Remember Jim's Journal?

Well, the guy who flipped out is finally in handcuffs and in a squad car, after a 2 1/2 hour standoff...

Friday has turned into a day of pleasant ritual in these parts, today being much the same as the preceding ones.

Before breakfast I made pizza dough and sauce, the kids were allowed baked beans on toast for lunch (given the variety of food they are served, it is not a little frustrating that their firm favourite is beans on toast) with bananas and Green and Blacks vanilla ice-cream for desert.

Beth ate too much ice-cream as usual and complained of tummy-ache.

At about one o'clock, Beth (daughter, nearly 3) asked if we were going to the pub (this has become an extremely embarrassing question that is frequently asked in public), the answer (yes) to which was greeted with much excitement.

The pizza was assembled is cooking, and will be eaten in the buggy on the way to the pub where we'll meet some similarly child-afflicted chums for a drink. The children will play in the pirate ship, rocket-ship swings and castle that sit in the pub garden and the adults will sip cold lager and have exhausted conversations until it's time for the children to go to bed.

I like Fridays.

I have got Todd to play Birimngam in November with the Enablers. I am secretly pleased to have got them first!! And finally! It's their 1st time!

And I am now having to find a driver/car/mode of transport or maybe take time off myself to drive Chet County Killer on his tour which is very soon.
Do I say no, and think of the money or do I take the opportunity to drive around the country for a week?!

I am getting my haircut in an actual salon tomorrow for the 2nd time this year. What the fuck?! And I get a lie in. This is a pleasing thought.

Adam CR, that pub sounds fucking ace!

Adam CR wrote:At about one o'clock, Beth (daughter, nearly 3) asked if we were going to the pub (this has become an extremely embarrassing question that is frequently asked in public)

I went to pick up my niece Zarah from school the other day and brought her some apple juice in a plastic bottle. While I was chatting away a bit with all the hockey moms ("no no, I am just the uncle"), Zarah came running towards me, screaming "Hey Lou! Is that whiskey?"

Ugh.

fantasmatical thorr wrote:I have got Todd to play Birimngam in November with the Enablers.

Are you referring to the Enablers from Florida or is there another Enablers out there.

Jon

Barbo wrote:

fantasmatical thorr wrote:I have got Todd to play Birimngam in November with the Enablers.

Are you referring to the Enablers from Florida or is there another Enablers out there.

Jon

Maybe it's the SF Enablers who are on Neurot. they're like a pseudo supergroup

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu ... d=51271881

Cheers, Ben Adrian

benadrian wrote:Maybe it's the SF Enablers who are on Neurot. they're like a pseudo supergroup

Thank you. That makes a bit more sense.

Jon

I'm sitting at work listening to the sound of lollapalooza outside my window

i work as a civil servant for a British government department. Today i was told that as of 29th September all temporary or casual staff (of which i am one) will no longer be required - mainly due to budget cuts. Basically, myself and several hundred other staff are out of a job.

Now, as the majority of work is carried out by the staff that are being axed, i'd say that from October, this particular department will be screwed...

ah well