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Yesterday was pretty good. We went to Sittingbourne in the evening and it was really quiet so we got a lot of riding done. you have to go really fast to clear the box, but it is fun. Very tiring though. Soon quite a few people went home and you could pretty much have things to yourself – I had the spine mini to myself for a while, and Tim was on the mini mini for a while too. I got some pictures which might be up tonight.

Tim went on a hunt for a new place to build trails. Have a look at what happened.

If you have never been here or here then have a look. Its really interesting what people do on the internet. The top four words searched for in 2004 on google.com were: britney spears, paris hilton, christina aguilera and pamela anderson. The rest of the top ten were: chat, games, carmen electra, orlando bloom, harry potter and mp3. A strange mix.

However on google.co.uk the list is very different:

1. bbc news
2. big brother
3. cbbc
4. autotrader
5. dictionary
6. tesco
7. eastenders
8. weather
9. british airways
10. national lottery

Just goes to show how boring British people are. Other things of interest are popular food:

1. pizza
2. sushi
3. bakery
4. chinese
5. italian

Some other interesting things: Last week, aishwarya rai was the second in the top 10 gaining queries, this week aishwarya rai was the highest declining query. Who or what is aishwarya rai? 5 minute wonder. Same goes for petra nemcova and jerry orbach. Who are these people?

Another interesting thing is here. Have a look at the week ending December 13th. For some reason, that week there were loads of people asking computer questions – web hosting, windows 2k, windows xp and office 2003. What’s going on there? Also the same week there were two highly declining queries for install windows xp and microsoft office. All I can think is that this was the week where some geeks were playing lets mess around with google.

Finally, although it didn’t make it into the top 10 of 2004, last year, paintball wasa very popular search word.

There you go that wasted some time.

Went to Sittingbourne last night at the last minute (sorry Nigel). The barend boys were there. I met Rory who was really friendly and showed him my barend sticker. He knew about our trails being plowed and stuff – it always suprises me when someone looks at my website.

This was also Tims second time back on his bike for 5 months (I don’t count flatland, cross country or all that stuff.) So that was good. And he didn’t break anything. I don’t think he’s fallen off yet though.

Sittingbourne was pretty busy. There is a box where the foam used to be, but it’s hard to clear. It has a good steep landing though, which is nice, but it makes it quite short. I have a few other pictures but no good ones.

Right: Rory over the volcano hip bowl thingy.

One night last week we didn’t really get any sleep. I did try for an hour before Ben got back from his (not very successful) trip but it was a bit cold to get to sleep. Then the neighbours got home from a drinking place. They come home drunk a lot and thump around. They live in the flat above us so we get to hear their thumpings.

But last night it was a lot more than just thumpings. From about 11pm when they got back they put on some very rubbish dance type music as loud as it would go. Their dial on their stereo was like this:

I think it was as loud as it could ever be. But worse was the girl who spent a couple of hours shouting out of the open upstairs window (directly above our bed). We think she must have been on the phone because she did seem to be talking to someone – complaining about f****** c**** b***** b******* f****** f******… you get the idea. I think she probably had a sore throat in the morning.

The next odd thing was at 1:20am they turned the music off. She carried on shouting for a while and then had a better idea. Throwing saucepans down the stairs.

This is the best throwing saucepans down the stairs picture I could find, but the facial expression on the face of the boy on the far left is a bit like mine was at this time, only mine was a bit crosser.

Ben decided to try ringing the police,

but they were too busy dressing up as orcs to do anything about it.

She stopped throwing saucepans down the stairs at 2:30am. Perhaps even more strangely, was that at 7:20 she drove her partner to the train station (no more than 200 yards) and when she came back she had parked very wonky so I think probably she still was not competent (or sober enough) to drive. The next day me and Ben looked like this:

The tiredness also squashed our faces.

It’s windy and rainy. Go for a walk.
I on the other hand don’t get to see daylight at the moment. I get to work when it’s dark and leave when it’s dark. What colour is the sky?