...and I've barely recovered had the messiest night in years at one of the best clubs in the world as far as I'm concerned, only marred by the sonofab*tch who stole my wallet at about 6am, but hey. What can you do?

Apparently, hammering roller shutters with feets elbows and fists, is, while on a perfectly valid list of possibles, not one the police are keen to endorse. I didn't get arrested but I was told to stop - it was a damn good thing I had enough sense left in me to not go off the handle at them...I really was not a happy bunny at that point and I've got the bruises to prove it

But yeah, awesome night, and despite me feeling really sh** this whole week (hardly surprising considering all the rubbish I put into my body on that night ) I'm feeling pretty damned good right now, got a mad weird folk-dancing festival to go to, a caidleigh** (pronounced: kaylee/kaeleigh in the real world) on Saturday, a skirmish on Sunday, only a few more weeks of working in my current job, and the sales of guns - and therefor my plans to travel - are all eagerly anticipated and where it applies are going very well. Stuff = good

I have just a few brief things to mention here, mainly so I remember them, and the main one is that I just met with my family; parents and Brother; to talk at great length about our parent's will and the financial ramifications which are, while shockingly complex, also shockingly simple, cunning, and interesting. The chat then transcended all kinds of barriers we didn't even realise we had and there we were, talking about all kinds of metaphysical stuff like our personal mental images of how time progresses and the like, all the way through to what it is like to raise children (many sly jokes were made by all concerned, namely about us pissing in our parent's faces and generally being inconsiderate babies ) to what my Bro is going to call his first child, now due in just 12 weeks.

An extremely enjoyable and very rewarding evening, (especially) despite the subject matter!!

The other thing I would like to remember now is that although I miss the hell out of Sarah still (her who is in India) I'm noticing it get more bearable now.

Seeing as it has effectively ruled my life - directly or indirectly - for a month and a half now this is a real step in the right direction.

Combined with my realisation that I'm actually going to be giving up drink totally in the near future and will have to deal with the real world in a blaze of sobriety for quite some time, this is a bit of A Moment, right here.

We'll see how things go, so for now that is all!

**Not even spelled right, I'll check with my folky friends tomorrow