So today….
11.01.09
Today I was supposed to go motor racing in Mondella for the Japfest prize except when I woke this morning at 5am, it was bucketing down. It wasn’t a huge surprise to me at around 10 when Mondello rang and said “we are cancelling”. I wouldn’t want to drive in that kind of weather anyway. So it cleared up a little later…that’s fine. I went climbing instead and it was a giant #fail. Didn’t go according to plan at all, nothing like the joy of re-doing the route I finished during the week, fell once, didn’t get any further the second time around and walked. There’s no point in ignoring it when parts of your body are whinging at you the way mine was today. As I know don’t feel too healthy at all and not in a tired/over exerted way I suspect the weakness was more than the usual weakness. I’m freezing cold as well. It’s probably just as well I didn’t go learning to drive racing cars.
Stream of consciousness post this one. I’m listenign to the iPod again because the radio is letting me down. In answer to the question “what did you for Halloween”, the answer is “nothing much.” Answered the doorbell once to four tiny little fairies and started working on the broomstick lace scarf which I may or may not give to someone. Don’t know yet. It’s working up fast. And I like it. It looks really pretty. Today then, not much. Failed climbing, went to see a friend in Clontarf and kept up with twitter. Scored 150,000 plus on Bejewelled on FaceBook which is in the top 3% of scores, apparently which tells me I am spending too much time playing it.
I also had a look at the newspapers and decided that not buying them was still the best course of action. I only saw one article on the latest lot of apparitions in Knock and I am still wondering why this is news. Or, more to the point, the wrong questions are being asked. Why is it, that apparently, Mary wants us to say the rosary more? Oh wait. Possibly I’m not supposed to question. However, about 10,000 people turned up there yesterday which is, admittedly, fewer than went to see Def Leppard in the O2 last June.
What did catch my interest was this piece on Guardianonline about the Spanish Civil War. The comments are interesting to some extent. The impression I get from the piece is that the country needs closure; from the comments are voices who seem to equate closure with, I don’t know, revenge and vanquishment. I don’t think it’s that simple, if only because it never is anyway.