Wednesday, May 19, 2004

Wednesday.

Played cricket again at lunch time. Found out i'm quite the bowler, definately not the batsman and quite frankly, you'd be mad to let me play as a fielder. Bowling is the thing for me. We only play with a tennis ball and a faux cricket bat, i say faux, it's actually a piece of wood shaped a bit like a cricket bat, fashioned by one of the little 'cherubs' whom my job is created for and by. Whatever it is and whatever that might mean, i care not a jot. It hits balls and does the trick which is good enough for us.

As stumps we have one of the cardboard bins into which we civil servants put confidential information. I'd be surprised if they ever envisaged cricket stumps as a future use for them. Just outside the fire exit from the office, in a grass and concrete area we civilian-civil servants use to relax outside. Kinda dull.

Sunday, May 16, 2004

Fizzy as Buck.

Running here, running there, running every-muthaf**in where.

Busy weekend doing lots of s**gging, driving, gardening and washing. Fun, fun, fun.

Listening to: Jazzanova Remixes, Stoned Soul Picnic by Roy Ayers, some Boards of Canada i've never heard, Chris Morris' Radio 1 shows from 1994 and some Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Space Arkestra.

Also this downloading thing is a pain in the arse when the torrents you've been using are all gone, within days of being uploaded. Recently we were downloading The Tripods, the BBC series which replaced Doctor Who in 1984. The BBC only made 2 seasons of 13 episodes, covering the first 2 books of the trilogy. I remember it fairly clearly, certainly the first series, but what i'm really looking forward to seeing is the realisation of the second series which is mainly set in the Tripods huge cities. But the torrents from which we drew the video files have gone, the search engine for the torrent store has also gone and we are left at least 10 episodes from the full 26. K**aa claims that there are some users with the files but they don't seem to download. Grrrrrrr.