Well, yes. Yesterday was our office Christmas meal, at 8 p.m. Problem for Conrad: at work until 6 p.m. and on the bus as there will be drinking, so it's not possible to go home and prettify self. Thus I ducked into the Bierkeller for a 2-for-1 and decorated the bar until after 7, then tootled around the "Triangle" looking at Christmas Fair stalls.
I weakened. Bought a mulled wine that was supposedly Rum and Mint. Tasty, warming, but - no taste of rum nor mint could I discover.
With time to spare, Conrad lounged around
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| Musical icons and print media retailers - multi-talented, eh? |
Magazine Subculture
Okay, I bought "Miniature Wargaming" and "Wargames: Soldiers and Strategy", so this is essentially the kettle speaking. However - at the end of one magazine aisle there were at least a dozen different magazines about tattooing and tattoos. This is supposedly the digital age where people read everything online, and there's still a market for a dozen tat mags*? Then below the tattoo specialism were the woodcraft magazines - about twenty of those. "How to use a wood bowl router" featured on one cover. Another one boasted about "How To Carve An Oystercatcher". Really? "Woodturning". Seriously? There's a big enough market for so many of these magazines?
Impeccably PC, Conrad does not judge, merely ponders in wonderment.
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| See? See? I may have had a few beers but I wasn't seeing imaginary mags |
Oh! Yes, right. The meal - very nice by the way, and I discovered a verrry nice liquer called "limoncello" tha - oh, yes, the reason. The meal didn't finish until nearly 10 and then it was off the a bar called "Noho", then the last bus to Royton and a walk home from there so I didn't get in until well after midnight <sad face>
However, 6 people had been for a visit on Friday even without Conrad's constant self-promotion on Facebook <happy face>. So Karma balances out.
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| That's Set, Egyptian god , doing some work with scales. Probably karma. Possibly karma. Hey, he's weighing something! |
There is a spectrum of people who regularly insist that the Moon landings were faked, that Bigfoot is real, aliens live amongst us**, that Adolf Hitler is alive and well in a secret base under the South Pole, and that the thoroughly eeeevil USA possesses weather-control and earthquake-inducing technology.
The last claim is simultaneously refuted and proved. Check out Auntie Beeb:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25205548
At a Richter Scale of 1 or 2 it's not a big earthquake - but a small earthquake is still an earthquake. Not really produced by sinister technology, either, unless Hom. Sap. jumping up and down counts as "technology"***.
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| To you, a waste of turkey-wrap; to them, de rigeur headgear. Also, that is one p155ed-off looking cat! |
* This sounds much ruder than it is. Apologies. I will be classier in future.
** Aliens - wearing human skins!
*** Little-known fact - this is how North Korea generates 35% of it's power.
Tomorrow: Audubon's Book Of North American Words
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