Nowadays though its a totally different kettle of kippers. Mischief night is just an excuse for the local yobs to go out and throw fireworks through peoples letterboxes, or throw stones at car windows as they drive past, and other potentially life threatening and reidiculously stupid events.
Once that is over, we have Bonfire Night. A celebration of the failure of a bloke called Guy Fawkes and his 12 co-conspirators attempt to blow up the houses of parliament in London, during the mid 1600s. As I saw, he failed. Commonfolklore has you believe he was then burned at the stake, and so effigies of Guy Fawkes are now burnt on bonfires around the country on the night of Nov 5th, and fireworks let off to resemble the explosion in Parliament if it had been successfull.
As it happens, Guy Fawkes wasnt executed at the stake. Not many folks know this, but its true, history buffs will tell you so - he was going to be hung. But he actually died from a broken neck as he jumped off the gallows trying to escape, and not by hanging itself. So where the fire comes into it I do not know, but anyways, its normally a night that is enjoyable if you go to an organised fire and fireworks show put on by th elocak authority or something. It gets hairy when people have bonfires in their back garden and let fireworks off themselves, and dont follow the safety guidelines.
A couple of years ago the neighbours kids next to me, had a 6ft sodding bonfire that was 2" off our fence all the way around. We were panicing the house was gonna go up, anyways as it happened only our fence did. *rolls eyes*
The morons also let off some fireworks and one actually skittered across our wall. At that point, we gave up and phone the cops and firebrigade. And what did they say "ohhh these pesky kids today" - well gee thanks Scooby Doo would be proud of you PC Plod!
Ive had a good think about the website situation and have come up with a compromising solution. It involves a second website, not about ostomys, and hopefully ill be able to work on that in the coming months and announce it when its ready to go online.
Healthwise, its been a rough few days. Ive been struggling with these damn jerks again (my limbs not the neighbours) and last two nights Ive had to log off early and go to bed worried that a fit was on the way. I cant help but feel that its just a matter of time til the next one as the jerks wont cool down much at all. This is my first time on the pc today and I wont be on it for long periods. I want to try and be on it and off it all night though as its the ostomyland halloween spooktacular in the chat room tongiht, so I want to make sure tha that goes smoothly for everyone and that they have a good time. Well, we shall see I guess. :)
Painwise, things have plateau'd a bit. Had a bit of do at the supermarket this morning, but thankfull it settled down.
Depression - its ok I guess. Am far from happy, but getting along Ok I guess.
Lucy - poor Lucy. She went to the vets today, and got her rib checked out again. Thankfully its absolutely fine, needs nothing doing to it, and so we're all happy. But of course shes got a face like half a pound of wet dripping at the moment with the shock of it all...
Speaking of lucy, shes just this minute ruined the folks plan to hide away halloween. The door bell went off twice in a minute and its set her off ballistic. All of the city now knows they are in the house hiding. Mu-wa-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!
And with that, Im gonna go.
J
Pain: 4/10
Depression: 4/10
Jerks: 5/10
Posted by Jason at October 31, 2005 06:28 PM