Sunday morning coming down

10May09

I liked Wolverine quite a lot. When you fail, despite a determined effort, to spend an entire day in bed alone with books, papers, your modem and the laptop (I don’t know about “Jack”… I am thinking of another name), getting up to catch a quick movie is a great out.  I tried remaining horizontal [...]

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Happy birthday to me

04May09

So I had a birthday.
Seeing that I do not have a real job, after my mother called at 07h00, I could stay in bed. I had some tea, I finished reading a novel. Then I made some calls about work.
I paid most of my outstanding bills, I negotiated with Julian (my neighbour above whose plumbing [...]

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Tags: ageing, eating, FSH, movies

Barrel of fun

19Mar09

 First of all, I have to say that the Captain Morgan ad with the guys resting their feet on imaginary barrels of rum irritates the bejesus out of me. (I think that’s how you spell bejesus.)
Then, about the movie Hanging Up with Meg Ryan and Diane Keaton and the very funny stupid one from Friends… [...]

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Tags: advertising, ageing, Diane Keaton, Meg Ryan, movies, smoking, television