I am feeling underslept, which is odd because it was lights out just after 9 last night. Katie and I are drinking fresh coffee and contemplating the week ahead. Katie’s going in early to rearrange her locker. Let us contemplate the wonder and romance of this amazing factoid.
Keith was here last night and we had an NCIS blowout, yet again. GRRR. The episode I was most looking forward to, in which Ziva loses her heart to a guy dying of thallium poisoning, had spooky pause and pixelation problems. After some messing about Jeff got it to play but I was pouty there for a while. I guess I am now officially spoiled rotten; I was raised to believe that I deserve to live with a tech support god who will instantly solve all of my wiring, small weapons and silicon problems with a cheery “Next time don’t smash all of the buttons in rapid succession and then pitch the remote through the window, m’kay?” I’m living with Jeff so my delusion continues unabated. How he puts up with me can be summed up in one simple, heartfelt phrase: “Supper’s ready!”
I drop things a lot too, which gets Jeff twitching. He has this way of appearing, silently and instantaneously, like a cartoon character, eyes wide, to ask, “What was THAT?” while I recover my scattered kitchen implements from the floor, muttering, “Sorry, sorry,” while he patiently informs me that we have downstairs neighbours. I’m going to have to learn not to cackle when I’m listening to stuff in the morning on headphones, but I can’t help it, I’m a born cackler.
I fed Keith and Jeff pork roast, sauerkraut and ‘other veg’ last night, and I would have fed Paul but he wanted to go home and nap. Thank you for taking me shopping! Thank you Keith for the 10% discount! Their cats are driving them buggo, especially Zeek!, who is having noise management problems.
There’s lotso fun on the inertnets these days:
Me too, pal, me too. (link removed for safety)
Jeff’s cats have been going nuts, running up and down and crying like little buggers. I suspect earthquakes.
I have a friend who actually talks like this. He doesn’t read this blog, thank heavens.
No kiddums. I try to have a calm looking blog. Then again…..
GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY Okay, I’m not guilty of all of them, but my preoccupations have made my blogs boring as paste these last few weeks. I am trying to go for excitement and novelty, and end up eating in front of the tv, which no matter how you dress it up is still catatonia inducing.
Remarkable story about the trek from belief to atheism.
I did practice my mandolin (I can has F major?), and I did sort some papers, and I did a shop, but mostly I sat about staring off into space, thinking despairing thoughts about the musical, or sleeping. Ah, winter.
Today I am going to go into work a bit early and see if my computer, etc., are where they are supposed to be and functioning. Moves really do suck and they do narsty things to productivity. And then our new squid overlords, er, owners as per the regulatory approvals which have recently come in, will come in and change everything again, but that probably won’t be for months.
I light a candle for Dr Filk’s healing – he’s had tooth issues and we all know what a big owie that can be. I light a candle for the peace of all beings. And I leave you with this excerpt from Dr. Filk’s last missive:
In other news the fall folk season is under way. Played at the Sooke Folk Music Society last night, and shared the occasion with six Kenyan exchange students who did traditional Kikuyu song-and-dance. The highlight for me was a contemporary trad number honoring the heroes of the Mau Mau uprising, in which the performers mimed machine-gunning the audience!
Ah, Kultur!
