Well, this all started on Saturday afternoon, when Dukey, Josh and Laura appeared at my house so that we could hang out for the day. We all hopped into Dukey's car and sped off to his house. Unfortunately, upon arrival we learned that Dukey's dad was still in bed, so we jumped back into his car and sped off to town. Now, as much as Corby's town centre has improved, they still apparently don't know how to sort out a decent parking lot yet. In Kettering there are bound to be spaces in the Newland's Centre multi-storey, and if there isn't then there are two supermarket car parks to choose from. In Corby, they have a diddy one, a substantial one that everybody who goes to Corby uses, and then their multi-storey, which doesn't have any spaces either. So we had a lot of fun driving aimlessly around this tall structure trying to find some place to park, and eventually gave up and waited for this family to pack up their car and piss off, no longer caring that there was a queue of cars behind us. In my experience, if a parking lot is full, you should charge people to drive into it. But that's my opinion.
While in town, we bought sweets. That was pretty much the purpose of that journey. But it was fun. When we got back to Dukey's house, we decided to get started on our smoke bomb experiment, but on account of the fact that we couldn't do it in the kitchen, and it was cold outside, and outside had Dukey's football friends (of which Josh, Laura and I are not particular fans of) kicking a block of ice around. We then decided against doing the smoke bomb here, told Dukey's football friends to fuck off and went back inside to play Kinect.
Kinect is the new thing from Xbox that makes you the controller, kind of like that thing that Becca has at her house that I can't remember the name of, except it's better. For example, Kinect doesn't get confused between breasts and hands. Now, you remember how a couple of years ago the Wii came out and everyone was like, "Yeah! I can keep fit doing this!" and then everyone realised that you sit on the couch and essentially jerk off the controller to perform all the necessary movements to get the game to work? You do? Good. With Kinect, if you don't get up and jump around and stuff, neither will your character on screen. If you need to jump, you have to jump. "Jump for speed!" Exactly. In fact, it's so tiring that the Xbox even tells you to take a break every now and then. That's nice of them. Unfortunately, if I had one I would not be able to use it at all, on account of the fact that my Xbox in my room and I have no room in my room. I know, ironic. If your having doubts about Kinect though, then don't, especially if you have a 10ft sq room with nothing in it but a TV and an Xbox. It's amazingly fun.
After spending too long on Kinect we had to take Laura home, which was annoying because Laura's a nice person and fits in well with us perfectly. In fact, she makes Josh look a little less insane, which is always good. It's also good to have someone as sensible as I am around. You know, someone to tut with while the idiots make a mess of things, and also talk about how it's nice to have another sensible person around. But anyway, after we took Laura home we picked up the pizzas we'd ordered and went back to Dukey's house to munch on them. Josh and I got a 15inch meatfeast, which was delicious. Like, imagine a regular pizza, which is already delicious, and then just stick a lot of cooked pig parts on it, and it becomes more delicious! Anyway, we then played some more Kinect, and it started well, but several Kinect Adventures in and we got really tired. However, we did manage to complete the game in ample time, even if we were really knackered.
Anyway, we then went to Josh's house for our overnight stop. Oh, I must state that on every car journey Josh must have blinded at least seven drivers and three children, because there was a huge pile up of cars on the A roads. Although, I may have made that up. Josh did show us the true power of his laser though, since he shone it at the clouds and we could see the beam and it was awesome and then he accidentally killed Superman. But it's cool. Yeah, when we got to Josh's we cooked up two batches of smoke bombs, but both were ruined in some kind of way, so we stuck them in the fridge and played some Xbox for a while. The purpose of this Xboxing was to film some Zero-G, and I don't think we did a half-bad job of it, even if it was horribly complex to do. But still, it's done and that's fine.
The next morning we decided to test our smoke bombs, but we weren't really optimistic about it. They were both horrible gloopy messes that didn't look like they could do anything other than clog up your sink, but everything is worth a shot. We laid them both outside and set the first one on fire. It worked perfectly, much to our surprise. Since this was a success, we got the camera out and filmed the next success, but this success left a strange yellow liquid that is completely unknown to us, and shall continue to be because we didn't stick around. Instead, we made another smoke bomb since the last two fuck-ups were such a success. This time it was 3 KN to 2 sugar, and we moulded it into a conical shape. This proved to be a much bigger smoke cloud, and even managed to set on fire. We almost literally shat ourselves as it set alight, really not expecting it to almost blow up in our faces, but it was pretty awesome. The next experiment was the same, but this time was a ball shape and actually blew up in our faces. Bits of tin foil flew at us, but the smoke was still damn epic. Our final experiment was to see if we could add food-dye to change the colour of the smoke. See, in my infinite wisdom I knew that food-dye wasn't the right stuff to change the colour of the smoke, but everything is worth a shot isn't it? So yeah, that happened and when we tested this one it burned slower, creating more smoke, but the food-dye actually caught fire and created a huge flame that would've killed a man if he were near it. Luckily, we anticipated this since we'd nearly been killed in the face by two of our previous experiments so we're not dead.
So, all in all we had a great time and the smoke bombs were a definite success. If you want to see the videos, they're on Facebook, and I may update this post with some pictures soon.
Maybe.
Until next time!
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