This much random is my life

Is funny thing: I have been aware of Edward de Bono for pretty much as long as I've been aware of me; but to my knowledge & memory I've never read him, and I'm sure I've never heard him speak.

Until the early hours of this morning, when he was on my radio for half an hour uninterrupted.

God, he's dull. That kind of dull that is intensely irritating at the same time, so there's no chance of being lulled to sleep; and arrogant, and self-satisfied, and...

Oh, you probably know all this already. It can't be news. I was just - well, not quite shocked, but deeply disappointed. I wanted him to be interesting, and - well, no.

In other news: Barry has a sun-detector, that operates not only in the deepest shadow, but also in his sleep. Honestly. He was here with me in my north-facing office, and fast asleep; but then he somnambulated suddenly out of the room, and I chanced to follow him, and found him settling down again in the middle of the upper stairs, at that exact point where the first possible ray of sunlight had just found its way into the house...

In son of other news, I am writing a thank-you letter. How long is it, since I wrote an actual letter, for its own sake, sans any enclosure? No, I know you don't know. I don't know either.

In stepson of other, I had a letter this morning from my bank. Who have - to make my banking more accessible, it says here - changed my arrangements, so that my business manager is no longer situated here in Newcastle where I live, but in Birmingham. Where I do not. Great. Thanks, guys. Accessibility for the win. [Also, I still can't e-mail him. My only means of contact now is phone. No, really, thanks a lot.]

In fiancée of other's stepson, I have new phones, and nobody has phoned me. I have no idea if they work. The only thing I do know is they're too complicated for me. I gaze at the 100 pages of instructions in bafflement. When did this happen, that the world defeated me? I used to be almost a geek...

AKICILJ/DW

My TV ist gephukt. Specifically, the cable channels are fine, but all the free-to-air channels which come down the aerial - both digital and analogue - have suddenly gone black-and-white. How can this be? Is it likely to be a fault in the aerial, or in a connection, or what? Can it be connected in some weird way to my new phone, which is the only thing I've changed in the whole complicated rig that is my electronic life? Halp! All my news is suddenly monochrome...!

AKICILJ/DW (encore)

I keep getting - several times a day - spams which call me a "vip member" and offer me inducements which are allegedly detailed in the attached PDF files, which I may to my delight view by opening them in Acrobat. They do, at first and casual glance, appear to be PDF files; at least, they appear to have a .pdf suffix. I do not open them, because I are not a moron - but what is this? Are they something more dangerous masquerading as pdfs? Or can bad people actually smuggle something nasty into a pdf? Or is it actually going to be nothing more harmful than a seductive text offering me inducements...?

99954

Eek. I need another 46 words tonight. If I get 'em, I can go out to dinner and then have tomorrow off and suffer not a pang, bar those pangs that always happen anyway if I dare stop working for a day without good cause.

Without 'em - well, I will still go out for dinner, but I'll not be comfy.

C'mon, damn it. 46 words, what's that? Three sentences! But I've run out of wine, and there's half an hour before I'm picked up. I could drink gin?

*imagines friends coming to collect self, finding self the better for half a bottle of wine and a steep glass of gin before festivities begin*

*considers 46 words, half an hour*

*pours gin*

99998

Heh. Done that, then. But shall I write those extra two words, shall I? Or shall I leave myself hanging...? (For my more private consumption, I still tend to count work by daily pages finished rather than words achieved: and I will often quit right down at the bottom of a page, just in order to give myself a good start next day, write a couple of lines and score a page...)