Having crept over to get the pro camera yesterday afternoon, I was fully prepared for this morning's lesson. I gave them a tour of this big old Sony UVW video camcorder, explaining the focus, aperture, zoom, and how to handle it balanced on your shoulder. I also told them a little bit about the student video project next term.

This afternoon I had too many jobs and not enough time to do them. Then I had loads of time and nothing to do. I have a pick Mikko up at 9pm tonight at Bristol Airport, so I'm kinda kicking my heels till then. I might grab my colleage Nigel and head out for one of Clifton's nicer pubs for a couple of hours.

Spent a good deal of time on the phone with my bank trying to arrange to add a bit on my loan to tide us over till the house gets sold. I'm going to be glad when all this is sorted out. Selling the house is going to solve a lot of long standing money problems. Plus I'd really like Mia and I to move to a place which is our own rather than my old family home. Too much of the past in that place, too many happy memories, and unhappy memories which make the happy ones seem sad and self deluding by comparison. I want some new memories, ones which belong to me and over which I have some control. The past sure is tense, as Don van Vliet once said.

Feeling a bit under the weather today, slightly dizzy and congested, like I'm coming down with a headcold. Well, after the lucky and happy days I've had recently, I was due a downer. Maybe this cold is natures way of making me hunker down and weather the coming weeks. I've got to get my proposal for my book in by the end of the week. It's got to be good because I want to do the book, not only for the money but also for the kudos. Plus as previously stated it's payback for the book that got away. Having touble making my proposal sound sincere and not a little desperate. Plus this headcold coming on is making it a bit hard to concentrate. It never rains.

Okay, feeling a bit down, time for pepping up. What do I really like about my life right now? Well Mia and I are getting on great right now. I fell in love with her eyes, and they still have power to move me. I love having my kids around all the time. Okay so M and I don't have as much time together as we used to, but I really missed them when they lived with their mum. I was with them all their life, working at home as I did, and got used to being able to see them whenever I liked. So I'm in love with my children again, which is great. Even though they sometimes get on my tits. What else? I'm loving my new Gerber Suspension multitool which I use at work. It's a toolkit in a pouch. I like my new phone, Samsung E350, which I got as a free upgrade. I like the new show "My Name Is Earl" which we watched the pilot for last night, and loved a lot. Jason Lee is so cool. Oh and "Lost" which is still mysterious and powerful even a ways into season 2. Oh, not to forget "Medium" which is like warm televisual cocoa with serial killers sprinkled on top like marshmallows. I love my life. I have been known to say I hate my life, especially recently with all the money troubles. But basically my life is great. If I were rich I'd be the happiest guy on Earth.

But pointless wishing for riches. You got to be happy anyway to be happy with money cos it certainly doesn't make you happy for very long. In that way it's like drugs, the law of diminishing returns. You get a high, but then you need more money/drugs, and so the cycle repeats. Yeah, so if you're listening, gods and good luck spirits, just £100,000 instead of £1,000,000...

Oh and found a really cool picture on the Internet. Elvira, mistress of dark, a recent picture in her civilian clothes.



She looks so cute and mumsy I want to hug her. Very far from the spider loving, vampire princess of yore. I adore gothic looking women, more so than normal looking women mostly, but I actually prefer her like this. I wonder how old she is now... I'd say looking closely at the picture mid to late forties? Hmm. What say you, IMDB?

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005308/bio

1949???? Mother of monkey! Either that's an old photo or the dates are wrong. She can't be 56! Can she? Wow.