The Importance of Being Idle

Never Could Get the Hang of Thursdays

First, I'd just like to point at that Xav is completely correct, Sprite doesn't have caffeine, so it clearly isn't a craving for caffeine that has led to my tea addiction. Doesn't change the fact that I'm having a lot of cups of tea though...
I don't really know what happened with the rest of today. I went for a run after lunch (which I survived, clearly), got back and thought 'Well, Jade Empire came today, lets see if thats any good'. Four hours later my bladders constant nagging forced me back to reality and the knowledge that it was in fact four hours later and that the whole afternoon had vanished in a haze of martial-arts RPG genius.
It was my Dad's sixtieth birthday today too. That makes me think a lot of weird things, most of them about me. Most obviously it makes me think about my own mortality, but it also makes me think about wanting a family, and various other things of that ilk which probably shouldn't be pursued. I mean, he's five years from retirement age! That doesn't seem possible, even though it obviously and inevitably happens to us all (if we're lucky - the alternative isn't all that great). Not only that, but by the time he was the age I am now, I was ten years old! That seems even less credible to me. I mean, I want children, I want a family, but to have two kids at this age... I dunno, maybe its just cos I wasn't with anything even remotely like the right person last time, but I can't imagine it, I just can't. I mean, I still AM a kid! On the other hand, even though I don't really have a biological clock, I still hear SOMETHING tick-tick-ticking...

posted by BadMonkey @ 10:51 PM