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Today is going to be hard.
Smiling at people I don’t know, chatting about the weather, cheerly explaining ECGs, whatever.
I feel like I’m swimming in a vast pool of black, black water; the dark skys above heavy with rain. I feel like I want to cry. I want to cry. What good would it do. What would it change?
It isn’t the time for crying yet. I want to be held. But I must go to work.
Is that a tear in your eye? Wipe them all away.
I may be home early today. If I need to I’ll come home early. I will take care of myself during this time.
Some people might find this a bit depressing, or a bit uncomfortable so it’s behind a cut. (more…)
I had a what is technically termed ‘a shit shift’. Nothing really went wrong, but it was less fun than standing with your feet in a bucket of camel dung while people throw drawing pins (thumb tacks) at you.
And I came out and I could feel as I got on my bike the dark omen of the crap ride. I was in a bad mood, my bike was stood (irritatingly) in the patch of oil (it generated yesteday as the sun expanded the two stroke in the very full two-stroke tank) and I just knew, gonna be no fun.
Pulled out and got stuck behind (oddly enough) a HumVee (or however it’s spelt) which appeared to be capable of a staggering 25 mph on Bath’s twisty little backroads – and I started to mutter darkly.
The whole ride was a melange of crap or dull.
And then it happened.
Some tosser in an unlabeled silver sports car with prestige plates (Jon [+3 numbers]) cut me up, and then shot past to the roundabout… the trafficlight controlled roundabout. I prayed. My prayers were answered, the lights were red. He might have been a shit driver, but he wasn’t out-right stupid, so he stopped. I filtered. We shared the white line space.
He took off, from the left lane (of 4) he swerved across the traffic to the right lane (of 4), over took a car at the lights on the roundabout and then swerved back to the left lane to shoot up the 2+ lane of the next stretch of dual carriage way.
I prayed again. please let the lights be red.
And as I rounded the corner I punched the air, they were red, his brake lights came on and he stopped…. At this junction there’s a bus/bike/taxi lane, so I didn’t even have to filter and I pulled up next to him. My battered, dented, faded, multicoloured MZ unevenly ring-ting-tinging next to his 100k (?) sports car. I prayed again, I’ve never been good at fast pull aways when I’ve been trying, but I needed this one to be perfect. I didn’t want to wheelie, I wanted it to be controlled and leave him in that beautiful cloud of 2 stroke blue.
The lights changed, and I shot off like a monkey sitting on a fire, and fuck me backwards if I didn’t leave him in the dirt. Of course, he shot past after 50mph, performing another similar manouver to before at the next roundabout… but just to make life that bit more beautiful, the lights changed and he was stuck at them, behind a car, and I filtered my way to the front.
Oh, the joy of pootling at 45mph in a 50mph zone with a tosser in a sports car desparate to pass you. Having overtaken the car I was not-really-trying-to overtake he again shot past, getting stopped at the next set of lights, where he turned off left. And I must admit, I punched the air again as I pulled up level on my ‘zed.
I love my bike. I even gave it a hug tonight, it’s made me feel that much less pissed off.
First up, CCC have got another track out: Mmm, ccc – not actually listened to it; ‘cos I’m working my way through the RIAA* album – Sounds for the Sun-Set . Heh.
*Really Interesting Audio Adventures
I got payment through for my parents camera yesterday; except it’s in Frickin’ Dollars. So I’ve had to say “well, I’ll find out how much it costs to cash it, but…. it’s going to cost you more. Now of course he’s saying “oh, I’ll pay the extra through PayPal”. Why couldn’t he do that in the first fricking place, I didn’t *say* I accepted foreign cheques. I asked for paypal. He could have had the bloody camera by now. NYARGH!
I can’t understand why people don’t read the payment stuff on auctions. Or the ‘will send to’ stuff. It’s really fricking irritating.
At any rate, at least *some* money’s arrived. Technically I guess I could cash the cheque and wait for the rest to arrive.
Anyway. I looked at the freecycled telly yesterday, and it looks like it’s a simple fault which should be piddlingly easy to fix. Touch wood.
So yeah, that’s me for today…
:: STATUS KATE_KEEPALIVE
KATE_KEEPALIVE STATUS = (“”)
:: KATE_KEEPALIVE = SOULWAX2MANYDJS_PART6
CONFIRM: SET KATE_KEEPALIVE TO ‘SOULWAX2MANYDJS_PART6’ Y/N
Y
KATE_KEEPALIVE = “SOULWAX2MANYDJS_PART6”
I was wrong.
Despite the fact I’d not eaten lunch, when I got home today I sat at the computer blanking out the universe with a swathe of time spent not moving. After a solid hour and a half of not moving I limped to the bathroom. Eventually giving in to my body’s ultimate screaming desire for me to remove my contact lenses and lie down goddamit.
After about half an hour of that my mum rang.
Oh, Nikki rang during the doing nothing phase.
Yeah. I’ll talk about my mum’s phone call inabit.
Yeah, after about 2 hours, the urge to eat something has become overpowering, I’m also awake-and-energetic enough that I can move without every bone in my legs telling me that I shouldn’t be using them.
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I’m not quite sure if this counts as abandoned, a lot of the scrapyards (breakers / junk yards) near me have had to close (environmental legistlation regarding oil pollution… (mutters darkly about politics)) but this isn’t actually one of them. This is one that appears to have grown as a result of the others closing, but it means that running near the back of the yard is the pile-of-dead-car parts that used to signify the end of the scrapyard.
This probably 5 foot high bank of junk has slowly gathered the dirt and muck from the rest of the yard as new cars have been piled precariously on top. And the bank itself is being taken over by vegitation. I took a couple of shots (I only took my digi-cam to take some video of me getting the parts for my car) of the bank, but this one’s come out the best….
![[very large version]](https://www.pyoor.org/photos/abandonded/boxfoldia_1_full.jpg){kind=link}
![[very large version]](https://www.pyoor.org/photos/abandonded/boxfoldia_2_full.jpg){kind=link}
![[very big version]](https://www.pyoor.org/photos/abandonded/rex_cinema_abandoned_full.jpg){kind=link}