Watched the truly mystifying Judex last night. The GF put it on saying he wouldn’t tell me what it was but I had expressed an interest in watching it. Even if he had told me it would still have been a surprise as the Criterion case made it sound like a smart, stylish and occasionally […]
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And another
12 Rabi-al-Awwal is live too. Please pardon the execrable drawing not to mention complete inability to use an Apple Pencil. This is why I don’t write and draw under my own name.
One inch up goes live
Dipped my toe in the water, put a story online: One inch up, one of the rare stories I successfully completed. Don’t expect the floodgates to open though.
Two lost phones
Last week I left my phone on a restaurant table. They phoned the GF who had made the booking but of course couldn’t reach him because he, like me, usually has his phone on silent. Meanwhile we went around the somewhat uninteresting museum and then had to dash back to the restaurant to collect the […]
Routines
I think routines will drive me mad, yet here I am.
I deserved it
Decided to go to a ‘healthy fast food’ place nearby for lunch instead of picking up something from the lunch stalls on the street. It was, unsurprisingly, very poor. I had the much-praised beef burger which has a wholewheat bun with minimal wholewheat content – thank heavens – and a baked patty (??? to the […]
Gilead on its way
Finished The Handmaid’s Tale last night. After a circular path towards TV series-dom it ended as the book did. The final episode was very good, a reversion to the earlier ones after a few which did the backstory thing that caused the middle bit to sag. The worst of these was the backstory of how […]
Volcanic interruption
It seems increasingly likely, with Agung a-rumbling away down in Bali and mass evacuations in the neighbourhood. The airport is quite distant from the volcano itself but the air space shall certainly be closed and flights diverted. Speaking of inconvenient natural disasters in holiday destinations, the response to the hurricane in Puerto Rico continues to […]
Back to work
Back to work after a long weekend with more activity than usual. I’m still stiff from Bukit Tabur. We booked our flights to Dili over the weekend, though there is some concern that a volcano in Bali, where the flights connect, may disrupt our plans. Well, too late to worry about it; it was even […]
Along the dragon’s back
We did go to Bukit Tabur yesterday, rising at 5.30 to be there by 6.30 – too late for the sunrise, which was spectacular even fromground level, but early enough that it never got to too. It was a short, steep hike and had me panting in the early bits as I don’t take too […]