Alright team

Had a small team meeting at work today to discuss the future of the Eddie Catz cafe, it was some pretty heavy stuff. Up to that point it was once again very calm at work, came home to a very late dinner made by Louis and attempted to microwave a bowl of cheesy chips but I ended up with some very soggy french fries where all the cheese had sifted to the bottom.

Happy Birthday Daniel!

Once again, I was suffering from technical difficulties yesterday as my internet has not been playing ball for some time now. That said, very little has actually happened to me over the course of the two days aside from revision and lounging. It was Daniel's Birthday today however so we did celebrate with some trivial pursuit questions and a little bit of alcohol and a lot of cake/homemade cookies bought by Jenny, the cookies themselves were in the shape of stars, and with the amount of sugar in them, they certainly tasted like they came from Heaven

I was the cat!

Had a first in a lifetime experience today. I was picked to dress up as the cat mascot for the place I worked, this involved me getting dressed up in a big ol' suit, complete with a fiddly zip in the back and a helmet which somehow still had so of last times sweat in it. After crashing my way through every single doorway I went through with my over-sized head I wheeled in the cake for somebodies Birthday. As everyone was singing for the party I had a frantic scan around the room to find the Birthday boy/girl but fortunately he found me. The boss asked if anyone wanted to hug Eddie (the cat) and this was where things got rather sad. Nearly every kid knew that I was some guy in a suit, once they had a chance to grab me they all pulled my gloves and my tail, to no avail! Still, it was bloody sad to see how cynical these kids were, couldn't they just live in the magical moment where they believe in humanoid shaped cats? Now that I said that, I would probably smack my kid for buying into that kinda crap.     

Indie Humble Bundle

Went a little bit mad tonight, buying Mark, Herbie and myself a copy of the current Humble Bundle for 76p a piece. I could have paid a little bit more (Notch has apparently paid $6500 for it) but I was feeling especially frugal, particularly after Nintendo's E3 press conference. Oh deary me. It started off so wel with the announcement of Pikmin 3 but then it just took a steady turn for the worst with a lack of first party game announcements, with the exception of the two 2D Mario games but they are once again just more of the same. Some mildly interesting stuff from Ubisoft but knowing their track record with Nintendo products they will screw up the controls big time. Reggie handled himself very well on stage however, producing some great one liners but otherwise the whole show was just underwhelming on so many levels. Probably will still buy the Wii U because I know there will be a few great games on it, but still, 2012 could have been a great year for Nintendo at E3.

Jubilee BBQ

After a pleasant lay-in the family, Chris and Mark went to a Jubilee BBQ hosted by the same people as the Eurovsion party we went to the Saturday before last. Food was just as good as before to! Spent most of our time there just enjoying the company and the glorious weather.

The Queen is Dead

Weather was pretty ropey today but somehow that didn't turn into customer output at Eddie Catz today, probably because of the Queen's Jubilee ceremonies which I didn't get a chance to see. I did get around to listening to The Queen is Dead over the course of the day, strangely fitting I thought to myself.

Last day of 6th form!

Yesterday was our last official day of 6th form, everyone dressed up as anything they wanted, I think the selection of peeps who dressed up as traffic cones stole the show however. I went as Chaplin again as it was quick and easy, it went down quite well with some of the older students but everyone in year 8 thought I was Hitler. The evening was spent playing a variant on Trivial  Pursuit where the quiz master asked the group questions, the victor didn't have to take a shot a cider. On thing we did learn however, that if we are ever going to repeat this then we should most definitely not get the Sainsbury's basics stuff which was less than a quid a litre but tasted like vinegar.