Things didn't start at all well today. Didn't go walking as I'd planned. Fired up my computer and it wouldn't let me in. Tried to send a text and it wouldn't send...six times. Tested my blood and it came up as 7.0! After what was a relatively good night last night, at that. So all in all, things were not going well.
On the other hand, it was Dad's birthday, and he was at home for it, so that was promising.
But nonetheless, today I feel like a schmuck. I feel like the guy who just wants to dance and sing cos he got laid on 9/11.
Because today, in Denver, Colorado, a guy called James Holmes walked into a movie theatre screening The Dark Knight Rises and killed at least 12 people. That's a tragedy, and at present a senseless one.
But personally, I've had a pretty kickass day. As I say, Dad's home...Not well, by any stretch of the imagination, but home at least, which is better than it would have been had his birthday been two days ago.
I also got some fantastic news today - not one but two new paying clients signed up to www.jefferson-franklin.co.uk, paid their money and will soon be able to get their work edited within an inch of its life.
Hence, all in all, the feeling of getting laid on 9/11. It feels wrong, somehow, to want to headbang with pleasure and dance around in your underwear on a day when things like the Denver shootings happen.
I guess though what we have to think is that things "like" this happen every day to someone in this world - it's a world at war with itself, a world of famine and drought and poverty. But it also has to be, at one and the same time, a world of singing and dancing and loving and laughing and having some fun.
So for me, a good day. Although conspicuously not in Disappearing terms. Did no exercise whatever, put on clothes and gasped at the bulges and splodges and general circularity of my outline again. Maybe it's just the influence of negativity, maybe it's reality, I'm not sure.
Let's put it down to paranoia and move right the hell along.
Oh - the computer? Yeah, it's kinda dead. I have to get its brain washed clean on Monday, and re-installed from a backup. Fun!
Glad that you got some business at last and your Dad had a good birthday. The Colorado business is terrible, it's left me cold. I've been in that cinema and know it quite well and have obviously been very worried about my friends out there, but thankfully everyone has checked in.
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