I felt unexpectedly emotional last night.
It started when I was watching 'Last Chance to See' when the sight of dozens of newly hatched baby turtles scurrying down the beach and into the sea brought a tear to my eye, and then the end of episode nine of season two of 'True Blood' seemed to push all sorts of unexpected emotional buttons. I can't think of any particular reason why I should be upset, but perhaps it's been a while since I had a good cry. I shall have to watch the Futurama episode 'Jurassic Bark' again for cathartic reasons.
I slept reasonably well, apart from some strange post apocalyptic dreams of living in a dilapidated cold house where the windows had all been blown in by some unspecified nuclear blast. I'm still feeling quite tired, but I think that that might be the 'two days after' effect of my day in Leeds on Saturday. Reading the stuff about fatigue on the net, I think I need to be careful not to try to do too much, too soon when I start feeling like I've got more energy. Slow and steady wins the race.
In wildlife news, I appear to have a spider living in the wing mirror of my car. I've brushed the webs away a few times, but they seem to keep coming back. I actually saw the little fellow this morning just as I was coming off the M621 towards my office. He poked his head out from behind the mirror and strung up another thread onto the quarter light, dangling precariously in the breeze as I motored along. I shall call him Henry.
Call of Juarez continues to be fun. I've just reached the point where the game opens out a bit more with some free roaming side missions in a dusty pueblo somewhere which is nice after the fairly linear stuff so far. The one aspect that I am finding tricky is the quick draw gunfights where I just can't seem to draw my pistol fast enough to get a shot off before I end up bleeding in the dust. I had to restart the fight last night at least twenty times before finally succeeding, and even then I'm not entirely sure what I did differently. Oh well, maybe it will click.
Podcast of the day was the very welcome return of The News Quiz to the BBC Radio 4 Friday Night Comedy podcast. There was a particularly good digression by host Sandi Toksvig on the subject of left handed underpants that left me crying with laughter on my journey in this morning.
2 comments:
EXCEEDINGLY welcome return of The News Quiz!
Personally, I always slam "Field of Dreams" into the DVD player. Helps me get that good cry over and done with. But, you do need to cry. Get those poisons out. I'm not convinced that avoiding crying is a good thing.
Just downloaded the podcast - thanks! The old phone company commercials were always good for a good cry, but the cell phone companies (e.g. "Can you hear me NOW?") really lack pathos.
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