A Bug's Life

I did longer hours than usual getting the quarterly data out and up, and had a day off yesterday. I did waste some idling at the laptop but also:

Took two full bags to the charity shop, and came back with only two DVDs
Dismantled three large cardboard boxes to the point where they fit in the recycling bin. Broke the polystyrene inserts similarly to fit in the bin, which made very loud noises and perturbed the cat.
Went through the stuff under the kitchen table with the cleaner, who claims be be very good at just throwing things out, but in most cases she agreed that someone must want it if I could find the right home and it would be a shame to throw it out. She went away with a few train set pieces from Dad's aging set to show to her Friend Who Knows About That Sort Of Thing.
Read the gas/electric meters and submitted the readings
Turned the heating off because it's bloody April, damnit!
Couple of social planning emails
Walked 10.8 miles
- along Milton Road, where the cherry trees are just blooming and saying a shy "Hello!" to Spring, and the birches have their hands dug firmly in their overcoat pockets and their shoulders hunched against the cold and say "Not convinced iz Spring come back later"
- visited sphyg and E who slept a lot
- did light shopping of a tedious special diet/specialist shop/boring food nature (which also sells Booja Booja chocolates)
- and bought coffee from chap in market. My special tedious cereal now smells of coffee :-)
Did a load of laundry and hung it to dry
Went to cinema with S: The Place Beyond The Pines
Came back to dry laundry and brought it upstairs

With all that walking I still didn't manage to spot car numberplate 745. I hope one still exists, somewhere.

I think Saturday will have fewer, bigger things (possibly including Do All The Ironing then complain that wrists hurt), and prepare for Monday, as on Sunday I'm off out to London for Light Show and Austentatious and hopefully avoiding the crowds of the marathon. "And feed ozymandias_cat," says ozymandias_cat. Okay, I will put that on my list. "Also hamsters!" say the live_gerbils. Doctor Who goes on the list too (as it is important to include these things) though I see it is at 6:45 today because it leaps around the tv schedules in time (if not in space).

Saw this yesterday - the trailers make it look like cute Ryan Gosling doing exciting things on a motorcycle like stunt riding and pulling bank robberies, the reviews said good things about it being a powerful tale of family, fatherhood and fate, and the way a life can turn on a tiny decision and have repercussions down the generations.

Anyone else seen it? I was intrigued by the way some of the action scenes were shot, very jerky, like a series of stills more than the 24 frames per second we're used to. I was trying to work out what effect this had - almost like a comic book? A sort of distancing and switch of genre from the moody closeups of Handsome Ryan being eaten up by emotion and trying not to show it.

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