News From Under The Rock

[waitingman]

Life continues to ooze at a slow ebb ~ awaiting the lubrication that only money can provide. Time then, to appreciate the little things... like the slow expansion of my Terry Pratchett paperback collection via second-hand stores & suburban market stalls. I'm finally into double figures. The inner sleeve of one recent purchase informed me he'd been knighted last year, which I hadn't known. And today, I learn that, in true British Eccentric fashion, he'd decided that what a Knight really needs is a sword... so he made one!! The accompanying story has a link to his webpage/blog/whateverhecallsit, which was another thing I didn't know about... but then, I'm not the kind of person who goes trawling the web for sites either set up by, or dedicated to, my Idols or Interesting People, so that's no surprise, really. I don't even know if Eric Clapton has an official site, or Donna Leon... or... you get the idea.

One person who most likely does have one is Neil Gaiman, whose works I'm slowly being introduced to by my Long-Suffering Partner, including being taken to a live reading/performance of a recent 'short' story by the man himself at the Opera House a couple of months ago... I think I'm becoming a fan.

The Black Dog of Depression & the Wealth-Sapping Wolves are both constantly baying at the door of WaitingManor, which is why the drawbridge is up, of late...

A meeting this morning in the Pit of Despair also known as Centrelink was notable only because of an interesting personal statistic which came to light during the eventual interview... Of thirty-one jobs I applied for in the last month, there were only two which resulted in an interview with the actual employer... or anyone apart from an automated e-mail response for that matter...

People say it's a numbers game. I say I need a die with more than six sides...

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