Continental Drift

My monitor at home seems to have died this morning, so I will be around even less.

Still have the laptop, but I might just be taking more breaks from the computer at home anyway, until I can go and get a decent new monitor. Which will probably be a problem, since it looks like there aren't any decent 19'' 4:3 ratio monitors available any more.

I've got old.

Went to see Foreigner / Alice Cooper today (no, I have no idea why a double bill of those two!) .. I didn't really know much about Foreigner, apart from Cold as Ice and I Want to Know What Love Is, so I wasn't expecting much, but I actually enjoyed them. (And they even played those two, so I could even go "yay, I know this song!".)

Alice... hmm. The band was good. Very young and energetic. Which was really the problem, I think, as (a) Alice was not so young and energetic, (b) the band was LOUD and Alice was not, and (c) pretty much every song had either got a new and, well, energetic arrangement or had been sped up about five times compared to the studio versions, so... well, it's not necessarily a good thing when you go to see someone whose fan you've been for a good 20 years and can recognise about five songs after they've been played for a while and have a vague feeling about the rest that you should know them too, but when you can't make head or tails out of the lyrics and the music sounds different too... *sighs*

So we left before it was over. It sounded better outside the hall, to be honest, but it was a bit too cold to stand outside and listen. I think I'll do my future Alice listening from the CDs, preferably at very low volume.

So yes, I feel old. And quite deaf too, now. And a little disappointed, but I did get an enjoyable 1.5 hour show first, and there were bits of Alice I enjoyed... like him stabbing someone in the beginning and hitting band members with a crutch at some point.

Gah. Tired, and the week hasn't even started properly yet.

Doesn't help that I woke up due to an especially bad coughing fit just after 4, and didn't really manage to fall asleep again afterwards, as every time I tried, I got another coughing fit. I suppose being good yesterday and finally getting to clean/sort out the clothes closet and the wardrobe caused too much dust to fly around. I do hate having apparently developed a dust allergy in the last few years... summers are OK (possibly because of being able to keep the window open all the time?), but the rest of the year, getting close to loose dust is... not good.

So I've had about three hours of sleep and half a night of dry hacking cough, and now I have to go to work, which promises to be especially unpleasant this week. *sighs*

It's so good to be home after a long day. Got a bag of cat litter on my way home from town, as none of the stores close to home seemed to have the kind we prefer, and I have to admit that even for me, there occasionally are times when I semi-wish that I (a) had access to a car, (b) lived in a house with a lift. Even though the bus stop is very close, carrying the cat litter + other shopping for that distance and then up the stairs to the fourth floor is not my favourite way of spending my evenings.

On the more positive note, there were post office notices in the mailbox when I got home, so I dragged myself out again to go to the post office. Yay for Babylon 5: The Lost Tales and Doctor Who: The Time Warrior DVDs! I'm really rather happy - firstly, brand new B5 (I resisted the temptation to seek it out on the net), and secondly, The Time Warrior! Finally some Third Doctor on DVD - it's been a while since July last year. And I did love Sarah Jane's introduction.

On the more negative note, Sendit posted the DVDs last Thursday, so it took them a week to get here, which is very good... but on the other hand, it indicates that mail is actually moving between the UK and Estonia. And I still haven't got the two books I bought on eBay, which were posted to me three weeks ago. I do actually trust that the guy posted them when he said he did, as I've bought a number of books from him over a couple of years and he's always been prompt and fair (and with excellent feedback from 1000+ people), so I'm starting to have a rather unpleasant feeling about the package having disappeared in the mail. At least it was only under £10, so not a huge loss if they don't turn up, but I'd rather like to have the books... grrr.

I'm really quite knackered now though after the walk to the post office (and to the supermarket from there, and then back home again). And there's something wrong with the floor lamp... something loose inside, I think, as it refused to be turned on (and the bulb's okay). And I detected a hole in my shoe, which means I'll need to go hunting for new trainers soon.

I don't generally care about local politics enough to bother about commenting on it, but today seems to be an especially busy news day.

( Lots of lovely news regarding Keskerakond. )

In other news, just one more day until holidays, yay! Although I did say at work today that if they really have problems, they can occasionally ask me if I could take a few things... I mean, it's four weeks and just maybe I'll be bored enough on a few days. And I don't have to say yes. And I'd get to choose what to do, if I do choose to do something.