Aka Wednesday 10th, Thursday 11th and
Friday 12th April 2019
On Wednesday I went into town to get some fresh food and to
pick up the latest issue of ‘Q’, which has a good interview with Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie and the latest 2000AD partwork, volume 5 of the
'Strontium Dog' story. And when I got home the postman had delivered the latest
issue of ‘Green Lantern’:
…and on Thursday I had a Long Walk, 10.29km (6.39miles) in 1
hour, 52 minutes and 29 seconds, which burnt 1,000 calories and took 12,790
steps:
…and on Friday I went back into town to get the new
‘Chemical Brothers’ album ‘No Geography’, a great album that harks back to their early days:
…I also read some more of ‘Comics Will Break Your Heart’,
which I’m enjoying a lot, including the chapter where Mir lost her job on the
day that I got a job…spooky! And did some prep work for my new temp job, just
noting where to go, when, who to ask for, getting my work clothes ready, etc…
…I also re-watched ‘The Game’, which loses a bit of the
tension, as I know what the twist is, but it’s still nice watching a great cast
of actors, with a talented director, and looking for little hints of the twist,
to see if I could have guessed the end. I also read ‘Savage Dragon’ #243, an
action-packed issue as Amy Dragon gets started in the family business of crime
fighting. Just remember bad guys, never underestimate a Dragon, even when they
are a pre-schooler!
…and I did the G2 Crossword:
…Wednesday’s crossword which went almost as well as
yesterday’s crossword, with only having to cheat on an eighth of the clues
(three out of 24) and I learnt that ‘andante’ means ‘in a moderately slow
tempo’ and that ‘Assam’ is a ‘tea-growing state in north-east India’. The
little grey cells are certainly earning their keep, but will it continue for
the rest of the week?
…and the little grey cells are still going full steam ahead
with Thursday’s crossword, keeping up the doing pretty well streak, as I only
had to cheat on a ninth of the clues (two out of 18), if I’d remembered that
the ‘Baht’ is the ‘Thai currency unit’ and had thought a bit more laterally on
‘on the way out’ I might have gotten ‘dying’, c’est la vie!
…and Friday’s crossword goes a tad worse, as I had to cheat
on nearly a fifth of the clues (four out of 19) and it was a real struggle to
get some of the clues I did get, like it took ages to get ‘lord’ from ‘master’
and ‘homily’ from ‘lecture on a moral topic’, must do better with tomorrow’s
crossword!
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