Area 136

I am off to watch Heroes from earlier tonight then bed.

In other news, the six foot plus artificial tree is down from the loft, rather the huge box it is in came down from the loft, and is decked with lights.

Tomorrow Sarah and I will do the other stuff. It reached her bedtime before we could finish.

Not sure how I feel about putting decorations up........Christmas is a bit meh for me in some ways. Too many spent feeling alone in a group of people maybe.

Too many regrets and missed opportunities.

Too many people not here anymore.

Whatevva!

Time for heroes.

Putting the itunes stuff on a external disk drive was such a good idea.

NOT!

Linking the drive to the lappy at home all I get when I try to get itunes to work is "I tunes has encountered a problem and has to close now"

FUCK IT!

Even plugging the Ipod in does not help.

So I will have to take CD's backwards and forwards to Rancho collapso as this bastard thing is obviously only going to condescend to work when attached to my lap top there.

Cunt.

AND I now firmly believe that itunes will be fucked up now on the drive.

so that will fuck up everything.

Mr optimistic rides again.

As they say on Top Gear - "Ambitious but rubbish"

thats me all over.

And Sarah wants to put the decorations up tonight at the house when she come back from the school disco.

I find the prospect of putting up the tree here very very depressing for some reason.

Meh. with fucking tinsel on.

Maybe it is the fact that I was up till gone one last night, but the walk back to the office from Carnaby Street has almost killed me.

Why was I down there?

I was taking photos of their rather good xmas decorations - Large inflated white snowmen hung above the street.

As I don't have a camera lead with me they will have to wait until Friday for blogification. So there.

As for the rest of the lights up in the streets (Oxford and Regents) Meh. Not that impressive but it is not dark yet.

Some of the best displays were in pub and office windows.

Still it is better than a few years ago when the lights in Oxford street were sponsored by whatever film company had Ice Age 2 out that year. Lots of annoying cute cartoon characters from the film. Bleurgh!

Any xmas decoration horror stories from your town?

Has good taste diserted your borough for the season (as normal?) or is it a wonderland of colourful twinkly stuff?

Just popped out of the office to go in search of a Sammich. I has a hungry the size of Nebraska.

Just as I get to the doors of Prets, fire alarms start going off and they hustle all the customers out onto the street.

Hmmmph!

So I go around the corner to discover that it is not just Prets but every shop in that block that has to evacuate. Which basically means all the convenient Sammich shops and the Sushi place are kicking their customers out!

Bugger!

The only alternatives in sight were The Cornish Bakehouse (luv pasties but not in the mood for one) McDees (fuck right off!) and a Subway (again, luv their work but not right now) non of which I fancied.

I may be hungry but I am picky.

So now I am sat here STARVING and waiting for a bit till the alarms are reset and food sellage starts up again.

And yes I did go upstairs and look at what was available in our "staff restaurant"

Shudder..........