Days 3358 - 3361

Aka Thursday 1st February to Sunday 4th February 2024

A pretty quiet few days, I picked up some New Comic Book Day gems, including 'Geezer', a Britpop expose/send-up, or maybe just a fun read set in the heyday of Britpop:

…got the new ‘Uncut’:

…I’m not a big fan of the bands on the cover, so there wasn’t much to read, aside from the reviews, news and featurettes, but the cover CD was fairly decent. The ever-excellent Jesus and Mary Chain had a taster, ‘JAMCOD’ from their new album and it sounds great. ‘Moonstruck’ by Sheer Mag, ‘Disbelieving’ by The Hanging Stars, ‘Lunar Fire’ by Dean McPhee all perked up my ears, while ‘Wrong Way Round’ by The Bevis Frond, ‘Here Is Dull Earth (edit)’ by Francis Plagne and ‘One Wish’ by Charles Moothart, are good enough to make me investigate the back catalogues…and I watched ‘White Boy Rick’:

…which “is loosely based on the story of Richard Wershe Jr., who in the 1980s became the youngest FBI informant ever at the age of 14” and it’s…okay, nothing special, just okay. It’s well written, acted, costumed, set dressed, etc. but it doesn’t feel like it’s doing anything new or exciting and is pretty much your typical crime/informer story. I wouldn’t recommend that you go out of your way to watch it, but if you turn on the telly and it’s on or you’re flicking through Netflix on a rainy day, it’s an okay watch…and I ended this week by taking a Morning Walk:

…covering 6.4km in one hour, 18 minutes and 27 seconds, which took 8,495 steps and burnt 603 calories…and collecting some small Lottery wins:

…and I did Thursday’s G2 Crossword:

…Thursday’s crossword went pretty okay, we solved 92.31% of the clues (aka 24 out of 26), but, in hindsight we should have gotten ‘lieu’ from ‘(in) stead’ and ‘butterfly’ from ‘comma or gatekeeper, perhaps’, especially as we had the intersecting letters. Just an average performance really, not great, not bad, just meh…and I did Friday’s G2 Crossword:

…things tick up a tich with Friday’s crossword, we solved 95.83% of the clues (a la all bit one, a la 23 out of 24). This one felt better than yesterday’s, even though we didn’t get a clean sweep, it felt like a more involved solving. And we learnt that ‘amenity’ means ‘convenience’…and I did Saturday’s G2 Crossword:

…and this crossword week, the last of the first month of 2024, ends on a damn solid note, as the little grey cells solved 91.67% of the clues (also known as 22 out of 24). There were a couple of tricky ones, some chewy ones, but we got them all, except of the two we couldn’t. All we could do was guess and we guessed wrong, but that means that we learnt that ‘Hatha’ is a ‘Yoga style involving breathing techniques’ and that ‘Banjo’ Paterson was an Australian poet who wrote the words to ‘Waltzing Matilda’, which is nice to know…and I did a few Metro cryptic crosswords: