26.10.1999
"richmond"
Managed to get myself more or less together again, and travelled down to Richmond, with some lousy excuse for not turning up yesterday. I put on my most seductive smile, and managed to engage in an eulogistic discourse on the merits of Dutch-style soccer, past, present and future.
An interesting outfit, actually. They have more going for them than
just the silly soccer-stuff. A couple of guys about my age was throwing
together loads of horrendous graphics in order to create some never-seen-before
world. Dark & electric. I didn't quite get the story, but of
course basically it was something like the forces of Evil setting out
on a course of fear & destruction, and you gotta find a way to stop
them... Not really my cup of tea, but I enjoyed their dedication.
I somehow missed out on all
the excitement of computergames getting 'bigger than Hollywood'. Never got
beyond 'Tetris' and 'Bongo Man'...
Anyway. I landed the job ... 950 quid... That should keep me going for a while.