Tempus Fugit

Where does time go, eh?

I come in from work, think about posting something and more often than not nod off before I acquire the necessary circular tuit. It's been strange times at work, with the chap I sit next to getting notice of redundancy this week. Two of the consultants from the division are going as well, unless we pull a sale out of the hat in the next couple of weeks. All I can do is keep my head down and get on with my work as best I can.

It's stressful times with Alicia as well, with the last set of A levels rapidly approaching and looking at universities. Hopefully she'll get the grades she needs for the course at Huddersfield she wants to go to, but it would be nice if I could just fast forward the next couple of months though.

Richard Herring's new show 'The Headmaster's Son' was excellent when we went to see it on Monday, and probably the best thing I've seen him do. He really is a comedian at the top of his game and finally getting the success he deserves, even if he's not on the telly any more. His observations on youth and ageing drawn from his teenage diaries were painfully poignant and very funny.

On a similar note, Emma Kennedy's new book 'The Tent, The Bucket and Me' - a tale of series of disastrous camping holidays in the 1970s - is now out and doing very well, by all accounts. It was also Book of the Week on radio 4 and you can hear an abridged version on iPlayer. Well worth a listen.

GTA:Chinatown Wars has grabbed me in a big way. An astonishing achievement on the DS, with the car chases being as gripping as those in GTAIV and the detail in the city being simply amazing. I've been mainly drug dealing and doing story missions in between. I've always enjoyed open ended trading games from the days of Pirates! and Elite onwards, and this is acomplished as any of those.

I went out to give the grass its first trim of the year this morning, and I now appear to have cursed the weather for the rest of the weekend as the sky has clouded over and the rain is descending. Oh well, back to Liberty to see if I can offload some cheap heroin for a profit without getting busted.