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I had to get the car serviced and MOTed today which meant an annoying trip to Letchworth Garden City which is far enough away that it's not really worth coming home and also (at least the bit I have to go to) not what you'd imagine a Garden City looked like, unless your garden is made of concrete and has no plants in it. I thought I'd sit in a cafe for a couple of hours and write but was then told the car might not be ready until 6pm (I had arrived at 9.30am). Why give people times to come in if you're then just going to look at their vehicles when you fancy?
I considered getting an uber home, but there were no ubers to be had. Because Letchworth is a weird purgatorial town where there is nothing that you would expect from the modern world. Or at least the bit where the garage is.
I hunkered down in a nearby drive-through Costa (it wasn't just drive through, but was far enough from most things to mean that not many people sat in) and did some admin and wrote my blog. I had an early lunch and was just about to start working on the sitcom when I got a call saying the car was ready. It wasn't even 1pm yet. I would have been pretty annoyed if I'd managed to get that uber home as I'd have had to more or less come straight back.
So I was annoyed that they were going to take ages and then annoyed that they didn't. Because that's who I am.
Ironically I felt ready to do some work so if they had taken til 6pm I might have got some writing done.
As it was by the time I'd come home and walked the dog post-podcast tiredness had set in and I made the sensible decision to abandon plans for work and ended up watching a Tenable that I had seen before, with possibly the worst performance by a team I've ever seen on the show. Is it a waste of my life to watch a disappointing quiz for the second time in a year? I thought I was going to grasp life by the ball and make the most of whatever time remained, but here am I watching a childrens' entertainer called Pooee (who thinks it's a grown up job to make up stupid voices for puppets) faile to name five Blue Peter pets.
It wasn't even a Warwick Davis episode.
But why are ITV repeating them so quickly? I only started watching this show after my operation.
Another day passed by without any real progress on scripts and I have to do one every two weeks (or a bit quicker) so that's a bit scary. But I have every confidence that I will manage to get it all done in the last five hours available.
A very exciting ESLOSPS tonight with two frames that could totally change the shape of the league. Remarkably Me11 who has had an unlucky season had the chance to catapult herself into second place and challenge for the title in her final match, but Me2 could more or less wrap up the title with a win. It will be out on youtube and as a podcast on Wednesday. After months of improing slogans for our sponsors Durex (where's the money, you johnny johnnies?) I have come up with a bona (boner) fide genius one,
"Durex- the rubber that erases your mistakes before you make them."
You can have that for free Ian Durex, just as soon as you cough up the £2 million sponsorship money. If not I will be selling it to the highest bidder.
