Unoriginal ranting...
Oct. 12th, 2004 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liadnanBut really, for fucks sake. I have spent my last few lunchtimes trawling round Oxford Street and TCR looking for a coffee pot, as my current one is on its last legs. (And haven't found one yet: some might say this is because I am both an Olympic level procrastinator and dangerously obsessive about coffee and how it is made, I prefer to think that I am a careful shopper who knows precisely what it is he wants and is sceptical about clever new twiddly bits on coffee pots because they tend to break.)
This, however, is not about that, but about the fact that in Heals yesterday I found them putting up Christmas decorations.
Bah, as someone once said, humbug.
Went to the Borders China Mieville and Susannah Clarke reading last night with Gez: highly enjoyable it was too. She seemed to be the recipient of most of the questions, but I did note with interest Mieville's comment that he is dissasociating (there are too many ss in that word) himself from the "New Weird" label. Why he will apparently explain in due course. Clarke has apparently been writing Jonathan Strange for nearly ten years: her response to various questions (including one from Mieville) on the lines of "how the hell did you get a 782 page first novel published?" ("Well, I just got an agent" ['cos they're two a penny] "plus I told them it would be 100,000 words less than it turned out" [so, an entire ordinary novel then,,,]). None of which, of course, affects the fact it's a very good book. And then on to dinner: this is actually the first night I have been entirely sober at 10:30 in a week and a half, which is not entirely a Good Thing.
I have a sneaking suspicion that my main email personal address is regularly falling foul of spam filters, particularly on yahoo and hotmail. Which is an immensely irritating thought, though better than the alternative: that nobody loves me.
Right. Back to preparing for an utterly ridiculous case. Right at the moment I want to hit my client over the head with a hammer, several times, repeating my advice with each blow.
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Date: 2004-10-12 03:12 pm (UTC)PS dissasociating - right number, wrong order :)
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Date: 2004-10-12 03:24 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-10-12 03:46 pm (UTC)People tell me they drink a lot of coffee and it turns out they mean four mugs a day. When I tell them.. 2 before getting up, one on the way to work, one or two when I get to work, one at lunchtime, maybe one in the afternoon and/or one before facing the Northern Line, two or three when I'm at home in the evening.,,,
they look at me oddly and edge away. Given that I have been called "so laid back he's almost horizontal" I would probably be bedridden if I gave up.
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Date: 2004-10-12 03:13 pm (UTC)My little one looks like this:
I drink a lot of coffee, and care about it... :o) Worry less - drink more.
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Date: 2004-10-12 03:19 pm (UTC)Here:
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Date: 2004-10-12 03:22 pm (UTC)Actually, you don't want to get me started on this. Really.
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Date: 2004-10-12 03:24 pm (UTC)Why don't you like cafétieres?
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Date: 2004-10-12 03:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-12 03:37 pm (UTC)So, what do you use?
(I think you're talking rubbish, by the way, but I'll humour you...)
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Date: 2004-10-12 03:38 pm (UTC)Most people think I talk rubbish. The rest don't care either way.
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Date: 2004-10-12 03:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-12 03:57 pm (UTC)I have to admit that this one (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008DOY8/) does look very appealing.
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Date: 2004-10-12 03:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-13 01:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-13 06:41 am (UTC)Tis true.
Give me instant any day
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Date: 2004-10-13 09:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-12 03:43 pm (UTC)I've always found the length of time brewing in the pot is the key - and using a touch more coffee rather than a touch less.
And it's simple - which is a virtue in our complex, busy world.
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Date: 2004-10-12 03:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-12 03:51 pm (UTC)*looks at comments*
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Date: 2004-10-13 06:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-13 08:20 am (UTC)But thank you.
You could also punch them square in the lip.
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Date: 2004-10-13 09:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-13 12:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-13 12:21 am (UTC)Surprisingly enough, it's still easy enough to get filter papers, but finding the plastic funnels and jugs is nigh-on impossible in these days of electric coffeemakers.
cheers,
Gideon.
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Date: 2004-10-13 01:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-13 01:09 am (UTC)Teapots, no problem, but coffeepots appear to be the work of the devil or something.
Mieville and the New Weird
Date: 2004-10-13 01:11 am (UTC)And shame on you for misspelling disassociating! You know how to spell "associating", then you just stick a "dis" at the start. Easy.
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Date: 2004-10-13 02:39 am (UTC)hm
Date: 2004-10-13 02:42 am (UTC)I'll take another look today (since I need to buy more things for sushi making, anyway) because this is just so odd.
Christmas decorations? Already? I thought people started putting them up in November here. LOL
Re: hm
Date: 2004-10-13 02:55 am (UTC)yes, I know
Date: 2004-10-13 02:58 am (UTC)What I hate is the cafetieres, really.
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Date: 2004-10-13 01:33 pm (UTC)I must investigate this further.