Slack time

Scattered cloud was insufficient to keep me from the Third Floor and taking what sporadic sunshine there was.  To be fair it is still summer-like and it is very easy to forget that it is the middle of October! 

The living room windows remain open – the only reason they were momentarily closed last night was that The Scumbags next door were smoking by their open windows and the foul fumes made their miasmic way into our house.

The Head Scumbag has been “doing things” to the house.  This is a bad thing as that might mean that he is planning to live there for longer than we can tolerate.  The worst-case scenario is that he is tarting up the place for his repulsive daughter to live in by “herself.”  This would produce such an increase in unbridled noise that living here would be intolerable.  We await developments.

Today has been a truly lazy day with the only time I left the house being to go for lunch from the localish grilled chicken place.  One day we will remember to phone so that when I go to the place I will not have to wait in the long queue which is always there on a Sunday but rather do straight to the counter and pick up the order. 

Some things never really work out as you expect even when you know that a small adjustment in behaviour would bring about results.  That’s life!  Even if it shouldn’t be.

Now Clarrie and Paul 1 have, rather unfeelingly, bought an iPad 2 – in spite of the fact that I am just a poor human trying his best to resist the blandishments of the gadget of the moment.  And the adverts on Spanish television are very unfairly enticing. 

I used to carry around with me a printed list of “14 reasons not to buy an iPad” kindly given to me by the IT teacher in school.  But this list only related to the iPad not the iPad 2 – and many of the fundamental objections have been dealt with by the new machine. 

Life, and the spending of money are so difficult at times!