Question of the day

Elsewhere on-line I saw the question: If you could master any dance or gymnastics move, what would it be?

I can only think "a bloody miracle."

Tonight's dinner

Tonight's dinner consisted of some garlic bread (the baguette kind; thank you Marks & Spencer) and a pepperoni pizza which, of course, covers two of the main food groups:

Bread products

Things you can put on bread products.

Oh yeah, and I had a couple of beers too. So I guess that's three.

Go me.

Russians and alcohol

Now some of you, some of the six or so people who read my words, may think "couldn't you just put Russians?" to which I would reply "you're exactly the kind of person who'll like the link further down in this post" to which you might reply "what link?" and then I'd probably get all flustered and worry about how derailed this post was getting with conversation rather than actually getting to the point and... oh yeah, the post, right.

If one were to click on this link about the new classification of beer then I think that one might come to the conclusion that Russia has a drinking problem. Or several drinking problems.

Either way this is one of the reasons why I think that Russians are awesome.

Not the problems, not the early deaths due to vodka consumption, not the fact that in Russia beer has been being sold as a healthy alternative to spirits, no, not those things, not at all. The reason that this qualifies, for me, as a reason why Russians are awesome is that they have, until recently, taken the view, in law, that unless your drink contains more than 10% alcohol then you're not really drinking. That drink, that single figure of alcohol content drink, should not be classed as drinking because, you know, it's not real drinking.

I can't help but admire that attitude.

Legalise Marijuana

I don't have a huge amount to say on the legalisation of drugs front (well, I do, but I'm not in the mood right now so I'm just going to leave it alone at this moment in time) but I think that if this doesn't persuade people that that marijuana can do good things then there's something wrong with said people.

I speak of this: http://jezebel.com/5822013/neo-nazi-girl-group-cured-of-their-hate-with-marijuana

Marijuana is helping them with their stress, their physical pain, and their myriad medical conditions. And it doesn't seem to be hurting on the 'helping them not to spout racist bullshit' front as well.

Positive drug stories. They very much exist.

Grow one save a million

One might be forgiven for thinking that "grow one" could be a pair and that "save a million" could be orphans or something which you would save with your new-found confidence. I wouldn't forgive you because that idea is really stupid but others might. It's a moot point anyway so stop going on about it. Grow one save a million isn't about growing a pair although it is about manliness. Kind of.

Here is a link to an article: http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/06/01/nick-offerman-beard-world-environment-day/

Now I'm all about saving water, I really am, so I don't want anyone thinking that I'm all "hey everyone, let's waste a lot of water today and every day, that would be really cool" because I'm not but this campaign could really be called "turn off the friggin' tap you moron" and it would have a very similar end result if people followed it.

No, I do not mean that it would have the end result of more beards. And no, I do not mean that it would be similar to people growing beards. I'm really not sure that you're taking this seriously. The similar end result that it would have is that there would be less water used. I did a bit of knocking around on-line and the "average of five gallons" per shave is also stated elsewhere as between "three to ten gallons when you leave the tap running".

When. You. Leave. The. Tap. Running.

So yeah, don't leave the tap running when you don't need to, is that so hard?

That one person

That one person that I know that thinks that I should grow my hair out has noticed that I've not had my hair cut for a little while. It's kinda nice that I can still get a compliment, and that even if it's fewer people, there are still people who think that I look OK when I don't bother to get things done (and no, I did not head out today, on this Saturday, to get my hair cut, whatever) but it is a shame that she's wrong.

Apparently I look "punkier". This is entirely due to the fact that I have a double crown, a very strong one, and that the hair at the back of my head sticks out and up in various directions. My shadow, from some angles, looks like a silhouette of a koala with a mohawk.

I should probably get my damned hair cut.

I'll get around to it.

My hair is a mess

My hair is a mess because I did not get it cut. Really I should have gone for a haircut the weekend before last but I didn't. It wouldn't have been so bad if I'd gone for  a haircut last weekend but I didn't. This weekend is really when it was needed so, having left it too long, I made it out of the house to the barber's shop and it was closed. Advertising for staff but closed. I suppose I could have gone somewhere else but I'd left it rather late in the day so that wasn't really an option.

While the advertising for staff at my local barber's shop suggests a commitment to being open in the future this does not help how messy my hair looks at this moment in time.

"You could style it" you might say. "You could get it cut after work during the week" you might suggest. "No-one fucking cares" you might be thinking but I'm going to leave that one alone.

I suppose I'll just see how irritating it is that I have longer hair than usual.

It is almost as if not doing something when it needs doing and putting it off until (a little after) the last minute might not be the best course of action for achieving things.

If only there were some way for me to have known this or to learn from this experience for the future.