And I will fight the man who disagrees with me.
That was a pretty difficult weekend.
On Friday, while I was at work in a meeting, my Mum left a message on my mobile's answering machine telling me that my dad was in hospital, that he'd had a sort-of dizzy spell when he got up and had to be sent in an ambulance to hospital. And then she was sobbing.
So, I dropped everything - thank you, workmates - and headed up to Derby, getting there in time to check that my mum was ok and head to the hospital. In many ways, I was actually more worried about mum, as she has a hard time getting around and would find it very difficult without my dad.
By the time I got to the hospital, the old feller was sitting up in a chair by the bed in his pyjamas, looking more bored than anything else. He'd basically recovered about an hour after he came in, and was simply waiting for the results of some tests. Apparently, he had a very minor heart murmur - news to us, although he's known for years - and that was probably the cause. He hadn't had a heart attack, and there was no deterioration of his heart at all. He was fit and ready to go home.
Kim raced up the next day, dad was fine, and we spent a nice weekend with them. But it was a scare, no doubt about it. fa
How many places have you lived in your life?
Let me see... first of all there was Derby, where I was born and lived until I moved away to college - to Hatfield Polytechnic. Then when I had finished at Hatfield I moved over to St Albans, where I lived for a few years. Then, when Claire got her job at Sussex University, it was down to Brighton, with a brief spell in Hove. And finally, in December last year, I moved to London.
So that's six.
Just one more day of work and then I'll have two weeks off. This is actually the first time that I've taken more than a week off since... actually I can't remember when. It's a LONG time. The last time I had a proper holiday was 2002, and that was only for a week. So I'm not entirely sure that I've had a longer holiday this millenium.
I'm looking forward to it immensely. The first week we plan to do very little, just lots of little day trips to places. The following week, we're off to Norfolk, to a cottage by the sea.
I. Cannot. Wait.
What was the last game you played?
World of Warcraft. Something to which both myself and my love are thoroughly addicted.
What are your plans for the holiday weekend?
What holiday weekend? :)
What's your favorite way to keep in touch? Phone, snail mail, email, text message, Vox, _____ ?
Email, almost certainly - none of the others feel that good.
I don't think I actually tasted outside air yesterday. Like all good geeks, the chance to spend a day indoors playing World of Warcraft was too much to miss out on. One of the problems with having a girlfriend who's an even bigger geek than me is that it makes temptations like that all too easy to give in to...
But what the hell, it was fun. And today, we plan to make pie.
What books are on your nightstand?
There's always a long queue of books that are by the bed, waiting to be read. At the moment, these:
What movie would you really recommend renting or seeing this weekend?
Pirates of the Carribean. A bit on the long side, and doesn't have a proper ending - but worth it for the MAD fights.
