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Posted Apr 20, 2007
Blah blah... tired... blah blah... weekend ahead... blah blah... need to sleep in... blah blah... clean out the hamsters... blah blah... Magic tournament on Sunday... blah blah... meeting this afternoon... blah blah... so, so tired... blah blah... another five hours... blah blah... Doctor Who and the Daleks this weekend... blah blah... blessed sleep... blah blah... Steak and Ale pie... blah blah... more sub-editing... blah blah... video of 'Boston Legal' to watch... blah blah... have a good weekend folks!
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No Butts
Posted Apr 17, 2007
I've spent the last six weeks or so doing more motorway travelling than I've done in a long time, and I've noticed a worrying tendency for drivers to utterly overlook the basic equipment installed in their vehicles. Rather than utilise the ash trays that come as standard in so many vehicles - so easy to use and clean out later - drivers eject their cigarette butts absentmindedly through their rolled-down windows.
Given these butts take years to biodegrade, it really worries me people treat them with such indifference. How hard would it be to store them up and empty them into a convenient bin next time you get home or visit a service station?
Sometimes, motorway drivers flick butts out while bombing along the outer lane... resulting in spinning debris bouncing along the road behind them, hitting other vehicles. Have we got to the point where people have so little respect for every single facet of the rest of the world? No care for the people, the animals, the environment? Just me, me, me?
Why? Why? Why?
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The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer
Posted Apr 16, 2007
I acquired a couple of Roborovski hamsters this weekend in what seems the strangest case of impulse shopping ever. Having gone to the local pet chain for a cage (suitable for holding a small cat), I ended up walking out with a hamster cage, feed, bedding and two frantic hamsters.
The Roborovski hamster happens to be the smallest and fastest of the hamster family. At times shy, I happen to find them painfully cute to coo over and couldn't help but fall for them. After some consideration, I have named them Vic and Bob... as they seem to exhibit the same frantic energy said performers did in their finest works.
I trust my two cats will welcome them into the family with open arms (rather than open mouths)...
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Latest reply: Apr 16, 2007
A Very Good Easter
Posted Apr 11, 2007
Had a long, enjoyable Easter weekend, marred only by the fact that a friend tried to cut his fingers off with an axe (OK... he wasn't trying, but he would have succeeded if his knuckles hadn't got in the way). Managed to:
- get two more Entries approved for the Guide - on motorway overtaking and mixing breakfast cereal;
- have time to play some online games;
- do some digging down the allotment (I'm not making a habit of it... I'm not a gardener);
- watch '300' (good 'film about a big battle');
- play Super Scrabble (bigger board... scored 396 points... managed to get the words ENZYME, OVERWROTE and WANDER on a double Double Word score); and
- eat some fine homemade lemon meringue pie
Seems like time well spent to me!
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I May Depart The Departed
Posted Apr 2, 2007
I started watching 'The Departed' over the weekend (starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen and Ray Winstone, amongst others). I appreciate good acting and I liked the basic idea of the film (good guys turns bad to do good and bad guy turns good to do bad), but the film felt too long, had too many leaps of faith and didn't invest the viewer enough in the lives of the characters to make you care. Why Nicholson trusts DiCaprio at all beggars belief, given Leo's characters known background in the police and his all too vague involvement in the underworld. You can't spend a few months in jail and spend an evening selling drugs with an idiot - then suddenly transform into the sort of individual a criminal mastermind would trust. I've watched 90 minutes and know I have another hour until the end of the movie, but for all the rave reviews and nods at award ceremonies, I doubt I can bring myself to finish.
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