Saturday 9th August 2003
Yes, well, the novelty soon wears out . . . Hello, to all those Google and Inktomi web-bots out there who keep reading this crap. Today is my dad's birthday. Happy Birthday, Dad! Also, it's Matthew's wedding today. Who's Matthew? Matthew I met at secondary
school, when I was about 11, so that's . . . over fifteen years ago. Whilst we haven't been brilliant at keeping in touch over the
years, we see each other occasionally and send the odd e-mail or two. Anyway, that's where I'm going today. I thought I'd be
hiring a Vauxhall Corsa yesterday, but the freaks gave me a frigging great big Mondeo instead. 1.8 litre engine, but drives
like some kind of Eastern European . . . no, analogies are bad for me. Must avoid analogies. It's not nice, anyway. Horrible big
and clumpy car. I forgot to mention a lot recently. On the way back from Unity Day (I think I was with M****, Gav M, Rich, Anna, Penrith Dave,
Security Dave and Tania), we popped into the playground in Burley Park itself. That was fun. Playgrounds are definitely far too
much fun to be left to the children. But, anyway, on the way out, I was running, thinking I was heading straight for a gap in
the 1 metre high metal fence that surrounded the playground. But, of course, I was just heading for a part of the fence that
was darker than the rest (thereby rendering it pretty much invisible in the near darkness that we were in). I ran straight into
the fence, the fence didn't budge, and I almost went head first over the top. I think my right knee took most of the impact. So, the
next day the knee was all swollen and stuff, as it would be, but I kind of ignored this, as I was still able to walk on it. I think
it was only on Monday when things got really bad. I had just walked from my house to M****'s, after lounging around a bit at my house,
following a day of work, when I realised that something very, very painful was going on at the base of my spine. I got to M****'s and
all I could do was lie flat on the floor, in agony. Not good. Anyway, that seems all better now. I guess I was unconsciously walking
in a weird way because of the swollen right knee.
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