Played a Great Game with My Head in the Clouds…..

May 18, 2006

Played a Great Game with My Head in the Clouds…..

So it’s been a while since I sat and stared at the blank page and just started writing to see what happens - kinda been living in a driftwood type of existence these last few days - not really seeming to influence much around me, yet it all takes place none the less - not that I’m complaining as things have been drifting in a pretty damn decent direction of late - observe…

My recent good fortune has included the following:

Totally unexpected end of year random bonus from the head office for no discernable reason has got me completely out of debt again - still in state of shock about this.
Lady running the show in Rotterdam has found me a place to live - 2 bedroom apartment, by the river, 10 mins from town, fully furnished, 3 balconies, open plan living area, internet and cable connected - 795 Euro’s a month = sweeter than a cream covered cheerleader.

As of June 1st once working in Rotterdam, I’ll get given a company travel card and which will mean never ever having to pay for buses, trams and trains in and around the city - currently I spend about 150quid a month on getting to verk on the train in UK - while this is indeed going to save me much in the way of moola, it is also going to save me from the change demon - I call him Changdemus - he who taketh notes - turns them into coinage - coinage which soon disappears without trace on random items, the description of which you can’t ever quite put your finger on - it might say £2.99 but once that 10 note is passed over, its gone in all its entirety.

First lost mobile phone for almost 3 years was found by kindly old lady who used it to ring my Dad and organise to give me it back the next day (by way of gratitude, she got the classic tried and tested “say thanks to an old lady using chocolates and flowers” combo - ala streetfighter 2)

Computer froze at 7.44pm yesterday evening meaning I could not bet on last nights Euro final game going to penalties - which it didn’t - saving me the 40 quid I’d convinced myself to place on it due to being able to see the future.

Having one tequila too many late on Saturday - a tequila that inspired me to have the good sense to pass up a sure thing with a girl that would of surely got me into a whole world of cheap crappy soap opera style small town scandal - well I say ”inspired” when really it was more of a case of ”incapacitated- but it was a bullet dodged none the less.

Spo | May 18, 2006