A Bug's Life

I might go back to wearing a watch. The clamshell dumbphone would sit happily in any pocket, or inconspicuously on a desk, the time display was always on so it only needed a quick glance or at most the same effort as hitching a sleeve up. The smartphone doesn't fit comfortably in my trouser pockets, and the screen is generally off unless you press a tiny fiddly button (yes I could make it be always on but it would eat batteries) to show the time.

Books read (10-20)
Sir Howard Vincent's Police Code, 15th Ed. (1912)
The Weight of Numbers, Simon Ings (2006)
Rainbows End, Vernor Vinge (2006)
Kuldesak, Richard Cowper (1972)
Conditionally Human, Walter M. Miller Jr (1951-54, 1962)
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (2004) (reread for Book Club)
Sandman #1-28, Neil Gaiman plus others (1989-91) (comics) (reread)
The City & The City, China Miéville (2009)
Sandman #29-50, Neil Gaiman plus others (1991-93) (comics) (reread)
Sandman #51-75, Neil Gaiman plus others (1993-96) (comics) (reread)
Stress-related Illness, Dr Tim Cantopher (2007)

Films watched (8-31) 2 at the cinema, 17 DVDs, 5 tv (Off sick for a while)
St Trinian's (2007)
Caligula
Stuart: A Life Backwards
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Jerry Springer The Opera
The Dark Knight Returns (rewatch)
Fata Morgana
Unknown
Heart of Glass
Howl
Stroszek
This Means War
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
Thirst
Submarine
Indiscreet
Charade
Iron Man (rewatch)
Near Dark
Seven Samurai
Fosse
The Muppets
and somewhere in there should be Let The Right One In but I didn't record it in my list at the time. Time off sick, LoveFilm, tv Vampire season, and a box set of odd Werner Herzog films which were not terribly accessible. And that completes 101 Things # whichever it was, to watch all of my unwatched DVDs (as at November when I made the list).

Books incoming 2 (1 purchase, 1 to proofread)

The Weight of Numbers and Conditionally Human (first story) were probably the most powerful books I read.