Amusing Reading

I read this passage in a book I'm currently reading, and found it really amusing.

"He got me some.  He was a good barman, I decided.  The place was free of corporate androids, and the only other guests were a very old foursome in the corner.  They'd looked up at me grimly when I came in.  I didn't blame them.  When I get to their age, I'll resent young people, too.  I resent them already, in fact, the slim little fresh-faced assholes.  I don't find it surprising that super-old people are so odd and grumpy.  Half their friends are dead, they feel like shit most of the time, and the next major event in their lives is going to be their last.  They don't even have the salve of believing that going to the gym is going to make things better, that they'll meet someone cute in the small hours of a Friday night or that their career is going to suddenly steer into an upturn and they'll wind up married to a movie star.  They're out the other side of all that, onto a flat, grey plain of aches and bad eyesight, of feeling the cold in their bones and having little to do except watch their children and grandchildren go right ahead and mak all the mistakes they warned them about.  I don't blame them being a little out of sorts.  I'm just surprised more oldsters don't take to the streets in packs, swearing and raising hell and getting drunk.  With demographics going the way they are, maybe that's going to be the next big thing.  Gangs of octogenarians, taking drugs and running amok.   Though walking amok is more likely, I guess - with maybe an hour of dozing amok in the afternoon."


From The Straw Men, by Michael Marshall

Christmas 2012 Jewellery

Here are two sets I made for Christmas, one for Sue, and one for Vanya.  I liked Sue's one so much I almost kept it for myself :P

Sue's bangle

The necklace and bangle set

Earrings for Vanya

Vanya's necklace

The whole set

Sylvester - The Beginning

Here's a blast from the past - this video makes me smile every single time I see it.  I checked with Vanya if it was okay to give Jay a kitten for his birthday, and she was quite excited about it.  Squirrel and I went to a pet shot, and looked at all these gorgeous kittens in their cages, but I kept being pulled back to the one black-and-white kitten that was bigger than all the others there.  Apparently his entire family had been adopted already, but he remained behind.  He was a couple of weeks older than all the others, and the pet shop employees had dubbed him Sylvester (he looks exactly like the comic cat).  After a while, I gave up - it was Sylvester or bust.  I just KNEW he was the kitten for Jay.

We took him home, and being the amazingly good cat he is, he fell asleep just before Jay and Vanya arrived.  I carefully picked him up and put him inside the box, which I then gave to Jay.

Enjoy - smile like I do :-)