h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Ooh, how exciting! You may remember that I collect foreign coins and currency (and still have the lot of coins you gave me when I visited last, as well as a few Euros from Paris). I'll dig my tin out over the weekend so I can add the ones you're sending. It's really very , thanks!!

Movies & pizza sound fun. I've a couple minor errands to run- a trip to the grocery store to get a few items for a food drive in my office building, and a visit to the cat food store. Moviewise, we've got "Zelig" and "Symbiopsychotaxiplasm" from Netflix, and have eight more episodes of Twin Peaks to go. I've got a hankering for Middle Eastern food today, so we might order in tonight.

"Zelig" Ooh, another Z-movie. Found the one I've set my heart on, though

http://www.zemanovaload.com/synopsis.shtml

"Symbiopsychotaxiplasm"

Say what???

Not sure whether I'll like "Zelig" or not, but it's been in the queue forever so what the hell. Can't look up the other one from the office computer. Tsk, tsk.

http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=360

Zelig sounds excellent too.

We're getting some insanely named new doctors today.

Ooh, the "surprise" I wanted to send you arrived today. So I'll be posting the DVDs and surprise tomorrow and will send random Uncle Fun stuff at another time. The up side to that is I have more time to stumble across Just The Right Thing(s).

Yays

Hopefully the package isn't so "puffy" as to present any difficulty or inconvenience with delivery. And hopefully everything arrives in good condition.

Meanwhile, I'm waiting for my copy of the Red Dwarf "Bodysnatcher" set to arrive from Sendit.com. They apparently posted it on Friday the 9th. I didn't know when I placed the order that the exchange rate would change so drastically, or I'd have had it sent to the office. Hopefully it's in a small enough package that the delivery person can fit it in the (larger than most) mail box rather than set it on the porch.

I could give you my work address if it'd help. Is your floor/building pretty safe? Hope you get it okay.

Have to tell you about these new doctors. Both arrived at the same practice in the sticks, weirdly; East Bergholt, where Constable came from. They're Dr Mediavilla-Gomez, which sounds like a Mexican cable channel; and Dr Tetteh. Who belongs in a Russ Meyer movie I think. I'm just waiting for Dr Hfuhruhurr.

There's something very wrong with this monitor. Sigh.

My building's pretty safe. I've had far larger and more costly items left on the porch all day and nothing has happened to them. There are two doors at the front of the building (one for the landlord's first floor apartment, one for the second-floor and mine). The doors are locked from the outside, but ours doesn't always close all the way, and if it's open, the mail person often sticks things inside the door at the foot of the steps. The second-floor tenant often brings our packages in, and vice versa.

I could send this package to your work address if you prefer that. We have a mail room at my office, so while it occasionally means waiting an extra day or so to receive something, I usually have larger packages sent there. And UPS, since they can't leave anything unless someone was there to receive and sign for it... no one at home during the day, but always someone available to sign for deliveries at the office during business hours.

"Mediavilla" does kind of sound like a cable channel. Literally, it would mean "average town" or something like that...

Got into an argument of sorts with a co-worker yesterday afternoon regarding some acoustic tiles for lining cubicle walls. The brochure I had available listed several colors but didn't have swatches for all of them. This person insisted that vermilion is a shade of green... I couldn't convince her that vermilion is red, and she must be thinking of verdigris. Not that it matters, I suppose- I do the purchasing anyway.

Now I'm an Appointed Person I have to order in a bunch of gear; H&S says we're supposed to wear kevlar gloves when using knives (which is most of the day, every day).

I guess the equivalent of Mediavilla would be Middleton, there's lots of those. Prince William's on-off girlfriend, potentially the next queen, is Kate Middleton. And one half of Global Communication (don't ask, you won't care).

It'll be nice to get the parcel at work - beats an empty mat at home. I'll mail you.

OK. Worst case scenario, I won't have another packing envelope and I might have to wait to mail it until Wednesday on the way home from work.

Middleton sounds about right- that's more or less what I had in mind. you'd think I'd understand Spanish better by now. Sure, the stuff we studied in high school and college was basically useless, textbook stuff, but I've been working for over 20 years and certainly have been exposed to plenty of conversational Spanish by now.

I'll watch for that email.

Tom came over and spent a couple of hours poring over the 'pooter obsessing about his uni application while I watched Apocalypto. Stunning film, brutal and beautiful, highly recommended.

Tom's going back to school? Better late than never. Fingers crossed for his application process to go smoothly.

Went to a 10th anniversary gig for the Planet of Sound at a local venue- a cute little hole-in-the-wall with a great PA system (and which already enforces the indoor smoking ban, thankfully). Free all-you-can-eat Chicago style hot dogs for K, Diet Coke for me. Ran into several people we know, and pooped out by midnight. It was a fun time.

I think I may be coming down with a cold, so today is going to be an easy one. I've gone a few weeks without washing floors, a few days isn't going to make that big a difference. The new Red Dwarf thing arrived yesterday, so that'll keep me amused for a bit.

Meanwhile, I have a small cardboard box that I can send your stuff in, so if you want to email me your work address I'll get it out by next Saturday.

Already did that, did it not arrive? I'll send it again. Wish you could mail some of those hot dogs. Glad you had a nice time, hope the cold goes easy on you.

It doesn't look like that's going to be a problem, at least for the time being. Weather-wise, it's more like the end of September than the middle of November. I'm really rather disappointed- autumn is my favorite season and we haven't had much of one yet. It's 42°F (5.6°C) already this morning- a nice day for a walk or other outdoorsy stuff, but not even cool enough for a jacket yet.

Don't suppose the hot dogs would mail too well, no. They were high-quality stuff, wish I *could* share.

I remember fondly the Polish sausase I had at Hank's Frank's on Wabash. *sigh*.

Autumn came and went here in a heartbeat, now it's just cold, grey and wet.

What an idiot. There's a g in sausage, and it was on N.Michigan.

I certainly understood the typo (I make them, too), but am unfamiliar with the restaurant so the location went right by me.

SHort week this week. I'm supposed to have some informal "meet & greet" type sit-down on Tuesday with the newest employee I work with rather tangentially... and I've got something on my mind about it. Probably not appropriate for public fora, but let's just say I'm within my right to approach the person with this, but I need to make sure I do it in a way that seems constructive, and not perceied to have a chip on my shoulder or anything. It's difficult, when you don't know a person and they don't know you!

Email?