Less cat calling, more cats!

I had another driving lesson on Thursday, it was lesson 9, according to my instructor and we’re still on roundabouts, he seemed disappointed when he mentioned that, we did a few right turns on the roundabouts, that was new.

I had the Friday off work due to having booked a holiday, I used the time to sell a video game to CEX and return another to Argos, I made use of the Black Friday sales, returns policies and CEX to end up with the following games, Pokémon Diamond, Guardians of the Galaxy (Steelbook), Demon’s Souls and Doom. The last one dropped £1 in price after my purchase, all in all I believe I spent about £55 for the lot.

I visited my sister in London again on Saturday, it wasn’t as good as last time, it was very cold due to storm Arwen, the National Gallery was shut, the Tate Modern was full up and I struggled to find a bathroom to use. The highlight of the day was seeing the “Reclaim the Night” protesters marching down Oxford Road. On the way back, the coach driver said he smelled hot food and threatened to call the police until a young, educated black man stood up and declared that he had a bag of fried chicken but it was cold or as he said “cold ass chicken”, the driver wouldn’t let it go but the black man took control of the situation and said the within 3 seconds he would be throwing the chicken off the coach and that would end the matter, he did and it was over.

I spent most of Sunday sleeping, I didn’t even know it snowed until Monday morning. I started playing Demon’s Souls and was getting into it but after 6 hours I found myself soft locked, after dying multiple times in human form the game increased difficulty and threw an enemy in front of me that killed me in one hit, I’m not in the mood to start from the beginning again.

Back in at work on Monday, my dad drove me as usual and said that once I pass my driving test, he’ll move out. I don’t like my new coworker who is on the day shift, I think I do more work than him and he’s lazy.

I think December will be a good month

The amount of time since my last entry is ridiculous, it just goes to show how time kinda blurs on my current shift pattern. A week has gone by in the blink of an eye.

My sister visited from London and we played some Pokémon TCG, it was fun I think it’s certainly more enjoyable to play trading card games with people you know rather than randoms at game stores. Other family members visited too and it was a nice little weekend.

I am still house hunting, I’ve resigned myself to the white territories and I spotted a home for £90k, but it was sold before I could even view it. There’s another one in the same area that I will try to view but I’m unsure if I should risk placing an offer no higher than the asking price, perhaps 92k?

I’m somewhat unhappy at work again, a nice woman at work who talks to me now and again made a joke about a colleagues arse but it flew over my head, I felt bad. Another colleague made a joke about how good I was at my job, the email wasn’t sent to me directly, it was everyone in the department, she noted that she wasn’t “saying anything”, I think that means she’s been told off about this in the past.

I’ve booked most off my holidays away from work, now I just need to figure out how to spend that time.

Chillin’ in London

On the Saturday I watched Squid Game for the second time with my mother as she refused to watch it on her own despite enjoying it, I went to sleep around 3pm, I needed to make some attempt to sort my sleeping pattern out for tomorrow. I planned on meeting my friend, Shippy, in London and going to a YouTubers event.

I booked the MegaBus instead of my usual National Express due to it being cheaper, this really showed as the bus arrived almost an hour late but made up time on the way. When I arrived at the station in London, I decided to check how I was passing today so I went into the men’s bathroom and was told off by an African female cleaner who coughed and pointed to the women’s bathroom.

I met with Shippy shortly after, his skin is looking very good, he must be taking care of himself. We first decided to get something to eat over a Wingstop, he hates spices so this might have been a bad decision on my part but the trooper made it through his batch of Chicken in BBQ sauce. We then headed on over to the British museum, as usual you can’t see everything in one day so we rushed around a bit and caught the best stuff but couldn’t find the Geblin man.

After this we made for the event, I’ll keep the details hush hush as it may be problematic to say too much. I’ll say it was alright, there was a mix of people there, the YouTuber was friendly as were his sons though I suspect he was transohobic as I initially got the impression he wanted to rape me until I opened my mouth and he clocked me.

Monday was work again, on Tuesday I had a job interview for an Environmental Enforcement Officer, I decided not to do it as I’ve got a decent thing going at this workplace so shouldn’t make the switch unless it’s perfect, I’m also concerned about the DBS check with this one, they seem like the types of check, there was also mention if targets which I didn’t like.

I’m eating for two

I’ve gotten a reputation as a greedy guts at work, or someone with a sweet tooth, there were some Krispy Kreme doughnuts in another office that I dug into as I thought no one else was aware they were there. Due to this friendly teasing, I now readily chow down on any food that is lying around the office, today there was a black forest Gateau cake, I took an entire quarter of it and I’m saving another quarter for later. Yesterday I treated myself to a couple of muffins and a jam doughnut.

I’m currently playing a bit of WatchDogs Legion but it’s nothing special might just sell it on right now as I’ve already gotten 1 trophy as proof of having played it at all.

My dad told me to speak up while he was driving me to work, he said I sounded gay, the problem wasn’t that I was speaking too quietly, I had repeated myself almost 10 times, the problem was that he doesn’t understand English, as proven by me then shouting what I had been saying at him. He didn’t response, instead started humming and changing the tone of the conversation to something more friendly.

My driving lessons are going badly, still on roundabouts, got told I was worse than last time. I am either too close to the curb or the other lane, I forget to check the mirrors when setting off, I’m not at the right speed for turning and it’s not a smooth motion. I’m also often just over the speed limit or not close enough to it.

Back to daily updates

I’ve been reflecting over the last 2 weeks and come to the realisation that the reason I feel down is that I haven’t been communicating as of late, I’m unable to talk to the people physically around me, my waking hours make it difficult to speak to my friends and my chronic fatigue and gaming disorder also mean that I’m unable to update the blog as likely as I would want to. So from now up, during my 3am break at work, I will be updating my blog instead of playing Hearthstone.

Last weekend I rented “Sackboy: A Big Adventure” and finished the story, it was OK but not worth more than 2 days of my time. The release of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond is approaching and this is obviously exciting, in the meantime I plan on playing either DOOM Eternal or WatchDogs Legion.

I have put in some holiday requests but due to how essential I am for the company, my manager isn’t able to authorise then until he is sure a system has been put in place to cope with the workload in my absence. The plan is a couple days with Shippy, one with Ebin and a couple visits to my sister.

I have been conducting house viewings, there was one very small one that took my fancy, I put a bid in and it was accepted, they emailed more for more personal info but after telling my dad, I back out as he was so negative on the whole thing. It’s his fault for not buying a second house when the prices were lower. He’s now trying to make a deal with a friend of his who owns 5 houses.

Job hunting isn’t going well, I applied to one, got an interview but didn’t attend as I realised it was too far away, shame as I would certainly have gotten the gig, it sounded pretty good too. I’ve applied for another couple, less spectacular but I’d like a change.