Follow-up to Separate Ways

(A promise is a promise, after all.)

So there I am, diligently cleaning up my folders in my work email in preparation for the long-awaited-with-bated-breath move to [shudder]Microsoft Exchange[/shudder]. (Mind you, it’s probably no worse than the system we’re currently lumbered with.)

Deletes Trash
Deletes emails in which I sent some people freakishly large aerial photos
Finds emails from eejits
Rants quietly
Deletes emails from eejits
Deletes emails I’d forgotten existed
Has moment of paranoia that emails I have just merrily deleted will be needed tomorrow
Finds whole stash of posted items

I wonder where these have been hiding. Don’t think I’ve ever seen them before. Therefore do not need them.

Deletes posted items

Deleted items will not be recoverable. Do you still want to proceed?

Deletes posted items

Hey. I wonder what posted items are.

Oooo. I wonder why my diary is empty.

So if I am unexpectedly missing from any upcoming meetings, now you know why.

I’m not sure why Amazon recommended this to me, but these reviews have pretty much made this the album I’ve never awaited in the post as eagerly as I’m awaiting this now.

That said, if anyone wants to tell me that I should really get Ágætis Byrjun or ( ) instead, now is the time.

These accidentally fell into my shopping basket on Tuesday when I accidentally found myself in TK Maxx on an evening when Him was in Geneva, blissfully unaware:

No less than five eleven people have gasped and said I LOVE YOUR SHOES!!

Mwahahahahaha.

A couple of weeks ago, Him sat down beside me when I was about to watch The Patriot.

Him: So what are you watching?
Me: The Patriot.
Him: Oh, I’ve seen this before. On the plane.
Me: (reading from brief synopsis on DVD case label) It says here: ‘A reformed American soldier - reformed American, hahahaha - is forced to abandon his happy rural life with his family when they are personally threatened by the British during the American Revolution. He and a group of others contribute in a major way towards the cause.’
Him: (looking unimpressed) Yeah, the fighting British film.

Title: Separate Ways - Teddy Thompson Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

I bought this last week on the strength of his representation on my Brokeback Mountain soundtrack, and have decided that this was a Very Good Decision. Him has described Teddy’s voice as ‘inoffensive’, but didn’t object to it while simultaneously denouncing Will Young and declaring his well-laid plans to dispose of any Will Young CDs should any such items ever find their way into our house, so I’m guessing ‘inoffensive’ is a thinly-veiled synonym for ‘yeah, pretty good’.

I’m far from being a cultured audiophile so will merely say that I love tracks 1, 3 and 7 (and IMO there isn’t a dud track anywhere on the album).

It occurred to me the other day that Him hasn’t been giving me sufficient blogging material lately, hence the dearth of posts. It also occurred to me that it’s been a long time since I have had cause to assign any posts to the Peabrain category. I plan to prod us into submission shortly.