h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

*Washes up*
*Puts v/_\3 on*

Half-Life???? I don't think so.

I need a hot coffee - its cold here today. Must be fall in sunny Manitoba.

May I have a cup of tea please, Bluebottle?

*comes in carrying an armload of Sunday papers that were heaped out front, sets them down next to the piano and grabs the Observer*

*Pours c)_( for Asteroid Lil.*

Well, Half-Life...
Erm...the security guards are called Barneys, and they're well, a bit dim to say the least...
No offense to you naturally...I just thought that if you knew Half-Life, it would be a silly thing to call yourself...

*looking up from Ludo board*

Hi all!
Could I have some coffee, black, please!

*stretches*

*can't help noticing that Tashalls is concentrating so hard on the game you can't get a word out of her*

IIEM, PGGB if you please!

Ah...got my page updated again...got a chat page now...very nice!

*leans back and relaxes, gazing out the window...*

No, I'm thankful to say, I'm not Half-Life. Sometimes I'm a bit dim, but I try and hold it together. I like to think I'm rather smart, but there is debate up and down on that one - it depends on who you talk to Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than open it and prove the point.

Actually, dim people annoy me - its a personality trate I'm not always pleased about, but its part of who I am. I don't suffer fools gladly, to say the least.

*looks back to Barneys fro the window...*

Ah-ha, well that's Ok then...
Here, join me for a drink...

IIEM, another San Betian Seawater if you please!

*Washes up*
*Puts v/_\3 on*
I'm not going to be about much this week...

Really? Where are you off to then?
Somewhere nice?

That is, somewhere you can get fuel...

Terrible this ain't it?

No - I'm staying here. But Sarah's visiting.

*OK, I don't know the relation here, but still...*

Well, do have a nice time eh?
Looks like someone else'll have to put the v/_\3 on...
Do we have an automatic timer around anywhere?

Automatic timer?!?!?!?
You can't make a great cup of tea with an automatic timer - it has to be man-made using eye and instinct, and no machine can do that. Making tea is an art - it's not something that can be timed. Did someone hold a stop-watch to Leonardo Da Vinci when he was painting the Mona Lisa and say "I'm sorry, but you don't have time to finish that smile - just leave a pencil line and no-one will notice the difference"? And frankly, what tastes nicer - the Mona Lisa, or a c)_( of tea?

Well.....

*I bet you were expecting that answer...*

OK, no timer..but someone'll have to be appointed 'morning tea-maker'! We can't just leave the place vacant like this!

*drops by, dark clouds hanging over head*

Mornin'

Tea?

Please?

JAR

Hey JAR, how's tricks?

Why the clouds?

Here, take a seat, and I'll get you some tea while I top mine up...

Howdy, JAR and Big C...what's going on? Did BB finish that tea or is it self-serve time again?

Bluebottle, are you here?

Thanks. I needed that.

Tricks?
*wonders about some bit of lingual trivia he hasn't learned*

Just tired. Very. I've become a kind of tudor at w*rk, and I'm not really qualified for the job myself. Kind of a big responsebility for a poor civil servant to train a russian civil-engineer... Call me exhausted. To my face. I can take it.

Anyways. only half an hour until the day is over and I can get some sleep.

But I forge myself: How are you?

JAR, failing to be polite