2014 — 13 June: Friday
I've decided to give myself a day off from my usual1 burst of early morning shopping. This despite it still being early enough to qualify as "early", too. A creature of wild impulse, me.
Actually...
... I'm still trying to dodge the pollen.
The story that...
... won't go away (perhaps because it can't get a Passport). Actually, this time I just love the Grauniad's typo:
Our magnificent coalition guvmint is many things, but "tact" isn't one of their notable features. Carry on, sailor!
This comment...
... was attached to a story that suggests Jules Verne may have been on to something:
You fools! It is there that dread Cthulhu lies dreaming. Do you not yet realise there are places man was not meant to go? You will doom us all, I tell you, doom us all!!
Given how long it's been...
... since I first mentioned the film Helvetica (an excellent documentary, by the way) I was very amused to be sent a photo of a chap who'd graciously posed while my friend Brian captured his T-shirt's wonderful slogan:
I believe some...
... younger users of some of these popular new-fangled social media thingies are in the habit of regularly telling the world what they are currently listening to (if, that is, they keep still for long enough to listen to anything). With my old-fangled minidisc collection now relatively close at hand, here's this morning's music:
I'm currently on track 15, which is Don Henley's "Building the Perfect Beast". You can perhaps see what I meant here about "a fiddly, typesetting nightmare when it came to labelling the tiny little things". But they made great, portable, listening for longer trips with my lovely chauffeuse.
Don't you just hate it...
... when someone who isn't who they claim to be, nor is emailing on behalf of whom they claim to be emailing, suggests you "re-confirm" your details to "re-activate" your online bank account with an institution you have never used... just by simply clicking on a convenient hypertext link that doesn't actually go where it claims to go?
A pox on all their houses!
[Long pause]
And down comes the rain!