Further ramblings of a self-made pauper

Hush.

Don’t tell anyone but I am supposed to be on a coaching course. I didn’t want to go on it and I have just found a great excuse to stay at my desk.

It means doing actual work, but it is important and against a deadline, so I can live with that. It also means that I can play with LJ from time to time and check my email, all the things I hate missing when I have to do something away from the PC. Right now, mind, I have to contact Three Valleys Water and spin them a yarn as to why we haven’t paid the water bill yet, and give them a good reason not to:

a) demand the entire year’s bill in one dollop;
b) cut the water supply off, and
c) sue our arses to next year and back.

Oops.

Still, I have a plan, and that involves them not having updated their records to include unfortunate little me on the tenancy list, so how was I to know they need paying?

For these sound tactical reasons, colonel_maxim is keeping mum on this one.

I had intended to go down to the West End today for a bit of mooching about, but as the Tube is not running further north than East Finchley, that means a bus ride for half the distance.

I shall go tomorrow morning instead, so I can get around all the places I want to before the city gets too full of Christmas shoppers, and then back out and up north again.

Coffee now.

It's Sunday, I'm at home, so I must have been watching downloaded telly again.

Well, I haven't watched all of it; the first burn of SG-1 went wrong, and the episode stopped with 10 minutes to go. I've done a new burn but haven't had time to watch the last bit yet. I have watched Battlestar Galactica episode 4. Oh, crumbs. Colonel Tigh. What do you think you are doing?

It occurs to me that maybe I watched these in exactly the wrong order. I should have started with the lowest quality programming first, and worked my way up. Never mind; it's still all better than whatever terrestrial telly is putting out on a Sunday.

Having acquired a double DVD set of The Road to Perdition and Miller's Crossing for about £8 give or take a penny, we watched the former during the late afternoon. I rather enjoyed it, I must say. Tom Hanks in a much darker role than usual os quite welcome. Sometime later in the week I guess we'll try Miller's Crossing. These are both films I never made it to see in the cinema for some reason or reasons long lost in the mists of time and futility.

Beyond that, it's been a typically lazy Sunday. I think I'm over the test win now, so I think I'll nip and watch the last ten minutes or so of SG-1 before Top Gear comes on.