Re#

Those of you that know me will know I'm kind of busy doing other things right now. I'm only able to be here with you now because everyone else in the house is asleep (except the guy in the kitchen using the hammer drill - I'll explain later). So while I have no time to be here, here's a post I wrote a few weeks ago but never posted, probably because I was getting ready to be really busy right now.

Now I know this in an incredibly fucking pretentious thing to do but I'm actually blogging on the train, laptop on lap and bleary-eyed because of a lack of any kind of meaningful sleep last night. C & I were up till the wee smalls (which sounds a bit rude, I know) sorting through all our files. We're merging three filing cabinet drawers into two, so basically a third of everything had to go. It was interesting finding some old stuff from my community radio days, which I might be tempted to post here if I run out of anything else semi-meaningful to write about (and let's face it, my rambly, bullshitty writing can't have gotten much worse in the last ten years so you, the reader, won't be much worse off now, will you. Good. There). I painted the remainder of the guttering around our house last night in the dark. Which makes you think about why we have daylight saving in the summer. With it, in summer, it gets dark at about 9pm. In winter, without it, it gets dark before 6. If we had it in winter and not in summer, you'd have a more average dark-getting time. But who says it has to get dark at the same time every day? I didn't, actually. It was never me. I was just making the point about the averageness of daylight times and how, because DS finished a week or two ago, I find myself up a ladder, splashing paint around in the hope that it'll cover up all the shitty-colored old paint. I forgot to check the results this morning. I'm sure I did a really splendid job. Funny, I was on the train the other day and there was this girl in her school uniform. It consisted of a white shirt and a tartan skirt that almost identically matched the fabric of the train seats. While I'm on the subject of painting, you know those little colored squares you get, with the name of a colour on them, that you're supposed to stick up on your wall when you want to paint it a different colour? Well, what a complete fucking waste of time they are! They bear absolutely no resemblance to the actual paint they are supposedly matching. We wanted to put up a colour called Sandy Day (which, I know, sounds like the name of one of the three amigos). This was supposed to be a neutral, light grey, with a hint of ochre in it. When we got it home and put it on the wall, it looked fucking blue. We've had similar experiences with numerous other colours. My advice to anyone painting is to forget the sample cards, just by 4 litres of every paint in the entire Dulux range, paint a patch of each on the wall, and when you find one you like, paint over everything else with it. After buying all those sample pots it's an expensive exercise either way; this way will just save you a whole lot of time and a dozen or so trips to the hardware store.

Wow, was that entertaining reading, or what! Can you see why I didn't bother posting it now? Those of you that know me and want to know more about the current sitch, feel free to email me. I probably don't have your addresses in any kind contacts list due to changing email systems a while back. I could find you all if I dug around, but (and don't take this the wrong way) who can be bothered? I have photos ready to send so let me know if you want a look.