SHIT! THE FUZZ!

• 16th June 2003 at 23:25

So, a normal evening at the Terry household... my dad comes over, and drops into the conversation that he bought a guitar as part of a lot at an auction, it's in the car, would I like it, so we go out to take a look. So we go to the door and walk out to the car.

It's about that time I notice a police car parked outside the house.

Immediately I realise how stupid I have been to not build the fileserver into a microwave. I start trying to think of excuses, "I've never seen that before in my life, officer!", "I'm just using them as adverts for the full film, see, I'm buying all the good ones, honest!", "I have no idea how it got there!" and "I didn't even know that was even physically possible for a girl!". I'm about to run for an axe (simultaneously praising myself for leaving the case off mir), when a female officer appears at the top of the drive and starts to walk towards me.

I am frozen like a mouse caught in the headlights of DOOM, moments before it becomes a runny mess on the road, crushed beneath the juggernaught of death.

She speaks.

"Do you know which house is number ?"

SWEET FREEDOM!

"Nope", I reply.

That would have been the end of that, but my dad was there. So we find out that the police have been called because someone has reported an intruder. I found myself incredibly tempted to offer to "get the boys", "sort out a posse" and go hunting, but I decided that might not go down too well. The police woman wandered off to find the house, and after a few minutes, she returns and asks something which amounts to "Is the lady in that house senile?"

Between me, my dad, my gran and the police, we decided she's a crazy woman. According to my mum the neighbour is actually sane, but that's a lot less interesting, so we stuck with our original conclusion.

Eventually, the police left, asking us to check in on the lady later. We've got enough on at the moment, so I kinda refused. Well, I didn't *kinda* refuse, I told them that no, we wouldn't, and then the policewoman made some whiney noises so I said "sure, we'll go check on her, whatever".

I told my mum to give her a ring later. Ahh, I love being a caring neighbour.

So anyway, what else happened today? Well, I went over to tonbschl and they gave me some of their old Acorn stuff they didn't want any more - PRMs and the Norcroft C compiler (written by one of my lecturers!) - woo :)

Still haven't ordered my RISC PC. Maybe I'll do it tomorrow. Yeah, I'll do it tomorrow.

I'll leave you with something I found which could come in handy in my quest to complete my DVD collection.

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