friday night party thread

[Gandalf]

I missed the party. Boring Friday night, and I was asleep unusually early too. No raving from me.

Do you get many opportunitys to hit the bar where you are miles??

For what its worth i spent between the hours of 10-2am unsuccesfully chatting up everything that moved including a right few munters and got absoloutely nowhere, headed to a house party from then on and proceeded to smoke a bit of homegrown and puke up over my friends finest persian

I seem to have missed this post.

Actually, these days I don't really go out to bars as much as I did in the old days. In my first few years here I was a bit of a social animal, but since getting married and getting older I've found myself going out less and less. I sometimes go to a local boozer with the few people I know, but otherwise don't hang out in big groups like I used to.

People typically come here on one year contracts and then they are gone and the cycle of making friends over and over gets stale. You know more and more about the country each year and they know less and less and it just becomes more effort than it's worth. So, just a very quiet and usually deserted bar with a few friends with lives similar to my own. Sometimes I might even sit at the bar alone, which is something I would never have considered doing back home. I will usually pop out once a week, twice if I'm bored and wife permitting.

With posts like this and my thread about insurance I wonder if I have now become middle-aged.