2010 — 29 April: Thursday

Well, so far (08:38) it's looking a bit grey and dull out there. The forecast is "light rain" though, so it will probably be blazing hot later. A walking decision awaits...

If voting changed anything...

... they'd make it illegal, as young Mr Livingstone observed. The Guardian challenged its readers to produce election posters. There's a fine selection, of which this is my favourite one:

By Keith Mottram

It's official...

... no walk today, lest the pair of shrinking violets gets rained on. No matter; there's no shortage of other business to deal with (for an overdue change). What's next, Mrs Landingham?

I'm generally opposed to killing things since, after all, I can't create life. But for some forms of life I'm afraid it's a question of her or me:

Wasp

I don't hold the Keith Roberts SF novel The Furies entirely responsible. It's more the increasingly nasty reaction I've had to the last couple of stings.

Time's Arrow

Nice thing about keeping a diary is that you can check back to see what you were up to on 29ths of April past. For example:

An interesting list (here) of cancelled TV shows. I know only six of them. But they were good. As William ("Princess Bride") Goldman says "Nobody deliberately sets out to make something bad..." [Pause] Let's hope there's nothing too bad in this little stack of incoming goodies:

DVDs

Although it's clearly my job to keep my Postie fit, I think that will do for April! (Though I have just ordered the film "Cracks" by Ridley Scott's daughter Jordan. I note it's on sale at a hefty price as an export to Amazon in the US. Tee-hee.)

I should probably care more about this than I do. <Sigh> Still, it's amusing to see that they needed to hire a post-doctoral cosmological statistician for three months! Time (16:47) for my next cuppa.

Much later

Chance in a million is still funny, though (alas) Love Hurts was almost painfully unfunny. Clueless is a gem from start to finish. And now, somehow, it's approaching midnight. How does that happen?