Monday, Nov. 02, 2009 - 22:31

A mixed last few days, if I a honest. If I'm not honest, I'd describe the last few days as being full of golden flowers, severed squirrel limbs, pot-holing and knicker-bocker glory. That said, honesty is the best policy (well, use of tact to conform with social norms aside..) so I suppose I better admit that:-

1. You find me having took the day off work. Like is often the case, I'm feeling a lot better as a result of not struggling to my place of employment (which makes me feel a bit guilty) but in truth I know that I've made the right decision w.r.t. getting me back to 100% as quickly as possible and not causing a relapse by rushing.

2. Saturday daytime, I had the cold/fluey bug (which had made an appearance on my week off, and which one of my office colleagues was suffering last week too - may have got it off her) which got worse and worse throughout Sunday. I'm weakened but significantly less bunged up today.

3. LISTENING TO:- a magazine cover CD from a few years back - 'Uncut - In God's Country', which is a very nice mix of blues and bluegrass type stuff (including BB King, Woody Guthrie, Billie Holiday, Johnny Allen, Hank Williams and a lot more good shit).

4. To get the football-related stuff over and done with early in the entry, the usual smattering of expected and unusual results - with a plethora of red cards and ropey refereeing too. Liverpool lost 3-1 at Fulham and had two dismissed. Chelsea, Arsenal and Man United had expected wins against Bolton, Spurs and Blackburn. There were 2-2 draws at Stoke v Wolves and Sunderland v West Ham, and Everton against Villa ended with the points split too. Man City and Birmingham drew blanks against each other, Pompey slaughtered Wigan, and Burnley's home form continued as they beat Hull. Middlesbro' lost 1-0 at home to Plymouth and slip to 7th.

5. My computer developed an arse of a fault on Saturday, which utterly floored me for a good few hours. In the end thankfully I was able to google the error messages on my mobile, and reboot from a CD that I'd found by accident a few days previous (and thought 'Ooh, a boot disk - when would I need this?' about!). The whole thing made me decidedly fucked off, however.

6. I watched a documentary about a giant hydroelectric dam in Iceland yesterday. Actually it might have been Saturday. In any case, it was interesting in the majority, but.. I think it went on a little longer than my attention span was. The one's I've seen in similar ilk on football stadia design, and on oil rig disasters.. they've been more varied.

7. Some particularly odd referrals to this site recently, on the theme of how lesbians might make love, hypothetical sterotypical cockney phrases, 'relations' with a moussaka, and French rugby players.

8. I've been reading John O'Farrell's 'May Contain Nuts' this past few days - it's been very funny in places, but I can't help feeling a little like some of the themes aren't relevant to me (as a non-parent) hence I'm only getting some of the wittiness within. Not sure what I'll line up to read next.

9. I made use of the fact I had some free time today to do a few domestical things that I'd not felt up to this weekend. This didn't include painting Katy Perry's nice breasts, but did consist of tidying up my flat, doing the washing up, and having a shave.

10. My teeth are being cuntish. This isn't helping w.r.t. the general mailaise in the wake of my fluey symptoms. Oh I wish I'd looked after me teeth..

11. LISTENING TO:- a few more random CDs I stuck on today included albums by Rialto, Disturbed (good washing up music, that!) and Hypnogaja.

12. I've got so much good music, I really should make more of it. If you'd told me ten or twelve years ago that I'd have 1000+ CDs and would also have the technology to pick 800+ tunes at a time to listen to on a personal stereo.. well I'd have been amazed. I certainly would have expected me to listen to more than just a core couple of hundred tracks on a regularish basis, like seems to be the way with my lazy iPod loading.

13. Watched a bit o' Green Wing today. Plus some of the news (which is very repretitive indeed), as well as a smattering of shitty daytime TV while I awaited SCDITT. The blonde lady who replaced Carol on Countdown (Rachel Riley) seems a nice enough lass - if a little monotonous w.r.t. announcing the letters (which is all I saw). Was odd to see Jeff Stelling so quiet and chilled too :-)

14. I'm supposed to be meeting up with a couple of ol' university mates later in the week, which'll be really nice. I'm a little apprehensive (as usual) w.r.t. the logistical nature of it.. one lass is travelling from Birmingham and I'm worried she'll get lost.. but it'll hopefully be pretty damned sound indoodly.

15. Sad bastard that I am, I've been playing Fifa07 and have taken Shrewsbury Town from Coca Cola Division 2 to The Championship in two seasons. I'm pretty sure that we'll struggle at this level, but hopefully 'cause the money is streaming in, I'll be able to consolidate and buy up some decent players from lower leagues.

16. Anyhow, I better be orf to bed, as I'm pretty much forced by circumstance to return to work tomoz, however rough I feel - too much to do to take more time offo!