I woke feeling full of energy and raring to go... at twenty
to two. I then dozed on and off and eventually gave up trying to sleep, made
toast and watched an episode of "Shameless" before setting off
to work. Again (like last week) the bin men were being rather
considerate and weren't deliberately blocking the road. What's going on there?
As I drove the pundits on the radio were talking about how
the electronic giants have got the arse as the average punter isn't trading in
their old mobile phone at the earliest opportunity any more. The average punter
has realised the folly in shelling out for a new phone whilst the old one is
still perfectly good. And consequently the electronic giants aren't getting
quite so much easy money.
And the High Street favourite Wilco (so it was claimed)
is
going tits up. The chap being interviewed on the radio summed up Wilco when
he said that their business model was to fill the gap in the market left by
Woolworths when they went belly up. Do you remember Woolworths? Did anyone ever
go to Woolies as their first choice when buying anything? Woolies sold
everything, but nothing of any quality. Woolies was the last place you went to
for anything; usually out of a sense of desperation. Not really a sound
business model, was it?
I got to work (via several Tree Houses - it's a Munzee
thing) in time for the early shift, but the boss asked if I might stay for
an extra couple of hours. On the one hand I wasn't keen. On the other hand I
didn't really mind. Had I come home I would just have walked the dogs through
the swamp that is Orlestone Woods, and getting filthy is something I've done
enough over the last few days.
I came home a couple of hours later than I might have done.
“er indoors TM” boiled up fish and hash browns (we’d run
out of chips!) which we scoffed whilst watching the most recent episode of “Star
Trek: Strange New Worlds”. It was rather good. I spotted half a dozen
little throwaway comments linking to the original series; there’s plenty of
continuity there if you pay attention.
It’s a shame that one of the leading characters is going to
die. I won’t say which one though, but it ain’t the captain…
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