That’d be a good name for a speed metal band…. Severe Retinal Damage, supporting the main act, Massive Facial Haemorrhaging. Anyway, the title is pretty much irrelevant to the post, at least I think so, I’ll just have to see what I end up writing.
Jeff just posted a news item about what we’ve been up to and explaining our web absence, which prompted me to follow it up with a fullblown post.
So yes, the bathroom light. It’s interesting how many details of the world around us we couldn’t give a shit about until they suddenly stop working. Just like the central heating system, which we very much took for granted until it started leaking down through the kitchen ceiling. Now we pray to the plumbing gods each night in the hope that this freak event won’t happen again. Looks like we should have been praying to the gods who are in charge of the small mechanism inside pull-string light switches. This, at least, is Jeff’s diagnosis. I’m sure as hell not going to take it apart to find out. For risk of electric shock and, should the current pass through my eyes, severe retinal damage. (See?)
Being the slow one of the group, I am only just starting my career of graduate employment next week. Up until now I have been slaving away in a self-employed fashion, making some sort of website for money. And it won’t go away, despite repeated poking with sticks. It’s turned into a bit of a hobby, that is if you consider hobbies to be things that you do all the time even though they are now very annoying.
The other day I watched the new Wallace & Gromit film, Curse of the Wererabbit. It’s very funny, especially the little bunnies that wave. Bless them. It takes me back to my school days when I would attempt to make animations with my partner in crime, using plasticine and a camera. We made some pretty ace videos, all of which unfortunately got lost in time. This was in the days before CD-Rs so backups were the realm of the very rich who could afford those fancy tape drives. Or did we have a Zip Drive then? Hmm that’s a thought (not to mention, a thought that I could have kept in my head). Watch this space.
Tying in nicely with the animation theme, though slightly less subtley now that I’ve pointed it out as if you wouldn’t have noticed, is the animation that Moses and I are trying to make. It’s at the scribbles on paper stage at the moment, but it’s got a script and everything. A feast for the senses.
I am very well thank you, and I hope you are well too and that also your family is well.
Yours Sincerely,
Ron xx
