purplerabbits

The weekend got off to a bad start when I got shamingly drunk on friday night after work and was then very ill on Saturday morning. In fact my body didn't really forgive me all weekend, so I'm going to be not drinking for a week or so to recover.

In spite of this I managed to do a number of fun things, including The Meadows Fair where we got a microscope, a bunch of minerals including the lodestone I've been looking for for the past year, a video of The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, a couple of CDs and a couple of 50p books (Teach yourself Dutch and The Starlight Barking, which is the insane sequel to 101 Dalmations). Oh, and Sandy got a beannie facehugger... Then I went to The Elephant House with Sandy and met up with Paul, which took Sandy by surprise, since he didn't know Paul was in town. We looked at crystals with the microscope in the coffee shop, which seemed like a very cool and very Edinburgh thing to be doing...

Anyway, I had good chats with Paul, and incidentally got web and mail going on the Treo as well as succumbing to the moblog thing. You can now see my phone pictures at rabbits_photo, in case you care.

I did go to Gigantor briefly, but left early when it became clear that my body wasn't going to cooperate. I did get to show Paul The Forest on the way there though, which was cool, especially when they offered my left over nachos to someone else when I couldn't eat them - where else will do a thing like that?

And Sunday I sat round in heaps and read Orange County (Kim Stanley Robinson, very good), and saw Paul and Alex and Jon, and slept. Mmm, sleep.