Argh...

Why is it that at weekends my sleep pattern gets shot to shit even when I decided to eschew the delights of the pub the night before?

Somehow, despite doing (and I counted it all out twice)ABSOLUTELY NOWT yesterday, I still managed to get to bed around 5am with a perfectly round zilch achieved. The upshot is that I shall now get about 3 hours sleep from around 4am on Monday and spend the day feeling like I've been dragged behind a stampeding rhino.

I knew I should have gone to the pub instead of almost watching Boogie Nights on Paramount.

Grumble.

Argh...

Why is it that at weekends my sleep pattern gets shot to shit even when I decided to eschew the delights of the pub the night before?

Somehow, despite doing (and I counted it all out twice)ABSOLUTELY NOWT yesterday, I still managed to get to bed around 5am with a perfectly round zilch achieved. The upshot is that I shall now get about 3 hours sleep from around 4am on Monday and spend the day feeling like I've been dragged behind a stampeding rhino.

I knew I should have gone to the pub instead of almost watching Boogie Nights on Paramount.

Grumble.

Say, you didn't all happen to do a bunch of drugs, did ya?

Well, here's a thing.

A friend of mine, Matty, has recently acquired Buffy Season 3 on DVD from the US where it costs about half the price compared to the UK. So far so good (oh, and swine, by the way).

However, there appears to be something funky about one of the discs in that the episode Doppelgangerland pixelates like like a kaleidoscope on acid. We couldn't work out if it was the disc or his player.

Well, I can confirm having tried it at home that it's the disc. Despite a good clean with anti-static gubbins, it still pixelates like a good 'un. Not exactly the same pattern, so part dirt, part damage. Or maybe another scrub with the wire brush will fix it...

Anyway, despite the obvious warning about importing DVDs and then wondering what to do when they need to be returned, that's not what I started writing about.

The thing is (and I realise that I can appreciate this because it's someone else's disc), that the pixelation effect is actually quite beautiful and enthralling in its own right - especially where the scene changes and people appear to "build out" of each other and walk away before re-pixellating.

Best appreciated whilst taking tea with a white rabbit, methinks, but it's a way of appreciating something even when it's faulty.

On the other hand, it buggers up the fun of watching Willow dressed in dominatrix fetish gear. (Hmm... probably revealed too much information there...).

Still, there we are.

Say, you didn't all happen to do a bunch of drugs, did ya?

Well, here's a thing.

A friend of mine, Matty, has recently acquired Buffy Season 3 on DVD from the US where it costs about half the price compared to the UK. So far so good (oh, and swine, by the way).

However, there appears to be something funky about one of the discs in that the episode Doppelgangerland pixelates like like a kaleidoscope on acid. We couldn't work out if it was the disc or his player.

Well, I can confirm having tried it at home that it's the disc. Despite a good clean with anti-static gubbins, it still pixelates like a good 'un. Not exactly the same pattern, so part dirt, part damage. Or maybe another scrub with the wire brush will fix it...

Anyway, despite the obvious warning about importing DVDs and then wondering what to do when they need to be returned, that's not what I started writing about.

The thing is (and I realise that I can appreciate this because it's someone else's disc), that the pixelation effect is actually quite beautiful and enthralling in its own right - especially where the scene changes and people appear to "build out" of each other and walk away before re-pixellating.

Best appreciated whilst taking tea with a white rabbit, methinks, but it's a way of appreciating something even when it's faulty.

On the other hand, it buggers up the fun of watching Willow dressed in dominatrix fetish gear. (Hmm... probably revealed too much information there...).

Still, there we are.

Success?

It is Sunday night and we return to the question of soup making.

As a solitary bloke I have just spent the last hour attempting what I believe may be a credible solo interpretation of the three witches around a steaming pan of water and vegetable gloop.

It is clearly too early to report unqualified success hence the question mark in the title. However, the mess burnt to the bottom of my pan looks like burnt vegetable soup. And I am reasonably confident that when the top two layers of taste buds grow back on my tongue it will taste somewhat like it was intended.

Note to self: Contents of steaming saucepan are very, very hot and only a moron would taste without cooling it first. Moron.

In any case I have now decanted the stewed primeval sludge into my flask and hope it will form lunch tomorrow. Having said that, if it gets struck by lightning in the meantime, I may have a sapient broth by morning.

Who knows?

Ah, culinary adventurism.

Jamie Oliver eat your heart out.

No, really. Please eat your heart out.

Marvellous.

Success?

It is Sunday night and we return to the question of soup making.

As a solitary bloke I have just spent the last hour attempting what I believe may be a credible solo interpretation of the three witches around a steaming pan of water and vegetable gloop.

It is clearly too early to report unqualified success hence the question mark in the title. However, the mess burnt to the bottom of my pan looks like burnt vegetable soup. And I am reasonably confident that when the top two layers of taste buds grow back on my tongue it will taste somewhat like it was intended.

Note to self: Contents of steaming saucepan are very, very hot and only a moron would taste without cooling it first. Moron.

In any case I have now decanted the stewed primeval sludge into my flask and hope it will form lunch tomorrow. Having said that, if it gets struck by lightning in the meantime, I may have a sapient broth by morning.

Who knows?

Ah, culinary adventurism.

Jamie Oliver eat your heart out.

No, really. Please eat your heart out.

Marvellous.

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Ominous

I keep saying I'll never do these again.

And then I do anyway. That's really ominous....

you have an ominosity quotient of six. you are really ominous. find out your ominosity quotient.

Oh dear.

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Ominous

I keep saying I'll never do these again.

And then I do anyway. That's really ominous....

you have an ominosity quotient of six. you are really ominous. find out your ominosity quotient.

Oh dear.