{"id":37,"date":"2006-10-21T23:45:31","date_gmt":"2006-10-21T22:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2006-10-24T08:53:07","modified_gmt":"2006-10-24T07:53:07","slug":"16-days-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"16 Days To Go&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and Pat&#8217;s feeling a little too confused to blog.<\/p>\n<p>You see, today Pat did a number of things:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><b>Sign Forms for Plane Tickets<\/b><br \/>Despite not setting his alarm properly (hooray for &#8220;Repeat Alarm&#8221; mode, which only sounds the alarm from Monday-Friday) Pat just about made it to the travel agents to get stuff signed.  All done&#8230; just need to wait for the tickets to arrive now!<\/li>\n<li><b>Buy a Ruck Sack and Jacket<\/b><br \/>This was a strangely enjoyable affair given that it was shopping.  Neil (him from &#8220;Being At Work With Pat&#8221; and &#8220;Going On A Trip Around The World Too Just In A Different Direction But Meeting Pat In Melbourne&#8221; fame) was on hand to advise Pat which products were best to grab.<br \/>\nThey went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowandrock.com\/\">Snow and Rock<\/a> store in Cov Garden and Pat ended up buying:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.altrec.com\/shop\/detail\/19251\/\">Osprey Waypoint 80L Backpack<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowandrock.com\/shop\/department\/clothing\/jackets\/products\/MAR0004.htm\">Marmot Gravity Jacket<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both were approximately \u00c2\u00a3Lots.  Pat said something about his credit card starting to get hot to touch&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><b>Have a Pizza Hut Meal for lunch<\/b><br \/>This was goooooood.<\/li>\n<li><b>Go to Dave, Pauly and RTJs&#8217; Ealing Flat O Fun<\/b><br \/>Much fun was had, including the watching \/ listening to the commentary of the utterly, utterly excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.play.com\/DVD\/DVD\/4-\/924126\/Garth_Marenghi_Dark_Place_The_Complete_Series\/Product.html\">Dark Place<\/a> (said in a Dr Sanchez voice, natch), enjoying some excellent banter and&#8230; ahem&#8230; a pizza.  He&#8217;s got a short term memory, I think.<\/li>\n<li><b>Get a Camera For Free!<\/b><br \/>Pauly G (below) is a legend, very kindly giving Pat his old camera as a replacement for his knackered one!  Thank you :-D<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/squage\/277650918\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/101\/277650918_8dacb30ae8.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"Pauly\" title=\"Pauly\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hang on&#8221;, you might ask, &#8220;why has this left Pat confused?&#8221;&#8230; well it&#8217;s largely due to him watching the entire 13 episodes of this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.play.com\/covers\/1094594m.jpg\" alt=\"PARANOIA AGENT\" title=\"PARANOIA AGENT\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t even want to start to try and explain it.  Just look it up on Wikipedia.  There&#8217;s about a gig of stuff on there about it&#8230; and there needs to be.<\/p>\n<p>Pat keeps saying something about &#8220;It was all the dog&#8217;s fault&#8221; and talking about mushroom clouds and Paul Daniels.  I&#8217;m guessing only those watching Paranoia Agent in Ealing will understand what on Earth that means.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully Pat&#8217;ll be in a fit state to blog tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a first time for everything, eh? ;-)<\/p>\n<p>Toodles,<\/p>\n<p>Squage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and Pat&#8217;s feeling a little too confused to blog. You see, today Pat did a number of things: Sign Forms for Plane TicketsDespite not setting his alarm properly (hooray for &#8220;Repeat Alarm&#8221; mode, which only sounds the alarm from Monday-Friday) Pat just about made it to the travel agents to get stuff signed. 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