Mat Bowles

Coffee and Orange Juice

Well, another wasted weekend, unless you count serious relaxing and getting head back together as time well spent. It’s mid June, so I’ve had one month of hell at work with another two to go. It’s actually going OK, the bosses are listening to me (quote from MD; “what we’ve found from this meeting is that, essentially, the only numbers we can rely on are Mat’s”) and the staff are doing great.

Minor cogs; no matter how far ahead we are from previous years, no one believes me except my sister, whose specific job requires her to pressure me to work harder anyway. Ah well.

Went to see Sin City with colleagues Wednesday; I thought it was cool, but I’m in the minority, most weren’t the type to even look at comics so the style was lost on them, and many had never seen Pulp Fiction, one was unable to sit through Reservoir Dogs (why she went to see Sin City if she couldn’t watch Dogs is beyond me, but, well, People). If you like Tarantino-like stylised violence, comic book humour and messed up morality, go watch it. If the idea of watching people hit people disturbs you, then, well, don’t. Really.

Oh, and yes, Jessica Alba was incredibly sexy throughout.

So, to subject. I cooked breakfast, and came online to eat; the idea was to drive to Exeter afterwards. Well, 4 hours later, I’m still sat at my desk trawling through webcomics (http://www.vgcats.com/archive/ and http://gucomics.com/ ) that I hadn’t seen before. Not 100% compos mentis though; I just picked up my coffee mug, which was next to the glass of orange juice I’ve been refilling. The coffee looks a little funny as I go to drink it.

It’s half coffee and half orange juice; I must’ve poured some into the wrong receptacle while looking at the screen. Y’know what?

It tastes damn nice. I’ve always liked Muddy Puddles when I’m driving in pubs (pint, 50/50 orange juice and coke), so perhaps it shouldn’t surprise me too much. Then again, my lack of sense of smell means my taste buds do strange things at time.

Meh; I need to get to Exeter this week sometime, and hopefully I can confirm to that I can drive the minibu for her, but that means taking Friday afternoon off work, which will be hard to justify, so I may need to put a lot of hours in the rest of the week. Not a good time of year to need me to do stuff.

June 12th, 2005 Posted by MatGB | Uncategorized | 2 comments