tshirt

giggling noises

itinerary

Talking to my bro in Boston over the weekend. Apparently Mom said to him that since I'm disinclined to visit the US while Dubya's in the White House, I should go over there in June when the Shrub plants himself on our shores.

dream fragments

Damn. They melted away. Funny thing is I've not woken up remembering a dream in a week or two, and just last night made a mental note that I should try the "notebook by the bed" routine to see if I could trap the wily dream fragments before they escaped into daylight. I do recall that it was a particularly vivid dream, though.

postal strike

The Communications Workers' Union says the drivers were suspended after refusing to deliver mail sorted by senior managers.

Initially I thought, having misread, that this was the original reason for the dispute, but now I guess the drivers were Standing In Solidarity With Their Fellow Union Members or some such. I'm having a hard time feeling sympathy here. Postal service has recently gotten worse; it used be the case that a letter posted on Monday would show up, almost without exception, in Tuesday's post. Now I'm finding that, for example, my DVDRentals returns go in the postbox on Monday morning and don't show up at their destination until Wednesday more often than not. This completely screws up DVDRentals' business model. Is it too much to ask that we have a reliable postal service? Apparently so:

In advertisements taken out in today's national newspapers, the company has requested customers "not to post any mail until further notice in Dublin City and County".

musical horror

<waider> hmm. my head just suggested the notion of Tatu (the russian pseudo-teen-lesbian pop duo) singing in Irvine Walsh's colloquial scottish.
<waider> "yer nawt gaunnay git ays"

(that should, of course, be "yir no gaunnay git ays")