25th June 2012 - Monday
The day of the big move. Well, the day of moving about 7 items about 2 minutes away. First, though, I had to go to work. There’s someone new working here who did the Year In Industry scheme three years ago. His name is Ian, and even though he is three years older than me, he looks like a slightly fatter, slightly younger version of me. He seems nice enough, so that’s where he and I differ. I don’t think Spar were doing their offer on Monster energy drinks so I had a banana milkshake. Calcium is energy enough for me. I got some cheese and onion crisps too. The man in the shop seemed like he knew me. All he knows about me is that I have a penchant for kids’ food, with the occasional foray into something an adult might consume like Monster or some normal milk. I had very little to do today so I just mucked about.
When work finished, I went back to Gary’s and asked if there was anything to do to help. He said I could disassemble my bed. I said I’d do it when I’d moved everything out. He then gave me 100 pounds to make up for what was stolen. Though I am happy I have my money, I don’t feel that justice has been served because Gary shouldn’t have to pay. I did the obligatory refusal to accept the money, with a genuine reluctance to take it, but I took it in the end because it was the easier option and I am a Jew.
I went out to sit on a bench. The day before while sitting on the same bench or the one next to it, some slags had come up to me asking for a pound. I was on the phone at the time and I just shook my head and mouthed sorry. They called me a cheap mother-fucker. How rude. Back to today, and I went to the place about 10 minutes early because I am impatient. I paced up and down quite a bit. I would like to know how far I have travelled by pacing. Once, when I was at a London train station which might have been Waterloo, I paced up and down the platform 9 times. I’m not sure about the reliability of that figure, because it just came instantly to me, and because I don’t know if that was nine times each way or both ways, or even which station it was. The point still stands that I pace about a lot. While outside my new home, I wondered if I should have actually met the man at his house – an idea which a few minutes earlier seemed absurd to me, but as 6 O’clock grew nearer, it made more and more sense. At five past 6 I rang Carl and he had just forgotten to come. He got there at 6:15 and then we sorted everything out. I had my new room.
I went back to Gary’s to get my stuff. The first batch of things were my two bags that I had brought from home on each visit, a carrier bag, and my laptop bag. I was sweating already and the shoulder on which the bags had rested ached. Maybe calcium isn’t enough energy for me. The second load of stuff to be moved was my suit and my suitcase. Then I just had my TV and Xbox to move. I took the Xbox first because I thought it would be easier. It was, even though the handles of the bag went thin because the Xbox was slightly too big for the width so I had to carry it with a hand under it and one on the handle, like you would a baby if a baby had handles. It would save a lot of trouble if babies did have handles. If I ever have a baby, I will tear out its spine and use that as a handle. I will be a good Dad. Then the time came to move my TV. I was offered help, but help is for pussies, so I moved it all by myself. Next time you move, why not try carrying your possessions from your old home to your new home? It wasn’t really heavy though and the box had handles so it was fine. That was it. I had moved everything.
I went back to Gary’s to disassemble the bed. I struggled with some of the bolts until I realised they weren’t actually bolts and just those bits that bolts go into. Not nuts but like nuts with a groove in the side. You know? You’ve seen them. On the beds. Yeah? Alright. The last bolt proved problematic. I used the washer with another bolt through it for leverage and the bolt came undone. I was proud of my ingenuity, if not of my strength. I took the stuff down and a girl asked me what my plans for the rest of the day were. I said I was going to buy some bedding and a towel. She asked why I needed a towel. I said it was useful to get dry. Everyone laughed. I’m hilarious. I said my goodbyes and Gary hugged me. He said that he knew I didn’t like hugging people, but he still did it. I don’t mind hugging people, it’s just that I was very sweaty. After getting to my third base with Gary, I went to buy some stuff. I reckon I’ll miss the cats the most.
I went to Sainsbury’s and looked at the cheapest stuff on offer, cutting as many corners as possible. I decided I only needed a duvet cover and not an actual duvet, and I was going to go without a fitted sheet until I saw where they were. I thought about getting some pillows, but I thought I could go without. The duvet cover came with some cardboard pillows anyway. I bought a towel as well. I also got some shower gel. I saw a bottle for 30p, but there was a larger bottle for 80p, and I didn’t want to look cheap. I certainly didn’t. About 24 bloody pounds it cost me for all that stuff. I broke off one of my fingers and put it in the slot, because I am made of money. I was looking for a barcode on the towel, and then the checkout lady came and went to enter the code. She just put the towel on the scanner where all the shopping goes and I didn’t really want my towel going on there. She had to get someone to get a different towel with a barcode on anyway. I took a bag because I was carrying quite a bit.
I got home and had a much needed shower. The rules are that I have to clean the tiles and shower off with a squeegee. That seems a bit much, but I did it. Refreshed, I had a word with Kev who is in charge of wi-fi. He is apparently a professor of lasers or something. There can’t be that much to lasers. 7 pounds a month the wi-fi costs. It is so good to have an Internet connection at home, though. You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone, but that’s just not true. It’s a good as a saying, though. The bed here have too much give and has a metal frame. I don;t like the creakiness of it, and I had a metal bed at home and one of the central legs snapped off it. Wood is much better for beds, isn’t that right, Minecraft?
I noticed that whenever I try to copy the word “Gary” from Microsoft Word to WordPress, it loses the space before and after it. That’s very weird.
In other news, all the people here for the festival have gone. Newport’s back to the way it’s always been. I hate it when people come to my town for such a short space of time and think they own the place.
I wondered today if children shower. I didn’t think they did, but I saw on some forums that they do. I can’t remember when I first showered, but I was probably about 13. I really smelled because I’d never had a bath before either.
I went to bed at about 23 PM at night because I was rather tired. Goodnight.