The Importance of Being Idle

Pendulum

Sunday and Monday I kinda got my shit back together, and played far too much Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. I've finally managed to get Two Thrones (the last of the trilogy) on my Xbox, so I figured I'd play them all in order. Even thought it's a good few years old now, I'm still utterly charmed and impressed by SoT. And knowing the story structure and what's coming doesn't hurt it at all, it just makes you appreciate how clever it is to begin with.
We went round to Matt & Bex's last night to carve pumpkins for tomorrow, which was fun. Everybody else made plans and sketches and I just kind of improvised. Which shows in the result, a kind of angry cat-thing. It's not as clever as any of the others for lack of planning, but I like it and I still think it's oddly eerie!
Then it was back to work this morning! And for all that the job is killing me/tiring me out/it doesn't go anywhere/I'm not getting to live my life at all (such as it is) I STILL enjoyed it! I guess being on the open road is just a good thing for me! I would've had an early finish too (even with London being a mess because of the state visit from the Saudi royal family closing a disturbing amount of the roads a man may wish to travel down whilst in our nations capital; Trafalgar Square in particular was a bloody shambles!), except I get the impression that one of the new drivers just kinda quit in a huff 'cos he couldn't cope, because I was on my way home having been dismissed for the day when I was suddenly called in to clear up the mess! Which I did. Much as it was irritating at the time that I couldn't just fuck off home, I do get some satisfaction from being the saviour/go-to-guy when shit goes bad.
Even with all that done, I still got home at a semi-reasonable hour, and have just had one of my trademark ridiculously long baths, for the first time in what seems a very long time! It was lovely and relaxing, listening to Bob Dylan CDs and soaking, without interruption! Maybe things are looking up after all, eh?

posted by BadMonkey @ 7:47 PM