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24 Aug 2003
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Elke, a good friend of mine from uni days, just confirmed her UK holiday. She'll be in Cambridge on the 6th/7th of September and we get to hang out again. Cool. This also means that I can't do Hard Drive again, but that will take place more often, Elke will be here only once.
Now I really need to get my place up to scratch...
Have had lovely selfmade dinner (basically, a bit like ratatouille but with added pork and some more interesting flavours) and am now too tired to do anything but relax.
More work tomorrow and the majority should be done and I should have enough time left to work out my Octaine set. Final tidying will be done next weekend and then I will hopefully pull through my resolution of not letting things slip again...
Now I really need to get my place up to scratch...
Have had lovely selfmade dinner (basically, a bit like ratatouille but with added pork and some more interesting flavours) and am now too tired to do anything but relax.
More work tomorrow and the majority should be done and I should have enough time left to work out my Octaine set. Final tidying will be done next weekend and then I will hopefully pull through my resolution of not letting things slip again...
While listening to Racing in the Streets I just realized that I learned a lot of US trivia from listening to Springsteen and reading Stephen King, the latter often complementing the former.
Example: The first line in Racing in the Streets is "I had a '69 Chevy with a 396, Fuelly heads and a Hurst on the floor". Steve Earle's Sweet Little '66 (She's got a 396, she's got a four on the floor) didn't help much, either. For quite some time, I had no idea what that meant (there was no internet to look it up in '85 when I first heard the song) until I read Christine by Stephen King. Since then I know that the number is the cubic capacity, Fuelly is a brand of cylinder heads and Hurst is a brand of gearboxes...
Example: The first line in Racing in the Streets is "I had a '69 Chevy with a 396, Fuelly heads and a Hurst on the floor". Steve Earle's Sweet Little '66 (She's got a 396, she's got a four on the floor) didn't help much, either. For quite some time, I had no idea what that meant (there was no internet to look it up in '85 when I first heard the song) until I read Christine by Stephen King. Since then I know that the number is the cubic capacity, Fuelly is a brand of cylinder heads and Hurst is a brand of gearboxes...