Day 791

Aka Monday 1^st April 2019

Still feeling “motivated” after yesterday’s financial shock and spent breakfast working on new application and then I popped into town to register at a couple of job/temp agencies (Adecco and Hays) and updated my CV a little…which meant I walked 6.52km (4.05miles) in 1 hour 31 minutes and 1 second, which burnt 750 calories and took 9,360 steps…

…and when I got home, I worked some more on the application and watched ‘Cube’ and ‘Pacific Rim’:

In ‘Cube’ a small group of strangers wake up inside a prison/maze made out of cube shaped rooms, some of which contain deadly traps, with no idea of how they got there. They band together and try to escape, but the lack of food and water and competing personalities cause friction, that builds and bubbles under within the group, causing all kinds of trouble. It’s not a bad film, it looks great and is well acted, but it feels a bit like an episode of ‘The Twilight Zone’ rather than a feature film and some of the plot points are a bit iffy. Such as the nature of the numbers on the cube entrances indicating where the cube is and whether it has a deadly trap, but teh group is lucky because one of them is a maths whizz or that one of the group’s members is a famous jailbreaker. But, like I said, it is an enjoyable watch. 6/10.

and ‘Pacific Rim’, a big blockbuster action film, in which an inter-dimensional portal, in the Pacific Ocean seabed, allows kaiju/monsters entry to our world. To combat the kaiju giant robots/mecha (piloted by humans) have been built, but things are getting worse. As time goes on the kaiju entering our world are getting bigger and more dangerous and more destructive. So, the humans have come up with a plan to nuke the portal to stop the kaiju, but can the humans co-operate together and save the world? The plot is pretty much standard issue, and there’s not much depth, but the film looks great and there are some superb looking battles between the kaiju and mechas. A very enjoyable film. 7/10.

…and I did the G2 Crossword:

…which gets the week off to a pretty great start (shame I can’t say the same for my finances!) with only having to cheat on a twelfth of the clues (two out of 24). The little grey cells were firing on all cylinders and the answers just flowed, I even got 11 across, ‘humus’ but dismissed it because it’s I thought it was the chickpea dish! I now know that that has two m’s not one. And I learnt that ‘humus’ is the ‘soil’s organic component and that ‘Georgia’ is both a ‘US state - Black Sea State’, which I should have gotten given how much ‘Archer’ I watch (‘Georgia’ is one of the production house stings at the end of each episode – ‘Made in Georgia’).