with a bourbon fest on Tuesday night (my first bottle of Beam since landing in this heat-less, bourbon-less land of the ‘mad rush’).<\/p>\n
Wednesday night was another Ale Trail pub crawl. We couldn’t find a Nicholsons pub so we threw in an extra pint at the Princess of Prussia near Grant’s work while he googled for a starting point. I managed to leave my Crumpler on the floor which resulted in a 10min dash back there, hoping it was still around! Luckily, the two lovely Queenslanders who were sitting next to us guarded it for me. \ud83d\ude42 Thanks Helen and Kylie! Give me a call and we can get you both a t-shirt and a hangover! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Thursday night was supposed to be spent at home, preferably in bed. Shaun and Dan had other plans though, twisting my alcoholic arm until I joined them at the Volunteer (Baker Street) for some more “Landlord”s and a very odd tasting pint with the appropriate name of “Enigma”. Then it was a cab ride to The Perserverance (Lamb’s Conduit Street WC1) for Kat’s leaving work drinks. It gets a little vague here but I do remember hassling the cute bargirl for different drinks to get over the 10 quid minimum for credit card purchases. She was impressed with me because I managed to distinguish my double JD from bourbons. Poor girl – so easily impressed. “White wine isn’t for me”, strange hats, strange people (Axl Rose?), another bag-leaving incident, a bus-ride conversation cut short with the spotting of a Central line station, food, bed. <\/p>\n
Friday at work was “slow” to say the least. I don’t think I’d been to bed before 1am since last Friday and the last couple of nights had been 3am jobbies :S <\/p>\n
I totally forgot about the report I had to write but somehow I hauled sufficient hung-over arse to make it into work early enough to finish it. Seems to be all I do – get hammered and then rush through the day in a daze. I haven’t been paid in two fscking months though! Stupid monthly contracts! If I don’t get cash soon I might have to stop going out.. hahaha.. as if.<\/p>\n
Church again for Simon’s chucking out partay. WIth no Saturday night shenanigans we all should be a little more energised this time.. plus there’s someone going I’m looking forward to meating.. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
Fitted a new Schwalbe City Jet 1.5″ slick (65psi, also in a 1.9 version) on the rear of the very shabby-looking GT today (18,397k). Some new pads went on too, replacing the paper-thin strips of glossy crap that were grinding away my rims. London winter is hard on bikes. Got some lube too and another set of pads. 15quid sounds cheap for a tyre but do the conversion and damn! I’m paying for a commuter tyre what I used to pay for my race tyres! :S<\/p>\n
This place is quiet with G&S in Scotland. Dan and co. are in France. Simo’s off to Cypress soon. Hurry the fsck up and pay me so I can get some travel done!! Better go defile G&S’s bed now.. mwhahahaha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
with a bourbon fest on Tuesday night (my first bottle of Beam since landing in this heat-less, bourbon-less land of the ‘mad rush’). Wednesday night was another Ale Trail pub crawl. We couldn’t find a Nicholsons pub so we threw … Continue reading