| Time | | What's Happening? |
| Sunday 3rd October 2004 |
| 5am | | Am disturbed from restful slumber by alarm clock. Hit alarm clock, try not to go back to sleep. |
| 5:15am | | Actually make it out of bed. Shower, shave, check holdall for important equipment - notebooks, camera, book for coach trip. |
| 5:35am | | Leave house into a crisp October morning |
| 6:15am | | Arrive at GW Sheffield. Wonder how Strangely Brown is looking cheerful at this time of morning. Browse reading material, greet friends. |
| 7am | | Coach arrives, a mere 30 minutes late. |
| 7:10am | | Board coach - BrainThrust complains about looking after a Lord of the Rings siege tower. Darkknight fails to complain about being made to look after 2 cases of models. |
| 7:20am | | Coach actually leaves GW Sheffield - and there was much rejoicing..... |
| 8am | | The GW Coach Quiz - Aaaargh! What is the airspeed on an unladen swallow? Darkknight knows too much about Lord of the Rings, it is decided. |
| 8:15am | | The obligatory 15 minute coach stop, for food purchase and the relief of over-filled bladders. |
| 8:40am | | Coach departs coach stop after Skinky Rich is found. Ophidicus cursed for his art skills - and laughed at for staying up all night to finish his opus. |
| 9:15am | | Start to enter Birmingham. Cones are noted to be breeding. |
| 9:30am | | Get of coach. Are mugged by Khorne worshippers from Kroyden. Spot Birmingham Chaos Spawn. |
| 9:35am | | Store manager in dog biscuit eating shocker! |
| 9:40am | | Fix bayonets....and queue. Somehow we're ahead of the Khorne worshippers, despite them leaving the coach stop first.
Dysartes to BrainThrust - "What do you mean you fetched your handcuffs?" |
| 10:15am | | Note to self - do not mess with Doncaster - real scorched dog skull on their banner pole. |
| 10:20am | | "Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Breaking my arm! Breaking my arm!" - BrainThrust (to tune of Staying Alive, by the BeeGees) |
| 10:45am | | Through the main doors. Now time to queue for seminar tickets..... |
| 11:35am | | BrainThrust performs the "We have a User Base" dance in the Forge World queue. Queue shrinks a bit around us. |
| 12pm | | Fanatic seminar. And there was much note-taking..... |
| 1pm | | Forge World seminar. See above. |
| 2:05pm | | Meet up again with BrainThrust and Mendelev. |
| 2:15pm | | Queueing for lower hall. The User Base dance resurfaces. |
| 2:50pm | | Skip some of the queue in the Warhammer seminar queue to catch up with BrainThrust. Attend Warhammer seminar. |
| 3:30pm | | Realise that Steve Pritchard knows who I am, and that I'm with Dysartes.com |
| 3:50pm | | Chat with Steve Pritchard. Take steps towards getting a Gav Thorpe interview. |
| 4pm | | Gather at store banner. |
| 4:30pm | | Traipse outside. Staff perform the fifteenth head count. |
| 4:45pm | | Finally make it on to the coach. Have to make up the growing drool lake that BrainThrust has been creating since seeing the Ogre Kingdoms stuff. |
| 5:10pm | | The Princess Bride starts. |
| 5:25pm | | "And then I will say to him: Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." |
| 5:40pm | | "Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says any different is selling something." |
| 6:25pm | | "You have an over-developed sense of vengeance. It's going to get you into trouble one day." |
| 6:35pm | | Arrive back at GW Sheffield. |
| 7pm | | Catch bus home. |
| 7:15pm | | Order pizza. |
| 7:30pm | | Get home, eat pizza. |
| 8pm | | Start writing up Games Day info..... |
