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Wednesday 10^th Sept, and the weather is great
 -"Get the fuck out!"
   No seriously…the weather today is really nice, it was one of those days where even though I choose to stay up till 3am playing Xbox, I woke up this morning, the curtains where lit up, informing me that outside it's bright, and as I got up and wandered about my place and glanced out the windows, the bad things were irrelevant for a moment, the weather was telling me that today is a day to just smile and not fret.

  Anyway, didn't have intentions of doing 2 blogs, but I've ended up with a lot to say, a big chunk of it is about worries and doubts, so I've put that into the other blog, this one…is more about happiness and shizzle.

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So…my 2 days off work are over, my 4 day weekend is behind me, and as disappointing as that is…I had a good time, so it's all good.

  I went to the Sea Life centre on Saturday, had a few laughs in there, saw some cool things, I held a crab and stroked a star fish.  Got a sharks tooth necklace (I've had about 4 of these in my life now…I don't know what draws me to them), and one of those grabbing things (usually like a hand or head on a stick, where you hold it you have a lever you pull, and it makes the hand grab or the mouth on the head close…), the one I got is appropriately a sharks head.  I couldn't pass the opportunity to have one they bring simple joy, like a slinky.

  We also played some Bingo (in the Coral Island Arcade) whilst out in Blackpool, and I got lucky…I won us enough cred to get us a kitchen knife set, and this pretty cool breakfast set thing (some bowls, dishes and cups on a rack).  Not bad considering I only spent £3 playing.  I also got screwed over trying to get Patrick Star in one of those crane/ grabbing/ ufo catcher (whatever you call them) machines.  Spent about £4 on that…trying to grab something that was clearly to heavy for the thing (rape!).  The arcade and bingo action was followed by some Pizza Hut, which was better than I expected,  don't rate Pizza Hut that high due to the awesomness you can get at Frankie & Benny's and other places, but it was good.  After that we drove down the illuminations, which was hell.  It took about 2 hours, I had to pee in a diet coke w/ cherry bottle along the way (probably the most fun of the illuminations trip).  The thing is, we went to see them last year and nothing at all had changed since then…except the traffic this time was 100 times worse.

 
  The illuminations for those not in the know are basically a bunch of decorative lights they put up along a massive stretch of road in Blackpool.  In the old days they were good, nowadays they're pretty crappy, loads of bulbs have gone, some things look really dirty, it's just not as bright and colourful as it used to be (unless that was just my childhood impressions of it making it seem better than it actually was back then).  Anyway…I'm definitely not going for another few years or so that's for sure, and next time I want to be a drunk passenger, not dealing with the massive traffic queues and having to dodge horse shit with my car.  That aside though…it was a quality day out for us both.

  On Sunday, I went skateboarding for the first time in about 2 months, finally my friend brad has his own board so we could actually skate around and stuff.  As SOON as we went outside it started raining…and within about 5 mins of us skating it got really really bad.  It was absolutely shizzing it down, puddles kept forming on top of our grip tapes, and the ground was soaked.  I bailed off an ollie on a speed bump and fell onto my back into a deepish puddle.  I was soaked, didn't let it stop us though…we fought it and had a laugh.  Eventually went to the back of a Halfords (cycle/ car store), found an old crate and practiced board slides on it, it was so wet though…we both fell off a few times trying that, then we went to the back of a bed store and we made a little ramp out of some old signs they'd chucked away.  My old board and the wetness caused me to suck balls at doing anything on the sign ramp, I had no grip…but to be honest it was funny to try even if I did bail.  In the end we played HORSE on it, simple stuff, just had to go up the ramp, turn around…and come back down, seriously…even some of you that don't skate probably could've done it (on brads board)…mine, with my wheels that have done many a powerslides, and been through a lot of sand and stupid terrain, and will be about 7 years old next month…it just wasn't happening.  Brad won horse (I didn't even give him a letter).  I'll have to get a video up of one of my bails…its not one you'll go "ooooh" at, its just one that is dumb and could raise a smile.
  After we'd put about 2 hours + into skating around, falling over, and getting soaked.  Me and brad went to mine, got dry…and watched some Skate vids.

  Showed him "Almost – Cheese & Crackers" starring Daewon Song and Chris Haslam, then we watched Flip - Sorry.  Never seen the latter before, was good stuff.