I was trying to sleep last week and after spending the first hour tossing and turning I got back up again. Clearly that 'one last coffee' before bed was the one cup too many. That one cup of coffee lead me to getting up and sitting in front of the computer at 4am. I live in front of a computer these days, every aspect of my uni life revolves around writing assignments, Matlab, Excel, Simulink or Google. God only knows how engineers coped in the days before Amstrad CPC 64K's and BBC Microsoft Computers. If you have no idea what they are Google them, well that's what it is there for. They were amazing, the first time I saw Paint I nearly wet myself, and when I was fifteen I was shown a held held scanner that could magically transfer images into a computer. Yes I did say hand held, you had to wave it at exactly the right speed over the thing you were scanning, and I seem to remember it took about thirty four seconds before somebody scanned their face with it. Fast forward seventeen years, one week and several coffees later and here I am, wide awake five hours before I need to get up watching GameOn and contemplating scanning body parts again. More coffee.. More biscuits... It's a dangerous game drinking coffee and staying up late link surfing. Last time that happened it took me an entire two weeks to get over the image of 'Mr Hands'. Once again if your curious then by all means Google it, but I don't wish to go through that episode again. This time all that has happened is that I have found videos on ramjets and I have resorted to eating the only things edible in my room, toffee flavoured ice cream sauce and half a pack of chocolate biscuits of an unknown origin, I found them in a drawer before Christmas during a bout of tidying.... I may regret this in the morning, ah well 'he who dares' goes to bed with a tasty supper..
Here is an update on my mushroom friends, they grew to an enormous size and then I ate them...Harsh I know, but its a Paul eat mushroom world out there. Here's a picture of the funky fungi shortly before I nibbled on them with Aerospace Girlfriends huge hands for scale. I am just joking, she has perfectly small and delicate feelers. Anyway, I am now waiting expectantly for the second lot of shrooms...
