So it's one of those nights of the year bargain, this is back to crap weather, and hopefully Ocean City is drier, but this vlog is going to be another delay to sort out things. But the vlog is below.
The admin catch-up day
Another wet plan on this part meant for m,e it's just feeling groggy, and also the time of more depression for some, but mfor e it was another day and also it was the fact with work being hectic and so many fucking orders it's just causing me to freeze up and not be able to get what I need to do done. I really feel good at some of the things now.
But the morning was not too bad, minus more phone calls from suppliers since there were some questions to sort out with planning the Christmas rush, but the phone was charging by 12, since the weather was holding, but not at the right time.
But for me, it was also quiet enough to actually get money or some of the money prepared to pay at this time, since that was overdue on its own end, which, minus a few more calls, was actually one of the reasons to go. But it was also using the airbags to get the things in this time for it, it worked to squeeze the notes in for sure and like.
Now it was also the key part fforme w, which took longer than I was expecting, and also finally got time to do the posts I needed to finally mention some of the rules. But that and browsing in between some times. But it was also having to rush since of a customer with a digital voice to sort out. I left about 5, and it was drizzling; some texts involved Intel wifi, but that goes later.
Then it was the visit, and actually it was quite a quick one, and luckily I prepared what I needed to for this since it was the key to one of the phones to get in, and it was then planned to swetu;p lsinmce of EE actually working for a change on the site. So that finished.
The Bus Journey
I then actually made my way to the bus station, it was 4 minutes to 6 and turned out the bus was still there. Wahst a stroke of luck, so for me it was a sm, ll queue then £3 to get on and after that, it was the back of the bus and in a familalr sight to see from many a year ago on the antic of the back of the bus, from karoke to having fingers in my ear and being kicked for admitting i hated X factor.
But as it was the bus, it was then time to diagnose Intel drivers' issues on the maibenben via a WhatsApp call, which has either had the board kill 2 Intel wifi cards or the Intel wifi cards suddenly go duff is a weird flex. But that took up most of the journey, which actually was not as hectic a bus ride as I was expecting, but the weather put alot of people off.
But eventually the road was going, and it was also the fact that the bus doesn't stop at the station anymore and goes right by the club scene of Cuba from my olden days. So it was then to get off the bus and make my way to the Hoe.
The Walk up to the Hoe,
So this was then in the drizzle, and to walk my way to the Hoe, since Drakes Circus was semi-busy and also the roads were not too queued, but some parts of it. But I made my way to the other side this time to go via the back of the casino to then access the fairground.
Which, for then, it was time to finally have a look around the fiarground with only 10 minutes remaining until the display begins. The drizzle did make it feel damp and boring, but there were crowds there.
The Superstar
The Super Bowl
No Limits and Oxygen
More rides from behind
Venom and the wheel
Another Exterme orbiter
The crowds in the Blue light sky
The darker view of the crowds
The Display
This then leads to the next few minutes, where the display. This was then to have to lean and look up to. Since the mist was not as bad as last year, but still there. This time it was going to lean. And view the Display. It was nice and suddenly just started, since the rides went silent in the music and jingles. The breeze of the spinning was what was heard, and then the display began; it was only about 14 minutes or so.
The start of it
The red glows
This is the small sparks in the smoke.
More Red glows
The golden sparks
Red and gold in the sky
more red and gold
The sparks like a fountain
The smoke was getting in the way.
Now the golden is shown.
As the display gets brighter
The Final Sparker
So this then leads to the end of the display and the time to look around for the bonfire itself. Since it was then just time to kill and also more money to bank in for the final time for work in 2025. The Fire was roaring but not warming the place up. The sky was a bit clearer, but it was still showing that the crowds were starting to leave.
The Burning Bonfire with the glow of the Tower
The streaks of the Fair
So it was time to get the legs moving to explore the parts of the Fairground, from the rides to even the chance to go to the toilet since I was needing it, though it was scary since of the risk that some guys were hanging abou and could end up shaking the cubicles over and then like one of the Beavis and Butthead movies, have that happen all over so like um not for me. But that didn't, so it was time to make my way back to the city.
Venom is in full swing.
More Scape of the Fair
Looking towards the city
The Poppies for the memorial and Remembrance on that weekend after this
The stalls
So then it was time to walk my way back, past court, and then with the bsck paths to end up near Drake Circus, to then pass through that, to B&M to find my way to getting reeva chicken mash potato pots which a few B&Ms locall have ran out with, but they ddint have any so it was the oppotunijity to get the cream one instead. That and a milka bar to go with 2 cans of Lucozade alert too for £1. The total was not very much at all. The town was quiet by this point, and there was still time left before the train at 9:30.
The bundle for like £4 or so. 2 for £1 on the cans, £0.49 for the mach potato and £1.50 for the Daim Milka
Afttwr thos it was the nice part to actially get money paid into work and this time was not a lost my card panic but it was anogher case of the cash macnine crashed after paying in a fair bit and luckily as i did it in stages it did not lose all the money bug maybe over £100, which the way that bank works its not working to actually report it. But then it was one more time to kill. I wondered and went to a Japanese restaurant to check out the menu, and there was a nice-looking soft waitress with that nice look to her, and she was pondering the question of what could be cooked in 15 minutes, before the train went to, but she said best not to worry, and I left.
Then walked my way back up the middle of the new path to then get to the station and catch the last train home, which i've had to catch a few times this year.
Waiting at the platforms to kill time before it was the train home
The train was nice and not too heaving, some bere alston peeeps but some new faces. It was then to just find a seat since the table ones are not there as much as they used to be. But eventually it was back home before the walk up the hill in the dark to check the fridge out and get home.
The Station, as I started to walk up
The fridge had not been working much, and then it was a case to get home and make time for relaxing. While a late tea of noodles and crisps makes it all better.
The Late tea
So then that covers this, and it's the end of the normal blog posts. Maybe times of the year have gone, and it's the time to plan the end of this and see what has changed so much has, and even I'm not ready for what to expect in the big 2026.
