I woke feeling full of energy and raring to go… at
quarter past two. As I so often do when I’ve got an alarm set. I gave up trying
to sleep at five o’clock, got up and watched an episode of “The Man in the
High Castle” then had my usual look at the Internet as I do every morning.
There was an interesting post from a friend from long ago. The chap is a lawyer
specialising in intellectual property, and he’s started his own firm.
Billed as a UK and European patent attorney he’s operating out of Sydney
Australia. I must admit that the words mean pretty much nothing at all to me,
but I wish him well. You never know – one day I might go out and visit him.
I sent out birthday wishes to the three friends having
birthdays today. I Munzed, and got ready
for work.
I walked up the road for some more Munzing before I
drove off. There was a Celtic salmon and a Celtic cat in Christchurch Road.
You'd never know, would you? As I went back to my car I noticed that it
was just before seven o'clock and there were a couple of pensioners standing by
the corner shop waiting for it to open. There's o #ne of the local pensioners
who is often litter-picking along the road at six o'clock. You'd think they'd
not be up quite so early, wouldn't you? Perhaps it's not just me who can't
sleep?
I headed west-wards along roads which were quieter
than usual, but I'd still rather go up the motorway. If the idiot in the
car behind me thinks I'm not going fast enough up the motorway there is
plenty of space for them to overtake. As you drive up the A-roads there's
little opportunity for overtaking and so the idiot drivers just get closer and
closer up my rear end. I'm not going to go at the breakneck speeds at which
they want to drive, which sadly clearly winds them up. I let them pass
where I can, and then send snarky emails to their bosses and write about them on rate-driver dot internet when I can (which
is most of the time). As I have said before, driving like an idiot is best
done in a car that doesn't have your company's logo emblazoned all over it.
As I drove I listened to the pundits on the radio who
were talking about the increased sales of electric cars. Apparently those in
the motor industry are surprised at just how well Chinese cars are selling in
the UK. The implication was made that buying Chinese was somehow unpatriotic
whereas buying from a European or Japanese company isn't... There's not
many car manufacturing companies which are UK-owned, are there?
And it would seem that the Middle East cease-fire that
came into effect yesterday is already looking iffy as yet again the Israelis
are going out of their way to alienate themselves.
I went in to Tesco to get a sandwich, and then went on
to work where I did my bit. And with my bit done I came home again to find that
not only had the delivery of fish food arrived, but “er indoors TM”
had rescued the screwdriver I dropped in the pond a week or so ago.
We had pie and chips and watched the last episodes of “The Other Bennet Sister”
which were rather good.
I’ve got another early start tomorrow and so I doubt I’ll
be asleep much after two o’clock tomorrow morning. An early start might be a
plan.
Days like today when I’m at work are often the dull
ones.
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