One-nil

And a peach of a Champions League draw. Something pleasant to come back to.

That and the week off. Ya dancer.

Guli-guli

Apparently Turkish for goodbye. Just back from Alanya - mid to late 30s every day; consequently we are quite brown.

And I'll have more people to say guli-guli to in the coming weeks, but email reveals that the timetable has been skewed while I was away. Such is life.

Reading Vernon God Little at the moment, uncomfortably. The humanity is too, too much. My last 'contemporary' book was The Corrections - anyway, Frantzen's got the cold vocab, but Pierre grabs those gutstrings good.

So Tuesday morning melts through me.... and it's time for bed.

From out of the blue, a phonecall

Opportunties, continual developments, surprises and disappointments. Life's rich tapestry &c &c. Something new today, and me unprepared and unshaven. Let's have it.

What else can you do but roll with the punches?

It took a bird in the windscreen to make me see

So there is a God, not that I was in any doubt. And before this turns into yet another scintillating weather blog, I want to stress that some of my favourite writing stems from meteorological conditions, A.R. Ammons's The Snow Poems being top case in point. I think it makes a good starting point for whatever follows, gives the work a grounding and a context, helps you connect.

So, current observations: 22 degrees, sunny spells. And Friday for a fucking change.

In hac lacrimarum vale

I need to be thin and lonely and devout.

People, we have done something bad

Well, I asked for it. Is this the real hard rain Dylan and Bickle promised us? Batten the hatches and hand me that hammer.

Word of the day: Humidity

Why won't it just crack? I grow tired of allday stickiness. Give me an allday grey any day I say.

Elevator lady, elevator lady, lady interface me

So today, the question on everybody's lips is...... "What part of a laptop would you least like embedded in your skull?" Popular choices include modems, space bars, and internal fans. Me, I'll take what I'm given.

Sample quote: "It would be horrible to have a modem in your head, like people who pick up radio waves with their teeth..."

No need.

A deep breath....

....and it begins.