Other Stuff From this "Festive" Season

[maxcelcat]

evildoom_bunny and I took the train to the always exciting city of Geelong today. Fun. My mother lives down there, as does my 91 year old grandfather. He was pretty chuffed to see us. He's an ancient dutchman, and weirdly his accent is getting thicker as he gets older, so he's very hard to follow these days. Usually you can make out the gist of what he's saying, but his habit of inventing Dutchlish words from bits of both languages makes it interesting indeed.

And for the record: Geelong sucks.

What else. Last night I called my friend Jean in Adelaide who I haven't spoken to in months. She was pleased to hear from me, and we had a good old chat. BTW, she's probably in the market for a new job soon. So if anyone is in Adelaide and needs an experienced Psychologist...

Then this morning I attempted to call some of my friends in Europe. I got onto Zoya briefly - she has a new baby who starting crying a little almost as soon as she answered the phone. Still it was great to hear her voice again after... 18 months or more!

Also tried to get onto vedmajulia who is I believe in Brussels (no doubt eating Brussel Sprouts) but only got onto her message bank. Ah well. It was amusing to dial 16 digits, then listen as the global roaming kicked in, trying to find her mobile somewhere on the surface of the earth, then finally hearing it ring...

What else. I attempted to watch the infamous Star Wars Christmas Special which I downloaded months ago. It was awful, I mean, astonishingly bad, bad on an epic scale. Did I mention it was bad? I mean, I've seen some shit television and indeed some shit Sci Fi, but damn. It was so bad I ended up skipping 90% of it, and only watching a really surreal segment where Jefferson Starship pretended to be a holographic band performing... A song of some sort, which was almost unintelligible. Also watched the brief animation which wasn't great, but at least wasn't as eye-tearingily bad as the rest of the thing. All I can say is ewgh ewgh ewgh.

And now evildoom_bunny are sitting here listening to a long James Brown set. Might follow it with some Hendrix, then some George Harrison, and maybe some Nirvana, then some John Lennon...