The Official Nonsense Thread

[Caspin]

I am sorry for not being around as much as usual since New Year. I hope everyone has had a good start to the year and Minty is feeling much better. Somehow work has been very stressful for the last few weeks and yesterday I even started glancing through a jobs website for the first time in about twelve years. There was nothing useful there, but I figured I may as well look occasionally seeing as my current place is driving me crazy. So I have been a little preoccupied.

Definitely give us some cracker jokes if you have any good ones, simspeaker. Maybe next year I'll make the crackers myself and then I could include jokes!

In other news I have started watching "House Of Cards" (the USA variant) and have been enjoying it a lot. The best US telly, I find, happens when they show you the story without repetition or explanation. And without telling you how you should feel about it. Like in The Wire. Contrast that with something like CSI, which I used to like watching because of my wild love of all crime drama but drive me mad because an hour episode could have been done in 15 minutes if you removed the adverts, the unnecessary explanations, the recaps and the emoting. Also they could not depict laboratory science to save their lives - all those aspirated pipettes! But anyway, House Of Cards yay!

I've still been doing my theatre trips as well. Saw "Les Liaisons Dangereuses", which was very good apart from Dominic West fluffing his lines a few times. Sometimes it's interesting when that happens so you can see how it is handled. In this case his mightily on-the-ball co-star prompting him discretely. Lucky for him that she knew his part as well as her own!

I started a new Sims game yesterday as there's still nothing quite like it was distracting me from real life. I've got a farmer called McDonald (why not?!) who can only make a living from what he can grow or collect. Quite tricky in the winter when all his crops are dormant. I thought it would be a good chance to try the chicken coop, which I haven't really looked at yet, but he can't afford it!

And finally we have a little bit of snow here! It was forecast to arrive overnight so you can imagine how grateful I was to my obnoxiously loud neighbours for waking me up every few hours so I could peep out of the window to see if it had begun. I'd be tempted to go chuck a snowball through her window to give her an early alarm call, but she's safe on the third floor. With my aim I'd be lucky to hit a static target the size of a bus at ten paces! The snow looks really beautiful but is melting already. I like to see it early, before people start walking on it, to try to guess which animals made tracks in the snow. Although I think it's 100% fox prints today.