Aka Monday 10th to Sunday 16h June
2019
I seem to have settled into a new pattern, since I started the
new temp job, I get up early to iron my shirt for the day (I am maintaining a
work-man like approach of wearing a shirt, tie, smart trousers and shoes to
work, rather than my previous more relaxed style of jeans, a polo shirt and
trainers or loafers. This time, I very much want to keep my work and personal
life separated as much as possible and not blur the two), I then wash and toilet,
watch a little of BBC Breakfast, then I get dressed and go to work. Onn the way
in I pick up the Guardian, mostly for the G2 Crossword, I get to work and spend
five minutes having an initial once over of the crossword and then I punch in
and get to work.
Of the 9-to-5, I spend a least an hour or two worrying that I’m
doing the job wrong and that I’m going to get shouted at. Then it’s home time
and I get home and I do a few weight exercises, cook dinner, eat dinner, flop
down in front of the TV for a few hours, too tired to read or doing something
more creative, then I fall asleep, awake up and go to bed and fall asleep again.
Then I wake up and repeat the whole thing all over. Apart from the weekends,
when I do get a little energy back and don’t feel so tired that I can’t do stuff,
like work on my re-edits or read or tidy up or catching up on my blog!
I also got my second ever pull-list:
…although I’ve still got comics from six months ago that I
haven’t read (see above about feeling tired)!
… and the postman brought me a copy of the special edition
of The Chemical Brothers compilation ‘Brotherhood’ (although it’s weird that it
hasn’t got many of their earliest songs, by which I really mean ‘Song To The Siren’
😊, which they recorded under the Dust Brothers
moniker), which I mostly got for the bonus CD of their Electronic Battle Weapon’s,
tracks-in-progress that were tested out in their DJ sets:
…and I got a DVD of ‘The Accountant’, I known what you’re
thinking, but I’ve heard good things about this flick and I kinda like Ben Affleck as an actor…
…and I did the G2 Crosswords this week (as per usual):
…and Monday’s crossword gets the week off to a great start
as I only had to cheat on one of the 25 clues. The answers were just there,
flowing straight from the little grey cells to my hand to my pen, tumbling out
like clowns from a clown car. And I learnt that the ‘open grassland of southern
Africa’ is called ‘veld’…
…and Tuesday’s crossword goes even better, and I didn’t have
to cheat on any of the clues. The answers were just there, bang, bang, bang,
one after the other, flowing onto the grid. Even the answers I shouldn’t have
gotten, I got, like ‘yorker’ for ‘difficult cricket delivery to play’, I had
‘y_r_e_’ from the other clues and the little grey cells said that’s ‘yorker’.
Conversely, my workday went a tad worse, so swings and roundabouts 😊…
…Wednesday’s crossword takes a little nosedive as I had to
cheat on a sixth of the clues (four out of 24). The answers came pretty easily,
except for those four, but I did learn that a ‘partridge’ is a ‘game bird’ and
that a ‘fathom’ is ‘six feet down’. Also, the grid seemed extra poetic with
Ticket Acorns, Wrote Primacy, Gritter Rayon, Awful Deliver, Haywire Virus and
Martyr Dreary…
…meanwhile Friday’s crossword takes the nosedive further, as
I had to cheat on over a quarter of the clues (five out of 19). The answer I
got came easy, but the rest were like a brick wall that the little grey cells
couldn’t climb. But my workday went pretty great and I did learn that a ‘domed
roof’ is a ‘cupola’ and that the ‘Maldives’ are ‘Indian Ocean island country’…
…and Saturday’s crossword ends the week on an ‘eh…it’s
middling and okay’ end, as I have to cheat on a sixth of the clues (four out of
24). It took a little brain work to get some of the answers, like was Cajuns or
Creole, but the other 20 answers came went too much struggle. And I learnt that
the ‘second-largest Mediterranean island, after Sicily’ is ‘Sardinia’, that
‘Huron’ is a ‘Great Lake’ and that ‘fusilli’ is ‘spiral pasta’ (I really hate
pasta, so have no idea what all the different kinds are called, apart from
spaghetti!)…
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