More geekdom with FKM.
For ages we’ve been talking about going to the computer museum, having read that it is closing some time soon - possibly July. That was the original plan two weeks ago. Having checked their website, and there being no date on it, I emailed him earlier in the week to suggest going this weekend, as we are both busy next weekend, and it is getting very close to their closing date. Got no definitive response other than “I might have to work….”
Friday night, about 9.30 I get a text, “Want to go to the museum tomorrow?” Talk about last minute! I suggest to him that to allow me more time in bed, he should come to mine (spare bed is made up - I am NOT making that mistake again), but he comes up with bullshitty excuses. I know he is not with his ex (current?) but out in town, and then he heads back to his local. I keep getting texts saying he needs to sleep, every half hour or so, obviously staying in the pub drinking more and more. “Get some sleep - if you are not there when I come and pick you up at 7, I will not be happy.”
The alarm goes off at 6. By this time it was wasted, since I have been awake since 5. “You better have come up with a better reason for not staying at mine by the time I come and pick you up” I text him. He didn’t.
He did, however, try to take the piss at me being so grumpy. Not for long though -he’s a fast learner! I don’t *do* early mornings at the best of times, but when I haven’t had much sleep, and I could have had an extra hour had he been sober enough to realise that actually, he *is* resistable.
Normally I don’t speed - well, much - but even he kept muttering “You’re going a bit fast aren’t you?” Growl. Quiet.
“Can we stop at the service station, so I can have a wee and a fag and a coffee?” I pull off, but completely miss the sign for parking - opportunity for more piss taking.
But at least he then offered to drive the rest of the way - suits me!
We got to the museum 20 minutes early, thankfully it was sunny, so just sat and enjoyed the sun until it opened.
And it was good. It was small, but he was like a kid let loose in a sweet shop, and that happiness is so infectious! Super Mario and Pong were played, as was tennis on the Wii. Lots of pictures of computers - zx80, zx81, zx spectrum, commodore 64 (the particular computer that was making FKM wriggle in his jeans!), some fantastic ‘portable’ computers that look like they weighed a ton!
And luckily we got there just in time. This is their last week of opening, and they were in the process of packing up the stuff out the back, prior to packaging up all the display stuff.
We were done in a couple of hours, and so headed actually into the town, just to have a nose.
In some ways he is almost the perfect man. “Oh look, there’s a craft shop, want to go and have a look inside?” I look at him sideways, “You do realise I will be in there for some time?” He smiled, “Yeah, I guessed you would.” So I did. And he didn’t complain. *sigh*
Between us we spent a fair bit on cd’s and dvd’s although there was some ‘discussion’ about what to play in the car on the way back. As he was doing the first bit of driving, he won that argument. God. I can’t remember what it was called, but it was shitty awful drum and base rave music! I think I stood it for about half an hour - for which I deserve a medal - and eventually he realised, “You really hate this don’t you?” We stopped at a pub by a river part way home (having decided to take the scenic route), after which I took over the driving. And the music.
“This is just all guitars and shouting.”
“At least you can tell when one song ends, and another starts. And they don’t all sound the same!”
I dropped him off in town to go meet his friend for his “Saturday evening ritual” or beer and male bonding I think, I didn’t ask.
It was such a good day. I am his new best friend because I found him a boxed set of all the Planet of the Apes films on sale for £10! He might be an arsehole, but at the same time he is a nice guy, and we do have a lot in common and do get on. His loss!
Then I went to a friends for dinner last night, drank too much wine, not long got home!