Tag: day off

The Nothing Special – 2nd December 2022

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Those were the days of Terry and Bruce
Ran the airwaves without ever getting loose
It’s the holidays, it’s eight o’clock
It’s time for Nothing Special to rock
A variety of nondescript acts
A poor mans reading of ridiculous facts
There’s nothing special about Christmas this year
So Nothing Special is watched without fear
The boring boredom of the everyday
Made Nothing Special special in some way
Rolling out the favourites as if to assume
This is what people wanted to consume

There was something comforting about holiday TV in the UK in the 70s and 80s. Banal family entertainment that will never live on in memory. In those days there was not much entertainment to choose from though now I feel we suffer from having too many choices. Is this simply a function of growing old?

I’d written down ‘Nothing Special’ earlier but forgotten why and ended up thinking about TV ‘specials’ of the past instead.

We make each other alive. Does it matter if it hurts?

Ingmar Bergman

Today I’m feeling:
Happy and relaxed
Today I’m grateful for:
Thailand having yet another holiday on Monday, which I only found out about today. We had already planned to be in Phuket until Tuesday anyway but this means I only have to take one day of leave.
The best thing about today was:
Nong Fah came to class and gave me a Chupa Chup for no particular reason at all. I was pleasantly surprised and appreciative. All my students were in a reasonable mood today which made the day go well for all of us.
What was out of your control today and how did you handle it?
I realised when I went to pay for coffee this morning that an automatic payment had come out of my bank rather than Paypal and I only had 32 baht left. When Amy asked me to pick up some food I had to ask her to transfer me money and I’d also ordered some books from Bangkok that I had to apologise that I couldn’t pay for yet and hoped they hold for me. The day we get paid seems to vary from month to month. Sometimes on the first or fourth or within two or three days on either side. It’s a little annoying I don’t have money as we leave for Phuket tomorrow. I’ll be living out of Amy’s wallet for a few days.
Who do you envy?
I don’t think I envy a whole person particularly, perhaps not even envy at all. If there are specific traits that I might envy in people I’ve learned to accept my lack of ability and realise that everything is in accordance as it should be. As I envy so might others envy me.

I took this picture a long time ago. It was actually a video and I just found it again today and took a screen capture as this lightning bug’s tummy flashed on.

Make It – 17th May 2022

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Yeah, we’re gonna make it
But only by the skin of our teeth
Possibly we’ll break it
But somewhere we have to find belief
Maybe we’ll mistake it
For an eternity all too brief
Probably we’ll fake it
Wallowing in an illusion of relief

The more you have to lose, the more fragile you are.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful for an extra day off school. I could get a lot of writing, reading and guitaring done. Bonus.

The Week That Was – 15th July 1979
The Week That Was – 22nd July 1979

Old Punks – 16th February 2022

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Rolling around the floor
In a holy communion
Brothers in legs and arms are we
Ecstatic violence
In joint participation
All for one and all shall be free
United we stood
Until we made our divisions
And our power would no longer be
Nostalgia now remains
A past to reminisce
Something that belonged to you and me

21st Jun 2024 – Submmited to Word of the Day Challenge

Don’t ask me what’s next, tell me what’s next!

The alternative is to draw the map instead of reading it.

Seth Godin

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful for a surprise holiday today. And the last two days of the week are sports days, so no teaching!

Fatman report

Carrying The Pain Of The World – 20th December 2021

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The more you learn about life
And the wiser that you get
There’s more responsibility
In carrying the pain that is met

This is love, the sacrifice
The willingness to forgive and forget
If this lesson is never learned
A life is lived full of regret

Inspired and quoted by interviews with Christmas tree sellers in New York at the Cafe Anne newsletter

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful for this sneaky day off work and being able to read a stack of comics in my free time. My mind is taken to so many different places when I read.

The Chiang Rai Alternative Hour #68 – Teeth Razor Sharp – 10th December 2020

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The demons are attacking our integrity, the bogeyman is coming, teeth razor sharp.

This week there’s music from The Fall, Viletones, The Butthole Surfers, Frank Zappa, Psyche, Super Adventure Club, My Dad Is Dead, Dwarves, Toots and The Maytals, Moff Skellington, Red Forty, Descendents, Sun City Girls and Lucid Rivers.

Incidentals taken from the Church of the Sub Genius Hour of Slack.
Listen right here or Podbean, Stitcher, Apple, Amazon…..all those cool places I guess.

https://www.facebook.com/The-Chiang-Rai-Alternative-Hour-107307097314670

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to have another two days off school and be able to spend time at home and with Amy.

Ripper, mate! – 23rd November 2004

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after some morning rain things brightened up while visiting the koala park, where the guys got to see many strange australian animals.

spent the rest of the day mad dashing around the city for quick visits to various eateries and photo ops at the opera house.

finally, we kicked back with some fine thai food and much joking about koji’s potential sexual performance with gaijin girls!

koji – ” i was very moved by the beauty of the opera house. thai food was ‘fucking ripper, mate’ and koala is cute”

jj – “the thai food was excellent – in japan people go to thai restaurants to drink and i don’t drink much so i don’t have much chance to try thai food”

yukari – “when we first arrived we were so busy but today we got to see many things – opera house, clothes shops, supermarket (to buy tim tams and lamingtons) – and i can feel ‘this is australia'”

“Sorry about bad English” – 22nd November 2004

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2ser interview – sightseeing – 2rrr interview

had to get up early today and make a mad dash down to the 2ser studios to record an interview for wednesday overdrive – everything went really well thanks to ben, host of the show – looking forward to hearing it sometime in the future (we won’t be here on wednesday to hear it go to air).

while in the studio the weather turned cool and windy so limited express (has gone?) did some souvenir shopping before we headed off to bondi to contemplate the possibility of swimming. unfortunately, it was way too cold to tempt them into some pretty good surfing conditions even though it was t-shirt weather for me.

toured around to south head and watson’s bay where i think we finally started to wind down after the weekend’s shows.

we dropped into newtown to oporto for these junk food freaks and met up with pure evil again in paint it black much to yukari’s delight!

soon after we were in the 2rrr studio with the wonderful micko to talk and play cool japanese and tenzenmen music for an hour – koji was particularly interested to talk more this time.

finally home to rest and pizza and beer.

yukari – “many things….but #1 is micko’s interview because koji talked much and i could play a lot of japanese music and introduce it to australia”

koji – “the highlight was going to bondi beach – i enjoyed the sightseeing and i talked on the radio in english, i had lots of fun but sorry about bad english”

jj – “today’s highlight is now – relaxing”