This is the dawning of the rest of our lives / On holiday. (From "American Idiot.")
Right well, i am now on holiday for 8.5 days -- today being my half day off -- and it began in dismal fashion, with me leaving an hour late (because no one was scheduled to come in and take over for me). I'm not well pleased about that, it completely screwed up my lunch plans -- and i truly believe that the two-hour lunch is a pinnacle of Western culture. But that's the restaurant biz for you: i learned long ago that one cannot make plans for right after one's shift, leaving on time is not something you can reasonably expect to be able to do.
I'm not going anywhere, i'm trying (although not with much success as yet) to save the $$$ for the trip to St Louis next year), in fact my plans for the eight days are very vague at this point. There's a lot i want to do around the house; i may actually get some of it done. A new computer is definitely in the cards so some time will be spent configuring that. Beer will be drunk, music will be listened to, porn will be looked at, movies and reading will be caught up on, and many sentences will be ended with prepositions.
Two things i'm really looking forward to, though: finally being able to try Kelsey's weekend brunch, and listening to the Sunday Classics programme on KSHE radio. It's such a great programme, and as i've only had one Sunday off in two years ... I have the KSHE app on my phone and i try to listen when i'm slaving away on the Sabbath day but that's a long, long way from being ideal: not much volume and loads of peripheral noise -- it's slightly better than not at all, but only slightly.
Here's three more from my CD collection:
And the playlist:
Howard Jones - Best Of Howard Jones
10 c.c. - How Dare You!
Marillion - Clutching At Straws
Paul McCartney - Driving Rain
Chris Leslie - Origins
Marillion - Fugazi
Fairport Convention - Festival Bell
Van der Graaf Generator - World Record
2 comments:
Hmmm . . . three years go you told me you didn't watch porn . . . You had a girlfriend, though some distance away. Unrelated, but just as interesting, when are you going to retire . . . clearly work is getting in the way. Money is no excuse, have you added up hat you would get from the various government sources and your employer? I think, despite your protests to the contrary, you like your job . . . and going to work.
The girlfriend situation was rather defeated by time and distance, i'm sorry to say, and died a slow but after all these years not very painful death. As for porn, well, i prefer erotica: Bettie Page (see today's post) to (ugh!) Jenna Jameson. As for my job, i certainly like what i do; i have severe problems with the negative attitudes of some of my colleagues, though...
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