those old friends

So Saturday was good.

The chums I met up with were going to a gig on Saturday evening, so we basically met up for a few pre-gig drinkees. I wasn't quite expecting to pack in as much booze as we did - we did rounds and I ended up sinking a total of six beers.

I was therefore pretty drunk when we left - a few more and I'd have been thoroughly soused. As it was I was stumbling around quite a bit. I put my headphones in when I got on the tube and it was a bit of a surreal experience, wandering around the tube, drunk with Greenday blasting in my ears. I'm also fairly sure I was singing too - dunno what the other passengers thought.

I actually fell asleep on the train home, which is always a risk when boozing, but luckily Alton is the last stop so luckily it doesn't matter very much. Then it was a quick walk up the hill, met up with a more local chum (it was later than I thought) and he ended up giving me a lift home.

Of course Sunday was therefore pretty much wrecked because I'd had more to drink than I thought I would. I just sort of laid in bed for most of the day and ate chocolate. I didn't really even watching anything constructive like anime or DVDs - just random telly.

Well, this morning's journey in was horrendous. The snow didn't really melt fully here yesterday, but it did freeze up. Then last night it snowed about another inch and then when I was driving in it was raining. You can guess what a mess it was - compacted, frozen snow with slushy snow on top and rain.

My traction control was working over-time with all the skidding about and the journey took ages. This sort of thing is one of the reasons I come to work very early - far earlier than I need to - as the traffic is less but it also allows a big leeway in terms of journey time.