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Weekend notes
Monday, 3 February 2025 02:07This weekend has been... bad. Where do I even start?
First of all, I managed to catch the cold that two of my friends have also had. That meant that I spent the vast majority of Friday sitting under a thick blanket, drinking warm milk with honey. Or tea. Or, actually whatever I could make myself drink at all, because I didn't actually have the desire to eat or drink much.
Well, I felt a bit better yesterday, so I decided to try to get out for a little while. I had a parcel to post, and perhaps a couple of Postcrossing cards as well. Only, when I was about to leave, I found out that the tyre of my power wheelchair was completely flat. I don't know when or how that happened, but I know that it meant I couldn't get out as I had planned.
Sure, I could have used the manual wheelchair instead, but it sounded like too much work in my state right then.
Yes, I've emailed the repair people, but they won't read that until tomorrow at the earliest. As of now, I don't know when this will get sorted, or when I'll have my freedom of movement back.
Finally, the best friend decided that he can't afford the trip to Manchester that we've been planning since last Summer. We were supposed to go there to see the snooker Tour Championship, and we have tickets for the whole event already. I've not yet decided how I'm going to deal with this, because I suppose I could go there by myself. But there is also the fact that the best friend used to study in Manchester, and lived in the area near where the snooker is being played. Some of the joy of going to just that event was definitely being there with him; seeing the places that used to be familiar ground to him all those years ago.
There's also the fact that I'm still panicking over whether Mark will qualify for the Manchester tournament or not. The Tour Championship is only for the top 12 players of the current season, and he's currently in exactly 12th place. Meaning he's not safe for that event by any means, and being there if he's not playing would feel very, very sad.
For that reason, I'm mildly considering going to a different event instead. There's the Players' Championship in Telford a bit earlier in March, and that's for the top 16, which means he should be good for that unless he completely messes up the next two tournaments before that. I haven't decided yet what to do, but I'm going to check that some more over the next few days - it feels like I need to make a decision pretty soon, otherwise the tickets might be hard to get for another event.
Either way, it feels like this weekend has just been bad news after bad news, every day.
Can we get a new week soon, so we can get out of this stupid pattern?
PS: In other news, I updated my DW profile page. I had made a pretty profile layout with tables and colours and all, but it turns out you can't put tables on a DW profile, because for some reason it just strips out much of the formatting. So, no pretty colours and borders on that page. But there's a visitor counter with flags, so have a look if you want to make sure your flag is on my profile page.
First of all, I managed to catch the cold that two of my friends have also had. That meant that I spent the vast majority of Friday sitting under a thick blanket, drinking warm milk with honey. Or tea. Or, actually whatever I could make myself drink at all, because I didn't actually have the desire to eat or drink much.
Well, I felt a bit better yesterday, so I decided to try to get out for a little while. I had a parcel to post, and perhaps a couple of Postcrossing cards as well. Only, when I was about to leave, I found out that the tyre of my power wheelchair was completely flat. I don't know when or how that happened, but I know that it meant I couldn't get out as I had planned.
Sure, I could have used the manual wheelchair instead, but it sounded like too much work in my state right then.
Yes, I've emailed the repair people, but they won't read that until tomorrow at the earliest. As of now, I don't know when this will get sorted, or when I'll have my freedom of movement back.
Finally, the best friend decided that he can't afford the trip to Manchester that we've been planning since last Summer. We were supposed to go there to see the snooker Tour Championship, and we have tickets for the whole event already. I've not yet decided how I'm going to deal with this, because I suppose I could go there by myself. But there is also the fact that the best friend used to study in Manchester, and lived in the area near where the snooker is being played. Some of the joy of going to just that event was definitely being there with him; seeing the places that used to be familiar ground to him all those years ago.
There's also the fact that I'm still panicking over whether Mark will qualify for the Manchester tournament or not. The Tour Championship is only for the top 12 players of the current season, and he's currently in exactly 12th place. Meaning he's not safe for that event by any means, and being there if he's not playing would feel very, very sad.
For that reason, I'm mildly considering going to a different event instead. There's the Players' Championship in Telford a bit earlier in March, and that's for the top 16, which means he should be good for that unless he completely messes up the next two tournaments before that. I haven't decided yet what to do, but I'm going to check that some more over the next few days - it feels like I need to make a decision pretty soon, otherwise the tickets might be hard to get for another event.
Either way, it feels like this weekend has just been bad news after bad news, every day.
Can we get a new week soon, so we can get out of this stupid pattern?
PS: In other news, I updated my DW profile page. I had made a pretty profile layout with tables and colours and all, but it turns out you can't put tables on a DW profile, because for some reason it just strips out much of the formatting. So, no pretty colours and borders on that page. But there's a visitor counter with flags, so have a look if you want to make sure your flag is on my profile page.