Welcome to the Future
For all the worry and bad feeling that builds up inside me Christmas was good. I didn't get to go down to my parents till the day itself as I ended up finishing work late on Christmas Eve and didn't fancy all that rushing around. It worked out nicely in the end though and Christmas was great, a nice bit of relaxation and family. And it was great to see my brother again. He's got some very cool new toys to go with his PS3 (well, okay one cool new toy, a VERY cool new TV and let's just say I fully understand HD now). It's a lot of build up and fuss for one day, but I'm starting to understand that it's the build up and fuss that I really despise rather than the day itself.New Years however means nothing.
Now we're here in 2009 of all places, and the world is largely back to normal, although England is in the grip of what the media rejoice in calling "Arctic temperatures" when they actually mean it's been a bit colder than usual (as I understand it the average Arctic temperature at this time of year is a shocking -34c whereas here it was well above freezing although it might have got as low as -8c during the night). While I was out today doing my deliveries the roads were by and large free and clear, although there were a couple of very out of the way places bathed in shadow that were like long road shaped ice rinks. They were fun to drive on.
What else to talk about? There's so much to say, but I'm feeling pretty tired so to summarise things that I might come back to later we have goodbye to Woolworths; The Spirit; Fox being wankers about the release of Watchmen; why Clone Wars is the best Star Wars in a very long time; how oddly reassuring it was to hear Tony Blairs voice on the radio today (now that IS odd, but somehow he communicates so much better than Gordo and that ease of communication just made me wonder what he'd be making of this current economic mess); why I'm still playing Tekken 5; 2009? How the hell did we get there so soon? and many many more. That's some of the stuff that's in my head.
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