“A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned”

I am not dead - I've had real problems with my back the last few days and my computer chair wasn't helping. However today I am chock full 'o' analgesic goodness, so it's back to the inane stuff.

Isn't it satisfying pulling up at traffic lights behind some nugget who zoomed off at the previous junction? There are certain types of people who think that the highway code just doesn't apply to them. They all seem to drive the same "types" of car (you know who you are) or a beat up egg beater, but in the back of their minds , they know they "should" be driving something flashier. So BMW, 4x4, Audi, Mercedes, Mini Cooper, any convertible (usually with playboy accesories) Subaru drivers, we salute you, may your appointment with a lampost be soon.

"Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out" - Arabian proverb

“He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light”

I'm still off today - hobbling around in my dressing gown.
I stumbled across Michael Moore's new Film "Sicko" on Google video (see link) - amazingly it is available to watch, free and in it's entirety.
Well, although I'm still in pain, and a bit debilitated, I certainly don't feel sorry for myself any more! Moore may have his critics, but this film makes me proud of being British, I never thought I'd say that.

Moore's (not quite spontaneous - aimed more at driving home the point home to Middle America I suspect) surprise at the lack of charges in the NHS, was amusing. However I wish he'd asked a few Nurses about their pay and lifestyles, I suspect the Audi driving GP, with the £500,000 Greenwich house, may not be entirely representative of NHS employees.

The finale in Cuba had me in tears - seriously!

A great film, and of course it was biased and opinionated , but I believe all his facts check out - go watch it now :

"Sicko" link (the whole movie, legal and free, honest!)

Check the facts on Michael Moore's website

Ouch! the pain!!!

“No man is a good physician who has never been sick” - Arabian proverb

"So wear your hair in bunches"

It's me Geoff! - Marty!

Pathetic ain't I?

I had to come home from work again, poorly!
Not diarrhoea this time, no that painful back/hip of mine. (dating back to an injury a long time ago - I believe I mentioned it earlier) I'm like an old man in all respects except... er none, really.

That means I've had to sit perfectly still all day just watching DVDs - hang on that's an average day, hang on, I've said that before, hang on ... ad nauseum.

It was a beautiful sunny day, but It took me an age to limp home. Worryingly there was a relatively young fella in front of me limping and with a stick, and I worried that if I passed him, limping on the right like him, he may think I was taking the mickey. Thankfully I was so slow the issue never arose!

I was listening to the new 'Manic Street Preachers' single and I really like theses lyrics, so much so that I'm making them my quote for the day ! exciting eh? you'd think I'd put the youtube clip here wouldn't you?

Now baby, what've you done to your hair?
Is it just the same time of year?
When you think that you don't really care
Oh baby, what have you done to your hair?

Wear your eyes as dark as night
Paint your face with what you like
Wear your love like it is made of hate
Born to destroy, and born to create

“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything” - Voltaire

Oh dear, I knocked over my lava lamp and it's spoiled. A quick google search shows that mathmos don't make replacement bottles for my model anymore, exciting stuff eh?

In the end I didn't buy a TV or a Computer, I just can't make decisions, can I? Well can I? can I?

“Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!” - William Butler Yeats

"Come quietly or there will be... trouble!"

Just stopping by!

Mysteriously my burglar alarm started working again a few minutes ago, 48 hours after it's malfunction, can't be long for this world then? My back (actually more hip really) continues to give me jip (is that how you spell jip?). It all goes back to a fall I had at work a long time ago, on a wet floor (no sign!). These days I would probably get a cheque for £8000 and my own TV advert, but it was about 10 years ago before these litigious times.

Dilemma - I am in desperate need of a new PC (my geriatric computer is three years old for goodness sake!). However I'd really like a new TV too. I can only afford one, and it'll be years before I can afford the other, so I'm currently humming and hawing (is that an expression?). Whatever I buy, it'll almost certainly be replaced by a better, faster, and cheaper model , within hours of my purchase.

“My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.” - Bill Bryson

“It doesn't matter what temperature the room is, it's always room temperature.”

I am in a bad, bad mood. Stand by for miserabilism.
You know I have tinnitus, and I cannot sleep without the radio. The radio suddenly stopped at 6am and it woke me up. To cut a long story short, there had been a power cut, and when the power was restored, off went my burglar alarm, for hours, until I figured out how to disconnect it! (plus my back is playing up, so I was limping to work in the rain, with an unprotected house!). Boo Hoo.

The worst was yet to come however. Simply during the handover, we had blood up the walls in one side room, and an arrest in a bay. Two cases of diarrhoea followed (that's patients not me!) plus a succession of rude and "in yer face" relatives. Listen lady, if your son has chosen to drink so much that his pancreas has turned to mush, and then he chooses to discharge himself, how exactly is that MY fault? Then admission after admission, I've dished out so much morphine today.
I could go into further details of other incidents but the need for brevity and confidentiality stops me right here.

(Ah! Christmas 1981, a wonderful time)

“I was at this restaurant. The sign said "Breakfast Anytime." So I ordered French Toast in the Renaissance.” - Steven Wright

“When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn”

Yes it's happened again! It's haircut time, and sorry to go over this once more , but "it wasn't what I asked for!".
This time I was very explicit (oooh er!) about what I wanted, rather than the vague murmurings I usually proffer. Yet revealed 15 minutes later, not the tousled stoner dude look I was going for, but a fair approximation of Professor Snape, at least in his Alan Rickman incarnation! Ho hum!

The one thing certain about the weather at the moment is nothing, er so that's potentially lots of things I suppose. Changeable isn't it? In a 3 mile car journey yesterday, I experienced "four seasons in a day" or summat, I'm not feeling very lucid tonight, and no, alcohol has not been involved, although that sounds like an excellent idea!

I watched "Willard" today, starring Crispin Glover, what a weird and wonderful guy.

“Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay.” - Crispin Glover