It’s Late Thread [ 17 August 24 ]

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1. Blood moon tonight. Its neat

2. Life didn’t turn out how I expected it to. What did I expect? To be a rich and famous musician? To have found love by now? To have a job I love? To feel like I fit in wherever I go? To have loads of friends?

   Alas none of the above have materialised. I’m pretty naturally an unambitious person. I guess this is what happens when you are how I am. Just floating through life with no clear goal or ambition.

   But I have been sober 5 years, I quit smoking by myself cold turkey April this year so I’ve got strength inside me. But still, life hasn’t turned out the way I expected it to.

   I still don’t know what I expected.

3. I’ve been a bit up and down today. Nice relaxing day makes me happy, but my brain hates me…. But we had lovely fajitas!

   Speaking of fajitas, they are delicious, but a pain in the neck to eat 😆

4. I went to an author talk/book signing this evening, my first time doing something really since surgery 3 weeks ago. Enjoyed it, was out for about two hours, now in lots of pain, not really sure why as I was sat most of the time. My fit note runs out end of next week and I’m thinking I need to get back in touch with my doctor, if I can barely manage a 2 hour nice event without needing my morphine how am I going to manage an 8 hour work day?

5. Had a so-so day but got a few little bits done before I crashed (including giving the dog a bath, which he wasn’t exactly thrilled with).  Now watching the Football League Show. My team won so I want to see the highlights.  

   Soup is a pain to eat because I can’t seem to eat a whole bowl without dripping it down myself.

6. A bit of a slow day. I’ve had my stock cooking on the hob for 12 hours (after having 4-5 hours yesterday) and it still hasn’t really reduced properly, so I’m gonna have to give it another go tomorrow, which means I’ll be finishing it on Monday inbetween working. Meh.

   Tonight I watched [A Ghost Waits](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6048638/) which didn’t look like my cup of tea, but was surprisingly good, and now I’m re-watching [The Borderlands / Final Prayer](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2781832/) which is cracking.

   >What food is delicious but a pain to eat?

   [Proper thai tom yum soup](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WaV2x8GXj0)

7. Chilling with a beer watching bbq showdown, really not enjoying this season all the contestants are a bit … shit. Last season some absolute lads were in the final and I just kind of want to watch them cook again instead of these muppets.

8. Finally said screw it and cut all my hair off again. Curly hair might look great but man is it a nightmare to maintain, and honestly it made me look more feminine than I like.

   >What food is delicious but a pain to eat?

   Spaghetti Bolognese. Every time without fail I’ll end up getting some on me, I have the coordination and eating ability of a toddler. Someone hand me a bib.

9. I’m dogsitting while my landlord is away

   Dog randomly freaks out, barking at nothing and is really insistent at the door, go and look and there’s nothing there but she’s clearly really afraid.

   I bring the dog down to investigate to hopefully put her mind at ease/check for murderers. Take her out the front entrance of the flat and plan to walk the perimeter and take her back in through the back entrance

   She will not cross the carpark to get to the back door. At all.

   Take her around the front and she’s desperate to get to the back door from inside

   Take her out back and she is really spooked, and staring into a hedge.

   Take her back in and she won’t come up the stairs.

   I’m going to bed now and I’ve locked everything, put the chain on etc to be safe and gave the dog some treats and cuddles but it’s got me spooked!

10. Terrible news, late threaders. It transpires that evenings of cocoa and YouTube are not the foundation for love eternal. Our recurring poster/bot(?), despite no longer gracing these threads, has announced they are no longer in love. I’m not sure which would be more interesting, if the bot is now faking a break-up, or if it was a real person with bizarre posting habits.

11. With the missus away for a few days, I was hoping to catch up on some horror films, but fatigue has bindsided me until tonight, where I watched *The Black Phone.* Not especially scary, but definitely a few tense moments in there – I enjoyed it quite a bit.

    Pomegranites.

12. I’ve just got home after watching Alien Romulus. I really liked the new android character, and all the classic alien stuff was really well done. I do wish the guy sitting next to me had burped less. Somebody should record his burps and make them creature noises in a new horror movie.