TV dramas

Posted: Wed 31 October, 2007 | Author: | Filed under: Cynicism, Thoughts | Leave a comment »

Or, more accurately, dramas about TV.

Now, what I want to know is how come “30 Rock” managed to get itself renewed for another season, while “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” got canned after one season.

30 Rock is (in my opinion) one of the most unfunny shows currently on TV – alongside BBC’s “Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle” – while Studio60 has kept me consistently amused and interested.

Strange, the way the dramas we like are the ones that America tends not to.

Fowl Play

Posted: Wed 31 October, 2007 | Author: | Filed under: Animals, Domestic, Green Garden | Leave a comment »

I know, it’s a clichéd title – but hey ho. Live with it.

Anyway, we’ve had contact from the person supplying us with our chickens, coop, and all the guff for starting us off with three chickens. We pick them up on Sunday – just in time for my birthday. The coop is fuckin’ huge – 3′ x 2′ x 8′, so I’m hiring a van for the day to pick everything up.

In a bizarre way I’m actually looking forward to getting them – it’s going to make for some interesting times, having three chickens as well as Hound and Psycho Cat…

Train Seats

Posted: Tue 30 October, 2007 | Author: | Filed under: Cynicism, MOTB, Travel | Leave a comment »

There are some occasions where being a bastard really amuses me – and one of those occasions is when I can upset selfish tosspots on the train.

Yesterday morning was a prime example – the train was busy, with no free pairs of seats. Not that I need a pair of seats particularly, but if there’s a free pair, you sit in one of them rather than cramming in next to people. If there isn’t, hey ho, you just have to sit next to someone. No big deal one way or the other, really- or at least, that’s my attitude.

However, there were a couple of tables where two people were trying to fill up the entire four seat with their stuff, and that always annoys me. If you’re going to do that, pay for all four tickets. Or pay to sit in first class – there’s no other sod in there most of the time, so just go for it. But just trying to block up the seats with a bag, or a jacket, that’s always going to be a target for me, I’m afraid.

So that’s where I sat. I was polite, I didn’t intrude into their conversations, I just sat and got on with stuff on the laptop. But man did it annoy them to have their nice plan to secure some space ruined. As the man said, “My work here is done”.

Epic Spam

Posted: Tue 30 October, 2007 | Author: | Filed under: Cynicism, D4D™ | 5 Comments »

I don’t normally allow spam comments to stay on D4D™, but this one is just so mad (and wordy) that I thought I’d leave it on the site.

Absolutely irrelevant, but it’s stupendously funny all the same. In fact, it’s actually worth reading – just don’t bother clicking on the links…

One Week To Go

Posted: Mon 29 October, 2007 | Author: | Filed under: Animals, Domestic, Five Year Plan (now Ten), Own Business, Resolutions, Work-related | 1 Comment »

It’s hard to believe that in one week’s time I’m going to be thirty-bloody-six. It doesn’t seem like ten minutes ago that we were down in Roadwater for me being thirty-fucking-five.

This year, we’re not going to be going away for Fireworks Night. (Guy Fawkes, whatever) Instead, we’re going to see just what our new place is like when it comes to the joys of fireworks. So far, we haven’t heard any – which is a massive improvement on Bracknell, when we were getting them going off from about the start of October. The next village along will be doing a bonfire and firework display, but we’ve seen nothing about anything in our place.

Of course, we’ll still be working on exhausting Hound – we’ll most likely go up to the beach at Wells-next-the-Sea or Holkham, let her run round like a loon, and take a couple of toys for her to chase, catch and return. By the time we get home, she’ll be knackered enough that she’ll sleep through just about anything, on previous evidence.

At the same time there’s going to be a couple of big old posts about five year plans, resolutions and the like – they’ve been fun to write, and have helped me lay out some of the ideas for the coming year. Particularly as one of the checkpoints is just about crossed off already, which is a definite bonus…

Snoozy Pooch

Posted: Sun 28 October, 2007 | Author: | Filed under: Animals, Domestic | Leave a comment »

For whatever reasons, it’s obviously been a busy (and tiring) weekend for Hound. She’s currently fast asleep in her basket, with just the occasional wake-up and look-round thing going on.

It’s very sweet – and gives us both an excuse to do Not Much, so that Hound can snooze on. Not that we needed much of an excuse, to be honest.

Quiz

Posted: Sun 28 October, 2007 | Author: | Filed under: Domestic | Leave a comment »

Oh yeah, the village quiz last night? We came second, by a grand total of three points.

It was fun, too – about half the people were dressed up for Hallowe’en, which hadn’t really been mentioned on the posters or tickets, but there we go. But yes, all told, a fairly fun evening.

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