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

aaack, you're right! I did call Jordan Justin!

Jordan - sorry honey!

anyhow, keep us posted toxx, okay?

az

It's OK, I'm use to people calling me Justin online. I really don't mind - actually, I'm thinking of turning it into a running joke.

- Jordan

toxx?

az

I'm starting to get worried about you. If you have decided to just lurk for awhile, please at least drop me a smiley so I know you are okay . . . okay?

az

Yes, his absence has been quite pronounced. I wonder if he's OK?

toxx?

- Jordan

Well, awhile back he was off-line for a day or so due to computer problems. But it's been a few days now. Which isn't usual.

az

Hmm... perhaps he's just busy?



Wasn't this case thing prosponed till later... say, now?

- Jordan

Jordan,

I'm really concerned that toxx might be 'in the clink' (to use his expression). But he didn't mention that he would be up for sentencing again this past Friday, so I am left wondering. I hope he would have at least kept me, well us, posted.

az

Well... if the verdict wasn't in his favour, I don't imagine he would have much chance... and possibly, h2g2 wouldn't be on his list of top priorities. (Family and friends and such.)

toxx, are you there?

- Jordan

But before he would always tell me, for example, 'the hearing is next Monday but I hope to get a (whatever-it-is one gets)'. This time he said nothing.

I do hope he has other family and friends (other than us) that are more important to him.

Still, he used to always warn before - 'next week I might be thrown into the clink!'

Why not this time?

az

Perhaps he's just taking a break?

No, it doesn't really convince me either, but we have to hope.

Let's give him another few days, shall we? Oh, how he'll laugh if he comes back to find that we've been panicking about him for no reason...

Ha ha...



- Jordan

Give him a few more days and . . . then what?



az

Notice that I've posted a little sad face in every posting thus far.

I'm hinting.

- Jordan

As the newly revised guide says:

Panic.

- Jordan

toxx,

I just saw you as being on-line! Good. I can stop worrying now.

az

Thank you, az. You're very kind. The reason I'm here is nothing to do with what you might have supposed!

Last Saturday I was admitted into hospital with a badly broken leg. Top bit of the tibia where it joins the tendon to the kneecap. In my case, I don't have a kneecap due to an earlier fracture!

As you know, I was suposed to be 'up' for a decision about a plea change. At the time I was in a hospital bed explaining to a policewoman how the broken leg was a consequence of the actions of vigilantes (well, you might as well go for criminal injuries compo, so I plugged that aspect). Got discharged Wednesday afto with a high tech bendy leg plaster and a low tech pair of crutches. Oh, yep; loads of goodies too: pain killers, anti-inflammatories etc.

Cheers, toxx.

vigilantes??? What happened?

well, I'm glad to hear you are more or less okay. A broken leg is no picnic but at least you are back at home and on the mend. Do you live alone? Is there anyone to look after you?

time to get back to work - one more class before I can call it a day.

take care of yourself and take it easy on the pain killers!

az

Cheers, az. They tried to break in and I fought em off. Fell over breaking leg, but lay by door preventing them from opening it.

Yep, I'm alone. Trying to claim for replacement of door lock in interests of security. Some stuff nicked while I was in hospital, but not the computer thank goodness. I'll be bunging in for criminal injuries compo. Busted leg should be worth something. Got goody back full of pain killers but it don't hurt any more. I shall have to order my supplies on the net from Tesco. OK, if big order. Worth coughing up the fiver. Freezer emptly so I could take quite a bit.

Cheers, toxx.

hi again,

So, why did you call them vigilantes, or is this just the line you are taking for the criminal injuries compensation?

You know, I just read an article in the Guardian about an elderly convicted paedophile in the London area who was beaten to death this past weekend, allegedly by vigilantes. Since 1) he was a previously convicted paedophile and 2) was much older than you, I didn't worry that it might be you. But when you mentioned vigilantes in your posting it reminded me of this article.

I was concerned that you may have been whisked off to the clink without having said anything.

Well, it was lucky your computer didn't get nicked. And yes, ordering food and supplies on-line sounds like a good idea. You have to pay a fiver for that? If I order above a certain amount here they deliver it free of charge.

Well, take care, and I hope you know I didn't mean to upset you on the God thread yesterday (heck, I didn't even know you were there!). I was just being a bit glib and ironic about God, which I have since apologized for.



az

By now, az, I thought we were good enough buddies not to take personally what the other says on our (admittedly, wide-ranging) topic. Do be as glib and ironic as you like. It won't bother me. I'll just reply; possibly even more glibly and ironically.

I called the bastards 'vigilantes' because of the way thay shouted 'f*****g paedophile' etc while attacking me and mine. It may have been mostly an excuse to nick my pathetically small supply of stuff but it would seem to be the appropriate term to use!.

Cheers and felicitations, toxx