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Date: 27 January 2005 10:41:53
Ok some days what we've decided to do as a family seems easy... Basically wifey and I sat down and tried to work out where we should be this year, in terms of working and the like. after a couple of hours chat we decided to rely on her supply teaching to pay bills freeing me up to work on writing book two, plus three speculative projects, without the guilt of feeling that I'm not doing anything important.. Checked it out with daughter and she was ok with it as well...
So yesterday for example: bus to town, train to London, tube to Earls Court. Met a mate by complete provision and no design, Mike, who I haven't seen for yonks on the tube and we had a great time walking around ATEI for an hour, before he had to go off and sit on a stand, talking about in game characters. But was wonderful provision. I'd have been soul searching and odd by the time I met up with the other fella that I'd arranged to meet, his train having been cancelled and his arrival delayed. To sit a few yards away from a friend, out of all of the tubes and all of the carriages and the like made me smile muchly. Thanks God.
So Mike and I walked around, having a laugh and generally remembering when we worked together a year ago. Was just really pleasant. Then he went off to work and I sat down and wrote a short article for a couple of very small mags (possibly) and a website about the arcade games trade show... Then I met up with Si (by accident, he'd been trying to phone me to say that he had arrived but the signal was being distorted by a million flashing jackpot machines. It was pure blessing again that we met up by the Sega stand, both looking at the 8 player linked Outrun 2 SP cabinets...) He and I had a nice spot of lunch, the sort of chat that's matey as if you've known each other for years (we've only met up twice, but some people you share so much in common with it's hard not to get on with, and Si is gentle and generous enough to listen to me bleat on for ages without yawning, so how can I not like him :) ) and then did the bits of the show that were still unexplored. Si had another meeting to go to (busy fella), I met up with Mike in a local pub, chatted to a couple of his friends, we chatted about the state of the arcade industry and waddled off home after another pleasant conversation.
Had a heck of a headache, trade shows always pound my head for some reason, but the day was enjoyable enough to counter that small issue, and since I've been ill with a sick bug, flu bug and then a cold since boxing day having a headache still feels akin to being fit as a flea comparitively for me at the mo.
That much was easy. Today I come back to moutains of emails (well, four, but that's mountainous to the amount of unsolicited replies I normally recieve) to organise myself around and trying to get my head around filing in a tax return...Some days what we've prayerfully chosen to do as a family seem easy. Today... well, I've got loads to do, but still a thankful heart for Gods provision yesterday. Why should today be any less under his care?
Currently listening to: Delirious?: World Service. Difficult to say whether its's my favo of their cds, but its the one that inspires onwards me the most and Everythings gonna be Ok is a song that I'm often holding onto as a message... Currently playing: still playing Outrun 2 SP arcade machine in my mind.Currently reading: Just finished Red Moon Rising by Pete Grieg and Dave Roberts. Excellent stuff. Also reading this months Edge magazine and half a dozen School Librarian websites....