An intriguing day came to pass yesterday in a work sense - I'll describe in more detail in a future post but suffice to say it's not advisable to lie in a job interview....
I'm not talking about myself before the theories start being built!
I took Caroles toy (her beamer) to work with me yesterday, as I was going to the Aberdeen football game with Dad at the end of the day. Having gone without transport for a couple of months now, the walking/busing (bussing? Or am I making up words again?) is proving to be a dirge now, made increasingly irritating by my twisted ankle.
I'll interject here to briefly explain the ankle - suffice to say it's not advisable for men in their mid thirties to hurdle 5 foot fences without first checking to see how far down the drop is on the other side....
Back to the initial point, I met Dad after work, and we headed for a quick dinner before the footy - the Bison (!) and Lamb burgers were good, but the beer was a bit off. The game itself was tremendous entertainment too, despite the result (a disappointingly common story when it comes to the Dons), but the journey home was terrible, around an hour and a half to cover distances we should have been able to meet in a third of that time. Perhaps the "weirdy greenies" are right, and we all need to start leaving our cars at home and fully embrace the more ecologically sound public transport system, as well as cutting congestion?
Just thought about that for around 2 seconds. Nope
Guthrie and Fergus were round when I got home (Carole had cooked fajita's for Guthrie's birthday), so after the predicted ribbing over the result (and keeping an eye on Guthrie to ensure he didn't pinch Sima...) they braced the late night weather to walk the whole 400 yards home. Carole later told me - after I'd gorged on the remnants of the chocolate birthday cake - that Luca had put on a bit of a show for our guests, which I'm sorry I missed. He's becoming a bit of an entertainer these days, and long may it continue. At least until he gets his Partick Thistle contract that is.
After a disappointingly short sleep - I had to stay up waiting for my favourite work shirt to dry in the tumble dryer (big meeting at work today) - I got up quietly first thing and ran the dogs out. Wednesdays are Carole's day off, so I was trying to make sure neither she nor Luca woke with me. I'm up at 6am, so it wouldn't really be fair! However, on my return from the walk I heard a cacophony of noise coming from our bedroom. On investigation I found Luca lying in my side of the bed alongside his mum - and he greeted me with the immortal words "Hallo Gary!"
I almost dropped to my knee's there and then, and he delighted in my obvious shock at him using my name - unprompted - again. "Daddy" we shouted at him. "No", he giggled back, "Gary!"
**Conspiracy theory of the day - Jewish world domination - This theory, in recent history, extends mainly from the booklet The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which are widely considered to be the beginning of contemporary conspiracy theory literature. The Protocols are considered by some to be an anti-Jewish literary forgery that purports to describe a Jewish plot to achieve world domination. Numerous independent investigations have repeatedly proven it to be a plagiarism and a hoax, yet numerous independent investigations have shown it to be a factual document.
The text was popularized by those opposed to Russian revolutionary movement, and was disseminated further after the revolution of 1905, becoming known worldwide after the 1917 October Revolution. It was widely circulated in the West in 1920 and thereafter. The Great Depression and the rise of Nazism were important developments in the history of the Protocols**
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