Ca fait beaucoup de temps depuis que j’ecris en francais. Le bon chose c’est qu’on ne peut pas ecrire les accents avec le clavier qwerty que j’utilise. Je crois que quand j’ecris en francais c’est plus comme espanole avec les mots subtitues. Anyroad, Le boulot etait afreux. J’en ai marre. Vraiment. Ah bugger it… i’ll get over it.
link of the day for stateside internauts: maps.google.com is such a useful and technologically impressive site. search for ‘book shops in santa cruz, ca’ and zoom in. marvellous. and you can drag the map around with the mouse. well handy.
We’ve been accumulating coins for a fair old while (4 years). And since we’re selling everything I thought now might be a good time to get rid of them once and for all. I went through it to make sure I’d taken out the pound coins, Romanian skiing proficiency badges, pennies with the Golden Gate bridge squeezed onto them and plectrums and spread ‘em all out on the table…
Anyroad, there’s this machine round the corner in Safeway called the Coinmaster. You dump your coins in it and it sorts them and gives you a total (minus 8% for the service). It’s one of the best machines I’ve ever played with, combining the thrill of free money, with fruit machine payouts and penny fountain things at seaside arcades. Little by little the total rises as you push more coins into its mechanical guts. Things whirr and whine and lights flash around. I wish I could do it again…Here’s a blurry picture of the machine:
Quick post before the weekend… a lot of readers of this blog probably already know Scott and Becky. If you’ve found the time to check up on my latest posts over here, you may also wish to spend time over Scott’s site, Wigleaf.com which is rapidly becoming the place to publish your microfiction and chameleon car videos.
Happy Easter in a day or two, and have a picture of the blossom from the cherry tree outside in the interim…
…but then at the last minute I got an email from Karla from Laboratorios Julio inviting me along to some kind of Sony camera promo thing at the same time, so that´s where I´m off in a minute. I´m also popping by a place that transfers LPs to CDs and afterwards, probably hitting a concert in aid of the Tabasco peeps who are going through a living hell right now after the floods. Them Plastiko folks are going to be there, and since I know the words to one of their songs it´ll be worth a go.
Yesterday was a national holiday, to do with revolutions and the like. So among other things I took advantage of the relatively carless streets to cruise around on a friends bike, went to McDonalds to fully engage in the essential mexicanness of the day and then, as atonement, went to see Fraude in the cinema with young Sita. A documentary all about how Lopez Obrador was robbed. Although there was an obvious bias it was still compulsive viewing and highlights just goes to show that it´s not just the gringos who know how to rig elections. Then we got interviewed by some internet radio-podcast peeps afterwards. Sita shone, and I think I said something intelligible, but it was a long day. I´ll keep an ear out for in the interweb.
Took the car in to be serviced today before the off. It´s going to cost a fair bit to fix all the little things apparently. Anyroad, got to go. Help finance the trip with our for sale page…
I’ve been working since 8:30 this morning, and things keep piling up. It’s 5.45 i’m still at work and have tons to do. Hope the dog’s not being too loud in the back garden, he gets well narky if he hasn’t dragged us on a walk. I’m going to have to finish this at home… Just had to vent somewhere.
One Comment
Je n’ai pas la moindre idee sur le sujet des accents et le blogosphere. misterioso, ny’chevoh? Jetz gehen wir deutsch zu sprechen. ciao…
Je n’ai pas la moindre idee sur le sujet des accents et le blogosphere.
misterioso, ny’chevoh?
Jetz gehen wir deutsch zu sprechen.
ciao…